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Catholic Diocese fires a volley in the "war on Christmas"
So much for Christmas being the season of peace on earth. Not to be outdone by freshman Tea Party legislator Doreen Costa (R-"Peanuts"), St. Patrick's Parish on Smith Hill and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence have thrown down the gauntlet against the statehouse Christmas tree being called a holiday tree and will be holding a counter-tree-lighting ceremony on Tuesday, December 6, at 5:30 p.m., to coincide with Governor Lincoln Chafee's tree-lighting ceremony at the statehouse.
Bishop Thomas Tobin told WPRI that Chafee's decision is "most disheartening and divisive. For the sake of peace and harmony in our state at this special time of year, I respectfully encourage the Governor to reconsider his decision to use the word Christmas in the state of observance."
Um, if you want peace and harmony, maybe stop the grandstanding over what is after all just a word? As Rev. Donald C. Anderson, executive minister of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches, told the Providence Journal,
"I would ask my fellow Christians, with all of the poverty, hunger and injustice that surround us, do we really believe that Jesus would have us spend all this time and energy around what we call a tree? Do we truly think that the Jesus of the Gospels cares what we call a tree?''
Meanwhile, Ted Nesi at WPRI has constructed a history of references to the tree that's put up at the statehouse this time of year in previous gubernatorial administrations, demonstrating that Chafee is hardly the first governor to come up with the radical idea of trying to be inclusive in a ceremony that is supposed to be for all Rhode Islanders and not just the 59.5% that identify as Catholic. But hey, why let a few inconvenient facts get in the way of demonizing the governor?
Topics: Christmas, Gov. Chafee, State and National
Mageau fires off another volley
Calls Collette "Willie the wing nut"....quintessential bottom feeder:,,,,"union go-for"....."hypocrite"...."taker"...."wolf in sheep's clothing...."radical left-wing ideologue"
To the Editor (from Jim Mageau):
It's apparent to me that the so-called Charlestown Democratic Town Committee members do not understand that when you lay down with dogs you're liable to get fleas. That seems to be the case with its association with Will Collette, aka "Willie the wing nut" and his blog, progressive charlestown.com. It's obvious to me that "the wing nut" is the quintessential bottom feeder of Charlestown who learned his trade as a labor union "go-for" spreading misinformation and lies. He has boasted that he is a retired "union official" but his support for Charlestown's Town Administrator, William DiLibero during the on-going harassment complaints lodged against him by certain town employees raises issues about his union loyalty and discloses that he is a hypocrite. Both Collette and his wife Kathy, who is Chairman of the Charlestown Democratic Town Committee, collect their retirement pensions from the unions. Those pensions are funded by the annual dues paid by current union members which suggest that the Collettes rank among the "takers" who have given labor unions such a bad name. It shows that they subscribe to the old adage "hooray for me and to hell with you."
Topics: CCA, Charlestown, Deb Carney, Donna Walsh, Jim Mageau, William DiLibero
Doreen Costa fights back in the "war on Christmas"
A living Christmas tree (photo by EbenVisher).
In protest of Governor Lincoln Chafee's decision to call the blue spruce erected in the statehouse a "holiday tree," Tea Party darling Doreen Costa (R-NK) plans to install and decorate a Christmas tree in her office on December 6, the day the governor will be holding a tree-lighting ceremony. Costa's first action as a legislator, you might recall, was to pass a symbolic resolution declaring that Christmas trees be called Christmas trees and not any "other non-traditional terms."
Associated Press quotes Costa as saying: "Anybody that wants to go see a holiday tree can do so, but I will be decorating a Christmas tree. It may only be a little Charlie Brown Christmas tree, but at least it will be a Christmas tree."
Chafee defends his decision by citing Rhode Island's founding as a haven for people fleeing religious intolerance and suggests that people's energies would be better spent helping improve the lives of their fellow Rhode Islanders rather than agitating over what the tree is called.
As a practicing druid, I frankly don't care what the trees are called as long as they're left alive. I strenuously object to the wholesale slaughter of trees this time of year. And then people strap them to the roofs of their vehicles like they're bringing their kill home from the hunt. It's barbaric. And I don't think it's even legal in Charlestown what with our tree ordinance and all. Where's that tree warden when you need him.
Rather than kill a tree, I encourage everyone to get a living tree this year. It grows outside 11 months of the year and then you can bring it indoors for December. It'll be the last Christmas—er, holiday—tree you'll ever need to buy.
Topics: Charlestown Living, Christmas, Gov. Chafee, State and National, trees
RI's Right Wing Juggernaut and Transparency
How much did RISC and EngageRI spend to beat the unions over pension reform?
Now that the right-wing myth that unions control Rhode Island has been shown to be a paranoid fantasy, how big exactly was the conservative steamroller that squashed the retirement security of thousands of Rhode Islanders?
The answer is we will probably never know. Just trying to get a handle on all the time and expense devoted by individual businesses, business associations, Chambers of Commerce, cities and towns, outside organizations, the Tea Party, the RI Statewide Coalition and EngageRI is a daunting challenge because of the obtuse way lobbying costs are reported.
Topics: Class War, RISC, State and National, Tea Party
One more reason to scale back this Christmas: Consumer privacy
Using credit or debit cards to pay for transactions and shopping online are certainly convenient—but that very ease encourages overspending, and it creates vast data streams on your shopping and spending habits that you then have no control over. Smaller local merchants and craftspeople are less likely to be equipped to handle electronic payments, so you're more likely to pay cash and won't end up paying fees or interest on top of your purchases.
Ah, but the kids. Can't have the underneath of the tree looking skimpy and disappoint the kids. Well, you could just get a smaller tree. Who says gifts have to be new, though? There's a pretty short window of time when most toys are age-appropriate, anyway, and oftentimes they scarcely have time to wear out. Why not have the older kids wrap up a toy they don't play with anymore to give to their younger siblings? Not only do "recycled" gifts help the environment, but you won't be giving away valuable marketing data for free.
Topics: Charlestown Living, Christmas, privacy
Beach pavilion bids come in under budget
Bid opening this afternoon
On June 6, Charlestown voters, by a surprising margin, approved spending $1.19 million to building decent toilet facilities at our two town beaches.
It was a struggle to overcome opposition from the Charlestown Citizen Alliance's "voices of greed" - wealthy beach property owners who felt that providing decent toilet facilities would only encourage more people to come to the beach. Just recently, Planning Commissar Ruth Platner giggled when she said that hot showers were excluded from the beach facilities plan, meaning that "people from western Connecticut won't be driving to our beaches to use the showers." I didn't make that up.
Anyway, the project was put out to bid and, today, the bids were opened. Beach Facility Ad Hoc Committee Chair Paula Andersen commented, "While we appreciate the efforts of all the bidders, my committee will work diligently to compare quotes and specifications so that we may give our citizens a product that they will be proud of. Hopefully will make our decision before the next council meeting."
Here are the bid results:
Topics: Beach, CCA, Charlestown, Planning Commission, Ruth Platner
The most powerful force in the Universe
This land is your land, Part 4
A series on the Charlestown Planning Commission
Part 1: The Platner Principle
Part 2: Recommendations for Charter changes – appoint, 4-year terms, no staggering
Part 3, Torturing the beach facilities project to death
Physicists who study the nature of the universe talk about force in its four most recognized and understood forms: gravity, electromagnetism and the two forces that hold matter together, the "strong" and the "weak" force. If you want to get deep into the study of things, there's the theoretical "unifying force theory," yet to be discovered that will explain how it all fits together.
But missing from the debate is any recognition of what I consider to be the most powerful force in the universe, and one we know all too well in Charlestown – the Power to Obstruct.
Topics: AFDU, Affordable Housing, CCA, Charlestown, dark skies, I-RADU, Jim Mageau, Planning Commission, Ruth Platner, Town Charter Changes 2012, trees, wind power, Zoning
The death of privacy
Part 1: A brief history of privacy
A voluntary surrender of privacy:
Lisa DiBello's entry in Mohegan Sun's
"Show us your jackpot face" contest,
which appeared on the casino's
Facebook page last year.
Herman Cain's bid for the Republican presidential nomination is being undone by a failed effort to keep sexual harassment allegations against him private by paying off and gagging the accusers and revelations of a 13-year-long extramarital affair. Anthony Weiner was forced to leave the halls of Congress when lewd photos he sent electronically were made public. When shirtless photos of himself that he'd posted on Craigslist were revealed, Chris Lee resigned from Congress an unprecedentedly fast 3 hours later in a vain effort to forestall further revelations that the companionship the staunch opponent of gay rights sought was from transsexuals. And Julian Assange has been systematically exposing government secrets via WikiLeaks.
Granted, public figures don't have the same privacy rights as private individuals, and the old gentlemen's agreement whereby journalists didn't write about the private lives of politicians has long since fallen by the wayside. Though Herman Cain appears to be attempting to resuscitate it: In response to the most recent allegations, he issued the following statement:
"… No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. The public's right to know and the media's right to report has boundaries and most certainly those boundaries end outside of one's bedroom door.
"Mr. Cain … has no obligation to discuss these types of accusations publicly with the media and he will not do so even if his principled position is viewed unfavorably by members of the media."
Meanwhile, Google has been systematically posting street-level images of every address on Earth (and the rest of the universe) in vast online databases that are available to the public. And anyone who uses the internet is allowing corporations to buy and sell vast quantities of information about themselves, their purchasing habits, and their Web usage. And then there's the red-light cameras. Indeed, a case currently before the Supreme Court seeks to determine whether law enforcement agencies can put GPS devices on people's vehicles without a warrant.
Does such a thing as privacy even exist anymore in the digital age?
Topics: Charlestown, Lisa DiBello, privacy, State and National
Introducing the Magic Tax Calculator for the proposed Homestead Tax Credit
Back in March we created a spreadsheet called the Magic Tax Calculator. It was quite popular because it was available months before our tax bills.
To help understand the Homestead Tax Credit proposed by the Democratic Town Committee, we have created a new spreadsheet so you can see what the Homestead Exemption Tax Credit would mean for you.
Topics: Charlestown, Homestead Exemption, Taxes
Celebrating Progressive Charlestown's 100,000th hit
We're amazed we've lasted this long
Tom Ferrio and I started Progressive Charlestown ten months ago as a way to explore ideas, dig into the issues and, mostly, to have fun.
We found that Charlestown's life and politics was generally poorly covered in the media, and that coverage was pretty superficial.
Opinions in Charlestown seemed to us to be mostly based on rumor, misinformation or bombast.
Topics: Blogging, Charlestown
Economic stimulus funds for green energy in Rhode Island schools
Plans to Turn R.I. High-School Energy Green
By TIM FAULKNER/ecoRI News staff http://www.ecori.org/
SMITHFIELD — High schools across Rhode Island are getting an opportunity to meet all of their energy needs thanks to a project headed by one of the state's top experts on solar and wind energy.
Bob Chew, founder of Alteris Renewables and Solar Wrights, is a familiar face among the state's alternative energy policy and development sector. His latest company, R.W. Chew LLC, will offer many of the same consulting services for solar, wind and geothermal energy, wood-chip boilers and methane digesters, as well as overall energy-efficiency assessments.
One of his first initiatives, dubbed the Net Zero Energy project, will create plans at each high school for developing an all-encompassing alternative energy system.
Topics: economy, ecoRI.org, energy, green energy, Ill Wind RI
Affordable housing and "sweat equity"
Affordable housing, Silver Spring, Maryland, circa 2000.
In discussions about affordable housing here in Charlestown, the phrase "sweat equity" has been coming up pretty frequently. Instead of building new homes, people ask, why can't we rehab distressed properties? The short answer is, of course we can—not, I hasten to add, that those are anywhere near the only two options. Most people who need affordable housing are not in a position to buy a home regardless of price and need affordable rentals. But there seems to be a bias against (year-round) rental properties (though summer rentals are hunky-dory). I have to wonder if the antirental attitude has anything to do with Jim Mageau, seeing as how he doesn't currently own property here in town. Maybe people think if there are no more rentals, he'll move away?
But when it comes to homeownership, even if we rehabbed every single distressed property in town, it wouldn't get us anywhere near meeting our affordable housing mandate. And it doesn't solve the immediate problem of giving people someplace to live now, while they're rehabbing.
Topics: Affordable Housing, Charlestown
Thinking ahead to next year's town budget
A friendly suggestion
I think it's long overdue that Charlestown paid tribute to all that Jim Mageau has done for this town by creating a special line item in the town budget, just for him.
After all, no one person in the history of Charlestown has filed so many lawsuits against the town, so many administrative complaints, so many demands for information, inserted so much pointless material into the record and tied up so much town staff time than James M. Mageau.
And all while paying not one single nickel in town taxes. No property tax. And through his veteran's tax credit, not one nickel in car tax in the past ten years.
Topics: budget, CCA, Chariho Schools, Charlestown, Dan Slattery, Gregg Avedisian, Jim Mageau, Kate Waterman, Lisa DiBello, Marge Frank, Tom Gentz, Town Council
Is Iran Iraq All Over Again?
The nuclear intelligence that the media is fixated on consists mostly of allegations of abstract research that have been floating around for years.
By Peter Hart
For at least the past two decades, political leaders in the United States and Israel have warned that Iran was on the threshold of building a nuclear weapon. From what we've been hearing lately from the media, Iran is once again...on that threshold.
Touting thousands of pages of carefully vetted intelligence, menacing satellite imagery, and tales of a mysterious Soviet nuclear scientist, the media is telling us that Iran is about to get The Bomb.
Border War Rumors
Far from being a chaotic war zone, a study of the 14 Texas counties bordering Mexico shows that the number of murders has actually declined in the past five years.
Grim-faced military officers and ashen-faced politicians describe a horrific "war zone," with "hundreds of people murdered" and "citizens under attack around the clock." Some of the politicos say that the situation is so dire that it "may require our military."
Topics: Rick Perry, State and National
Will bad air end the Last Supper?
Da Vinci's Last Supper faces new threat of damage from air pollution
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Having survived long centuries, political upheaval, and even bombings during World War II, Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece Last Supper now faces the risk of damage from air pollution due to its location in one of Western Europe's most polluted cities.
Commenting on Progressive Charlestown
Comments are welcome unless you behave like a jerk
The great thing about a blog is that you get to say what you want. If you run the blog.
It''s been a while since we've run a piece expressing our very loose policy on publishing comments, and a couple of disgruntled commenters have challenged why we choose to accept or reject comments, I'll state my point of view and how I deal with comments on the things I write.
Giving pepper spray a make-over
It's all a matter of packaging
The war on vegetables
First ketchup & relish, then french fries, then pizza, then pepper spray....
For the whole cartoon, click here.
Topics: Class War, Food, Humor, State and National
Wal-Mart violence spreads to Rhode Island
Buckeye, AZ grandpa beaten by police when he
tried to protect grandson from trampling
It's not Xmas without mayhem at Wal-Mart - Ho, Ho, Horrible
Wal-Mart had an especially bloody opening day to the holiday shopping season with violent incidents at almost 20 stores, including Providence. Desperate times led to desperate measures as Wal-Mart's Christmas frenzy led many shoppers to turn on each other.
As we catalog the incidents, I can't help but wonder at what this says about our culture. It certainly suggests re-thinking the "tradition" of pressuring working families into spending more than they can afford on stuff nobody really needs.
The alternatives: (a) Buy Nothing; (b) buy from small, local merchants, craftspeople, farmers; (c) donate to charity in lieu of presents or (d) make your presents yourself.
Or you can go to Wal-Mart and deal with this….
Topics: economy, State and National, Wal-Mart
Big Banks are Doing Just Fine, Thank You
This virtual abandonment of local economies by Wall Street exploded when Uncle Sam bailed out the big banks.
Wall Street Bankers,
In the pink;
Forcing Main Street
To the brink.
Topics: economy, State and National
Where were you on November 18?
The Day everything changed
By Ted Rall
For the entire cartoon, click here.
Topics: Class War, economy, Humor, State and National, unemployment
What do the Charlestown Republican Town Committee and Jim Mageau have in common?
This question might come up on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
The Charlestown Republican Town Committee made it onto a list published in GoLocalProv.com today of PACs and city and town party committees who are delinquent in paying fines for violating campaign finance disclosure regulations. Usually, these fines are for late filing or failure to file.
The Charlestown Republicans owe the State Board of Elections $100 in fines.
Topics: 2012 elections, Charlestown, Frank Glista, Jim Mageau, Town Council
Benjamin Disraeli and Mark Twain were right
Charlestown: not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. According to a new report ranking the intelligence and educational attainment in American cities and towns, Rhode Island doesn't do so well. Among cities with 100,000 or more people, Providence ranks #155 out of 269 cities. In the ranking of 10,450 small towns, we had several Rhode Island small towns who made the rankings. Our best was Kingstown ranked at #375. Wakefield/Peacedale came in at #704, Melville at #1,216; Greenville at #1,254; Hope Valley at #1,873; Cumberland Hill at #2,135; Ashaway at #2,967; Harrisville at #3,406; and Tiverton at #3,955. Charlestown did not make the list. Harrisville?
Topics: Charlestown, Frank Caprio, Gina Raimondo, Gov. Chafee, John Robitaille, Ruth Platner, State and National, Tom Gentz
Reality check: what Rhode Island "pension reform " means to the younger worker
The Pew Center on the States has just prepared a terrific graphic presentation of what the recently enacted changes to the Rhode Island state pension system will mean to a 25 year old state worker who joins the work force in 2012.
Pew also offers a more comprehensive state-by-state national report for download here.
See the graphic after the jump.
Be careful out there
If you're braving the Black Friday shopping crowds—which I don't recommend—watch out. A woman at a Los Angeles Walmart pepper-sprayed fellow shoppers to keep them away from the merchandise she wanted, and 20 people suffered injuries. Police are still looking for the woman.
Need any more reason to avoid the traditional seasonal bacchanalia of mass consumption? Shop locally this Christmas! At least that way, if someone pepper-sprays you, you're more likely to recognize them to be able to turn them in to law enforcement.
OMGPD: 'Stealing Is What I Do'
From South Kingstown Patch
By Scott Pickering
When a Cranston police officer approached a 50-year-old Providence man riding his bike while toting a white bag the night of Nov. 1, they asked him what he was doing. "I'm out here stealing," he said. "Stealing is what I do." The man was wearing a coat that was "bulging," police said. He had been going into unlocked cars and lifting GPS systems and more. He was arraigned, ordered to pay restitution and serve a one-year suspended sentence. Just five days later, he was back at it. Officers were called around 2:30 a.m. for a report of a man on a bicycle stealing from a car. This time, officers found him carrying a GPS unit, a Norelco razor and a Sirius XM radio. "I broke in a couple of cars, up and down the block," he reportedly told officers. He had another year of probation added to his original charge.
This is disturbing
A 19-year-old Salve Regina University student was arrested after allegedly killing a rabbit with a hockey stick and then using the carcass as a puck. He was charged with felony malicious killing of an animal.
Topics: Narragansett - South Kingstown Patch, State and National
Are you getting your morning e-mail summary from Progressive Charlestown?
Our morning e-mail summary service doesn't seem to be getting through to everyone
UPDATE: based on comments and e-mail we have received, the problem is NOT limited to Cox users, although I have e-mailed Cox tech services to see if they have ideas about the how to fix this problem. We do know that some PC subscribers are getting their morning updates. This may be a system-wide problem - that's good news because it will motivate the blogging service to fix it. In the meantime, we suggest you bookmark us and check us in the morning.
Starting a few days ago, I noticed that I didn't get my morning Progressive Charlestown daily summary. This summary goes out at 1 AM to readers who subscribe to it (a quick and easy sign-up is in the right hand column).
Our low-cost blogging service has its moments, and I figured this problem, like most that pop up, would go away. Then we got another report from a reader who didn't get the morning summary.
This reader and I both use Cox as our ISP (internet service provider) and for personal e-mail.
Are any of you missing your morning e-mail summary? Please let us know, especially if you use an ISP other than Cox.
We'd like to know what kind of problem this is before trying to fix it. Presuming we can. If this is an issue with Cox deciding the Progressive Charlestown e-mails are spam (after ten months of operations), that's a Cox problem.
I'm hoping that this problem will get resolved at the service provider end. In the meantime, please make sure you bookmark PC or include it in your favorites, and visit on your own.
Deputy Dan Disclosure Dispute goes to the Attorney General
Deputy Dan - a law onto himself
Deputy Dan won't disclose so I appeal to the AG and we'll see how it goes
Charlestown Town Council Vice-President Deputy Dan Slattery conducted a solo investigation of official corruption in Town Hall, collected evidence, released a report and closed the investigation. Now, he is refusing to turn in his collection of evidence - documents he collected from the Town Clerk and other Town Hall staff.
Deputy Dan is a big believer in openness and transparency in government - except when it comes to himself.
He, and of course his CCA compadres, only believe that other people must disclose information. They are privileged and may operate in secrecy with impunity.
After my initial request for the records Deputy Dan brandished at the October Town Council meeting and offered to show to any other Council member, I was denied the records because Deputy Dan retained them. I filled the required, pro forma appeal with Town Administrator William DiLibero and my appeal was denied because Deputy Dan retains the records.
So now, my appeal (see below) goes to the Attorney General's office. This would be a simple matter if Deputy Dan had turned in his "evidence." However, he not only felt authorized to conduct the investigation - contrary to the Town Charter and Town Council rules of procedure - but now feels authorized to withhold those records. We'll see how the AG rules on this appeal.
But the next time you hear Deputy Dan pontificating about how this or that agency - let's take Chariho for example - must be more transparent, think of Deputy Dan's own arrogance and hypocrisy.
Topics: CCA, Chariho Schools, Charlestown, Dan Slattery, Town Council, William DiLibero
Misrepresenting Occupy Wall Street
Even the Anti-Defamation League denies that the Occupy movement is infused with anti-Semitism, but ultra-conservative pundits are sticking with that non-story anyway.
By Mark Potok
As the Occupy Wall Street protesters are swept out of their encampments around the nation, many are asking what the movement's next step will be and whether the police actions might actually help the two-month-old populist outburst grow.
But even for those seeking to discern the future of this new movement, a more instructive question might be: What is Occupy Wall Street, anyway?
Topics: Class War, Religion, State and National, Tea Party
Occupy the Budget
How to pay for the crisis while making our nation more equitable, green, and secure.
By Sarah Anderson
Some lawmakers are trying to give America the cartoon image of a penniless hobo, circa 1932, with holes in his pants and nothing but a cold can of beans for dinner. We're broke, they say, with no choice but to slash spending on public services.
The truth is that we're a rich nation. We need to make big changes, of course. But we should see this crisis as an opportunity to harness the country's abundant resources in ways that will make us stronger.
Topics: economy, fossil fuel, State and National, Taxes
I knew it! Fairleigh Dickinson University just did a study showing that people who watch Fox News (a.k.a. "Faux News") are stupider than people who watch no news at all. This held true even after controlling for the fact that more Republicans watch Faux News. These results jibed with those of a study at the University of Maryland last year that found that Fox viewers were more likely to believe false information about American politics. Fox, you may be unsurprised to learn, responded to the report in typical Republican fashion, by disparaging the University of Maryland, quoting the Princeton Review as saying that it was "among the top schools for having 'Students Who Study The Least' and being the 'Best Party School.' " Fact check: At number 19, UMd didn't even make it into the top 10 of "party schools." Snap to you, Fox News!
Of course, is it any wonder Fox viewers have trouble keeping their facts straight when Fox tells them pepper spray is a vegetable? Now I'm really worried that the dittoheads are going to start using the stuff to add some "bam!" to their Thanksgiving dishes.
Topics: Charlestown, economy, Red Light Cameras, State and National, Taxes
A non-traditional Christmas season
Occupy Christmas
By Dave Fisher, EcoRI.org
Christmas is a time of mass consumption and displays of trance-like mob mentality that has, in recent history, led to stores being stormed and people being trampled. A jolly time when Americans go into debt, partake in gluttonous behavior and, basically, hit the nitrous on the already redlining engine of consumerism.
In the United States, five times more trash is created during the five weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's; 1,500 plain-old Christmas lights can double your electricity usage when left on overnight. I think that it's about time that we rethink our behavior around the holiday season.
Rethinking and changing our behaviors seems to be a central tenet of the Occupy movement, and there really isn't a more perfect time than the holiday season to draw attention to just how misguided things have become. Every year, advertisers whip children and adults into a Bacchanalian fugue state of acquisition and all of the trappings, such as wrapping paper, ribbon, cards, gift bags, etc. This year, send a message of solidarity to the Occupy protestors for the holiday season and Occupy Christmas. The rules of Occupy Christmas are simple.
Topics: Christmas, ecoRI.org, environment
Housing for Firemen
Memorial Day Parade 2009
Beth Richardson posted a comment this morning asking for clarification of statements I have made about volunteer firemen having to live outside Charlestown.
The reply promised to be lengthy so I decided to fulfill one item on my to-do list by writing an article.
Topics: Affordable Housing, Charlestown, Charlestown Fire District
Major shake-up likely for local state Senate districts
Out with the old....
Redistricting could shake up South County representation in Senate
The new maps showing the leading proposals for redistricting legislative districts in Rhode Island came out yesterday. Every ten years, we go through this political drama as we change the shape of legislative districts so that they have roughly equal numbers of voters, based on the latest census.
Yesterday, we looked at the House maps for southern Rhode Island which showed two options for the new shape of our local politics. Today, we look at the three Senate options on the table. These maps could mean a different line-up of state senators in southern Rhode Island after the 2012 election.
First, here's what the map looks like today, based on the old 2000 census:
Topics: Dennis Algiere, State and National, Sue Sosnowski
Oh, no, the Super-Committee Failed!
Maybe we need to try another new type of government
To see the whole cartoon, click here.
Topics: economy, Humor, State and National, Taxes
Deputy Dan Slattery and the Quest for Transparency
"This is Deputy Dan - OPEN UP!
For Chariho, but not for himself
Council Vice-President Daniel "Deputy Dan" Slattery learned a lot about openness and transparency as a career federal bureaucrat in Washington, DC and as President of the Charlestown Citizens Alliance.
He learned that it is important to demand transparency of those around you while being as opaque and secretive about your own affairs as you can.
Deputy Dan was thwarted at the November 14 Town Council meeting from launching a new campaign for open and transparent government when his motion to launch a transparency jihad on the Chariho school system failed to get enough votes.
Topics: 2012 elections, CCA, Chariho Schools, Charlestown, Dan Slattery, Deb Carney, Jim Mageau, Lisa DiBello, Marge Frank, Ninigret, Open Space, Planning Commission, Tom Gentz, Town Council
Occupy this
"It's a food product, essentially." Leave it to Faux News to try to "spin" police brutality against unarmed citizens exercising their constitutional rights. Last night, Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly declared pepper spray a vegetable and bent over backward to condone its use by campus police against Occupy protesters on the University of California, Davis, campus. O'Reilly even went as far as to use the infamous Hitler-era "they were only following orders" defense—orders that the chief of campus police has been placed on leave for giving, along with two of the officers involved in the spraying.
Speaking of John Pike, the pepper-spraying cop, not only has he already become an internet meme, but the meme has gone meta and is showing up on protest posters on the UC Davis campus. Small towns that have streets named Wall are also getting in on the Occupy Wall Street action, albeit ironically, and John Pike has already shown up there as well. There's a Wall Street in Westerly; anyone up for occupying it?
Topics: Charlestown, Charlestown Living, ecoRI.org, Food, Humor, recycling, State and National
Political landscape is about to change
Take a good last look before the
lines change
Redistricting maps released today
The ultimate "inside baseball" political junkie's hot topic comes up every ten years in the year after the US Census numbers are released. The districts for state Senators and Representatives must be adjusted to make them equal in population. Because population tends to change a lot over ten years, every legislative district has to be changed accordingly.
Last April, I wrote about how the new census numbers for South County were going to cause changes to the districts of all our local legislators. This is what the House district map looked like after the 2000 census which is what the map looks like now::
Topics: 2012 elections, Census, Charlestown, Donna Walsh, Larry Valencia, Spencer Dickinson, State and National, Teresa Tanzi
Breaking News: ProJo reports driver in second car related to Chariho crash charged
"Reckless Driving"
The Providence Journal has just reported that the teenager driver of a second car has been charged with reckless driving related to in the October 23rd car crash that injured four Chariho students.
One of the boys, John LaMotte, remains in critical condition.
Topics: Chariho Schools, Charlestown, CrashOct2011
The Mageau Files
Mageau on the attack on November 14
Jim Mageau's documents tell an amazing story
Town curmudgeon Jim Mageau reserved a slot under "Persons Wishing to Be Heard" at the November 14 Town Council. And he was heard.
He used his 15 minutes to attack Council Vice-President Deputy Dan Slattery, Town Administrator William DiLibero, Parks and Recreation Director Jay Primiano and Economic Improvement Commission (EIC) chair Frank Glista.
He described an elaborate criminal conspiracy led by Glista, and aided by DiLibero and Primiano, plus helpers from among Town Hall staff. And Mageau accused Deputy Dan Slattery of aiding and abetting the conspiracy by conducting a cover-up.
When he was finished, he handed his package of evidence to Police Chief Jack Shippee to be included in the official record of the meeting. Those documents are now posted on Clerkbase.
Now we can analyze those records and find out what they say.
Topics: Charlestown, Dan Slattery, Frank Glista, Frick and Frack, Jim Mageau, Lisa DiBello, Ninigret, Town Council, William DiLibero
The Pound Papers, part 2
Town rejects Dog Pound contract renewal after a summer of trouble
This is the on-going saga of Town Council member Lisa DiBello and the Dog Pound, a now former beach concession business run under contract with Charlestown by DiBello's long-time housemate and business associate Deborah Dellolio. After a short re-cap, I'll continue my report based on a new collection of town documents I received under the state open records law.
Topics: BC2011, Charlestown, Gregg Avedisian, Jay Primiano, Lisa DiBello, Tom Gentz, Town Council, William DiLibero
Start when they're young
School Summit Puts Environment at Head of Class
Teachers, administrators and students from across Rhode Island on tour of the Nathan Bishop Middle School. David Gaudet, facilities manager of the Providence Public Schools, led the recent tour. (Tim Faulkner/ecoRI News staff photos))PROVIDENCE — The environment is not just another subject, but an educational imperative, was the message at this year's Sustainable School Summit.
In his introductory remarks, Ken Ward of the Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living — the organizer of the event — noted that the urgency to address climate change puts the environment at the top of educational priorities.
"The concept of sustainable schools is much more important than we thought twenty years ago," Ward said.
Topics: ecoRI.org, energy, State and National
Don't whine, work
If Chelsea can do it, so can you
Topics: Humor, State and National, unemployment
Big Corporation, Tiny Heart
Walmart is displaying its incredibly shriveled ethical center by whacking the already meager health care benefits that hundreds of thousands of its workers count on.
How small can a giant corporation get? I don't mean in size, but in spirit.
Once again, America's biggest commercial empire — Walmart — is displaying its incredibly shriveled ethical center by whacking the already meager health care benefits that hundreds of thousands of its workers count on.
Topics: Health, State and National
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Introducing the Magic Tax Calculator for the propo...
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Waterfall, Moonbow, and Aurora from Iceland
The Class War is So Over
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The OMG Congress
Tech Takes of the short variety
Pension "reform," signed, sealed and delivered
That's what they all say
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Starve the Beast
Roll-back RI Voter ID law
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Lost Causes Can Win
The search for Not Mitt
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is str...
It's Deer Mating Season: Watch the Road
Privacy and the right to know
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Move Your Money!
I want those records, Deputy Dan
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"Man Drills 22 Holes in His Head – AND LIVES!"
NEW Homestead Exemption Proposal
A Tribute: Julius Michaelson
Town Council meeting tonight
Sham residential wind ordinance up for a vote tonight
Saved by George Soros
PUC wants to help alternative energy grow
Week in review - November 13
Zero Sum Gaming
Not All Taxes Have to Hurt
Rethinking ballot initiatives
A Primer on Wealth and Taxes
Protesting from another dimension
Shouldn't Americans Repair America's Infrastructure?
Town Council Meeting Previews, Part 2
At last! The world's energy problems solved!
Deputy Dan wants more diligence on phantom open space
Charlestown's 1%
Creating Charlestown's Future


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X-Men Masterworks Vol. 7
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Collects Amazing Adventures #11-17, Incredible Hulk #150 and 161, Amazing Spider-Man #92, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #4.
Continuing the story of Marvel's original mutant adventurers, the MARVEL MASTERWORKS brings you the rarest X-Men appearances collected together! When the merry mutants hit the skids, they don't buckle under - they hit the road, and you're riding shotgun. So sit back and get ready for a set of stories that rock the X-Men world to this day! Pushed undercover by mutant paranoia run amok, the Beast sets off on his own, taking a genetic research job with the Brand Corporation. But Hank McCoy's scientific curiosity will come to curse him forever as an experiment gone horribly wrong turns him truly into a beast. Fanged, covered in head-to-toe fur, hunched over and driven to bouts of furious bloodlust, McCoy must struggle to retain his humanity as he struggles against the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Quasimodo the Living Computer, Juggernaut, the mutant Mimic and the emerging menace of the Secret Empire that seeks to rend the X-Men asunder. Meanwhile, you'll see Havok and Polaris head to the desert Southwest - but somehow excitement doesn't stray far when the green-haired magnetic mutant encounters the green goliath himself, the Incredible Hulk! Iceman engages in aerial battle with someone who might not call him "friend," the Amazing Spider-Man - but all is forgiven when the combined X-Men team-up to aid the wall-crawler against the living vampire, Morbius!
Gerry Conway Steve Englehart Archie Goodwin Stan Lee
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Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011)
Professor X continues to train his young students that he has called them the X-men. They are mutants born with abilities that set them apart from normal humans. The X-men are Cyclops (Scott Summers), Beast (Hank McCoy), Iceman (Bobby Drake), and Angel (Warren Worthington III). The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning gains a new student Jean Grey who will be called Marvel Girl.
X-Men (1991-2001)
With an ever-changing roster of mutants protecting a world that hates and fears them, the X-Men take on villainous mutant and humans alike for a dream of peace. Whether it's the Blue and Gold teams led by Cyclops and Storm, or a roster that includes the likes of Sabretooth and Mystique, the X-Men rush head long in battle to save the world time and time again.
New Mutants (1983-1991)
New Mutants (1983-1991) series
Avengers (1963-1996)
The first of a star-studded series of book-length epics featuring some of earth's greatest super-heroes! Brought to you by the legendary creative team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby!
X-Factor (1986-1998)
The original X-Men reunite as an all-new team with an all-new vision of how to achive Professor Xavier's dream. The X-Factor legacy starts here!

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One night when I couldn't sleep I noticed there was a thick fog outside. I went outside to take a look and decided I should get my camera gear and use the opportunity to photograph during a foggy night - instead of failing at sleeping. One of the first subjects I noticed was a house that still had the lights on. Often it is difficult to photograph fog in the night if there isn't any strong directed light. This house provided exactly that. I continued walking, searching for subjects by going to locations I thought would be interesting.
When photographing I mostly use the areas surrounding me. Traveling to different and spectacular locations is nice but it is not always easy to do. Unless you stay a longer time landscape photography is a lot about luck to get the right weather conditions. I like returning to the same places to see them in different light, how they change between the seasons, and in different weather conditions. Fog is one of my favorite weather types, however not so easy to predict.
The harbor turned out to be the most interesting area. Fog over the sea creates a feeling of infinity but can also feel claustrophobic. During a foggy night this feeling is emphasized. Since it was spring and the nights were already getting much shorter and soon the dawn was coming. Unfortunately the light didn't change dramatically with the sunrise. Just a subtle change but still enough to change the feeling of the scene.
Posted in Night Photography and tagged fog, landscape, Night, sea.


Online recommendations appear to be valuable information sources when trying to decide where to go out for dinner; but what if they are being biased by something as irrelevant as the weather? Researchers have uncovered that restaurants receive better reviews on sunnier days.
How do you beat skyrocketing retail rent alongside competition from established brands? For emerging designers, a Hong-Kong based app that encourages people to shop around may hold the key.
We spoke to a group of young shoppers to find out more about how they use customer reviews and in-store advice to guide their shopping decisions.


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Q: Get string with translation from Google translate i have faced some problem - i need to integrate Google Translate API to my project but i'm new and can't understand how to do it properly. This code is made just for example.
What i have now when i launch:few seconds for input and then program is closing.
What i want to have: i put my input and get translation in console(+ in array if possible).
Also i made folder "libs" and added here gson-2.8.5.jar.
Thank you in advance.
package com.company;

    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.net.URI;
    import java.net.http.HttpClient;
    import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
    import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

    public class Connect {
        public void gogo() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
            String query = "key=AIzaSyB2HijQLlsmI1udH9ARl45oC5eAj4XfjTw"
                    +"&source=en"
                    +"&target=uk"
                    +"&q=hello";
            HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
                    .uri(URI.create("https://www.googlepis.com/language/translate/v2?"+ query))
                    .header("Referer", "https://www.daytranslations.com/free-translation-online/")
                    .GET()
                    .build();
            String responseJson = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
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                    .body();
            System.out.println(responseJson);
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    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    Connect connect = new Connect();
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    }
}

A: There seems to be a typo in your request, try "https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?" instead.
A basic way to use Gson to deserialize the API response would be:
JsonParser.parseString(responseJson).getAsJsonObject()
        .get("data").getAsJsonObject()
        .get("translations").getAsJsonArray()
        .get(0).getAsJsonObject()
        .get("translatedText").getAsString();

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This Container Delivery System (CDS) method of airdrop uses A-22 containers to deliver miscellaneous items of supplies and equipment by means of cargo airdrop. The items are delivered by either High-Velocity or Low-Velocity parachutes and from C-130 or C-17 aircraft.
Up to 40 containers with up to 2,200 pounds each can be delivered by this method, and it has proven itself to be an effective way to deliver supplies measuring no more than 4 ft x 4 ft x 4ft and weighing between 501lbs and 2,200 lbs.
The A-22 container is placed on a plywood skid-board and several layers of energy-dissipating honeycomb are used under the A-22 to attenuate the ground impact shock and protect the supplies.
The LCADS (Low Cost Aerial Delivery System) system was designed as a lower cost alternative to the A-22 Container Delivery System (CDS) specifically for missions when recovery of re-use of the delivery system is unlikely. The LCADS design features lower cost polypropylene material instead of typical nylon material and features construction methods specifically designed to enable procurement of this system from numerous manufacturing sources outside the normal parachute manufacturing industry.
While the LCADS was designed for one time use, LCADS which can be recovered and which do not have any obvious visible signs of damage can be repacked for more than one use. MMIST is proud to offer LCADS products to complement its aerial delivery product line.
The LCADS system features two configurations, namely high velocity and low velocity.
Also available for individual sale, is the Low Cost Container System (LCC), a subset of the LCADS system and a cost effective alternative to the A22 CDS.


There was a bit of a plume moth bonanza at the factory today. There are well over 30 species of plume moths resident in the UK, believe it or not – in our locality they are mostly common plumes, although I realised last year that a lot of them are probably brown plumes, which are very similar. The beautiful plume is quite different – beautiful in fact – and is also relatively common, although nowhere near in the league of the other two.
What I believe we have here are – top left: beautiful plume, top right : brown plume and bottom: common plume, all within a few feet of each other on the outside wall of the warehouse.


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WINGS, GROUPS & OSS
905th AIR REFUELING SQUADRON
SKU: ARS-905-1008 Categories: USAF INSIGNIA, AIR REFUELING, SQUADRONS Tags: 319th Air Refueling Wing, 319th Operations Group, 905th Air Refueling Squadron, Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker, Grand Forks AFB, ND, USAF Patch, worldwide aerial refueling missions.
Computer made/mounted on velcro 3.5 inch-88mm
Lineage. Constituted as 505th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 3 Sep 1942. Activated on 7 Sep 1942. Inactivated on 1 Apr 1944. Consolidated (19 Sep 1985) with the 905th Air Refueling Squadron, Heavy, which was constituted, and activated, on 12 Oct 1959. Organized on 1 Feb 1960. Redesignated 905th Air Refueling Squadron on 1 Sep 1991.
Assignments. 346th Bombardment Group, 7 Sep 1942-1 Apr 1944. Strategic Air Command, 12 Oct 1959; 4133d Strategic Wing, 1 Feb 1960; 319th Bombardment Wing, 1 Feb 1963; 319th Operations Group, 1 Sep 1991; 305th Operations Group, 1 Jun 1992; 43d Operations Group, 1 Jul 1993; 319th Operations Group, 1 Oct 1993-.
Stations. Salt Lake City AAB, UT, 7 Sep 1942; Smoky Hill AAB, KS, 3 Oct 1942; Dyersburg AAFld, TN, 26 Feb 1943-1 Apr 1944. Grand Forks AFB, ND, 1 Feb 1960-.
Aircraft. B-24, 1942-1943. KC-135, 1960-.
Operations. Replacement training unit, Nov 1942-c. Oct 1943. Global refueling operations, May 1960-, including for combat operations in Southeast Asia, 1965-1975, and the invasion of Panama, Dec 1989. Provided personnel and aircraft for air refueling operations in Southwest Asia, 13 Aug 1990-9 Apr 1991.
Service Streamers. World War II American Theater.
Campaign Streamers. None.
Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None.
Decorations. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award: 1 Jul 1977-30 Jun 1979.
Approved on 25 Mar 1963; replaced emblem approved on 22 Nov 1943.


Coloration and pattern unknown. Thought to have no mane.
Assumed to be social because of skeletal differences between sexes, but also evidence of solitary hunting or hunting by pairs (not prides).
Carnivorous. Probably fed on horses and deer, camels, ground sloths, young mammoths, and bison in North America.
Juvenile P. atrox fed on adults' kills.


Wednesday's NHL slate is a light one, with just three games on the docket beginning at 8:00 PM Eastern time. Despite the limited selection, certain players stand out as strong value plays at their respective prices while others will have a hard time living up to their valuations and should thus be avoided. Read on to see who falls into which category.
Anders Nilsson, OTT at ANH ($24): Rolling with a Senators netminder has rarely worked out this season, but this is one of the rare instances in which using one makes sense. While no other offense in this slate ranks worse than 17th, Anaheim's comes in ranked 30th with just 2.35 goals per game. At only $24, Nilsson will give owners plenty of spending power at other positions and is likely to deliver a serviceable performance in this favorable matchup.
Philipp Grubauer, COL at CGY ($27): You probably can't go wrong with any of the three guys priced above Grubauer, but the German netminder is going to have his work cut out for him if he gets the start for the second night of Colorado's back-to-back. Regardless of who ends up guarding the Avalanche's crease, that player is best avoided against a red-hot Flames team that's gone 4-1-0 over its past five games while lighting the lamp 24 times in that stretch.
J.T. Compher, COL at CGY ($17): Compher is Colorado's premier source of production after the team's potent first line, and he's the lucky fifth man on the top power-play unit along with the three first-liners and skilled blueliner Tyson Barrie. If you don't have the $30-plus necessary for one of the team's three best forwards, Compher at $17 is a terrific consolation prize, especially given his recent form (two goals, four assists in the past seven games).
Mikael Backlund, CGY vs. COL ($19): Backlund isn't worth $19, even with his team rolling right now. While he's scored four goals in his past 12 games, Backlund doesn't have an assist over that span, and his offensive output is limited by the total absence of power-play production.
Johnny Gaudreau, CGY vs. COL ($30): You'll be hard-pressed to find a player hotter than Gaudreau across the NHL. His two-goal outing against the Blackhawks on Monday was his 12th multi-point effort in the past 18 games, and it gave Gaudreau 10 goals in his past seven games. An Avalanche team that's playing its second game in as many nights is unlikely to slow down Johnny Hockey.
Ondrej Kase, ANH vs. OTT ($19): Nilsson will likely outperform his usual numbers in this one, but we're still talking about a goalie with an .890 save percentage backstopping a team that allows 4.00 goals per game. Kase has been one of the few bright spots for the Ducks offensively with 11 goals and 19 points in 25 appearances. That production is no fluke, either, as the Czech winger has flung 81 pucks on net while converting shots at a 13.6 percent rate that's right in line with last season's 13.7 mark.
Filip Forsberg, NSH at CHI ($26): While Forsberg's a great player, putting $26 into a guy who missed over a month due to injury before skating under 14 minutes in his return Monday is a risky move. It's best to wait for Forsberg to show that he's back in form before inserting him into DFS lineups.
Brandon Saad, CHI vs. NSH ($17): Saad's in the midst of a profoundly mediocre season, with 12 goals, 12 assists and an even rating in 43 games. There's nothing exciting about using him against a Nashville team that's holding opponents to a league-low 2.45 goals per game.
P.K. Subban, NSH at CHI ($22): Subban's back to pre-injury form with two goals, two assists and an average of 12.1 fantasy points per game over his past three contests. A Blackhawks team that's getting outscored 3.60 to 2.91 on average is unlikely to slow down the talented blueliner.
Erik Gustafsson, CHI vs. NSH ($17): Gustafsson's found a new gear offensively with seven goals and 19 points over his past 21 games, including eight points in the last six. At just $17, he offers tremendous offensive upside for a defenseman despite the difficult matchup.
Cam Fowler, ANH vs. OTT ($18): Like Forsberg, Fowler's another guy who still looks rusty after recently returning from injury. His first game since Nov. 12 was Sunday, and Fowler was far from his best with no meaningful statistics besides a minus-2 rating en route to minus-4.0 fantasy points.
Duncan Keith, CHI vs. ANH ($16): While his teammate Gustafsson has been hot for a while now, Keith's current three-game point streak was preceded by an eight-game drought. If you're intent on using a Blackhawks blueliner, it makes much more sense to pay the extra dollar for Gustafsson.


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Als Typometer oder Typomaß bezeichnet man einen typografischen Messstab, ein Hilfsmittel des Schriftsetzers.

Für den Satz mit beweglichen Lettern ist das Typometer aus Messing (vernickelt), Neusilber oder aus Stahl gefertigt, die klassischen Modelle verfügten über einen hakenförmigen Anschlag am Nullpunkt. Die aufgebrachten Teilungen umfassen häufig vorkommende Schriftgrade im typografischen Maßsystem (typografischer Punkt) wie Petit, Nonpareille, Cicero, Konkordanz. Zusätzlich gibt es eine Teilung in Millimeter. Hauptaufgabe war die Messung und Kontrolle von Schriftgraden, Kegelhöhen, Zeilenlängen und Durchschuss.

Im Zeitalter der digitalen Satzherstellung verwendet man fast nur noch Typometer aus transparentem Kunststoff von etwa 10,5 Zentimeter Breite und 32 Zentimeter Länge. Er dient zum Messen und zur Textumfangsberechnung durch Umrechnung von Schriftgrößen  von – mittlerweile weniger gebräuchlichen – typografischen Punkt (Didot-Punkt) in das metrische System und umgekehrt. Das Typometer basiert auf der von Hermann Berthold für Deutschland vorgenommenen Vereinheitlichung des typographischen Punktsystems, das er 1897 auf das metrische System abstimmte. Dazu unterteilte er den Meter in 2660 typographische Punkte. Das neue System diente zur Vereinheitlichung der Kegelhöhe von Bleisatz-Schriften. Diese waren zuvor stark verschieden, da das Grundmaß des Didot-Systems (Fuß, frz. pied-du-roi) in Deutschland nicht einheitlich umgesetzt wurde.

Darüber hinaus dient das Typometer zur Ermittlung von Zeilenabstand und Zeilenanzahl, der Schriftgröße (Versalhöhe) und des Zeilendurchschusses bei einer gegebenen Vorlage, von Linienstärken sowie bei einigen Typometern von Rasterweiten gedruckter Bilder (Rasterzähler bei autotypischem Raster). Die Werte lassen sich durch Auflegen des Typometers auf einen gedruckten Satz ablesen. In vor-elektronischen Zeiten wurden Typometer auch dazu benutzt, um auf einem Leuchttisch Hilfslinien für den späteren Druckfilm zu erstellen, damit der Satzspiegel eingehalten werden konnte.

Ein Typometer ist neben dem Fadenzähler ein wichtiges Werkzeug des Mediengestalters und Schriftsetzers. Zunehmend werden diese Arbeitsmittel durch die fortschreitende Digitalisierung der Druckvorstufe abgelöst oder nur noch zur Kontrolle des Endproduktes eingesetzt. Trotz zunehmender papierloser Arbeitsmöglichkeiten ist aber nach wie vor eine Zwischenkontrolle (proofprint) notwendig, da ältere Programmversionen von Photoshop oder GIMP zumindest bis 2004 nicht millimetergenau arbeiten, und beinahe stets manuelle Korrekturen notwendig sind, wenn das Endprodukt stimmen soll. Mittlerweile haben die Hersteller jedoch reagiert. Aktuelle Versionen von InDesign, XPress und Photoshop arbeiten präzise. Speziell bei der Kontrolle von Schriftgrößen kommt es bisweilen zu Verwirrung, da die Hersteller ihre Fonts nicht einheitlich bemaßen. Einige arbeiten mit der Kegelhöhe, andere mit der Versalhöhe.

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To make someone extremely or completely wet, especially through their clothing. Jane soaked the other kids to the skin with the garden hose. I hope they get home soon, or that rain is going to soak them to the skin!
[for water, rain, or other liquid] to work its way through someone's clothing to the skin. The storm soaked us all to the skin. she soaked herself to the skin in the storm.


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Saba A. Ghani Ahmed Daham Wohaeb Farah T. Jasem
Chem. Eng. Dept., University of Tikrit,Iraq. Chem. Eng. Dept., University of Technology,Iraq.
A mathematical model was formulated using the absorption of carbon dioxide by monoethanolamine amine as an absorbent in a falling film reactor. A program wrote in Fortran language was used to obtain these profiles via using of multi grid method through programming of kinetic and thermodynamic equation and physical properties of the studied system. Through the formulated model film thickness, surface temperature, velocity, concentration and temperature profiles were obtained. The mathematical analysis validated by a test run in a Baiji refinery through intrusion of liquid flow rate, liquid concentration and gas fraction. In this study we have four factors as independent variables ,they are mole fraction of hydrogen sulfide in gaseous mixture (Y) (0.05, 0.75 and 0.1), molar concentration of absorbent (monoethanolamine) (CMEA) (0.05, 0.075 and 1 M), volumetric flow rate of liquor MEA (QMEA) (5, 10, 15, and 20), and its temperature (T) (30, 35, 40, 45, 50 and 55 C).
Keywords: Falling film reactor, kinetic, H2S-MEA , modeling.
TJES: Ghani, SA, Wohaeb, AD, & Jasem, FT . Mathematical Modeling of The Instantenous Reaction of H2S Mea in a Falling Film Reactor. Tikrit Journal of Eng. Sciences,(2008), 15(1), 63-78.
APA: Ghani, S. A., Wohaeb, A. D., & Jasem, F. T. (2008). Mathematical Modeling of The Instantenous Reaction of H2S Mea in a Falling Film Reactor. Tikrit Journal of Eng. Sciences, 15(1), 63-78.


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#ifndef GLOBAL_CONFIG_H
#define GLOBAL_CONFIG_H

#include "object.h"
#include "os/thread_safe.h"
#include "set.h"
/**
	@author Juan Linietsky <reduzio@gmail.com>
*/

class GlobalConfig : public Object {

	GDCLASS(GlobalConfig, Object);
	_THREAD_SAFE_CLASS_

public:
	typedef Map<String, Variant> CustomMap;

	struct Singleton {
		StringName name;
		Object *ptr;
		Singleton(const StringName &p_name = StringName(), Object *p_ptr = NULL) {
			name = p_name;
			ptr = p_ptr;
		}
	};

protected:
	enum {
		NO_ORDER_BASE = 1 << 18
	};

	struct VariantContainer {
		int order;
		bool persist;
		Variant variant;
		Variant initial;
		bool hide_from_editor;
		bool overrided;
		VariantContainer() {
			order = 0;
			hide_from_editor = false;
			persist = false;
			overrided = false;
		}
		VariantContainer(const Variant &p_variant, int p_order, bool p_persist = false) {
			variant = p_variant;
			order = p_order;
			hide_from_editor = false;
			persist = p_persist;
			overrided = false;
		}
	};

	bool registering_order;
	int last_order;
	Map<StringName, VariantContainer> props;
	String resource_path;
	Map<StringName, PropertyInfo> custom_prop_info;
	bool disable_platform_override;
	bool using_datapack;
	List<String> input_presets;

	bool _set(const StringName &p_name, const Variant &p_value);
	bool _get(const StringName &p_name, Variant &r_ret) const;
	void _get_property_list(List<PropertyInfo> *p_list) const;

	static GlobalConfig *singleton;

	Error _load_settings(const String p_path);
	Error _load_settings_binary(const String p_path);

	Error _save_settings_text(const String &p_file, const Map<String, List<String> > &props, const CustomMap &p_custom = CustomMap());
	Error _save_settings_binary(const String &p_file, const Map<String, List<String> > &props, const CustomMap &p_custom = CustomMap());

	List<Singleton> singletons;
	Map<StringName, Object *> singleton_ptrs;

	Error _save_custom_bnd(const String &p_file);

	bool _load_resource_pack(const String &p_pack);

	void _add_property_info_bind(const Dictionary &p_info);

protected:
	static void _bind_methods();

public:
	bool has(String p_var) const;
	String localize_path(const String &p_path) const;
	String globalize_path(const String &p_path) const;

	void set_initial_value(const String &p_name, const Variant &p_value);
	bool property_can_revert(const String &p_name);
	Variant property_get_revert(const String &p_name);

	String get_resource_path() const;

	static GlobalConfig *get_singleton();

	void clear(const String &p_name);
	int get_order(const String &p_name) const;
	void set_order(const String &p_name, int p_order);

	Error setup(const String &p_path, const String &p_main_pack);

	Error save_custom(const String &p_path = "", const CustomMap &p_custom = CustomMap(), const Set<String> &p_ignore_masks = Set<String>());
	Error save();
	void set_custom_property_info(const String &p_prop, const PropertyInfo &p_info);

	void add_singleton(const Singleton &p_singleton);
	void get_singletons(List<Singleton> *p_singletons);

	bool has_singleton(const String &p_name) const;

	Vector<String> get_optimizer_presets() const;

	List<String> get_input_presets() const { return input_presets; }

	void set_disable_platform_override(bool p_disable);
	Object *get_singleton_object(const String &p_name) const;

	void register_global_defaults();

	bool is_using_datapack() const;

	void set_registering_order(bool p_registering);

	GlobalConfig();
	~GlobalConfig();
};

//not a macro any longer
Variant _GLOBAL_DEF(const String &p_var, const Variant &p_default);
#define GLOBAL_DEF(m_var, m_value) _GLOBAL_DEF(m_var, m_value)
#define GLOBAL_GET(m_var) GlobalConfig::get_singleton()->get(m_var)

#endif

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Q: ECS deployment and matching number of running tasks Scenario:
ECS Fargate.
Say I have a "desired count" of 2 tasks.
The system takes on some load and auto scales to 6 tasks.
If I deploy during this time, ECS seems to kill off my actual running capacity back down to 2 tasks. This causes service failures b/c the system can no longer handle the actual load and must now scale back up.
All the docs I've come across indicate using "minimum healthy percent" and "maximum percent" to help control deployment sizes, but these refer back do the DESIRED count of tasks, not the actual number running on the actual system being deployed to.
Any idea if there is a way to say: "please just match the number of tasks running, or some percentage of such when spinning up new tasks from deploy"?
Deploy is Cloudformation via CodePipeline.

A: The DesiredCount parameter in CFN is now optional. See this issue for background.
From the issue:
We are making following improvements to ECS integration with Cloudformation:

    - DesiredCount becomes an optional field in CFN CreateService and DesiredCount=1 would be used as the default value if it is missing
    - UpdateService will also omit DesiredCount when it is missing in CFN template

Customers expect the current behavior (i.e. UpdateService will use the set DesiredCount in the CFN template) can just add DesiredCount in their CFN templates. Existing customers wanting the new behavior can get it by removing DesiredCount from their CFN templates. The changes will be released soon.


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Tour: Giving It Up by Amber Lin (Guest Post/Giveaway)
Please give a warm welcome to erotica author, Amber Lin, who is joining us with her book, Giving It Up!
Is Giving It Up a Fairytale?
By Amber Lin
One of the words that comes up often when people read Giving It Up is "fairytale". Oftentimes they're pointing out that this is Not A Fairytale! But other times they say that it IS a fairytale, just a very dark, gritty, contemporary version of one.
Honestly I am happy with both responses—I'm just so thrilled people are reading and liking my book! But I thought it would be fun to deconstruct a typical fairy tale and see where Giving It Up falls, so here we go.
Our heroine Allie… well, she has it rough. She's been hurt in the past, so she has a hard time trusting. She's a single mother without much of a support system, and she doesn't have a lot of money. This doesn't look much like a princess, even one in a dark contemporary setting. But there is that Cinderella story…
A Fairy Godmother
I mentioned Allie doesn't have much support, and that's true, but the one friend she does have is Shelly. Shelly is just one person, and she also happens to be a prostitute. There's not much magical about that, except that it does allow her to a) babysit Allie's daughter during the day when Allie's at work, and b) financially help them out when Allie's job at the bakery doesn't cover the bills. Then there's that scene where Shelly brings Allie a dress to wear to the ball. I mean, the ballet ;-)
A Prince
Our hero Colin owns a restaurant, that's all. However, he also does occasionally work with his older brother, who is something of a crime lord in Chicago. This is much to Allie's dismay, since she has had her fill of dangerous men! And Colin's ready to give it up, too, but the pull of familial ties keep him coming back. I suppose that could be like being an heir to a throne… if the throne included illegal happenings.
Now you can be sure I've this one covered. Giving It Up is a romance, after all! Allie and Colin are going to find their happily ever after, but they're also going to have to work for it. Villains will come from unexpected places. Good will triumph over evil. Well, I suppose they're in a rather grey area, aren't they? ;-)
So what do you think? What do you think of the overlay of dark and gritty themes that incorporate certain fairytale elements? What did I miss from a typical fairytale?
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Allie prowls the club for a man who will use her hard and then ditch her. Hey, it's not rape if she wants it. Instead she finds Colin, who looks tough but treats her tenderly, despite her protests.He tempts her, but kindness and a few mindblowing orgasms aren't enough to put her back together again. Allie has no hope for a real relationship. Two years ago her best friend betrayed her in the worst possible way – she'd be stupid to trust a man again. Besides, she has her daughter to think of, the only good thing to have come from that dark night.But when her rapist returns, threatening her sanity and custody of her daughter, Allie turns to Colin. Under his protection and patient touch, Allie begins to heal and learns to hope. Colin's no saint, though, and his criminal past draws danger of its own. Allie must fight to protect her child and the man she loves, hoping her newfound power will be enough to save them all.
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"Giving It Up is original, affecting, emotionally draining, but well worth reading if you are brave enough to go along for the ride."
—Annabel Joseph, author of Comfort Object
"A ballsy departure from romantic conventions. At once gritty and tender, stark and hopeful."
—Cara McKenna, author of Willing Victim
"Giving It Up is an erotic, compelling story that takes us to the shadowy, lonely places but doesn't leave us there. Amber Lin shows us that romance isn't just for the rich and shiny. Love can find its way even into the dark corners of the most damaged hearts."
—Tiffany Reisz, author of The Siren
"This is a book you MUST read if you like gritty, edgier romance that makes you think as well as turns you on."
—Cari Quinn, USA Today Bestselling Author of No Dress Required
"Every page is chock full of sexy, angsty must-read-moreness."
—Karla Doyle, author of Game Plan
"Giving It Up is a gritty, real romance that deals in an honest way with what happens to sexuality in the aftermath of rape…. Read it. You won't be sorry."
—Ruthie Knox, author of About Last Night
"Dark and edgy…but don't be fooled. There's a wonderful love story running through this book. Sharp, intense writing, sexy as hell, and such a cool idea!"
—Charlotte Stein, author of Sheltered
We stripped at the same time, both eager. I wanted to see his body, to witness what he offered me, but it was dark in the room. Then he kissed me back onto the bed, and there was no more time to wonder. The cheap bedspread was rough and cool against my skin. His hands stroked over my breasts and then played gently with my nipples.
My body responded, turning liquid, but something was wrong.
I'd had this problem before. Not everyone wanted to play rough, but I was surprised that I'd misread him. His muscles were hard, the pads of his fingers were calloused. I didn't know how he could touch me so softly. Everything about him screamed that he could hurt me, so why didn't he?
I wanted him to have his nasty way with me, but every sweet caress destroyed the illusion. My fantasy was to let him do whatever he wanted with me, but not this.
"Harder," I said. "I need it harder."
Instead his hands gentled. The one that had been holding my breast traced the curve around and under.
I groaned in frustration. "What's wrong?"
He reached down, still breathing heavily, and pressed a finger lightly to my cunt, then stroked upward through the moisture. I gasped, rocking my hips to follow his finger.
"You like this," he said.
Yes, I liked it. I was undeniably aroused but too aware. I needed the emptiness of being taken. "I like it better rough."
Colin frowned. My eyes widened at the ferocity of his expression.
In one smooth motion he flipped me onto my stomach. I lost my breath from the surprise and impact. His left hand slid under my body between my legs and cupped me. His right hand fisted in my hair, pulling my head back. His erection throbbed beside my ass in promise. I wanted to beg him to fuck me, but all I could do was gasp. He didn't need to be told, though, and ground against me, using my hair as a handle.
That small pain on my scalp was perfection, sharp and sweet. Numbness spread through me, as did relief.
The pain dimmed. My arousal did too, but that was okay. I was only vaguely aware of him continuing to work my body from behind.
I went somewhere else in my mind. I'd stay that way all night.
At least that's what usually happened.
Amber Lin is giving away a Kindle Fire along with 10 erotic books, as well as either a custom erotic story or a 30-page critique of a romance manuscript. There are many ways to enter, for both those who have and haven't yet read Giving It Up.
In a way aren't all romance's a fairy tale? I find the premise for your book very intriguing. Thanks for the post. Carin
Reagan said...
I've read Giving It Up, and it is amazing! I would definitely classify it as a tortured fairytale! Readers get all the rewards of a fairytale (happy ending, prince, princess) plus intense real life situations. Giving It Up is a definite must read!
@Carin It's a good question! I don't know, but I've been discussing it a lot lately, both the idea of the fairytale and whether readers live the romance vicariously through the heroine. Ultimately, I think that yes, a very successful romance is a fairytale, but I also think there are some good romances I enjoy just as a book and not necessarily through the romantic aspect.
@Reagan Oh, I'm so glad you liked it! And love your POV on the fairytale aspect! So many people have said it's like the opposite, but I really see it that way :)
I like to read the grittier side of stories, it makes the HEA more satisfying if they really worked for it. Hmm, what about the evil queen, king, or witch? Maybe they aren't an actual character but something else.
I loved this book :) the broken characters were amazing.
@Laurie Oh, me too! And that's a good one. Hmm, a fairy tale does need a wicked witch, doesn't it? I suppose in this case he'd be an Evil King. But not too evil :)
@Arianne Yay! Thank you!
Congrats on the new release. This book sounds fantastic. Can't wait to read it. I like that not everyone is perfect and the ,though damaged, both Colin and Allie try to help each other.
I do like for characters to be more real, have real problems and room for growth. This makes me relate to the characters much more than if they were perfect.
Such a modern day fairy tale. All the torture and strife, with some laughter, friendship and love sweet love. I expected to like it. It is nothing like I was expecting and still, I liked it very much.
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    #include <GLES2/gl2.h>
    #include <EGL/egl.h>
#elif defined(SK_BUILD_FOR_UNIX)
    #include <X11/Xlib.h>
    #include <GL/glx.h>
#elif defined(SK_BUILD_FOR_WIN32)
    #include <windows.h>
    #include <GL/GL.h>
#endif

class SkNativeGLContext : public SkGLContextHelper {
public:
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    virtual ~SkNativeGLContext();

    virtual void makeCurrent() const SK_OVERRIDE;
    virtual void swapBuffers() const SK_OVERRIDE;

    class AutoContextRestore {
    public:
        AutoContextRestore();
        ~AutoContextRestore();

    private:
    #if defined(SK_BUILD_FOR_MAC)
        CGLContextObj fOldCGLContext;
    #elif defined(SK_BUILD_FOR_ANDROID) || defined(SK_BUILD_FOR_NACL) || defined(SK_BUILD_FOR_TIZEN)
        EGLContext fOldEGLContext;
        EGLDisplay fOldDisplay;
        EGLSurface fOldSurface;
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        Display* fOldDisplay;
        GLXDrawable fOldDrawable;
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        HDC fOldHDC;
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Style | October 13, 2021 8:24 am
Brian Cox Trained His Whole Life to Dress Like Logan Roy
"I love his cardigans. The very fabric of his clothes gives him power."
Marsaili McGrath/Stringer
By Caroline Reilly
As Logan Roy on Succession, Brian Cox is TV's best dressed dad, if not TV's best dressed man at large. And in his real life, Cox is a style icon in his own right, and it's that savvy that landed him on our list of the 50 best dressed men over 50 earlier this year. Over a decades-long career, Cox has offered up a masterclass in menswear; whether he's in a kilt or a bold but tastefully patterned suit, a combination of flair and refinement permeate everything he wears.
The one critical throughline in all of his wardrobe? Tailoring. Plenty of men attempt the colorful suits that Cox is often seen wearing on late night shows and other appearances, but the precision with which they're cut to his body is what really makes him stand out. They flatter his frame in a way that looks modern and fresh without looking trendy.
We recently had the pleasure of catching up with Cox — who's sense of style is rivaled only by his good humor — ahead of the Season 3 premiere of Succession to talk about how his style has evolved over the years, what kind of tie looks like a flaccid penis and more.
InsideHook: How would you describe your personal sense of style?
Brian Cox: I'd say my personal sense of style is idiosyncratic. I like neat, well-cut clothes that transcend their era. I love all kinds of designers. For a ceremonial occasion it might be a Howie Nicholsby kilt (21st-century kilts), or even an Edwardian Jaeger jacket of the kind worn by the playwright George Bernard Shaw.
What are one or two items in your closet you would never go without?
Mothballs and mothballs.
Cox's sense of style has aged like a fine wine
How do you think your style has evolved over the years?
I have lived through many fashionable styles over the years. The '60s was a disaster for me because the look was slim-hipped, narrow-waisted, no chests, and I was just broad. There was an embarrassing moment when I tried on a pair of brown velour trousers in a shop called Gee 2 on the Kings Road, and they split as I was trying them on. They were described as a 34 waist but that didn't make it clear — that a 34 waist wouldn't make it.
I liked the Sub-Teddy boy look, drainpipe trousers, not flares. But ironically, although having the heart of a rocker, I fell for the mod design. Those amazing Ben Sherman shirts with the deep wide collar.
As I've gotten older I have grown, shall we say, more physically robust, and have this tendency to look like a bulldog standing on his hindquarters, so I have to be careful.
I would not say that I was obsessed with style, but I love wearing clothes. I like being dapper. You could describe me as a superannuated clotheshorse. My wardrobe is bigger than my wife's.
One of the upsides of having light sensitive eyes, is that it provides a great excuse to don designer shades.
What do you think it means to be well-dressed?
I think "well-dressed" means being smart, and wearing coordinated, well-cut clothes, good shoes (I still have the Stephen Colbert Louboutins on permanent loan from HBO) and a good narrow tie. My favorite tie is a tie based on an architectural drawing of Frank Llloyd Wright, my favorite designer of all time.
I hate big ties (that look like flaccid penises) or suits that don't fit.
What is your favorite outfit to wear when you want to dress casually? What about when you're getting dressed up?
I have some favorite designers and brands: Paisley Grey, Walker Slater, Canali, but if I chose a favorite outfit, I'll upset the other outfits. My favorite cap, however, is always the one I've just lost and my son is out looking for.
I love Logan's cardigans. The very fabric of his clothes gives him power.
Who are the people who taught you how to dress or have inspired your sense of style?
I think actors from the Golden Era of Hollywood, epitomized by Cary Grant. And today we have the elegant Charles Dance. All have helped define the well-dressed man, and, what's more, they have wonderful height. For me, the legs must be slim, and the jacket has to be a reasonable length. I'm stocky and broad chested, that has always been my problem.
What's one piece in your wardrobe that has sentimental value to you? Why?
No one thing has sentimental value. I love everything in my wardrobe. Many scarves in my wardrobe have a particular sentimental value, either given to me as first-night gifts or more probably by girlfriends, but then I wear them too much, they age and I have to part with them.
Of all the characters you've played, do any stand out as having very memorably good style?I have played a minimal amount of stylish men. I have played soldiers, cops and kings of ancient Greece, but being dressed in the elegant contemporary look of Logan Roy's quiet but pronounced style, courtesy of Michelle Matland and buyer Johnny Schwartz, is something quite different. Logan's clothes are part of his power play. Of the males on the show, he is by far and away the most expensively dressed. He wears his wealth on his back, especially those cardigans. I love Logan's cardigans. The very fabric of his clothes gives him power.
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UnDiscover Australia
Amazing wildlife experiences
Things to do in Australia at night
Explore the outback
Perth and surrounds
Guide to Monkey Mia
With blue skies and sunshine almost every day of the year, Monkey Mia is ideal for a leisurely getaway or exciting outback adventure.
By Allie Metz
One of only a few sites in the world to meet all four of the natural criteria for World Heritage listing, the enormous 2.2 million hectare (5.4 million acre) Shark Bay World Heritage area is the place to go if you want to see marine life in spectacular abundance.
Feed wild bottlenose dolphins
Explore the crystal waters of Shell Beach
Take an Aboriginal tour for a unique perspective on Shark Bay World Heritage Area
Monkey Mia Reserve is located on the eastern shore of Peron Peninsula in the Shark Bay World Heritage Area, about 850 kilometres (528 miles) north of Perth. You can fly to Monkey Mia airport from Perth in two hours or drive there in a day.
Things to do and top attractions in Monkey Mia
Shell Beach Conservation Park, south east of Denham, Western Australia © Tourism Western Australia
Day trip to Shell Beach
Pack a lunch and drive about 50 minutes south of Monkey Mia to see one of only two beaches on Earth where shells replace sand. Shell Beach is a picturesque and stunning natural wonder formed from billions of tiny shells. The beach stretches for over 100 kilometres (62 miles) and is a popular place to swim and explore. Spend the afternoon collecting shells, soaking up the sun and floating in the hyper-saline, crystal clear water.
Bottlenose dolphin at Monkey Mia, Western Australia © Tourism Western Australia
After the dolphin activity has finished, there's no need to rush off. Take a walk along the jetty to see green sea turtles, stingrays or even a dugong.
Feed the local bottlenose dolphins
At Monkey Mia, dolphins visit the beach to interact with visitors as they have done for more than forty years. You can stand knee-deep on the water's edge and help to feed them under the supervision of park rangers. As the bottlenose dolphins are wild, numbers and the exact time of their visit varies. However, they usually visit the shore up to three times a day and more frequently in the mornings. While feeding is allowed with supervision, visitors are not able to swim with the dolphins. Stay close by at the Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort. If you want to spend more time with the dolphins, you can volunteer to work with them.
Dirk Hartog Island National Park, Denham, Western Australia © Tourism Western Australia
Visit Western Australia's largest island
Just west of Monkey Mia is Dirk Hartog Island, a peaceful island retreat that is great for relaxing on white sandy beaches, scuba diving and snorkelling or fishing. Join a wildlife cruise and see an array of marine life including dolphins, dugongs, whales and turtles around the island. Take a walk along the 91-metre (300-foot) high cliff face on the island's west coast or 4WD over stunning beaches and massive sand dunes. Stay overnight in the historic Homestead, originally used a shearer's quarters.
Wula Gura Nyinda Eco Cultural Tours, Shark Bay Western Australia © James Fisher/Tourism Australia
'Dreaming' is a term used to describe the complex spiritual beliefs of different Aboriginal cultures. Dreamtime stories describe how Spirits created the land and people.
Be Inspired by an Aboriginal experience
Australia's Coral Coast is rich in Aboriginal art and culture. From didgeridoo Dreaming tours to learning to catch and cook your own meal on a camping safari, there are plenty of opportunities to connect to this incredible landscape with the guidance of Wula Gura Nyinda Eco Adventures. Let their guides teach you about the ancient cultural ties of the region's first people – the Nhanda and Malgana Aboriginal People.
Stromatolites at Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve, south east of Denham, Western Australia © Australia's Coral Coast
See the world's oldest living fossils
The Hamelin Pool Stromatolites are the oldest and largest living fossils on Earth. Less than a 30-minute drive from Monkey Mia, these rare Stromatolites are located in the shallow waters of Hamelin Pool. Walk along the specially constructed walkway to get a clear look at them as you read the educational displays that explain their role in the evolution of the planet. Scientists have likened it to discovering a living dinosaur.
Shark Bay World Heritage Discovery Centre, Denham, Western Australia © Australia's Coral Coast
Discover Denham
Located halfway between Monkey Mia and Shell Beach, Denham offers history, adventure and the perfect starting point to explore the Shark Bay region. Visit Shark Bay World Heritage Discovery Centre to learn about the region's cultural and ecological diversity. Head out for a stroll along the Shark Bay World Heritage drive, which has interpretive signage that explains how this area meets all four of the criteria for its heritage listing. Or simply walk the streets to search for buildings made from the shells of Shell Beach (St Andrews Anglican Church and the Old Pearler Restaurant are perfect examples).
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