(regardless of whether you intend to apply for SSEG rates or not).
This means that even if you do not intend to "feed back" to the grid (i.e. apply for SSEG tariff rates), you still require SSEG certification in Cape Town.
SSEG certification requires that ANY install that is connected to the grid in Cape Town must be certified by an Electrical Engineer as conforming to requirements (SANS 10142), and labelled appropriately.
All inverters used must also be tested as compliant with NRS-097-2-1 by a standards institute and provably certified as such.
I recommend that people only purchase a unit that already has the appropriate certification, as inverters that are not certified are not legally allowed to be connected to the grid.
This is not countrywide though – some municipalities allow G59 certification in addition to NRS-097-2-1.
a. All PV roof top installations: No building plans are required to be submitted provided the panel(s) in its installed position does not project more than 1,5 metres, measured perpendicularly, above the roof and/or not more than 600mm above the highest point of the roof.
Full building plans, including an engineer's endorsement, are required if the panel(s) in its installed position projects by more than 1,5 metres,measured perpendicularly, above the roof and/or more than 600mm above the highest point of the roof.
Note that a relaxation in terms of the Zoning Scheme Regulations is also required.
b. PV Installations on the ground: No building plans are required to be submitted provided the panel(s) in its installed position does not project more than 2.1 metres above the natural/finished ground level. Full building plans are required where any part of the installation projects more than 2.1 metres above the ground level.
Panels should not cause additional requirements to roofing for most truss framed houses.
We had an engineer look over ours and he said our own roof (a 1900's victorian) was way over engineered and could take a lot more weight than we'd be subjecting it to.
Don't forget panels are 25kg odd, and spread over 2x1M, so not really of consequence in a PV install.
If you're concerned, get an engineer to sign off on things.
Insurance will probably want to see an SSEG certificate for wiring purposes (in case it say burns down the house), or at the least an electrical compliance certificate.
Panels will need to be separately insured on a policy.
You'd need to ask your provider about acts of god – like things blown off the roof, I'd imagine that this differs from provider to provider.
I can't find anything regarding mounting requirements and wind, so in lieu of SANS requirements or other requirements, I'd again suggest asking your insurance company what their requirements are.
It may require you to have an engineer sign off on the install, or they may require photo's / test certificates for the mounting used.
For my own peace of mind, I go onto my roof and check my own mountings every few months.
IEC 61215 impact testing is for 39.5 m/sec from a 203 gram ice ball.
The solar module must perform at a maximum of 5% degradation with no visible damage.
This may be inadequate in some area's.
Suggest read, and digest, as it also goes over requirements.
South Africa has one sole electricity supplier – Eskom, and each municipality applies its own rules and fee's on top of Eskom's where possible. While other countries allow users to feed back power into the grid, and get paid for it, South Africa hasn't quite reached that point, and Eskom and Municipalities are a little loath to change this, as its not in their best interests. There are a few pilot schemes though, and its not impossible to setup, despite the amount of bureaucracy in the way!
As I'm in Cape Town, I'll be posting information about Grid Tie legalities for users under the Cape Town municipality.
I've already been in contact with the relevant departments, and have a few answers on whats possible, and whats not.
Following is the City's current position regarding grid connection of small scale renewable electricity generation.
The City is unable to accommodate reverse power flow at the present. It is working across numerous fronts (technical standards, meter solutions, back end business (billing) processes, legal/legislative issues etc etc ) to be able to accommodate full reverse power flow in the future. Presently the plan is to compensate the generator one "one for one" offset basis per kWh consumed. This may change, but the City will not be able to refund the generator more than the tariff rate at which the consumer purchases electricity from Eskom.
Installations will not be allowed to feed power back onto the grid until the city's back end billing processes can accommodate everything required by net metering. It is quite difficult to put an accurate time frame on when net metering will be allowed, other than to say that in the future it is expected to be common practice.
PV and other renewable energy installations may currently run connected to the grid and offset instantaneous consumption as long as there is never any reverse power flow. One of the ways this may be achieved is through careful balancing of load with generation. Written permission to connect in parallel with the grid must be obtained and one would be required to comply with the City' requirements in this regard.
There is one exception regarding allowing reverse power flow (although it is not very attractive) : current prepayment meters decrement both on forward and reverse power flow- for residential applications consumers with prepayment meters may connect renewable energy generation to the grid and then with careful load balancing reduce the amount of instantaneous reverse power flow to a minimum. This is a temporary solution – in the future when a suitable metering solution is identified the City will require the prepayment meter to be replaced with a bidirectional prepayment meter.
Electromechanical credit meters running in the reverse direction are not acceptable to the City. They are not designed to run backwards and are not certified to do so. Some may be accurate and others may not. The City is not in a position to test the accuracy of each individual meter. The City is not prepared to have bi-directional residential credit meters installed for the purpose of net metering as it has a general policy to move away from credit meters to prepayment meters for residential applications.
The City has chosen the set of standards and specifications with which the developer/supplier must prove compliance. These standards are still being developed and track national developments.
You may connect a residential PV panel in parallel with the City's grid if you can live with your prepayment meter (you will be required to have a prepayment meter installed if you don't have one) decrementing on both forward and reverse power flow. With careful shifting of load to coincide with maximum pv production, under the tariffs proposed for the next financial year (they have not yet been adopted) the breakeven point is in the region of about 150 kWh per month reverse power flow- bear in mind that the proposed small scale embedded generation tariff has a daily service charge and the normal domestic tariff does not.
Ryno van der Riet copied to herewith can provide details of the technical requirements. There is also an application form.
To be legal the installation has to be approved by the City.
Feel free to contact me should you have any further queries.
The City is not in a position to purchase excess energy above what the consumer consumers- the consumer is to be on average a net consumer not a net generator. There is at present no other source of funding to finance RE production therefore the proposed tariffs will pay a reduced rate for excess energy generated- in the region of 45c per kW (estimated to be same cost that energy would alternatively have been purchased from Eskom by the munic). The tariffs have been set so that people without generation will not be subsiding those who do.
"Rules" are still being established but I expect limits will be set on the size of generation that will be allowed eg. 3kW for a single phase connection.
When the tariffs have been approved a guide will be posted on the City website. Business processes still have to be implemented to accommodate bi directional billing etc and it will be a while before the tariffs are actually practicably implementable- but tariff setting is a once a year exercise and we might be able to implement the tariff for non residential applications this coming year.
The following will apply to new residential grid connections: Residential, until a new metering solution is adopted with the consumer being required to be on the domestic net metering tariff or other approved tariff arrangement. Only on the basis of being cost responsible for installing a new split prepayment meter with passive common base (if credit meter currently installed or not in place already), which decrements on reverse power flow and must be on domestic (not lifeline) tariff. No refund will be payable for decremented units and it will be in your interest to consume all renewable energy. If/once the new split bi-directional prepayment meter is available, we will pick up cost of new prepayment meter, if you move to residential net metering tariff. Compliance with technical specifications.
the Zoning Scheme Regulations is also required.
than 2.1 metres above the ground level.
c. Other: Clearance required for other embedded generation such as wind.
proviso that no diesel fuelled mechanical engine generator forms part of the installation.


The spring session adult tap class meets on Monday nights beginning April 8th with the last class on May13th. Classes are 60 minutes each. The 6 week session has a total cost of $90.00.
The spring adult ballet class meets weekly on Tuesday nights starting April 2nd and continues through May 14th. Classes are 75 minutes long. Total cost of the class for the 7 week session is $131.25.
AcroDance is the beautiful fusion of the artistic motion of dance and the athleticism of acrobatics. It is not the same as gymnastics. It combines classical dance technique with precision acrobatic elements. It is defined by its athletic character, flexibility and its unique choreography, which seamlessly blends dance and acrobatics, and its use of acrobatics in a dance context. Skills taught might look the same as gymnastics, but they are taught differently to compensate for the absence of a sprung floor.
Jazz is sharp and fluid movements to create a visually technical dance and style. It is usually done to popular music. Class will consist of center floor warm up, progressions across the floor and center floor combinations. Progressions consist of technical jazz dance walks, turns and jumps. Body isolations, stretching, turning, leaping and technical steps are also taught in this class.
Ballet is the "backbone" of all dance training. In ballet the student will learn grace, elegance, technique, discipline, flexibility, stamina, and endurance. We strongly feel that ballet is the most important dance form that a child or adult can study. Class will consist of barre work, adagio and allegro center floor combinations, and technical progressions which will include ballet walks, turns and leaps.
The tap dancer will be expected to learn different aspects of musicality, such as counting, rhythm and music theory while developing tap technique. Tap is one of the oldest dance forms in the USA. Class will include a rhythm warm up and center floor combinations will include timing and leg/foot coordination done to various types of music. Different styles of tap will be explored.
Hip-Hop is a street style dance primarily performed to hip-hop music. The style range is wide – from "breaking" and "popping" to "locking"! Hip-hop moves were made popular from music videos with popular artists. This is a great way to dance while having fun and gaining confidence. We recommend, for the more serious dancer that other regular technique classes, like ballet, tap or jazz should be taken along with hip-hop classes.
This class will be taught by Miss Kacia to any studio dancer (Company members attend as part of their summer tuition) who would like to participate in the Kenai 4th of July Parade and/or the Soldotna Progress Days Parade. T-shirts for both parades are included for all! Dancers will be taught a parade travel loop and a dance combination to perform when the parade(s) is stopped.


I saw this posted on a couple of sites just a bit ago, and HardOCP even has an official company memo on this to verify the data. It would seem the end of the GHz race is finally here, with Intel pulling back on their speed rush. It was inevitable I think that would happen as we have seen the heat and power consumption on the Prescott core going up and up. Even their latest processor release coming next month will stay below the currently available processors' frequencies.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Intel Corp.
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- October 12, 2004 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the AMD Athlon™ 64 processor has been integrated into the new HP Media Center PC m1160n Photosmart PC, featuring Microsoft Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005. AMD Athlon 64 processor-based systems are an ideal choice for Media Center PCs, providing improved technology for games, movies, and streaming audio and video.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 27, 2004 - Intel Corporation began a worldwide advertising campaign today to promote the Intel® Centrino™ mobile technology brand and its benefits as the essential technology ingredient for mobile wireless computing. The campaign consists of television, print, online and outdoor elements as well as promotions, including product placements on popular TV programming.
Shadow Ops -- 64-bit Gaming Revolution?
AMD announced the arrival of the first 64-bit game on retail shelves, as well as its improvements on their processors. Is the 64-bit gaming revolution really here?
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 28, 2004 - Intel Corporation today introduced the Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 548 supporting Hyper-Threading Technology1 for the portability market segment. This processor is designed for larger-sized notebook PCs, also known as "desktop replacements," that typically feature large screens, full-size keyboards and multiple drives. Notebooks based on the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor 548 supporting HT Technology allow users to take advantage of multithreaded and processor-intensive multimedia applications in a portable form factor.
There seems to be a growing amount of people using Linux; perhaps seeking experiance or making the switch altogether. So how does the latest gear from AMD & Intel perform under Linux? Read on to find out!
Almost three months ago, Intel released their new platform which included many new features for Intel. These features included two new chipsets, a new CPU package and socket, DDR2 memory support, and the first motherboards with PCI-Express slots.
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- September 21, 2004 --Today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announces the first 64-bit game optimized for AMD Athlon™ 64 processor-based systems, 'Shadow Ops: Red Mercury,' is available now on retail shelves. 'Shadow Ops: Red Mercury,' published by Atari and designed on AMD64 technology, includes specific 64-bit enhancements that enable a richer and more immersive gaming experience. The power of the AMD64 platform has opened the door for game developers to truly capture the imagination and creativity of artists and industry visionaries.
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- September 20, 2004 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today further expanded its family of low-voltage mobile processors designed to offer outstanding performance, security and true mobility for thin and light notebooks. The new Mobile AMD Athlon™ 64 processor 3000+ for thin and light notebooks enables a powerful 32-bit computing experience today with a seamless transition to 64-bit computing.
SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-AUG. 31, 2004-Today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announces it is demonstrating the industry's first x86 dual-core processor.
Advanced Micro Devices is reportedly adopting strained silicon for an array of its processors that will be available this Fall. The design tweak is likely to improve the company's ability to ship high-speed microprocessors while maintaining sufficient yield as well as keeping heat dissipation of the products into generally-acceptable envelope.


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Q: Open a new window every time a button on mainWindow is clicked - PyQt5 I'm not able to open new windows with every click of the pushButton. All I can do right now is open two windows at maximum.
Wanted to open a new window with every click of a button, but was only able to open 2 windows with 2 button clicks.
Clicking the button should open a new window each time without closing the previous one.

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A tribute to Igbara-Oke's monarch at 65
By James Ojo
Francis Adefarakanmi Agbede, the olowa of Igbara-Oke kingdom in Ifedore local government area of Ondo state, turns 65 on Friday.
Agbede, who is a private security consultant, was installed king of the nodal town on February 16, 2017, an office he has held since then.
The monarch has remained committed in his pursuit to the area's "development and transformation through the empowerment of the citizenry politically, socially, economically, culturally and intellectually."
In pursuant of the vision, the 13th olowa of the kingdom recently reconstituted the leadership of Igbara-Oke development council, which is the umbrella body of all associations and clubs in the town.
The new leadership of the council would build upon the solid foundation laid by the previous administration led by Olusiji Ijogun, chairman of Konga.
The council's new leadership is also led by Ayo Adigun, a retired diplomat chairman, while Oladipo Elemo, Segun Adebayo and Gloria Elemo are members, board of trustees (BoT).
The monarch expressed confidence that their appointment "will herald a new chapter and beginning of new things in Igbara-Oke."
Agbede is also a member of the Ondo state selection committee for the federal government's special works programme for the 774 local government areas across Nigeria.
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4a. Horn, Charles Frederick. Sonatas, keyboard, violin, violoncello, op. 1
tags: Charles Frederick Horn, keyboard music, Princess Amelia, printed music, sonatas
by kspicher
Horn, Charles Frederick. Sonatas, keyboard, violin, violoncello, op. 1. London: author, 1786. Cover
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Complete keyboard part (click on "show all images in this set")
Horn, Charles Frederick (1762–1830)
[Sonatas, keyboard, violin, violoncello, op. 1]
Six sonatas for the pianoforte or harpsichord with an accompanyment for a violin & violoncello
London: to be had of the author, [1786]
Part for keyboard
Charles Frederick Horn, a composer of German birth, had a long association with the royal family, serving as music master to Queen Charlotte, 1789–1793, music instructor for the princesses, 1789–1812, and organist of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, 1824–1830. His Sonatas, op. 1, were published on his arrival in London in 1786, with subscribers headed by the Princess of Wales and including composer Muzio Clementi and impresario Johann Peter Salomon. The Sonatas were dedicated to Lady Charlotte Leveson- Gower, daughter of Sir Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of Stafford, who had previously employed Horn as music master in his household. This copy is signed by Princess Amelia, youngest child of George III and Queen Charlotte.
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3. Table of contents. Manuscript, in the hand of Frederick Nicolay →


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Q: Number of monomorphisms $\mathbb{Q} \to \mathbb{C}$ In my abstract algebra class, we have been tasked to find all monomorphisms $\mathbb{Q} \to \mathbb{C}$. The book (Stewart's Galois Theory) gives an example for $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[3]{2}) \to \mathbb{C}$, where $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[3]{2})$ is a field extension of $\mathbb{Q}$, which I mostly understand. There are 3 such monomorphisms because you can essentially permute the roots of the minimal polynomial of $\sqrt[3]{2}$ three ways in $\mathbb{C}$ (a better explanation would be welcome). However, for my problem the degree of the extension $\mathbb{Q}:\mathbb{Q}$ is 1, so my thoughts are that there is only the identity monomorphism. Is this true? A hint would be wonderful.

A: Hint: Let $f:\mathbb{Q}\to\mathbb{C}$ be a ring monomorphism. What can $f(1)$ be? Show that the value of $f(1)$ determines $f(n)$ for all $n\in\mathbb{Z}$, and hence $f(t)$ for all $t\in\mathbb{Q}$.


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Section 5705.2111 | Proposal for levy in excess of limitation.
Title 57 Taxation
Chapter 5705 Tax Levy Law
House Bill 48 - 128th General Assembly
(A) If the board of directors of a regional student education district created under section 3313.83 of the Revised Code desires to levy a tax in excess of the ten-mill limitation throughout the district for the purpose of funding the services to be provided by the district to students enrolled in the school districts of which the district is composed and their immediate family members, the board shall propose the levy to each of the boards of education of those school districts. The proposal shall specify the rate or amount of the tax, the number of years the tax will be levied or that it will be levied for a continuing period of time, and that the aggregate rate of the tax shall not exceed three mills per dollar of taxable value in the regional student education district.
(B)(1) If a majority of the boards of education of the school districts of which the regional student education district is composed approves the proposal for the tax levy, the board of directors of the regional student education district may adopt a resolution approved by a majority of the board's full membership declaring the necessity of levying the proposed tax in excess of the ten-mill limitation throughout the district for the purpose of funding the services to be provided by the district to students enrolled in the school districts of which the district is composed and their immediate family members. The resolution shall provide for the question of the tax to be submitted to the electors of the district at a general, primary, or special election on a day to be specified in the resolution that is consistent with the requirements of section 3501.01 of the Revised Code and that occurs at least ninety days after the resolution is certified to the board of elections. The resolution shall specify the rate or amount of the tax and the number of years the tax will be levied or that the tax will be levied for a continuing period of time. The aggregate rate of tax levied by a regional student education district under this section at any time shall not exceed three mills per dollar of taxable value in the district. A tax levied under this section may be renewed, subject to section 5705.25 of the Revised Code, or replaced as provided in section 5705.192 of the Revised Code.
(2) The resolution shall take effect immediately upon passage, and no publication of the resolution is necessary other than that provided in the notice of election. The resolution shall be certified and submitted in the manner provided under section 5705.25 of the Revised Code, and that section governs the arrangements governing submission of the question and other matters concerning the election.
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Lawmakers turn their attention to bathroom bill and school finance in the first week of the special session
Marshall Tidrick
Claire Allbright
The Texas Legislature is free to move on to Gov. Greg Abbott's 19 other priorities for the special session after the Senate passed the necessary "sunset" legislation early Thursday morning to keep the Texas Medical Board and other oversight agencies open.
In a midnight vote, the Senate unanimously approved Senate Bill 20 and Senate Bill 60, authored by Sen. Van Taylor, R-Plano, sending both bills to the House for consideration.
Shortly after the Senate vote, Abbott followed through with his promise and expanded the call for the special session.
"The remaining 19 items are now added to the special session," Abbott tweeted shortly after the proclamation was read. "Let the legislating begin."
With the must-pass legislation initially addressed, lawmakers began holding committee hearings where public testimony was taken to consider bills. Among these, the Senate Committee of State Affairs drew the most attention when they debated the session's controversial "bathroom bill" Friday.
Senate Bill 3, authored by Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, would require individuals to use the bathroom in government buildings and public schools that matches the sex on their birth certificate instead of in accordance with their gender identity. This bill also removes and prohibits several cities' nondiscrimination ordinances that allow their transgender population to use the bathroom of their choice.
"There are many voices in this debate," Kolkhorst said while laying out her bill. "We are here today because Texas has a tradition of taking care of these issues and not being dictated to by the federal government."
The arguments for and against the bill were familiar, as Friday was the third time Texas lawmakers held a public committee hearing to address the issue. While proponents of the bill say it will protect the privacy of women and children, its opponents said the measure was discriminatory and would be bad for business.
These predictable arguments led to a predictable outcome. The Republican-dominated committee passed the measure by a vote of 8-1, and it will now go on to be considered on the Senate floor, where there are 20 Republicans and 11 Democrats.
Across the Capitol, the Senate Education Committee sought to reform Texas' school finance system which has been deemed broken in the eyes of the Texas Supreme Court.
The committee passed Senate Bill 2, by a vote of 8-2, which — among other things — would create a tax-credit scholarship to fund education at a private school for students with disabilities. Students who are protected under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act would be eligible for the scholarship. Critics of the bill say it's another form of the controversial private school vouchers program.
According to the bill's fiscal note, the program, which would begin the 2018–2019 school year, would give qualified students the lesser of $10,000 or the cost of full tuition at a private school. For students who choose to remain in public schools within their district, they would be eligible for $500 to cover educational expenses.
Sen. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, said the bill would also create a Financial Hardship Transition Program to help districts facing funding shortfalls because of the expiration of the Additional State Aid for Tax Reduction program at the end of August.
"This is a bill that's going to cover a number of different areas," said Taylor, who authored the bill. "Its primary focus is on special needs and those who are most severely impacted by the loss of ASATR."
Taylor said funding for the program would come from insurance companies that would receive premium tax credits in return for donating to scholarship organizations. The program would be capped at $75 million annually.
With the first week of the special session in the books, lawmakers have up to 26 more days to address the items on Abbott's to-do list and send bills to his desk for a signature.


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Über den Tod hinaus ist ein Filmdrama aus dem Jahr 2009. Der Film beleuchtet die Praxis, schadhafte Immobilien zu Krediten mit überhöhten Zinssätzen zu vermitteln.

Handlung
Christa Kremers begeht Suizid. Ihrer Familie hinterlässt sie einen Schuldenberg ungeahnten Ausmaßes, als ans Licht kommt, dass sie eine schadhafte Immobilie erworben hat, die sie mit überteuerten Kreditzinsen finanziert hat.

Da die Mutter von Christa für den Kredit als Bürge eingetreten ist, steht nun auch ihr Haus vor einer Zwangsversteigerung. Der Anwalt der Familie vermutet, dass ein Immobilienhai mit dem kreditgebenden Bankinstitut gemeinsame Sache macht, und beginnt diesbezüglich zu ermitteln.

Produktionsnotizen
Der Film hatte am 12. Oktober 2009 in Deutschland seine Premiere im deutschen Fernsehen.

Kritiken

Sonstiges
Der Kinderdarsteller Ludwig Skuras debütierte in dem Filmdrama in seiner Rolle als Georg Wagner.

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Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 2009
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Q: Angular UI date picker validation In this plunk I have an Angular UI date picker and a message that should be shown only when the date is valid. The problem is that the message is always shown, even when form.$valid is true. Note that if you enter a valid or invalid date and then click on Validate, an alert will display correctly that the date is valid or invalid respectively.
Why is the validation message shown all the time, even when form.$valid is true?
Javascript
var app = angular.module('ui.bootstrap.demo', ['ui.bootstrap']);

app.controller('ctl', function ($scope) {

    $scope.dtFrom = new Date ();

    $scope.config1 = {};
    $scope.config1.opened = false;
    $scope.open1 = function(event){
         event.preventDefault();
         event.stopPropagation();
         $scope.config1.opened = true;
    };

    $scope.validate = function(form){
        if (!form.$valid) {
           alert("Date invalid");
        }
        else {
           alert("Date valid");
        }
    }

});

HTML

  <form name="form1" ng-submit="validate(form1)" novalidate>

          <input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="dtFrom"
               is-open="config1.opened"  uib-datepicker-popup="MM-dd-yyyy"
               close-text="Close" />

               <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" ng-click="open1($event)">

               </button>

      Invalid Date

      <button type="submit">Validate</button>
  </form>

A: You should create name for  the input
 <input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="dtFrom"
                   is-open="config1.opened"  uib-datepicker-popup="MM-dd-yyyy"
                   close-text="Close" name="date" />
      Invalid Date

Here is plnkr
http://plnkr.co/edit/gc0Oefhok6Gjim66UG0K?p=preview


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Healthcare Georgia Foundation Announces Addition of Two New Board Members
Anita Barkin and Robert S. Wynn were confirmed to the Healthcare Georgia Foundation Board on March 30, 2020 during the Foundation's quarterly Board meeting
Atlanta, GA – April 8, 2020 – Healthcare Georgia Foundation has announced the addition of Anita Barkin, MSN, DrPH, NP-C and Robert S. Wynn, CFA to its Board effective March 30, 2020.
Barkin formerly served as Acting Deputy Director/District Nursing Director for the North Central Health District, and received the Lillian E. Wald award by the Georgia Public Health Association in 2018 for her contributions to nursing practice. Prior to moving to Georgia, Barkin also served as the Director of Carnegie Mellon University Health Services for over 25 years.
Wynn joins the Foundation Board as the Founder and President of Wynn Capital. Prior to founding Wynn Capital, Rob served clients as a Global Investment Specialist with the J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Atlanta and as a Portfolio Manager at Asset Advisors Corporation in Augusta, Georgia. Wynn also served in the United States Navy as a Submarine Warfare Officer aboard the submarines USS HONOLULU and USS MICHIGAN based in Honolulu, Hawaii and Bremerton, Washington.
Gary Nelson, Ph.D. Foundation President, commented on the addition of these new board members, "Anita Barkin and Robert S. Wynn have long been respected and trusted experts in their fields of service, and Healthcare Georgia Foundation is thrilled to have their wisdom as part of our Board leadership." Nelson continued, "We look forward to engaging both Wynn and Barkin in furthering our efforts to enable, improve, and advance the health and well-being for all Georgians, and we warmly welcome them to our Foundation."
Anita Barkin said of her confirmation to the Foundation Board, "Healthcare Georgia Foundation has proven itself to be an innovative and forward-thinking presence in the fight against health inequity. I'm excited to join this Board and to bring my experience to the table as we continue to bring about a vision of health equity for all Georgians."
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Thomas Pynchon Pushes Conspiracies To The Bleeding Edge!
The Good: Some incredible lines, Interesting characters, Some good conspiracy moments
The Bad: The main case, in pure Pynchon form, gets muddied very quickly and stays obscured, Some of the dialogue is not authentic
The Basics: In an engaging novel set in contemporary times, Thomas Pynchon creates a tech-based, economically-motivated conspiracy surrounding the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks.
Before Thomas Pynchon becomes much more overexposed – P.T. Anderson's next film is an adaptation of Pynchon's novel Inherent Vice - in the collective conscious in the United States, I am excited to have finished his latest novel, Bleeding Edge. For those who are not familiar with Thomas Pynchon's writing style, Pynchon is a writer who has meandering narratives and stories that seldom have an actual point. While Bleeding Edge is one of his more coherent novels, it's another Thomas Pynchon experience where the expected conventions of the genre in which he is writing are completely undermined. The concept of Bleeding Edge is a detective novel that starts as a corporate investigation and leads to a larger conspiracy story. But, in the fine tradition of Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge's conspiracy is not related to most of the details in the book.
As a result, when I finished reading Bleeding Edge and started to think about the novel, I had to actually go back to the beginning to see what the original point of the book was. It ruins nothing about Bleeding Edge to say that the original purpose of the investigation in the novel is only the start and that the guilty party is known in the book's earliest pages. Bleeding Edge is not about a private investigator who is investigating billionaire software developer Gabriel Ice; it's about the conspiracy that investigation leads to . . . and, more than that, the weird personal relationships of the investigator, Maxine Tarnow. Bleeding Edge is like a murder mystery where the first suspect is the murderer and it is revealed pretty early in the book, but the investigation leads to another, more significant crime.
Maxine Tarnow is a private investigator in New York City in 2001 who is estranged from her husband, Horst, and is taking care of their children, Ziggy and Otis. One day in the spring of 2001, documentary filmmaker Reg Despard brings her a case. He is making a documentary about an internet start-up, hashslingrz, which is hiring many workers at great wages after the tech bubble has burst. The suspicious activities make Despard suspicious about the company's CEO, Gabriel Ice. Investigating Gabriel Ice and hashlingrz, Tarnow discovers that Gabriel Ice is a bad guy who is tied up in a number of shady financial dealings.
After learning about the Deep Web through a company called DeepArcher where she develops a psychological addiction to cyberspace, Maxine finds herself in the company of a shady government operative, Nick Windust. Windust is also investigating Ice and when a programmer is killed, he might be involved. When Despard brings Maxine footage of a dry run of trained killers preparing to shoot down a plane, the magnitude of the crimes Gabriel Ice and Windust are involved in deepens. As the year progresses, Maxine is drawn in deeper and deeper to the conspiracy surrounding the internet, the economy, and the inevitable attack on the World Trade Center that the reader knows is coming.
Bleeding Edge is the first Thomas Pynchon novel set in contemporary times, which is very cool and unfortunately disturbing. The cool aspect is that, for a change, younger readers of Thomas Pynchon are likely to be able to focus on the characters and plot as opposed to being washed up in the eccentricity of the settings Pynchon creates in his novels. There is nothing alien in the concept and world of Bleeding Edge; it's a familiar, very real world for those who are alive now. The conspiracy that Pynchon uncovers through Maxine is an engaging one that reads as very real and plausible.
In fact, the conspiracy leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks is linked to economic and political motivations in such a way that those of us who lived through 2001 will be shocked at the elements left out of Bleeding Edge. For a guy who is creating an elaborate conspiracy surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks, the failure to mention the plane that hit the Pentagon and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania is astonishing. Hell, that Pynchon fails to mention Donald Rumsfeld's notorious slip where he admitted the U.S. shot down the plane over Pennsylvania is a troubling oversight.
The only other disturbing aspect of Bleeding Edge is how much the dialogue is inauthentic. Pynchon writes many lines with question marks in the middle of the sentences and making statements into questions and odd colloquialisms not authentic to the time and place. I'm not talking about Rocky Slagiatt's over-the-top Italian mobster accent; Pynchon writes that fine. But a number of the bits of dialogue are written similar to the broken narrative voice, which is troubling and inorganic.
That said, Bleeding Edge is fleshed out with intriguing characters. Maxine Tarnow is an intriguing protagonist who is smart enough to be credible and has enough darkness in her past (her license was pulled) to be as badass as she becomes. The weird romantic obsession Maxine has with Windust is a cool one and the way it leads to a reconciliation of sorts between her and Horst fits in with the overall weirdness of Thomas Pynchon's narrative style.
Like most Pynchon novels, the narrative in Bleeding Edge wanders. The concept of the book is focused on Gabriel Ice and hashlingerz, but soon the novel spirals around Ice's wife, her conspiracy theorist mother, and software programmers who are building the framework of virtual online lives in DeepArcher. The roundabout path and all that it leads to gets farther away from a single, coherent conspiracy idea. Instead, Bleeding Edge fleshes out all of the corrupt individuals Gabriel Ice is associated with and how they are trying to manipulate the tech industry and world politics.
The religious and political aspects of characters in Bleeding Edge are flush with post-September 11 paranoia and that reads as very true (save the neglected elements of the time and place the novel is set in). Government surveillance of Jews and Arabs in Bleeding Edge is common and the motivations behind it is convoluted, but realistic. That makes Windust, who comes into the story fairly late, interesting and a credible foil for Maxine.
Like most Pynchon works, Bleeding Edge is more about the journey than the destination. Pynchon is not about spelling out all the details to a specific conspiracy; he's about taking the reader on a roundabout journey filled with implications and loose ends. The initial investigation into Gabriel Ice rounds back to Reg and a video that leads into a very different direction. The refreshing aspect of Bleeding Edge, compared to most of Pynchon's works, is that the novel stays focused on Maxine. That makes it less confusing or pointless than many of Pynchon's other novels.
For those who want to get into Pynchon, especially for those who discover him through the film Inherent Vice, Bleeding Edge is one of his two most focused books with a single narrative perspective and protagonist, making it a more accessible work than some of his others.
For other works by Thomas Pynchon, please check out my reviews of:
The Crying Of Lot 49
Slow Learner
Gravity's Rainbow
Mason & Dixon
Against The Day
For other novel reviews, please visit my Novel Review Index Page for an organized listing!
© 2014 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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Why do online dating sites ask about your politics?
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Emily Rodriguez uses Mutual, a dating app geared toward members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and she recently noticed users can reveal a new identifying feature: They can let prospective matches know whether they are conservative or liberal. It's come in handy for Rodriguez; she said she "swipes up" for liberals and "swipes down" for conservative men.
In the age of COVID-19, Donald Trump and virtue signaling on social media, politics have come to mean so much more than what party you somewhat carelessly registered for at the DMV. How you classify yourself politically affects how people see you, as though your politics were wedded to your identity.
For Gen Z, who came of age during a time of political polarization and changing social norms around privacy because of social media, politics can seem especially fraught when it comes to dating and marriage. This rising generation is already different in meaningful ways from older generations, according to Pew Research Center, with greater ethnic and racial diversity, more education and predominantly liberal views on social issues.
That's especially true for young women. The growing political progressivism among Gen Z'ers is mostly driven by the changing views of young women. Dubbed "single woke females," they were seen as one of the demographics that helped Democrats hold back the "red wave" that was supposed to wash over the nation in the 2022 midterm elections. Among unmarried women, 68% voted for Democrats in the last election, while 52% of unmarried men voted for Republicans, according to CNN exit polls.
Will this growing political gap between men and women make it even harder for people to find a romantic partner?
Americans are already more likely to be married to someone of a different race or religion than they are to someone who doesn't share their politics, according to the latest American Family Survey, a nationally representative annual poll of 3,000 adults conducted by YouGov in July for the Deseret News and Brigham Young University's Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy.
Among survey respondents, 10% said they were in a mixed-race marriage or committed relationship, 10% were partnered with someone of a different faith, and 7% said they were in a relationship with someone in a different political party. Higher-income couples were more likely to be in a mixed-politics relationship.
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Having children is associated with becoming more conservative, so it makes sense that as women and men delay marriage and parenthood, they would be less likely to transition — if so inclined — from a youthful progressivism to conservatism. But if a potential partner's politics matters when forming relationships, the growing divide between young women and young men could mean less dating and marriage for younger Americans.
So, should we worry that young people might not be able to find romantic partners if they aren't willing to date across the political aisle?
"I worry when people aren't able to form the relationships that they want to form," said Arielle Kuperberg, chair of the Council on Contemporary Families and a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Young people are less likely to be religious but more likely to have strong political opinions, she said, which could be affecting their dating decisions.
When she was internet dating in the 2000s, before social media became popular, Kuperberg said the dating website she used asked questions about her politics and sorted her into relationships based on her answers. Putting your politics front and center on apps like Mutual shows just how much more important politics has gotten for the younger generation, she said.
There are already several things keeping young adults from getting married, including economic hurdles like having to pay down large student loans or saving up for a home or wedding, she said. Navigating political differences adds one more hurdle to finding someone to date or get married to, and in an age when that has become increasingly difficult, it can possibly lead to other problems.
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For Jared Ludwig, a senior at BYU who is from Texas, it isn't someone's politics that turns him off, but rather how extreme they seem about their political beliefs. Ludwig, who characterizes himself as in the center politically, said he doesn't have a hard time finding women to date, but said if they wear their politics on their sleeve, he isn't as likely to ask them out a second time.
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Samantha Snider
In 2001 United States Representative Jim Kolbe introduced legislation to Congress to eliminate the penny coin in most transactions. Even though this failed to happen, it's still an ongoing debate whether or not to keep the penny as the smallest-denomination United States coin.
In the article, "President Bush signs Lincoln Penny Redesign Into Law" by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission there is talk about how the penny deserves to stay. The author had stated, "Michael Bishop hailed the bill's enactment as an important accomplishment for the Commission because 'the penny is perhaps the most visible and tangible reminder of Lincoln's significance in American history.'" This is showing that the penny is a type of symbolism for Abraham Lincoln and his birthday. Lincoln was an amazing 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He had led the nation through the American Civil War, the country's greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. Having the penny is important because it helps people to remember Lincoln and what all he's done for America.
There was an independent poll taken by Americans to see about whether they believe the penny should be kept or not. In the responses from, "Abolish the Penny? A Majority of the Public Says 'No.'" by The Harris Poll, most people have said they don't want the penny to be abolished. There was 23% who said the penny should be abolished but 59% said it shouldn't. This also left the 18% who said they weren't sure and didn't have a stance on the situation. There's always the saying that majority rules which means in this care the penny shouldn't be abolished. The American people voted towards this decision so it should be listened to.
From many pictures you can see how much the penny has gone through. The penny has existed in society since the country's earliest days. It is a symbol of our thrift and the nation's past.
There are many great symbols of the nation like the Washington monument, the White House and Mount Rushmore which are all guarded and watched over carefully. There is a great emphasis on them all based on their preservation needing to be shown and remembered.
All in all there are many reasons why the penny should be kept. The American people themselves voted to keep the penny which is who we need to listen to the most. Also, one of the most important presidents in history is shown on the penny which is needed to remember him. We can't forget how much symbolism is in the penny that we can't let go of. The penny deserves to stay.
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by jfwknifton | July 24, 2015 · 4:05 pm
The Corncrake: the sound of Victorian England
Nowadays the Corncrake is limited to the Outer Hebrides in Scotland although there is also what seems to be a highly successful reintroduction scheme being carried out in the RSPB Nene Washes Reserve in Cambridgeshire, England:
In the first half of the nineteenth century, Corncrakes were present throughout the length and breadth of England and their distinctive call was heard in every sunlit field. Even their Latin name, crex crex, is onomatopoeic. The birds were described as producing the most distinctive summer sound to be heard on a country walk anywhere in England. This is the song of the corncrake, beautifully recorded by "therhys927"
Corncrakes will often sing all through the night, and they can in fact be pretty aggravating little so-and-so's once the initial novelty has worn off:
John Clare, England's greatest poet, wrote a poem about the bird which he knew as the "Landrail":
"How sweet and pleasant grows the way
Through summer time again
While Landrails call from day to day
Amid the grass and grain
We hear it in the weeding time
When knee deep waves the corn
We hear it in the summers prime
Through meadows night and morn
And now I hear it in the grass
That grows as sweet again
And let a minutes notice pass
And now tis in the grain"
Nowadays, the Corncrakes are all gone, gradually killed off by decade after decade of desire for profit, intensive farming practices and in particular the mechanised mowing techniques used by the nation's farmers in place of the trusty scythe. This sad decline is chronicled in Nottinghamshire by the county's Victorian birdwatchers:
In 1866, in his "Ornithology of Nottinghamshire", William Felkin wrote that "the corncrake is very common". Three years later, in 1869, William Sterland provided a charming account of this delightful bird in "The Birds of Sherwood Forest":
"That bird of singular habits and note, the corncrake, visits us in abundance every year, sometimes arriving as early as the first of May, while in 1853 I did not hear its note until the 18th. This was unusually late; the season being a remarkably cold and backward one, a fact of which our other migratory birds also seemed, in some mysterious way, to be fully cognisant. Nothing, indeed, relating to the feathered tribes is more wonderful or more deserving of our admiration than that knowledge, call it instinct or what you will, which, implanted in them by their Creator, enables them to hasten or delay their departure for their distant but temporary places of abode, according as the seasons there are suitable to their necessities or otherwise. How strikingly is this wisdom brought forward in Holy Scripture: "Yes, the Stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed time and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming."
William Sterland seems well aware of the piece of Corncrake behaviour which was to prove its downfall, as the mechanized mower made its inexorable way forward:
"I have never succeeded in causing the Corncrake to take wing except with a dog, and even then its flight is always brief, as it takes an early opportunity of dropping to the ground and regaining its cover. It flies rather slowly with its legs hanging down, and there is such an air of effort about his movements on the wing, that I have often wondered how its migrations are performed.
Its ventriloquial powers are well known to every observer. Now it's harsh "Crake, crake" seems within a few yards, and the next moment it sounds as if it were halfway across the field, and this apparent variation in distance is so well simulated that in a consecutive repetition of its call for ten or twelve times, a few notes will sound as if uttered almost at your feet, and the next two or three from afar, and yet the bird is standing motionless all the time, as I have several times tested. Its singular call I have often imitated by drawing my nail across the teeth of a pocket comb, and thus inducing its near approach."
Again Sterland reveals how fully conscious he is of the problems the Corncrake will face throughout the rest of the nineteenth century:
"The female sits very closely on eggs, so closely indeed, as not infrequently to lose her life by the mower's scythe. I have known two instances of this, in one of which the poor bird was almost cut in two."
Ten years later, in 1879, William Sterland provided additional details about the Corncrake:
"An abundant summer visitor. It is also been found in winter, and on this account has been thought by some to hibernate; but apart from the fact that no bird is known to hibernate, why should a corncrake which remains during the winter not be able to fare as well as a water rail or a common snipe. Cold does not affect them."
In his "Scribblings of a Hedgerow Naturalist"(1904), Joseph Whitaker wrote:
"The other evening when talking to Rose the Nottingham taxidermist (who has set up a great many specimens in this collection) I remarked how very few Corncrake there were about, he said he well remembered about 35 years ago, a man bringing a large basket to his father, of these birds, which he had shot in two days, and they numbered over fifty; at that time he said the meadows round Nottingham were full of them, and their call could be heard on all sides. This year I have heard one, although I have been about a great deal."
No Corncrakes in 1904, no meadows in 2014! Elsewhere Joseph Whitaker wrote about his country house at Rainworth, between Nottingham, and Mansfield:
"I am sorry to say the Corn Crake is getting scarcer. I have not heard one near the house was several years, although twenty years ago they were in every mowing field. No doubt the result of mowing machines which cuts the young up often I fear."
Three years later in 1907, Joseph Whitaker provided in "The Birds of Nottinghamshire" the following information :
"I sorrow to say that this interesting bird is a rapidly vanishing species, not only as far as Notts is concerned, but in many other counties. Twenty years back it was the exception in the spring not to hear a corncrake in nearly every mowing field in the Trent Valley, and almost every seed and grass field left for hay in other parts. In this very high and dry parish of Blidworth, we had between ten and fifteen pairs, now for the last three years not a bird has been heard."
Like his fellow nature writers, Joseph Whitaker chronicles the decline:
"At Southwell, on a June night, their curious call resounded on all sides; now this year there may be two pairs. Mr Henry Smith Junior of Cropwell Butler informs me that this scarcity is very noticeable in that part, and in fact all over the south of the county."
Alas, Whitaker was to be proved wrong when he wrote:
"Let us hope that it will be many years before they are quite a bird of the past, but if they decrease during the next twenty years as fast as their decrease during the last two decades, it pains me to think that it may be so.
I once heard a corncrake calling inside the kitchen garden at Welbeck Abbey."
And finally, in "Jottings of a Naturalist" in 1912, Whitaker wrote:
"Twenty years ago there were Corncrakes all over the parish, in fact it was the exception not to hear them in every mowing field, but I know that there is been none for the last ten years, not a single bird heard, and the parish is six thousand acres; and it is not only so in these parts, it is the same everywhere."
And really, that was that. The end of the Corncrake.
As the Great War loomed, the Victorian age drew to a close. No more mowing fields, no more meadows full of flowers, no more clouds of brightly coloured butterflies. And no more Corncrakes. Just mud, blood, war and death.
To film a Corncrake nowadays, you are more or less wasting your time in England. This beautiful, atmospheric video comes from "mikhailrodionov" in faraway Russia:
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by jfwknifton | July 15, 2015 · 10:29 am
Last day on the Scillies
(An extract from my old birdwatching diary "Crippling Views")
My last day on the Scillies. Time off for good behaviour. I'm not really sorry to be going home. I had four lifers. I don't feel I've missed out on anything that was there and was viewable, except perhaps the Short toed Lark, about which I have exactly the same dilemma today as I had yesterday. Do I go to St Agnes or not? I chicken out, I am ashamed to say. I'm too scared of missing the last ferry back to Penzance Harbour to risk missing an inter-island boat through a twisted ankle, or a fat man's heart attack. This will be the last Scillonian ferry back to the mainland before the end of the year, and the helicopters are all booked up until next Wednesday so I just cannot risk anything going wrong. I simply do not have enough money:
I go back to my old friend at Telegraph, the Rose-coloured Starling, who I see very briefly, flying around with his common friends. He's a very pale, buffy coloured individual, which I am sure is the bird in question, a fact made all the more certain by a group of birdwatchers coming from the area where the flock appeared to land and who say that they have just seen the little chap:
I can't relocate the bird, but I meet someone who says he's just seen a Wryneck feeding alongside the road. It was actually on the grassy tops of the great wide dry stone walls, although it has disappeared by the time I arrive:
I look for about fifteen minutes, but I can't find it, and I am just about to pack it in as a bad job, when another young chap comes over and says he's found the bird about seventy yards away in another lane. When I get there, I find that it's a lot more active than the previous birds that I've seen in Norfolk, as it moves along the base of the hedge, feeding energetically. I am always impressed by Wrynecks, which never seem reptilian to me or particularly primitive as they are supposed to, but rather I wonder at the subtlety of their camouflage, and the way they seem able to disappear into their background at the drop of a dead leaf. It's a good padder of a bird and I'm really pleased to have seen it. Not that I'm surprised, because it's my friend Paul's bogey bird and I told him before I left for the Scillies that I would see one for him:
I take a leisurely stroll back to town, walking along the seashore where I am amazed to see a kingfisher flying out over the breaking waves, seemingly completely at home among the rocky coves and the surf, before it finally disappears into a line of pine trees at the top of the scrub covered cliff:
I pass a field full of absolutely thousands of finches, including at least one superb full adult summer plumage Brambling, which is so bright that I think it is some weird American bird when I first see it. There's really no need for it to be a transatlantic vagrant, since the bird is such a beautiful sight in its own right, without needing to be particularly rare:
A hundred yards further on, I surprise a Pipit in another field at the side of the road. I try hard to imagine that it is some unprecedented rarity, but I'm finally forced to concede that it is merely a Tree Pipit.
Finally, I reach the Porthcressa Restaurant, where the magic noticeboard announces the presence of a Scarlet Rosefinch, another possible lifer, which has turned up near the airport. This is going to be a close run thing for a fat man. The boat leaves this afternoon and I need to be on the quay by half past three. It's half past one now, so I start off at a reasonable pace, taking care to time myself for the walk, so that I can set off back to the harbour in good time. It only takes me thirty minutes, so I am left with about an hour to find the bird:
It's apparently been showing well in a little field full of cabbages, but has unfortunately moved on by the time I arrive. I go and search the neighbouring fields where there are huge flocks of finches and lots of good big hedges for them to perch in. It is at this point that I get the closest that I've ever been to a rare bird without actually seeing it. Two young men poke their heads round the hedge and tell me that the Rosefinch is there. They are actually looking at it right now:
In the very short time that it takes me to walk the ten yards or so, the bird flies away, never to be seen again, at least not by me. I give it a few more minutes, but time, as always, ticks inexorably away. There is one final bit of excitement when a message comes on the CB that a Pechora Pipit has been spotted on the far side of the airport near Salakee Farm:
The fittest ferry passengers, and the more leisurely helicopter users, all set off, but without me, I'm afraid. I'm far too unfit to rush all the way to Salakee, find a pipit famous for its ability to skulk and hide in the undergrowth, and then get back down to the Scillonian by 3.30. At least, not without a major heart attack. I do have the pleasure though, of a nice stroll back through the town, along the main street down to the ferry:
The scene that greets me is straight out of a 1930s black-and-white documentary film about the evacuation of St.Kilda. The ferry seems to know that it is the last boat of the year and mournfully blasts its foghorn as a farewell to the tiny town.
The street, with its grey stone buildings, is full of hurrying figures, all burdened with bags and suitcases, tripods and scopes, all plodding in the same direction to get down to the quay. When I reach the ferry, I have twenty minutes to drink in the scene, so I stand and lean over the side of the boat. It's beautiful, the still, calm sea, the line of old buildings along the curve of the bay and the continuing mournful bellowing of the ship's foghorn. Even better though, is a stream of birdwatchers, all returning at breakneck speed from not seeing the Pechora Pipit, tripods and spare wellies flying around their necks. They all seem to make it, except, presumably, the ones that don't.
We set off across the surface of a glassy sea, as the people on the land wave their last farewells to the ship:
It will be a long time before the Scillonian returns to the island, as the next arrival is scheduled for April. The crossing is bird free, mainly because the weather becomes so foul. In actual fact, the crossing isn't particularly rough by Scilly standards. All I can say, though, is that, if this isn't rough, then very rough most be unbelievable. I stay on deck, of course, in my capacity as the toughest man on the boat, and when I finally go downstairs, the bar is full of people with green faces. It reminds me very strongly of a pub in Nottingham that sells Shipstone's beer.
One young lad that I speak to is really delighted to have been on the Scillies. He is about fifteen and he has had a lot of lifers and he is as pleased as Punch. Birdwatching here certainly does make it a lot easier to see some of the birds that on the mainland can take a lot of effort, above all if you live in the south. Dotterel, Corncrake, Red Kite, or especially, Lapland Bunting:
He's had them all in the past two weeks here. I'm still riddled with jealousy, all bitter and twisted at those people who can spend two or three weeks here at the best time of the birdwatching year, namely early October, when I have to be at work. It must have added a good thirty or forty species at the very least to their life lists, with no real difficulty and very little real effort. Perhaps an inflation rate of up to 25% or 30% of your life total. All there for you to tick off, knowing that they are birds unlikely to occur anywhere else in Britain.
I have not seen too many good birds on the Scillies, but I have met a good number of what you might call "characters". It is, after all, "Teachers' Week", although I do find one teacher who has clocked up an exceptionally impressive 420 species without ever using the rather artificial aid of coming to these islands in the first two or three weeks of October. At the same time he has not lost his ability to be excited by a Red Kite or a Red-necked Grebe:
There are some quite desperate twitchers who just hear the words "Paddyfield Warbler" and will then slit Granny's throat for the bus fare. Some of them are very rude, unpleasant and downright boorish, including one young oaf who insists on shouting his requests for directions at you at the top of his fifteen year old voice, irrespective of how far away he is. His only interest is the extraction of any information you might have about the bird he is trying to see. I meet him once and say "Good Morning" and he says loudly, "Where? Is it showing well?"
One unemployed birdwatcher has worked out his cash supply down to literally the last fifty pence. For the last two days of his holiday (a holiday from being unemployed?), he cannot afford accommodation, but has to walk around looking for nice warm bus shelters. The most notable of the whole lot, though, is an old gentleman who has bird watched all his life and who has seen some splendid ornithological sights in his time, particularly when birds of prey were more numerous than they are today. Honey Buzzards thronged his skies:
From his house on the north west coast of Wales, he would see a dozen migrating Merlin in a day. Now it is just one a month:
He has little or no interest in twitching rare birds, many of which he has never heard of anyway. He has an outlook based solely on what he can find for himself. Not for him the new fangled Gore-Tex or plastic cagoules, but a pair of battered old boots, some comfortable corduroy trousers and a sports coat with leather elbow patches. His bird watching techniques are different to those of the present day as well. Not for him the patient wait for the bird to appear. He is deep in the bushes, energetically bashing around with his walking stick, determined to find everything that is in there, vainly trying to hide.
The real stars of the show though, are the people of the Isles of Scilly themselves. They are genuinely calm, kind and wonderful people and remind me a lot of the inhabitants of the Highlands of Scotland. They will not be hurried and their entire lives are very different indeed to those of us city folk.
Certainly this week though, the birds are disappointing. I wish I'd stayed on the mainland and gone for whatever presented itself. There was every chance that I'd have seen the Indigo Bunting at Wells and a Lesser Yellowlegs at the Ouse Washes.
On the other hand, I wouldn't have had the total experience that I have had.
Filed under Cornwall, Personal, Twitching, Wildlife and Nature
Tagged as Brambling, corncrake, Crippling Views, Dotterel, Indigo Bunting, Lapland Bunting, Lesser Yellowlegs, Norfolk, Ouse Washes, Paddyfield Warbler, Pechora Pipit, Porthcressa, Red Kite, Red-necked Grebe, Rose-coloured Starling, Salakee, Scarlet Rosefinch, Scillies, Scillonian, St Agnes, St.Kilda, Tree Pipit, Wells, Wryneck
England's Greatest Poet
To my shame, I did not appreciate that July 13th, the 121st anniversary of his birth, was "John Clare Day". I found this out by googling retrospectively "John Clare", and coming across an absolutely superb article by George Monbiot in the Guardian.
Furthermore, I must confess that I actually knew very little about John Clare other than the fact that he was a poet and that, unlike the vast majority of poets, he was of working class origin. His biographer Jonathan Bate described him as "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self".
The first port of call, therefore was Wikipedia.
The bare bones of Clare's life were that he was born into desperate agricultural poverty in the tiny village of Helpston, just to the north of Peterborough in Northamptonshire.
The area was amazingly rich in wildlife.
He would have seen and heard corncrakes everywhere.
Nightjars too, were as common in England then as they now are in this excellent film from Denmark…
There were ravens in the old, giant oak trees, wrynecks, which still bred in old woodpeckers' holes, and the last few wildcats…
And glowworms…
"Tasteful illumination of the night,
Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth."
Clare's cottage, where he spent his childhood, still remains…
Like all his fellows, Clare became an agricultural labourer while still a child, but he attended the school in Glinton church until he was twelve. He also began to write poetry, something which was to cause him great problems throughout the rest of his life among simple farm workers.
He wrote…
"I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seemes careless of having anything to do with—they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I should mention them in my writings and I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose."
Clare's first love was Mary Joyce, but alas, she was to die, by our standards at least, a premature death.
Clare was to marry Martha Turner in 1820. Her nickname was "Patty".
Where are you going lovely maid
The morning fine & early
"I'm going to Walkerd", Sir she said
&made across the barley
I asked her name she blushed away
The question seemed to burn her
A neighbour came & passed the day
&called her Patty Turner
I wrote my better poems there
To beautys praise I owe it
The muses they get all the praise
But woman makes the poet
A womans is the dearest love
Theres nought on earth sincerer
The leisure upon beautys breast
Can any thing be dearer
I saw her love in beauty's face
I saw her in the rose
I saw her in the fairest flowers
In every weed that grows"
Clare, though, was to have many bouts of severe depression, which worsened as his family increased in size and his poetry sold less well.
Gradually over the years, his behaviour became progressively more and more erratic. In July 1837, he went of his own accord to Doctor Matthew Allen's private asylum. In 1841, though, Clare absconded and walked all the way back home from Essex. He thought, in his madness, that he would be able to refind his first true love, Mary Joyce. He believed firmly that he was married not just to her, but to Martha as well, and had children by both women. He refused to believe Mary's family that she had died accidentally three years previously in a house fire. He stayed a free man at home for a little while, but was back in the asylum by mid-1841, his wife having called for help from them between Christmas and the New Year of 1841.
Clare was sent to the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, where he lived out the rest of his life. He was helped enormously by the kindness and humanity of Dr Thomas Octavius Prichard, who encouraged and helped him to continue writing his poetry. It was at the Northamptonshire County General Lunatic Asylum that Clare wrote possibly his most famous poem…..
I AM! yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish, an oblivious host,
Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost;
And yet I am! and live with shadows tost
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life nor joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems;
And e'en the dearest–that I loved the best–
Are strange–nay, rather stranger than the rest.
I long for scenes where man has never trod;
A place where woman never smil'd or wept;
There to abide with my creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept:
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie;
The grass below–above the vaulted sky. "
Clare's problems with depression had not been helped by having to watch his world disappear as, between 1809 and 1820, various Acts of Enclosure allowed the greedy, idle, useless rich to increase their already great wealth by putting fences across the previously open fields, heathland and woodlands., and declaring that everything now belonged to them.
This, of course, was the early nineteenth century equivalent of "Trespassers will be Prosecuted", and, as it was designed to do, prevented anybody poor from enjoying what abruptly became the rich man's landscape.
In due course, the idle rich realised that they could make even more money by destroying the ancient countryside, and farming it in an exclusively profit orientated way. There was no room for five hundred year old oak trees or sleepy marshes, no more meandering streams or cool copses to give shade on a hot summer's day. Faced by the onslaught of Agribusiness, the wild animals, the birds, the insects and the butterflies all began to disappear.
In other words, it was pretty much the beginning of the country landscape we are asked to tolerate today.
This poem was finished by 1824, but was published only in 1935.
"The Mores
Far spread the moorey ground a level scene
Bespread with rush and one eternal green
That never felt the rage of blundering plough
Though centurys wreathed springs blossoms on its brow
Still meeting plains that stretched them far away
In uncheckt shadows of green brown and grey
Unbounded freedom ruled the wandering scene
Nor fence of ownership crept in between
To hide the prospect of the following eye
Its only bondage was the circling sky
One mighty flat undwarfed by bush and tree
Spread its faint shadow of immensity
And lost itself which seemed to eke its bounds
In the blue mist the orisons edge surrounds
Now this sweet vision of my boyish hours
Free as spring clouds and wild as summer flowers
Is faded all–a hope that blossomed free
And hath been once no more shall ever be
Inclosure came and trampled on the grave
Of labours rights and left the poor a slave
And memorys pride ere want to wealth did bow
Is both the shadow and the substance now
The sheep and cows were free to range as then
Where change might prompt nor felt the bonds of men
Cows went and came with evening morn and night
To the wild pasture as their common right
And sheep unfolded with the rising sun
Heard the swains shout and felt their freedom won
Tracked the red fallow field and heath and plain
Then met the brook and drank and roamed again
The brook that dribbled on as clear as glass
Beneath the roots they hid among the grass
While the glad shepherd traced their tracks along
Free as the lark and happy as her song
But now alls fled and flats of many a dye
That seemed to lengthen with the following eye
Moors loosing from the sight far smooth and blea
Where swopt the plover in its pleasure free
Are vanished now with commons wild and gay"
For me, Clare's best work is his nature poetry. Because he was a poor labourer, he saw far more details as he walked along than the rich poets who thundered past in their coaches. John Clare's nightingale actually was a real nightingale, not another species misidentified.
George Monbiot in his wonderful article urges us to read the poem…
"…Everything he sees flares into life…his ability to pour his mingled thoughts and observations on to the page as they occur, allowing you, as perhaps no other poet has done, to watch the world from inside his head."
"The Nightingale's Nest" is indeed a fabulous poem, and is just like going for a stroll into the woods with John Clare himself, to view a bird whose nest he has previously staked out at some point during his working day. The reader becomes a fellow birdwatcher, who can follow John Clare's instructions about where to look…
"The Nightingale's Nest
Up this green woodland-ride let's softly rove,
And list the nightingale – she dwells just here.
Hush ! let the wood-gate softly clap, for fear
The noise might drive her from her home of love ;
For here I've heard her many a merry year –
At morn, at eve, nay, all the live-long day,
As though she lived on song. This very spot,
Just where that old-man's-beard all wildly trails
Rude arbours o'er the road, and stops the way –
And where that child its blue-bell flowers hath got,
Laughing and creeping through the mossy rails –
There have I hunted like a very boy,
Creeping on hands and knees through matted thorn
To find her nest, and see her feed her young.
And vainly did I many hours employ :
All seemed as hidden as a thought unborn.
And where those crimping fern-leaves ramp among
The hazel's under boughs, I've nestled down,
And watched her while she sung ; and her renown
Hath made me marvel that so famed a bird
Should have no better dress than russet brown.
Her wings would tremble in her ecstasy,
And feathers stand on end, as 'twere with joy,
And mouth wide open to release her heart
Of its out-sobbing songs. The happiest part
Of summer's fame she shared, for so to me
Did happy fancies shapen her employ ;
But if I touched a bush, or scarcely stirred,
All in a moment stopt. I watched in vain :
The timid bird had left the hazel bush,
And at a distance hid to sing again.
Lost in a wilderness of listening leaves,
Rich Ecstasy would pour its luscious strain,
Till envy spurred the emulating thrush
To start less wild and scarce inferior songs ;
For while of half the year Care him bereaves,
To damp the ardour of his speckled breast ;
The nightingale to summer's life belongs,
And naked trees, and winter's nipping wrongs,
Are strangers to her music and her rest.
Her joys are evergreen, her world is wide –
Hark! there she is as usual – let's be hush –
For in this black-thorn clump, if rightly guest,
Her curious house is hidden. Part aside
These hazel branches in a gentle way,
And stoop right cautious 'neath the rustling boughs,
For we will have another search to day,
And hunt this fern-strewn thorn-clump round and round ;
And where this reeded wood-grass idly bows,
We'll wade right through, it is a likely nook :
In such like spots, and often on the ground,
They'll build, where rude boys never think to look –
Aye, as I live ! her secret nest is here,
Upon this white-thorn stump ! I've searched about
For hours in vain. There! put that bramble by –
Nay, trample on its branches and get near.
How subtle is the bird! she started out,
And raised a plaintive note of danger nigh,
Ere we were past the brambles ; and now, near
Her nest, she sudden stops – as choking fear,
That might betray her home. So even now
We'll leave it as we found it: safety's guard
Of pathless solitudes shall keep it still.
See there! she's sitting on the old oak bough,
Mute in her fears ; our presence doth retard
Her joys, and doubt turns every rapture chill."
I have not quoted some of Clare's poems in full. They are extremely accessible on the Internet, and will fully repay your efforts.
The vast majority of his poetry can be found very easily.
Just find "Poets by Name" on the left of the screen, and click on "J" for "John Clare".
The poet's grave is at Helpston….
And, as one of England's greatest poets, he has a memorial…
And what looks like a rather modern statue…
Youtube, of course, has many readings of John Clare's works.
There are some quite long anthologies…
Some are good,
And there are others
I am a sentimental old fool, so I liked…
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by Angus McPherson on November 15, 2019
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Teddy Tahu Rhodes. Photo © Justin Vague
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The Iraqi system was developed in collaboration between the Air Force and Air Defence Command after the 1991 defeat.
It was called the "Sarab" system "Mirage".
It was issued to Pechora units, and Iraqi officers from such units discussed it on the iraqi military forum. The system was designed to emulate the Pechora transmissions. It did not work with Kvadrat, OSA or ROLAND-II.
80 such systems were deployed by the ADC in the No-Fly-Zones. They were singularly successful against HARM and ALARM... eventually the US began using AGM-130s in the late 1990s, and an alternative "signal jammer" was used to drive it off-course in the terminal guidance stages.
Thank for the insight Sheytan, that is most interesting. There sure is a lot of interesting (and surprising) stuff waiting to be found out about what really happened between 1990-2003, at least concerning iraqi aviation/AD matters.