Tax bills in Salisbury will be a higher than they should be this June due to a mistake by the state, town official said.
The town had proposed removing $79,110 from capital reserves to pay for new fire tanker in their annual budget submitted to the Department of Revenue Administration in December, but the agency accidentally included that money in tax rate calculations.
As a result, the $24 per $1,000 tax rate should be decreased by 51 cents, equivalent to around $150 for a $300,000 home.
By the time Salisbury officials noticed, the 10-day appeal period had expired and the tax rate was set.
"It doesn't sound like a lot, but for a small town $80,000 can make an impact," said Town Administrator Margaret Warren.
As of now, residents will be required to pay taxes at the mistaken rate.
Legally the town may not be able to fix the mistake until December of this year. Warren said Salisbury officials reached out to Department of Revenue Administration Director Stephen Hamilton two weeks ago to see if the town can get a special exception to amend the June billing.


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April 9 - Wall St clocks in its biggest gains in over a month on changing Fed rate hike expectations; Comcast, Time Warner Cable try to win over lawmakers; Toyota issues second biggest recall; GM downgraded. Conway G. Gittens reports
The stock market takes off with the Federal Reserve not likely to soon step on the gas when it comes to hiking interest rates. Wall Street enjoyed its biggest rally in over a month led by a 1.7 percent surge for the Nasdaq. Minutes from the Fed's March meeting, giving investors the kind of clarity they like. Overall, the minutes suggest the group is not as ready to push the button on the first rate hike than first thought. Remember, markets were turned upside down by a post-meeting chat when Fed chief Janet Yellen said the first rate hike could come about six months after the end of the Fed's bond-buying program. Staying in Washington, executives from Comcast and Time Warner Cable, America's two largest cable companies - on Capitol Hill in just one of the hurdles they will have to clear on their way to their $45 billion merger. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Comcast Executive VP David Cohen addressed critics who say Comcast will be too big and powerful, noting the growth of competition from others including the Baby Bells, aka telecom companies like Verizon. SOUNDBITE: DAVID COHEN, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, COMCAST (ENGLISH) SAYING: "While this transaction will make us bigger, that's a good thing; not a problem. Most of our real competitors are national and global and larger than us, like the Bells, satellite companies, Apple, Google, Sony and Netflix. In fact, the business reason for this transaction is to create a scale that will enable Comcast to invest more in innovation and infrastructure and enhance our ability to compete more effectively." Comcast shares are down 10 percent since the proposed takeover was announced in February. Buckle your seatbelts it's happening again. Toyota issuing another massive recall. The Japanese auto company recalling almost 6-1/2 million vehicles worldwide. Its second biggest recall ranges from things under the hood all the way to the back seat and involves 27 models. Last month, Toyota agreed to pay a $1.2 billion penalty in the U.S. for holding back information on its biggest recall a few years ago. Sticking with recalls, General Motors - dinged by safety regulators - ordering the automaker to pay $7,000 a day for missing a deadline to provide more information on a recall of 2.6 million cars. By the way, the recall catching the attention of Morgan Stanley, who downgraded GM. Shares of GM, one of the rare losers Wednesday - down 2.6 percent. Oddly enough, European investors not scarred by recalls, indexes were up led by gains in the auto sector.

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lllinois vs. Northern Illinois: the Brutally Honest Game Preview
September 16, 2010 By paulmbanks Leave a Comment
There's an old adage in football that the biggest improvement a team makes is from the first week to the second. Your 2010 Illinois Fighting Illini are a true testament to this, especially starting quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase. He grew up a ton last week. But they have two other playmakers on both sides of the ball:
Linebacker Ian Thomas and running back Mikel LeShoure. Both are rather overlooked because Illinois is well, kind of a…."basketball school." But Thomas can be effective both inside and out, and LeShoure has topped the 100-yard mark in both games this season, going for 112 yards on 20 carries in the opener against Missouri and 15-115 yards on 15 carries last week against SIU.
Dating back to last season, Leshoure has topped 100 yards in three straight games and in five of his last eight. During that span, Leshoure has 798 yards on 114 carries (7.0 ypc).
By Paul M. Banks
Throughout the season, I'll be bringing you these informative yet blunt game previews of every contest I cover (and a second game that week that interests me); with a heavy focus on my three "home teams" Northwestern, Illinois, Notre Dame, and the Big Ten in general
Illinois synopsis: One staple of the Ron Zook era has been subpar special teams, and an absolutely horrific punting game. However, 2010 is a brave new world as senior punter Anthony Santella leads the Big Ten and ranks second in the NCAA in punting with an average of 49.0 yards on nine punts, including five of 50+ and two inside the 20. He averaged a career-best 50.8 yards per punt in the SIU game, tying the fifth-best
single-game average in school history.
All Illini talk usually starts with the new coordinators, and although we've seen some improvements in Paul Petrino's offense, Vic Koening's defense really seems to have a quick learning curve. After two games, Illinois has the 12th ranked rush defense in the nation. Combine that with a philosophy of Chicago Bears Coach and one of the most BORING soundbites in all of sports Lovie Smith, "get off the bus running," and the Illini could find themselves having a solid season.
Illinois averaged 205.0 rushing ypg from 2006-09, leading the Big Ten. They led the conference in rushing yards per game in 2006 and 2007 and were second in 2009, just 3.4 ypg behind leader Wisconsin. This season Illinois is averaging 184.0 yards per game on the ground, which ranks 40th nationally.
The Illini averaged 200.4 yards per game on the ground last season, ranking 17th in the nation and marking the third time under Zook that the Illini averaged over 200.
NIU Synopsis: First of all, they have a coach with the coolest name ever. Jerry Kill is the only Northern Illinois coach to lead the Huskies to back-to-back bowl games in the "major college" era (since 1969) with trips to the Independence Bowl in 2008 and the International Bowl last season. Kill has posted a 14-14 record in two years at NIU, highlighted by the bowl trips and Northern Illinois' 28-21 victory over Purdue a year ago, NIU's second win over a Big Ten team all-time and the school's first Big Ten victory in 21 seasons.
NIU earned its first win of 2010 with a 23-17 decision over North Dakota last week. NIU got 318 yards on the ground from the duo of quarterback Chandler Harnish (21 carries for 178 yards) and tailback Chad Spann (21 carries for 140 yards) with Harnish scoring on a 40-yard touchdown run to provide the decisive score in the fourth quarter. The Huskies amassed 510 yards of total offense but had a field goal and a punt blocked and saw another drive stall inside the 10-yard line. In week one, the Huskies lost 27-10 to Iowa State.
Guys you'll see Saturday eventually playing on Sundays: LeShoure is not Rashard Mendenhall yet. But there's an outside chance he could be someday. Martez and Tavon Wilson (no relation) have NFL measurables and athleticism, but have not displayed the football resume and instincts of a prospect for "The Shield," so far. But then again look at former Illini DT Josh "I've had a little bit too much, much" Brent. He made the Dallas Cowboys despite accomplishing nothing on the collegiate gridiron.
For NIU, none that I'm aware of.
Prediction to be taken with a grain of salt (actually make that a whole truckload of salt)
ILLINI 34, NIU 10 (Banks' record 3-1)
Illinois is 12-0 all-time against the other public universities in the state. The Illini are 3-0 against Northern Illinois, Southern Illinois and Illinois State, 2-0 against Eastern Illinois and 1-0 against Western Illinois. The combined score of those meetings is 483-168 in favor of the Illini and all but one of those 12 meetings have come since 1985 (Illinois played ISU in 1944). This year marks the first time Illinois has played more than one in-state public university in the same season. No reason to think the Illini won's stay perfect versus "Directional Illinois" after this week.
Paul M. Banks is President and CEO of The Sports Bank.net , a Midwest focused webzine. He is also a regular contributor to Chicago Now, the Chicago Tribune's blog network, Walter Football.com, the Washington Times Communities, Yardbarker Network, and Fox Sports.com
You can follow him on Twitter @thesportsbank and @bigtenguru
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Red Wall gone, Red Flag at half-mast ... why Labour lost the election
Analysis: why Labour lost the election
By Ron McKay
Labour's so-called Red Wall, the string of devout and entrenched seats stretching from North Wales to Northumberland, proved as resilient as the polystyrene one Boris Johnson drove a JCB through in a pre-poll publicity stunt. The supposedly irremovable bricks in Workington, Bishop Auckland, Darlington – even Tony Blair's old Sedgefield constituency – tumbled.
The scattergun of Labour's election policies, while generally approved of if doubted on their fiscal provenance, proved ineffectual against the stark and simple Tory message of "Get Brexit Done".
Labour, it seemed, had learned nothing and forgotten everything. But it was the prevarication and the switching of positions on Brexit to try to suit all which did it.
In June 2016, immediately after the vote to leave the EU, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had pledged: "We must respect that result and Article 50 has to be invoked now so that we negotiate an exit from the EU."
But then the party swithered and dithered for the best part of three years before coming out with a hopeless, morphed fudge that a Labour government would renegotiate with the EU and put that to the British people.
In 1992, in Bill Clinton's successful US presidential campaign, the Democratic strategist James Carville coined the slogan for party workers to keep them focused on the main message: "The economy, stupid."
This is a lesson Labour ignored, while for the Tories their main strategist Isaac Levido came up with the winning one, "Get Brexit done". The 36-year-old Australian was serenaded by Tory party workers as the TV exit poll predicted a landslide, singing, in a rip-off of Corbyn's chorus, "Oh Isaac Levido".
If we believe the final polls – and this time, unlike in 2017, they were accurate – then 69% of Leave voters voted Conservative, a nine-point increase on the previous election, while for Labour there was no good news on either Remain or Leave voters – the former were at 48% support, down five points, and at just 26%, some nine points down, among Leave voters.
This was reflected in Thursday's vote. The Tory share of the vote rose by six points in seats where more than 60% had voted Leave, whereas Labour's fell by 11 points in the most pro-Leave seats.
Labour's result, with 203 seats, is their worst in the post-war period, and somewhat redeems Michael Foot's 1983 debacle – the manifesto then called the so-called longest suicide note in history – of 209 seats. In 1983, the Economist wrote that to find a typical Labour seat one had to look at impoverished inner cites and broken-down towns, but it is just those places, still largely in the same state of disrepair, which have flocked to the Tories in this one. Today that typical Labour bastion would be fervently pro-European, highly-educated mainly in the prosperous south of England in a university town or city.
The working class, if there still is such a group, has deserted Labour for the Tories in England and the SNP in Scotland. This meltdown has been decades in the cooking. Labour grew from social institutions, most of them centred around the workplace. However, the traditional heavy industries have gone – shipbuilding, mining, steel – and with them Labourism, the shop stewards, the unions, local organisations. Just about every institution which fostered working-class solidarity has been bulldozed like the Red Wall. In its place have come zero-hours contracts, austerity, child poverty, factories replaced by call centres, fancy memorials put up over holes in the ground where men used to go to work.
There was meant to be a transformation of the old into a new, skills-based economy – that's what Labour's Tony Blair government promised. Tell that to the voters of Blyth Valley, which has been Labour since the seat was created in 1950, and was the first shock Tory victory of 2019.
Instead of local candidates, who would often come from a union background, contemporary New Labour parachuted in its chosen people to plum seats, parliamentary aides, union bureaucrats, would-be careerist politicians, while its traditional base was marginalised and ravaged economically.
Corbyn became the accidental Labour leader – he only got on the parliamentary party vote because several of his colleagues lent their votes, not wanting to see him humiliated in the ballot. It was the membership which supported him overwhelmingly, not once but twice.
He, of course, has never been accepted by his parliamentary colleagues – he lost a vote of confidence by his MPs 170 votes to 40 in the summer of 2016 – and for most of his tenure, in what may be unprecedented in contemporary UK politics, they openly disparaged him.
It became a blatant coup attempt, triggered by the sacking of shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn who told Corbyn that he had lost confidence in his leadership. This triggered a mass exodus from the shadow cabinet but, unlike Boris Johnson's dealing with rebels, the whip was not withdrawn from them and they continued to seethe and plot against him.
But the one issue to dog Corbyn was the accusation of institutional anti-Semitism in the party. Margaret Hodge went further and accused him of being a racist and anti-Semite, which baffled anyone who knew him or had followed his parliamentary career.
An inquiry set up by Corbyn and chaired by Shami Chakrabarti concluded that the party was not overrun by racists, but the report was widely criticised for its softly-softly approach and the issue continued to run right through to the election, with the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis resuscitating it almost on the eve of poll.
The right-wing press also carried out a relentless vilification of Corbyn, from anti-Semitism to accusing him of having terrorist sympathies and being a security threat, to being an anti-royalist and republican because he said he watched the Queen's Christmas message in the morning, when it is actually in the afternoon. Corbyn's predecessor, Ed Miliband, had been mocked over his eating of a bacon sandwich, his brother David, and rival for the party leadership, had been pilloried for the way he held a banana, but the war on Corbyn was relentless and unprecedented.
One of the lessons Labour should have learned, apart from the right way to grasp fruit, the most prescient one, was to look beyond the Red Wall and Hadrian's Wall to Scotland, and how the formerly hegemonic party had collapsed in the country.
Arrogance in power, failing to respond to the needs of its base communities, had provoked the backlash, and a switch not to the Tories, but to the Scottish National Party and around independence rather than Brexit.
Labour's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, conceded that in some of the party's banker seats, "a long history of maybe 40 years of neglect" had seen them fall. In 1983, the SNP held two seats in Scotland. Now they have 48, the majority, overwhelmingly, in what were once considered safe Labour seats.
The revival may have started in the Highlands but it spread quickly to the central belt and urban areas, to the poor and deprived who were once Labour's backbone.
Now, just one MP remains, Ian Murray in Edinburgh South, a relatively prosperous constituency. Murray has been an outspoken opponent of Corbyn and described his leader as "toxic on the doorsteps", a view that was widely held in the seats in England the party lost.
This was, like it or not, a vote about nationalism. In Northern Ireland there was a nationalist majority, as there was in Scotland, and in England – despite the overall vote apparently splitting 52% to 48% for Remain parties – in the ones that counted, the marginals, the former Red Wall, it was overwhelmingly the case.
Labour's failure was to ignore the evidence on the ground, to confront English nationalism, and by attempting to appease its parliamentary Remainers, betraying the verdict of the electorate and its core support.
Corbyn's failures were manifold. He may have been unfairly pilloried but he lacked clear and decisive leadership, epitomised by saying he would remain neutral in a forthcoming ballot on Brexit, leaving the rest of the country to mock him over what wasn't just unlikely, but a vanished possibility.
Recap: MSPs back Nicola Sturgeon's bid for second independence referendum
Tears and cheers: both sides of the Brexit argument say farewell to the Brussels Parliament
Bank of Scotland axes 15 branches: See full list
Holyrood votes in favour of second independence referendum
MSPs vote to overturn Holyrood's ruling body and keep European flag flying
ITV's Alastair Stewart steps down over social media "errors"
Brown backs Murray for Labour deputy leadership role
Police investigating after man found 'tampering' with Rangers star Alfredo Morelos' car
Celtic icon Stevie Chalmers' son opens up on dad's dementia battle


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The Shepherd's Church Brings its Flock into the DiGiCo Ecosystem with a New Quantum338 Console and DMI-KLANG Card
The Q338 offers The Shepherd's Church the functional and operational flexibility it needs to best utilize its own multifunctional worship space and does so extremely cost-effectively, handling front-of-house mixing, monitor control, and streaming feeds
Christopher Shuler ⋅ Published: 08/05/2021
Photo above: Selah FOH Engineer Daniel Myers mixing sound on The Shepherd's Church's new DiGiCo Quantum338 during the group's August 1 concert (photo credit: Dan Riddle)
While The Shepherd's Church's faith is based squarely on the Bible, it also understands that some things do change. For instance, the Cary, NC-based church, founded in 1986 as Colonial Baptist Church, took on its current name on January 1 of this year after it was voted on with a 94-percent approval by the congregation, as Pastor Stephen Davey explains, to "clearly identify to Whom we belong and to Whom we serve: the Chief Shepherd of the church—Jesus Christ."
Another change that took place at that time was the installation of a new DiGiCo Quantum338 console, which included two SD-Racks (located onstage) and an SD-Mini Rack (used as additional I/O for monitoring), as well as a DMI-KLANG card for in-ear monitor mixing and a complete Waves processing package. With these new systems and platforms, the church has completely revamped its house and stage sound, bringing it, as Josh Beaddles, the church's AVL Ministry Technical Director, expresses it, "fully inside the DiGiCo ecosystem."
Volunteer A1 Jed Murphy manning the Q338 and KLANG:app for a recent worship service (credit: Amy Anthony)
The Quantum338 fulfills every purpose the church envisioned for its new console. Installed by Wake Forest, NC integrator PureMix, the desk's three displays allow the church's volunteer A1s to work on the board as a team when necessary, handling front-of-house and streaming mixes, as well as control of the KLANG IEM mixing system. That was the configuration for a series of local school graduation ceremonies hosted at the church, one of several types of events for which it allows the community access to its 1,200-seat worship center in a two-court gymnasium, part of its 30-acre campus. "We do a lot of different kinds of events in here," says Beaddles, pointing to an 18-foot-tall artificial volcano built on stage for one recent VBS production. "We needed a console that let us handle all of them as effectively as possible, and the Q338 does all that and more."
Discovering the Quantum338 was a three-year-long process that began when Beaddles and volunteer Doug Hester, the church's Systems Designer and Technician and who also mixes some Sunday services there, realized that the systems they had in place would soon no longer be viable, 15-year-old products orphaned by their manufacturers or unable to be adequately updated.
(L-R) Doug Hester, Jed Murphy, and Josh Beaddles at The Shepherd Church's new DiGiCo Quantum338 console
"Some Sundays we had to reboot the entire system just before the service," says Beaddles, who noted the strong sentiment that had developed around DiGiCo desks. They did their research and experienced a series of demos, which clinched the idea of choosing an SD-Range console, initially thought to be either an SD10 and SD5. "The way DiGiCo supports its products and its users was especially attractive to us, considering what we had been going through with our old console," says Hester.
Then, a momentary budget issue sidelined the process, and by the time it was resolved, the Quantum consoles had been introduced. The church's tech leadership saw the console's three LED displays and realized it was the perfect fit to simultaneously mix front of house, manage monitors, and build stems to feed their smaller streaming mixers. "Doing all that from a single console would be huge challenge for any system, but with its flexible internal routing and automation, the Q338 lets it happen," says Hester.
The Shepherd's Church is one of the latest houses of worship to upgrade to a DiGiCo Q338 for simultaneous FOH, monitor, and stream feed mixing (photo credit: Amy Anthony)
That same delay in the upgrade process during which the Quantum338 serendipitously appeared also saw the arrival of the DMI-KLANG, a version of the KLANG:fabrik IEM mixing system integrated into the Quantum338 via a card slot. The DMI-KLANG's FPGA architecture enables 16 immersive in-ear mixes for 16 musicians—The Shepherd's Church has at least a dozen onstage each Sunday—of 64 input channels single- and double-speed sampling rates at latency of a quarter of a millisecond. Integrated into a DMI card, it connects directly to the console's internal audio stream without any additional hardware I/O or overhead.
"We had been looking to also upgrade our stage monitoring, and in the time that the Q338 became available, DiGiCo had bought KLANG and the DMI-KLANG meant it could be integrated directly with the console," says Beaddles. Adds Hester, "We saw the DMI slot version as a bonus for us. The card supported more mixes and a higher channel count."
Finally, this ecosystem approach to the church's audio upgrade was extremely cost-effective, thanks to the Q338's flexibility and scalability, and its ability to integrate with KLANG and other systems, such as the Optocore fiber loop that the console and the SD-Racks ride on. A second network is used for Dante and control data, including for the KLANG system and the Shure ULXD wireless microphones.
"The other thing about the DiGiCo ecosystem is that we can expand on it," says Beaddles, who adds that the church is now looking at purchasing the recently-introduced KLANG:kontroller system. "We're embracing being part of that ecosystem, because it's made our workflow and our worship so much better."
For more details on The Shepherd's Church, visit www.shepherds.org. PureMix can also be found online at www.puremix.org.
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Bold Moves Each NFC South Team Could Make This Offseason
By Brian Rauf February 24, 2016
Each NFL team is tasked with making a large amount of moves every offseason, deciding which players to cut, who to sign, who to draft, who not to draft, etc. However, only a few of those decisions really move the needle, and these are moves that would certainly do that. Here's a bold move every NFC South team could make this offseason.
Sign DE Bruce Irvin
In a down year for pass rushers, Irvin is going to get paid. His contract could top $10 million per year, which the Falcons can easily afford - especially for a game-changer like Irvin. The team lacks a true pass rushing threat, and Irvin is just young enough that the team can justify signing him while they continue a rebuild. Plus, reuniting him with head coach Dan Quinn, who was the defensive coordinator with the Seahawks before joining the Falcons, would be a bonus.
Release DE Charles Johnson
Johnson was one of the biggest stars on this team when he recorded 44 sacks from 2010-2013, but he has seed his production dimish greatly of late. He only recorded one sack this past year, he's 30, and under contract for over $15 million next year. Carolina could cut him and still bring in one of the best defensive ends on the free agency market for a fraction of the cost.
Draft OLB/DE Jaylon Smith
Smith's draft position is complicated by a torn MCL and ACL. He would've been top five pick if he was totally healthy, but his injury could cause him to be limited during his rookie season (though he says he won't have to miss any time). Smith is a true hybrid that can play any linebacker position because of his freak athleticism. If he checks out medically, he's worth taking at No. 12. UCLA's Myles Jack is also worth thinking about, but he is also coming a torn ACL.
Sign DB Janoris Jenkins
Jenkins is a proven starter in this league, starting 58 of his 60 games played with the St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams over the course of his four-year rookie contract. He's a consistent back-end tackler with ten career interceptions on his resume, and he's a durable enough commodity to expect 15-16 games of top-level coverage work each year. Worth a multi-year look by the front office.
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Zahner Headquarters Expansion Inspires Collaboration A sneak peek at how our new space could help inspire your next project.
Summer 2018 was very productive for the Zahner R+D team with two interns joining from opposite ends of the United States. Burcin Nalinci, a Cal Poly/Sci Arc graduate and Michelle Menkiti, an MIT undergraduate, interned between our R+D and Advanced Manufacturing Departments. Their projects, Robot Assisted Welding and Moving Metal, tackled the complexities of manufacturing within the context of mass customization.
Welding is a difficult task- comprised of a complex balance of heat, speed, and tacit material knowledge. Zahner utilizes highly skilled craftspersons, some with decades of experience, to create non-repetitive welds of high aesthetic and structural value. In the project Robot Assisted Welding, intern Burcin Nalinci questions whether a collaborative robotic approach to welding could combine the speed and precision of robotics with the knowledge and craftsmanship of our existing welders. Such an approach would both increase what is possible for Zahner to weld while simultaneously removing costly layout and jigging setups required for complex parts.
Can a combined human + robot approach to welding streamline the fabrication process of complex assemblies by capitalizing on the strengths of each group?
The first project task was giving the robot a means of holding parts for welding. A search for low cost (<$1000) robot grippers proved inconclusive, so Burcin designed and 3D printed an air actuated robot 'gripper' for handling parts. Burcin's gripper tool (end effector) provided over 100lbs of grip strength and cumulatively cost under $100. Burcin found the design so helpful that she published it along with the bill of materials as open source and available here.
Once the robot had a means of holding material, the workflow and respective welder/robot tasks were delimited. The process was a coordinated team effort between a robot operator, a welder, and the robot arm itself.
The operation begins with the robot moving to a 'loading position' and opening the gripper, queuing the welder that it is time to load parts. The welder then loads the appropriate part per instructions on the robot teach pendant. After loading, the welder signals the robot that it is time to place the tab. The robot orients the part in the exact location along the pipe and holds it in position during welding. Once welding is complete the welder signals the robot to release the part and return to the loading position. This process repeats until all parts are welded.
Burcin discovered that this workflow removed many traditional engineering and fabrication tasks. No drawings or shop directives were required and no layout, drawing interpretation, or jigging/clamping was required by the welder. Once fabrication was completed, the robot assisted in quality control by conducting a 'verification pass', double checking that all parts were placed in the correct orientations. For a place like Zahner that often has 1,000's of unique assemblies, these savings add up quickly.
Intern Burcin Nalinci conducting positioning tests on a formed stainless steel part.
One of the challenges of working with robotics on non-repetitive parts is calibration between the physical parts and digital representations. Deviations between the two can cause the robot to crash and/or produce bad parts, neither desirable outcomes. To counter this, a workflow was developed to quickly reorient robot instruction files to coarsely positioned structural pipes so they could quickly be adapted to account for fabrication and positioning tolerances. Simply put, as long as the physical parts were positioned close, the robot could make them perfect without additional engineering.
Each new architectural project presents Zahner with a new and different challenge, we've had to develop an agile production strategy to respond to the varying project requirements and ambitions. Robots are flexible by nature, "generalist" machines capable of performing a diversity of tasks. Changing the end effector on a robot immediately changes its functionality while maintaining the same programming logic. Zahner's R&D group works diligently to increase their fluency in robot programming- making low cost, quick turnaround automation techniques like Robot Assisted Welding possible. This flexible approach to manufacturing further expands Zahner's fabrication repertoire and in turn what is possible to build.
Intern Michelle A. Menkiti, an architecture undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined the team for 10 weeks to delve into and investigate how metals and materials move around the Zahner facilities. With Zahner's continually expanding work portfolio, and a finite amount of production space, Menkiti's challenge was to observe current storage and movement methods and then explore ways of improving them. Throughout the summer, Menkiti's main case study was a 1M+ sqft project in active production- the main question posed to Menkiti was- Where is everything?
At any one point in time Zahner is actively producing 50-80 architectural projects, often composed of tens of thousands of unique parts. Michelle's project 'Moving Metal' targeted the visualization of these shifting entities as both raw goods and finished parts.
To visualize the current state of a Zahner project, data from traditionally separate workstreams needed to be combined. By mapping our inventory database, shipping system, and manufacturing schedule- Michelle was able to generate a company cross section in time. These visualizations were then used as a 3-dimensional diagram of Zahner's status quo as it changed minute to minute.
Michelle filtered through disparate materials and scheduled production activities by developing tools in Python, Rhino, and Grasshopper. Linked to Zahner's company database, these tools produced near realtime information on material location, processing information, schedule, and overlapping activities.
The tools created for the Moving Metal project helped to improve transparency between Zahner departments, making Zahner more efficient and competitive. Future work will build on Michelle's proof of concept tools to be utilized by the larger engineering teams.
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Our team culture is incredibly important to us. Every office is slightly different – but there's always an emphasis on events and activities that make people feel welcome and included.
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Our support team stays ahead of all our product and service developments – then finds innovative ways to support our clients.
Adoption of SMS by businesses is spiralling – and there's lots more industry innovation in the pipeline. Marketers have huge opportunities to make their names with us.
Managing the direction of our products and services is crucial – analyzing our market and customer needs shapes the future of our business. Think of it as running your own mini-business within OpenMarket.
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n Monday, the World Meteorological Organization released another reminder of the planetary predicament we're in: The earth's atmosphere permanently passed the 400 parts per million (ppm) threshold last year.
It's the first year in human history where carbon dioxide levels have reached the symbolic milestone for an entire year. But it certainly won't be the last as humans continue to treat the atmosphere as a waste dump for carbon pollution.
You might have heard that the world reached the 400 ppm milestone permanently this September. And it did, according to data collected at Mauna Loa Observatory, which is considered the gold standard for carbon dioxide monitoring. But it's not the only place in the world where scientists are monitoring carbon dioxide.
The WMO monitors a network of 123 stations from pole to pole. And because carbon dioxide doesn't mix evenly in the atmosphere, some have been well above 400 ppm for awhile while others have only reached the plateau for a few months a year recently. Average them together over the year and voila, you have a recipe for a more complete snapshot of the entire atmosphere.
The impacts of climate change are only expected to get worse unless we slow our carbon dioxide emissions. And yet those emissions continue to rise at an increasingly rapid pace, eating away at the carbon budget. It's not a pretty picture. Human's penchant for burning fossil fuels has increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere 144 percent since the start of the Industrial Revolution. That's caused global temperatures to cross the 1.5°C threshold for a few months this year, sea levels to increase nearly a foot, heat waves to become more intense and oceans to become more acidic, among other impacts.
Aided in part by 2015's strong El Niño — but driven mostly by fossil fuel use — the jump in carbon dioxide last year was the largest annual increase on record. It's a record but in line with trends as the growth of the global economy has coincided with an increase in fossil fuel use and carbon emissions.
The WMO warned that those rates could increase even more dramatically in the future. That's because the planet's natural carbon dioxide sinks — trees, plants, soil and the oceans — could eventually fill up. They've currently absorbed about half of all human carbon pollution to date. If they start to fill up, though, carbon dioxide will back up into the atmosphere and speed up the transformation of the planet.
Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas piling up in the atmosphere. Methane and nitrous oxide — which together with carbon dioxide and chlorofluorocarbons account for 96 percent of all greenhouse gas warming — also reached record annual highs in 2015.
The only sliver of good news is that a few chlorofluorocarbons have declined slightly. That's due in part to the Montreal Protocol, which was focused on limiting these gases — used largely for air conditioning — because of their effect on the ozone hole. Their replacements are even more potent greenhouse gases (which also hit a record high this year), but a new agreement signed earlier in October will limit their use in the coming years.
The report comes out a few weeks ahead of international climate talks in Morocco. It's a good reminder to negotiators of what's already been done to the atmosphere and what's at stake if the world doesn't change its carbon polluting ways.


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Still the weekend morning all --- had a dream that i got up for work !
had a dream that i got up for work !
Morning all overcast here looks like rain.
Gareth, how's the decking coming on ?????
Anyone on here into PC Gaming at all?
Sun is shining here.... grass has been cut, car is still clean, time to put the feet up!!
I'm off out now mate, todays meet is going to be rather small me thinks!
Ok Phill, see ya later, enjoy your meet!
afternoon all! japanese car show on today here and of course all the people with cars i no are working today noooooo!!
Who's the guys and (perhaps) girls that like PC games? If so, perhaps a chat in the chat room later would be good?
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Narcissistic leaders poison their organizations for decades
A new study suggests companies would do well by screening for narcissistic personality types in hiring and promotion processes.
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By Arianne Cohen 1 minute Read
If you want a preview of the post-Trump era, you might read Jennifer Chatman's latest paper out of the Berkeley Haas School of Business. It shows that narcissistic leaders inflict long-lasting damage on their organizations, which continues many years after they depart.
Le sigh.
Chatman and her coauthors are finishing a timely series of studies on narcissistic leaders. The latest finds that narcissistic leaders "infect" work cultures, resulting in less collaboration and integrity throughout the rank and file.
"It's about the leader creating a culture that induces people to act less ethically and less collaboratively than they would otherwise," says Chatman. Interestingly, some of the most harmful, long-lasting impacts come from what they don't do, such as not implementing policies to curb unethical behavior or pay disparities.
The previous studies found that narcissistic leaders are often initially perceived as charismatic and transformational, and slowly reveal themselves to be exploitative and self-absorbed, as well as overconfident, dishonest, grandiose, credit-stealing, and blame-throwing. Sound familiar?
Among coworkers, they leave a trail of ignored advice, conflict, and abuse, and are known for taking credit for success, which leads to a number of long-term problems. Those include low morale, low worker confidence, unfair pay disparities, and a culture of blame. In corporate settings, these leaders commonly embroil their companies in legal action.
For those not already living in narcissist hellfire, the future avoidance strategy is to screen for narcissistic personality types in hiring and promotion processes. Chatman says this best done by calling a range of peers and coworkers for references.


Your big tabby Benny values his gleaming white teeth. First, they come in handy for gnawing on his soft cat toys. He also uses his impressive choppers to efficiently crunch his kibbles and hiss at your rebellious teenaged cat. To keep his teeth healthy, your Colorado Springs, CO veterinarian gives him regular dental exams and cleanings. This professional dental care helps Benny to avoid harmful dental disease.
You don't want Benny to develop dangerous periodontitis, the most common feline dental problem. This uncomfortable condition begins when plaque, a soft blend of food, bacteria, and saliva, attacks your cat's teeth and gums. If this ailment isn't immediately addressed, it hardens into tartar; and this can lead to tooth and root tissue irritation.
First, you'll notice reddish-looking gum tissues, or gingivitis. Next, your cat's compromised teeth could develop infections or abscesses. He could experience pain, bleeding, terrible breath, and even tooth loss. Worse yet, bacteria could migrate into his gum tissues, eventually reaching his bloodstream. These nasty organisms might attack his heart and kidneys.
Your poor cat's mouth can be hounded by FORLs, or feline odontoclastic resorptive lesions. Known as "kitty cavities," these lesions form on teeth sides near the gum lines. The cavities can eventually erode your cat's tooth, possibly even causing a fracture. He could also suffer from painful, severely inflamed gums and/or a tooth pulp infection.
During each physical checkup, your vet carefully examines Benny's teeth and gums. He immediately handles emerging problems. However, if your cat has difficulty eating, starts to drool, or has atrocious breath, take him to the vet without delay.
If Benny has tartar buildup or gingivitis, the vet will likely schedule him for a complete dental cleaning. While your feline housemate happily snoozes under anesthesia, the vet gently cleans each tooth, even under gum lines. Your lucky cat also receives a beneficial tooth polish, making it harder for debris to stick to his choppers.
Your Colorado Springs, CO veterinarian will demonstrate how to safely brush Benny's teeth at home. Always use feline-friendly toothpaste, as human paste will annoy his mouth and stomach.
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Starbucks to Eliminate Trans Fats in China
Starbucks Corp., the world's biggest coffee-shop chain, said it will remove unhealthy trans fatty acids from its products in China within the next six months, following moves in the US.
"We're very optimistic about it," Eden Woon, China vice president for Starbucks Corp., said in an interview with Bloomberg in Shanghai today. "Our target is that within six months, we'll get trans fats down to zero in China."
Starbucks will also accelerate store expansion in places such as Beijing, western Chengdu and Xi'an, ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games, Woon said.
The Seattle-based company now has 230 stores on China's mainland, which is expected to become its biggest market outside of the United States.
Starbucks reformulated drinks, syrups and baked goods over the past two years to eliminate trans fats, which have been linked to heart disease, spokesman Brandon Borrman said on January 2.
Starbucks required more than half its company-owned stores in US cities to cut trans fats by January 3 and the remaining stores to do so by the end of this year.
Rival Yum! Brands Inc., the owner of KFC Corp., and McDonald's Corp. have both stated that their products in China don't contain trans fats, which were banned by The New York City Board of Health last year.
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How To Solve Major Problems of Windows 10
by Lola Pither on August 13, 2019
A lot of us have been a user of Windows 98 ever since, and even though sometimes we work on a Mac, we will eventually realize that Windows is still better because of its features and the software being user friendly. In addition to that, it has the broadest app support compared to other operating system and app.
In 2015, Windows 1o was introduced, and ever since that time it improved a lot in many aspects. It is the best option for gamers, and if you want to build your own computer, it is basically your only option. In 2017, Windows already overtook Windows 7 as the most-used desktop operating system in the world. But of course, nothing's perfect and WIndows 10 has a long way to go.
Because of the numerous issues Windows 10 is facing, a lot website that provide possible problems and solutions exist, just like Meltcomics. They provide a list of the common problems Windows 10 encounter and the possible ways on how to troubleshoot it.
The most obvious issues in Windows 10 are with the design. Windows 8 was a huge design change, but Microsoft went too far towards touch, which made traditional desktop work cumbersome. With Windows 10, Microsoft combined the looks of Windows 7 and 8. The Start menu and notifications got a refresher, we lost the Charms menu from Windows 8, and Windows apps stuck around. But this combination of styles and functions caused a slew of design inconsistencies across the UI. There's a big difference in appearance between modern Windows apps and classic Windows.
There are a lot of thigs you may not know about Windows 10.But with Windows 10, Microsoft is slowly replacing the Metro Design used in Windows 8 with what it calls Fluent Design. However, a lot of these apps just look like they could not decide between touch and mouse input. These two designs are way too different to try to combine together. There are a lot of huge gaps, and buttons often don't do what you expect them to do.
Basically, even with all these issues, Windows 10 is still a great operating system being loved by a lot of people. Microsoft introduced great new features like improved app snapping, virtual desktops, and improved touch support, and the company's plan for Windows 10 as a service where users receive free regular updates, like Mac OS, gives it the potential to be the best version of Windows yet


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A Son of Slaves Still Fights For Human Rights
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The campaign to abolish slavery in the U.S. might be over, but globally the problem persists. In Mali, one descendant of servitude is taking up the fight to help others become free.
While slavery was abolished in Mali after independence from the French in 1960, there are still more than 800,000 victims of slave cast identity, which means their status as slaves is passed down from their parents. Call it slavery by inheritance. The reason? There is no law formally forbidding the institution. The practice of slavery has never been officially criminalized.
It's estimated that nearly a quarter of a million free-born people are still under direct control of their "masters." These modern day slaves cook, clean, fetch water, and more, but are unable to break free from the shackles of imposed servitude. They're beaten and denied payment for countless hours of intensive labor, and this stubborn caste system denies them rights to an education and other basic human rights.
This, of course, has wide-ranging social, economic, cultural and political complications.
Ibrahim Ag Idbaltanat, a descendent of slaves himself, born to a black Tuareg family in northeastern Mali, has been championing human rights and equity since the late 1970s, after becoming aware of injustices against families of slave descent by traditional slave masters, including physical violence and the confiscation of both land and herds of cattle. In 1987, Ag Idbaltanat founded the citizen sector organization GARI to champion equal rights for all. Six years ago, in 2006, he founded Temedt to continue his fight against discrimination and to redfine what it means to be Tuareg; Ag Ilbaltanat continues to provide legal support to victims of slavery and lobby for legal reform and socio-political stability.
Ag Idbaltanat, an Ashoka Fellow, and his human rights organization (which means "solidarity" in Tamasheq, the language spoken by Tuareg Berbers) received the 2012 Anti-Slavery Award in London a few weeks ago for their "outstanding dedication and groundbreaking work towards ending slavery in Mali." Anti-Slavery International has recognized one brave individual or organization that personifies the fight against slavery every year since 1991.
"We believe we are the patriots to talk about a central problem in Mali," said Ag Idbaltanat. "It is something that pervades society, it has an impact on democracy, it excludes people from basic services and it is a factor in the conflict now.
"In a society where slavery exists, there is no justice and the law of the strongest prevails. Where there is slavery, there is stratification of society, subdivisions, frustration and tension. The state pits different groups against each other and the Islamists exploit the frustration against the feudal system."
"It is with great emotion that I extend my deepest thanks and those of Temedt to the organization that has long pioneered the global fight against slavery, Anti-Slavery International," Ag Idbaltanat said during his acceptance speech. "It has chosen to give its prestigious award to a 'Bellah'—as we call the people of slave descent in Mali. This sends a strong message to all Malians, and to Temedt members in particular.
"The slave population is already defenseless; it will become even more so as the conflict intensifies," Ag Idbaltanat told The Guardian. "We are like the straw that will be trampled underfoot when elephants fight."
Despite the obvious dangers, particularly with increased attention as an anti-slavery activist and a challenger to dominant slave-owning groups who are looking to settled "old scores," Ag Idbaltanat, Temedt and its 30,000 members believe in his vision for nation building and regional change in North Africa. The group encourages public dialogue about slavery by inviting government officials, representatives from citizen sector and white Tuareg leaders to participate in community meetings and public forums. Temedt's events are highly publicized, which pressures even the most reluctant community members to participate in constructive discussion.
In addition to these forums, Temedt has opened field offices across the country, which serve to peacefully disrupt Mali's discriminatory socio-political system. Black Tuareg communities are supported in obtaining property rights, among the greatest assets of the world's poor, and are offered access to schooling and microcredit programs, which help them reach their full potential through economic development. Ad Idbaltanat trusts in his collaborative approach to provide defenseless Temedt members and other citizens with protection, particularly in light of the rebellion in northern Mali, led by white Tuareg separatists with ties to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Temedt's programming and increasing political clout aren't a cure for all the evils in war-torn Mali, but they're a start to a movement to finally criminalize the practice of slavery in the country.
"In Mali, the belief that human beings are not equal is deeply ingrained, almost a cultural value," Ag Idbaltanat said. "Deconstructing such ideas and beliefs requires a great deal of perseverance and self-sacrifice."
This story, written by John Converse Townsend, was originally published on Change in the Making, Ashoka's channel on Forbes.com.
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Me:A solid 7. Just be glad he does this only once.
Or the white text on the light background. I got nose-prints on my screen trying to read the dialogue.
I'd give it a five, not really enough to cause too much trouble on it's own, but definitly able to fuel other nightmares you might have.
Q: On a scale of 1 to 10, how wrong is using scales from one to 10?
The right way is scales from ZERO to 10. (Just have to say it. I can't stand the atrocity that 1 to 10 is).
Also wrong, scales from -5 to 5 are the way to go. Having the "neutral" response be zero has desirable statistical properties.
The page as a whole? Zero. Just the last panel? Maybe a 5. About on par with a General Mumble song.
Goddamn, I know the feeling. There's nothing worse than having something be *almost* perfect. If it was farther off, you could just brush it off.
But 99%. Being so close as to be within groping distance of something absolutely perfect. That's just frustrating.
I feel for you, man. But take heart: this was still an amazing page.
Nice, Spud! By the way, for my special Halloween thing, I might not be ready in time. I thought I'd write a nice little horror story.
Also, I like the use of filters.
Storytime: Anyone do special holiday sessions of their games? Like Call of Cthulu on Halloween, or fighting Santa Claus on Christmas? I have a session coming up today I'm thinking of inserting a few horror elements in (maybe a ghost). Unfortunately, the party is presently in the desert, facing a dragon. Might be tricky.
Many years ago a group for a Supers campaign actually played out a slice-of-life Christmas session. They bought decorations, held a Secret Santa event, and even fought off mobs of holiday shoppers and would-be thieves to keep the local mall orderly. I didn't do much, the players did most of the work there.
I did a Halloween-ish festival in the game I'm running two weeks ago (closest to Halloween that everyone was available). It was a no-combat session so everyone could relax and I could catch up on designing the next map.
I'm actually planning on doing a freeform RP game with my new IRL D&D group. I'm thinking either a Silent Hill setup, or something based off my own stories, where a trickster god with a hidden agenda puts several individuals through a puzzle-and-horror-filled labyrinth of a castle with its own Genius Loci. Think "The Cube" with a gothic horror theme.
...Considering it's in two days, I really ought to prepare for either one. Might I consult you good readers for advice?
How about a slightly twisted, offputting version of ponyville, where everyone always smiles, and espouses friendship?
"Friends help each other, so I'm going to help you become friends with everyone in town, even the mayor! The mayor is very important! She's responsible for spreading happiness to all the citizens!"
Eventually, the party learns that pain is happiness, and love and friendship are all about spreading kindness and happiness to others. The mayor's house has all manner of torture devices, both physical and psychological. Everyone is so brainwashed, or so insane, that if they ever hurt another pony, or break a rule, they immediately report to her to be loved until their sins have been cleansed.
Eventually, they meet the true monster in town. The midwife. When a foal is born, the mother is torn apart, by hand, as she sings a lullaby to her child with her dying breaths. He skin is ripped off, and her organs are crushed by hoof and yanked out, starting with least vital organs, and ending with her heart being wrenched free, after each of her ribs is pulled out, one by one. The heart is used to nurse the infant until it can be weaned.
I could go on, but I'm sure you get the idea.
Sounds like a Wednesday thing. In all seriousness, not that bad. It kind of makes sense when you think about it (or atleast the town's folk and the mayor). In fact, it sounds like the city is full of masochists, one non-leathal and one murderous sadists.
... Why do I keep thinking that I would be a friend of the mayor, weird.
@Raxon: That seems... over-the-top. At least the midwife part.
Also, slight contradiction: "pain is happiness" "if they ever hurt another pony" Hmm.
Okay, how about if they ever break a rule?
Also, it's less about them being masochists, and more about them having been tortured, drugged, and brainwashed. It's pretty obvious that none of them want to break rules and need to be "loved". Also, they are not allowed to bring harm to each other. Think the town from The Cutie Map, but with behavior reinforced through actual, horrific torture.
In other words, imagine a town run by Granny Goodness. She's basically the goddess of torture and child abuse.
@Raxon: The midwife part doesn't really make sense. Killing every mare that births a foal is a waste and would quickly turn it into a town with almost only stallions. It's not a sustainable situation. I also think it's too much "blood and gore" type of horror.
Also, I'm pretty sure that brainwashing an entire town wouldn't really work unless you're talking about supernatural means with literal mind control. And if they're as brainwashed as it seems they are, them even breaking rules doesn't seem possible. If they had the presence of mind to break a rule, they would not be perfectly brainwashed and probably wouldn't seek out punishment.
Here's an idea: Instead of the body horror of how families (don't) come to be, let the family ties in that town be really very strong. If anyone breaks a rule, the rest of the family brings them before the mayor to be "loved". The victim could be a dissenter, like a rebellious child.
In this case, them getting brought before the mayor, tortured and further brainwashed would not be a case of the brainwashing failing for an oddly specific amount of time, but as consequence to familial pressure.
As an added bonus, this could also be used to enforce the idea that the brainwashing is not just something done by the mayor to the town's populace, but mostly something done by each family as a whole to every individual family member.
It would also mean that killing the mayor would not help at all. It's human nature to want to believe that there is a root to all evil, but if you took that away from the players (possibly with the added gut-punch of it actually getting WORSE when they kill the mayor), I believe it would be much scarier.
Edit: Wrote this comment before seeing your last one, but I think it still applies, especially with subverting the players' idea that there is one person at the center of it all. Let them _believe_ that. Let them be _convinced_ that all this brainwashing and torture business is done solely at the behest of the mayor. Maybe the aforementioned rebellious child could echo that sentiment, believing, in their childish naiveté, that everything would be better if the mayor was gone.
And then, they kill the mayor and... nothing changes. And maybe it gets even worse. At least the mayor was careful to treat the victims' injuries afterwards and to never kill them, for example.
Edit2: Of course, this doesn't explain how the brainwashing first came to be, but I'm sure you can think of something. Maybe it WAS initially supernatural. An experiment gone wrong. Whatever. Thing is, it would only require one generation of ponies to be affected by it for it to become self-sustaining. If everyone in the town was suddenly and magically brainwashed, new foals would grow up already brainwashed by their parents with no further supernatural influence.
Hell, as an added twist, it could be that the community discovered that some families were rather a bit overzealous with their "love". A dead or almost-dead foal is too much of a liability. So, maybe, after a few generations, they created the position of mayor specifically to handle those brainwashing duties in a "safe" manner. And by killing the mayor, the party reset the town to the pre-mayor state. Nice job breaking it, heroes. Until the town instates someone else as mayor, of course, and it all goes back to the way it was before.
I like it! Stealing this for my brainwashed slave factory setting. Basic premise is that hundreds of years ago, an enterprising man had the idea to pull a railroad trick. He advertised room and board for factory workers, plus good quality women to sleep with and settle down with. Well, workers signed up in droves!
They never saw it coming, but the factory was built on an island, far off the coast, in treacherous waters. There was no escape from the island, and within fifty years, they were all brainwashed. Anyone dissenting or causing trouble was immediately dragged by guards to a dark room. A magical room with no light, or sound, even your own voice is silent. There is no feeling of touch, either, there's just no sensory input whatsoever.
Well, eventually, the factory owner died, but nobody ever knew of the factory, so the workers, not knowing what to do with nothing coming in or going out, could not bear the thought of not working, or worse, being sent to a dark room. Naturally, they devised a way to fix that. Disassemble the items they made, and then reassemble them on the line.
And this is where the party will be finding themselves, this island with the useless factory. Where food is summoned via cleric spells, and young girls are schooled in domestic duties, while young boys are taught day in and day out, every facet of the job they were born to do.
Nobody knows how to speak anymore, except as is related to their duties, and the most basic necessities. Everything revolves around the factory. Basically, their goal is to find a way off the island. It's like the people have lost all will to live, but have no choice, because the factory is always top priority.
What I'm expecting is "This place is insane and depressing. Let's get the hell out of here."
Not entirely sure why ComicFury ate my post. Suffice it to say... I'd say that's a tad excessive, Raxon. Mostly the midwife bit.
... Perhaps in the future, I should hold off on writing horror right after playing a horror game.
How does the population ever remain stable?
I have no idea. I wrote the whole thing after a horror game session, and my mind tends to be a little effed up after those.
Pretty sure I already mentioned the time we got polymorphed into turkeys by a witch around Thanksgiving. Not even regular turkeys, but cartoonishly proportioned extra-clumsy turkeys... While the local village was about to start the traditional turkey hunt component of their annual harvest festival.
My Ranger was very upset that he had to gut some hunting hounds with his stubby turkeylegs. The witch died screaming in a thousand pieces for that one.
Oh my gosh, is this a Story of the Blanks thing?
Personal bad news: I missed whatever drama the rest of you are talking about.
I guess that means Pinky found Applejack in the toilet.
I think she found the toilet so well she didn't even notice AJ, actually.
It appears we have luckily managed to miss the conjunction by one update. One does not even want to wonder what would happen if it all aligned properly... The damage done would be probably irreparable.
2) Speaking of Trains anypony else notice the Home Alone and Trains Planes and Automobiles refrence on the train?
anyway's as all of you know unless you've been living under a Rock ( -_- ) is that this Saturday is Halloween and The Leaked Episode of MLP from like a month ago is the episode that airs on Halloween. So Scare Master is the next episode aka episode 21 so we shall discuss it next week.
As someone who grew up and went to school with a good mix of Amish and German Baptists, I found this episode hilarious.
Cap'n the internet can't handle any more ships! If we engage now, the cannon will get us for sure!
Oh good, I didn't care for the zalgo page.
Should've left that up for the day; not everybody is here the moment the comic updates.
Awwwwww. I missed the filterpasta version that was up for an hour!
Sigggghhhhhh. It's necessary sometimes for the DM to NPC a PC in order to move the story along... but sometimes... sometimes I wish they didn't have to.
If it's not too late for storytime: Tell of a time when a GM NPC'd a PC! And the terrible (or hilarious) shenanigans that resulted!
FUN FACT:Satan's number is actually NOT 666. It's actually 616.
There's dispute on that, but let's just go with whichever one has become ingrained in our popular culture.
For anyone actually interested and not just being pedantic, here's some education.
Isn't the Exact quote "Let him who has wisdom calculate the number of the beast, for it is also the Number of Man; and the number is six hundred three score and six."?


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Edinburgh Summer Sessions
Accessible Tickets & Accessible Facilities
We want Edinburgh Summer Sessions to be an event that is accessible for all!
Please note: Edinburgh Summer Sessions is an all standing event and there is a set capacity on the Accessible Platform.
How to buy Accessible Tickets
Customers can purchase Accessible tickets online through Ticketmaster by selecting a Wheelchair/Ambulant Platform Access ticket.
Change 'Ticket Quantity' to 1 Wheelchair/Ambulant Platform Access ticket (Free Companion ticket must be added at the time of booking)
We expect demand to be high and tickets to sell out quickly on-line. Alternatively, customers can purchase accessible tickets and register for a free Personal Assistant ticket first via Ticketmaster on Accessibility line on 0800 988 4440 (or 00 44 161 637 2697 if you're outside the UK).
Please do not buy a ticket for your Personal Assistant (PA). Customers are required to register and apply for access to the Accessible Facilities and/or a free Personal Assistant (PA) Ticket. (One person will be allowed one free Personal Assistant ticket to ensure fairness amongst all accessible customers unless otherwise pre-agreed due to accessibility requirements, please get in touch with the Ticketmaster Access Team if you require more than one PA ticket)
For customers who require a PA/Companion to attend the event but do not need access to the Accessible Platform please contact the Ticketmaster Accessible Team to request this.
By purchasing an accessible ticket, you confirm you or a member of your party require this position. The accessible ticket policy limits one free carer ticket to each accessible ticket purchased. Proof of eligibility/disability must be provided before the event, if you bought tickets online, you will be contacted by Ticketmaster no later than 72 hours after your order. Tickets may be cancelled if misuse is suspected/found.
The Accessible Tickets and Facilities are not for the use of people with temporary impairments or circumstances such as broken bones, healing wounds or pregnancy.
If you have a speech or hearing impairment and you want to contact us directly, we welcome calls via RNID typetalk on: 0333 321 3122Please do not buy a ticket for your Personal Assistant (PA). Customers are required to call the Ticketmaster Accessible line on 0800 988 4440 to request a free Personal Assistant (PA) Ticket. (One person will be allowed one free Personal Assistant ticket unless otherwise pre-agreed due to accessibility requirements)
Ticketmaster Accessible Team Opening Hours:
Saturday: 10.30am to 3:30pm.
Using our Accessible Facilities
To ensure we have the correct level of facilities such as Accessible Toilets, Blue Badge Parking etc. we ask customers to apply for the access facilities they require. Please only complete the Accessible Facilities Survey if you have bought your ticket through Ticketmaster.
You can access the Accessible Application Survey by clicking
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/EdinburghSummerSessions2021/
The access facilities are not for the use of people with temporary impairments or circumstances such as broken bones, healing wounds or pregnancy. Customers concerned with any of these points can contact our Accessibility Coordinator on accesED@SMMRsessions.com Please let us know in advance of the show if you have any specific access requirements for attending the show.
We want our customers to enjoy their visit to our shows, but we appreciate that we may not cover everything you need or wish to know about the event. If you have any questions, then please don't hesitate to get in touch prior to the event with our Access Coordinator by emailing accessED@smmrsessions.com to discuss your requirements for attending the festival or you can call us on 0141 566 4999, this line is open from 10am - 6pm on Monday through to Friday.
On show days, accessED@smmrsessions.com will not be monitored, however, if you arrive at the event then please approach a Steward, Supervisor or a member of the Customer Access Team for assistance and they will do their best to help you.
Please note that flicker, laser, strobe and other lighting effects may be used during performance.
Smoking/Vaping is not permitted on the Accessible Viewing Platform
Please note that for safety reasons, we advise customers on the Accessible Platform to remain on the platform when the show ends for a short period of time
Stewards and Customer Access Team will be able to assist and direct to Accessible Platform
Please don't bring a bag unless it is absolutely essential. Bags larger than 30cm x 42cm (the size of a sheet of A3 paper) will NOT be permitted at Summer Sessions. Those who need to bring bags may be separated into bag search lanes, and could be delayed as a result of longer queues
You and your Carer will be applicable to search on entry, which may include your wheelchair
The platform is not covered so please dress appropriately for the ever-changing Scottish weather!
Umbrellas are not permitted.
If you have an 'I Can't Wait' card please present this to the stewards for quick access to the toilets
Please report any spillages on the Accessible Viewing Platform to Stewards
Please feel free to bring your own Ear Plugs
Free water is available at bars for customers
ENTRY TO THE EVENT
There is a dedicated Accessible Entrance point which is accessed from King's Stables Road. This Entrance will allow for step free access into the grounds. We will have Stewards and members of the Customer Access Team available to direct you to the Accessible Viewing Area or wherever else you may wish to go. Please note that, from King's Stables Road entry point to the Viewing Areas is around 550 meters
On arrival at the Accessible Entrance, please show your ticket to the Stewards who are supervising this entrance. You will then be directed to the Accessible Wristbanding Area and be provided with the relevant wristband that you require for the Accessible Platform or Accessible toilets..
There will be a designated Viewing Area available at Summer Sessions in Princes Street Gardens. We recommend that Customers who have mobility impairments seek assistance from their Carer in order to access this area. There is stepped access into the Gardens from Princes Street. There are 32 steps from the West End of Princes Street and 47 steps from the Mound Entrance. Within the arena, the paths towards the West of the Gardens have a lesser gradient than those in the East of the Gardens with large parts of the Gardens being grass covered.
Access Customers can enter the Gardens from a designated accessible entrance on King's Stables Road. Most of the route to the Viewing Area is served by a concrete pedestrian walkway within the Gardens. Please note that the distance from King's Stables Road entrance is a longer route to the Viewing Area. The final part of the journey to the Viewing Area is a slow gradual gradient. The journey from the Accessible Entrance to the Viewing Platform is roughly 530 meters.
There will be Accessible Toilets available by the Viewing Area which will be readily available for Accessible Customers as well as toilets around the site which can be utilised by Accessible Customers.
We will provide a drinks service to the Viewing Area for Accessible Customers.
KEY DISTANCES
Stage Viewing Platform to VIP
Accessible Entrance (Kings Stable Road) to Stage Viewing Platform
West Entrance to Stage Viewing Platform
East Entrance to Stage Viewing Platform
West Entrance to Accessible Entrance (Kings Stable Road)
East Entrance to Accessible Entrance (Kings Stable Road)
Accessible Parking (Kings Stable Road) to Accessible Entrance
Customers can bring any medication that they require. If it is not easily recognisable as medication (e.g. Asthma inhalers, Nurofen, EpiPens) then please bring a prescription or a Doctor's letter with you.
As food and drink are prohibited items, Customers with a medical condition who require to bring food/sugary drinks are welcome to contact us in advance to allow us to make suitable arrangements for you or, alternatively, you can present yourself to a Security Supervisor on the day of the show who will be able to assist you further but this may cause a slight delay to your entry.
If you need to store your medication in a fridge then please let the Accessibility Coordinator know before the show on accessED@smmrsessions.com. If you are not able to let us know before the show then you can present yourself to a Security Supervisor on the day of the show who will contact First Aid to make suitable arrangements for you.
Please note that delays may occur due to bag searching, so we request that all Customers be patient with Security.
PLAN YOUR TRAVEL
There is an Accessible Parking Area for Customers who have registered in advance of the show to use this facility on King's Stables Road. Stewards will be briefed to allow the respective Customers on to this road in order to park. Accessible Parking is limited, so please advise us before arrival if you're looking to use this facility. Please note that this will be operated on a first come, first served basis.
ACCESSIBLE DROP OFF AND PICK UP
For customers who are looking to be picked up or dropped off at the show are to arrange for this to be done either in the NCP car park by Edinburgh Castle or at the junction of King's Stables Road and Lothian Road
If you would like to attend the show by train, the Mound Entrance is approximately 400 meters from Edinburgh Waverley Train Station. The dedicated Accessible Entrance, which is step free, on King's Stables Road is approximately 1.5km from Edinburgh Waverley.
STAGE EFFECTS
Flickering light effect, lasers, strobing, pyrotechnics and other effects may be used during performances. Some of these will look and sound very similar to fireworks. Some will have no visual element but will make a very loud crack or bang noise. Please note that the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo will be taking place in the Castle Grounds, immediately behind our stage. As part of their event, there will be a military fly past and pyrotechnic effects. Foam ear plugs can be provided on request.
CUSTOMER ACCESS TEAM
The Customer Access Team are there to assist you. The team will have members at the car park close to the Accessible Entrance and on the Viewing Platform where they will be wearing orange 'Accessible Platform' hi-vis, so they will be easily identifiable should you require any assistance.
First Aid and Medical provision will be in place for all shows. If you require assistance, please alert the nearest Steward of member of Event Staff.
The Accessible Information Guide will be sent out 3-4 weeks before the event with some more information.


A World War Two observation post at Beeston Regis Hill is visible on aerial photographs taken during the 1940s. In 1941 photographs it appears as an octagonal embankment or walled structure surrounded by a ditch. By 1946 the structure was built of concrete. A trench or channel links the emplacement to a large system of slit trenches (NHER 38279) to the south. All that survives above ground is the concrete base of the structure.
April 1985. Summit of hill.
Polygonal concrete base of demolished pillbox. Other foundations to west may or may not be connected.
E. Rose (NAU), 15 August 1994.
Rare 1940/41 structure, thought to be observation point. Channel running across floor, possibly for range finder, searchlight or other equipment needing power.
D. Walker (NLA), July 1996.
The site of a World War Two observation post on Beeston Regis Hill, Sheringham, approximately located at TG 1678 4329. This site forms part of the World War Two coastal defences on the hill (NHER 38279) which are visible on aerial photographs from the 1940s (S2 to S3). Please refer to record NHER 38279 for further details.
On aerial photographs from 1941 an octagonal embankment or walled structure is visible, measuring approximately 5m across (S2). This is surrounded by an outer ditch. This octagonal emplacement has an opening to the south, through which a trench or channel runs down to the south, linking to a larger slit trench system (NHER 38279). On the RAF aerial photographs from 1946 (S3) at approximately the same location is a concrete octagonal structure, which has the appearance of a pillbox, or the aforementioned observation post. It seems likely that this is the same structure at a later stage of construction or use. The associated trenches are no longer clearly visible.
S. Massey (NMP), 29 March 2004.
See 2004 Norfolk Rapid Coastal Survey entries NHER 41557, NHER 41558 and NHER 41559.
December 2004. Land-based fieldwork phase of the Norfolk Rapid Coastal Survey. NHER 41017, area A16, context 21.
Concrete and brick base for a Second World War pillbox, located on the top of Beeston Bump at TG 16777 43306.
See (S4) for further details.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 6 December 2007.
<S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1941. RAF S/378 66-7 07-AUG-1941 (NMR).
<S3> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1571 3179-80 07-JUN-1946 (Norfolk SMR TG 1542B, TG 1642A).
<S4> Unpublished document: Robertson, D., Crawley, P., Barker, A., and Whitmore, S.. 2005. NAU Report No. 1045. Norfolk Rapid Coastal Zone Archaeological Survey. Assessment Report and Updated Project Design.. p 128.