This amazing home with a heated pool and spa, detached guest/pool house and summer kitchen make this vacation retreat a must see.
Located in the gated community of Gulf Place along Scenic 30A, this home is ideal for a vacation getaway and will be sold furnished. The first floor has an open floor plan, which is great for entertaining and family get togethers. The updated kitchen has granite counter tops, custom cabinets and enough space to whip up a feast on family vacations. The vaulted ceiling in the living room allows the warm Florida sunlight to pour into the space. Custom built-ins provide space for the TV and all the electronics in the living room.
The master bedroom is on the first floor as well. The adjoining master bath is complete with dual vanities, soaking tub, separate shower and walk-in closet. The living room and master bedroom both open to the private, fenced patio/pool area. The heated pool and spa highlight this home. There is a dining nook underneath a tree for shaded dinners and lunches by the pool. The outdoor grilling area is perfect for barbecues.
The separate pool house house a pull-out sofa for guests and a flat-screen TV for watching ballgames while soaking up the sun by the pool. The pool house also has a wet bar with refrigerator and a full bathroom. There is a heated and cooled storage area on the back of the pool house, which can be converted into another bedroom. The second floor has two guest rooms with full bathrooms. One bedroom has bunk beds and would be great for kids.
The home has in-wall speakers for entertaining and hurricane shutters as well. The golf cart in the large two-car garage conveys with the sale of the home. Gulf Place is across the street from the deeded beach access, as well as the Santa Rosa Beach Club. Gulf Place Town Center is right down the street and offers a variety of shopping, entertaining and restaurants. Room dimensions and square footage are approximate and should be verified by the buyer.


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Ghost story contest (Local News ~ 10/14/14)
Time is running out for the Times-Gazette's annual ghost story contest and our "scary drawing" contest for children. The story contest will be divided into three divisions by age, with a $25 gift card awarded in each division. The winning entries, as well as some honorable mention stories, will be published in the Oct. 22 "Spooktacular" edition of the Times-Gazette...
Movement in van helps police discover meth lab (Local News ~ 10/14/14)
A mobile meth lab found in a vehicle late Sunday night led to the arrests of two suspects, Shelbyville police said. Officer Gregg Loyd spotted a van occupied by five people in the parking lot of Corner Market, Eagle Boulevard, at 10:01 p.m. after business hours...
MTSNC will fix feral cats free in national event (Local News ~ 10/14/14)
Middle Tennessee Spay and Neuter Clinic (MTSNC) will do free surgeries on feral cats on Thursday. The event is one of hundreds taking place across the country in honor of National Feral Cat Day, a day to call for an end to the killing of cats in animal control pounds and shelters, the leading documented cause of death for cats in the United States...
Southern storms blamed for 2 deaths (Local News ~ 10/14/14)
ATLANTA (AP) -- A severe storm system rolled across the South for a second day Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands as it made a mess of the morning commute in Atlanta and other Southern cities. The storm, which claimed two lives a day earlier after spinning off tornadoes in Arkansas and Missouri, sent heavy thunderstorms across much of Georgia. Large areas of the state were under a tornado watch...
Eaglettes open district with big win (High School Sports ~ 10/14/14)
Second-seed Shelbyville Central cruised to an 8-1 victory over visiting Lawrence County in the opening round of the District 8AAA Tournament on Saturday afternoon. Weather permitting, the Eaglettes (10-6-2) entertain Franklin County tonight at 7. On Saturday Shelbyville was in total control from the start, scoring quick and often...
Harris claims CTC crown (Community Sports ~ 10/14/14)
Harris Middle School's Golden Eagles played a little sweet revenge. The Eagles rolled to an easy 22-0 victory at White County in the Central Tennessee Conference championship game on Saturday after falling 24-6 during the regular season. White County entered the game undefeated...
City candidates follow rules for placing campaign signs (Local News ~ 10/14/14)
With a municipal election less than a month away, Shelbyville's codes department is not having too many problems enforcing the city sign ordinance. Two city candidates had placed signs on city property, but as soon as they were notified, "they removed them," building and codes director Michael Blanks said...
What a surprise! Returning vet reunites with children (Local News ~ 10/14/14)
"Now we can be a family again!" Through tears, that's what Dawson Porter said after he and the rest of his siblings were treated to a surprise reunion Monday with their father, Navy Lt. Jason Thomas Porter. It was a very well kept secret at Liberty School after Porter returned home a week early from a year spent in Bahrain -- giving his wife, Chasity, a surprise last Friday...
Richard Joseph Burby (Obituary ~ 10/14/14)
Richard Joseph Burby, 69, of Wartrace died Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. Graveside services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Hollywood Cemetery in Wartrace with Mike Gentry officiating. Visitation will be held from noon-2 p.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Funeral Home.

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Brandon Jones Syn, I'm still a bit confused. When sweeping do we always start with an upstroke or a down stroke?
Syn, I'm still a bit confused. When sweeping do we always start with an upstroke or a down stroke?


Masanori Nakamura, Shugo Yamaguchi, Tsukasa Fukusato, Shigeo Morishima, "Creating a Realistic Face Image from a Cartoon Character", ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2014, Zurich, Switzerland, 2016.7/11-7/13.
Tatsunori Hirai, Yukara Ikemiya, Kazuyoshi Yoshii, Tomoyasu Nakano, Masataka Goto, Shigeo Morishima, "Automatic Singing Voice to Music Video Generation via Mashup of Singing Video Clips", 12th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2015), pp.153-159, Ireland, 2015.7.30-8.1.
Naoya Iwamoto, Shigeo Morishima, "Material Parameter Editing System for Volumetric Simulation Models"
Akinobu Maejima, Takaaki Kuratate(TUM), Brennand Pierce(TUM), Shigeo Morishima, Gordon Cheng(TUM), "Automatic Face Replacement for a Humanoid Robot with 3D Face Shape Display", 2012 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots(Humanoids2012), Poster, 2-23, Osaka, 2012.11.29-12.1.
Hiroaki Ukaji, Takahiro Kosaka, Tomohito Hattori, Hiroyuki Kubo, Shigeo Morishima, "Acquiring Shell Texture From a Single Image for Realistic Fur Rendering", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012, Poster, 17, Los Angeles, 2012.8. 5 – 9.


This is a love triangle with a twist. It's a story of a man, woman and… a fly! By now we've all heard of Rajamouli's "Eega" cracking box office records in Tamil. The Hindi version comes to us with a tremendous pre-release expectations. Shall we just say we were "Eega" to see this film?
"Makkhi" doesn't disappoint. Not by a long shot. It's a fiercely original and engaging piece of cinema replete with special effects that endow human qualities on a fly, making it a cool tool of vendetta.
Yup, the fly creates quite a buzz! Specially around the film's antagonist Sudeep's ears, as it tortures the hell out of the villain who had bumped off the leading lady's angelic suitor, little realizing that he, the suitor, would be reborn as a fly.
On paper, "Makkhi" must have sounded like a corny adventure saga about a fly's vendetta spree against a man who would go to any lengths to win over a girl who rebuffs his every gesture.
Sudeep's effectual destruction by the fly has to be seen to be believed. To bring variations into the fly's various means of torturing his adversary to death requires Herculean plotting and planning. Director Rajmouli excels in giving a human life to the fly.
In spite of the inherent repetitiveness of the concept (in how many ways can a fly ..er, fly?), the narrative's pace never slackens. The special effects are incredibly adept. Full marks to Kannada actor Sudeep for creating an exacerbrated tension in a fight that is unequal from Round 1.
Interestingly as the fly-hero's vendetta intensifies, Sudeep's character begins to appear comically vulnerable. By the time he gets unequivocally murderous we share Sudeep's sentiments completely.


Thom, Lucineia and Reichert, Manfred and Iochpe, Cirano (2009) On the Support of Workflow Activity Patterns in Process Modeling Tools: Purpose and Requirements. In: Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the WEB (Webmedia 2009), 3rd Workshop on Business Process Management (WBPM 2009), October 2009, Fortaleza, Brazil.
do Nascimento, Gleison S. and Iochpe, Cirano and Thom, Lucineia and Reichert, Manfred (2009) A Method For Rewriting Legacy Systems Using Business Process Management Technology. In: Proc. 11th Int'l Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'09), Volumne on Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Milan, Italy.
Lau, Jean Michel and Iochpe, Cirano and Thom, Lucineia and Reichert, Manfred (2009) Discovery and Analysis of Activity Pattern Cooccurrences in Business Process Models. In: Proc. 11th Int'l Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'09), Volumne on Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Milan, Italy.
Chiao, Carolina Ming and Thom, Lucineia and Iochpe, Cirano and Reichert, Manfred (2008) Verifying Existence, Completeness and Sequences of Semantic Process Patterns in Real Workflow Processes. In: IV Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informacao (Brazilian Simposium of Information Systems), 2008, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Mary Domito moved to Taos from the Bay Area in 2004, after having visited three years earlier.
Like so many others, Taos got under her skin and Mary (an executive at a large mattress company) decided to take her chances and start her own business here in the Land of Enchantment.
Sleep Sanctuary, Mary's store, took off beyond her expectations and she became know to all (via her radio and newspaper ads) as Mattress Mary.
We met one day at her new spot in the same plaza where she opened her first store. Taos Lifestyle, the new incarnation of her business has grown to include much more than the mattresses and bedding that earned her nickname. She now deals in furniture, light fixtures, and much more; in fact one could furnish and decorate an entire home with one visit to Mary's warehouse-sized space.
When Mary left the Bay Area for Taos, her mother was living with her at the time. One of four siblings, the youngest of three sisters, with a younger brother, she recalled she told her mother she'd have to move in with another sister.
Her business booming, she bought a house and settled into her new home.
During those first years here, Mary would listen to KTAOS and began calling in to donate to the (Taos animal shelter) Stray Hearts marathons the radio station would host. In 2009 Allegra Huston held a silent auction to benefit her Indie film, Good Luck Mr. Gorsky, and Mary bid on (local band) Bone Orchard. When she wound up with the band, she decided she needed to create an event, her annual Dog Days Benefit was born. So was her new incarnation as a music promoter.
That first year Dog Days raised four thousand plus for the shelter. This year they raised over thirty thousand.
The music bug had bitten and Mary continued to promote events independently until her accountant suggested it was time to create a new business entity. Mollydog Productions was born and has since become yet another succesful venture for this natural entrepeneur.
And Mary is getting down and having a blast, juggling three businesses (she recently opened a new furniture store, Alamosa Home in Alamosa, Colorado) with no plans of slowing down any time soon.
She's got lots planned musically – she's bringing Judy Collins to the TCA in February – and right now she's looking forward to another sold out event. The Taos Blues Fest (featuring Walter Trout and others) at Taos Mesa Brewing on August 22nd, is coming up fast, but tomorrow, she'll be on the road to Alamosa to check in on her new store before getting ready for the party. Her boundless energy is enviable.
As I leave Mary's office, I find myself slightly bemused, having returned to Taos at the ripe old age of 37, thinking it was time to retire my Rock and Roll life and find something more dignified to occupy myself with, as I reached a certain age. But in Taos, things happen differently, if your youth was spent in a suit, you can make up for it here!
For much more on Mary Domito and what she does, please visit her sites linked below.
August 13, 2015 in People and Places, Shop.
The most successful woman in Taos!
She's a real force and a brilliant business woman who is reinventing herself constantly!
And she looks really good in that hat! Love Mary!
Mary is such an amazing person. Larger than life! Love that woman very much!
Thanks for commenting – this post has gotten lots of views – Mary is obviously loved by many!


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Several physiologically based extraction procedures have been proposed to estimate the fraction of the potentially toxic element content that would be bioaccessible in the human gastro-intestinal tract following accidental ingestion of soil. Many of these procedures are complex, they have been applied to a very limited range ofsoils, and most work has focussed on arsenic and lead. In the present study, a simplified, two-stage extraction, simulating the human stomach and intestine, was developed and applied to urban soil samples from ten public-accessareas in the City of Torino, Italy. The human oral bioaccessibility of chromium, copper, nickel, lead and zinc was estimated. Lead and zinc bioaccessibilities were found to be higher in the stomach, but chromium was more bioaccessible in the intestine. Analyte concentrations were higher in roadside soils than in soils from parks. A higher proportion of the soil metal content was found in bioaccessible forms at roadsides than in parks. Comparison of the current findings with results of earlier work involving sequential extraction of the same soils indicated that the sequential procedure gave a relative, but not an absolute, indication of bioaccessibility. Calculations based on the bioaccessible analyte concentrations suggest that ingestion of only 2–3 g of some of the roadside soil samples from Torino could deliver the tolerable daily oral intake of chromium, nickel and lead to a 20-kg child. The developed procedure is useful for preliminary screening of soils and prediction of whether their bioaccessible metal contents are likely to pose a risk to human health.


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Straight outta the lab, down the stairs and into the bucket of jellied eels
By stoat on May 6, 2017.
Sorry, I couldn't resist the memory. This is about Out of the lab and into the field? by ATTP, who as usual is far too polite about Out of the lab and into the field by Dan M. Kahan & Katherine Carpenter, Nature Climate Change 7, 309–311 (2017) doi:10.1038/nclimate3283. I convincingly demolished this as a load of toss based merely on the rather short abstract, but was uneasily aware that some kind person might mail me the article itself, and so it was. Thank you, you know who you are. Since we're on "out of", I feel I should recommend Straight outta Compton, to whose sound I wrote this post3: You are now about to witness the strength of book knowledge1.
Anyway, what of the bloody text itself? It starts very badly, with "Decision scientists4" but we must try not to laugh. The next silliness is not to mention the most recent US presidential campaign, which resulted in the victory of a candidate who has declared climate change a hoax. Trump has said any number of things he doesn't take seriously. Taking them all seriously is foolish. Why hasn't the new 'science of science communication', achieved more? Because it's a load of toss, probably. The greatest enemy of effective science communication is the tyranny of the plausible. Oh, bullshit. The greatest enemy is the failure to understand the people you're trying to talk to.
The first bit that begins to make sense is ...it was commonplace to believe that public confusion about climate change was a consequence of 'bounded rationality', a term that refers to the tendency to over-rely on forms of reasoning that are rapid, intuitive, and emotional. But that account turned out to be untrue. On the contrary, the members of the public most polarized on climate change (and other controversial issues) are the ones most proficient in the dispositions and skills essential to comprehend scientific evidence. Individuals endowed with these critical reasoning skills, experiments suggest, are not using them to form beliefs that are true. Rather they are using them to persist in beliefs that express their membership in and loyalty to opposing cultural groups, a dynamic referred to as cultural cognition. That's a reasonable statement, though I'm not sure it is due to "decision scientists", and it gets no points for novelty.
Unfortunately, that seems to be it. It's a bit thin, but it gets them a Nature citation, so I guess that's a win for K+C.
1. And don't forget Joan Crawford.
2. Via Forbes, the surprisingly interesting quote "If you delegate tasks, you will raise up doers. If you delegate authority, you will raise up leaders".
3. Which post is hardly a paragon of complex reasoning, but it did take me a while, so I listened through several repeats. Try it. You don't get the full effect until about the 6th time round.
4. I probably shouldn't have mocked "decision scientists", because wiki assures me that decision theory is a respectable thing. I know little about it.
Unfortunately , some of the people you're trying to talk to may be members of The National Academy of Public Administration , which , as with Civil Servants, kind of gives the game away.
Their discipline is Ruling.
By Russell (not verified) on 06 May 2017 #permalink
This --
"On the contrary, the members of the public most polarized on climate change (and other controversial issues) are the ones most proficient in the dispositions and skills essential to comprehend scientific evidence."
-- is crap once one examines the survey upon which it's based. The conclusion actually supported is more like "a little scientific knowledge can be used to rationalize the denial of science." Andy by a little, we're talking about the sort of knowledge a high school graduate with no particular interest in science might have acquired.
By Steve Bloom (not verified) on 06 May 2017 #permalink
Are you saying that 'the new 'science of science communication' itself is a load of toss?
I do like the 97% vs 99.94% battle though ...
"Studies of the consensus on anthropogenic global warming based on literature surveys give higher and more consistent results than opinion polls. Five literature surveys that used (or could have used) rejection as the criterion of consensus (11-15) agree closely. They comprise 54,195 articles from 1991-2015 and reveal an average consensus of 99.94%. An estimated 155,000 authors wrote those articles and that does not represent all who wrote about AGW, but only those found using specific search terms. (See Powell 2017, Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society, in Press.)"
http://www.jamespowell.org/
As to Trumpkin 100% FUD packer, if you know what I mean.
By Everett F Sargent (not verified) on 06 May 2017 #permalink
I often wish I could understand your posts and series of abbreviations and British terms and references to people named things like PoWasserT or DA or AT14.
[I don't think I used any undefined abbreviations here. ATTP is obvious, as is K+C -W]
But I never really get past that slang.
By David Appell (not verified) on 06 May 2017 #permalink
I'm sure it's my problem.
SO never mind.
Please do not say "oh, bull sh*t" in this respectable forum. Go sit in the corner with a dunce cap on your head.
[Sorry. I will try harder. I blame listening to NWA -W]
By Arbiter Elegantiae (not verified) on 06 May 2017 #permalink
Wots in your box? (Under the fishy muppet card.)
[Nothing entertaining. The red thing is a RF-connector-protector. The brass thing is an RF connector. The black things are little plastic legs -W]
By RttB (not verified) on 07 May 2017 #permalink
Bullet successfully dodged.
[By some margin. Now it is safely over I think we can say that they'd have had to have deliberately dodged in front of the bullet if they'd wanted death -W]
By Raymond Arritt (not verified) on 07 May 2017 #permalink
Someone thinks they know Trumpkin, while someone else totally knows they know Trumpkin and his ilk (e.g. Mr. Burns of the EPA) ...
EPA chief promises to recuse himself from lawsuits, advocates for coal
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/epa-chief-promises-to-recus…
"Coal comments
Publicly, Pruitt went on Fox Business' show Varney & Co. last Wednesday to defend the use of coal on the American grid. According to The Hill, Pruitt initially commented that the US was already "leading the world" in reducing its "CO2 footprint." He added that "utility companies across this country need fuel diversity. You need solid hydrocarbons on-site that you can store, so when peak demand rises, you've got solid hydrocarbons to draw on."
"What would happen if we had an attack on our infrastructure when you've diverted to natural gas almost exclusively and you don't have coal there as a safeguard to preserve the grid?" Pruitt reportedly asked. "I mean, it's a smart strategy for this country to invest in technology and innovation, burn coal, burn natural gas, use renewables, make sure we advance nuclear. But it truly needs to be a part of the fuel diversity with utilities across the country."
Coal burning is one of the most polluting energy sources on the US grid today, and an abundance of cheap natural gas and wind installations, combined with Obama-era regulations on emissions, have relegated the coal industry to a smaller slice of the overall US energy makeup. That said, coal still made up more than 30 percent of US electricity generation in 2016, according to the Energy Information Administration. Many countries have been moving to close older coal-burning plants and replace them with newer and more efficient sources of electricity without suffering grid instability. In April, the UK had its first full day without burning any coal.
The Trump Administration has promised to support coal despite its economic and health-related issues, not to mention its contribution to climate change. Pruitt recently stated in a CNBC interview that he "would not agree that [CO2 is] a primary contributor to the global warming that we see," without offering any explanation for contradicting an overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary. Pruitt's Department of Energy counterpart, Secretary Rick Perry, recently called for a review of the US energy grid to asses threats to "baseload power" that come from coal retirements, despite utilities and grid operators saying in recent months that coal retirements have not threatened grid reliability."
FUD packers!
[I can't bring myself to care too much about Pruitt advocating for coal (particularly when his argument are stupid), because coal looks like it is on its way out all by itself -W]
"This page is being updated.
Thank you for your interest in this topic. We are currently updating our website to reflect EPA's priorities under the leadership of President Trump and Administrator Pruitt."
I'm sure that the new priorities will be science based.
By Phil Hays (not verified) on 08 May 2017 #permalink
"Trump has said any number of things he doesn't take seriously. Taking them all seriously is foolish."
It is hard to see what can be taken seriously. And what needs to be taken very seriously.
Other than the corruption and incompetence. That part is pretty clear.
"Trump has said any number of things he doesn't take seriously. Taking them all seriously is foolish."
There are a number of Trump voters wondering what happened to their loved ones after not taking Trump seriously. Eli recommends equivalent care with the strong and stable Ms. May
By Eli Rabett (not verified) on 08 May 2017 #permalink
In April, the UK had its first full day without burning any coal.
must be summer
coal looks like it is on its way out all by itself -
Adani opening up a 20 billion coal mine in Australia for India
is this really a coal demise?
By angech (not verified) on 09 May 2017 #permalink
Way OT but ...
Trumpkin fires FBI Director Comey
The firing of Comey:
"A powerful, independent person Mr. Trump did not appoint and whose investigation he clearly feared has been summarily fired. Given his volatility and vindictiveness, his Nietzschean ethic and his overpowering narcissism, this is exactly what one would expect of Mr. Trump.
[Ha ha, you get zero points for predicting the past. If the NYT wants to claim they expected this, they need to point to where they said so in advance -W]
The fear many Trump critics have had is that he is, as I put it just after the inauguration, a transgressive personality and a man of illiberal tendencies who was unlikely to be contained by norms and customs. He would not use power benevolently but unwisely, recklessly, and in ways that would undermine our democratic institutions and faith in our government.
In firing James Comey, that is precisely what Donald Trump did."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/opinion/where-are-the-republicans-ja…
[I'm not supporting Trump. But all those Dems now whinging about Comey being fired are in a poor position, because they moaned so much about how rubbish he was for the Hillary problem -W]
> "But all those Dems now whinging about Comey being fired are in a poor position, because they moaned so much about how rubbish he was for the Hillary problem" –W
I see you've taken a page from the Kellyanne Conway School of Critical Thinking.
It's possible to hold the position that Comey should have been fired at the time for his handling of The Emailzzz and also hold the position that the President firing the FBI director in charge of investigating possible collusion between his campaign and Russia is wrong and concerning. Those aren't contradictory thoughts.
[Of course they aren't contradictory -W]
This isn't difficult.
[Indeed. So when you find yourself teaching your grandmother to suck eggs, the intelligent person pauses for a moment in order to wonder if they've interpreted things correctly -W]
By rconnor (not verified) on 10 May 2017 #permalink
Might start with this:
"Beyond that, Mr. Trump has continued to demonstrate impulsivity and narcissism, an affinity for conflict and vindictiveness. Which leads to my main worry about Mr. Trump: His chronic lack of restraint will not be confined to Twitter. His Twitter obsessions are a manifestation of a deeper disorder.
Donald Trump is a transgressive personality. He thrives on creating disorder, in violating rules, in provoking outrage. He is a shock jock. This might be a tolerable (if culturally coarsening) trait in a reality television star; it is a dangerous one in a commander in chief. He is unlikely to be contained by norms and customs, or even by laws and the Constitution. For Mr. Trump, nothing is sacred. The truth is malleable, instrumental, subjective. It is all about him. It is always about him."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/opinion/sunday/why-i-cannot-fall-in-…
Or maybe this:
"Mr. Trump's virulent combination of ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness would do more than result in a failed presidency; it could very well lead to national catastrophe. The prospect of Donald Trump as commander in chief should send a chill down the spine of every American.
For Republicans, there is an additional reason not to vote for Mr. Trump. His nomination would pose a profound threat to the Republican Party and conservatism, in ways that Hillary Clinton never could. For while Mrs. Clinton could inflict a defeat on the Republican Party, she could not redefine it. But Mr. Trump, if he were the Republican nominee, would.
Mr. Trump's presence in the 2016 race has already had pernicious effects, but they're nothing compared with what would happen if he were the Republican standard-bearer. The nominee, after all, is the leader of the party; he gives it shape and definition. If Mr. Trump heads the Republican Party, it will no longer be a conservative party; it will be an angry, bigoted, populist one. Mr. Trump would represent a dramatic break with and a fundamental assault on the party's best traditions."
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/opinion/campaign-stops/why-i-will-ne…
[http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2017/04/26/perspective-its-not-a-war-on-s… -W]
> [All those Dems now whinging about Comey being fired are in a poor position, because they moaned so much about how rubbish he was for the Hillary problem -W]
Hmm. Even Bill Kristol, hardly a whinging Dem, says "One can be at once a critic of Comey and alarmed by what Trump has done and how he has done it."
[Yes of course. And I'm sure lots of Dem-types will now be saying "when we said we thought Comey was rubbish, what we meant was that we didn't like what he did to Hills but we were keen for him to do something to Trump". All I'm talking about is how this will play politically -W]
can trump fire comey?
https://www.google.com/search?q=can+trump+fire+comey&num=100&source=lnt…
200+ hits before 2017-05-07 (websites today with their daily sidebars really do hose a proper temporal search though)
Trumpkin, Ha-Ha-Ha.
Ah yes, how will this "play politically"?
Let's see what the NY Times said, almost two months ago{
"The most important checks on the Trump presidency come from inside it. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reportedly conducting at least three investigations related to Russia, the election and the administration. Whatever one thinks about his pre-election maneuvers, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey (a former colleague of mine at the Justice Department), has proved to be an independent actor, and he has every interest in pursuing the cases wherever they lead.
Mr. Trump could fire Mr. Comey on a whim, but that would not kill the F.B.I. investigation. Rather, just as President Richard Nixon hastened his impeachment with the Watergate-related firings known as the "Saturday Night Massacre," canning Mr. Comey would only heighten the public's and Congress's suspicions about Mr. Trump's guilt and increase pressure on the F.B.I. and others to get to the bottom of the Russia matter."
[That seems reasonable -W]
Opps, forgot this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/opinion/yes-trump-is-being-held-acco…
Suppose Trump gets away with firing Mr Comey on a whim.
Next up is Speaker Ryan. While I can't say I like or agree with the Speaker, he is the next check to the Putin-like powers that Trump openly wants.
I will not cheer for Ryan's downfall, should it happen while Trump is President.
[Trump can't fire Ryan on a personal whim. It isn't within his powers -W]
So I went over to Red State, solid Republican press, and found this:
" "This scandal is going to go on. I've seen it before," McCain continued. "This is a centipede. I guarantee you there will be more shoes to drop, I can just guarantee it. There's just too much information that we don't have that will be coming out."
If Trump intended to disrupt the FBI investigation, McCain said, it wouldn't work."
Centipede dropping shoes? Oh my.
http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/05/10/mccain-guarantee-will-shoe…
Phil - Since I actually live in the district represented by Paul Ryan I nearly snorted coffee all over my keyboard reading your comment.
Paul Ryan is an ideologue that believes in any means to achieve his ends. He consistently lies, misrepresents, and otherwise misleads on virtually every issue he addresses. You'll note that his 'budgets' are filled with (magic) asterisks and that he has explicitly disallowed the CBO to score them by their usual methods.
In this case Trump is just a means to an end. Ryan doesn't care if Trump is wholly innocent or wholly guilty. Trump will sign anything they can put in front of him. That's all that's required.
And Ryan has (finally) addressed the Comey firing; Lapdog Ryan Sides With Trump. Surprise, surprise.
By Kevin Thomas O'Neill (not verified) on 10 May 2017 #permalink
The faux outrage over the possible attempts of Russia to manipulate the US elections is humorous. The US has a long history of manipulating the elections of other countries. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/10/13/the-long-h… It is not good that another country tries to intervene in US elections, but it is not an unexpected consequence of international rivalries and jostling. If the Russians did influence the election (in my mind in a minimal way), then it is counterbalanced by the Left Wing media's unremitting assaults on Trump and its comparatively kid-glove treatment of the corrupt Clinton. (To get this out of the way, at election time, I felt that if Trump was elected that there was a 90% chance that he would be a disaster, but I felt that if Clinton was elected that there would be a 100% chance that she would be a disaster because of her intrinsic corruptness.)
By JD Ohio (not verified) on 10 May 2017 #permalink
Paul Ryan is going down, don't know when.
Do know why. He did not support Trump properly during the Republican campaign, like Cruz and McCain.
Phil surely a Clinton victory could redefine the Republicans, That is what a political party is supposed to do after a loss.
This is not Watergate. There are trails everywhere now on decisions at the top.
Either the CIA and FBI were effective and competent , that is they spied on Trump and Hilary but are allowed to deny it or they spied on them and then released the information on Trumps associates. Can you explain in any logical way how they otherwise got the dirt on Flynn?
Then they released it, a clear breach of their duties somewhere.
Still, as Eli has said, the ends justify the means if it helps your worldview out.
angech - "Either the CIA and FBI were effective and competent , that is they spied on Trump and Hilary but are allowed to deny it or they spied on them and then released the information on Trumps associates."
Umm, no. The story they've told is consistent: they were investigating the Russian hack of the DNC and that led them to Trump associates. Just as the investigation of the DNC hack obviously led them to DNC emails. No spying necessary.
Nothing in there says they spied on Trump. Nothing in there says they spied on Hillary. You've just made that up. It's not an inherent alternative to 'effective and competent'.
"And Ryan has (finally) addressed the Comey firing; Lapdog Ryan Sides With Trump. Surprise, surprise."
At my end came out looking like ...
"Ayn Rand has (finally) addressed the Comey firing; Lapdog Ryan Sides With Trump. Surprise, surprise."
I really don't know how that could have possibly happened (well Dr. WMC did mention something 'bout Paul being the illegitimate aborted bastard child of Ayn and Lafayette Ronald Hubbard or some such).
"The story they've told is consistent: they were investigating the Russian hack of the DNC and that led them to Trump associates."
Sounds like a sub plot from Maxwell Smart.
So the CIA and FBI were ineffective and incompetent?
They should be watching everyone close to Trump, Hilary and Obama. That is their job. 24/7.
They should not be leaking to the press one side against another. That is worse than the Russians.
As #25 points out, Ryan has very little support across the aisle, and for clear and good reasons. And other than a counterweight to Trump, I can't say I disagree. Still, as counterweight to Trump, I hope that Ryan holds the Speaker's chair for a day longer than Trump is President. Or maybe an hour.
> "All I'm talking about is how this will play politically" – WC
Take a step back.
A head of state firing the person in charge of investigating possible collusion between associates of that head of state and an adversarial foreign power, that attempted to and, to a degree, was successful at tampering with the democratic process, is a serious and concerning situation.
The fact that politicians will politicize the situation, from both sides, is both obvious and (intentional) unnecessary noise. Your comment on Dem's whinging just turns the volume up on that noise and, whether you intended to or not, appears to diminish the severity of the situation.
> "Of course they aren't contradictory" -W
Indeed. So when you find yourself trying to play the rational contrarian, the intelligent person pauses for a moment in order to wonder if repeating Kellyanne Conway's speaking point is a good way to go about it.
Think about what happened in Korea. Compare and contrast.
[Nothing obvious springs to mind. Perhaps you should blog it, if you think there are interesting parallels or perpendiculars to be drawn -W]
The electoral reactions in France and Korea were amplified by disgust at Trump and what is happening in the US. In Korea Trump's blathering about North Korea and South Korea paying for the THAAD missile system helped the winner, Moon Jai-in's whose views are diametrically opposed. MJ wants to restart talks with the North, rubbishes the ideas of the missile system let alone paying for it, etc. Trumpism was also a significant part of the background in the French election
[I don't think Trumpism was significant in the French election, except as yet another (though important) manifestation of the "dislike of elites" sweeping the world. And Hillary is more one of those (political) elites than Trump. In fact the French seem to have managed to elect the best possible of their candidates, in which they've clearly done better than you lot -W]
{Enjoy yourself, you get your chance in a month or so for revenge on the Brexit vote}
[I live in South Cambs, which always elects a conservative, regardless of my vote -W]
#27 seems to be a Trump supporter. Read what written, carefully.
Notice that the reason Speaker Ryan will be fired isn't anything Ryan has done. Or said. Or written. Just a lack of loyalty to Trump personally. Ryan is loyal to things other than Trump. You might disagree with some or all of those things. I do.
Trump demands loyalty, and is loyal to no one, no party, no idea, no promise, no country, no religion. Nothing other than the greatness of Trump.
The Republic has a need for people that are not loyal to Trump. We have a Republic, if we can keep it. What did Benjamin Franklin say again?
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
["Ryan is going down" is a very weak prediction. All political careers end eventually, so it is essentially a meaningless statement. I don't think Trump will fire Ryan -W]
Since people want to talk politics, but I don't want to write another pol post yet, I'll point you at Why Trumponomics won't make America great again from the Economist, subtiutled The impulsiveness and shallowness of America's president threaten the economy as well as the rule of law. Everything there you need to stoke up your fears: "DONALD TRUMP rules over Washington as if he were a king and the White House his court. His displays of dominance, his need to be the centre of attention and his impetuousness have a whiff of Henry VIII about them. Fortified by his belief that his extraordinary route to power is proof of the collective mediocrity of Congress, the bureaucracy and the media, he attacks any person and any idea standing in his way... Just as dangerous, and no less important to ordinary Americans, however, is Mr Trump's plan for the economy. It treats orthodoxy, accuracy and consistency as if they were simply to be negotiated away in a series of earth-shattering deals. Although Trumponomics could stoke a mini-boom, it, too, poses dangers to America and the world... Though he claims he is a free-trader, provided the rules are fair [ha ha, just like all the other "free trade but..." folk -W], his outlook is squarely that of an economic nationalist."
[Also, Timmy's G 7 Warms To America's Trade Rhetoric As They Realise Trump And Mnuchin Don't Mean It.]
By stoat on 13 May 2017 #permalink
Sorry, call me back when the Economist headlines coverage of the French leader's approach to economics with the suitable title.
Trump is evil and should go. He's also amazingly boring.
By Tom Fuller (not verified) on 13 May 2017 #permalink
"... Here is the big problem. What if the election was effectively stolen? Under the current presidential succession structure, if Donald Trump were impeached and removed from office, Mike Pence would replace him. But if the election had been stolen, Pence's place as president would be no more legitimate than that of Trump. After Pence—Paul Ryan, the speaker, followed by Orrin Hatch, the president pro tem, followed by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. If voters' collective desires were subverted by foreign interference and a party's collusion, none would have a legitimate claim—especially since the control of the Senate, at least, would have been affected by the Russian role...."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/rewriting-the-rule…
By Hank Roberts (not verified) on 13 May 2017 #permalink
#35 (WMC), Trump cannot fire Ryan. That's not how the system works. It's not even clear that Trump would have much power of persuasion in trying to convince the Republicans to get rid of him.
[I know that Trump can't fire Ryan in the way that he could fire Comey. I don't know if he could do something analogous - take a strong dislike to Ryan and want him gone and lean on enough people to have it happen. Maybe; but since I doubt it as a scenario I'm not desperately interested in the details -W]
#37 (TF), There's a school of thought that Trump should stay. If he's impeached the presidency goes to Pence, who is even farther to the right than Trump. The policies would be the same but Pence has more of a nice-guy persona. The idea is that Trump's antics will stimulate Democrat turnout in the midterms and pull independents across the divide in a way that Pence would not.
[Trump is looking a bit iffy at the moment I have to say. Does anyone think he's due to be impeached Real Soon Now? If you do, I remind you of the bet offered in http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2017/01/21/swept-with-confused-alarms-of-… -W]
The core issue is what would constitute an impeachable offense. Nixon would almost certainly have not been impeached in today's debased and hyperpartisan U.S. political climate.
In the past year the Overton window of American politics has been pushed so far that I doubt garden-variety bribery, obstruction of justice or treason would be accepted as grounds for impeachment. Maybe Trump would be impeached if he confessed to murdering Melania in a crime of passion. But even then, there could well be arguments that this was a personal failing unrelated to the President's ability to carry out the duties of his office.
[Sadly true -W]
The Donald has violated the emoluments clause so any time that a majority of the House of Representatives wants there is an empeachable offense.
[I think that is doubtful, as I've said before -W]
By David B. Benson (not verified) on 13 May 2017 #permalink
#39. Vice President Pence is indeed far right wing. Trump, on the other hand, isn't on the political scale as Trump has no real political beliefs, other than the awesomeness of Donald Trump.
Pence might not be a good President, but is one of the 200 million or so Americans more qualified than Donald Trump to be President.
Seeing Pence hovering behind Trump in all the publicity photos makes me think he expects to step in and knows what he's going to do. Search on theocrat, plus his name.
He seems to know God wants him to step in and will find a way.
Or search:
"I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican — in that order"
-- which Pence has said frequently.
Remember, most forms of birth control cause abortion (failure to implant) of a baby human being. Want a population boom? Put God in charge of the FDA.
Remember, most forms of birth control cause abortion
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but that's false.
Condom, dutch cap (diaphragm), spermicidal creams, pills that stop ovulation (but not implantation), vasectomies, tying a woman's tubes. None of those stop pregnancy by preventing implantation.
By Julian Frost (not verified) on 14 May 2017 #permalink
Indeed. Trump is evil but fundamentally incompetent at government, which helps to nullify him. Pence is evil but may be competent.
Although that's a problem for the Republicans.. any of them sane enough to be generally competent at getting stuff done will be filtered out by the batsh**t insane Republican base before they get near government.
By Andrew Dodds (not verified) on 16 May 2017 #permalink
Excuse me while I step out of the eel bucket, straighten my tie and go back to the cubicle.
Dilbert is no longer funny
angech:
You too, huh? On that much, we agree. Sunday's strip was full-blown AGW denial, in full public view. In it, Adams accuses climate scientists of:
- Claiming AGW "will lead to a global catastrophe";
- Ignoring compound uncertainty in climate and economic models, and cherry-picking projections.
- Shutting down Dilbert's skepticism (of economic models) by calling him a "science denier".
Adam's 'climate scientist' doesn't sound like any I know. That strip was a big step over the line for me.
By Mal Adapted (not verified) on 16 May 2017 #permalink
Chill, Mal-
Adams can be restored to funny by a trifling investment in science editing:
https://vvattsupwiththat.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-science-journals-aren…
By Russell Seitz (not verified) on 19 May 2017 #permalink
So is the problem that economists can't control economic choices, any more effectively than climatologists can control climate-modifying choices?
How economics killed the antibiotic dream
By Tim Harford BBC World Service, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38828079
By Hank Roberts (not verified) on 07 Jun 2017 #permalink
"... ignorance hasn't been the problem.
We know the risks, but face incentives to take them anyway....
... My only incentive is to care about whether dosing my pigs seems to increase my revenues by more than the cost of the drugs...."
"This is a classic example of the tragedy of the commons, where individuals rationally pursuing their own interests ultimately create a collective disaster."
Ah, it's rational thinking that's the problem?
See also Kessler syndrome. What? Clean uncluttered vacuum in Earth orbit is an overused commons? Ayup.


United Kingdom, Ireland and Portugal will be hit by a large North Atlantic groundswell, between 1st-2nd February, 2014. "Storm Brigid", a sequel of the "Black Swell", is in the making.
The coastal regions of the Iberian Peninsula, England, Wales and Ireland, have issued weather warnings regarding a deep low-pressure system formed in the middle of the North Atlantic, and traveling to Europe in the first days of February, 2014.
Unlike Winter Storm Hercules, the new "Storm Brigid" is heading straight towards the Old Continent in a steady eastern track.
The British islands, and Southwest of Ireland in particular will be hit by 40-foot waves, while the Spanish region of Galicia and the North of Portugal prepare for 20-30 foot faces.
In the United Kingdom, the weather authorities are expecting an "apocalyptic" storm similar to the "Black Swell" of early January. Cornwall, the capital of British surfing, will be seriously affected by huge tides and gale force winds.
Surfers and citizens should stay away from coastal areas, such as lighthouses, piers, beaches and seaside boardwalks.
Check the wave height forecast for the British Islands, Portugal and Spain.


Water your tree 5 gallons every 3 - 4 days, or a total of 10-15 gallons weekly. Because this is only a rule of thumb, it will need to be adjusted to your unique site. To do this, check the soil moisture a few inches below the soil surface of the rootball. If the soil is very dry or leaves look wilted you will need to water more frequently. It should feel moist, but not soggy. If there is any excess moisture, wait 1-2 days then check the soil moisture again before watering. Too much water is just as bad as not enough!
If possible, irrigate in the evening or early morning using low flow rate for a long duration within the water basin (a raised mound of dirt around the tree trunk, forming a circle 18' in diameter around the tree) to ensure that the entire rootball is saturated. *Note: to determine the duration needed to water 5 gallons, you can time how long it takes to fill a 1 or 5 gallon bucket at a given flow rate.
• Turf sprinkler irrigation systems alone do not provide sufficient watering for young trees to survive; additional deep-watering is necessary to saturate the rootball in most cases.
• Ensure that the watering basin around the trunk of the tree holds water. If water drains out of the basin, the tree's roots are not getting watered. Keep the soil inside the watering basin free of all vegetation - this includes grass!
• It may be necessary to make adjustments in the frequency and duration of watering depending on soil type, drainage, weather, and trees species.
• Water your tree IMMEDIATELY after planting…waiting even a few hours makes a difference with tree survival.
• Most established trees will benefit from periodic, but infrequent deep watering, particularly during the dry season. It may be necessary to make adjustments in the frequency and duration of watering depending on soil type, drainage, weather, and tree species.
• Use mulch or woodchips in the watering basin to conserve soil moisture.
Dry Season and Summer Months: Irrigate trees planted during the dry season 2 to 3 times a week for the first few months and every 3 to 4 days thereafter until the rainy season. It may be necessary to water more frequently during particularly dry, hot weather.
Rainy Season and Winter Months: Irrigate trees planted in the late winter to early spring on a weekly basis, when rain is lacking. Begin deep watering once to twice a week with the approach of warm, dry weather – water thoroughly.
Gradually reduce the frequency of watering during the second year to a weekly basis. Begin in late spring and continue through early winter as needed.
By the third year, deep watering every other week should suffice, but remember to check your tree often. Watering during the rainy season may not be necessary - remove the soil berm that forms the watering basin - Do not pile soil/mulch up against the tree trunk or change the grade of the soil under the canopy.
Many trees will thrive with 2 or 3 deep soakings during the summer of the fourth or fifth year. Most established trees will benefit from periodic, but infrequent deep watering, particularly during the dry season. Monitor your tree carefully!
These trees will survive the summer with no further irrigation. Any watering done should be outside the drip line of the canopy.


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posted by Shaun Vincent - Jun 12, 2018
Shawn Mendes Drops "Nervous" Video
Shawn Mendes just dropped the video for the new track "Nervous," from his recently released self-titled record, which debuted at number one.
The video has Shawn singing on a chair as a woman's hand appears and begins to get, well, handsy. As Shawn continues to sing, the hands start touching him all over, even slapping him at one point, which leaves Shawn a little embarrassed, and even giggly.
Lady Gaga Opens Up About Mental Illness
Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta were honored with the Global Changemakers Award at Children Mending Hearts' Empathy Rocks fundraiser in Bel Air, California this weekend. The pair was honored for the work they do with Gaga's Born This Way Foundation and during her speech, Gaga opened up about her struggles with mental illness.
"I have struggled for a long time, both being public and not public about my mental health issues or my mental illness," she said. "But I truly believe that secrets keep you sick."
Gaga talked about how her Born This Way Foundation seeks to promote kindness, noting, "Kindness is not an afterthought to our work. It is the driving power for everything we do. It is the lens we view every challenge through," adding, "To me, almost every problem you can think of can be solved with kindness. At least it could be made better."
Finally, she shared, "Kindness has a soft undertone. Sometimes people think it is weak. It is tremendously powerful. It can change the way that we view each other, the way that we view our communities and the way that we work. Even the way that we feel about ourselves, by being kinder to ourselves. We need more kindness in the world."
Demi Lovato Cancels A Second UK Show: Demi Lovato was forced to cancel her concert in London this past weekend due to swollen vocal cords, and now she's canceling yet another show. The singer announced on Twitter that her Birmingham show tonight is also not happening. "I'm literally gutted that I have to postpone this next show in Birmingham," she tweeted. "I've never had to miss shows due to my vocal chords or being sick in my LIFE."


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the geordie times online (newcastle united archive fanzine): "IT'S JUST LIKE AN OLYMPIC SPORT!"
'OLYMPIC SPORT' GROOND NUMBER 336!
A'v just updated mee list of groonds visited watchin NUFCs various teams and the full list iz printed in the article below this one!
"JUST LIKE AN OLYMPIC SPORT!"
Paul himself had visited 120 odd groonds watchin' The Toon!
THE NEVER ENDIN 'OLYMPIC' MARATHON JUST GANS ON! AND ON!---AND ON!


The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) is a sparrow-sized bird with a typical short-tailed, large-headed kingfisher profile, blue upper parts, orange underparts and a long bill. It feeds mainly on fish, caught by diving, and has special visual adaptations to enable it to see prey under water. Its glossy white eggs are laid in a nest at the end of a burrow in a riverbank.
The common kingfisher was first described by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae in 1758 as Gracula atthis. The modern binomial name derives from the Latin alcedo, "kingfisher" (from Greek ἀλκυών, halcyon) and Atthis, a beautiful young woman of Lesbos, and favourite of Sappho.
Description adapted from Wikipedia. See additional photos and listen to kingfisher sounds at Internet Bird Collection (IBC).
If you would like to read more of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetry, I recommend the Oxford anthology of his work. It includes all the poems and some of his prose, and seems the most complete collection available at this time. I like it well enough that I'm thinking of making a leather cover to make it more durable (I like to have poetry with me when I travel).
A new book titled As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Alex Preston was reviewed in The Guardian earlier this year. Described as "part memoir, part anthology, part nature writing, part critical treatise, part coffee-table book, with biographical snippets about various writers, relatives and ornithologists thrown in for good measure", the book sounds like a treat for the literary birdwatcher, though it may be available only in the UK. Enjoy!
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The Mental Capacity Act is intended to assist and support people who may lack capacity and to discourage anyone who is involved in caring for someone who lacks capacity from being overly restrictive or controlling. The Act also aims to balance an individual's right to be protected from harm if they lack capacity to make decisions to protect themselves. This course aims to help care workers look at how the Act will affect them and to help them to develop best practice to include in the new legislation.
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1Machine components
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3Machine configuration and chances of winning
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5.2United States
Claw crane
Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Claw (video game) and SpongeBob SquarePants (season 4).
Type of arcade game
A claw crane game machine with pony plushes in Trouville, France
A claw crane, claw machine, toy crane, or skill crane is a type of arcade game known as a merchandiser, commonly found in video arcades, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, shopping malls, and bowling alleys.[1]
Machine components[edit]
The glass front of a claw crane
A claw crane consists of many parts, but the basic components are a printed circuit board (PCB), power supply, currency detector, credit/timer display, joystick, wiring harness / loom, gantry assembly, coil, and claw assembly. The claw has three fingers if it is a traditional design or two fingers if it is the Asian-style "UFO" machines. Rarely, there are four.
Claw machine gantry assemblies typically consist of two main moving carriages. The first controls the movement along the forward and back axis. This is the long moving set of rails. On these rails sits the gantry carriage, or gantry box. This is the actual component the claw is suspended from, and it contains the motors for sideways movement, alongside the motor and pulleys for the movement of the claw on the Y-axis. These gantries also contain a series of small electronic switches, which are responsible for letting the main PCB know when the carriages have reached their limits of movement, as well as when the claw is at the top or bottom.
The main cabinets for claw machines are typically constructed of medium-density fiberboard, with wooden or metal inner support structures. Some more modern cabinets are made of aluminum alloy, which makes it easier to relocate as well as cheaper to produce. A lot of very high-end claw machines have full LED lighting on the front, behind a partially-transparent plastic panel, first popularised by Elaut of Belgium on their IntraXion E-Claw cranes.
The top half of the machine normally consists of a metal frame, with tempered safety glass windows. The machine's marquee, typically located above or behind the top of the glass window, is typically an acrylic panel with a graphic depicting bold lettering, that reads the model of the machine.
The crane machine playing field is the platform on which the prizes sit, typically constructed of aluminum alloy or MDF. This is normally covered with fish gravel or polystyrene packing peanuts for decorative purposes or as a riser to lower or raise prizes. Fish gravel is normally used for machines where there are gaps between prizes, such as jewelry cranes or set payout machines, as it is more aesthetically appealing than packing peanuts. However, it is a more expensive option, while packing peanuts are more common in countries like the United Kingdom. In some machines, such as UFO Catchers in Japan, plastic balls are used for decoration.
Gameplay and prize types[edit]
A set of claw cranes produced by Elaut, as seen at Clacton Pier, England. These ones use packing peanuts for decoration.
The goal of the game is to manipulate the claw inside of the cabinet in order to grab a desired prize inside, which is then dispensed and collected by the player if they are successful. The specific methods of controlling the claw differ between machines.
Typically in Asia and Europe, claw machines use the skill intensive "up and across" gameplay system. This is where the player is provided with two buttons, one for forward movement, and one for sideways movement. Each button can only be pressed once, and as soon as the final button is released, the claw is dropped. This was the original system for motion used on machines since the 1960s, and is most popular in countries like the United Kingdom and Japan.
Another method of movement for claw machines is the ever popular joystick control. This is when the player has full control of the claw in all directions, and a separate button is used to deploy the claw. This is becoming much more popular, as it makes claw machines much easier for the inexperienced.
Another method of claw movement is the very old electro-mechanical style of movement, in which the player moves the claw with a small wheel before inserting money. The claw drops immediately when money is inserted and is powered by a single motor. The claw mechanism closes when the drop string is pulled. This is a very rare type of machine to find, with a few UK examples being found in Brighton Penny Arcades. These machines typically were manufactured pre-1960s.
Claw machines were initially designed to take small prizes like sweets (candy) or jewelry or even cigarettes. However, they moved more towards the children's toy market as machines got larger and more capable.
Machine configuration and chances of winning[edit]
The majority of modern machines have an operator-adjustable payout rate. This is when the operator can set how much profit they want to make from each prize. Often, this is set up based on prize value. For example, if a prize is worth $5, and the operator chooses to make an extra $5 of profit on top of that, then the machine needs to pay out after $10 has been inserted.
Modern claw machines are fully computerized and are remotely programmable by the owner (via a hand-held device). Settings and features commonly available include:[2]
Claw strength and aperture
Claw movement speed, either as a whole, or in individual axis.
Pick-up strength (on skill-based machines)
Primary and secondary strength settings
Toy teasing on payout based machines—when toy teasing is enabled, the claw will pick up a prize for a set amount of time before dropping it, giving the player the impression that they nearly won
Operator adjustable payout rate: The percentage of how often the machine will pay out a prize in relation to the value of the merchandise and the operators preferred profit.
Overpay: If the machine pays out over a certain number of prizes in a set amount of time more than its set payout, it will throw up an error code, and prevent anyone from inserting money, and prompt them to get an attendant. This eliminates the possibility of people emptying a potentially faulty machine.
Instant Free Play: When the machine will give the player a free play if enough money is inserted. This is popular on ICE, Cromptons and Brents X-Factor machines.
Instant Replay: When the player can drop the claw in the exact same position before it has returned to the home position, at the cost of one credit. The feature is disabled if the user has less than two credits. This feature is popular on the Elaut Intelli or IntraXion machines.
Older machines are known to be retrofitted with devices called crane processors. This gives skill based machines the necessary technology in order to be rigged. The best and most common version of this in the UK is the Lottelle "The WON" processor. Processors are most popular in the UK, where small arcades choose them over replacing their machines.
Some cranes are also able to display the number and value of prizes won in a given time period,[2] enabling the owner to keep track of how profitable the machine is for them.
Claw machines holding expensive prizes, such as a video game console or a mobile phone are typically programmed so that the grip strength of the claw is determined according to a payout percentage that is profitable to the operator.[citation needed] Experienced skill crane players also say that box shaped prizes are among the most difficult kinds of objects to pick up with any claw, regardless of its settings.[citation needed]
Legality[edit]
The ability of the crane machine owner to set features such as a payout percentage raises the question of whether these machines should be considered gambling devices in a legal sense, alongside slot machines. In the United States, claw vending machines are typically specifically exempted from statutes which regulate gambling devices, contingent upon compliance with certain rules. In the state of Michigan, for example, this exemption applies only if the wholesale value of the prizes inside is below a certain threshold, and if these prizes are actually retrievable with the claw.[3] Other states regulate crane machines very little. In addition, some attorneys have advised claw machine owners to avoid using the word "skill" in the game description decal present on most machines.[4]
In other jurisdictions, such as Alberta, Canada, skill cranes are illegal unless the player is allowed to make repeated attempts (on a single credit) until he or she wins a prize.[5] Skill cranes in single-play mode (where the player has only one chance per credit to try for a prize) were found by the Ontario Court of Appeal to be essentially games of chance, and therefore prohibited except at fairs or exhibitions, where they are covered by an exemption.[6]
Global popularity[edit]
Asia[edit]
In Japan, modern trolley-style claw machines began being manufactured by Sega and Taito in the 1960s.[7] Sega released its first modern electro-mechanical (EM) arcade crane game, Skill Diga, in 1965, and followed it with Super Skill Diga (1968), which included dolls as prizes.[8] By the 1970s, Sega and Taito machines had drawn the attention of plush toy vendors, with the machines used to display and deploy stuffed animals, evolving into modern claw machines.[7]
They gained popularity in Japan during the late 1970s, with crane games among Japan's top ten highest-grossing EM arcade games of 1977,[9] and then Sega's magnetic crane machine the sixth highest-grossing EM arcade game of 1978.[10]
By the 1980s, crane machines had become much larger, with plush dolls the major prizes, and cranes common at carnivals and arcades.[8] A boom in crane games occurred with the release of Sega's UFO Catcher in 1985, and since then the term "UFO catcher" has become synonymous with crane games in Japan.[11] It stood out for its eagle claw shape, hence the name "UFO" catcher,[clarification needed] along with its kawaii (cute) family-friendly design, helping to make them more marketable to casual audiences. Two players could also operate cranes simultaneously, intended to encourage more social interaction, such as between couples. Sega's UFO Catcher series led to claw cranes becoming increasingly popular in Japan during the 1980s to 1990s.[8] By 1994, Sega had sold over 40,000 UFO Catcher cabinets, with the term UFO Catcher itself becoming synonymous with crane games in Japan.[12]
Claw cranes gradually became popular across other parts of Asia as well, such as South Korea and China, during the 1990s to 2000s.[13]
United States[edit]
In the early 20th century, popular photographs of the excavation of the Panama Canal made the steam shovel into an object of popular fascination. This trend inspired novelty candy dispensers made to look like steam shovels. Players would put a nickel into the slot of a glass-fronted cabinet and crank a wheel to engage a series of internal gears. The tiny bucket-jaws swung down, closed over a piece of candy, rose, and dropped the sweet into a chute where it could be retrieved. Early versions of these games include the Panama Digger, Erie Digger, and Iron Claw. The most successful model was the Miami Digger patented by carnival operator William Bartlett in 1932. The prizes were silver dollars or rolls of coins, and Bartlett operated the machines himself rather than selling them.[7] Over the decades, the mechanics and aesthetics of these candy dispensers evolved into the modern claw games of today.[14]
A claw machine labeled "Toy Steam Shovel" appears in a drugstore in the cartoon Naughty but Mice (1939) featuring Sniffles the Mouse.
In Davis Grubb's 1971 novel, The Barefoot Man, set in 1930 in West Virginia, Jack Farjeon wants to get a gun in secret and is challenged to retrieve one from a crane game, at a price of $10 a play, with the first play free. He gets the gun after seven tries.
Following the arrival of Japanese and European claw machines in the late 1970s,[7] these machines became popular in the United States in the late 1980s, with a significant presence at Pizza Hut restaurants, although they were to be found much earlier. Later on, the machines spread to other venues, and by the early 1990s, the NFL began to advertise their teams with stuffed footballs of each team placed in some of the machines. Soon after, the MLB, NBA, and NHL also started doing this, although the NBA no longer uses these machines as a means of advertisement.
By the mid-1990s, the machines' popularity had made such establishments as Safeway, Fry's Supermarkets, K-Mart, and Wal-Mart a staple of their locations. Some hotels also acquired them to satisfy their younger guests, as did sports venues that would stuff them with collectibles related to their home teams.
In the 1995 Disney/Pixar computer-animated film Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody climb into a claw vending machine filled with claw-worshipping aliens.
In the SpongeBob SquarePants season 4 episode "Skill Crane", Mr. Krabs introduces the skill crane machine to SpongeBob and Squidward in the Krusty Krab.
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^ "Mere 'dash of skill' makes crane game illegal: court". National Post. January 29, 2002. p. A1, 10. Archived from the original on August 10, 2007. Retrieved July 10, 2008.
^ Lipton, Michael D.; Lazarus, Morden C.; Weber, Kevin J. (2005). "Games of Skill and Chance in Canada". Gaming Law Review. 9: 10–18. doi:10.1089/glr.2005.9.10.
^ a b c d Rossen, Jake (7 July 2016). "Dime After Dime: A Gripping History of Claw Machines". Mental Floss. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
^ a b c Horowitz, Ken. "History of: Sega UFO Catcher". Sega-16. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ 結果ベスト3 [Best 3 Results] (PDF). Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 90. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 February 1978. pp. 2–3.
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^ "OutRun". Mean Machines Sega. No. 22. EMAP. August 1994. pp. 92–3. ISSN 0967-9014.
^ Yoon, Dasl (September 29, 2017). "Grasping for Hope. Claw arcades – and youth unemployment – swell in South Korea".
^ Eldredge, Barbara. "Cult of the Claw".
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The World's First Black-Smoke-Emitting Nuclear Power Plant! …Presented By Germany's Flagship ZDF Public Television
By P Gosselin on 8. February 2022
Today we have an anecdotal example of how Germany's mainstream media regularly misleads the public with manipulative crafted reporting. Nuclear power is hated and viewed as evil by the German media, so any possible trick to make it look bad gets the green light.
This time the ZDF went a little too far. Their excuse was horribly weak.
ZDF With Black Smoke Over Nuclear Power Plant
By Die kalte Sonne
German nuclear power plant with black smoke from cooling towers, shown by ZDF. Image cropped from: Bild.
White smoke rises from a chimney in the Sistine Chapel to announce the election of a new pope. The equivalent is black smoke rising from a nuclear power plant. At least, according to ZDF and a website of the broadcaster.
There, a picture of a plant with two cooling towers, from which white steam is rising, was creatively reworked without further ado, as Bild reports. Black clouds can be seen above the power plant itself.
Blackened to make writing "easier to see"
The broadcaster's explanation: this was done afterwards to make the writing easier to see, seems rather contrived. There are other graphic means for that. It would have been far more plausible if the black smoke had signaled a successful works council election in the plant. Usually, car tires are burnt in this case…
The picture has been replaced in the meantime.
Austria's online Express here reports:
Black smoke: This is how broadcaster ZDF falsifies on nuclear power topic
The public broadcaster ZDF, which is financed by mandatory fees, seems to think its viewers are very simple-minded. In order to keep up the narrative of dangerous nuclear power, they have now apparently even enhanced the illustration of a report. Without further ado, white water vapor was made into black and very threatening smoke."
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11 responses to "The World's First Black-Smoke-Emitting Nuclear Power Plant! …Presented By Germany's Flagship ZDF Public Television"
The Indomitable Snowman, Ph.D. 8. February 2022 at 10:43 PM | Permalink
Hey, looks legit to me.
Like this one:
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bonbon 8. February 2022 at 11:37 PM | Permalink
It should be Green – the EU has decreed Nukes and Gas to be renewable.
Oops – that would look like Chlorine.
Ok. We have a Photoshop Problem guys! Where are the Airbrushes?
roger 9. February 2022 at 12:18 AM | Permalink
in the cockney 'airdressers
Lasse 9. February 2022 at 10:51 AM | Permalink
Germany has decided to close their nuclear reactors and import electricity from France and Sweden.
We have to build some more reactors to meet the demand.
EU has decided to regulate transmission so export and import can be done.
Something is very hard to understand!
bonbon 9. February 2022 at 11:28 AM | Permalink
France's EDF Cuts Nuclear Output Outlook on Power Supply Risks
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-07/france-s-edf-cuts-nuclear-output-outlook-amid-power-supply-risks
Now look at EEX spot-prices !!!
The Ranch at the Crooked EU – Enron all over again!
Biff Smiff 9. February 2022 at 12:08 PM | Permalink
Obviously done by the same numbnuts that use grey low contrast unreadable fonts…
oebele bruinsma 9. February 2022 at 12:50 PM | Permalink
The main problem is that main stream media stopped reporting a long time ago, swapping their activities with peddling political correct narratives.
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