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Foot ferry owners celebrating
OWNERS of a foot ferry linking Suffolk and Essex are hoping that a new jetty can be built at Felixstowe to improve the service and encourage more users.
Husband and wife team David and Bridget Baines say if a permanent landing point could be built it would make it far more attractive for people to use the ferry for business, commuting and pleasure.
Mr Baines said it would also mean they could use a larger, more comfortable vessel instead of the current craft, which can only carry 12 passengers.
The couple were today celebrating an important boost to the ferry service between Felixstowe, Harwich and Shotley after receiving a £10,000 grant.
However, they say it is still a struggle to run the service – identified as an important transport link by both Suffolk and Essex county councils – and more support is needed for its future to be secured.
"The money is appreciated but we will struggle for the next couple of years and apply for grants from other councils," said Mr Baines, of Wades Lane, Shotley.
"We really could do with a bigger boat as sometimes we have to turn people away if we are full. We need a boat for about 50 people as when Bathside Bay is developed there will be more commuters and it will be busier."
But the couple's hopes of using a bigger boat, especially to dock at Felixstowe, will hinge on a jetty being built.
This scheme is fraught with problems, not least the £250,000 it is likely to cost and who will pay for it, but also that the area near the Viewing Area at Landguard where it could be built is suffering severe erosion problems.
Mr and Mrs Baines took over the service from Chris Spraggons in December 2001. They had previously launched a guided tour of Harwich Harbour and the surrounding area in their boat City of Glasgow II.
Now the foot ferry is taking priority but Mr Baines, 50, said the boat needed repair work costing £15,000.
He added that it currently did not make a profit and money had been lost due to cutting down on the City of Glasgow II tours.
The East of England Development Agency (EEDA) approved the lifeline grant of £10,000 from the Government-funded Market Towns' Initiative budget.
An initial grant of £5,000 has been paid and £5,000 will be given next March.
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Brilliance World School organizes Rangoli Making Competition on Diwali
Chandigarh 21st October:- Brilliance World School, Sec 12, celebrated Diwali with an Inter-house Rangoli competition for secondary & senior secondary classes. In this competition, both boys & girls took part enthusiastically and the school wore a festive look. The 1st prize went to Himalaya House, the second prize was given to Aravalli House & the third prize went to Nilgiri House & Vidhyanchayal House. A diya decoration competition was also conducted.
Students decorated the school beautifully under the guidance of Ms. Prajot , the fine arts teacher.
Niranjana Chatterjee, Principal, Brilliance World School said that we wanted to give a message of clean & green diwali without crackers. Rangolis are a great way to beautify one's house or premises and the children put in a lot of effort to make colorful rangolis.
14 Year Girl Child Suffers Burns on Both Hands Due to Igniting of Crackers in Hands
Chandigarh 21st October:- A 14 year old girl child, originally hailing from Muzaffar Nagar, (UP) suffered burns on both the hands while bursting the crackers by igniting them in her hands. She visited the OPD of the PGIMER. She was staying in Chandigarh with one of her relatives.
This dangerous action which should always be avoided has led to severe burns to both her hands which are being treated now by PGIMER.
Fire Cracker Injury: 37 Patients from Chandigarh & Surrounding Areas Admits to PGI with Fire Cracker Injuries
Chandigarh 21st October:- A total of 3 patients with fire cracker related injury presented to the emergency services of Advanced Eye Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh. 16 patients were from the tricity area, while 21 were from the neighboring states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. There were 29 males and 8 females. 19patients were <16 years of age and 5 were >40 years of age. The youngest patient presenting with ocular injury due to fire cracker was 7 years old. 11 patients were actually lighting the crackers when they got injured and 26 were bystanders. A total of 13 patients required surgical intervention to salvage the eye, 10 of which have undergone surgery at the time of preparation of this report.
Majority of those who required surgical intervention had severe injury with light perception or worse visual acuity and were from outside the tricity area.
Commemoration Day: Chandigarh Police Pays Tributes to the Martyr Companions
Chandigarh 21st October:- On the occasion of Commemoration a Commemoration Parade was organized at the Ground of Police Station, Sector-17 Chandigarh in memory of the martyred companions. Every year, 21st October is the day of remembrance of the martyred companions who laid down their lives during obligation of their duties. On this occasion, two-minute silence was held to salute the memory of Comrades who sacrificed their lives. Central Police Organizations and State Police celebrate this day in the form of Martyrdom Day.
Tajender Singh Luthra, Director General of Police, UT, Chandigarh along with other police officers paid homage to their departed comrades at the Martyrs Memorial Site. Last year from 1st September 2016 to August 2017 total 383 Police Officers and Police Personnel from paramilitary police forces and police organizations have set exemplary example before their colleagues by sacrificing their lives during duty. This year the number of officers and jawans who laid down their lives Andhra Pradesh (05), Arunachal Pradesh (02), Assam (01), Bihar (12), Chattisgarh (23), Delhi (13), Gujarat (02), J & K (42), Jharkhand (02), Karnataka (12), Madhya Pardesh (03), Maharastra (01), Manipur (03), Meghalaya (02), Orissa (09), Rajasthan (01), Tamil Nadu (02), Uttrakhand (07), Uttar Pradesh (76), West Bengal (16); BSF (54), CISF (13), CRPF (49), Civil Defence F.S. & H.C. (06), ITBP (11), NCB (01), NDRF (02), SSB (02), NIA (02), RPF (09) during duty.
The history of commemoration day traces back to October 21, 1959, when a police party of the Indian police force was deployed to defend national frontiers in the Ladakh region. The same was attacked by Chinese troops hidden by forming ambush in hills and 10 CRPF jawans were killed. Since then, this day is celebrated as Martyrdom Day at Central Police Organizations and Police Forces in remembrance of countless sacrifice of martyr companions.
Kiran Nagarkar Releases 'Idiosyncrasy'-A collection of Poems by Budding Poetess-Twesha Dikshit
Chandigarh 21st October:- 'Idiosyncrasy'-A collection of poems by a 17 year old young budding poetess-Twesha Dikshit was formally released by renowned author Kiran Nagarkar at Hotel Mountview here. Idiosyncrasy also means peculiar behavioral traits of individuals, & the unveiling of the book was well attended by the literati of the city.
The book also has some captivating photographs of Twesha's father-Mitul Dikshit an avid photographer & well known educationist of tricity, from his collection of photographs taken during his adventurous sojourns of Inca Ruins and Amazon Rain Forests. Twesha started writing stories at the very young age of 10 years and has continued to maintain a blog-www.magicofwordsweb.wordpress.com since the past two years. She is an avid traveler and has already travelled to 6 continents.
Twesha Dikshit said that for enhancing my poetry skills she has done an online course from California Institute of Arts and studied modern and contemporary poets. She would like to thank her family for letting her pursue writing & she is elated as her first published work 'Idiosyncrasy' has been launched.
Twesha has a keen interest in Journalism and has done a 5 week online course 'English for Journalism' from University of Pennsylvania exploring print and digital media. She plans on studying Journalism and English at college. Her future aspirations include travelling and pursuing journalism. She finished her 10th grade from Welham Girls' School, Dehradun and is currently finishing her high school from Strawberry Fields High School, Chandigarh.
Kiran Nagarkar, after launching the book of poems, said that in Twesha's poems we witness a human consciousness finding its voice, hacking away at the internalized self-censorship to utter unutterable truths, to hold them up in the sunlight of expression, and to restore these truths to a wholesome and acceptable place. Twesha has shown abundant talent at a very young age he wish her all the best for her future endeavours.
It is noteworthy that Nagarkar is one of India's most significant post colonial writers known for critically acclaimed works like Seven Sixes Are Forty Three) (1974), Ravan and Eddie (1994), and the epic novel, Cuckold (1997) for which he was awarded the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award in English by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.
In poem after poem, Twesha shows in 'Idiosyncrasy' that a human voice of any age speaks for all ages. The famous doctor in Killer of Dreams is at heart just a little boy whose stifled aspirations make him die a little every-day. The icy-hearted narrator in Inferno stands up to her lover-torturer and rejects the mantle of victim: 'Don't look so shocked/ I existed even before you came/ I am the puzzle that nobody can win…" And then again in Beguiled: "I'm not a damsel in distress/ But my very own mistress/ My hear is as cold as steel/ Deaf to any appeal/ Run, run as far as you can/ You are no better than a conman."
Idiosyncrasy has a foreword by Altaf Tyrewala, who is the author of critically acclaimed books -No God in Sight, and Ministry of Hurt Sentiments. He is also the editor of crime fiction collection Mumbai Noir.
Madhav Kaushik ,Vice Chairman Chandigarh Sahitya Academy, who himself is a noted Poet said that Twesha's poems display a musicality, a wisdom well beyond her years, as well as that uniquely youthful lust for the pleasures and sorrows of the here and now. Congratulations to Twesha on penning these prodigious & deep in meaning poems.
'Idiosyncrasy' has great lines of poetry, which like early morning jogs, succeed because they take your breath away momentarily only to leave you rejuvenated and oxygenated and high. Let's welcome Twesha Dikshit a promising young poetess into our literary circles.
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Too Many Wild Cards
Climate alarmists claim incessantly that all bad weather is caused by man's use of hydro-carbon fuels – oil, gas and coal.
They insist that man-made carbon dioxide is the trump card in the climate game. Their computerised models of doom assume ever-rising levels of carbon dioxide which will trump all natural climate controllers.
Unfortunately for their credibility, since at least the year 2000 global temperatures have trended level despite significant increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
April 18th, 2015 | Categories: Agenda 21, Alternate Energy, Newsletters, Wind Power |
Green Energy Powered our Past, but cannot Provide for our Future
Climate Alarmists turn back the Clock
Three centuries ago, the world ran on green power. Wood was used for heating and cooking, charcoal for smelting and smithing, wind or water-power for pumps mills and ships, and whale oil or tallow for lamps. People and soldiers walked or rode horses, and millions of horses and oxen pulled ploughs, wagons, coaches and artillery.
But smoke from open fires choked cities, forests were stripped of trees, most of the crops went to feed draft animals, and streets were littered with horse manure. For many people, life was "nasty, brutish and short".
Then the steam engine was developed, and later the internal combustion engine, electricity and refrigeration came along. Green power was replaced by coal and oil. Carbon energy powered factories, mills, pumps, ships, trains, and smelters; and cars, trucks and tractors replaced the work-horses. The result was a green revolution – forests began to regrow and vast areas of crop-land used for horse feed were released to produce food for humans. Poverty declined and population soared.
But new environmental problems emerged. Smoke pollution from burning cheap dirty coal in millions of open fires, old boilers and smelters produced massive smog problems in cities like London and Pittsburgh.
The solution was improved technology, sensible pollution-control laws and the supply of coal gas and coal-powered electricity to the cities. The air was cleared by "Clean Coal by Wire" at the flick of a switch and "Piped Coal Energy" at the click of a gas-lighter. In some places use of hydro, geothermal and nuclear power also helped.
In recent years, however, affluent urban alarmists have declared war on the carbon dioxide produced by burning coal, oil and gas. They claim it is a pollutant and it causes dangerous global warming.
January 17th, 2015 | Categories: Alternate Energy, Coal, Ethanol, Newsletters, Ocean acidification, Pollution |
Time to Kill Kyoto Protocol?
The Kyoto Protocol was dreamed up by the Climate Jet-set in Kyoto, Japan in 1997.
One of the first decisions of born-again-green PM, Kevin Rudd, was to commit Australia to Kyoto Phase 1 in 2007. This treaty required signatories to reduce production of carbon dioxide to 5% below 1990 levels by 2012.
As a late joiner, Australia got a lower target, involving no actual cuts. And they achieved that easy target by robbing Australian landowners – they stole carbon credits from landowners by imposing tree clearing bans. That larcenous trick can't be pulled twice.
Ironically, the death notice for the Kyoto misadventure was posted by Japan, the birthplace of Kyoto, when they announced at Cancun in 2010 that Japan would not agree to any further targets. Japan was shocked at the billions in liabilities they had accumulated by not meeting Kyoto 1 target cuts.
Undeterred by this warning, another ALP/Green government agreed to Kyoto 2 in 2012 – 5% below 2000 levels by 2020.
This target, agreed to without due diligence, is dreamland stuff for Australia. Once the growing population is taken into account, this target would require Australians in 2020 to maintain industries and create new jobs using 30% less hydro-carbon energy per capita than was used in 2000.
Mining and mineral processing, agriculture, manufacturing, transport, tourism, electricity generation, cement, forestry and fishing are the backbone industries of Australia.
Not one of these industries could maintain production while also significantly reducing their production of carbon dioxide, unless Australia embarks on a crash program of building new hydro and/or nuclear power stations. The chance that green regulators or politicians will allow either of these options any time soon is zero.
The use of carbon fuels, more than any other indicator, measures the growth and health of modern economies. The only way to kill carbon is to kill the economy – close industries or send them overseas. The Global Financial Crisis probably did more to reduce the use of hydro-carbon fuels than Kyoto will ever do.
Japan's exit from Kyoto obligations was soon followed by Canada and Russia. USA never signed, nor did China, India, South Africa or Brazil.
Thus the four biggest economies in our region (USA, China, Japan and India) are not burdened by Kyoto. Nor are our big competitors – Brazil (iron and beef), Indonesia (coal), Chile (copper) and Canada (wheat). We only have the Kiwis and the faraway Europeans sharing the sinking Kyoto ship.
The Kyoto Agreement is a failure. Australia repealed the costly carbon dioxide tax. Next we should get rid of Kyoto liabilities.
Read more, as well as:
Penguins Pray for Global Warming
Enviro-Hypocrites
The Overflow Column for other items of interest
Read the full report: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/kill-kyoto.pdf [PDF, 154KB]
Keywords: Kyoto liabilities, Antarctic ice, penguins, environmental hypocrites, climate summits, false consensus, species extinction, kill climate sceptics, climate summit, natural gas car.
October 6th, 2014 | Categories: Antarctica, Cancun, Global Cooling, Newsletters |
Cut the Costly Climate Chatter
Twenty-two years ago a bunch of green activists calling themselves "The Earth Summit" met in Rio and invented a way to tour the world at tax-payers' expense – never-ending conferences on environmental alarms.
Like any good bureaucratic committee, they soon established sub-committees on sustainability, pollution, development, energy, forestry, water, biodiversity, endangered species, poverty, health, population and Agenda 21 (this item alone had 40 chapters each with its own sub-committee). Environmental conferences became the greatest multi-national growth industry in the world financed mainly by tax-payers via participating public servants, climate academics, employees of nationalised industries and tax-sheltered green "charities" such as Greenpeace and WWF.
They really hit the Mother Lode with their creation of the "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" which, in good bureaucratic tradition, duplicated the work of the "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" (IPCC). These then created their own brand-names called "Global Warming", and its proxies "Climate Change" and "Extreme Weather".
Comfy Climate Conference – by Steve Hunter
www.stevehunterillustrations.com.au/political-cartoons/
Cut Climate Junket Costs
We are All Threatened Species
Read the full report: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cut-climate-chatter.pdf [PDF, 108KB]
Keywords: Climate conferences, junkets, threatened species, extinctions.
September 11th, 2014 | Categories: IPCC, Newsletters |
Parasitic Power Producers
Promoting Parasitic Power Producers
Wind and solar are parasitic power producers, unable to survive in a modern electricity grid without the back-up of stand-alone electricity generators such as hydro, coal, gas or nuclear. And like all parasites, they weaken their hosts, causing increased operating and transmission costs and reduced profits for all participants in the grid.
Without subsidies, few large wind/solar plants would be built; and without mandated targets, few would get connected to the grid.
Green zealots posing as energy engineers should be free to play with their green energy toys at their own expense, on their own properties, but the rest of us should not be saddled with their costs and unreliability.
We should stop promoting parasitic power producers. As a first step, all green energy subsidies and targets should be abolished.
The Miracle of Green Energy – by Steve Hunter
Blowing Our Dollars in the Wind
Five Fatal Flaws of Solar Energy
The Sensible Environmentalist to Visit Australia
The Last Word – our enemies have noticed us Trilobites
Read the full report: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/parasitic-power-producers.pdf [PDF, 150KB]
Keywords: Green energy, parasitic power, wind power, solar power, Dr Patrick Moore, the trilobites strike back.
August 14th, 2014 | Categories: Alternate Energy, Newsletters, Solar Power, Wind Power |
The Phony Consensus
Evidence Trumps the Phony Consensus.
We are lectured monotonously about the "consensus" that carbon dioxide produced by human activities is "highly likely to cause dangerous global warming". The alarmist computer models are all based on this assumption, with predicted warming multiplied by also assuming strong positive feedbacks.
A consensus of opinion never determines a scientific question – real proof depends on evidence and logic. Consensus is a tool of politics and a guidepost for lemmings.
[We and the cartoon creator, Steve Hunter, have full rights to this cartoon, and grant permission for anyone to reproduce it in any media as long as the Steve Hunter signature remains on it. For electronic media, the source link should also be displayed.]
The so-called "Greenhouse Effect" depends entirely on the known property of carbon dioxide gas to intercept radiant heat in certain wavelengths. This process starts operating as soon as the extra gas enters the atmosphere.
If this influence is strong enough to drive "dangerous global warming", its effect should be noticeable even in the short term, with Earth's surface temperature increasing in step with increasing carbon dioxide.
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been steadily increasing for over a century, but global temperatures have fluctuated in broad cycles decades long, and the temperature trend has been flat for the last 17 years.
This evidence suggests that increasing carbon dioxide is not a major driver for dangerous global warming, no matter what the consensus says – even if a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
We may still get natural global warming, as the vast restless oceans roll over or the solar cycles change, but man-made carbon dioxide is not driving these processes. Moreover, a bit of warming is not our greatest risk – history shows that ice ages extinguish more species and habitats than warm eras.
The consensus of alarmists is trying to lynch an innocent party.
If you would like to see what others have said about this article, or have a say yourself, see:
http://pickeringpost.com/story/evidence-trumps-the-phony-consensus/3371
More, as well as:
Retrospective Global Warming hits Rosevale
Ministry of Truth orders Crackdown on Climate Sceptics.
Sea Levels are Never Still.
Hollywood seeks Arab Oil Money to Attack US Shale Oil
Farewell and a Tribute to Ray Evans.
The Last Word – Take a Trip to Las Vegas
Read the full report: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/phony-consensus.pdf [PDF, 100KB]
Keywords: Consensus, adjusting temperature records, BBC, sceptics, sea levels, Hollywood, Arab oil money, Ray Evans, Lavoisier, Heartland Conference.
June 25th, 2014 | Categories: Meetings/Events, Newsletters, Sea Levels |
Weather vs Climate
The weather at any spot is usually defined by max/min temperatures, humidity, precipitation and wind strength/direction. Weather varies hourly, daily, season-to-season and place-to- place. These weather measurements at any place can be averaged over various time periods.
Climate is defined as the average of thirty years of weather.
Weather statistics can be averaged over larger areas, such as by region, state, continent or the globe. This is a mathematical abstraction, becoming less accurate and less meaningful as the time or area covered increases. A global average annual temperature which (after debatable adjustments) includes winter in the Antarctic and summer in the Sahara is irrelevant. No one lives in the global average temperature. Weather and climate have been so politicised that most commentaries are now merely propaganda.
In the Brave New World of global warming alarmists, a long frigid winter is "just weather", but one stinking hot summer day is "clear evidence of dangerous man-made climate change".
And despite an un-predicted 17 years of stable global temperature trends, their prophets still chant their doleful dirge: "Unless we have a carbon tax, extreme weather disasters are coming your way soon".
If you would like to comment on the above article go to: http://pickeringpost.com/story/weather-vs-climate/3140
Modelling Madness
Clive Palmer's Climate Gift Horse
Aliens Cause Global Warming?
Budget Should Cut Climatism Costs
New Book from Ian Plimer: "Not for Greens"
Believe it or Not – Al Gore Grilled at Last
Read the full report: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/weather-vs-climate.pdf [PDF, 109KB]
Keywords: Weather, climate, models, forecasts, Clive Palmer, Budget, climate spending, Ian Plimer, Al Gore.
May 11th, 2014 | Categories: Al Gore, Climate Modelling, Newsletters |
Food Free Fridays Coming?
Once again, the high priests of the UN/IPCC have forecast world starvation unless we mend our wicked ways.
According to them, unless we curb our use of oil, gas, coal and meat, the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will soar, the globe will heat up, and food production will plummet.
This is just a rerun of their previous failed forecasts based on academic theories and computer models.
They should have asked practical nurserymen, farmers and meteorologists.
Nurserymen would tell them that if you pump carbon dioxide into a greenhouse the plants grow faster, bigger, more drought-tolerant and more heat-tolerant. Therefore more carbon dioxide will produce more food.
Flood Plains are for Floods
Dr Patrick Michaels' lecture tour on Climate Change.
No Global Warming for 17 years 8 months
Read the full report: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/food-free-fridays.pdf [PDF, 161B]
Keywords: Forecasts of Doom, food, starvation, floods, flood plains, IPA, Patrick Michaels, global warming stops, baked beans cause flatulence and global warming.
April 14th, 2014 | Categories: IPCC, Newsletters, Warmer is Better |
Climate Boffins Target Depression
The Climate Change Authority wants Australians to cut their production of carbon dioxide to 19% below 2000 levels by the year 2020.
The climate boffins should employ a demographer before they set such unrealistic goals.
The population of Australia in 2000 was about 19 million and it is now 23 million. By 2020 it will probably be over 25 million.
If Australia's production of carbon dioxide was merely frozen at the 2000 level, that would require a 24% reduction per head of population by 2020.
If we add to that a real reduction in total emissions of 19% by 2020, emissions per capita would need to fall by 39% in just 6 years.
Even more unbelievable, China (supported by the UN/IPCC) thinks that developed countries "need to cut emissions by 40% from their 1990 levels by 2020". This would require Australia's per capita emissions to fall by 60% to just 40% of their 1990 levels. All achieved within the next six years.
Nothing real gets produced or done without generating carbon dioxide. Every working car, truck, tractor, dozer, quad bike, boat, helicopter, bulk carrier and aeroplane generates carbon dioxide. None of these will be powered by wind-mills, sunbeams or nuclear power in the next six years. How will they force us to use 39% less of them – carbon ration cards?
Making steel, bricks, cement, bitumen, minerals, metals, food, fertilisers and roads produces carbon dioxide – shall we each use just 61% of what we did in 2000?
Humans, cattle, sheep, pigs, barbeques, champagne and beer also emit carbon dioxide – shall we ration these too?
And Australian trains, lifts, supermarkets, operating theatres, refineries and power stations will not keep working 24/7 without base-load electricity from coal and gas, both generating carbon dioxide. Who is volunteering for living solely with Green Energy – brown-outs, blackouts or irregular "Earth Hours" for about four months of the year?
There is one way to achieve these goals – "The Tasmanian Solution". Send 40% of our remaining industry to Asia, and convert Australia into a quiet green utopia of genteel poverty. This should create sufficient unemployment and reduced consumption to achieve the required emissions austerity.
Is the Climate Change Authority engineering an emissions target depression to achieve its savage cuts, or is this just another mindless model-driven target? We should demand to see their detailed plans for achieving these targets.
Carbon dioxide is hugely beneficial for all plant life, and its effect on global temperature is tiny and probably beneficial for most people. There is no evidence that carbon dioxide causes extreme weather. Man-made Climate Policy is a far greater and more certain danger than Man-made Climate Change.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the tide has turned in the war on carbon. Global warming stopped seventeen years ago; the carbon price collapsed a year ago; the EU is backpedalling on its disastrous green energy gamble; Russia, China, India, Japan, Canada, USA, Brazil and South Africa will not sign any binding Kyoto agreement; China has plans to build 160 new coal fired power stations in the next four years; and Tim Flannery has been sacked.
Modern Magic – Clean Energy by Wire
There is "NO SIGNIFICANT GLOBAL WARMING"
But if we had some Global Warming, things would be better – a bit of fun
The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science –A new book by Dr Tim Ball
But a Professor Wants Climate Change "Deniers" Thrown in Jail
The Ship of Fools
The Sixth Winter
Finally, Let's Axe the Carbon Tax
Read the full report: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/engineering-depression1.pdf [PDF, 82KB]
Keywords: Emissions targets, carbon energy, depression, population, coal mine fires, smog, pollution, John Coleman, science corruption, jail for deniers, axe the carbon tax, Antarctic ship of fools, sixth winter, global cooling.
March 30th, 2014 | Categories: Global Cooling, Newsletters |
Wild, Weird Weather
Carbon Dioxide May Calm the Climate, but it Cannot Cause Wild Weird Weather
Every day some place in the world has "wild weather". And in recent times, human industry gets the blame. "It's all caused by man-made global warming" (generally shortened to "global warming", or GW by alarmists).
Floods or droughts – blame GW; bushfires or snowstorms – blame GW; frosts or heatwaves – blame GW; hail storms or dust storms – blame GW; cyclones or tornadoes – blame GW.
In fact, here is a complete list of all the things blamed on global warming:
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
If all of this were true, then carbon dioxide is surely the most powerful and disruptive gas on the planet. That great scientist, John Kerry, even calls it a "weapon of mass destruction".
Thanks to cartoonist Steve Hunter who has gambled again that we may raise enough money to pay him.
But carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most stable, predictable, unreactive and puny of all climate
factors. And its effect diminishes for each addition of CO2 to the atmosphere. Adding more now has
almost zero effect on temperature.
Wandering Professor causes Global Cooling?
How they cope with Global Warming in Kiwi Land
As Climate Alarm Unravels, Things are Getting Nasty
And Still the Money Rolls in
Read the full report: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wild-weird-weather.pdf [PDF, 155KB]
Keywords: Wild weather, carbon dioxide, weapon of mass destruction, solar cycles, temperature gradient, ice age storms, snow on rail, abuse replaces debate, climate deniers.
March 1st, 2014 | Categories: CO2 Greenhouse Science, Newsletters |


If you are a student, professional, or simply work with Mahabote, I strongly suggest that you download (and save to your desktop) this 'MaHaBote Excel Workbook Program.' The versatility of this utility is that it will never require a browser or the internet for functionality. The Workbook is simply an amazing tool for those who work with Mahabote!
*You must use 'Internet Explorer' as your web browser for this program to function properly.
The Mahabote Online Calculation Program was created quite a few years ago by Ron Grimes (with design suggestions by Donna Quinn). It is an older, but excellent online MaHaBote chart calculator program that gives you everything you need to know in order to calculate a chart accurately and automatically in this system. It also has a special dasa like table that shows you what Main Period and Minor Periods you are currently in, plus aspects, transits, house meanings, etc. For anyone studying the MaHaBote system, this is an invaluable tool to have at your disposal.
*Please note that this program will ONLY operate properly in an Internet Explorer Browser on the earlier versions of IE.


Termites, sometimes known as 'White Ants', are the cause of the greatest economic losses of timber in Australia. It is estimated that up to 1 in 4 homes has active termites or has a termite history. There are several 'forms' or castes in a termite colony, each having a specific role in the survival of the colony. Queen & King - responsible for the establishment of the colony and reproduction; Workers - These are the ones that do all the timber damage. They are resposible for all the work in the colony such as gathering food, feeding young, repairing damage, feeding the queen; Soldiers - These are responsible for protection of the colony against invaders. Identification of termite species is usually done by looking at the soldiers as they have distinctive bodies and heads.
Most termites are grass feeders or feed on decayed wood in the ground and are important converters of fallen trees to organic matter and minerals. Some of these non pest termites occur in the same areas as the pest species and it is therefore important before applying a treatment to identify the species.
Termite control can be achieved through a range of different methods. Most commonly the use of termiticides can be used as a direct nest application or to protect a timber structure against termite attack. Termite bait is also a popular control method especially if the nest is not able to be located. Termites will feed on the bait (which contains an insect growth regulator), take it back to the nest and over a period of time eliminate the colony. Termite Traps or Monitoring Stations are a good way of monitoring termite activity around your home or property.


The word basement doesn't typically evoke images of beauty in my mind. This basement, presented in this fifth installment of this inspired home, is not that kind of basement. Shall we?
Another collection... antique children's books.
Interesting posters from the Lauritzen Gardens Antique and Garden Show here in Omaha.
The witch poster, from the same series, was found in Atlanta!
Here they are looking down from the staircase... wow.
The fun element fits nicely as there are boys living in this house, after all!
I know... I could do a whole post on the posts in this house.
I mean, why didn't I think of painting built-ins to look like this? Mine are white. Hmmm... Makes me feel intensely boring.
Ha! This is the oldest kid's room. It's up a staircase behind a secret panel in the wall on the second floor... very cool. He's going back to school and I had to laugh with his stuff on the floor... love it! Now this is something I can relate to!
I'm so grateful and excited about this inspired home. It was like a movie star house! Truly, I can find inspiration in any home, but the opportunity to share this kind of exceptional home where there is inspiration bursting from every inch is quite extraordinary. Thank you, thank you, and thank you again to my sweet friend! Thank you for your charming hospitality and for sharing such grand inspiration with us all!
This is such fun! I'm enjoying seeing all the details of this house.
Wow you aren't kidding.....this is no ordinary basement!!!!! I LOVE the wallpaper, and so many interesting things, it could take hours to take it all in. Adore those antique posters too.....beautiful home!
These 5 posts have been soooo fun, interesting, so special. Your friend has certainly entertained me with all this beauty!!! You are a lucky duck to get to tour and take the beautiful photographs to share--Yay!!!
This whole house is just marvelous. Her basement is much better than anything in my house! Love those beautiful doors that had the beautiful paintings under the lime green paint - what a wonderful find! Thank you so much to you for posting, and to your friend for letting us see her home!
Thanks to your friend for allowing a tour. This is the most amazing home! Such attention to details in the house and the decor it gorgeous. Such beautiful wallpaper! Thanks for the grand tour. I will scroll through each post again and again.
What an amazing home! Such attention to detail. I loved the doors, the posts, lighting, collections and so much more. Your inspired home tours are the best --thanks to your friend and to you for sharing this beautiful home.
Such a fun series! What an amazing basement here.. wow! All that wallpaper and something to look at in every corner. So kind of your friend to open her home to your readers. Thanks for sharing the photos!
I loved each and every furniture piece you have.


Search engines love descriptive and clean file names for images. File names with uncommon characters can break images in browsers. If you upload a lot of images running a non-english website or allow users to upload images, then it is not possible to ensure clean image file names for every image. In this article, we will show you how to enforce clean image file names in WordPress. Hopefully, this will help you improve your site's image SEO.
First thing you need to do is install and activate the Clean Image Filenames plugin. Upon activation, simply go to Media » Add New and try uploading a file with accented characters.
For example, we tried uploading an image of bilberry which is called Çay üzümü in Turkish language and our filename was 'Çay üzümü.jpg'.
After the upload, this image filename was filtered by the plugin into 'cay-uzumu.jpg'. You can still use the accented character in your image's description, alt and title tags which will help search engines to find the image when someone uses the actual Turkish characters to search the image.
Unfortunately this plugin does not automatically fix your old images. It filters the image title immediately after the image upload is finished.
If you run into any issues, then don't forget to look at our guide on how to fix common image issues in WordPress.
We hope this article helped you learn how to enforce clean image filenames in WordPress. You may also want to take a look at our guide on how to speed up WordPress by saving images optimized for the web.
Thanks, that's an interesting plugin, but I'm not sure I can think of cases when uncommon images may break images in browser. Could you give a few examples of that stuff happening, please?


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NGC 5191 (również PGC 47498) – galaktyka soczewkowata (S0), znajdująca się w gwiazdozbiorze Panny. Odkrył ją George Washington Hough 5 maja 1883 roku. Jest to galaktyka z aktywnym jądrem typu LINER.

Zobacz też
 Lista obiektów NGC

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

5191
Galaktyki LINER
Galaktyki soczewkowate
Gwiazdozbiór Panny
Obiekty astronomiczne odkryte w 1883

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Q: Add error bars to scatter plot with labels and classes What I want to do is to add a vertical error bar (column ey in the table) on each point.
I tried to add:
%error bars/.cd,
%y dir=both,
%y explicit,

But it didn't work.
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[t]
    \centering
    \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.7]
    \begin{axis}[
    %axis x line=center,
    xtick pos=left,
    ytick pos=left,
    axis y line*=left,
    axis x line*=left,
    ylabel near ticks,
    xlabel near ticks,
    xlabel=Requirement (\#sentences),
    ylabel=mean F1,
    %axis y line=none,
    %hide y axis,
    xmin=-50,xmax=320,
    ymin=40, ymax=100,
    xtick={0, 100, 200, 300},
    xticklabels={0, 100, 100 + 100, highres},
    %xticklabel style={rotate=20},
    ]

    \addplot[
    scatter/classes={a={blue}, b={red}, c={green}, d={black}},
    scatter,
    only marks,%
    %error bars/.cd,
    %y dir=both,
    %y explicit,
    scatter src=explicit symbolic,
    nodes near coords*={\Label},
    visualization depends on={value \thisrow{label} \as \Label},
    ]%
    table[meta=class, x=x, y=y, y error=ey]{
        x   y   ey  class   label
        0   72  3   a   model1
        100 77  2   b   model2
        200 63  5   c   model3
        300 89  7   d   model4
    };
    \end{axis}
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \caption{}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Now I added statement plot [error bars/.cd, y dir = both, y explicit] and error bars are there but they're into the labels and I'll need to move the labels so that they're clear, any ideas?
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[t]
    \centering
    \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.7]
    \begin{axis}[
    %axis x line=center,
    xtick pos=left,
    ytick pos=left,
    axis y line*=left,
    axis x line*=left,
    ylabel near ticks,
    xlabel near ticks,
    xlabel=Requirement (\#sentences),
    ylabel=mean F1,
    %axis y line=none,
    %hide y axis,
    xmin=-50,xmax=320,
    ymin=40, ymax=100,
    xtick={0, 100, 200, 300},
    xticklabels={0, 100, 100 + 100, highres},
    %xticklabel style={rotate=20},
    ]

    \addplot[
    scatter/classes={a={blue}, b={red}, c={green}, d={black}},
    scatter,
    only marks,%
    %error bars/.cd,
    %y dir=both,
    %y explicit,
    scatter src=explicit symbolic,
    nodes near coords*={\Label},
    visualization depends on={value \thisrow{label} \as \Label},
    ]%
    plot [error bars/.cd, y dir = both, y explicit]
    table[meta=class, x=x, y=y, y error=ey]{
        x   y   ey  class   label
        0   72  3   a   model1
        100 77  2   b   model2
        200 63  5   c   model3
        300 89  7   d   model4
    };
    \end{axis}
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \caption{}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

A: Welcome to TeX.SE! I could more or less copy the tricks of this answer and it seems to work.
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.16}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[t]
    \centering
    \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.7]
    \begin{axis}[
    %axis x line=center,
    xtick pos=left,
    ytick pos=left,
    axis y line*=left,
    axis x line*=left,
    ylabel near ticks,
    xlabel near ticks,
    xlabel=Requirement (\#sentences),
    ylabel=mean F1,
    %axis y line=none,
    %hide y axis,
    xmin=-50,xmax=320,
    ymin=40, ymax=100,
    xtick={0, 100, 200, 300},
    xticklabels={0, 100, 100 + 100, highres},
    %xticklabel style={rotate=20},
    ]

    \addplot[
    scatter/classes={a={blue}, b={red}, c={green}, d={black}},
    scatter,
    only marks,%
    %error bars/.cd,
    %y dir=both,
    %y explicit,
    visualization depends on=\thisrow{ey} \as \myshift,
    every node near coord/.append style = {shift={(axis direction
    cs:0,\myshift)}},
    scatter src=explicit symbolic,
    nodes near coords*={\Label},
    visualization depends on={value \thisrow{label} \as \Label},
    ]%
    plot [error bars/.cd, y dir = both, y explicit]
    table[meta=class, x=x, y=y, y error=ey]{
        x   y   ey  class   label
        0   72  3   a   model1
        100 77  2   b   model2
        200 63  5   c   model3
        300 89  7   d   model4
    };
    \end{axis}
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \caption{}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

What might be more useful than the actual answer is how one can search and find such posts. All I did was a google picture search for site:tex.stackexchange.com error bars nodes near coords and clicked on promising pictures and tried to select one that appears reasonably elegant.

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Established in 1988, the Jakopič Gallery is situated in the underground of the Slovenska cesta 9 in the centre of Ljubljana. The contemporary exhibiting space of more than 900 square metres is part of an architectural complex, designed by Edvard Ravnikar on the location of the Roman Forum in Emona, and includes in situ the reconstruction of the ruins of ancient government buildings.
The Jakopič Gallery was at first managed by the Museum of Modern Art, and later taken over by the former Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, which presented contemporary architectural and design exhibitions there until 2004. In 2007 the Municipality of Ljubljana renovated and re-opened the exhibition space, which has been managed by the City museum of Ljubljana since August 2008 and became one of the main venues of Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana in January 2009.
In 2010 the first exhibition was dedicated to Two Spanish Masters in Ljubljana, introducing Pablo Picasso's prints in the City Museum of Ljubljana and Antoni Clavé's works from 1934 to 2002 in the Jakopič Gallery. It was followed by the travelling exhibition Bauhaus Twenty-21: An Ongoing Legacy – Photographs by Gordon Watkinson, which marked the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus and was co-produced by Foto+Synthesis, National Gallery of Slovenia and Goethe-Institut Ljubljana. The exhibition Legendary Lee Miller was one of most succesful projects since the gallery is run by MGML.
Jakopič Gallery serves also as an information point for the MoTA - Museum of Transitory Art activities. The first common project was the establishment of a reading room and mediatheque on contemporary arts, architecture and design in 2010. It is dedicated to the memory of the architect and publicist Tomaž Brate (1963–2008), whose books form the core of this collection.


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Jersey grants 95 post-Brexit fishing licences to French boats
Jersey said Wednesday it has granted 95 fishing licences to French trawlers, after a row over post-Brexit access to waters around the British Crown dependency sparked protests.
The government in Saint Helier said it will issue 64 full licences and 31 temporary licences, in addition to the 47 vessels already given permission earlier this year.
A total of 75 applications were refused, it added.
The decision comes a month before the end of an interim arrangement allowing most French boats to continue operating in Jersey waters. That arrangement was introduced at the start of year, after Britain's exit from the European Union.
All unlicensed boats must stop fishing there within 30 days, the Jersey government warned, although it will still accept and consider new evidence submitted to support applications.
"By issuing these licences in the days ahead, we are ensuring the fishing effort in our waters is similar to pre-Brexit," said the self-governing Channel island's Environment Minister John Young.
"Those boats with an economic dependence on Jersey waters, who've fished here regularly before and have demonstrated it, will receive licences."
On Tuesday, the UK government announced that it will grant 12 out of 47 applications for new licences to small boats from the EU to fish in its territorial waters, enraging France.
London insisted it had pursued a "reasonable approach", issuing nearly 1,700 licences to boats from the bloc to fish in Britain's exclusive economic zone, which is defined as being 12-200 nautical miles from the coast.
But French Maritime Minister Annick Girardin called it "a new British refusal to apply the conditions" of the Brexit agreement struck by London and Brussels, stoking fears of protests.
Stormy protests by French trawlers over fishing rights in Jersey erupted earlier this year and threatened to turn into a full-blown naval incident.
As French boats steamed towards the capital Saint Helier, London sent two naval patrol boats to monitor the situation, prompting Paris to respond in kind.
In a bid to calm tempers, a three-month extension was agreed that expires this week.


Nest recently announced that two-factor authentication is here, finally adding in the often asked for option of secondary security. There does appear to be one caveat in regard to this new security measure, but isn't there always?
For those not in the know, you may be asking yourself what exactly two-factor authentication is used for. To quickly summarize, 2FA allows you to securely sign in to your accounts by sending a randomly generated security code to the user. This code can be delivered though SMS as well as through 2FA applications such as Google's own Google Authenticator. Once you receive your code you enter it into an input field just as you do with your regular sign-in credentials. This way there are two layers of security utilized every time you sign in to your account, your regular credentials and a randomly generated code only sent to you.
As for that one caveat hanging over everyone's head, there is currently no way to use a 2FA app with your Nest account. You are limited to only using SMS for your authentication code delivery method. A glaring lack of choice for the user but at least it is a start for keeping Nest accounts more secure. When it comes to Google, issues such as missing features tend to be pretty common. As an authenticator app user, all I can say is I hope we will see 2FA application support added to Nest soon.
Overall the addition of 2FA to Nests security is a much asked for feature that has finally been delivered. That is definitely something to celebrate, for many of us online security is always something to be taken seriously, the more tools the better. Frankly there should be little to complain about when we are given these tools for free.


We offer a concession jewellery service which includes men's accessories for those involved in the retail and hospitality industries. This is a great opportunity for hotels, spas, hair and beauty salons, boutiques and small retailers to offer their customers a range of beautiful jewellery and men's accessories without the hassle of putting it all together themselves.
We spend a lot of time sourcing high quality fashion jewellery that looks stunning and will attract your customer's attention. To make the process easy for our retail concession clients – we supply the jewellery display cabinets and the jewellery, as well as all point of sale materials. We also provide tips and advice on how to showcase the items effectively, so your dedicated staff member can manage the display with ease. We're committed to high standards of customer service and make sure our customers queries are answered promptly and their displays are kept re-stocked.This is a great opportunity to generate extra revenue for your business, with very little investment and effort on your part.
We are the only company in the UK to offer a complete concession jewellery service and each of our existing retail concession customers is really impressed, not only with the range and quality of jewellery we provide, but also with the standard of support and service they receive.
You will receive an opening stock of ladies jewellery and men's accessories if required.
A PDF look book to display the jewellery and accessories.
Assitance with ordering display cabinets from UK supplier if required.
40% wholesale discount off all future top-up orders online, minimum spend £100.
The initial jewellery pack for one cabinet contains 8 necklaces 4 long and 4 statement short, 8 fashion bracelets, 4 matching necklace and earring sets, and 6 pairs of earrings, presented with relevant gift bags and boxes for your customer.
Special offer pack with ladies jewellery and merchandising display accessories.
The pack will include 8 necklaces, 4 long and 4 statement short, 4 matching necklace and earring sets, 6 pairs of earrings and 8 fashion bracelets.
Merchandising Accessories, 5 necklace stands, 1 bracelet stand, 4 earring stands and a brand Perspex stand.
If you are going to retail Men's accessories the pack will include 6 silk ties and 6 cufflinks in boxes with a white display tray.
We can select the items for you, based on our experience of current trends and best sellers, or you can select the products yourself from our website, this will not include crystal products.
If you require help setting up your new display or to train a member of staff on how to merchandise the products and how to do a repeat order, one of the Truly Jewellery team will be happy to visit your premises at a cost of £150.00, depending on where you are situated within the UK.
For more detailed information or to request a call regarding our service please complete the form below.
We can supply your business with glass jewellery cabinets and LED lighting, we work with the UK's number one glass display cabinet supplier for ease and convenience.
Depending on the size of your business and the area you wish to use for retailing jewellery, you may wish to have more than one cabinet. We can advise where and how to place a cabinet for best footfall and ease of sale.
Glass jewellery cabinets range in price from £100 – £1000 plus, they are available in different styles suited to the image of your business and brand.
If you are on a budget glass cabinets are also excellent from IKEA and Truly Jewellery highly recommends these as an option to smaller retailers.
The cabinets from our supplier can be delivered in the UK and Worldwide they come already assembled and can be placed in the correct location for your ease.
For more detailed information and prices on cabinets please complete the form below.


Don't miss out on this community workshop to help you participate in Tell Arlington's Story!
Learn basic tips for telling and sharing stories from highly experienced professionals.
Thu. Aug. 4th, 7-10 PM at Arlington Independent Media.
RSVP required at storyworkshop@arlingtonmedia.org or 703-524-2388.
Produced by Jackie Stephens and Gunston Middle School's Network 21 TV.


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Q: How to catch nativeSms sendaction in my application in android I am having an application in which i want to track the messages sent from native inbox.
i am using "android.intent.action.SEND"
as intent filter in reciver of manifestfile.
But i am not able to catch it in onrecieve method..
Any ideas please help..
Thanks in advance


They say that every love story has its own time, and if it is not acted upon at the right time, it dies. At times sitting in an empty room with no life around, all these thoughts keep crossing my mind. I loved him and in spite of the fact that I too had strong feelings for him I could never look up to him to confess this. I have my reasons for being sad and he finds this enough to be sad as well. With his, every touch and every emotion the feeling kept inflating. He always looked up to me to at least drop a hint and I always gave a smile and switched.
There were times when I had long sleepless nights and wet pillows. The next morning I had to carry the regular smile which made it very evident to believe that this is not as precious to me as it is to him. How I wished in those moments to just let go and feel, to let myself loose and tell him how much I love him too, to hold him. To embrace this feeling.
He went out of India, and still made it a point to never miss my birthday's or rather any special event of my life. I still appreciate his courage to happily face my wedding. Although, neither of us was happy. I have unlimited memories with him which could never be matched and replaced. All the while it felt so special and different. He was understanding to such extent that I never really had to speak. But still we remain silent. Hiding the pain and living the moment in a hope to work out things.
Living the moment is definitely appreciated. But, if that moment gives you memories which you would probably never surpass, it's not worth making it equally miserable for.
He kept on asking and I kept on ignoring before the day we had to leave college arrived. It became a standstill. And today I live with the "what-ifs".
I was married a few years later to a guy who obviously didn't lack my expectations. But there came a point when I had thoughts about what I had left unsaid. I'm finding a reason for it. He kept all his promises and is still maintaining. The guy could still give up anything to make things okay and see me happy. But well you know I am a woman my life is not just my life. In fact, it is not at all mine. I am not allowed to feel, I am not free.
Then I lately realized that the person I'm with is just for the namesake to build up a family. I couldn't get truly intimate with him due to my reasons and he somehow knew about it. I tried and tried so hard to love him, make him happy, but nothing was enough for him. The next month after our marriage, I found out about him getting laid with one of his colleagues forgetting the vows so easily.
Did I not even deserve some time to fall out of love, forget my past so that I could truly be with my husband in every sense, be his and make him mine. Well, I guess I got the answer soon enough. This incident had ransacked my moral and I made a decision to step out. That was not easier for me either as I guess being a woman takes away the right to feel the pain and anger as well.
The next month after our marriage, I found out about him getting laid with one of his colleagues forgetting the vows so easily. Did I not even deserve some time to fall out of love, forget my past so that I could truly be with my husband in every sense. Be his and make him mine. I guess I got the answer soon enough. This incident had ransacked my moral and I made a decision to step out. But that was not easier for me either as I guess being a woman takes away the right to feel. The pain and anger too.
My parents did not support me in this decision as they wanted me to forget this incident. They thought that it is a normal thing for a man to do so. It's his wife's duty to forgive him without any unnecessary drama as it was harming their reputation in the society. For his parents well it was my fault because I was not able to satisfy their son physically so he had no other option but to cheat on me. I should without a doubt and a second thought come back to their son. I'm still disappointed to realize that my husband never took any such efforts to talk it out.
You will always get to hear things like "somethings are better left unsaid", which is actually not true.
I should have been strong enough to make such an important decision on which my life dwells. Maybe then I would have ended up with the person who truly loved me, cared about me and respected me. That's my confession.
If he someway finds out to know that it's me,"You are missed. I wish I had given it a shot because I'm anyway suffering". And my eyes still get wet while I get your texts. Be it an empty room or a room full of people I am all alone and empty inside.
Do not hesitate to risk it if you feel that the person is worth your love.
Benefits Of Gossiping You Should Definitely Know!!


Next message: [Freeswitch-docs] Confluence for deprecated pages?
I notice that if I click on a link for a deprecated page, e.g., something that does not exist at present or that points to the old Wiki, I end up at freeswitch.com.
I would expect the default error landing page to be either the top of Confluence, a Confluence error page with a searchbox (best IMO), or maybe freeswitch.org. But not FS.com. Not that I have anything against FS.com, but I find it jarring.


Erasing the White Castle is set in a miniaturized Neuschwanstein castle in an abandoned theme park on the fringes of Perth. The Australian bushland has begun to grow back over the site, and no other structures are visible in the shot. It is a single straight shot of the castle, and over the 4:45 minutes of the video there is a time-lapse effect. We see a Mickey Mouse character - an alter ego perhaps - using a roller and paintbrush to transform the castle from white to black, at one point miraculously appearing on the roof, blacking out the watchtower section of the castle. As the castle is painted it becomes indistinguishable from the blackness it is surrounded by, and its form and defensive features appear to erode into the night.
Coates and Spiers' work Erasing the White Castle draws on our idealised notions of home and the idea that 'everyman's house is his castle'. The castle in the video is a more domestically scaled version of the iconic Bavarian (and subsequent Disney) castle on which it is modelled, yet it still has the fortified design of Medieval architecture. The video is shot in infrared, mimicking the security systems that are being increasingly used in contemporary domestic environments, while also referencing the origin of this technology in military surveillance. The atmosphere in the video is that of witnessing a crime or seeing a peculiar military operation in action. This subtle blurring of right and wrong teases at ideas such as the Castle Doctrine, where the use of arms is acceptable in defending private property.


Devon and Cornwall pony racers enjoyed a great awards night and end of season meal at Exeter Racecourse.
The annual event, held jointly with Wessex area, saw riders, friends and parents enjoy a video compilation of the season, a quiz – with a 'deal or no deal' style finale, a talk from jockey Bryony Frost, a pony race graduate herself, and a meal before the season's awards were presented.
Tamby Welch had an exceptional season and picked up the points championship titles in both the 138cm and 148cm categories, with his ponies Churchill and Vadlawalkover.
The points series has just been sponsored by Exeter Racecourse and the first three riders home in each section won a hoodie with the racecourse logo 'supporting the jockeys of the future'. Perpetual challenge Cups for the runner up and third were sponsored by Julian Greatrex, whose son is NH trainer Warren Greatrex and whose grandchildren are jockeys and pony race graduates.
Chad Bament was second in the 138 cm with Tyler Heard third. In the 148cm James Armstrong was second with Tommy Eyston third.
Tamby was presented with the Synderborough Farm Rising Stars Trophy sponsored by Stewart and Monique Pike, and the Allerton Organics Shield. The best eight scores of the season count for the points series and Churchill won eight out of nine runs.
The Alan Walter Horse transport trophy for the person who has got the most out of the season went to James Armstrong.
A pair of bespoke racing boots sponsored by Philip Wood of Classic Boots, Yorkshire, were presented to Walter Fisher-Barnett for working hard all season.
Pony race steward Angela Heath presented a microchipped NH Pro-Cush whip to this year's graduate Thomasina Eyston.
Many thanks to Richard Prince, George Welch and Paul Nicholls for organising and sponsoring the awards night.
Wessex Area pony race organiser Ann Watts was honoured by the Wessex Area Point to Point Secretaries Association whose representative Fiona Walker presented her with an award for being the person who had contributed most to the success of the point to points this season.


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First ever kettle kick-off in Antioch
The Antioch kettle kick-off featured a car show. Photo by Connie Hall
The Salvation Army in Antioch, Calif., held its first ever kettle kick-off Nov. 16 with a car show and contest, along with a concert. Corps Officers Lts. Purnell and Connie Hall expected 15 cars, but were pleased to welcome 35 participants.
"This was our first annual kick-off and we wanted to plan an event that would draw in the diversity of our community while promoting the ministry and message of The Salvation Army," Connie Hall said.
SO-LOW RIDERS, a local car club, partnered with The Salvation Army to sponsor the event. Entries in the car show were judged on style, presentation and power, with winners in the categories of People's Choice, Class, Best in Show and Pastor's Choice.
The concert featured area Christian artists who performed in a variety of styles including reggae and rap. A crowd favorite was The Salvation Army's own "Blood and Fire" from the Suisun City Kroc Center.
"This event is one that we hope will continue for years to come, growing bigger and better with each passing year and affording us the opportunity to build community support and partnerships," Hall said.
SO-LOW RIDERS plans to partner with the corps again for next year's kick-off.
Vol 31No 20
Focusing on justice and peace
Las Vegas junior soldiers
A year in Estonia
Racing legend drives awareness


MIAMI | Following a national search, Barry University's Board of Trustees has named Mike Allen as the university's seventh president. Allen, who currently serves as vice president for student affairs at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., will assume the role of president July 1.
Mike Allen, currently vice president for student affairs at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., will assume the role of president of Barry University July 1. He is the first man and lay person to head the school, founded and operated by the Adrian Dominican congregation of women religious.
Allen will become the first man and lay person to lead Barry University since its founding in 1940. Featuring two colleges and six schools, the university has a student enrollment of more than 7,000. He succeeds Adrian Dominican Sister Linda Bevilacqua, who has served as Barry's president since 2004 and will become President Emerita effective July 1. Sister Linda announced her retirement in June 2018.
"Mike brings all the elements of leadership, character, service, and caring that our board was looking to find in an ideal candidate," said John Bussel, chair of Barry's Board of Trustees. "Known as a strategic, visionary and creative thinker, Mike's knowledge of and commitment to Catholic higher education and his engaging and dynamic approach to people and issues will lead and inspire Barry students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends as we strive to better ourselves and each other."
Bussel noted that Allen is inheriting "the extraordinary, mission-driven legacy" of Sister Linda and her five Adrian Dominican predecessors. "His demonstrated commitment to a culture of concern for others and his inclusive and welcoming nature will ensure that Barry's commitment to learn, reflect and serve will forever remain at our core," Bussel said.
A seasoned higher education administrator with more than 25 years of experience, Allen currently serves as a member of the senior leadership team at Catholic University, providing guidance and recommendations for all matters related to student experience, with close collaboration on enrollment, academic, fundraising, and capital project initiatives.
Prior to his role as vice president of student affairs, Allen served for eight years as associate vice president and director of athletics at Catholic University. He also worked in various roles designing and implementing academic support programs for students at Florida Atlantic University and the University of Connecticut between 1993 and 2005. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College, and a Master of Arts and doctoral degree from the School of Education at the University of Connecticut, where his dissertation and research focused on the academic socialization and personal development of intercollegiate student-athletes.
Founded in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican Sisters, Barry University offers more than 100 bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs.


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Kate Middleton is obsessed with these $89 sneakers. So are we.
Clare Stephens
On Sunday, Kate Middleton attended the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon, to cheer on participants alongside Prince William and Prince Harry.
The three royals were in charge of officially starting the race and handing out bottles of water (before awkwardly getting sprayed with one), and wore matching black Heads Together jackets, to support the event's mental health awareness charity.
But, as always, Princess Kate's polished look attracted a great deal of attention. In particular, the official photographers developed a very serious obsession with her shoes – simple white sneakers – and now we all want them. Immediately, please.
The photographers were more than a little obsessed with Kate's shoes. Image via Getty.
It's actually not the first time she's worn them, having initially been noticed for her affordable sneakers in October last year. But there are two things we have to be excited about: first, the shoes are under $100, and second, they're really, really easy to find.
Superga's Cotu Classic Sneakers are available on The Iconic for $89, and come in black, white, taupe, military green, pink, red and dark bordeaux.
Kate Middleton's iconic shoes.
Pink.
Full black.
Red Gold.
Taupe.
Military Green.
Dark Bordeaux.
Of course, The Iconic also has free next day shipping for any order over $50, so these shoes will literally cost you $89, and no more.
Brb, just dressing like a royal.


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GeoAnth Research
About GeoAnth Research
GeoAnth Research is a project of Søren M Peterson, a bilingual international educator, applied anthropologist, and cultural geographer with regional expertise in Latin America and the Caribbean. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in geography, with minors in Latin American and Scandinavian studies, from Augustana College (Illinois) and a Master of Arts in anthropology from the University of Denver. At the undergraduate level, he studied abroad twice on faculty-led programs—first on a quarter-length exploration of five Latin American countries (Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Argentina and Chile), and a second time on an intensive summer Spanish program in Ecuador. In addition, he also completed an internship at a regional development agency in southern Ecuador. At the master's level, he used the anthropology of tourism and acculturation as theoretical frameworks for conducting ethnographic research on the sociocultural and economic impacts of education abroad programs on host families in Cuenca, Ecuador.


Boeing, the world's largest aircraft manufacturer, has admitted it is working on experimental anti-gravity projects that could overturn a century of conventional aerospace propulsion technology if the science underpinning them can be engineered into hardware.
That scientist's name? Dr. Evgeny Podkletnov. Sound familiar? It will if you've read The Facade.


Not even one of NYC's top wine directors is immune to coffee and breakfast sandwiches.
In our series, Liquid Diet, a professional drinker journals every sip of one beverage-packed week. Here, sommelier Thomas Pastuszak, wine director at The NoMad in NYC, documents a week of making his own wine in the Finger Lakes, including a new canned sparkler called "Vinny;" sipping nitro cold brew from Think Coffee while planning for the No Kid Hungry charity event; an epic tasting with Château Mouton-Rothschild at NoMad; savoring a 1982 Produttori del Barbaresco at Lucali in Brooklyn; and a well-earned mezcal at Waydown at the Ace Hotel in Chicago.
6:35 a.m. Up and at 'em! I'm already a pretty early-riser, but my two-year-old son, Walter, is calling for me and his mom (my wife, Jessica), so we get him out of his crib, read a few of his favorite books, and start our morning ritual: I toast some bread and spread a nice thick layer of butter on for Walter. For Jess and me, I pull out a bag of Oslo coffee (roasted in Brooklyn) from the freezer, and make pour-over — I take it black. Usually, I'm more of an espresso guy, but our Rancilio Silvia M home espresso machine has a broken valve, and I just haven't had a chance to get it fixed.
7:30 a.m. Today, I'm making a quick trip up to the Finger Lakes to work on the wines I make in the area; the drive will be just over four hours to get there, so I need to be well-caffeinated. We live in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood, and across the street from our apartment is a small local grocer—The Greene Grape—so I run over there and stock up on some snacks and San Pellegrino water, jump into my car and get outta town.
11:45 a.m. I stop in Ithaca, NY at the southern tip of Cayuga Lake (my home for 10 years while I went to Cornell University, and where I would then run restaurants after deciding not to go to med school). Power lunch is a Chicken-Taco Salad at Viva Taqueria and a bottle of Ithaca Ginger Beer—I crush this quickly, then continue to drive out to the winery.
1:00 p.m. I arrive in Hector, on the east side of Seneca Lake, at Red Newt Cellars—it's a great winery, and it's where I share space in the cellar and make "Empire Estate" and "Terrassen," my two Finger Lakes wine projects. I meet Kelby Russell, the winemaker at Red Newt (and also for my wines), and we get right to work. We taste through some 2017 vintage Terrassen Cabernet Franc and Gamay barrels, and a series of other fermentations just to get our palates primed, before tasting through all the individual single-vineyard fermentations of my Empire Estate dry Riesling. I select and blend the parcels that will be used in our Reserve dry Riesling, as well as blend the entry-level dry Riesling (I'm super excited about the focus of the 2017s!) Finally, I work on what is going to be a really exciting new addition to the collection of wines: "Vinny," a delicious and super-fun sparkling wine in a can that will be released for the first time this summer!
7:10 p.m. I jump back into my car to start my drive back to New York City and grab a cappuccino at Gimme! Coffee in Ithaca so I can stay sharp on the road. I eat an Italian sub from Wegmans (dinner on the road), wash it down with some sparkling water—all that high-acid Riesling has really worked-up an appetite!
11:28 p.m. Back in Brooklyn, and immediately go fix myself a cocktail (I deserve it after that long drive!)—tonight I'm having a Gibson, both refreshing and nerve-calming, I catch-up on some emails and then hit the sack.
6:45 a.m. I forgo making coffee this morning, and reach for a cold can of La Colombe Triple Draft Latte from my fridge—it hits the spot and I'm ready to get my day going.
10:00 a.m. I get-in to NoMad, check on some of the allocations and wine deliveries that have arrived, and make myself a cappuccino in our barista station, to accompany a bacon-cheddar egg sandwich I pick-up on my way in (pretty much a staple of my diet).
12:50 p.m. I meet my good buddy Dustin Wilson, owner of Verve Wine, just a few blocks away from NoMad at WeWork; we meet with our friends at No Kid Hungry, a charity (part of Share our Strength) with whom I've worked for over a decade. Last year, Dustin and I co-created an event called Reboule du Rhône, a celebration of the wines of the Northern Rhône Valley where we fly-over the top producers from the region for a weekend full of wine dinners and events, and gather the top sommeliers and chefs from around the country to give us a hand (and we donate 100 percent of the proceeds to the charity). Though it's still early in the year, we're busy planning our 2018 events, so we meet and discuss over some delicious nitro cold brew from Think Coffee.
3:10 p.m. My friend Jimmy Hayes, a super-talented photographer who runs Mayacamas Vineyards in Napa Valley is in town, showing-off some wines from the estate; we taste their 2014 Merlot, 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon and 2015 Chardonnay. These most recent vintages from Mayacamas are particularly delicious.
6:15 p.m. My wife Jess and I pick-up our son Walter from daycare, and join our friend Jeff Bell (of PDT fame), his wife Auriela and daughter Delilah, for a rare parents' dinner out with the kids. We meet at Lucali in Brooklyn to eat some ridiculously-good pizza and drink some fun wine: a non-vintage Pierre Peters Champagne "Rosé for Albane," a 2015 Bartolo Mascarello Barbera d'Alba, and a 1982 Produttori del Barbaresco (Jess' birth-year)—all super-delicious, but the Produttori with a mushroom-pepperoni pie is especially killer.
6:35 a.m. Pour-over coffee to get the day going (while making some toast for Walter, per usual).
11:00 a.m. Ted Lemon from Littorai Wines is in town, and hosts an awesome sommelier seminar on biodynamics; we taste some of his newer-vintage wines, and the 2014 Thieriot Vineyard Pinot Noir from the Sonoma Coast is particularly bright and energetic.
3:00 p.m. I gather my sommelier team at NoMad for an intimate tasting I've coordinated with one of the importers of the famous Bordeaux estates, Château Mouton-Rothschild—we taste through a few of the iconic wines crafted by the estate, including a rare 2014 Aile d'Argent from Château Mouton Rothschild (a small-production white Bordeaux from the estate), as well as 2005 Château d'Armailhac, 2004 Château Clerc Milon, and both 2001 and 2005 vintages from Château Mouton-Rothschild. Not a bad way to get ready for dinner service, and get our energy up!
9:30 p.m. Dinner service at NoMad is in full-swing, and we are slinging some great bottles from the cellar tonight: some highlights of the night include a 2015 Domaine des Comtes Lafon Meursault "Clos de la Barre," a 1996 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage Blanc, a 1983 Château Leoville Las Cases, 2005 Domaine Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier Chambolle-Musigny, and a stunning bottle of a 2006 Soldera Brunello di Montalcino—the last bottle, bought by a great regular of ours, is generously shared with me and the sommelier team.
12:30 a.m. I get home from the restaurant, and after a hot and busy service, I need a cold shower badly; I grab an ice-cold bottle of Pacifico from the fridge, and enjoy my shower beer while rinsing-off.
7:00 a.m. Coffee this morning is a frosty can of Stumptown Nitro Cold Brew from the fridge; strong and textured, I'm fully alert after a can.
11:30 a.m. Following some meetings with the NoMad team, I go next-door to Made Nice for a kale-avocado salad and a super-refreshing green apple and celery house-made soda (my favorite flavor of the lot).
2:45 p.m. Our weekly managers' meeting at NoMad, and I pour myself a cold brew from our barista station to keep me sharp.
11:15 p.m. Dinner service at the restaurant has been busy and the energy is high. The sommelier team and I taste some great wines that guests have shared with us through the course of the evening: 1996 Champagne Salon, 2005 Domaine Dauvissat Chablis "La Forest," 1999 Domaine Dujac Vosne Romanée 1er Cru "Les Beaux Monts," a stunning bottle of 1978 Giacomo Conterno Barolo Monfortino—to name a few. I wrap-up the evening with a glass of 2002 Domaine d'Angerville Clos des Ducs—a really delicious bottle from the NoMad cellar that a wine collector friend saves me a generous pour of (love these kinds of nights at the restaurant)!
7:30 a.m. Jess and I get out of the house with Walter and walk down our block to Hungry Ghost café; we drink a Nitro Cold Brew (on draft), a Kombucha, and snag some freshly-baked croissants. Croissants are one of Walter's favorite food groups, so he ends-up finishing both his and my croissant (I order myself another one while he's not looking, though).
11:00 a.m. Today is the annual Wine on Wheels event that my friend Yannick Benjamin hosts in Manhattan, and an army of sommeliers from around NYC come to help pour wine for his charity. While pouring some great wines donated from various importers and distributors, I sip on a crisp can of Modelo Especial.
4:10 p.m. After the event is finished, I walk-over to Charlie Bird with Dustin and our friend Jeff Taylor (actor extraordinaire, and now-GM of Verve Wine). We're parched after an afternoon of chatting-up enthusiastic wine lovers, so I opt for a margarita with salt, and a refreshing bottle of Reissdorf Kolsch to enjoy with some terrific razor clam crudo.
5:30 p.m. My brother, Alex, is in town from Houston, TX for a quick visit, so I meet him for an aperitif at Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels before we have dinner with our parents (who still live in Queens, where I grew up). It's a warm early-evening, so we drink some 2013 Királyudvar Furmint Brut and 2015 Weingut Franz Hirtzberger Steinterrassen Riesling Federspiel from Wachau, Austria.
6:30 p.m. Alex and I meet my folks along with Jess and Walter for dinner up the street at Pasquale Jones. Neither my folks or brother have ever been but it's Jess' and my favorite restaurant started by our friends Robert Bohr, Ryan Hardy and Grant Reynolds. We drink a bottle of Champagne Savart Expression with salads and clam pizza, then shift into a pair of delicious Italian reds to enjoy with a Margherita and diavola pie (2015 Foradori Teroldego 2015 + 2015 Giacomo Conterno Barbera d'Alba), before getting into a super-savory bottle of 2013 Hirotake Ooka Domaine de la Grande Colline Cornas with roasted dry-aged ribeye and pork shank—everything was pure fire (no pun intended)!
11:30 p.m. Back in Brooklyn, I sip on some Michter's 10 Year Single Barrel Bourbon, a rare treat from a bottle that my sommeliers gifted me over the holidays—seems fitting on a chilly, rainy spring evening, I don't pull the cork on it often, but it hits the spot perfectly tonight.
7:15 a.m. Pour-over coffee at the apartment, followed by a nice five-mile run through Prospect Park with my brother—starting to feel alive again after that long day of being out on the town yesterday.
11:45 a.m. After a post-run cold brew, my brother and I join our friend Tommy Wenzlau (of Wenzlau Vineyards in Santa Barbara) at The Modern for lunch. Tommy's got season tickets to Carnegie Hall, and he's invited me to join him for an afternoon performance by Maurizio Pollini (a legend in the world of classical music—I grew up playing classical piano, so I'm really looking forward to it). We enjoy a delicious lunch in the Bar Room, and while Tommy and Alex choose not to enjoy any wine, I have a half-bottle of Champagne Laherte Freres Ultra Tradition, which pairs beautifully with the various vegetable and seafood dishes we share. I follow this up with an espresso, and a smoky mezcal-based cocktail from the menu, before walking over to the concert.
6:30 p.m. After the concert, I head home to Brooklyn and take care of some errands, and take it easy as I have an early travel day tomorrow morning. Jess' sister Katie comes by to hang for a bit, so I open a bottle of 2014 Domaine Roulot Bourgogne Blanc for us all to sip on while we catch-up on our busy weeks. For dinner, we order-in some Thai food from a neighborhood spot we love, drink a bottle of 2015 Domaine de Terrebrune Bandol Rosé—I love to keep-back bottles of this age-worthy rosé.
6:00 a.m. I'm off to Chicago today for work (6:30 a.m. flight, ugh!) for the annual portfolio tasting for Tenzing, my distributor of Empire Estate in Illinois. I fly there for 24 hours to pour my wines and visit some restaurant friends. A very bad, but necessary, black coffee is in order.
9:45 a.m. I make my way to The Ace Chicago, and have a breakfast of bacon and eggs with a banana-blueberry smoothie—laying the foundation for a jam-packed day.
10:15 a.m. Just before getting to the tasting, I enjoy a peaceful moment with a macchiato at Stumptown—caffeine levels properly readjusted.
2:00 p.m. The wine tasting is still cranking and I'm loving the enthusiasm that the Chicago sommeliers I'm meeting are showing about Finger Lakes wines—I take a five-minute break to down a few tacos (Rubi's has a stand set-up just outside, and are serving al pastor) and an ice-cold Tecate.
4:30 p.m. The tasting is wrapping up and I head to Waydown (the rooftop bar of The Ace) with a few winemaker friends. We enjoy margaritas and sip on some Mezcal Vago to toast a great day.
6:15 p.m. We head down the block to visit the team at Roister for a quick bite—I drink some Valdespino "Deliciosa" Manzanilla en Rama with some buttered pipe pasta and clams (insanely good).
8:30 p.m. A proper burger is in order, so we head to Au Cheval and I inhale a double-cheeseburger with a Rodenbach Grand Cru red ale.
10:15 p.m. A nip of chilled Fernet-Branca at Swift & Sons allows me to wrap-up the night, and I head back to my hotel for the night—an early flight tomorrow morning will put me back in NYC—goodnight Chicago, you've been awesome today!


Use this online American Pioneering History quiz entitled Ohio Boatmen and the Pioneering Farmers Quiz to test your knowledge on the hardships and rewards of the early American pioneers.
Use The Ohio Boatmen and the Pioneering Farmers Quiz to test your knowledge of today's Midwest and Great Plains regions of the United States as the first settlers saw them more than 200 years ago. This quiz will also test your knowledge about the riches of the land as pioneering farmers established new and the hardships and rewards found in the everyday existence of the early pioneers. This online quiz contains 25 questions from a pool of over 100 thereby allowing repeat use. We recommend that students study the relevant videos provided on this site on this subject before attempting this quiz.


From IRENA: In 2016, globally, 9.8 million people had renewable energy jobs.
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) would like to draw your attention to its new report on the state of employment in the renewable energy sector, which finds that in 2016, 9.8 million people had renewable energy jobs.
Renewable Energy and Jobs — Annual Review 2017, provides the latest employment figures of the renewable energy sector and insight into the factors affecting the renewable labour market.
The report shows that solar photovoltaic (PV) was the largest employer in 2016, with 3.1 million jobs — up 12% from 2015 — mainly in China, the United States and India. In the United States, jobs in the solar industry increased 17 times faster than the overall economy, growing 24.5% from the previous year to over 260,000.
New wind installations contributed to a 7% increase in global wind employment, raising it up to 1.2 million jobs. Brazil, China, the United States and India also proved to be key bioenergy job markets, with biofuels accounting for 1.7 million jobs, biomass 0.7 million, and biogas 0.3 million.
To learn more about employment in the renewable energy sector and to read the full report, visit IRENA's website.


In Washington an angler can use up to three hooks per line, and for most salmon fisheries the hooks need to be single point barbless. Looking at the standard mooching rig that is often used for trolling plug cut herring you will notice it only has two hooks. Even when anglers tie their own leaders often times they use just two hooks of the same size.
When fishing an area that allows you to keep any fish, or are fishing an area that is comprised of hatchery stocks it's smart to add a third hook. Much like other "stinger" hooks the trailing hook should be smaller in size. The small hook won't interfere with the "drill bit" action of the plug cut herring and often sticks much easier into the thick jaw of a chinook.
Even if you choose not to use the third hook option and tie your own leaders you will miss less bites if you downsize the bottom hook by one size. When tying leaders for hoochie skirts, anchovy hoods, and cut plug herring I like to run a size 4/0 on the top and a 3/0 on the bottom. And another thing that increases hook-ups is to tie the hooks with the points in the opposite directions. That way the fish is more likely to get one of the points when it grabs the bait.


Spectrum Health, the largest employer in West Michigan, engaged with our partners at OST to build a virtual desktop interface (VDI) for their health system employees. Right off the bat, it's helpful to know that VDI is the practice of hosting a desktop operating system within a virtual machine running on a centralized server. This allows for a "follow-me" function, where a user's workflow follows them from any computer they access. The VDI would first launch with their Emergency Department staff, then eventually roll out to thousands across the organization.
Visualhero was hired to build a brand for their VDI, dubbed "myDesktop." We were also tapped to help OST facilitate persona workshops and user interviews, develop branded materials for launch, and ultimately design a visual system across multiple brand touchpoints for myDesktop.
First, we had to gain a better understanding a complex topic.
To do this, we ran a series discovery workshops that helped us define the objective of the project, including both for the overall initiative and for the branding project. These also helped determine similar initiatives that we should be aware of and uncover the people, objects, environments, messages and services that will shape the brand experience. Finally, we used collaborative exercises to define aspirations for the myDesktop brand, and outlined the ever-growing list of current and future myDesktop touchpoints.
Armed with a detailed understanding of the project, we began creating branding concepts. Our iterative design process was guided by a handful of key principles that would drive the myDesktop brand: First, it must be easily recognizable. Users within ER and hospital environments are often managing any number of daily responsibilities and tasks, so the brand needed to standout to a hurried eye. For this very same reason, the brand needed to be intuitive in application. Time spent discerning what's what is wasted valuable time. Finally, as a brand that lives within the larger Spectrum Health brand, myDesktop needed to be versatile, referential and resonate with the organization.
Next, we needed to hear from the users.
In tandem with our branding work, we were asked to help facilitate a persona workshop to expose some of the weaknesses of the current system. OST was confident in the need for and benefits of moving to myDesktop, but the insights from users interacting with the existing system confirmed this belief.
Through a four-hour workshop with over 20 Spectrum Health employees in various roles, we helped reveal the hopes and barriers surrounding myDesktop. Some of the findings of this discussion centered around location-specific obstacles unique to specific users. This revelation led us to working with users to develop 14 personas that will continue to inform the impact of myDesktop.
Finally, everything we learned rolled into a successful launch.
After an initial presentation of concepts, followed by a round of revisions, we landed on a simple, but memorable icon paired with a color palette that stands out in a busy ER setting. To prove our concept, the brand was shown on various touchpoints, including mousepads, water bottles, apparel, stickers, as well as mocked up into environment signage, posters, banners, and desktop screens. Finally, we worked with a local printing partner to produce badge reader stickers, branded materials and myDesktop launch signage.


WP DS FAQ Plus is the expand of WP DS FAQ plugin. The plugin bases on WP DS FAQ 1.3.3 (New version was arrived on August 19, 2011). This plugin includes the fixed some issues (Quotation and Security, such as SQL Injection and CSRF. ) , Japanese translation, improvement of interface, and SSL Admin setting.
I registered the plugin repository for wordpress on July 9, 2012. After this, you can download and update in the plugin menu of WordPress.
You can select the "Expansion of Contents" and "Sort" each categories.
View of latest list with some formarts.
Separation of Administrator and Editor.
Various safe controls for preventing the effacement of contents.
Invisible setting of a category.
FAQ Rating with "WP-PostRatings" plugin.
* The plugin is fixing the security issues, but the perfect protection is very difficult. If you find out a security issue, please contact me using "Contact Us" form.
However, both of WP DS FAQ and WP DS FAQ Plus cannot run because the short code name is same. Please disable the plugin and enable the other plugin.
The special features for WP DS FAQ Plus can only use during running this plugin. When WP DS FAQ is used, their features will be ignored.
9 March, 2012 Chief of Information Processing Office: Kitani.


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Bathroom Remodeling – Carol & Jim K.
"I loved working with JENNIFER RUNNER and CHRIS BECK while doing my master bathroom remodel with Normandy Remodeling. This bathroom was a gift from my husband to me. And Jennifer helped me create my dream bathroom, complete with beautiful lighting (including the chandelier I have always imagined). My tub bubbles softly around me and the lights dim to help me relax at the end of a stressful day. My bathroom remodel included an expanded shower with beautiful tile work, a new bubbling tub, double sinks, beautiful cabinetry and new floor tile and wall paper; Jennifer helped me plan the bath I was dreaming of, and she oversaw every detail to make sure the final product was perfect–and it is!
Chris Beck was the Construction manager and you couldn't ask for a nicer, more knowledgeable person to oversee any remodeling project. He was calm and ready to manage and make everything right for us.
We loved working with Normandy (Jennifer Runner and Chris Beck) and if we ever do any other remodeling, they will be the company/representatives we will call!


This is Tornado for the Nintendo DS and at first look it seems like a fun and simple videogame for the portable games system, but after a closer inspection we find that it's a little more complicated.
The DS game is published by Ignition Entertainment and developed by SKONEC Entertainment. You play as Toki and have the job of replacing all items stolen from Earth by a character known as "Prince".
As a "Cosmic Cleaner" member you must follow Prince to Planet 69 and use your tornado machine to get all the items back to Earth. You can see a video below this post, which shows you how the DS microphone and stylus is used to control the tornados.
Tornado aims to be fun and simple to use. While the gameplay is easy to understand and has you playing easily almost straight away, the fun soon becomes tiresome when things get very hard.
The game ends up frustrating, firstly thanks to the camera being very close and you find yourself scrolling more than you should. Secondly the time limited goals get annoying when you find the time running out a lot and having to try and try again. This was very hard when we had to find Cosmic Cleaners but had no clues to where they were.
If you really enjoy a game that can get very hard, then you will be playing Tornado for many many hours and loving it.
You will also get a lot of hand-excise thanks to the control system that has you constantly scribbling circles with the stylus. This becomes tiresome with long gameplay.
North America saw the launch of Tornado for Nintendo DS last year (2008), but the release date in Europe is February 27th 2009.
Check out the exclusive gameplay trailer below or see tornado-game.com for a fun way to view more information on this game, including videos, screenshots and the characters.
Using the touch screen to control the wild action, you draw circles to keep feeding the power of your tornado.
Give the tornado an extra speed boost by blowing into the microphone.
Collect power ups to increase your tornado's strength and to avoid adversaries.
Take control of a cat named Toki who must reunite with his friends and send back the Earth's objects where they belong.


For a better understanding of cell growth and product formation in animal cell culture, comprehensive quantitative data sets are collected over the cultivation process [1-3]. These data can give insight into the morphology of cells, their growth state, and their metabolism. Virus infected cells are adding another dimension to the complexity of the bioprocess. Here, virus replication can dramatically affect cell growth and metabolism depending on cell line and virus strain. Additionally, infection conditions, multiplicity of infection, quasi-species character of virus populations, and accumulation of defective interfering virus particles can lead to a multidimensional dynamic network where mathematical models can help to simulate and explain the observed experimental findings.
Fig. 1 Extracellular (orange and yellow) and intracellular (red) metabolites build together with enzyme kinetics the metabolic cell network. Viral infections can affect the cell network on multiple levels depending on cell line and virus type.


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Police Search for Murder Suspect
Monday, 16 March 2009 11:55 AM
Police are searching for a murder suspect believed to be in hiding in Malaita.
The suspect is wanted for murder that took place some weeks ago where the deceased was believed to have died from stab wounds.
Acting Police Commissioner, Peter Marshall, said a joint Royal Solomon Islands Police Force and RAMSI team have identified the suspect.
He said the suspect was identified by the people from East West Kwaio and Kwara'ae.
Mr. Marshall acknowledged the help from villagers who have been very helpful in assisting the investigation.
He called on locals to continue assisting the police and RAMSI in their ongoing investigation to apprehend the suspect.
The investigation team is working hard and searching nearby villages as investigation continue.
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