Please read the little cartoon carefully; it's powerful. Then read the comments at the end.
Now, more than ever, with Iraq , Iran , and others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.
Someone recently passed along a provocative cartoon and interpretation, and it is appropriate to remember the Jewish Holocaust. However by not mentioning the related Palestinian Nakba, not quite a holocaust but certainly a catastrophe (the meaning of the Arabic word) I feel that In Memoriam—63 Years Later, and any who circulate it as is perpetuate an erroneous message.
During the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, some 750,000 Palestinians (Arabs as they were then widely known and as many Israeli Jews to this day insist on calling them) fled their homes, usually driven out by the Israeli army (as extensively documented by Ilan Pappe in The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, also by numerous other authors based on newly released official documents). Many Palestinians with their descendents continue to live, often in horrid conditions, in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring Arab countries. Their suffering continues, yet the world barely notices.
I suspect many elder Palestinians could show the equivalent of tattooed numbers on their arms: the key many Palestinians treasure indicates a hope to eventually return to their homes or home regions, a right guaranteed by United Nations resolutions and international law.
Better: In Memoriam—63 Years Later, two peoples both suffering, both treated unjustly. Remember, never again, hold accountable, and apply international law to correct the injustice.
I absolutely agree with you. The way this email is worded is intended to overlook many injustices and atrocities commited in the occupied territories. I got this from a co-worker, that like many Americans doesn't know any better, but just forwards whatever she gets without paying too much attention to the real intentions behind this email. It is also intended instill fear in the hearts and minds of the reader, mostly in regards to Iran. I have personally read the transcript of Admadinejads comments on the Holocoust and he is in no way denying that these events happened he is merely saying that in light of the 10 million Christians and over 23 million Russians that died, the Holocoust is the only tragedy emphasized by the media to support the state of Israel and all of it's criminal acts against Palestinians. Are 6 million Jews more worthy than 10 million Christians or 23 million Russians?


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import { Dom7Instance } from 'dom7';
import Framework7, { CSSSelector, Framework7EventsClass, Framework7Plugin } from '../app/app-class';

export namespace Notification {
  interface Notification extends Framework7EventsClass<Events> {
    /** Link to global app instance */
    app : Framework7
    /** Notification HTML element */
    el : HTMLElement
    /** Dom7 instance with notification HTML element */
    $el : Dom7Instance
    /** Notification parameters */
    params : Parameters

    /** Open notification */
    open() : Notification
    /** Close notification */
    close() : Notification
  }

  interface Parameters {
    /** Notification element. Can be useful if you already have Notification element in your HTML and want to create new instance using this element. */
    el?: HTMLElement
    /** Notification icon HTML layout, e.g. home or image . */
    icon?: string
    /** Notification title. */
    title?: string
    /** Additional text on the right side of title. */
    titleRightText?: string
    /** Notification subtitle. */
    subtitle?: string
    /** Notification inner text. */
    text?: string
    /** Adds notification close button. (default false) */
    closeButton?: boolean
    /** Timeout delay (in ms) to close notification automatically. */
    closeTimeout?: number
    /** If enabled, notification will be closed on notification click. (default false) */
    closeOnClick?: boolean
    /** If enabled, notification can be closed by swipe gesture. (default true) */
    swipeToClose?: boolean
    /** Additional css class to add. */
    cssClass?: string
    /** Custom function to render Notification. Must return notification html. */
    render?: () => string
    /** Object with events handlers.. */
    on?: {
      [event in keyof Events]? : Events[event]
    }
  }

  interface Events {
    /** Event will be triggered when user clicks on Notification element. As an argument event handler receives notification instance */
    click: (notification : Notification) => void
    /** Event will be triggered when Notification starts its opening animation. As an argument event handler receives notification instance */
    open: (notification : Notification) => void
    /** Event will be triggered after Notification completes its opening animation. As an argument event handler receives notification instance */
    opened: (notification : Notification) => void
    /** Event will be triggered when Notification starts its closing animation. As an argument event handler receives notification instance */
    close: (notification : Notification) => void
    /** Event will be triggered after Notification completes its closing animation. As an argument event handler receives notification instance */
    closed: (notification : Notification) => void
    /** Event will be triggered right before Notification instance will be destroyed. As an argument event handler receives notification instance */
    beforeDestroy: (notification : Notification) => void
  }

  interface DomEvents {
    /** Event will be triggered when Notification starts its opening animation */
    'notification:open' : () => void
    /** Event will be triggered after Notification completes its opening animation */
    'notification:opened' : () => void
    /** Event will be triggered when Notification starts its closing animation */
    'notification:close' : () => void
    /** Event will be triggered after Notification completes its closing animation */
    'notification:closed' : () => void
  }
  interface AppMethods {
    notification: {
      /** create Notification instance */
      create(parameters : Parameters) : Notification

      /** destroy Notification instance */
      destroy(el : HTMLElement | CSSSelector | Notification) : void

      /** get Notification instance by HTML element */
      get(el : HTMLElement | CSSSelector) : Notification

      /** open Notification */
      open(el : HTMLElement | CSSSelector) : Notification

      /** closes Notification */
      close(el : HTMLElement | CSSSelector) : Notification
    }
  }
  interface AppParams {
    notification?: Parameters | undefined
  }
  interface AppEvents {
    /** Event will be triggered when user clicks on Notification element. As an argument event handler receives notification instance */
    notificationClick: (notification : Notification) => void
    /** Event will be triggered when Notification starts its opening animation. As an argument event handler receives notification instance */
    notificationOpen: (notification : Notification) => void
    /** Event will be triggered after Notification completes its opening animation. As an argument event handler receives notification instance */
    notificationOpened: (notification : Notification) => void
    /** Event will be triggered when Notification starts its closing animation. As an argument event handler receives notification instance */
    notificationClose: (notification : Notification) => void
    /** Event will be triggered after Notification completes its closing animation. As an argument event handler receives notification instance */
    notificationClosed: (notification : Notification) => void
    /** Event will be triggered right before Notification instance will be destroyed. As an argument event handler receives notification instance */
    notificationBeforeDestroy: (notification : Notification) => void
  }
}

declare const NotificationComponent: Framework7Plugin;

export default NotificationComponent;

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I Don't Understand How You Expect Me to Frequent Your Business if You Don't Plan on Featuring an Unknown Indie Band in Your Commercial
Earlier this year — and I'm sure this is no big news to you, since you undoubtedly follow all the latest news surrounding the website FreeCreditReport.com and its fake-struggling band led by lip-syncing French Canadian Eric Violette. Since you do, of course, you already know that the "band" which had long touted the assets of the free credit report-granting website was given the axe in May, likely oweing largely to the fact that that earlier this year, the scam was revealed and it suddenly semed like every media outlet in the country was penning a feature on how music in the spot does not feature Violette's actual voice and English, in fact, isn't even Violette's primary language (one of the band's longtime lip-syncing criticisms was of how Violette's on-screen pronunciations didn't seem to sync up to the way Americans say certain phrases and words).
What also didn't help was the fact that the Federal Trade Commission, last year, also took aim at the company, releasing its own series of fake-band helmed commercials warning against using freecreditreport.com and other sites of its ilk. So it clearly was time for the entire endeavor, helmed by global credit reporting firm Experian, to cut its losses and go back to the well.
The well includes a new site and a whole new (well, semi-new) gimmick. Gone is FreeCreditReport.com, which advertisers The Martin Agency had worked so long and hard to give word-of-mouth toward, and in its place was a new website: FreeCreditScore.com. Also gone are the fake French-Canadian lip-syncers and in their place, an actual competition wherein actual bands can become the new face of FreeCreditReport….er, FreeCreditScore.com.
Again, this is no news to you, I'm sure, as you've been following these proceedings and this contest for quite some time. As a result, you know of the four finalists for this competition — L.A.-based emo-esque Evolove, geekcore New York rockers I Love Monsters, Chicago prog-electro-rockers The Poets Dance and popular Detroit popsters The Victorious Secrets. It's interesting how online voting led to four such drastically musically diverse, geographically disparate bands from four of our nation's largest and most demographically representative cities. An equal number of fans of many varying tastes and locales must have religiously voted to yield this set of finalists — a better representative group couldn't have been selected if they had been chosen by The Marketing Heaven group itself!
Regardless, FreeCreditScore.com found its winner in The Victorious Secrets, which it launched in a commercial airing on last week's MTV Video Music Awards. And while we do, legitimately, congratulate the Victorious Secrets — because, assuming the contest was on the up-and-up in the first place, it is always nice to see a struggling band get its chance in the spotlight and TBTS supports that — the whole ad gimmick is what's really rather ridiculous.
The FreeCreditReport.com deal simply wore us down. I'm not sure there was anyone, ever, who really gelled to those spots in the campaign's infancy — they were hokey, they reeked of meticulous market engineering and weren't particuloarly musically sound to begin with. After a while, however, it became clear that FreeCreditReport wasn't going anywhere, and neither was their ridiculous band of geeky, disheveled, twenty-something music-makers, and things sort of began to fall into place and give FreeCreditReport's fictional band some sort of fifteen minutes of fame.
The same type of schtick was readily repeated by EducationConnection.com, whose Waitresses-esque jingle featured a young girl looking for the right college for her particular skill set and which spawned, for the website, a contest to find the next voice of EducationConnection.com (many of those particular entries are both hilariously awful and on YouTube, including this straight(?) rip-off, a hip-hop version and this emo rendition, among others).
Perhaps we're underestimating the power of the "this band is soooo cool!" trick — after all, if you can convince just three or four people to google the band name (often displayed, early MTV-video-style, in the bottom left corner of the spot), you can possibly have a chance of convincing those three or four people that the band really exists or is on the rise, and if you can do that, you can convince them that the advertisers shelled out a lot of money to hire said on-the-rise band. And if they believe that, your product has more credibility.
Maybe I'm being too cynical. I'm not a patron of the Detroit club rock scene, and I've never seen The Victorious Secrets play live. Maybe they will parlay their commercial gig into full-on fame. Or maybe they'll keep cashing somewhat lucrative checks from RealCreditScore.com for their portrayals of economically unsound slackers trying to get a home loan or take their girlfriends out to dinner. For more information about it, try this site. Good luck to those guys, and I actually do mean that. I guess we'll see what happens. What's certain, however, is that the "we're a hip company and we're so hip we're bringing you cool new bands you haven't even heard of yet — so visit this website!" gimmick isn't going anywhere anytime, especially in the age of social media where it's more possible than ever for a clever marketing group to saturate so many technological avenues and almost instantly "create" a band and its fame. Whether we choose to buy into it depends on our own gullibility.
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On 29th May 2015, Believers Church Diocese of Kathmandu distributed relief supplies to earthquake victims in Bhaktapur District.
The church's social workers and youth went to their places and distributed kits containing 25 kg of rice and 1 kg of salt to 70 families.
The recipients all thanked the church and the team members for providing them sufficient supplies for their needs.
The church is still continuing to do its relief work among the victims in remote and isolated villages.


Gold on Tuesday rose for a third straight session and silver for its second as safe-haven demand broadened.
"Spain, Italy and Greece are the three reasons why gold should become more attractive because there is a lot of fear out there about what could happen next," Reuters quoted Bill O'Neill, partner of LOGIC Advisors, a commodities-focused wealth manager.
Gold prices for August delivery closed to $1,613.80 an ounce on the Comex in New York, gaining $17.00 or 1.1%. Gold traded between an intraday low of $1,586.40 and a high of $1,618.90. Stimulus expectations were also cited as a reason for gains in gold.
"The market is expecting more stimulus, and that is supportive of gold," Phil Streible, a senior commodity broker at R.J. O'Brien & Associates in Chicago, said in a telephone interview that was recounted on Bloomberg.
Silver prices for July delivery settled up 33.3 cents to $28.949 an ounce, traversing through the day between $28.315 and $29.050.
Platinum prices for July delivery closed at $1,454.40 an ounce, up $5.10 or 0.4%. Platinum ranged from $1,423.90 to $1,456.70.
Palladium was the lone precious metal to slip on the day, albeit modestly. Palladium prices for September delivery declined 90.0 cents, or 0.1%, to $624.25 an ounce, trading between $615.05 and $626.25.
Sales increased Tuesday for the U.S. Mint's two most popular bullion coins. The American Silver Eagle rose 25,000 and the one-ounce American Gold Eagle added 2,000. The following are the latest daily, June and year-to-date bullion coin sales totals as published by the U.S. Mint.
U.S. Mint figures above are in coin totals, not the amount of ounces sold.


Anthony "Tony" J. Baumann, 70 of Shiocton, passed away peacefully on Sunday February 10, 2019 at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton, WI. He was born on April 3, 1948 in Manitowoc, WI; he is son of the late Joseph and Jeanette (Andresen) Baumann. Tony later owned and operated the Michaels Foods for many years. He enjoyed watching many sports including; basketball, football, and stock car racing. He also liked to hunt, fish, farm, and garden when he had the time. Tony also enjoyed going to his son Michael's sporting events and spending time with family and friends.
Tony is survived by: One son; Michael (Pasamon) Baumann of Milwaukee, WI; One sister; Kathy of Neenah, WI; Two nieces; Jenny and Laci Taplin of Neenah, WI, and many other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents.
Memorial Service will be held on Wednesday February 13, 2019 at 4:30 PM at Valley Funeral Home, 2211 North Richmond Street Appleton, WI 54911. Visitation will be held from 3:00 PM until the 4:30 PM memorial service at the Funeral Home.


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U.N. urges Asian countries to follow Thailand on fishing pledge
KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Asian countries have been urged to sign up to international standards on working conditions in the fishing industries after Thailand became the first in the region to make such a pledge.
Fishing is largely unregulated in Asia and analysis by the Global Slavery Index has identified workers in the industries of China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand as being at high risk of modern slavery.
Thailand on Wednesday ratified the International Labour Organization's Work in Fishing Convention, which sets out binding rules and standards for conditions on fishing vessels.
"Thailand is setting an excellent example for the region ... I look forward to other Asian countries soon following suit," the director-general of the United Nations agency Guy Ryder said in a statement.
In recent years, Thailand's multibillion-dollar seafood industry has come under scrutiny for slavery, trafficking and violence on fishing boats and at onshore processing facilities.
Earlier this month, the European Union (EU) withdrew its threat to ban Thai fishing imports, and said that the country had made progress in tackling illegal and unregulated fishing.
After the EU threatened to ban fish exports, and the U.S. State Department said it was failing to tackle human trafficking, Bangkok toughened up its laws and increased fines for violations.
Thailand has introduced modern technologies - from satellites to optical scanning and electronic payment services - to crack down on abuses.
The ILO convention ratified by Thailand includes requirements relating to occupational safety and health, medical care at sea and ashore, rest periods, written work agreements and social security protection.
It aims to ensure that fishing vessels provide decent living conditions for workers on board.
Ratifying the convention showed the government's strong political will to ensure that working conditions in its domestic fishing industry meet ILO standards, Thai Labour Minister Adul Sangsingkeo said in a statement.
It underlines Thailand's full commitment to raising the standards of labor protection for both Thai and migrant workers and eliminating forced labor, he added.
Human rights groups welcomed Thailand's move but urged policymakers to entrench the ILO convention in domestic law.
Phil Robertson, an Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said that while Thailand deserved kudos for ratifying the convention, the implementing legislation still needed to be developed and passed.
"We've seen influential Thai fishing fleet owners fight tooth and nail against this convention from the start," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.
"So we're expecting a serious fight to get a law that results in meaningful rights protections and improvements in fishermen's lives."
The commercial fishing and seafood industry contributes around US$6 billion to Thai exports, according to the ILO, with Thailand being among the top global exporters of seafood products.
The fishing and seafood processing sectors together employed more than 600,000 workers in 2017, with about half of those registered migrant workers.
Reporting by Michael Taylor @MickSTaylor, Editing by Claire Cozens. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking, property rights, and climate change. Visit news.trust.org


Furnished 1 bedroom apartment located in the lovely Jordaan area of Amsterdam Center.
The apartment is split level with entrance on the ground floor of a monumental building. Size is 60m2 and consists of living room with open kitchen and dining, bedroom on upper level and bathroom with shower.
Features include high ceilings, big windows. solid tile flooring, little outdoor area in communal space, bike storage and secure access from street.
Location is between the Westerstraat and Lindengracht where you can find Amsterdam's postcard perfect streets. This part of Jordaan is kind of special due to the number is nice cafes, shops and restaurants nearby. Markets pop up nearby at Noorderkerk, Lindengracht and Westerstraat on Saturdays and Mondays.
Only possible for maximum 1 person.
Monthly rent of 1.575,- euro.


The Hammel Institute, hidden away in northern Vermont, has a secret. It's not just an elite boarding school like everyone pretends it is. There, young meta-humans are learning how to use their powers and get along in a world filled with baseline humans. The school and the town nearby are a haven for metas, but unless they want to stay in Pilot Ridge forever, they need to learn how to control their abilities.
Hammel is an active, friendly site with a wide variety of characters and member-created plots. We accept characters of all ages and types, but we are looking for teachers and officials for the school, and female and non-gender binary characters in particular!


Sindy was badly injured in a car accident in October 2004 in the age of two years and six months. She came to me two months after that. She had been operated and a metal plate was put in her right leg. There were fractures both in radius- and ulna-bones.
It took many months her to recover. It seemed in the beginning that her leg won't be any better.
Her legs healing were montly followed up radiographically by vet Tuomas Illukka in PetVet,Turku during the next six months. Animal physiotherapist Leena Piira started her montly treatment at the same time. Sindy was much better after her first visit to Leena. Sindy's anxiety and diagonal movements had gone. It seemed like a miracle. This treatment lasted till winter 2006.
Niina Kreivilä took also her as a massager trainee patient in early 2005. She made her a trainer programme and massaged her muscles once a week. This treatment and the one Leena Piira gave to Sindy helped her muscles to recover.
Sindy got the promise to move freely in early summer 2005. Upp till then we had to have had her in a leach, After 11 months inte autumn 2005, when the metal plate was removed, it started all again. Sindy had to minimize her physical exercise. Niina made a new programme in 2006. Sindy had the possibility to swim as much she wanted to during the summertime and move in snow in the winter. It helped her muscles to grow, but she kept limping after a heavy exertion.
When Niina had her mother leave animal physiotherapist Tanja Kotti started with Sindy. Sindy had her weekly treatment during the spring 2007. The water physiotherapy and massage made her leg so much better that she got her very first certificate in the spring 2007 and second one summer 2008 and the third one in October 2008 among 209 flatcoated retrievers in The Annual Finnish Retriever Special Show becoming Finnish show champion. Sindy succeeded in the retriever field trials in may 2008, too.
Sindy got 3 injections of Cartrophen in October 2007 which made her movements even better.
The limping occurs only after a heavy exercise. We'll have to keep in mind her leg is never like a healthy one, but it is now better we ever could imagine. Sindy moves freely and without pain.
Thanks to Leena, Niina, Tanja and the staff in Pet Vet. Benita, her breeder, and Lotten, father Scott's owner gave us the wisdom they had and all the support we needed. Akane, Kaija, Christina and the previous owner Marika and many others were with us in the moments of hesitation and despair. For the most: Thank you, Sindy, you did it!


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Ben Menahem's work has been acquired by and donated to art institutions worldwide. His works also appear in numerous special private collections. A selection is shown below.
Art in Process
Selected Museums and Galleries
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, NY, USA
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA, USA
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Singer Museum, Laren, The Netherlands
Los Angeles County Museum, L.A. CA, USA
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT. USA
Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Museum, Boston, MA, USA
Smart Museum, University of Chicago, IL, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, USA
The William A. Koehnline Gallery, Oakton College, Des Plaines, IL, USA
Stanford Museum, Stanford University, CA, USA
Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Selected Private Collections
Granvil and Marcia Specks, Chicago, IL, USA
Monroe Price and Aimée Brown Price, NY, USA
Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Goldfarb, Malibu, CA, USA
Shayova, Chicago, IL, USA
Sofris, Saratoga, CA, USA
Sachs, Jerusalem, Israel
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NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale's Blog: NASA's 50th Anniversary
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NASA was formed on October 1, 1958, and we will soon be kicking off our 50-year anniversary celebration. We have so many accomplishments to celebrate from the past 50 years and a great deal on which to focus in the future. NASA has brought real benefits to our society in security and prosperity, in inspiration and innovation, and in saving lives and protecting the environment.
Image at left: NASA's 50th Anniversay logo. Every decade has brought advances to our society from the space program. Remote medical monitors were developed for physicians to monitor the health and fitness of astronauts during Project Mercury in 1960s. The Landsat Earth-observing satellites first launched in the 1970s to observe the climate and environment to benefit agriculture and global climate change research. Recently developed technologies include paper-thin solar cells and advanced water recyclers. A lot of effort has gone into describing NASA-related technologies in a not-too-technical way that the average person can understand. Check out the new top 20 list of NASA-related technology spinoffs
We have a tremendous number of accomplishments from the past 50 years to commemorate. But we are also looking to our next 50 years and all the achievements these years will bring. We plan to continue to explore our solar system and beyond. The James Webb Space Telescope will provide even more data, furthering the great body of knowledge gained by the Hubble Space Telescope, and we will come even closer to understanding the properties and origins of our universe. Our Earth observation program will continue to launch missions and analyze data to help us better understand our climate and environment. We will complete and begin using the Ares and Orion spacecraft to go to the Moon to establish a lunar outpost for long-term human presence, and then go beyond. We will continue our aeronautics research program to enhance the safety and performance of our aircraft. All of these efforts will result in as-yet-unknown additional innovations. We strive to continue to inspire the public and encourage our young people to pursue careers in math, science, and engineering.
NASA 50th Anniversary Events
NASA is planning the following events as part of our 50th anniversary celebration of our past and our future:
Annual Goddard Autumn Event at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) – This will be the official opening of the Agency's 50th anniversary calendar on October 3, 2007. Dr. John Mather, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics will present duplicate Nobel Prizes to NASM and NASA and provide a presentation on how the James Webb Space Telescope will find the first galaxies formed in the early Universe.
NASA Lecture Series – The Series is focused on reaching policy-makers and specific target audiences with information about NASA programs and results, and how those results benefit society in various ways. Dr. Griffin opened series with lecture on September 17th in Washington, DC.
Commemorative 50th Anniversary Magazine – The magazine will be published by Faircount Publishing in cooperation with NASA. The company will provide copies for all NASA employees, articles to feature stories about past, present and future with special emphasis on NASA people. It is scheduled to be released in October 2007.
Conference on the 50th anniversary of the Space Age – The NASA History Division and the National Air and Space Museum History Division will hold this conference, to be held in Washington DC on October 22-23, 2007, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary meeting of the Society for the History of Technology. The conference is titled "Remembering the Space Age," and encompasses two main themes: 1) National and Global Dimensions of the Space Age, and 2) Remembrance and Cultural Representation of the Space Age.
NASA Future Forums – In conjunction with corporate sponsors, NASA is developing a series of Future Forums around the country. Future Forums are day-long conferences to discuss the role of innovation and competitiveness (technology, R&D) in promoting and sustaining economic development. Participants will include members of the local entrepreneurial, technology and academic communities as well as elected officials. The first Future Forum is scheduled for January 2008.
Business Week Magazine – The magazine reaches an audience of 4.8 million readers and will produce one or more special advertising sections in 2008 highlighting NASA's 50th anniversary and its contributions to technology, innovation and leadership in space exploration and research. These sections will help to explain the role of the "space economy" and NASA's contributions to innovation and competitiveness for the Nation.
Smithsonian 2008 Folk Life Festival – This event provides NASA the opportunity during our 50th Anniversary year to promote our mission activities and to present the heritage of our scientists, engineers, astronauts and craftspeople to a huge, ethnically diverse audience. NASA will be the featured Federal government agency for festival. The Folk Life Festival opens the end of June 2008.
Television and Film – NASA plans to collaborate with Discovery Channel on a four part series on NASA's Greatest Missions, due out in October 2008. NASA also is working with History Channel on 50th Anniversary programming.
NASA 50th Anniversary Celebration Gala – The gala will be produced by the AIAA at the National Air and Space Museum Udvar Hazy Center on September 24, 2008. This featured event will culminate a year of celebration of NASA's 50th Anniversary.
Arts and Culture Initiative – The [email protected] Arts and Culture Program consists of primarily ten works of art along with five cartoons from artists that have supported/captured/documented NASA over the years. The works should be completed in time for the NASA 50th Anniversary Celebration Gala where they will be displayed. The collection will then go on tour to museums, galleries, and science centers around the country.
For information on the above events, please contact Bob Hopkins, NASA Chief of Strategic Communications.
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Hounslow's Promise
The Five Promises
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What is Hounslow's Promise?
Hounslow's Promise is a new initiative based on the belief that all children and young people are capable of learning and thriving. Hounslow's Promise believes that the whole community shares a responsibility to help young people succeed.
Based on five promises, the mission of Hounslow's Promise is to improve the educational attainment, employability, leadership and social mobility of our young people.
Our Five Promises:
A network of caring adults for children and young people in Hounslow
Safe spaces and facilities
Supporting teachers in Hounslow
A healthy start for children and young people in Hounslow
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Copland: Rodeo, Dance Panels, El salon Mexico, Danzon cubano - Slatkin
Copland: Rodeo, Dance Panels, El salon Mexico, Danzon cubano
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin
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Aaron Copland was born in 1900 in Brooklyn - New York, and managed to become one of the great American composers before he died in 1990. Then he had experienced some opposition during McCarthyism in the '50s for his support of the American Communist Party in the 30`s His work consisted, inter alia, of film music, piano concertos and a flute concerto.
But the dominant music form was undoubtedly ballets. Six pieces in total and Rodeo is one of the most played. This is very American music, with western inspired landscape as almost overstated backdrop, if the title should not be enough of a clue. The composition is full of dynamism and conductor Leonard Slatkin does nothing to curb the temper.
I can not refrain from dwelling on final part of Rodeo - Hoe Down , for me a dear friend from childhood in 1972, borrowed by Emerson Lake and Palmer on their album Trilogy , and for that matter also the opening act on the triple live LP " Welcome Back my Friends to the show that never ends " that came a year or two later. An incredibly intense performance in rocking synth-costume. And yet it is puzzling that this classic performance of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in some ways is even more intense. And even more puzzling is that there is now greater time difference between our time and ELP's version, than there was between ELP and original composition in 1942. But then, it is just the fact that Copland also operated with borrowed feathers - the main theme is taken from an Irish folk tune from the 1800s. Thus, we have also confirmed the unmistakable Irish character in the play, which originally created a hint of disbelief when I first became aware that Aaron Copland is behind Hoe Down. Hoedown is otherwise a traditional American celebration dance.
The ballet Dance Panels with seven parts make up a large musical contrast to Rodeo, and is then also written 17-20 years later. It is also at the opposite end of the scale when it comes popularity, but should not be underestimated because of that. The seven pieces are spaced quite different, and perhaps even more interesting musically. However, the dynamics and the temperament of the Rodeo is not present to the same degree.
El Salon in Mexico is by far the earliest works of Copland on this recording, originally written in 1932. piece consists of only one part and is almost 12 minutes long. The Spanish-sounding atmosphere is indisputable, and dynamic filled melodic music is back.
The work Danzon Cubano was written about the same time as Rodeo, and is based on a traditional Cuban and Mexican dance, originally developed from Habanera.
Leonard Slatin has extensive experience when it comes to recording of works by Copland, and has received an Academy Award for a previous CD recording of Copland music on Naxos. Here are the outstanding interpretations of Copland, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra contributes very positively to the engaging and dynamic recordings of these works.
The same goes to an outstanding sound quality on this recording. With this dynamic quality it is very tempting to play very loud and there is a tremendous dynamics that can be challenging for playback facilites. With such frequent occurrence of powerful crescendos on deep percussion instrument, it had not been off the road if the LFE channel was used in multichannel track. As with other Blu-ray audio from Naxos release a multi-channel and stereo tracks. Naxos has varying practices with whether it is 5.0 or 5.1 offered. I am personally of the opinion that it might make sense to drop the LFE channel if recording is not particularly demanding with loud and deep bass signals, since the use of the LFE channel may give the wrong level by aberrant setup at end user. But on this recording could a subwoofer been helpful.
It is not only the dynamics that are prime. We find here a particularly aggressive surround mix where we come very close to the orchestra. Done right, this is an unconditional quality, and here it works great.
This recording of music by Aaron Copland on Blu-ray Audio is highly recommended.
This review was also published in Norwegian and English at audiophile.no
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Love Is All "Two Thousand And Ten Injuries" LP (2010)
Details: The is a near-mint used copy of Love Is All's final album, "Two Thousand And Ten Injuries" (2010) released on Polyvinyl Records in the US. It comes with an insert and is the plain black vinyl variant.
Description: "Disco beats, post-punk sax honking, twee-pop boy/girl harmonies, and lyrics that rip your heart out. Yep, Love Is All is back.
Two Thousand and Ten Injuries buzzes with joy. Hardly surprising, since Love Is All are one of the era's great punk bands. But wait: Should you really use the word "punk" to describe a band with such obvious ambitions beyond the guitar/bass/drums baseline? Because if you've heard Love Is All, you know they're hardly formalists: disco beats, post-punk sax honking, twee-pop boy-girl harmonies. They've got a definite sound, but within its boundaries they're thrillingly unconstrained.
Listen past the kitchen-sink sonic clutter, though, and Two Thousand and Ten Injuries could have wooed the same teen rabble as Sam the Sham and the Trashmen. After all, the garage and psych bands of the Nuggets-era also played ham-handed organs and saxes, and pounded their way through ethnic percussion and a hundred variations on the Bo Diddley beat. And nobody would describe them as post-punk. Take TTaTI opener "Bigger Bolder", with its learn-in-a-minute melody and reverb-ragged "bad" production. It's the kind of fuzzy, bouncy racket you could imagine blaring from jukeboxes in the early 1960s.
But then there are the lyrics. It's the lyrics that separate Love Is All from those garage rock pioneers and really connect them to the late-70s DIY explosion. Love Is All singer Josephine Olausson is one of the early 21st century's great poets of romantic dissatisfaction, and like the ladies of the Slits, the Raincoats, and the Delta 5, her take on bad romance is deeply personal, beyond post-punk pastiche. Her kiddie yelp, with its innate cuddliness when she goes soft and conversational, can sound like a precocious grade-schooler obsessed with her mom's copy of Wanna Buy a Bridge?. But the sugary cuteness is a smokescreen, hiding the kind of scalpel-edged self-examination most of us like to avoid at all costs.
Pay attention, and certain lines all but draw blood with their plain-spoken pain: "I know I was acting a fool/ I remember you calling me cruel/ Well that was ages ago/ Oh how I wish I could prove how I've grown." In Olausson's world, there are no predators and no victims. Just human beings, emotional fuck-ups trying to do a little better this time out, capable of life-changing kindness and casual cruelty in the same 12-month span. And accordingly, given Love Is All's mix of the unflinching and the playful, no one's left off the hook. Olausson knows that when a relationship cracks up, both parties are often to blame, and that failure was always a possibility. And still we try again, if only because it beats the alternative.
That kind of romantic realism, however witty or self-deprecating or full of non-sentimental pathos, makes Olausson's vulnerable moments all the more unexpected, and all the more effective as emotional sucker-punches. When she shouts, "I want my head resting on a lap," on "A Side in a Bed"-- over the kind of lovesick new wave worthy of a John Hughes climax-- you know she's lived enough to know the sacrifices behind the fantasy the music both celebrates and subverts. You could say Olausson's subject is narrow. But it's the only thing that matters. Even if we're wised-up, grown up, and made a little (or a lot) cynical by life, don't we all want our heads resting on a lap?" --Jess Harvell, Pitchfork
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A1. Bigger Bolder
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A3. Never Now
A4. Less Than Thrilled
A5. Early Warnings
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B2. Again, Again
B3. Kungen
B4. A Side In A Bed
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Home 5 News and Press 5 Nude Dude Tries On Sports Clothes After Crashing Into Mall
Nude Dude Tries On Sports Clothes After Crashing Into Mall
A man drove his truck into a sporting goods store and borrowed some clothes from a mannequin before being arrested.
When you head to the shopping mall, the last thing you expect to see is a pickup truck driving down the middle of the mall. Dallas, Texas was treated to just such an adventure recently, when a 35-year-old nude dude, wearing only a smile, drove his truck inside a mall and ended up trying on clothes.
On his way down the mall, he took out several free-standing portable kiosks before stopping inside a sporting goods store, where he got dressed in clothing on display in the store, including socks and a new pair of Nike Jordan sneaks.
One eyewitness told police the man drove up, smacked into the door of the store, backed up and hit it again, this time with more force, and then continued into the store. The store wasn't open for business, but that didn't stop the man, who plowed through the security gate.
The man was arrested inside the store and then taken by paramedics to the hospital for a medical evaluation. The sneakers were recovered at the scene and returned to the store, but the man kept the rest of the clothes on. The police said no one wanted to see him in the buff.
No one seems to have any idea what prompted the man to pull this stunt, but the officers on site did mention they had received a domestic disturbance call earlier in the morning, and that the nude man was a suspect in that fight. It is not certain if he went "shopping" while under the influence of something, but police are investigating the incident.
The damage to the mall is in the thousands of dollars. The driver is being held without bail and facing multiple charges of burglary, reckless endangerment, vandalism and indecent exposure. Ego damage? Too embarrassing to rate. It is just lucky that no one was hurt.
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Region IX (DFW) of the Texas Academic Decathlon is considered one of the stronger regions in the state, home to the consistently high-performing Chester W. Nimitz High School and consistently placing multiple teams in the top ten at State. In the 2014 competition season, Region IX tied for the second-highest number of Large Schools sent to State (4) and sent the highest number of Medium Schools to State (5) of any region.
Region IX has featured only one live Nationals Competitor: Keller High School won the region and the state in 2005 to take fifth place at Nationals. The previous year, Nimitz High School, despite winning the Large Schools State Championship, was beaten in score by Friendswood High School (a Medium School) and thus did not attend Nationals. Also, in 2008, Pine Tree High School was selected to represent Texas at Medium Schools E-Nationals; the team placed second overall.
Although they did compete earlier, Medium Schools have only continuously competed in Region IX from 2008.
With an overall increase in scores compared to previous years, it was no suprise when Nimitz won the competition with 46,001 points; what was suprising was the margin of victory - Marcus missed taking the title by only 1,088 points with a 44,913. The two schools ranked 2nd and 7th going into State. For the fifth year in a row, the Region sent 5 schools to State: Flower Mound (42,941), Creekview (42,833), and Coppell (38,777) rounded out the top five. At State, Nimitz maintained 2nd and Marcus maintained 7th. Flower Mound moved up from 12th to 11th, Creekview dropped down from 13th to 16th, and Coppell improved from 38th to 30th.
Hosting its first Medium School competition ever, Region IX announced its entrance to state with a bang. Six schools advanced to State, the most sent by any region. Centennial High School (41,563), was honored with the Regional title, and Pine Tree (40,923.5), Frisco (40,565.9), McKinney North (35,697.7), The Colony (34,955.9), and McKinney Boyd (34,835.1) all qualified for the State championship in San Antonio. The teams entered ranked 7th, 8th, 9th, 17th, 20th, and 21st, respectively, and left the State competition ranked 8th, 7th, 9th, 18th, 17th, and 19th, respectively. Because all other higher-scoring Medium Schools were too large for USAD Medium School competition, Pine Tree was selected as the Medium School representative for Texas at the 2008 USAD Medium School Virtual Nationals. Pine Tree placed second out of 13 competing schools.
2007 was yet another victorious year for Nimitz High School. The Nimitz team took first place with 43,451 points and was ranked fifth across the state based on Regional scores; at State, Nimitz placed second. Keller took second place with 41,130 points and ranked 10th; the school improved to 6th at State. Marcus (39,855), Flower Mound (38,163), and Creekview (37,806) rounded out the top five and advanced to State. 2007 was the first year for Flower Mound to advance to State, where the team placed 10th, up from 26th; Flower Mound was also the most-improved Large School team from Regional to State, increasing in score by 3,125 points. Marcus dropped from 17th to 18th at State and Creekview improved from 29th to 20th.
Despite winning State in 2005, Keller could not hold on to its Regional title. The Nimitz team took first place with 42,141 points and was ranked seventh across the state based on Regional scores; at State, Nimitz placed fourth. Marcus took second place with 41,487 points and ranked 10th; the team held its 10th place spot at State. Creekview (40,421), Keller (39,815), and Fossil Ridge (39,348) rounded out the top five and advanced to State. Creekview improved to 7th place from 14th, Keller moved up to 11th place from 18th, and Fossil Ridge dropped to 25th from 20th.
For the first time since Nimitz had joined Region IX, it did not win the Regional title. Instead, Keller High School took the coveted title, with a score of 44,584, giving it a 2nd overall rank across Texas. At State, with a score of 46,783, the team managed to beat out tough competition from Lubbock, Holmes, and Plano Senior to give Region IX its first National appearance ever. There, Keller took 4th place with 45,879.6 points. Nimitz took second place with 41,982 points and ranked fifth. Though the team improved to 43,393 points at State, it fell back to sixth place. Creekview (41,413), Marcus (40,068), and Fossil Ridge (38,850) rounded out the top five and advanced to State. Creekview dropped from 7th to 10th place, Marcus maintained 13th place, and Fossil Ridge dropped to 22nd from 20th at State.
For the seventh year in a row, though moved from Region X to IX, Nimitz won its regional meet with 46,549 points and advanced to the State Competition. Ranking first in the State among Regional scores, it was no suprise when Nimitz won the Large School State competition with 45,811 points. Unfortunately for Nimitz, the school was deprived of a National appearance due to its lower score than Medium School champion Friendswood High School. Fossil Ridge took second place with 41,831 points and ranked 11th. The team dropped to 39,897 points and 18th place at State. Marcus (41,345), Creekview (41,153), and Keller (40,966) rounded out the top five and advanced to State. Marcus improved from 13th to 9th, Creekview dropped from 14th to 17th, and Keller improved from 16th to 12th at State.
Note: If you have information on which schools competed in Region IX in 2003 or earlier, please add it here. Sometime from 2002 to 2004, the fifteen regions of Texas were reduced to 12.
Since 2008 realignment and addition of Medium School competition. Updated as of 2016.
2005 State Champion Keller HS was moved to Region VIII for the 2008 season.
State qualifier Fossil Ridge HS was moved down to the Medium School classification and to Region VIII for the 2007 season.
Due to the addition of a Medium School competition for Region IX for 2008, Centennial HS, Frisco HS, Academy of Irving, Poteet HS, West Mesquite HS, McKinney Boyd HS, McKinney HS, McKinney North HS, Kilgore HS, Pine Tree HS and The Colony HS all joined the region as Medium Schools. All were from either Region VIII or Region XII.
Aledo HS fields its first team ever in 2008, entering as a Medium School.
Coppel HS was moved from Region X for the 2008 season.
Hebron HS moved up from the Medium School classification for the 2007 season from Region VIII, where it had a history of successful finishes. In 2007, it failed to qualify for State by only 452 points.
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Weight loss combined with vitamin D supplements can reduce inflammation
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In a study, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have found that weight loss, in combination with vitamin D supplements, has a greater effect on reducing chronic inflammation than weight loss alone.
Chronic inflammation is known to contribute to the development and progression of several diseases, including some cancers. Results of the randomized, controlled clinical trial — which involved more than 200 overweight, postmenopausal women who had insufficient levels of vitamin D at the beginning of the study — are published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.
"We know from our previous studies that by losing weight, people can reduce their overall levels of inflammation."
There is some evidence suggesting that taking vitamin D supplements can have a similar effect if one has insufficient levels of the nutrient," said lead and corresponding author Catherine Duggan, Ph.D.
However, it has not been known whether combining the two — weight loss and vitamin D — would further boost this effect.
"It's the first study to test whether adding vitamin D augments the considerable effect of weight loss on inflammatory biomarkers," she said.
To explore this question, Duggan and colleagues recruited 218 healthy, overweight older women who had lower-than-recommended levels of vitamin D (less than 32 ng/mL).
The women then took part in a 12-month diet and exercise program (including 45 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise five days a week).
Half of the study participants were randomly selected to receive 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily for the duration of the year-long trial, and the other half received an identical-appearing placebo, or dummy vitamin.
Biomarkers of inflammation were measured at the beginning and end of the study. The researchers then compared changes in these levels between the two groups.
At the end of the study, all of the participants had reduced levels of inflammation, regardless of whether they took vitamin D, "which highlights the importance of weight loss in reducing inflammation," Duggan said.
However, those who saw the most significant decline in markers of inflammation were those who took vitamin D and lost 5 to 10 percent of their baseline weight.
These study participants had a 37 percent reduction in a pro-inflammatory cytokine called interleukin-6, or IL-6, as compared to those in the placebo group, who saw a 17.2 percent reduction in IL-6.
The researchers found similar results among women in the vitamin D group who lost more than 10 percent of their starting weight.While IL-6 has normal functions in the body, elevated levels are associated with an increased risk of developing certain cancers and diabetes and may be implicated as a cause of depression, Duggan said.
"We were quite surprised to see that vitamin D had an effect on an inflammation biomarker only among women who lost at least 5 percent of their baseline weight," Duggan said.
"That suggests vitamin D can augment the effect of weight loss on inflammation."
Vitamin D is a steroid hormone that has multiple functions beyond its widely recognized role in regulating calcium levels and bone metabolism.Vitamin D receptors are found in more than 30 cell types and the research focus around this nutrient recently has shifted from bone health to vitamin D's effect on cancer, cardiovascular health and weight loss, among other health issues.
Inflammation occurs when the body is exposed to pathogens, such as bacteria or viruses, which puts the immune system in overdrive until the "attack" ceases and the inflammatory response abates.
Overweight or obese people, however, exist in a state of chronic inflammation. This sustained up regulation of the inflammatory response occurs because fat tissue continually produces cytokines, molecules that are usually only present for a short time, while the body is fighting infection, for example.
"It is thought that this state of chronic inflammation is pro-tumorigenic, that is, it encourages the growth of cancer cells," she said.
There is also some evidence that increased body mass "dilutes" vitamin D, possibly by sequestering it in fat tissue.Duggan encourages women to speak to their health care providers about measuring their levels of vitamin D to determine the most appropriate dosage.
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China irked by Indo-US bonhomie
JPNN/Beijing/January 26, 2015/China has offered to lift its strategic partnership with India to a "higher level," and prompted New Delhi to avoid a "zero-sum trap" that was being set up by Washington and its allies. In a message, on the occasion of 66th Republic Day, to President Pranab Mukherjee, his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping expressed China's willingness "to make concerted efforts with India to lift their strategic cooperative partnership oriented to peace and prosperity to a higher level". The felicitations coincided with the New Delhi
visit of U.S.President Barack Obama. An article on Monday that appeared in the Global Times and People's Daily, cautioned India, not to fall into the "trap" that was being laid, to pit New Delhi against Beijing, by Washington, as part of its "pivot to Asia" doctrine. The commentary noted that "the second visit by a sitting U.S. President to India, the first time on record, has undoubtedly drawn wide attention from the international community". It added that many Western media reports "have pointed out that the U.S., regardless of historical complications, is putting more efforts into soliciting India to act as a partner, even an ally, to support Washington's "pivot to Asia" strategy, which is mainly devised to counter China's rise.In a further elaboration, the daily pointed to the West's "ulterior motives'' to frame the "Chinese dragon" and the "Indian elephant" as natural rivals. "The West is egging India on to be fully prepared for "threats" posed by its large neighbour. Considering the fact that both sides still have territorial disputes and will probably have wider engagement at many levels, this so-called rivalry between India and China will not stop making headlines in Western media."
However, it cautioned India that it was facing a carefully positioned "trap". "Although craftily set, it will be revealed eventually." The daily advised both countries to put aside their "debates over specific issues," and ensure that "their relations cannot take a life-or-death struggle as a foothold." "The common interests they share are way larger than any differences. As both are emerging powers, which have the huge potential of being important forces in the international community, China and India should see more space for cooperation instead of contention. This agreement is fundamental to bilateral relations. The article counselled Beijing and New Delhi to "come to terms with a bottom line of interactions, making sure the big picture remains intact, although both sides still have disagreements on some specific matters," and steer clear of a zero-sum game, that India, under Western influence was "sliding into". Diplomatic sources told The Hindu that India's diplomacy is pursuing a "multi-vectored approach" that is geared to promote New Delhi's core interests, through simultaneous engagement, in carefully defined areas, with several countries, which may have problems with each other. Agency
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There's an increasing amount of support for Hungary after the European Parliament punished the country for 'weakening its democracy'.
On Wednesday the members of the European Parliament voted on a report that concludes that the rule of law in Hungary is wanting.
The so called Sargentini report says there is a "clear risk" of a serious breach by Hungary of the values of the European Union. It calls for an Article 7 procedure against the country, a heavy measure to remove a member state's voting rights.
"The sanctions against the Hungarian government and people are a political act, a madness by that leftwing Europe that is not resigned to change," He said during a press conference in Austria.
"I am convinced that in a few months' time we'll find ourselves governing Europe together with Viktor Orban," Matteo Salvini added.
Salvini and Orban are both hardliners on migration. Both are successful in blocking migration into their countries and have repeated multiple times they don't want migrants.
Orban reduced illegal migration by 99.7 per cent by building a border fence. Salvini blocked several migrant boats and said Italian ports are closed for them. As a result migration from Libya saw a drop of 87 per cent.
Earlier Poland announced it stands with Hungary and will veto any EU sanctions against the country.


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Date: May 15 02:18:07 2009
Proffesional footage of Metallica in Hamburg available
Professionally filmed footage of Metallica pounding out their classic, "Dyer's Eve" in Hamburg, Germany on May 12 can be viewed below. The band has been busy recently with the release of Guitar Hero: Metallica, their first North American tour in four years in support of "Death Magnetic", and the release of the digital "boxed set", "The Complete Metallica" which features the band's entire 163 song catalog. The band was also inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in an April 4th ceremony in Cleveland Ohio.
Metallica's 5/12/09 Setlist in Hamburg
01. That Was Just Your Life
02. The End Of The Line
03. Leper Messiah
04. The Memory Remains
05. One
06. Broken, Beat And Scarred
07. Cyanide
08. Sad But True
09. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
10. The Judas Kiss
11. The Day That Never Comes
12. Master Of Puppets
13. Dyer's Eve
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman
16. Killing Time
17. The Prince
18. Seek and Destroy


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Looks cured enough. Have you tried letting some dry in the house before trying?
That's the main secret of willow: Getting it, and keeping it dry.
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Got four unique hand drill embers tonight.
I found a piece of beargrass (Nolina sp) stalk in my stash that was thick enough to make into a hearth. I have never used beargrass as a hearth (except for an earlier attempt to use it via the two-stick method unsuccessfully). Therefore, all four embers I got tonight counted.
Cottonwood root spindle on beargrass (Nolina sp) hearth.
Prickly lettuce spindle on beargrass (Nolina sp) hearth.
Red osier dogwood spindle on beargrass (Nolina sp) hearth.
Sunflower spindle on beargrass (Nolina sp) hearth.
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Nice. Is that a cannabis hemp cord?
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Here's a fun trick I just thought of today, inspired by people burning their sets to encourage making and using new sets/woods every time.
2. Use your spindle to make a feather stick while your coal smoulders.
3. Insert coal into feathers and blow to flame.
I did it today with staghorn sumac, but I didn't videotape it. Next time!
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Of couuuurse youve already done it @NWPrimate. Haha. I probably got the idea subconsciously from your vids.
You should give it a name - the "forgot your tinder bundle" drill.
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Four unique hand drill embers today.
Hollyhock spindle on beargrass (Nolina sp) hearth.
Mullein spindle on beargrass (Nolina sp) hearth...with an introductory cameo appearance by Excalibur, brought yesterday by the Knife Faery...in this case, the Lady of the Lake.
Narrowleaf yucca spindle on beargrass (Nolina sp) hearth, with Excalibur.
Rose spindle on beargrass (Nolina sp) hearth.
Thanks to @Jacob for both the narrowleaf yucca and the beargrass. And thanks to the Knife Faery.
Also, thanks to (I believe) @CivilizationDropout for the rose.
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Good job! I find shorter spindles are more difficult to use than the long ones.
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No pictures (yet) but, yesterday (Tuesday in Japan!) I gave hand drill a go with Palownia again.
I can do bowdrill, but I'm seriously bad at hand drill -- just can't get enough downwards pressure.
I learned to cheat just enough to get a bit of smoke and brown-grey dust though! I made the head of my spindle about 3/8" in diameter, and with that, was able to get smoke and a bit of char. I also used water on my hands to increase grip.
I think with a bit of practice I might be able to make this material work. I need a thicker baseboard, though... This palownia is really soft and I drill through it extraordinarily fast with such a small diameter spindle.
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Here is a posture I like that uses physics to provide downward force on the spindle. It allows body weight to contribute to the downward force.
If this looks familiar to some of you old timers, it's because I posted it at least a couple times in the past.
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Blackberry spindle on beargrass (Nolina sp) hearth.
Blackberry spindle on Cottonwood root hearth.
Thanks to @tristndad for the blackberry, and @Jacob for the beargrass.
The blackberry canes came cut to about a foot long and were rubber band bound to a dowel that successfully kept them good and straight. But attached to a blackberry cane bundle was the boxed Boker pen knife! That was very unexpected and I am very pleased. Thank you @tristndad.
Must be my week...The Knife Faery delivered me a knife via The Lady of the Lake while ice fishing on Saturday, which I call Excalibur.
Yesterday I got this Boker attached to a bundle of blackberry canes, and I'm gonna call it "Excalibur's Little Brother." Thanks again, all.
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The only issue I had with the blackberry cane I was using was that it split, but not before giving me a couple of embers. Even then, I was able to trim the broken part back and start anew.
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I let it dry for a bit in the sunshine on my signal panel.
Beat up some willow bark for the tinder bundle.
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WooHoo! That sure is a wonderful feeling when you get that first ember. Believe it or not, the thrill only lessens a little after you get hundreds more.
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Two more unique hand drill embers tonight.
Blackberry spindle on desert willow hearth.
Blackberry spindle on saguaro rib hearth.
Special thanks to @tristndad for the blackberry and to @Jacob for the desert willow and saguaro rib.
Lots of smoke on pin cherry, vine maple and tulip poplar, but couldn't quite get them to ember up today.
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It was a good feeling, but I don't think anything will ever beat that first hand drill ember.
Is there any pieces of the blackberry you think you can use as a hearth? I'll keep my eyes open for some thicker pieces for you.
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Have you gotten that first hand drill ember yet?
I think maybe the big bulbous portion by the root crown would be good if the plant has such. That is all I can think of, unless it works as a two stick hearth. Let's ask @NWPrimate who lives over in the land of the giant blackberries for his opinion on this.
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Yes on the hand drill ember. I have been consistently getting one with mullein and cedar. I'm struggling with other combos though.
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@Stone very cool sir. I am definitely lacking in the skills of friction fire.
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Other than Yucca for hand drill.
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Practice! That will fix it!
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So far...no luck with any of the blackberries, but I'd guess it's possible. Black cap (Rubus occidentalis) makes a good hand drill spindle though.
You and @Guillaume Longval are the only people I know who got an ember with a hand drill before getting one with a bow drill. Pretty amazing.
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if i remember correctly, i got a bowdrill ember before my first hand drill, but i did find the later easyer at first... until i figured out multiple wrap and that i could put sap in the bearing block.
@tristndad , if you got your first ember out of a hand drill, it must have been quite the emotion!
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Cedar on cedar with cordage made from dead cleavers.
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Here is my post from that first ember. You can tell I was just a wee bit excited.
Ok! I know it's not Tuesday, but holy Frickin Crap! I did it tonight!!! Been trying for years off and on with a handdrill, with no success. Been practicing alot for a few weeks now, actually had an ember on the end of my spindle twice. Tonight, 100% complete success, and it feels awesome!
I know it's a crappy picture, but I was to excited to hold my camera steady.
Thank you to this great forum and it's amazing people. This place goes above and beyond with helpful people and the knowledge they share.
@NWPrimate your building an ember thread was amazing.
This "Friction Fire Tuesday" thread and all of the people who have participated in it-Thank You so much for all of your knowledge.
Sorry, I'm feeling a bit overjoyed at the moment, cause I did it!
I got 2 embers yesterday with the bowdrill. I experimented today with blackberry with no luck. I feel it's doable for me, just going to need to steady up the bearing block a little more, I tend to roll it a little and it ends up catching the wood fibers. A little more practice and I bet I will get one.
Went back to my yucca spindle for today's ember. I can't wait for a little free time to get out in the woods to start my first fire with the bowdrill. Going to have to plan a feast to be cooked over that fire for celebration.
Hope everyone has a good week and keep making those embers!
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My son came for a visit today. He is home from school for spring break. As awesome as it has been getting my first embers with the hand and bow drill, it doesn't compare to watching my son get his first bowdrill ember. We spent a solid 2 hours today working on our friction fire skills. He came very close with the hand drill and now has the technique down. He did manage to get a bow drill ember after some practice. I sent him on his way with a few spindles and a cedar hearth board so he can keep practicing at school. Hoping to make him a bow drill set before he leaves. Here is a picture of him with his first ember.
So with aging knees, two hours of friction fire practice doesn't feel so good on them. Had to give them a good soaking! Thanks everyone for the knowledge you all share.
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great job with the son!
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I live in the north east, and grow yucca in a garden. I am not sure of the variety, I inherited it with the property I bought about 4 years ago. Every couple of years I get some decent flowers. 2 years ago I harvested one of the straiter flower stalks to try and use for a hand drill. I spent a lot of time practicing with it, coming very close to getting an ember with it, but it never happened. Anyways, It's a little to short now for the hand drill, but is awesome for the bow drill. I cut it in half so I have 2 of them. My question is when I see people posting bow drill yucca spindles like the one above by @Forestree you guys are able to carve them to a point on the bearing block end. I can not do this, because the yucca I harvested has too much pithe and not enough woody material around the outside. Is that not a typical characteristic of yucca, and my variety is a little unique? Is there a trick that someone has found for any species with the same physical characteristic. It is the same thing I run into trying to use blackberry as a spindle or even mullein, too much pithe and not enough wood. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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Trying to get back into practice with pre-dried salmonberry on cedar.
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Yucca, mullein, sunflower and other pithy stalk that make outstanding spindles don't hold up to 'standard' treatment of pointing the bearing block end. Yet they remain excellent bowdrill spindles.
To hold them together just ROUND the bearing block end and use a bearing block to match that. I like either a seashell or a piece of cottonwood bark. I understand locust bark works, too. I have made cottonwood bearing blocks by getting a piece of thick bark from a deadfall, carving it to hand shape (i.e. computer mouse shape) and start a rounded hole in the bark. The spindle will grind out what it needs, smoke a little and then be just dandy. I even saw one guy online who took the trouble to splice a harder tip onto the bearing block end of a mullein stalk and use that.
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Thanks @Stone! I have been experimenting alot since I posted that question. I have found a stone with a nice wide rounded hole in it that works well with the pithy spindles. I also started using a beeswax that still has some honey in it inside the bearing block. I slowly heat the spindle up wich helps work the wax into the pith. It seems to give a little more structural integrity to the soft pith. It's a little sticky for the first couple of spins, but then starts to work more like a lubricant.
I'm enjoying the bow drill, but I think my passion lies in the hand drill.
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That is where my passion lies as well.
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Two unique hand drill embers today, after quite the workout.
Blackberry spindle on California buckeye hearth.
Blackberry spindle on mule fat hearth.
Thanks to @tristndad for the blackberry and @Gruntinhusaybah for the mule fat.
It's been nine days since I last played with friction fire--I've been playing with ice/snowmelt for that long. But today I got fails using blackberry on yucca, balsam fir, and western red cedar. I think all those failed woods were too soft and I bored through them before I could make an ember.
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I got three unique hand drill embers tonight. I followed my hunch (see post 8944) and used harder woods so they wouldn't bore through before producing an ember.
Blackberry spindle on cliff-rose (Purshia sp.) hearth.
Blackberry spindle on palo verde hearth.
Blackberry spindle on peach hearth.
Thanks to @Jacob for the cliff-rose and palo verde, and to @tristndad for the blackberry. That's nine embers so far on the blackberry spindles.
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The best practice I had for becoming proficient/confident and fast with flint and steel fire starting is when I started fire every day in the fireplace using that method. That was daily for a winter in Utah. That was before I was using friction fire, but starting home fires daily with friction fire would have been a real incentive early on.
I've never had much luck using stones for bearing blocks. Those I tried were so coarse they would not only noticeably slow the spindle, they would also grind it down a lot! Close to that, however, is making one out of clay or ceramic...just a biscuit with a dimple in it. The fine grain of the clay doesn't grind so aggressively on the spindle.
Glazing and firing makes it smooth, too.
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Three new hand drill embers before dinner tonight.
Black locust spindle on alligator juniper hearth.
Black locust spindle on black walnut hearth.
Black locust spindle on Rose of Sharon hearth.
Thanks to @Jacob for the alligator juniper, and thanks to @OMRebel for the Rose of Sharon.
Notice there was some borer activity in the walnut...that is supposed to be a good thing to look for in friction fire materials.
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At one point in time, someone who owned my property before me had put some really wild stones under the garage eaves to help with run off. I don't believe they are native to my area. Its really a neat variety though and even includes seashells. The stone I found for a bearing block is almost glass like. It is a clouded white color. It's quite smooth and came with a natural divet in the middle of it. I took another smaller stone with a point on it, and cleaned it up a little. It's been working well for me. I wish I could tell you what kind of stone or mineral it is, but sadly I am a bit behind in my geology skills.


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> at Golden 1 Center on October 18, 2016 in Sacramento, California.
Chris Paul suffered a broken hand in Game 4 of the Clippers' first-round playoff series against the Blazers last season, and once it was learned that Blake Griffin reaggravated a quad injury in the very same game, a series that was tied 2-2 essentially was a wrap. Portland won the next two games, and Paul's season ended in disappointment once again.
In his latest spot for Jordan Brand provided first to FOX Sports, Paul discusses just how devastating the injury was, and explains why the individual accolades mean nothing to him without a championship to secure his legacy.
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