Attached guest quarters makes this a perfect family home!Oversized lot with pavered circular drive for convenience, this property is full of structural integrity!Impact glass AND channel lock shutters, new roof installed in 2004, new AC unit in main house 2015, new plumbing throughout in 2015. Washer/dryer and large utility sink in the garage. Plenty of interior storage space and bonus room off the master bedroom. Creative layout leaves plenty of room for personal versatility. 1,100 square foot Guest Quarters includes separate entrance through backyard, new AC unit in 2014, FULLY EQUIPPED eat in kitchen, tile flooring, separate bedroom, walk-in closet and full bathroom. Perfect for friends or elderly family. The backyard has a 10 x 16 Ted's Shed for even more storage. Pavered patio area for Summer lounging and perfect for a fire-pit in Autumn. Chain-linked perimeter fencing, retention pond area for rainy season and mature landscaping (Surinam Cherry hedges clipped to a crisp 6-ft height and a large Poinciana tree in full bloom!) Privacy is a given! Assessments are in and PAID. This is a MUST SEE. Recent (2015) Home Inspection/Wind Mitigation reports upon request.


"The Wanless document [on NHS funding] is properly sanguine about the limits of money alone to transform the NHS without radical reform at every level." – Times first editorial, 18 April 2002. Yes, I had to read it again, too. No, he doesn't mean "sanguine".


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Q: How do I save multiple copies of an image with different visible layers? I need to create multiple versions of an image with a different piece of artwork in each one. I created the image in Photoshop CS3 and added each version of the artwork as layers in a folder.

From this Photoshop document, I need to export one .png or .jpg for each of the layers in the 'Images' folder in the Layers palette, with only that layer visible (plus the other layers not in the Images folder). How can I automate this process so that I don't have to manually change the layer visibility and go File > Save For Web ten to fifteen times every time I tweak the document?

A: Well, the easy answer is to just record an Action of yourself saving all of the different layers (Actions window > Create New Action). Providing you're not renaming/deleting/adding layers, you should just be able to run that each time you make a tweak.
That's the only option you have, I believe. Sorry!

A: I think layer comps might work for that.
http://www.photoshoplab.com/learning-layer-comps.html

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Bay of Bengal Project Builds Support for Resilience-Centered Reporting
On the shores of the world's largest bay live fishers and farmers hit by climate change every day.
With this in mind, and with generous support from the Climate Justice Resilience Fund, Internews' Earth Journalism Network (EJN) started its Bay of Bengal Resiliency Reporting Initiative with three specific goals:
Enhance understanding of the ways in which coastal communities in Bangladesh and eastern India not only survive climate stress but thrive through resilience;
Address financial and systemic barriers to information;
Support the spread of information and resources that enable and enhance socially inclusive and scientifically accurate approaches to climate-change reporting, both in the present and for the long-term.
As a start, we asked a research firm to study the existing media landscape in the region and offer recommendations for achieving our objectives. Among its findings were the need for more training and capacity building for journalists, particularly at the district level, and the need to sensitize gatekeepers at media outlets of the importance of featuring reports on climate resilience.
The three-year initiative kicked off in October 2017 with media training workshops held in partnership with the World Bank's South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI) in the Sundarbans area, in West Bengal (India) and in Bangladesh. The West Bengal workshop, held December 13-15, 2017, led to at least 15 news reports in local, national and international media outlets, many of them on the effects of a rising sea on people who live along the coast. The second workshop, in the Satkhira and Mongla areas of coastal Bangladesh in February 2018, produced a similar number of stories.
In selecting workshop participants through open applications, we ensured that the journalists were from both Bangladesh and India so that they could understand the similarities and differences in the lives of people who share the same landscape but are separated by an international border.
In partnership with the environmental news website The Third Pole, we held a workshop in Dhaka on September 29, 2018, specifically aimed at building the capacity of women and young journalists to report on the environment. At this workshop, we focused on the problems journalists face in reporting on such issues, especially climate change. From November 28 to30, 2018, we again partnered with The Third Pole and the Press Club Kolkata to hold a workshop that sensitized 41 journalists on the problems faced by coastal communities living around the mouths of the Hooghly, the main branch of the Ganges in India.
The Bay of Bengal Resilience Reporting project has also held three media-training workshops with its own funding – two in India (Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh) and one in Bangladesh (in Bhola). In all of them, journalists got an opportunity to discuss climate change impacts – especially the effect of salt water intrusion along the coast – with experts, and then discuss with local communities how they are affected and what they are doing about it. Participants have already produced a number of reports from these opportunities, including this one by All India Radio reporter Monika Gulati about the important role mangroves play in protecting coastal communities.
When distributing our media grants, we emphasize the importance of working through local partners active in the Bay of Bengal among marginalized groups – especially women and indigenous communities. The partners are selected through a highly competitive process following an open call for applications. One of our grantees, VOICE Bangladesh, has started a community storytelling initiative with our funding and worked on developing an online collaborative learning platform for communities to improve their ability to share stories about coastal resilience. Based on inputs from a network of academics, professional institutions and civil society organizations, VOICE also developed content for a resource book on local ocean and climate literacy.
Young India, an NGO based in Odisha, started consultations with local journalists and community-based organizations on the best ways to improve the two-way flow of information and understanding on the impacts of climate change. Young India has also started holding media training workshops for journalists based in small towns and villages. It will provide small grants that will enable local journalists to work on reports that deal with climate justice and resilience.
Providing journalists with grants so they can report from the field is an important part of the Bay of Bengal project, and we are doing it in a big way, with 18 grants awarded in Year 1 (half were funded by the World Bank) and more soon to be announced for Year 2. In total, our activities in the first year resulted in 23 stories, which you can read on our project page.
We realize that one of the major impediments to reporting on climate change, climate justice and resilience is a lack of money – local media outlets often do not provide travel support or do not want to pay for reports on this subject. Grants that enable journalists to overcome these obstacles are popular and increase the quantity and quality of reporting significantly. As with the organizational grants, we make our selection in a transparent manner through a jury, following an open call for applications.
Our Year 1 grantees represent a mix of local and international media, and they have covered a broad range of issues, from what a severe water shortage in eastern India means for women responsible for this vital resource, to how the tourism industry and related businesses are coping with increasing water salinity and threats of natural disasters along the coast. They look at outward migration from fishing communities facing depleted seas and explore solutions, such as how farmers on low-lying islands are partnering with scientists to develop adaptive farming techniques. A story grantee in Bangladesh visited indigenous villages and documented the impact of climate change in these communities.
An associated activity is to provide opportunities to journalists from Bangladesh and India to cover the annual climate summit of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. With support from the project, as well as from the Stanley Foundation, three journalists covered the UN summit in 2017, and two covered the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco as well as the UN summit in Poland in 2018.
The project has had its challenges, the biggest being that journalists are often busy with other important assignments. This became a major obstacle during the Bangladesh elections in 2018 and is expected to arise again during the Indian elections in 2019. But we've learned to work around this, just as we have to work around the difficulty of conducting field reporting during the June-September monsoon rains in the region.
As some of our grantees have found, reporting on the impacts of climate change presents obstacles of its own, and we're helping share personal stories from these journalists through a new blog feature. Mongabay India reporter Sahana Ghosh kicked off the series by sharing her experience navigating the difficult terrain of the Indian Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest.
Early on she and a colleague decided they wanted their narrative to center on the people living in this area, a network of "canals, tide creeks and mudflats."
"We did not know then that in interviewing inhabitants of the Sundarbans islands, we would begin to unravel the meaning of resilience to climate extremes -- a meaning that is often camouflaged in phrases such as "battle for survival" and "struggle with climate uncertainties'," Ghosh writes.
As our program continues into our second year, we have more exciting opportunities and stories to share. Stay tuned to our website and project page for updates.
(Banner photo: Participants in a November 2018 workshop in Chidambaram, India, talk with local fisherwomen about the importance of mangrove conservation. Credit: Sara Schonhardt)
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On behalf of Bensley Law Offices, LLC posted in Consumer Protection on Thursday, April 26, 2018.
When a potential car buyer goes to a Pennsylvania dealership, the staff will likely do whatever it takes to make a sale. Once the car is sold, however, the dealership can act in an indifferent manner toward the new owner. This is because the manufacturer is responsible for any defective vehicles that it sells. Therefore, while the dealer's service center will attempt to make repairs, it has little to lose if the issue isn't fixed.
On behalf of Bensley Law Offices, LLC posted in Consumer Protection on Friday, April 13, 2018.
As a general rule, a car sale in Pennsylvania is final once a buyer signs the loan and purchase paperwork. However, it is possible, though rare, that a dealer will decide to take back the car in a process known as "unwinding the deal." In other cases, a dealer will have a specific policy that allows a buyer to return a vehicle under certain conditions.
On behalf of Bensley Law Offices, LLC posted in blog on Wednesday, April 4, 2018.
Many car dealerships claim to prioritize customer satisfaction, but what really motivates those sales? Unfortunately, many hard-working people are purchasing vehicles that are not in their best interest. This is a constant problem that leaves buyers seeking legal restitution for a downward investment based on misleading claims. So, why does this continue to happen?


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The 1953 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing seventh in the American League with a record of 59 wins and 95 losses, 41½ games behind the New York Yankees, who would win their fifth consecutive World Series Championship.  It was also the penultimate season for the franchise in Philadelphia.

Offseason
 January 27, 1953: Ferris Fain and Bob Wilson (minors) were traded by the Athletics to the Chicago White Sox for Joe DeMaestri, Ed McGhee and Eddie Robinson.
 February 2, 1953: Sam Zoldak was released by the Athletics.

Regular season
During the season, Bob Trice became the first black player in the history of the Athletics.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pitching

Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Savannah, Welch

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1953 Philadelphia Athletics at Baseball Reference
1953 Philadelphia Athletics at Baseball Almanac

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Organisation of the public oversight of the audit profession in 30 European countries Survey results
Audit policy
Audit reform
Oversight/ Supervision
Enhancing companies' credibility through audit ensures that stakeholders make informed decisions based on these companies' financial statements. In parallel, public oversight ensures audit quality.
The European Union (EU) statutory audit rules significantly impact how the public oversight of statutory auditors and audit firms is organised. Designated national public oversight bodies have the ultimate responsibility for the oversight of the audit profession. They can delegate certain tasks to other authorities and professional bodies.
This survey presents the impact of the 2014 EU audit legislation. Our findings show that the national public oversight bodies now carry out many activities previously in the competence of the professional bodies. Nevertheless, professional bodies continue to play an important role in this area working together with public oversight bodies to reinforce audit quality.
The survey also provides an overview of how the public oversight is organised in each of the 27 EU Member States and Iceland and Norway as members of the European Economic Area (EEA). It covers information on composition, funding, transparency and key activities of the national public oversight bodies and the extent of delegation of tasks to professional bodies. The United Kingdom, which applied EU Single Market legislation until the end of 2020, resulting in its audit framework in 2021 remaining consistent with EU practice, is included in the survey with respect to the subject matters as covered for EU and EEA countries.
This publication is based on the input of our members and it is part of a series of work done by Accountancy Europe on the 2014 rules on statutory audit. It is an updated version of our previous work:
2015 publication Organisation of the Public Oversight of the Audit Profession in 23 European Countries which presents the status before Audit Reform, and
2018 and 2020 publications Organisation of the Public Oversight of the Audit Profession in Europe and Organisation of the Public Oversight of the Audit Profession in 30 European Countries which presents the status after the Audit Reform
Organisation of the Public Oversight of the Audit Profession in 30 European countries (2021)
FEE provides unique overview of national public audit oversight in 23 European countries (2015)
Organisation of the public oversight of the audit profession in Europe (2018)
PublicationKey factors to develop and use audit quality indicators
PublicationIndependent assurance on ESEF – the block tagging requirement
UpdateAudit Policy
Consultation responseLetter to Commissioner McGuinness on EFRAG's draft ESRS
Consultation responseEFRAG PTF-ESRS exposure drafts on European sustainability reporting standards
PublicationPublic audit oversight
PublicationDefining a public interest entity
PublicationStronger internal controls to reduce corporate risks
PublicationNon-audit services
PublicationMandatory rotation of auditors
EventAudit quality: definition, drivers and indicators
PublicationAudit Quality Indicators: a global overview of initiatives
PublicationESG Governance


Do you give your induction programme the same attention that you give your training programmes? Bet you don't! Chances are you haven't updated your induction programme for months, (years?) but your training is continually being improved. Don't worry, you're not alone.
It's hardly worth mentioning that induction training is usually considered as an important part of a company's overall workplace safety management process. Unfortunately, most companies have an induction training system that has been inefficient for so long that no one even notices anymore!


Who are Willow Warriors & what do we do?
Willow Warriors is one of Friends of the Colo's projects and is part of the adventure conservation network. Friends of the Colo was formed in 2000 and incorporated in 2001 to control weeds impacting on the Wollemi National Park and the Colo Catchment in and around the Greater Blue Mountains world Heritage Area.
Our volunteers seek to combine the excitement of bush walking, white-water rafting, flat water kayaking and having fun in the outdoors with Landcare conservation activities which help both private landowners and public land managers look after the natural values of their land.
We run joint activities with local Landcare groups or National Parks offices where we paddle rivers and lakes and stop to assist the local Landcare group with weed mapping and followup treatment of environmental weeds in areas of high conservation value.
In the Greater Sydney Region we also run conservation kayaking trips combined with weed control activities generally on National Park estate to help introduce new volunteers to Landcare.
Include Kayaking on flat water sections of rivers, lakes, estuaries and wetlands and whitewater rafting and pack rafting on higher grade rivers. We specialise in volunteering in difficult to access river reaches in national parks and wilderness areas although we also paddle on rivers flowing through privately owned property. This allows us to map and treat willows without inconveniencing landowners and land managers.
Include one day activities, car camping weekends, and remote area over-night and multi-day trips.
Map the location and numbers of invasive willows and other invasive species along the river or wetland.
Treat the invasive willows and other weeds where we have permission.
Assist with re-vegetation of weed sites.
Follow up and monitor sections of rivers where willow or other environmental weed control has taken place.
arranging paddles with young landcarers to sites where they can help other landcare groups or landowners with their projects.
Where do we paddle and volunteer?
Our volunteers currently come from across south east NSW and the ACT to attend activities on whitewater rivers across the Hawkesbury Nepean, Southern Rivers Murrumbidgee and Murray Catchment Regions. Our Activity Photos page has a comprehensive lists of waterways they we paddle.
Here are some placestories (slideshows with a narration) about the Willows Out of our rivers Program and the rivers we paddle to protect.
On this site you can see information about Willow Warriors, summaries of our projects, photos from our activities and the calendar of our activities.
Answers to the questions you might have about the group , our projects and activities can be found on the frequently asked questions page .
If you would like to get involved contact us to join our group and register for an activity.
Willow Warriors projects to protect the environment and specifically our water ways have several corporate and government agencies funding our various projects.


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Video shows police use stun gun, place knee on neck of Pelicans' Jaxson Hayes during arrest
As Hayes gasped "I can't breathe" several times, another officer tells his partner "get your knee up," the video shows.
Jaxson Hayes of the New Orleans Pelicans in May. Glenn James / NBAE via Getty Images
Aug. 28, 2021, 11:03 AM UTC / Updated Aug. 28, 2021, 10:05 PM UTC
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles police officer briefly pressed a knee to the neck of NBA player Jaxson Hayes as the New Orleans Pelicans center gasped "I can't breathe" seconds before another officer used a Taser on him during a struggle, according to body camera video released Friday.
Bodycam shows Jaxson Hayes tased, forcibly arrested by police
The officers went to Hayes' home in the Woodland Hills neighborhood on July 28 around 3 a.m. after his girlfriend's cousin called 911. The cousin said Hayes' girlfriend was sending her text messages saying he had become loud and violent and she was scared.
Hayes, who was not armed, became argumentative after officers said he couldn't go back into his home. He ignored requests from his girlfriend and his cousin to stop talking and struggling with the police as they tried to subdue him. The 21-year-old ultimately was booked into jail on accusations of resisting arrest after he was evaluated at a hospital for minor injuries.
"Jaxson Hayes is a nice young man, and he is back home in Ohio working out and getting ready for the upcoming season," his attorney, Mark Baute, said in a statement Friday.
The LAPD's Force Investigation Division is looking into the case "due to the possibility of force being applied to Hayes' neck during the use of force," police previously said in a statement. Los Angeles police have presented the case to prosecutors, who haven't decided whether to file charges.
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A police officer's elbow was injured when Hayes shoved him into a wall. Authorities previously said Hayes' girlfriend has declined to cooperate in the investigation.
Hayes, 6-foot-11 and 220 pounds, was drafted eighth overall out of Texas in 2019. He is the son of former NFL tight end Jonathan Hayes, who played for Kansas City and Pittsburgh.
Since George Floyd's death in 2020 there is heightened sensitivity not just when it comes to police violence against Black people, but to police using any kind of force that restricts a person's breathing. While Hayes' encounter with police bears some similarities to Floyd's murder by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the differences are notable.
Hayes was on his back when a Los Angeles police officer's knee was pressed to his neck for a few seconds. Floyd was pinned face-down under Chauvin's knee for up to 9 1/2 minutes.
As Hayes gasped "I can't breathe" several times, another officer tells his partner "get your knee up." That officer immediately complies and Hayes is able to lift his head.
The nearly 15-minute, edited video of Hayes' arrest includes the 911 call and footage from multiple officers' body cameras. The incident at Hayes' home began calmly with him answering questions in his driveway with his cousin standing nearby.
"What's going on between you and your girl?" one officer asks.
"We were just having a little argument," Hayes responds. "She was throwing some stuff at me."
The officers say they need to speak to his girlfriend. They tell him and his cousin to wait outside. Hayes questions why he can't go into his home and asks if they have a warrant to go inside.
The officers respond that they don't need one, which may or may not be true under California law. Among the mitigating factors are whether the officers believe a victim is seriously hurt.
Two officers blocked Hayes as he approaches the front door, while his cousin tells him to calm down. One officer pushes Hayes and his cousin holds him back.
The police separate the men and grab Hayes' arms. The situation then rapidly escalates.
Hayes' cousin begins yelling "Jaxson, stop!" as he scuffles with the officers, shoving one into a wall near the front door. One officer pulls out a Taser as others tackle Hayes.
"Stop resisting or I'm gonna tase you!" he yells several times as Hayes struggles on the ground. The officer alternates pressing a hand and knee to Hayes' neck. Hayes' girlfriend comes out of the home and screams "Stop! Stop! What are you doing?"
"Stop resisting or I'm gonna tase you!" the officer yells as Hayes gasps "I can't breathe."
As two officers hold Hayes' arms, the officer fires the Taser, pressing it close to his chest for several seconds amid cries for them to stop from his girlfriend and cousin.
Hayes screams and flips over. The officer fires the Taser a second time, pressing it close to Hayes' buttocks and the back of his legs, yelling "stop resisting!"
"I'm stopping, bro!" Hayes shouts.
The officer threatens to use the Taser on him again as Hayes insists that he's not resisting.
The officers are ultimately able to handcuff him and force him to sit in a chair. Blood is visible on his arm and shirt.
LAPD officers are trained to aim a stun gun at a person's back and navel if the Taser's probes are being used from a distance of 7 to 15 feet, according to the agency's policy. The Taser should be deployed on the person's forearm or the outside of their thigh or calf if the officer is using the device's direct stun feature.
Targeting a person's chest with a Taser is controversial and the device's maker has previously said to avoid that area.


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Connor Bell  (born 21 June 2001) is  New Zealand field athlete. He represented his country at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, and is a two-time national champion in the discus throw.

On 25 January 2020, at the Potts Classic, Hawkes Bay Sports Park, in Hastings, Bell threw 63.25 m, a throw that would place him 31st for the year worldwide in 2020. At the same venue, on 23 January 2021, Bell set a new personal best throw of 64.29 m. On 27 March 2021, Bell won the New Zealand national championship with a throw of 61.85. In 2022, Bell repeated his national title win and added a victory in the Oceania Championship discus competition.

Bell competed in the men's discus throw at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. He was the sixth-placed qualifier for the final, where he finished eighth with a best throw of 60.23 metres.

At the Pre-Potts track and field meeting in Hastings on 18 January 2023, Bell broke the New Zealand national discus throw record, with a distance of 66.14 metres, breaking the previous mark of 65.03 metres set by Ian Winchester in 2002.

At the Maurie Plant Meet - Melbourne on 22 February 2023, Bell bettered his own national record with 66.23 metres.

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Youth Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand
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Cmty. for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid
March 29, 1989, Argued ; June 5, 1989, Decided
No. 88-293
[*732] [***819] [**2168] JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.
[1987] In this case, an artist and the organization that hired him to produce a sculpture contest the ownership of the copyright in that work. To resolve this dispute, we must construe the "work made for hire" provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976 (Act or 1976 Act), 17 U. S. C. §§ 101 [***820] and 201(b), and in particular, the provision in § 101, which defines as a "work made for hire" a "work prepared by an employee [**2169] within the scope of his or her employment" (hereinafter § 101(1)).
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Petitioners are the Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV), a nonprofit unincorporated association dedicated to eliminating homelessness in America, and Mitch Snyder, a member and trustee of CCNV. In the fall of 1985, CCNV decided to participate [****8] in the annual Christmastime Pageant of Peace in Washington, D. C., by sponsoring a display to dramatize the plight of the homeless. As the District Court recounted:
"Snyder and fellow CCNV members conceived the idea for the nature of the display: a sculpture of a modern Nativity scene in which, in lieu of the traditional Holy Family, the two adult figures and the infant would appear as contemporary homeless people huddled on a streetside steam grate. The family was to be black (most of the homeless in Washington being black); the figures were to be life-sized, and the steam grate would be positioned atop a platform 'pedestal,' or base, within which special-effects equipment would be enclosed to emit simulated 'steam' through the grid to swirl about the figures. They also settled upon a title for the work -- 'Third World America' -- and a legend for the pedestal: 'and still there is no room at the inn.'" 652 F. Supp. 1453, 1454 (DC 1987).
Snyder made inquiries to locate an artist to produce the sculpture. He was referred to respondent James Earl Reid, a Baltimore, Maryland, sculptor. In the course of two telephone calls, Reid agreed to sculpt the three human [****9] figures. CCNV agreed to make the steam grate and pedestal for the statue. Reid proposed that the work be cast in bronze, at a total cost of approximately $ 100,000 and taking six to eight months to complete. Snyder rejected that proposal because CCNV did not have sufficient funds, and because the statue had to be completed by December 12 to be included in the pageant. Reid then suggested, and Snyder agreed, that the [*734] sculpture would be made of a material known as "Design Cast 62," a synthetic substance that could meet CCNV's monetary and time constraints, could be tinted to resemble bronze, and could withstand the elements. The parties agreed that the project would cost no more than $ 15,000, not including Reid's services, which he offered to donate. The parties did not sign a written agreement. Neither party mentioned copyright.
490 U.S. 730 *; 109 S. Ct. 2166 **; 104 L. Ed. 2d 811 ***; 1989 U.S. LEXIS 2727 ****; 10 U.S.P.Q.2D (BNA) 1985; 57 U.S.L.W. 4607; Copy. L. Rep. (CCH) P26,425; 16 Media L. Rep. 1769
COMMUNITY FOR CREATIVE NON-VIOLENCE ET AL. v. REID
Prior History: [****1] CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT.
Disposition: 270 U. S. App. D. C. 26, 846 F. 2d 1485, affirmed.
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From the Blog post, Ill let someone else post that but here is the music, you can buy it HERE.
Coms to about $35.00 not including shipping.
kind of a misleading title, i thought these were new music for ff14 until i listened to a few of them, and they sounded really familiar...thats because they are. it's music from the other FF titles :/ . the good ones though so it was a nice listen but i wouldn't buy it since i can easily rip the music from the games themselves and make my own CD should i choose to.


You may have come across someone who seems to ooze confidence and charisma in every aspect of his or her life. They seem sure of every step and course of action they take.
As a result, they appear to move from one level of success to the next, much to your amazement. If it were up to you, you would probably label them as superhuman. While it might seem impossible, but you too can rise to such level, with a little bit of practice at least.
Work smart, not hard; seems to be the clarion call in the modern day world and many people seem to take it to heart. It eliminates the prospects of slogging long hours trying to get work done.
However, that is where the vast majority of people buying into this school of thought get it wrong. Working smart is not about circling away from the hard work. In most cases, they go hand in hand. In essence, the concept revolves working hard to establish and put in place the systems that will allow you to have more done with less effort.
Professional dancers put lots of effort into their training routine, and it pays off in droves. In addition to attending regular classes, they put in lots of practice in the privacy of their homes. It allows them to make the most of every available moment to hone their skills.
For instance, with the help of a dance class video from Dance Network, hip-hop enthusiasts have a chance to polish their abilities even further. To an observer, such people may seem to have it easy but in the real sense, they just put in plenty of practice.
You too, with a little bit of commitment can ascend to such levels of excellence. People who possess a great set of skills in any field also experience a considerable surge in their self-confidence as well.
Self-confidence bears a considerable influence on your ability to succeed in a tough environment. With a little bit of planning and preparation, you can get your self-esteem on an all-time high.
The right lighting design and options can make a huge difference in your commercial space. So take your tip in designing the right vibe. Consider these tips when working with a commercial lighting contractor in Florida.
Lights are useful in creating illusions, and they can help you create the vibe you want people to feel when they step into your commercial space. But before you can get there, you need to decide what type of vibe you're going for, what kind of décor and colors you're complementing on and what feelings you want people to feel when they come in. Knowing these three can help you better decide which lighting options to get.
Different areas need a specific light to complement the tasks meant for a space. For instance, if you have a retail shop, your dressing rooms require different lights from the ones in your actual store space. Don't just settle for one type of light. To create that flattering atmosphere, you need a mix of different light options.
There are lighting options designed to improve your store's security and safety measures. For instance, some lights can make your in-store stockrooms more efficient for employees. There are lighting options designed to improve security in front of your stores. When choosing the right lighting options, don't forget to factor in safety and security for both you employees and customers.
These days, there are more lighting options and combinations that business owners can take advantage of. But with more options can come great delays if you don't know what you're going for. So consider these design tips before you talk to a lighting contractor. You can also work with your interior design to better bring to life the store vibe you want to create.
You eat whenever you feel an emotion — happiness, sadness, annoyance, boredom, disappointment, anxiety, loneliness, angriness, tiredness, or emptiness.
You eat even if you're not hungry at all or even when you know that you should have stopped eating. You do anything to satisfy a certain craving, even if you don't feel hungry. It's simply an unreasonable craving that you need to satisfy or else you would feel unhappy throughout your day.
Regardless of the source of your stress — your job, studies, or family life — you eat. It's a given.
This means that you are emotionally reliant on eating to feel happy. EDCare and other therapists explain that this is not the same as appreciating food. Appreciation involves a healthy attitude, but about eating to feel happy creates an unhealthy relationship between food and yourself.
Whenever you're feeling down, you instantly turn to comfort food, such as cake, ice cream, cookies, and chocolates.
It doesn't matter if you've just eaten or how full you are. Whatever satisfaction you feel from eating is fleeting, so you eat again to try and get that feeling of satisfaction again.
Do know that it is perfectly fine to eat in response to particular emotions, but not every single time you feel any sort of emotion. With this in mind, if you resonate with the above-mentioned signs, you need professional help before it's too late.
Tooth enamel is the hardest tissue in the body, but it could still get cracked, chipped or knocked out. From biting down on a hard substance to getting involved in an incident, there are various ways that can damage your teeth. And if it is a case of a knocked out tooth, time is of the essence.
Re-implanting only works on a permanent tooth and has the highest chance of success when you get to your dentist in Solihull within 30 minutes of the incident. Here are some further steps you need to take to make sure your knocked out tooth could be reattached.
Handle the tooth carefully since further damage might compromise the tooth and prevent re-implantation. Be sure to pick the tooth up by its crown. Touching the root could damage the nerves and blood vessels — the most important parts needed to reattach the tooth.
If there is any dirt or foreign material on the tooth, gently wash it using a bowl of lukewarm water or milk for less than 10 seconds. Do not try to get rid of the dirt using a cloth or alcohol as it could damage the tooth as well.
It's important to keep the knocked out tooth moist while you head to the dentist. Try to push it back carefully into its socket with your fingers and hold it in place by biting down on it. If the tooth doesn't easily slot back into its socket, don't force it. Simply store it between your cheek and gum in the meantime.
Dentists warn against using this method when the patient is a child as they could accidentally swallow the tooth. Store the knocked out tooth in a glass of milk or water instead.
After cleaning and storing the knocked out tooth, head to the nearest emergency room or your dentist to get it re-implanted. A root canal procedure is common, but the best solution still depends on your condition.
A fracture-free bone around the tooth will reattach firmly to the bone within three to four weeks, while a damaged bone takes between six to eight weeks to heal.
There are steps that you should follow right after one of your teeth get knocked out. Doing so will ensure that the re-implantation procedure will go smoothly. After receiving re-implanting, you shouldn't need to return to the dentist for the next three to six months unless you notice any sign of infection.
If you have pets and you need a fence that could withstand their gnawing, you should consider getting metal privacy fence panels. A metal fence would be strong enough to withstand your pet's persistence to go beyond your property lines. An aluminum fence would also withstand corrosion and could endure the elements for a longer time.
Shopping for a mortgage is not as easy as shopping for a new pair of shoes or the latest fashion trend. When shopping for a mortgage, you won't be able to easily return it or exchange your item at the store if there are defects or changes in preference. In short, mortgage shopping is more than just shopping. It is commitment.
Therefore, it is important to shop wisely. Some of the ways to effectively do this are by researching about the current mortgage rates in Ogden, checking your credits and brushing up about the latest mortgage policies.
At present, the best rate for credit-worthy borrowers for a typical 30-year mortgage is around 3.8%. This is relatively lower as compared to 4.42% back in 2014. By knowing the current trend, you would be able to find out when the best time is to purchase your mortgage. The way the current trend is moving, waiting for the rates to go down even further is a smart move.
Getting at least three rates from different agencies is necessary. Compare and evaluate these proposals before making your decision to find the best one that suits your financial status. The key to getting the right plan is patience.
Your credit rating affects the approval (or disapproval) or your loan application. Therefore, avoid applying for multiple credits or getting loans if you know that you are shopping for a mortgage.
Compute the hidden fees before you sign the deal. Make sure everything is calculated and well accounted for. Doing so can help you have an idea of how much money would be required from you monthly. This would make it easier for you to manage your finances.
If it is not in writing, then it does not count. This goes true especially in transactions such as mortgage purchasing.
Follow these guidelines, and you would be able to find the best mortgage rate for your needs and capability.
If you are a parent to a teenager, you are probably already familiar with this scene: mismatched socks, dirty shirts, mouldy towels and discarded chips packets all strewn on the floor. When you try to call out the culprit behind all the clutter — your moody teenager — the sound of your voice is drowned out by the blaring music they're playing.
It may be for this same reason you deny your teenager the room they covet. You think that socialising with the other members of the family and getting out of their 'lair' more often is proof that they're ready for their own space.
A 'life improvement' campaign carried out by Homebase, however, showed that you could win at parenting if you award your young adults their own private space or one of those cosy, homey teenage retreat cabins.
According to research done by the same campaign, only 69% of teenage respondents said they felt truly relaxed in their homes, including their own bedrooms. This means that in every ten teenagers, there are three who feel like they can't unwind even when inside their own bedrooms.
Professionals suggest that making young adults feel at ease when at home might require a 'third place'. This is a space that is not a shared living room or a bedroom, but an area that is dedicated to their needs. According to well-being expert Oliver Heath, a 'third place' can provide a level of safety and independence in the home.
It doesn't matter whether you're converting an old playroom into a mini library or if it involves the creation of a new space in the yard. The important thing is that you're teaching teenagers how to be responsible by entrusting them with an extra territory they can call their own.
Parents, however, must not turn to a 'third place' to find a way to get their teenagers out of sight during what people call a 'challenging phase'. Giving your teens their own territory must never feel like you're ignoring or shunning them. As a parent, moreover, the amount of space you award your teen should still be based on the decisions they have made in the past as well as your level of trust in them.
There are some things we take into our own hands, and there are other things experts can fix. If you are an avid do-it-yourselfer or if you simply like to fix things around the house to stay on budget, you might reject thought of calling a plumber. A simple toilet clog would not need the aid of a pro, but if it is one of the following, it is best to leave it to the experts.
You might have a leak in the hot water tank, or you might have other more pressing problems such as a bad heating element on an electric heater or a gas heater with a failing burner. On the other hand, the problem might be you have a tank that is too small for the entire house. Calling a plumber service in Orem would help in this case.
It may seem like a small problem, until you find out that a dripping faucet that drips 10 times a minute could lead you to waste almost 350 gallons of water every year. Sometimes, fixing the issue could be as simple as using plumber's tape. However, if you cannot diagnose the problem, it is best to call a plumber.
Cracked or broken pipes cause low water pressure all over the house. You should address this right away. Cracked pipes will inevitably cause leaks that can lead to much bigger problems if you do not get to them immediately.
If you have tried every trick in the book but the toilets keep backing up, the problem might be something deeper, i.e. in the sewer line. An experienced pro can correctly diagnose and solve the problem.
If you think you can handle a plumbing problem on your own, go ahead and fix it yourself. However, if there is just one thing you are not even sure about, you may accidentally do something that could cause bigger problems in the future. In the latter case, it is best to contact a professional.
It is a great year for the global market for earthmoving equipment because of the introduction of some important developments. In a move that aims to cater to the needs of a wider customer base, manufacturers are now offering separate machines for clients in developed and developing markets.
Savvy equipment owners who want to upgrade their machines' capabilities can turn to companies that supply earthmoving parts like tuffstuffaustralia.com.au. On the other hand, users who own older machines with obsolete parts may benefit from newer equipment that offers greater capabilities.
Hitachi unveiled its latest wheeled loaders, the Zaxis-6 and ZW-6 excavators. The Zaxis-6 range includes five new crawler excavator models and two new larger units. These models follow the Tier 4 Final/ Stage IV regulations, and they feature an innovative hydraulic system that controls losses and helps decrease fuel consumption by up to 12%.
The latest ZW-6 model, on the other hand, boasts a repositioned exhaust pipe and air intake, a curved engine hood, and a rear-view camera and monitor. The Japanese manufacturer touts these models as high performance in terms of digging force, load capacity and travel speeds.
Last year saw major developments with the technologies Korean company Hyundai used in their earthmoving machines. This year, moreover, they outdid themselves by releasing their Tier 4 Final/Stage IV-compliant line of excavators and wheeled loaders. They say these new machines are 10% more fuel-efficient. They also feature other integrations, including their advanced around view monitoring (AAVM) system. The latest addition to their excavator range also boasts an operating weight of 39 tonnes, making them specifically suitable for bulk earthmoving.
The list of companies that also announced new releases include major brands such as Komatsu, Wagner, Liebherr and more. These manufacturers paved the way for new upgrades to help users benefit from low fuel consumption as well as enhanced efficiency and productivity.
Nothing else can ruin your life as quickly as possible as a rat infestation at home. Unless you're an extreme nature lover and you're okay living with these disease-carrying creatures, you want to find the safest, easiest, and quickest solution to get rid of the vermin immediately.
Rats, unfortunately, are hardy animals that breed fast. Ever wonder why they've been around for millions of years? If you don't act faster than they do, you can expect a full-blown infestation in a few days.
If you're going the DIY route, we'd love to say there are undemanding ways to get rid of rats, but you'll have to handle them one way or another. The only option you have if you don't want to have anything to do with them is to contact rodent extermination professionals in Salt Lake City like pestcontrolservicesaltlakecity.com.
Otherwise, roll up your sleeves and get ready to deal with rats.
1. Close off all access points.
To have the least possible contact with the pests, you should close off every nook and cranny where they may enter your house. Seal all openings larger than 1/4, and use metal to close off everything since hungry rats will chew through anything to get to their food source.
2. Learn how to use a rat trap.
Animal rights activists advocate using live traps and wire cages with spring-release doors to help you capture live rats and eliminate them humanely by setting them free somewhere far from your house. Mouse traps also remove any chances of noxious odors spreading throughout your home that can arise by using other methods.
3. Use various home remedies.
If the rat problem is small, items that are already in your house may be the solution. Some DIYers swear by placing cotton balls soaked in peppermint oil along the areas where rats enter or planting mint around the house. Other solutions that have worked for other people include ammonia, moth balls, and ultrasonic rodent repellers.
4. Go as natural as possible.
Cats have been the oldest rat predator, and having a cat roam inside and around your house is one of the easiest ways to eliminate the rat problem. Just be aware, though, that cats aren't very good at chasing after rats behind walls. Moreover, if you pamper your feline too much, they just may be too lazy to do the work for you.
There are various rat repellent methods out there, and all require that you do some degree of work. Keep in mind, however, that the rewards are fruitful as your efforts will help you to enjoy a clean, safe, and healthy living space.


Eggs with Peas and Chourico "Ovos com Ervilhas e Chourico"
Portuguese cuisine is full of comforting dishes and this is one of my favourites. A one pot wonder that will fill your belly and soothe your soul. Chourico is a Portuguese cured pork sausage. If you can't find it, you can substitute it with Spanish chorizo but it won't be as authentic. Serve this dish with crusty bread and some white wine. Enjoy!
1. In a large skillet over medium high heat, add oil and butter and heat for 30 seconds. Add chourico and pancetta and cook until browned and edges are crispy. Remove the chourico and pancetta from the skillet with a slotted spoon and reserve.
2. To the skillet, add onions and reduce the heat to medium. Cook the onions for 5 minutes or until they are softened and browned. Add garlic and cook for 2 minutes. Add wine and deglaze the pan. Cook until the wine has reduced by half.
3. Add tomatoes, lemon juice and bay leaves. Increase heat to medium high and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer. Add 1/2 of the parsley (reserve the rest for garnish) and red pepper flakes. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper. Cook for 10 minutes or until the sauce has thickened slightly.
4. Add the peas, increase heat to medium and cook for 3 minutes. Stir in the reserved chourico and pancetta and cook for another 3 minutes.
5. Carefully break 6 eggs into the peas (the eggs will sink into the peas slightly). Season the eggs with salt and pepper. Sprinkle a little sweet paprika over each egg yolk.
6. Cover and cook until the eggs are done to your liking; 6-7 minutes for runny eggs and 8-9 for fully cooked. Remove bay leaves.
7. Sprinkle with remaining parsley and drizzle with a little olive oil. Serve with some crusty bread to sop up all the sauce.
Looks good, didn't know there was a difference between chorizo and chouriço.


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British Defense Cuts Should Be Opportunity For U.S. To Pursue Alliance-Wide Debate About Restructuring Forces Together
(October 20) -- While Obama administration officials have voiced disappointment about UK cuts in the military budget and the possible risk of seeking it increase the load on Washington, a more nuanced reaction comes from a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, Robert Hunter.
"We should use this as opportunity for more serious discussion inside the alliance about the need for countries to concentrate on using any savings to concentrate on more deployable, sustainable and useful forces in crises that the allies are liable to face outside of Europe in the foreseeable future," he said.
His reasoning starts with the fact that military spending in being cut back across the alliance in the economic crisis, not only in Britain but also in France and Germany – and apparently soon in the U.S., too.
The cutbacks announced by Prime Minister David Cameron will reduce Britain's armed forces by roughly 10 percent, the biggest reduction since the end of the Cold War.
In this defense review, the British government avoided making any final decision about its main nuclear strategic deterrence, the submarine-launched Trident missile. "The delay is wise because it will allow London time to think through its future nuclear posture and prepare the ground for any restructuring there, which might well include abandonment of such an expensive system that may no longer correspond to Britain's real needs,'' Hunter said.
As an ally that prides itself on its "special relationship" with the U.S., Britain has fenced off its current operations in the NATO-led war in Afghanistan from any cuts and it plans to keep the capability to deploy "up to 30,000 men" anywhere in the world and sustain that expeditionary force indefinitely. That will preserve Britain's position as the closest U.S. battlefield partner, but it probably rules out any repetition of London's being able to mount a future operation as big as its intervention alongside the U.S. in Iraq.
That shift has some voices in Washington (and in London) warning that the British cuts could loosen transatlantic military and security solidarity.
That ominous view is wrong, according to Hunter. The right U.S. and allied response, he says, is to see Britain's move in the context of general military cutbacks. His recommendation is to avoid recriminations about this widespread development and instead to use it as a starting point for discussion – on a NATO-wide basis, he proposes – about how to spend the remaining budgets most usefully for the challenges that Western military commanders agree are the most likely to confront the U.S. and its allies.
In addition, Hunter says, any debate about "military spending" should be broadened to include activities – such as aid, reconstruction and nation-building – that are now seemed by strategists to be a crucial component of security. The ratio of spending on these security-related "civilian" sectors to "military" spending is heavily lop-sided – 1 to 17 in the U.S. – and needs to be rebalanced, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates has himself publicly noted.
"We need 'a new notion' of security, a "new metric" that beefs up the non-military elements and helps soldiers and civilians learn to integrate their capabilities," according to Hunter, who spoke to European Affairs in Washington. The U.S. ambassador to NATO during the Clinton administration, Hunter now holds a senior position at the RAND Corporation and is a board member of the European Institute – and an author in European Affairs.
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Moreover, through other initiatives like the Innovation Authority Fund which provides capital to startups from both Israel and India, tie-up with Nasscom among others, Israel aims to ease business between both the countries.Sanghamitra Kar | ETtech | Updated: August 01, 2018, 13:16 IST
A significant number of Israeli companies, is now eyeing India as a suitable business destination among the other APAC countries.
For the uninitiated, around 100s of these companies is already operating in India, while many which are still developing their product is planning to have a presence here apart from other
Since startups are a relatively new category for Finance Ministry mandarins to consider, their specific needs tend to be ignored.
bigger markets like US or China.
"At the Israel Consulate, we are acting as a bridge for both Indian and Israel to do business together. Here, we are collaborating with IT service providers like Infosys, TCS who now also have presence in Israel and is scouting for innovative ideas there," says Dr Shai Moses, Consulate General of Israel to South India, adding, "Similarly, here, the Israeli technology companies are looking to tie up with these businesses along with other companies like Reliance and so."
Moreover, through other initiatives like the Innovation Authority Fund which provides capital to startups from both Israel and India, tie-up with Nasscom among others, Israel aims to ease business between both the countries. Further, the country which counts 3rd after US and China on innovation front, is also inviting Indian technology companies to invest and set up presence in the Startup Nation.
The Israeli Government officials opine that while collaborating with both India and Israeli companies, operations sometimes slow down due to varied laws and market understanding, different work ethics etc. However, there is a lot of growing interest amid the Israeli startup community to target India, argue the Israeli ambassadors.
For instance, AI startup Mobileye- a maker of automotive vision technology used for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and fully autonomous vehicles which was acquired for $15.3 billion by Intel is now mapping accidents prone areas in Karnataka and is looking to upscale it. Further, it is planning to manufacture peripherals and assemble in India. Domestic car rental company Revv had also tied up with MobileEye to reduce damages and accidents.
"We are now talking to the Karnataka Government to reach out to schools and looking to tie up with corporates," said the company executives.
AI-based wearable company OrCam which targets disabled people has also set up a based across metro cities in India. The company which clocked around $10 million in revenue last year, says that currently is has 20 users in India. The product which is priced around Rs 3, 00000 finds major traction from US at the moment.
The company says that it is looking to collaborate with Government and NGOs apart from corporates' CSR activities to break through the weaker sections in India.
Cybersecurity company CheckPoint Software Technologies also sees India as one their top markets in APAC. "Over the last few years, the scene has changed a lot and there is quite an appetite for cybersecurity products. We are now also tieing up with Universities to render skilling in cybersecurity and looking to strengthen the ecosystem here," said Bhaskar Bakthavatsalu, managing director of India and SAARC, CheckPoint Software Technologies.
(The journalist was in Israel at the invitation of Jerusalem Press Club and Ministry of Economy)
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Wild plant collectors in Bac Kan studying sustainable harvesting guidelines produced under the UK Government Darwin funded project © TRAFFIC
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Local authorities and communities celebrate success of wild plant collection initiative
Published 15th March 2018
Hanoi, Viet Nam, 15th March 2018—Sixty collectors of wild medicinal and aromatic plants met in Bac Kan this week to reflect on their achievements and the challenges overcome during the implementation of a project on "Enhancing Management and Benefit Flows in Viet Nam's Wild Medicinal Products."
The three-year project helped train 1,060 local wild plant harvesters, including 460 women, in Viet Nam's northern Bac Kan province on sustainable harvesting techniques and equitable trading practices following the FairWild Standard principles.
The FairWild Standard is an international best practices framework developed by TRAFFIC and others to help ensure that wild plants are harvested using sustainable methods and under ethical working conditions.
By following the Standard's guidelines, local co-operatives and groups reported a 20% increase in their Jiaogulan Gynostemma pentaphyllum harvest in the final year of the project over the previous year, all within the established sustainable harvesting limits.
Sales of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) from collector cooperatives and groups reached almost 6 tonnes over 2017–2018, with both harvesting activity and sales becoming more consistent. The project was also successful in securing a trade contract with a national corporation for purchase prices 5% above market rates.
"We are very proud of the achievements made so far by the collectors of Bac Kan. The fundamentals instilled by the project will go a long way to increasing the capacity of local collectors," said Nguyen Huu Thang, Director of Bac Kan's Forest Protection Department.
"We have confidence that Bac Kan's harvesters will continue to implement the policies of the project and as a result, protect wild plant collection and increase revenues from it."
The wrap-up workshop crystallised the lessons learned over the project's lifecycle and looked to how the fundamentals will be replicated by local authorities, communities, and other stakeholders in the future.
The meeting celebrated the progress made towards improving the livelihoods of participants by engaging them in sustainable harvesting of wild MAPs and enhancing their capacity to negotiate higher prices and sales by eliminating links in the trade chain. Collectors spoke about the challenges they had faced and how they overcame them.
Project partners supported the establishment of 16 formal collector groups and registered collector co-operatives and helped secure processing equipment, such as herb cutting and drying machines, to help improve the shelf-life of the products. Upgrades to the product packaging included vacuum-sealed bags and more attractive labelling.
Following the workshop, participants went on a two-day field visit to Quang Ninh province to observe one of the local co-operatives that has successfully marketed their goods and increased their income from MAPs. The visit provided an opportunity to hear at firsthand about sustainable conservation experiences and harvesting techniques, as well as preliminary processing, product development, marketing, and the benefits for local households.
"As a result of the project we have learned a great deal about harvesting wild plants in a more sustainable manner. Change is difficult. It's a long process. But we are better equipped now, and we understand more what our efforts are worth," said Nguyen Thi Thap, a local collector.
Another project outcome was support to the Bac Kan People's Committee in the development of a One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme that will focus through 2020 on the development of sustainably sourced products from four medicinal plants: Hypericum sampsonii, Heliciopsis terminalis, Gynostemma pentaphyllum, and Fallopia multiflora.
"The Bac Kan project has demonstrated successful implementation of the FairWild Standard's best practices for sustainable wild plant harvesting and livelihood improvement for some of the poorest communities utilising these resources. This paves the way for further enhancements of the wild plant trade in Viet Nam, with benefits for species conservation and people's well-being," said Sarah Ferguson, head of TRAFFIC's Viet Nam office.
An implementation plan was created to provide a framework through which local authorities can continue project objectives beyond TRAFFIC's involvement.
The activities of the joint project between Bac Kan's Forest Protection Department (FPD), Hanoi University of Pharmacy, DK Natura, Viet Nam's Ministry of Health, and TRAFFIC, supported by a Darwin Initiative grant through UK Government funding was initiated in 2015.
A pocket guide for the sustainable collection of Jiaoguan, woolly fern, and other medicinal and aromatic plants. English version
About the Darwin Initiative
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Mi situación es la siguiente estoy creando un generador de codigos de barras usando composer y una liberia llamada picqer/php-barcode-generator
la cual me permite generar los códigos de barras en diferentes formatos, ya sea code128, code39 etc.
me genera los códigos de barras sin problema, pero no genera los dígitos que van abajo del código de barras. lo que de seo es que se vea de la siguiente forma.

pero solo me genera de esta forma:

ya intente con imagestring y con imagettftext pero no veo resultado o cambio alguno ya que no logro agregar el texto al código de barras.
comparto mi código php el cual funciona para que al momento de poner el enlace con los dígitos que deseo generar lo genere y no lo guarda en ningún lado solo lo genera cada que se ingresa la url con los dígitos.
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ese es mi código funcional que genera los códigos de barras no le eh agregado  nada mas para que puedan testearlo por si solo y vean como funciona para que puedan ayudarme con agregar el texto.


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Home » Anime News » What Is Comiket: Going Inside Japan's Massive Bi-Annual Comic-Con-like Anime Event
What Is Comiket: Going Inside Japan's Massive Bi-Annual Comic-Con-like Anime Event
BY Shah Shahid August 13, 2019April 28, 2020
The Comic Market is Japan's version of an International Comic-Con. Imagine if Comic-Con featured no mainstream movies and television promotion and focused on comic books alone. The Comic Market happens in a wide-open space where comic book creators sell books new and old.
Anime is huge in Japan. That's not something that I need to explain. (But you can check out our Anime guide if you still want me to.) It's not just a source of entertainment for its fans, but quite literally, a culture of its own. So it's not surprising to hear that one of Japan's biggest events happens to be a bi-yearly 4-day exhibition, known as Comiket. Comiket is an amalgamation of Comic Market, which is what the event is officially about.
What Is Comiket, Exactly?
The Comic Market is more of a trade fair for exhibitors to showcase their work, while the fans participate by purchasing their merchandise and showing their love and appreciation. But it has transformed into much much more since its inception in 1975. While there are many more mainstream Anime and Manga conventions, Comiket is unique as it relates only to non-commercial and self-published works, known as dojinshi.
The event began in 1975 as a means of an exhibition for dojinshi. It's similar to the Indie Comics industry of the West. Dojinshi can be original content, but may also spin-off as fan fiction of original and existing mainstream Manga and Anime. The Comic Market (Comiket) is an event exclusively for the makers, writers, artists, and creators of the dojinshi industry to showcase their works for fans.
The Comic Market Prepatory Committee, an entirely non-profit organization run by volunteers, organizes the Comiket twice a year. Everyone involved in putting on this massive fan convention does so solely for the love of dojinshi and the support and community from the fandom that comes with it. The exhibition supports 190 booths from various exhibitors every year.
The biggest parallel to Comiket would be North America's international San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC). With comics going mainstream, the SDCC now focuses more on the commercial films and televisions shows based on comic content than the books themselves. While Comiket retains its original intention and purpose..
Comiket's Attendance Is Pretty Insane
Comiket 96 is on this year from August 9 to August 12. The event has already broken its own attendance records with 730,000 attendees in 2019. This is leaps and bounds ahead of SDCC 2019, estimated to have 135,000 attendants during its entire 3-day event. Comiket's single-day attendance on its first day this year already beat that number, by a wide margin.
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The event occurs twice a year, once in summer and again in winter. This summer, the temperatures exceeded upwards of 35 degrees Celsius, causing a scare for many fans. 11 people at the event even complained of sickness from heatstroke. Three of those 11 people were taken to the hospital, while there were no other lasting or serious injuries.
Cosplayers Are Treated With Respect At Comiket
On top of self-published exhibitors showcasing their work and merchandise, there is also an area for Cosplayers, similar to the fans at SDCC. However, unlike SDCC, Comiket has had rules in place regarding the appropriate treatment of Cosplayers by keeping photographers and unwanted behaviour at bay. Unlike SDCC, Comiket attendance skews predominantly female.
So I debuted my Fran cosplay at Comiket today!!
It was my first Comiket and it was very hectic but im glad I did it 😋
I didnt realise my line would have been that long so I was posing non stop for 2 hrs n have no more business cards 😂#fran #FinalFantasy pic.twitter.com/U0Y4NPDwIf
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There are strict rules in place for Cosplayers, in order to ensure their safety and comfort. Cosplayers need to register and pay a small fee before the event. They also have to bring their costumes to the venue separately, and then change into them in a special area. Anyone wishing to take pictures with Cosplayers have to do it from a designated area. They are then free to walk the event at their discretion or change back into their civvies to enjoy the experience without any issues.
Comiket Is For Indie Publishers By Indie Fans
Comiket to this day remains dedicated to the exposure, marketing and showcasing of independent and self-published dojinshi content. Despite more mainstream, profitable, and well-known Anime-related events, Comiket celebrates comics and comics alone.
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Deborah Faye (Rash) Thornton, age 61. Sunrise April 14, 1954 in Welch, WV and Sunset July 2, 2015 at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, OH. Deborah was employed at Select Specialty and Extended Stay. She was preceded in by her parents John R. and Willie Mary Rash, sister Vedetta Rash, and special nephew gift of life donor Evens Archer of Baltimore, MD. Left to cherish her memory, sons Clarence J. Thornton and Jeremy C. Thornton, daughter Geralanda S. Brown, companion Gerald Brown, gifted children Alethea Chanault and Sequana Brown and Tiangie, Teasha and David Johnson, brother Robert R. Rash, George E. Rash, sisters Sandra Watkins, Mary T. (Scotty) Henderson, Juanita (Robert) Cummings, Jacqueline Rash and Delores (Richard) Richardson, aunts Estelle Rash, uncle Judge Montgomery of Newport News, VA, 9 grandchildren and a host cousins and friends. Visitation 10:00am and Funeral 11:00am Friday July 10, 2015 at MARLAN J. GARY FUNERAL HOME, THE CHAPEL OF PEACE 2500 Cleveland Ave. Interment at Evergreen Burial Park.
So sorry for your loss. My prayers and condolences are with you.
May the good Lord that hears our every prayer continue to comfort you all doing your Hours of Bereavement in the transition of your live one Deborah (Faye) Rash-Thornton.
As you prepare to celebrate a life well lived, God has promised to swallow up death forever Isaiah 25:8 and that he will resurrect our dear loved ones who have passed away John 5:28 and 29.
My sincere condolences is extended to the Thornton and Rash families. I pray that you all sense the comforting presence of the Lord during this time.
Family: May the Creator give you enough wind beneath your wings to carry you through this journey. Peace and love flowing your way.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you during this difficult time!
So sorry for your Loss, my deepest sympathy to the Family. Praying for you.
Juanita so sorry for your loss my prayers are with you and your family.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Deb was an amazing woman. She was loved and trusted by many. She will be deeply missed but will forever live on in our hearts. So, to the children of Deb, if you ever need anything contact me, Phyllis Brown 614-725-0793. Love you all.


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Q: Python OOP instances & classes mutability I have been doing some readings and thought about this code:
def change(c, n: int) -> None:
    c.x = n

class Value:
    x = 5

m = Value()
change(Value, 3)
print(m.x)
change(m, 1)
change(Value, 2)
print(m.x)

The output of this code is:

*

*3

*1

So what I assumed is for the 3, m & Value are aliased but changing m's attribute breaks this. I couldn't confirm this by running id() - it turned out m and value always had different ids.
Can someone explain what's going on?

A: When you are changing the value for Value you are changing the x value shared by all the value instances.
When you are changing the value for m, you are doing it for m and m alone, essentially overriding the class x with a new instance x. You can see it with
k = Value()
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Tilson CEO Joshua Broder Testifies Before House Small Business Committee
Tilson CEO, Joshua Broder, will testify before the United States House of Representatives Workforce Subcommittee on the importance of training and apprenticeship programs to meet current and future hiring needs as the industry moves toward 5G and next-generation technologies. The hearing, entitled, "Mind the Skills Gap: Apprenticeships and Training Programs," focuses on new ways private industry and the government can partner together to meet ever-growing workforce demands as businesses grow and compete.
Tilson Introduces Industry-Leading Leave Policies for Employees
"We strongly believe our improved leave policies will afford current Tilson employees the valuable time they need with their families at critical times in their lives." says Joshua Broder, Tilson CEO. "Tilson is committed to providing the flexibility to team members while continuing to support dynamic career opportunities and development."
Tilson Hires Former Connecticut Consumer Counsel to Lead New Energy Consulting Division
As a senior member of Tilson's Consulting division, Ms. Katz will bring new prospective and capacity to Tilson's energy and utility consulting practice for both government and industry clients. Ms. Katz will also provide regulatory support for Tilson's legal team to help speed fiber and 5G deployments, as well as support merger and acquisition due diligence. She will be based out of Tilson's Hartford, Connecticut office.
Tilson Promotes Mike Dow to Chief Information Officer
"Mike's vision and leadership have been instrumental in strengthening Tilson's national technology and digital practice as he continues to effectively lead multi-disciplined teams."
Tilson Raises Up To $100 Million in Funding
"We are thrilled to welcome SDC as an investor and partner," said Joshua Broder, Tilson's CEO. "SDC brings a wealth of experience in building and growing platforms and we share a long-term strategic vision as we scale to meet the exploding market demand for small cell infrastructure development. With SDC's support, we are in an even stronger position to serve the wide-ranging needs of our clients from national 5G rollouts to cutting edge IoT technology services."
Tilson Welcomes Shaun McCarthy as Chief Financial Officer
"Shaun will be instrumental in providing financial vision, strategy and leadership to drive Tilson's continued momentum and we are excited to welcome him" said Joshua Broder, CEO of Tilson. "He has an extensive background in financial planning and management across a variety of industries, making him an invaluable addition to Tilson's leadership team."
Tilson's Kelly Brewer Promoted to Vice President of Telecommunications
"Kelly has been instrumental to Tilson's growth and is a truly effective strategic leader here at Tilson" says Tilson CEO Joshua Broder. "Her industry expertise, natural leadership ability, and drive for excellence will continue to play a key role in the success and growth of our company."
Tilson Named 2018 Business of the Year in Portland, Maine
Tilson is proud to share that it has been named "Business of the Year" for 2018 by the city of Portland, Maine. The distinction is one of four awards recognized by the Portland Development Corporation for its role in expanding the city's economic vitality and quality of life.


Adam Duvall, Cincinnati Reds left fielder, visited with patients at St. Elizabeth Healthcare's Total Joint Center in Northern Kentucky this week. As a professional athlete, Duvall understands what it takes to be world class. Together with St. Elizabeth Healthcare, Duvall is committed to the health and wellness of his fellow Kentuckians.
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Q: How to preserve the file permission in git? I  encountered a problem which took me a long time to find a solution and still fail to get one.
The problem I had is 'DatabaseError: 'attempt to write a readonly database' when I tried to deploy my website through git to a Django hosting.
It seems like git will change the permission of my files, from 777 to 755.
But whenever I commit my project, this change will persist. However, I still need to write something into my database (sqlite database).
Does anyone  have a suggestion to configure my git to preserve the permission mode at each commit?

A: In short, you can't.
In longer, there are projects like etckeeper which can do it automatically, or you can write a small hook script which will fix up the permissions (which is probably how I'd do it).
For example, if you commit something this:
#!/bin/sh
chmod -R XXX file_or_directory/

To, eg, scripts/fix_permissions/, then run it as a post-receive hook by simlinking it into .git/hooks/post-receive on the server.


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Mosser Show Notes Fri 8/28: Record Store Day, More Bars Close, New Pumpkins, more
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Bummed to hear of the closing of the Dirty Dog Bar on Sixth. I've mentioned my history with the local metal scene lately here, but that's far enough in my rear view mirror that I wasn't really a regular at the Dirty Dog. Still, I know that they have become every bit the institution that any other venue specializing in the hard stuff has been in Austin. Our live music venues are much more than the buildings they rent and occupy (consider the odyssey of Antone's across our city since its founding). It's really about the vision of the folks running and booking the venue, and the artists they book – all of whom will have another chance in the After.
When it rains, it pours – B.D. Riley's, also on East 6th, is closing that 20-year location, but their more recently established establishment remains open in Mueller.
A similar threat faces our local record stores, as you know. Record Store Day is still on, however, as a three-day event this year – the first day of which is tomorrow (Saturday the 29th). I've had my complaints about Record Store Day over the years, but this is no time to sweat small stuff. Rather, it's time to score something new and support!
The most hated man in rock & roll is gonna be chilling in the hoosegow for at least a couple more years.
As heard this morning on the show, there's new Smashing Pumpkins music to review.
The members of Pearl Jam would really, really like you to vote this fall.
And…it's Florence Welch's birthday!
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Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Going on
A classic album which was played consistently in my house when growing up. It has now taken on a very different meaning. Sly and the Family Stone's - 'There's a Riot Going on'. In 1971, the band released their fifth studio album. Frontman Sylvester Stone was going through a period of heavy drug abuse and African-American communities were still fighting for racial equality and justice. The album artwork embodies this conflicted context, reforming the American Flag with suns, not stars, coloured black not blue.
Dark, dense and troubled thematic currents permeate the soulful, hard-funk rhythms of the early drum machines. At this time Stone was becoming more involved in the Black Panther movement, the lyrics and instrumentation are heavy with a sense of loss and frustration, while retaining a sense of collectiveness, as 'blood is thicker than the mud'. The muddled overdubbing techniques echo the violent and pivotal time, as well as the frontman's experiences with fame and substance abuse. With a ladled axis of content, the down-tempo work becomes exceptionally intimate and fraught with power.


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General Motors Diesel, Ltd. (GMD)
Last revised: December 28, 2022
By: Adam Burns
Interestingly, the leading American locomotive manufacturer of the times was the last to establish a plant in Canada.
General Motors Diesel, Ltd. (GMD) was the Canadian arm of General Motors' Electro-Motive Division, which was established in 1950 to offer EMD products in that country and bypass the steep tariffs and customs rates required to ship locomotives across the border.
GMD's plant was located in London, Ontario and began full production by the early 1950s.
The division (later renamed as the General Motors Diesel Division or GMDD) would manufacture most of EMD's catalog for Canadian railroads and ironically outlived its counterpart facility in La Grange, Illinois which closed during the early 1990s.
The London plant continued to build locomotives until early 2012 when new owner Caterpillar shutdown the facility and moved all operations back into the United States.
The uproar over the move was significant with the general public and media strongly condemning the decision.
However, the company, long known for its line of construction equipment, was not swayed by the firestorm. Today, remaining EMD production can be found in Muncie, Indiana.
Canadian National GMD-1 #1000 at Deerholme, British Columbia along the railroad's track that served Vancouver Island; August, 1981. This locomotive was manufactured by General Motors Diesel in August, 1958. It was quite popular on CN as a light branch line road-switcher. American-Rails.com collection.
In 1950 General Motors established General Motors Diesel, Ltd. to serve the Canadian railroad industry and offer its successful line of diesels in that country, which were already very popular in the United States.
However, surprisingly, GMD was late to enter this market. During 1948 Baldwin began working with the Canadian Locomotive Company (CLC) of Kingston, Ontario to sell its designs in that country although this partnership was short-lived (in 1950 CLC began working with newcomer Fairbanks Morse when it realized Baldwin would not remain competitive in the market).
The American Locomotive Company (Alco) on the other hand had long been established in Canada since 1901 through its Montreal Locomotive Works and had been manufacturing diesels since 1941.
Headquarters London, Ontario
Operational History 8/1950 - 6/2012
First Locomotive Produced Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo GP7 #71 (8/1950)
Last Locomotive Produced Union Pacific SD70ACe #8773 (6/2012)
General Motors Diesel, Ltd. (GM) 1950 - 1969
General Motors Diesel Division, Ltd. (GM) 1969 - 2005
Electro-Motive Diesel
2005 - 2010 (Independent)
2010 - 2012 (Caterpillar/Progress Rail)
There were primarily two factors driving locomotive builders to establish subsidiaries in Canada; first, EMD had overwhelmingly demonstrated the success of diesel application in road service with its FT model of 1939 and second, the country had strict laws against imported locomotives to protect its own companies.
To get around this American manufacturers found it easier to simply build their own plants in Canada instead of paying out the steep custom and tariff rates.
Before Electro-Motive's new facility in London began producing locomotives the builder had already been demonstrating its covered wagons in the country since the late 1940s including such models as the F3, E7, FP7, and others. Not surprisingly, just like with American railroads Canadian lines were impressed with the locomotives.
The London plant built many F units but one design unique to Canada was the FP9. Here, Canadian National #6501 arrives in Dorval, Quebec with train #14, the "International Limited," on September 6, 1965. Roger Puta photo.
By the summer of 1950 General Motors Diesel was producing locomotives with the first completed being Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo GP7 #71 that August.
A month later GMD finished what was actually the first order received by the plant, Canadian Pacific FP7s #4028-4037, which were delivered in September.
Considering Electro-Motive's success in the American market it's not considerably shocking that GMD also did quite well producing most of its parents designs including the F7, FP7, FP9, F9, GP7, GP9, GP30, SW8, SW900, SW9, SW1200, MP15AC, GP38/-2/W, GP40/-2/TC, SD40/-2, SD38-2, and others.
It also built locomotives only used in Canada such as the GMD-1 (a light road-switcher that resembled Alco's RS-1) and cowl designs of popular Geeps and Special Duty (SD) models that were uncommon in the U.S.
Electro-Motive first introduced wide cabs in the 1970's for Canadian National, known as the Comfort Cab, Wide Cab, or Safety Cab. The first unit to receive it was GP38-2W #5560 in 1973. Here, GP40-2LW #9550 and a mate lead a freight westbound near Lake Ontario at Lovekin, Ontario in March, 1980. Roger Puta photo.
General Motors Diesel Division, Ltd. (GMDD)
During the 1960s the London plant also began producing other equipment such as transit buses, suburban coaches, and heavy earthmoving equipment.
On February 1, 1969 GM began restructuring Canadian operations and renamed GMD as the Diesel Division of General Motors of Canada, or General Motors Diesel Division (GMDD) for short.
As time passed GM began shifting more production to London, particularly as General Electric became a serious competitor during the 1970s.
Within a decade GE had claimed top spot as locomotive manufacturer when EMD stumbled with its SD50 model in 1981 (which was supposed to be the builder's next generation of road-switcher).
Diesel Models
Units Built
F7A 83 1951-1953 1,500
F7B 47 1951-1953 1,500
FP7 53 1950-1953 1,500
FP9A 54 1954-1958 1,750
FP9B 46 1954-1958 1,750
F40PH 6 1978 3,000
F40PH-2 59 1987-1989 3,000
F59PH 42 1978 3,000
GP7 89 1950-1958 1,500
GP9 646 1954-1963 1,750
GP30 2 1963 2,250
GP35 25 1964-1966 2,500
GP38-2 206 1973-1986 2,000
GP38-2W 51 1973-1974 2,000
GP40TC 8 1966 3,000
GP40-2LW 233 1974-1975 3,000
SD Series
SD40 330 1966-1971 3,000
SD40-2 524 1972-1985 3,000
SD40-2W 121 1975-1980 3,000
SD40-2F 25 1988 3,000
SD38-2 4 1975 2,000
SD50F 60 1985-1987 3,500
SW8 65 1950-1954 800
SW900 88 1954-1969 1,200
SW9 29 1950-1953 1,200
SW1200 297 1955-1964 1,200
MP15AC 4 1984 1,500
GMD1 101 1958-1960 1,200
NF110 9 1952-1953 1,500
NF210 38 1956-1960 1,200
A pair of CP Rail (Canadian Pacific) SD40-2's are eastbound with a short train at Newtonville, Ontario in September, 1982. These locomotives were built in London during the mid/latter 1970's. Roger Puta photo.
In 1991 as EMD continued to lose market share to GE it shuttered its famous La Grange, Illinois plant and shifted all production to London under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which essentially abolished the General Motors Diesel Division name.
Ironically, things would come full circle within 20 years. In 2005 GM exited the locomotive market, selling its EMD subsidiary to investment groups, which renamed it as Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.
Five years later on August 2, 2010 Progress Rail Services Corporation, a Caterpillar subsidiary, took controlling interest in EMD.
During early 2012 a long-time contract dispute with CAW workers at the former GMD facility resulted in Caterpillar closing the plant and moving all operations to Muncie, Indiana thus ending continuous production in London after 60 years of operation.
Marre, Louis A. and Pinkepank, Jerry A. Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide, The: A Comprehensive Reference Manual To Locomotives Since 1972. Milwaukee: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1989.
Marre, Louis A. Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide, The: A Comprehensive Reference Manual To Locomotives Since 1972, Including Rebuilding, Upgrading, And Leasing Programs (2nd Edition). Milwaukee: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1995.
Marre, Louis A. Diesel Locomotives: The First 50 Years, A Guide To Diesels Built Before 1972. Milwaukee: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1995.
McDonnell, Greg. Locomotives: The Modern Diesel & Electric Reference, 2nd Edition. Buffalo: Boston Mills Press/Firefly Books, 2015.
Schafer, Mike. Vintage Diesel Locomotives. Osceola: MBI Publishing, 1998.
Solomon, Brian. EMD Locomotives. Minneapolis: MBI Publishing Company, 2006.
Solomon, Brian. GE and EMD Locomotives: The Illustrated History. Minneapolis: Voyageur Press, 2014.
General Motors Diesel
Electro-Motive Database
In 1998 a gentleman by the name of Andre Kristopans put together a web page highlighting virtually every unit out-shopped by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division.
Alas, in 2013 the site closed. However, Don Strack rescued the data and transferred it over to his UtahRails.net site (another fine resource).
If you are researching anything EMD related please visit this page first. The information includes original numbers, serials, and order numbers.
Researching Rights-Of-Way
A popular pastime for many is studying and/or exploring abandoned rights-of-way.
Today, there are tens of thousands of miles scattered throughout the country. Many were pulled up in the 1970's and 1980's although others were removed long before that.
If you are researching active or abandoned corridors you might want to check out the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Historical Topographic Map Explorer.
It is an excellent resource with thousands of historic maps on file throughout the country. Just type in a town or city and click on the timeline of maps at the bottom of the page!
"John Bull" Steam Locomotive (1831): Smithsonian, History
The John Bull was a British steam locomotive built for use on New Jersey's Camden & Amboy in 1831. Today, it is preserved at the Smithsonian Institution.
"DeWitt Clinton" (Train): Locomotive, Invention, Photos
The DeWitt Clinton was an early steam locomotive, the third ever built for use America when it entered service in August, 1831 on the Mohawk & Hudson.
Scenic Dinner Train Rides: A Complete Guide (2023)
Dinner trains have become a popular attraction in recent years. Here, you can find dates and locations for these events in 2022.
Oregon Dinner Train Rides (2023)
In Oregon you can find two locations offering food service during a short train ride; the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad and Mt Hood Railroad. Learn more here.
Michigan Dinner Train Rides (2023)
Michigan is home to two heritage railroads which offer dinner train experiences, the Adrian & Blissfield and Coopersville & Marne. Learn more about them here.
SteamLocomotive.com
Wes Barris's SteamLocomotive.com is simply the best web resource on the study of steam locomotives.
It is difficult to truly articulate just how much material can be found at this website.
It is quite staggering and a must visit!
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