Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has tested its autodocking technology with the Folgefonn, a ferry owned by Norwegian operator Norled.
The 83 meters-long vessel has hybrid propulsion and is fitted with a Wärtsilä wireless charging system. The installation of autodocking on a ferry is a world first, according to the technology firm.
The autodocking tests started in January of this year and were completed in April with actual harbour docking trials.
"At no time during the tests did the captain need to take manual control," the company said.
In an explanation of the very process, the Finish tech group said the system is activated some 2,000 metres from the berth and the vessel continues at normal transit speed. The system then gradually slows down the vessel and activates the line-up and docking maneuver fully automatically until the ship is secured at the berth. When the ship is ready to sail again, the system may be used for the departure procedure in an identical but reverse manner.
Full maneuvering of the vessel, including the steering and propulsion, is automatically controlled by the software. However, manual intervention and control are possible at any time.
"The automatic function allows the ship's officers to focus on situational awareness outside the wheelhouse, thereby improving the safety and reliability of the operations," Wärtsilä said, adding the system reduces the risk of human error, boosts efficiency and reduces operating costs.
Norled has made the Folgefonn available to Wärtsilä for further development of a number of Wärtsilä Smart Marine products and systems, including energy optimisation system, the hybrid propulsion system, wireless inductive battery charging, and energy storage. The ferry can now be operated with automatic wireless charging, automatic vacuum mooring and automated docking, the company noted.
" These tests represent an important element within Wärtsilä's overall smart marine vision. Autodocking can become a vital part of our offering to the ferry and other shipping markets, and will further promote our activities in leading the transformation into a new era of high efficiency and profitability for our customers," says Roger Holm, President, Wärtsilä Marine Solutions.
In 2017, the same Wärtsilä team conducted remote controlling of a ship sailing in the North Sea from its San Diego, California location.
Posted on April 26, 2018 with tags Folgefonn, Wartsila.


And the Christine Blasey Ford plot thickens.
The Daily Caller is now reporting that in a radio interview yesterday, Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas has now said that he suspects Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of being involved in the operation by the Democrat Party to leak Christine Blasey Ford's letter to the public.
The Arkansas Senator said, "I believe the Schumer political operation was behind this from the very beginning," on conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt's radio show.
As most everyone who doesn't live under a rock knows by now, Ford wrote a letter to Senator Diane Feinstein's office back in July accusing Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct more than 35 years ago. During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in September, Dr. Ford clearly stated she did not authorize the release of the letter, despite it being made public.
During the radio interview, Senator Cotton confirmed that hey had learned last week that a woman named Monica McLean, who was Ms. Ford's roommate, was one of the so-called 'beach friends' that encouraged Ms. Ford to go to Senator Dianne Feinstein and the partisan Democrats on the judiciary committee.
Bharara, of course, has attacked President Donald Trump on multiple occasions and even promulged the case of obstruction against the president. He was also considered to be a protege of the New York senator, Schumer himself.
Cotton said he has strongly suspected that Chuck Schumer's political operation knew about Dr. Ford's allegations as far back as July and manipulated the process all along to include taking advantage of the letter even though Ford wanted the letter, and the accusations, to remain confidential.
"The following is the text of the letter Christine Blasey Ford wrote to Sen. Dianne Feinstein detailing an event in which she accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. CNN was not provided a copy of the letter sent to Feinstein, but a source who had the letter read the contents of a redacted version to CNN.
"I am writing with information relevant in evaluating the current nominee to the Supreme Court.
"Brett Kavanaugh physically and sexually assaulted me during high school in the early 1980's. He conducted these acts with the assistance of REDACTED.
"The assault occurred in a suburban Maryland area home at a gathering that included me and four others.
"Kavanaugh physically pushed me into a bedroom as I was headed for a bathroom up a short stairwell from the living room. They locked the door and played loud music precluding any successful attempt to yell for help.
"Kavanaugh was on top of me while laughing with REDACTED, who periodically jumped onto Kavanaugh. They both laughed as Kavanaugh tried to disrobe me in their highly inebriated state. With Kavanaugh's hand over my mouth, I feared he may inadvertently kill me.
"At one point when REDACTED jumped onto the bed, the weight on me was substantial. The pile toppled, and the two scrapped with each other. After a few attempts to get away, I was able to take this opportune moment to get up and run across to a hallway bathroom. I locked the bathroom door behind me. Both loudly stumbled down the stairwell at which point other persons at the house were talking with them. I exited the bathroom, ran outside of the house and went home.
"I have not knowingly seen Kavanaugh since the assault. I did see REDACTED once at the REDACTED where he was extremely uncomfortable seeing me.
"I have received medical treatment regarding the assault. On July 6 I notified my local government representative to ask them how to proceed with sharing this information. It is upsetting to discuss sexual assault and its repercussions, yet I felt guilty and compelled as a citizen about the idea of not saying anything.
"I am available to speak further should you wish to discuss. I am currently REDACTED and will be in REDACTED.


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(Bonus PDF) WWII Battle of Mindoro to Liberate the Philippines
The Battle of Mindoro was a battle in World War II between forces of the United States and Japan, in Mindoro Island in the central Philippines, from 13–16 December 1944, during the Philippines Campaign.Troops of the United States Army, supported by the United States Navy and U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF), made an amphibious landing on Mindoro and defeated Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) forces there. There was no significant opposition from the Imperial Japanese Navy, nor from the Japanese Army and Navy Air Forces, except for kamikaze(suicide) attacks on American ships.

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H.264 advanced video codec coming to QuickTime
Apple today announced that the DVD Forum has ratified the H.264 Advanced Video Codec (AVC) to be included in the next generation High Definition (HD) DVD format. The H.264/AVC codec was jointly developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and has been ratified into the MPEG-4 specification as the next-generation video codec. H.264/AVC is based on open standards and will ship in Apple's QuickTime in an upcoming release next year.
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Antivol works discretely on your computer. At first it memorizes your local network address. Then on each start of your computer it verify if it is connected at your network. In case of theft it waits for a web connection and send to you the IP address of the thief (and photos of him if your computer got a camera). This IP address will allow the police to find the home of the theif .


If the Light sensor is set to On, the brightness of the TV screen changes to match the ambient brightness.
Press the ACTION MENU button on the remote.
NOTE: The Light sensor is located in the centre of the bottom part of the TV screen.
If an image is displayed on the TV screen with which screen image retention may easily occur, the function that gradually reduces the screen brightness operates in order to protect the TV from screen image retention. If you change the screen or perform another action that eliminates the risk of image retention occurring, the brightness returns to normal.
Select Peak Luminance and set to Medium or Low.
NOTE: Screens that contain many bright, still images (such as the HOME screen) will enable the use of this function.


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Petitions for and against a Trump state visit to Britain will be debated in Parliament
Published time: 31 Jan, 2017 10:41 Edited time: 1 Feb, 2017 12:55
A general view of Buckingham Palace in central London, Britain. ©Hannah McKay © Reuters
A counter-petition supporting US President Donald Trump's planned state visit to the UK will be debated in Parliament next month, alongside an appeal calling for the invitation to be withdrawn.
British lawmakers will debate both petitions on February 20, after the one supporting a Trump visit gathered more than 100,000 signatures on the UK Parliament website.
A petition calling for Trump's invitation to be rescinded has hit more than 1.6 million signatures.
According to the Guardian, the debate over whether Trump's visit should be cancelled will take place at 16:30 (GMT) in Westminster Hall, not the main Commons chamber. There will be no vote and it will last for up to three hours.
The pro-Trump petition, which is riddled with spelling mistakes, argues that the president should be allowed to make a state visit to the UK because "he is a leader of a free world."
URGENT: Number of signatures for petition to ban #Trump state visit to UK reaches 1 million https://t.co/zYL3jdhYQDpic.twitter.com/f0hBJRl8BH
— RT UK (@RTUKnews) January 30, 2017
It goes on to state that Britain is a country which does not believe people who "appose our point of view should be gagged [sic]."
The petition comes as a separate appeal to block the visit surpassed 1.6 million signatures.
The petition in support of Trump, which grew rapidly Tuesday morning, now has the required number of signatures needed before the government will respond.
"Donald Trump should be invited to make an official State Visit because he is the leader of a free world and U.K. is a country that supports free speech and does not believe that people that appose our point of view should be gagged [sic]," the petition reads.
It was started by Alan Augustus Brown on Monday, as an estimated 10,000 people joined protests outside Downing Street demanding Trump's invitation for a state visit be rescinded.
Whitehall was brought to a standstill as crowds of protesters carried placards with messages including "Dump Trump," "We stand united" and "No to racism, no to Trump."
Over the course of several hours, chants could be heard such as "Shame on May" and "Hands too small, can't build a wall."
Downing Street, London, tonight #MuslimBanpic.twitter.com/O5oE9cweDo
— Marcus Chown (@marcuschown) January 30, 2017
Whitehall in London is filled with tens of thousands and growing to protest #MuslimBan and Theresa May complicity. This is unprecedented. pic.twitter.com/VUYLGKbm8P
— Michael Segalov (@MikeSegalov) January 30, 2017
The US president is under attack for signing an executive order over the weekend which indefinitely bans immigration from Syria and temporarily blocks immigration from six other Muslim-majority nations.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has been criticized for failing to condemn the order and for apparently jumping at the opportunity to invite Trump to Britain when she met with the president in Washington on Friday.


For our third annual Festival of Sacred Music our inaugural year's Guest Clinicians, James and Pam Brown, returned to lead a presentation of Sacred Choral Masterworks representing literature from the Renaissance to the Contemporary periods. The program was held at 4:00 p.m., February 20, 2011, at Canterbury United Methodist Church in Birmingham. Jamie McLemore once again served as accompanist and organist for the season.
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It was a busy day for by-elections in England this week with twelve in total, plus an election for the North Yorkshire police and crime commissioner. The North Yorks PCC vacancy came about after the Tory incumbent resigned following an outcry over remarks he made about the Sarah Everard case. The Conservatives eased to victory in the contest to replace him, albeit on a disgracefully low turnout of just 13.9 per cent. The Tory candidate trounced Labour in the run-off, the result of which was almost identical to May's result.
Labour were defending six seats on Thursday and they held four - including a paper thin victory in Wandsworth where they clung on by just one vote. Earlier this year Labour had a 936 vote majority in that same seat. The Labour vote also collapsed in two Midlands seats where they lost to the Conservatives in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Nuneaton. However, the two Labour losses were compensated for by two Labour gains, both from independents in Allerdale and Wigan.
The Conservatives were defending three seats on Thursday and held two. In Kent they lost a seat to the Tunbridge Wells Alliance, but this was more than compensated by the two Midland gains over Labour.
The Lib Dems were defending one seat, in the Wirral, which they held easily.
The Lib Dems and Greens did not contest Speldhurst and Bidborough this time. UKIP did not contest Oxton.
Maryport South, Allerdale Borough Council
Lab: 273 (52.9%) +10.2%
Ind: 149 (28.9%) -10.5%
Con: 94 (18.2%) +11.4%
Lab GAIN from Ind
Lee Chapel North, Basildon Borough Council
Lab: 451 (39.8%) -12.8%
Con: 396 (34.8%) +8.4%
BCRP: 135 (11.9%) New
RefUK: 98 (8.6%) New
LDem: 55 (4.9%) -16.2%
Lab HOLD
Halton Castle, Halton Borough Council
Lab: 373 (60.3%) +9.7%
Grn: 117 (19.0%) New
Ind: 69 (11.1%) -8.0%
Con: 45 (7.3%) -11.3%
LDem: 15 (2.4%) -9.3%
Raskelf & White Horse, Hambleton District Council
Con: 288 (55.7%) -2.9%
LDem: 127 (24.6%) New
Grn: 102 (19.7%) -21.7%
Con HOLD
Carnforth & Millhead, Lancaster City Council
Grn: 54 (5.8%) -5.2%
LDem: 25 (2.7%) New
Knutton, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council
Con: 188 (51.1%) +25.8%
Con GAIN from Lab
Barpool, Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council
Grn: 196 (21.3%) +12.2%
Speldhurst & Bidborough, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
TWA: 788 (49.8%) +27.4%
Lab: 65 (4.1%) -4.0%
TWA GAIN from Con
Bedford, Wandsworth London Borough Council
Lab: 906 (40.2%) -9.8%
Grn: 306 (13.6%) +4.3%
LDem: 135 (6.0%) -0.2%
Horringer, West Suffolk Council
Con: 257 (47.7%) -21.2%
LDem: 78 (14.5%) New
Bryn, Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council
Ind: 412 (30.0%) New
LDem: 38 (2.8%) +1.1%
Oxton, Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
LDem: 1,666 (68.3%) +8.4%
Con: 168 (6.9%) +1.9%
Grn: 147 (6.0%) New
LDem HOLD
North Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner
(First preference votes)
Con: 34,385 (40.1%) -6.9%
Lab: 18,094 (21.1%) -5.0%
Ind: 14,988 (17.5%) New
LDem: 9,499 (11.1%) -1.5%
WEP: 8,837 (10.3%) New
Con: 60.8%
Lab: 39.2%
Lab = Labour
Con = Conservative
BCRP = Basildon Community Residents Party
RefUK = Reform UK
LDem = Liberal Democrat
Grn = Green
TWA = Tunbridge Wells Alliance
WEP = Women's Equality Party
Ind = Independents
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Frances Scarcelli, 96, of Westover, passed away Wednesday, March 28, 2018 peacefully at home.
She was born on December 20, 1921, in Connellsville, PA, the daughter of the late Salvatore "Sam" Filippone and Edith Filippone.
She is survived by her daughters Patricia Callen and fiancée, Jim Buchanan, Kris Kullman and husband, Greg, Janet Scarcelli, and Cathy Scarcelli; six grandchildren, Melissa Carlucci and husband, Art, Michael Callen and wife, Ashley, Chad Callen and wife, Brittany, Johnathan Kullman, Sarah Benzo, Matthew Kullman; two great grandchildren, Madison and Brandon Carlucci; and two sisters in law Jeanette Marra of Star City, and Mary Barill of Michigan.
Frances was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Antonio Scarcelli, and two brothers, James Filippone and Andrew Filippone.
In accordance with her wishes, cremation services will be provided by Hastings Funeral Home, Omega Crematory and a private Graveside Memorial Service at St. Mary Peace Mausoleum at a later date.


This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Blackrie research.
Another 99 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1312, 1630, 1678, 1659, 1660, 1678 and 1657 are included under the topic Early Blackrie History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Before the last few hundred years, the English language had no fast system of spelling rules. For that reason, spelling variations are commonly found in early Anglo-Saxon surnames. Over the years, many variations of the name Blackrie were recorded, including Blacker, Blacre, Blackers, Blaker, Blackre, Blacar, Blaiker, Blackar, Blackire and many more.
Another 33 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Blackrie Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Some of the Blackrie family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
To escape oppression and starvation at that time, many English families left for the "open frontiers" of the New World with all its perceived opportunities. In droves people migrated to the many British colonies, those in North America in particular, paying high rates for passages in cramped, unsafe ships. Although many of the settlers did not make the long passage alive, those who did see the shores of North America perceived great opportunities before them. Many of the families that came from England went on to make essential contributions to the emerging nations of Canada and the United States. Research into various historical records revealed some of first members of the Blackrie family emigrate to North America: Patrick Blacker settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1850; Susan Blacker settled in New York State in 1853.


You are already aware of why it is necessary for you to have active social media accounts for your business. In this article, you will learn why you should have a mobile app catering to your business products and your company. Mobile apps today are not only for just the big brands like multinational companies, banks, and departmental stores. These days many small and midlevel businesses also have mobile apps realizing that an effective mobile strategy means more than just having a website that is mobile-friendly.
These days there are many small level businesses which try to interact with their customers on a regular basis regarding matters of everyday life, and they do this via their mobile apps. These enterprises are quite ahead in the game where it involves taking marketing efforts to a higher level.
So, if you are still circumspect about whether you should develop a dedicated mobile application for your business, then in this article you will learn about some tangible benefits that you can reap from having an app.
Today the average person spends much time on his or her mobile phone and a handful of the total applications take up most of the entire usage. The fact that they have to unlock their devices, scroll and find the app every time does not hinder them from accessing these apps. You can use this to your advantage because our minds unconsciously record every images and text (even app icons) that it comes across, also if we feel that it is unnoticed. Thus you will be continuously present in the minds of your customers, and this will increase the chances for your business to grow.
Apps help in serving various functions: providing general information, prices, searching features, forms for booking, user accounts, and a lot more. The most significant benefit which apps offer is that information which you like to give customers as special promotions and sales will be right there at their fingertips. Push notifications will let you get even closer towards direct interaction. You can remind your customers about products and related services whenever you feel like it.
To leap on-hand information, you can digitalize your company's loyalty program. You can progress from having just a conventional point-collection card; you can try to provide customers get rewards from the mobile app. As a result, you will get increased downloads and more loyal customers.
A) Branding: Mobile apps are like big advertisement signs. You can create a lot with apps, design stylish icons, and make it shocking, interactive, and even informative. However, you must ensure that the app you build has those features which your customers will like, also you have to see to it that it is nicely branded and well designed.
B) Recognition: The more you can make your customers get involved with inside your app, the more chances you will have of them buying your products.
Customers will want to find a way to connect with you no matter whatever your business is. You can incorporate a help desk or messaging feature inside your app which can revolutionize the way you connect with customers. Many customers will prefer communicating with you through texting rather than calling because it is more instantaneous. You must ensure quick replies though.
It is normal for business owners to have debts because they need to finance their businesses. Business owners can also lose track of all their debts and creditors. You can have separate debt settlement reviews even in your app to help you keep you track your debts.
You must build a mobile app because it will help in building customer loyalty for your business. An immense load of advertisements all around us today in the form of banners, flash signs, coupons, flyers, websites and their banners, ads on Facebook, email marketing, et cetera, makes the impact of these advertisements diffuse out slowly on customers. You have to make a more intimate connection and a sincere relation with your customers, thereby making them loyal followers of the products and services you provide. The mobile app is a novel way of coming closer to customers; they will feel like you are a fingertip away from them always.
The advantages of having a mobile app for your business cannot be stressed enough. Your customers will feel more connected to you, and you can win over their trust and loyalty.


The Iran National Science Foundation (INSF) (صندوق حمایت از پژوهشگران کشور in Persian) is an Iranian government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the fields of science, engineering and medical science.
The current director of INSF is Dr. Nosratollah Zargham (as 2014). Dr. Mohammad Farhadi was the first director of INSF served from 2002 to Feb 2011.
As a consequence of fast development in science and technology and the role of knowledge-based economy in global changes, it is predicted that the chief rulers of the world in future would be those nations and governments which have had the greatest contribution in planning supporting and financing science, technology and researches. With the vast horizon of the supreme leader of The Islamic Republic of Iran about science and research, as a result of the request of a group of scholars and thinkers of university and Hozeh (religious academies) on Oct. 7th, 2003, he (the supreme leader) ordered the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution to prepare the grounds for backing production of scientific software, and also to institutionalize scientific space of the country.
Thereby, by proposition of the Council of Scientific Researches of Iran, and in order to fulfill the 4th paragraph of the 3rd article of the Constitution, and according to the sixth paragraph of the act about "The position, Objectives, and Responsibilities of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution", the council ratified the charter for Iran National Science Foundation, in its five hundred and twenty second session on 18 Feb 2003. This foundation was established with the purpose of supplying researchers'' welfare, organizing generation of science and technology, preparing executive grounds in the country for directing research and technological proceeds towards people, and permanent development of the country.
Iran National Science Foundation is a legally independent governmental institute, which is administered by a board of trustees. It is located in presidential institute. The assets of this foundation are supplied via governmental aids, bank facilities, investments of its own surplus assets, receiving financially and non-financially from true or legal persons. President of the foundation has the highest position in INSF, and the board's approval and under the order of the chairman of the board of trustees he will preside over the foundation for a four year period of time. The current president of the foundation is Dr. Mohammad Farhadi.
In Iran, the foundation supports those who have been described in accordance with the countries needs and priorities. The source for defining research priorities is the book about research priorities which is published by the national Scientific Research Council.
According to the article 3, paragraph 4 of the constitution, and based on article 16 of the act "The Positions, Objectives and Responsibilities of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution", Iran National Science Foundation was founded with a primary asset of 20 billion Rials, which had been supplied by governmental aids.
"Iran National Science Foundation works to prepare the executive grounds for the generation of science and technology and the presentation of material and spiritual supportive aids and services for true or legal researchers, in order for research affairs to flourish and to direct the proceeds of research and technology towards people."
prepare grounds for country''s permanent development in technology.
the supported plans must prepare the ground for access to modern technologies needed, or they must be economically justified if possible.
the foundation should share in intellectual property and material profits of the plans.
using legal devices and strategies for propagating the culture and spirit of research entrepreneurship.
if ever execution of the plans needs cooperation of several researchers, a necessary network must be established among them, preserving each one''s rights.
according to article 3, amendment 4 of the foundation statute, "for using supports and aids domestic researchers have priority over others,"
the plans must show a certain result, if possible, within a short span of time.
To execute the act of session 522- 29 July 2003 of the Cultural Revolution Supreme Council, regarding the statute of Iran National Science Foundation (here in this charter referred to as "the foundation"), the following executive charter was ratified in the board of trustees'' session 1 Dec, 2003.
Presentation of services and facilities to those who present research plans regarding the explanation of the proceeding should be in accordance with the objectives of the statute.
Under article 3 of the statute, supports of the foundation covers all Iranian researchers (both true and legal persons) whether academic or nonacademic, inside or outside the country. Moreover, according to article 3 amendment 4, researchers inside the country have priority over others.
They are granted to those plans which possess the priorities of the foundation, but can not return the facilities in short term. The evaluation committee is responsible to specify and recognize such plans. For the plans covered by this article, possession of a portion of the plan is reserved for the foundation, and if needed or preferred, the foundation can sell or use the practical advantages of it.
This kind of facilities is for those plans which have economical justifications and accord with priority policies of the foundation. The evaluation committee is responsible for the recognition and specifying the above. The time period for this kind of facilities to be returned is three years, and the interest rate and commission for the facilities is max 10%.
For this kind of facilities, besides its economic justifications, the researcher supplies a portion of the needed investment. According to its share, the foundation will also share profits and losses. To participate or not, the right for selection is reserved for the foundation.
Granting ServicesA) Reimbursement of the expense to attend international scientific conferences and assemblies.
According to the statute, the foundation undertakes to pay back researchers'' expenses for conferences and international scientific assemblies attended. These types of supports are categorized as grants but the foundation has the right to utilize the results of the researcher''s reports of attendance in such conferences or assemblies.
This kind of supports is with the purpose of more communication and acquaintance and dialogue among researchers, as well as getting familiar with the most recent scientific and research achievements. The expenses for such courses, suggested by the researcher to introduce the selected proposal to other researchers and academic societies, are being paid by the foundation.
One of the duties for the scientific committee of the foundation is to prepare strategies to facilitate patenting the inventions and discoveries relevant to those plans which have passed their research and executive stages under support of the foundation, inside and outside the country.
According to mutual relations between INSF and other research, higher education centers such as universities, and their agreement to use their facilities and equipment, INSF introduces the researchers to the above centers in order to use the mentioned facilities.
On various occasions, some rewards will be granted to the researchers and those who have presented selected proposals.
To carry out the needed researches to solve national problems.
In order to execute the enactment of the foundation''s board of trustees and to accelerate the allocation of research chairs, this program will be executed in the form of pivotal institution, in the educational year 84-85.
Researcher: according to article 3, amendment 3 of the statute, researcher refers to true or legal persons who have knowledge experience and scientific degrees as well as research achievements and their scientific qualifications have been approved by the scientific committee of the foundation.
Applicant: refers to true or legal researchers who, according to the articles of the charter, have applied or volunteered for research chairs and have completed the forms related to research chairs of the foundation.
having new innovative and farsighted ideas.
one representative from the supreme council of biotechnology, one representative from nanotechnology headquarters and one from the supreme council of information.
two persons from among the outstanding professors and researchers of the country relevant to the specialized field, appointed by the foundation''s president.
The strategic committee evaluates the presented information according to the guidelines for the standards of receiving a research seat, and introduces qualified applicants to the scientific committee of the foundation for final decision.
Article 6: The Stages for the Evaluation and Granting of Research chairs to the Researchers1- Limited invitation, according to the foundation''s research priorities, 2- Completion of the questionnaires for research seat (attached questionnaire), 3- Expert examination, 4- Granting a research seat of 300,000,000 Rls in the year 2005.
Amendment 1: After assignment of the research seat, the activities for fund allocation of each seat and passing executive stages will be carried out by management of financial and support affairs and management of evaluation of plans, and in accordance with the approved charter and guidelines of the foundation.
Amendment 2: The strategic committee of research seat is responsible for the supervision over well implementation of the enactments of this charter.
This charter including 6 articles and 5 amendments was ratified on 23/9/1384.


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NASA Lunar Scientists Shed Light on Moon's Impact History
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A team of researchers from the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have discovered that debris that caused a "lunar cataclysm" on the moon 4 billion years ago struck it at much higher speeds than those that made the most ancient craters. The scientists found evidence supporting this scenario by examining the history of crater formation on the moon.
During Earth's earliest days, our planet and others in the inner solar system, including the moon, experienced repeated impacts from debris that formed the building blocks of the planets. Over time, as material was swept up and incorporated into the inner planets, the rate of impacts decreased. Then, roughly 4 billion years ago, a second wave of impacts appears to have taken place, with lunar projectiles hitting at much higher speeds. This increase could reflect the origin of the debris, where main belt asteroids were dislodged and sent into the inner solar system by shifts in the orbits of the giant planets.
Full Story: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2012/12-19AR.html
Categories: Agencies & Organisations, Astronomy, Moon, NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration), Solar System, Solar System Formation Tags: NASA, nasa ames research center, NASA Lunar Science Institute, news, NLSI, science, space
Ultra-fast Outflows Help Monster Black Holes Shape Their Galaxies
A curious correlation between the mass of a galaxy's central black hole and the velocity of stars in a vast, roughly spherical structure known as its bulge has puzzled astronomers for years. An international team led by Francesco Tombesi at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., now has identified a new type of black-hole-driven outflow that appears to be both powerful enough and common enough to explain this link.
Most big galaxies contain a central black hole weighing millions of times the sun's mass, but galaxies hosting more massive black holes also possess bulges that contain, on average, faster-moving stars. This link suggested some sort of feedback mechanism between a galaxy's black hole and its star-formation processes. Yet there was no adequate explanation for how a monster black hole's activity, which strongly affects a region several times larger than our solar system, could influence a galaxy's bulge, which encompasses regions roughly a million times larger.
"This was a real conundrum. Everything was pointing to supermassive black holes as somehow driving this connection, but only now are we beginning to understand how they do it," Tombesi said.
Full Story: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/fast-outflow.html
Categories: Astronomy, Black Holes, Galaxies, General Astronomy Tags: goddard space flight center, news, science, space
NASA Glenn Event to Celebrate John Glenn's Legacy on March 2
NASA's Glenn Research Center will host an event on March 2 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's orbital flight, the first by an American.
"Celebrating John Glenn's Legacy: 50 Years of Americans in Orbit" will be held at 1 p.m. EST at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center, 2000 Prospect Ave., in Cleveland. More than 800 complimentary tickets are being distributed to the general public for this event through a lottery by Cleveland State University in partnership with NASA Glenn.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Glenn Director Ramon "Ray" Lugo will provide remarks during the one-hour program, which will include a welcome from Cleveland State University President Dr. Ronald Berkman. Space shuttle mission STS-95 pilot Steve Lindsey will pay tribute from the astronaut corps to Glenn. The program will culminate with a keynote address by the guest of honor Sen. John H. Glenn Jr.
Full Story: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/feb/HQ_12-061_Glenn_50.html
Categories: Agencies & Organisations, Manned Spaceflight, Mercury, NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration), Spaceflight Tags: charles bolden, John Glenn, NASA, news, science, space
Dwarf Galaxy Questions Galaxy Formation Models
Researcher from the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (Center for Astrophysics of the University of Porto) observed the dwarf galaxy I Zw 18, and found that much of what is known about galaxy formation and evolution might need substantial revision.
CAUP Astronomer Polychronis Papaderos, along with his colleague Göran Östlin (Oskar Klein Center, U. Stokholm), used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to get extremely accurate observations of the I Zw 18 galaxy. Their research led to the conclusion that this enigmatic blue compact dwarf might force astronomers to review current galaxy formation models.
I Zw 18 is one of the most studied dwarf galaxies, because among those that have strong star forming activity, it's one of the poorest in heavy elements. Besides, it's proximity to the Earth, combined with a total exposure time of nearly 3 days, gave the researchers data with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity.
Full Story: http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=117893&CultureCode=en
Categories: Astronomy, Galaxies, General Astronomy Tags: Hubble Space Telescope, news, science, space
Supernova Fireworks
A little luck and a lot of hard work can really light up the sky.
Taking advantage of a little-known feature of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a team of astronomers led by Carles Badenes of the University of Pittsburgh has helped to clarify the origins of an important type of exploding star—using nothing but a few thousand small, faint stars in our own cosmic backyard.
The astronomical fireworks the team studied are so-called "Type Ia supernovae," exploding stars so incredibly bright that we can see them even in the most distant galaxies. In a paper published today on the arXiv preprint server, Badenes and colleagues compared the number of these supernovae in distant galaxies to the number of binary white dwarfs in our galaxy. The rate is similar, suggesting that merging white dwarfs are indeed a reasonable explanation for these giant explosions.
Full Story: http://www.sdss3.org/press/20120227.fireworks.php
Categories: Astronomy, General Astronomy, Supernovae Tags: digital sky survey, news, science, space, Type Ia supernovae, white dwarfs
Rapid Expansion or Something Weird in the Early Universe
The widely-accepted theory of cosmic inflation states that our universe expanded rapidly in the moments after its birth, resulting in the immense expanse we see today.
Cosmic inflation explains why the universe is billions of years old, as well as why the universe is nearly flat. The theory's conclusions about how the universe should look match observations by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).
But is inflation the only model that can explain the beginnings of the universe?
That's the question that University at Buffalo physicists Ghazal Geshnizjani, Will Kinney and Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah set out to answer with their study, "General Conditions for Scale-Invariant Perturbations in an Expanding Universe."
Full Story: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/13219
Categories: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, General Astronomy Tags: news, science, space, wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe wmap
NASA Official Announces Chair of New Mars Program Planning Group
NASA' s associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, John Grunsfeld, has named former veteran NASA program manager Orlando Figueroa to lead a newly established Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG) tasked to reformulate the agency's Mars Exploration Program. Figueroa's first assignment is to develop a draft framework for review by March 15.
Grunsfeld made the announcement at an annual gathering of Mars scientists and engineers in Dulles, Va. Figueroa, a consultant with more than 30 years of aerospace experience, will lead the scientific and technical team to develop an integrated strategy for NASA's Mars Exploration Program in light of current funding constraints. The team's initial focus will be on a possible 2018-2020 robotic mission. The program's official framework will be developed in consultation with the science community and international partners and is expected to be released for full review as early as this summer.
Full Story: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/feb/HQ_12-060_Mars_Program_Planning_Group.html
Categories: Agencies & Organisations, Astronomy, Mars, NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration), Solar System, Spaceflight, Unmanned Spaceflight Tags: John Grunsfeld, Mars Program Planning Group, MPPG, NASA, news, Orlando Figueroa, science, space


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Kramat is een bestuurslaag in het regentschap Sampang van de provincie Oost-Java, Indonesië. Kramat telt 2256 inwoners (volkstelling 2010).

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I am going to try and keep this spoiler free, I'm not promising anything as there could always be a spoiler. If spoilers don't bother you then head on over to the Se7enSins YouTube channel, Pseudonym has taken his time to record the entire campaign for you guys.
Okay so let's start with the campaign, the plot is somewhat easy to tell, the United States have launched the Odin Satellite, a weapons platform in space. As the platform becomes operational it is quickly taken over by the antagonists, soon to be known as the Federation. Once the satellite was taken a series of attacks were launched upon the United States of America.
The story follow the Ghosts, a team of soldiers who are considered to be nothing more than a myth. The Ghosts must fight their way through a post-apocalyptic USA to regain control and defeat the Federation once and for all.
The levels offered in the campaign seem very short, a lot shorter than previous games, and in a handful of the levels you can just run through as there is an objective at the end, such as jumping into a helicopter. One of the things that made me wary to begin with was the fact that they used the ending from Modern Warfare 2, simply re-textured for another mission. Here is the video for you all to see.
Throughout most of the campaign you are accompanied by Riley, Riley is an attack dog that you, Logan, and your brother Hesh have trained. Be warned though, it is easy to become emotionally attached to Riley. You can use Riley early on the game to kill the enemy utilizing the camera on his back, later on you just tell him who to attack, from all the information released before the game launched I was under the impression that you would gain full control of the dog throughout the entire game, this is not the case.
I'm not going to lie here, there are some pretty cool parts in the campaign, there is a mission where you are flying a helicopter where you have to help the guys below, and another where you have to infiltrate the enemy base in a tank. The action is very fast paced and it should please many of you.
One mission in particular really got me frustrated, now I am sure many of you are aware of the underwater mission, there is this one part where you have to get past sharks. The sharks ate me four times in a row, I seriously did not know what I was doing wrong.
As you progress through the campaign you become the elite of the elite, taking off where others left off. It is a great story, it isn't exactly on par with the story told in the Modern Warfare series but I guess we will see how this story develops, because *SPOILER ALERT* after that ending I can assure you that this isn't over. See you in 2015!
All in all the Call of Duty Ghosts single player campaign is rather impressive and at the same time a huge let down. The fact they used the final scene from Modern Warfare 2 is something I won't let slide, and the ending is somewhat disappointing but it does guarantee us a sequel. Everything in between is just phenomenal, especially those outer space missions. So let me know what you thought, did you have a similar experience to me? Please post below!


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Ovation Position - A surprising opening routine that involves the entire audience and ends with the production of a huge glass of water - and no gimmick is required!
The Inexplicable Bill in Lemon Effect - A reputation-making effect where a bill, marked in three completely different ways, is found inside of a lemon taken from a small, sealed box that was in the possession of a member of the audience. This is one of Barrie Richardson's most commercial effects. What's more, the routine is virtually self-working!
A Gift to the Audience: To Risk - A poem by Hedda Gold - If Barrie only had five minutes and had to make a choice between performing a trick and reciting a poem that had meaning for most of the audience, he would choose the poem...and this one is one of his favorites.


Keith Belcher, Ph.D., professor and program coordinator of the Medical Laboratory Science program in the Waters College of Health Professions has been awarded a $2,500 Laboratory Science Program Director Educational Grant by the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP).
The purpose of the grant is to assist with international collaboration. It will provide support funds to laboratory science programs to support program enrichment and travel expenses. Belcher said the grant will help fund trips to multiple universities in Europe.
To be eligible for a grant, programs have to be accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Science, the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools or the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs.
To learn more about the Medical Laboratory Science program in the Waters College of Health Professions, visit GeorgiaSouthern.edu/chp/diagnostic/undergraduate-majors-and-certificates/medical-laboratory-science.


Even individual customer requirements (OEM) can be realised with savvy professionals and a state-of-the-art machine park - we will gladly advise you.
When working on new products the most modern methods are used. In addition to CAD systems and the traditional production of prototypes in the pattern shop, 3D printers and plotters are increasingly being used to complement the design and technical implementation by the designers and engineers in synergy.
First samples are often handmade, and it is one of the tasks of our chain technicians to develop tools and machinery for these samples, so that the production of new OEM products can be done by machine. We rely on the proven skills of our experienced toolmakers and experienced chain machine technicians.
With Schofer, you have now three options to personalize chains with your brand name or logo: either by a very precise automated laser engraving or by rolling the wire, individual or all chain links of the chain can now be personalised. The branding can also be done on the clasp. Additionally little logo plates in various shapes and sizes contribute to the personalisation.


The Track down in Cornwall just held it's 1st 'Annual Invitational' competition, including King of Dirt Rd1, a BMX dirt jump comp and a slopestyle comp.
You'll have to wait a bit longer for some decent snaps but here's a few results to keep you going.
Also a special Wideopen shout to our mates at Pump Urban Wear and their team rider Toby Greswell. First place in BMX? Not a bad result at all for the brand new team. Good riders choice from Pump boss Rick I'd say!


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• Divided Loyalties (Revenant, Winter 2015)
• The Manufactory [Reprint] (Ceaseless Steam: Steampunk Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Firkin Press, July 2012. )
• Ghost in the Machine (The Mammoth Book of Ghost Romance, May 2012)
• Code of Blood (Corsets & Clockwork, May 2011)
• After the Sleep (reprint, January 2011, Alien Shots)
• Pan de Los Muertos (reprint, December 2010, Dia de Los Muertos)
• To Every Thing There Is a Season (August 2010, Apexology)
• Peter, Peter (reprint, The Three-Lobed Burning Eye Annual, v. 4, edited by Andrew S. Fuller, from Legion Press, November 2009)
• The Manufactory (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, November 19, 2009 — audio version posted January 21, 2010)
• Terminus (w/Jo Gerrard; Magic & Mechanica anthology, Ricasso Press, January 2009)
• Bookmarked. (Reflection's Edge, October 2007). Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (2008). Site closed: Download it as a pdf.
• Night Shift (Worlds of Wonder, July 2007)
• Changing the End (Anotherealm; July 2007)
• Defender of the Faith (Reflection's Edge, August 2006). Site closed: Download it as a pdf.
• Strange Vintage (Fear of the Unknown, March 2005)
• Tam Lin (Strange Horizons, November 2004)
• Joseph's Plaint (Ideomancer, June 2004)
• Peter, Peter (Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Summer 2003)
• Pan de los Muertos (Strange Horizons, April 2003)
• After the Sleep (Dark Fire, March 2003)
• Analogues (Erratica, Spring 1997: reproduced on this site)|
"Loving the Love of Boys: Motives for Consuming Yaoi Media" by Ágnes Zsila; Dru Pagliassotti; Róbert Urbán; Gábor Orosz; Orsolya Király; Zsolt Demetrovics. PLOS-One, June 14, 2018.
"People Keep Giving Me Rings, but I Think a Small Death Ray Might Be More Practical": Women and Mad Science in Steampunk Comics in Neo-Victorian Humour: The Rhetorics and Politics of Comedy, Irony and Parody, Kohlke, M.L. & Gutleben, C. (Eds.) Rodopi Press, 2017.
"Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica" in Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology. Julie Anne Taddeo & Cynthia J. Miller (Eds.). Scarecrow Press, 2013.
Special issue on boys' love manga in The Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics, 4(1), 2013. Co-editor.
Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre. Levi, McHarry & Pagliassotti (Ed.). McFarland Publishers, 2010.
GloBLisation and Hybridisation:Publishers' Strategies for Bringing Boys' Love to the United States. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 20. April 2009.
Vietnamese translation of GloBLisation and Hybridisation: TOÀN CẦU HÓA VÀ TIẾP BIẾN HÓA: NHỮNG CHIẾN LƯỢC MANG BOYS'LOVE ĐẾN HOA KỲ CỦA CÁC NHÀ XUẤT BẢN
Reading Boys' Love in the West. Participations, 5(2). November 2008.
(The qualitative data for this study can be downloaded here for the reference of other researchers)
Jackdaw & Peacock: Webcomic project with Terry Spehar-Fahey (in progress)
"Twelve Reasons to Roleplay." In Packer, Alex J. (2000). Highs! Over 150 Ways to Feel REALLY Good … Without Alcohol or Other Drugs. Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing.
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Home·Browse·A Letter from a Mechanick in the busy Town of Birmingham, to Mr. Stayner, a Carver, Statuary, and Architect, in the sleepy Corporation of Warwick
A Letter from a Mechanick in the busy Town of Birmingham, to Mr. Stayner, a Carver, Statuary, and Architect, in the sleepy Corporation of Warwick
Image: South-West Prospect of Birmingham, 1829, attributed to Frederick Calvert. Watercolour on Paper.
Image from: Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
If you can leave your Borough, still and fair,
To breathe awhile in more sulphureous Air; / ……
When broad awake, for Vulcan's Province steer
Each Cyclop will rejoice, to see famed Stayner here, / ……
You'll see the cloud above, the thund'ring Town below, / ……
You'll be convinc'd that Vulcan's Forge is here; / ……2
According to Langford, this poem was first printed in the Birmingham Gazette in February 1751, although it was purported to have been written in 1733. In the title, the contrast between 'busy' Birmingham and 'the sleepy Corporation of Warwick' is telling. One traditional, although arguable, reason given for Birmingham's industrial growth and success is that it was not (until the nineteenth century) an incorporated town and was, therefore, free from many restrictions on residents and work-practices, and so could develop more freely. The writer of this poetic 'Letter' is gently boasting when contrasting Birmingham's greater commercial success with incorporated Warwick.
As in The Cyclops there is the metaphor of the Cyclops for the metalworker and, again, Vulcan reigns. Among items listed in the poem are 'toys'. These were not playthings to amuse children. In the eighteenth century 'toys' was a collective term for a wide variety of small, frequently metal, objects such as buttons, shoe buckles, boxes, inkstands and 'sugar knippers'. Birmingham produced many of these, especially buttons and buckles, in large quantities.
Two-thirds into the poem the scene changes and moves a few miles north-west:
Beneath Old Wedgb-ry's burning Banks …
… Thousands …, with glaring Eyes,
In Subterraneous Caverns … / … sap like Moles,
Supplying every Smithy Hearth with Coals;
There let them delve, whilst in the growing Town
In jolly Bacchanals our Cares we drown. ………
A footnote to the poem explains that 'Old Wedgb-ry' (i.e. Wednesbury) was 'famous for Coal Mines, and subterraneous Fires'. This hints at one of the very real dangers of sapping like a mole for coal to get one's daily bread. And whilst there were smithies in the Black Country, much Wednesbury coal fuelled Birmingham's industry. There was a symbiotic relationship between the suppliers and users of the coal, with, on each side, the owners being the main gainers. The thousands of workers benefited more or less. However, the poet points concisely to a contrast between the effects on urban and rural landscapes and social conditions caused by great exploitation of a natural resource. 'Whilst in the growing Town' the fires in the forges of Birmingham were usually under control, in the coalfields were 'burning Banks', where the land itself was being consumed.
2 Anonymous, A Letter from a Mechanick in the busy Town of Birmingham, to Mr. Stayner, a Carver,
Statuary, and Architect, in the sleepy Corporation of Warwick. Pages 41-42, Vol. 1, John Alfred Langford (Compiled and Edited by), A Century of Birmingham Life, 2 vols, second edition, W.G.Moore & Co., Birmingham, 1870.
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These extracts begin with my "cast of characters" and continue with three sketches (the book contains more than 100), which begin with the appearance of Fred "the Shred" Goodwin before the Treasury Select Committee and then moves to the then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and her famous bathplug. I conclude with a sketch from May as MPs struggle to come to terms with the expenses scandal in all its moated glory.
Gordon Brown: Brooding, intense, intellectual Prime Minister. Prone to car crash politics. Believed to be "psychologically flawed". Worst trait: Temper (he throws phones). Nicknames: Stalin, Mr Bean, Macavity (he's not there), Great Clunking Fist.
Alistair Darling: Dull, droning Scot. A survivor who has been just about everything. Now Chancellor who has stood up to Gordon on more than one occasion. Best trait: Eyebrows (birds are nesting in them). Nickname: Too dull to have one.
Peter Mandelson: The man twice forced to resign under Tony Blair was reborn in the autumn as Gordon Brown's confidante, becoming Baron Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool. Wields mega-power. Thin-skinned. Best trait: Fabulous silky manner. Knicknames: Prince of Darkness, Machievelli, the Real Deputy Prime Minister.
Jacqui Smith: The first female Home Secretary (rtd). Ex-schoolteacher and former Chief Whip more famous for her expenses and her cleavage than any actual policies.
Best trait: Nothing comes to mind. Knickname: "Bathplug".
Harriet Harman: Dogmatic feminist elected as Labour's deputy leader. Hated by many, adored by the Volumpts, an all-female group of MPs. Best trait: never briefs against others, rare in politics. Knickname: Harriet Harperson.
Hazel Blears: Community Secretary (rtd): Fiery redhead. Crashed and burned in the spring in badly timed resignation involving a badge that said: "Rocking the boat". Best slogan: Nuts about Hazel. Knickname: Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, the Duracell Bunny.
The Tories
David Cameron: The real heir to Blair. Etonian. Keen cyclist who has recast the Tory party as the New Conservatives. Seen as shallow, also brutal. Best trait: ability to look clean. Knicknames: Mr Sunshine, Little Lord Faulteroy and, of course, Dave.
George Osborne. Quick witted Shadow Chancellor with a scorpion like streak of political malevolence. Hated by Labour and Lib-Dems alike. Wallpaper heir. Best trait: Mischievous. Knickname: Georgie Porgie.
Nick Clegg: Smoothie leader of the Lib-Dems. Looks too much like Dave. Good political strategist (e.g. the Gurkha victory). No one remembers anything he says except that he's slept with 30 women. Knickname: Clegg-Over.
Vince Cable: the only Lib-Dem who anyone really listens to. The voice of sanity in the credit crunch. Best trait: ability to sum up what's going on in a pithy phrase or sentence. Knickname: In-Vince-Able.
John McFall: Dour dry-witted Scot, head of the Treasury Select Committee, determined to make his name as the man who called the Masters of the Universe to account. It didn't quite turn out that way but he did his best.
Michael Martin: Chippy Glaswegian. Former sheet-metal worker. Elected as Speaker for now unfathomable reasons in 2000. Knickname: Gorbals Mick.
11 February: Bonfire of the vanities
The big four failed bankers, including Fred the Shred, said they were sorry but they didn't sound it when they came to tell their story to MPs.
Make no mistake about it, this was a "Burn the Witches" event. The Treasury Select Committee has been working up to it with a few semi-lynchings (private equity bosses) and hangings (hedge fund managers). But this was the real deal — for surely fallen bankers are our modern-day witches — and MPs had spent the night gathering enough straw and twigs for four giant pyres. Now the hour was nigh and all they had to do was provide a light.
The mob waited in the corridor but the Guilty Four were nowhere to be seen, sequestered in a separate match-proof room. When the time came, the mob fell silent as they filed past. The words "burn baby burn" hung in the air, acrid and sulphurous. They did not look like Masters of the Universe as they skulked by for they had taken advice from Knights of the Dark Arts (PR execs) and, for this day only, they had turned themselves into mice.
"So is sorry the hardest word?" demanded John McFall, Labour MP and head witch-hunter, a long lit match in his finger tips.
The mice sat in a row, hunched forward, looking miserable. Their hands were folded before them (more Dark Arts advice). They wore sackcloth and ashes but I couldn't help but notice that their cufflinks, bought with evil bonus money no doubt, were gleaming.
"There has been much talk of the S-word," said Lord Stevenson, a smoothie-chops who was chairman of HBOS. "We are profoundly and I think I would say unreservedly sorry at the turn of events." (The turn of events? I guess that's one way of putting it.)
Now Sir Tom McKillop, white moustache quivering, formerly of RBS, made an "unreserved" apology. Next to him his former CEO, Fred the Shred (now transformed into Fred the Tread Carefully) squeaked that he too wanted to make a "profound and unqualified" apology. Finally Little Andy Hornby, the whiz-kid witch of HBOS, did a full-on grovel and seemed the sorriest of them all.
The match touched the straw. The witches said that nothing was really their fault. Lord Stevenson told us about his "counter-cyclical" caution. Handy Andy explained how he had reduced the bank's reliance on property. So, he was asked, did he feel culpable? "Not personally culpable," he said. Who did he blame? Why the collapse of the wholesale markets, of course.
I couldn't help but notice that the witches weren't burning. Indeed, they weren't even smouldering. Perhaps they had cast a spell by wrapping themselves in the word "sorry". Never have I seen sorry used in such a sorry way: these men said they were sorry but these were just words, empty as pie shells.
"You are in denial!" cried an MP, bellows in hand, fanning away.
The mice denied they were in denial. Sir Fred and Sir Tom explained that RBS had gone down, not because of them, but because of events in America that led to a crisis of confidence. Sir Fred, head down and voice low, kept talking as if he still worked at RBS. At one point he said: "I believe I've run the bank in a responsible way." I gasped: surely he would start to burn now but he didn't. Was he made of Teflon?
Then, at the very end, a glimmer of the old Fred. "It's just too simple if you want to blame it all on me," he squeaked. It had the ring of a phrase he's said a thousand times. He'll never burn. Forget Teflon. These guys are made of steel..
21 April: It's Jacqui Smith, not quite unplugged
The Easter break was fraught for the Home Secretary: the leaked details of her expenses revealed she had charged the taxpayer for, among other things, a barbecue, a toothbrush holder, scatter cushions, a bathplug, and two porn films. Upon returning to Westminster, she had to face the Commons over the arrests of terror suspects.
Jacqui Smith seems to have taken her inspiration for her Commons performance from something very dear to her heart — her bathplug. She has not spent our 88p in vain.
Yesterday the Home Secretary took that object — the cleanest item by far on her now infamous expenses — and used it to plug her mouth.
It was a move of genius. Indeed, I would be surprised if the word "bathplugging" does not become a political verb that is acknowledged as the best possible way to fight leaks of all kinds.
Ms Smith chose her topic well yesterday. By this, I mean that she picked one that she could not talk about by law. Yes, by law, as in contempt-of-court law. Thus she began her "statement" on the terror arrests with the words: "I'm sure the House will understand why I cannot go into detail."
But I'm not sure it mattered what the House thought, certainly not the Tories who were out in force to watch her squirm. For she kept to her word. No detail got past that bathplug. It was like listening to porridge. She was asked many questions — about Pakistan, about student visas, about border security — and gave us answers of total gloop. They all disappeared without a trace.
Chris Grayling, the Shadow Home Secretary, is a man made for the word lugubrious but he was no match for this. He noted that our Pakistan student visa assessment operation had been moved to Abu Dhabi. Why had she done this strange thing? She looked at him blankly: the bathplug was in. We never heard of Abu Dhabi again.
He tried to sneer, something at which he is very bad. "And if we believe the Downing Street rumour mill — despite everything, it does appear to be still operating — you will be on your way before long as well," he said in a voice close to monotone.
Ms Smith's face did not move. Downing Street rumours are the least of her worries. If it is true that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, then Ms Smith is made of tungsten by now. It takes guts to live your life knowing that, after your husband's viewing habits were revealed via her expenses, that everyone you meet can think of only one word and that is "porn". We used to look at Ms Smith and think cleavage, now it's porn. I suppose that is progress of sorts.
Her reaction to all of this seems to have become prim. There has always been something of the barmaid about Ms Smith but now, post-porngate, she was as prim as a headmistress facing a class of naughty boys. After Mr Grayling sat down, she scolded him: "The fact that you chose to spend a significant proportion of your response to my statement talking about me rather than the issue says rather more about you than it says about me."
At this a Tory bellowed: "You ARE the issue!"
Her lips pursed. Silence. This was her answer to all. She came under attack from her own side about G20 and the arrest of the MP Damian Green, who sat, glowering at her throughout. In response, she pursed her lips, parting them only to emit more porridge.
This drove the Tory Douglas Hogg to distraction. "Do you understand my puzzlement about the fact that you have chosen to make a statement that is wholly empty?" he demanded. Her lips, pursed for so long that I feared some sort of cosmetic surgery had been involved, parted in a shadow of a smile. She and her bathplug had won the day.
14 May: Mistakes, manure and hairshirts
As the expenses scandal rumbled on, MPs were divided into those who had paid money back and those who hadn't. It was all starting to smell like, well, manure.
The party is over, the hangover has begun. The Commons was rife with fear, loathing and self-flagellation yesterday.
Labour grandee Tony Wright, always a voice of sanity, said history had seen the Long Parliament, the Rump Parliament and the Addled Parliament. "If we are not careful," he admonished, "we shall finish up with the Moat Parliament or the Manure Parliament."
The Manure Parliament. You must admit it has a certain ring, if not smell, to it. No one laughed. When you are waist-deep in the stuff, shovel in hand, maybe it's not so funny. Besides, MPs, were hurting too much to laugh.
Remorse, like muck, suffused the air. The guiltfest was awesome to behold.
The Speaker, an expert on manure, was in his place. MPs are now divided between those who have written cheques and those who haven't. I saw Tory Michael Gove (£7,000 for furniture) having a word with Hazel Blears (£13,332 for capital gains) near the doors. "My cheque's bigger than yours," Hazel said (or so I imagined). When you are the tiniest MP, these things matter.
Gordon, Dave and Nick all had their hairshirts on. Indeed, as Ann Widdecombe noted, all MPs are in a competition as to whose hairshirt is the hairiest. It was quite something to behold for I, as a feral beast, as all members of the press are considered to be at Westminster, consider myself an expert on all things hairy.
First Gordo showed us his hairshirt which looked a bit mangy. "We must apologise for mistakes," he said. "We must rectify the errors." There was a committee looking into it, as well as a commission, an inquiry and at least one independent body. It has to be said that the Manure Parliament loves quangos.
Dave (£680 for wistaria clearing) said Gordon's hairshirt was as sad as a man with a comb-over. (I paraphrase.) Dave now modelled his shirt, a hoody no less, which looked designer. He wanted MPs to publish their expenses online "in real time".
He wanted to get rid of the communication allowance worth £10,000 a year for every MP. "Isn't this a gigantic waste of money?"
Gordo, frantically patching his shirt with strange bits of fur, said that he'd already saved loads of money for the taxpayer. "I have myself refused the pension that is able to be given to any serving Prime Minister. I have myself refused the London allowance. As far as the communication allowance, it is open to the House to look at all these things."
Dave slapped the dispatch box. "What we want is some leadership to cut some of these costs. You seem to have such a tin ear to these issues. In an age …"
A Labour voice cried out: "You're a millionaire!"
Dave glowered and tried to look even hairer. Gordon was still shedding bits of fur. The Manure Parliament was looking as bad as it smelt.
Nick Clegg (£80 for phone calls) is leader of the most hirsute party in the Commons and, sure enough, he did not disappoint. He arose to reveal what can only be called a maxi-hairshirt. On his feet were special hairy sandals. He said that all Lib Dems were going to give back any profit made from their second homes. "We are here to serve, not make a fast buck on the property market."
Gordo, his shirt now looking as patchy as a piebald cat, said that a committee would look into it. Then they all shuffled out, presumably to flagellate themselves with a spiky ball and chain before shuffling up thousands of stone stairs on their knees.
All copyright from extracts belongs to Ann Treneman


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Black Cat Bones
Black Cat Bones were a British heavy blues rock band that existed with various lineups from 1966 to 1970, when they became Leaf Hound.
Free, Leaf Hound
Paul Tiller
Paul Kossoff
Derek Brooks
Stuart Brooks
Terry Sims
Simon Kirke
Brian Short
Rod Price
Phil Lenoir
Bob Weston
Pete French
Mike Halls
The band had English musicians Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke in its lineup, both of whom later helped form Free in 1968 with Paul Rodgers and Andy Fraser; Kirke and Rodgers then helped found the more successful British rock supergroup Bad Company in 1974. Rod Price was the guitarist on the band's only album, Barbed Wire Sandwich, released in 1970, and went on to play in Foghat. Other members went on to play in Shagrat, Atomic Rooster, Cactus and Fleetwood Mac.
2 Discography
Black Cat Bones formed in London in 1966 with members Paul Tiller (lead vocals and harmonica), Paul Kossoff (lead guitar), brothers Derek Brooks (rhythm guitar) and Stuart Brooks (bass guitar), and Terry Sims (drums). The band was named after black cat bones, a Hoodoo charm associated with blues music.[1] There were several personnel changes early on, with Terry Sims being replaced by drummer Frank Perry, who was in turn replaced in early 1968[2] by drummer Simon Kirke. The band played regularly on the London pub circuit.[1] Paul Tiller was later replaced by vocalist Brian Short. At the suggestion of Mike Vernon, owner of the Blue Horizon blues record label, Kossoff, Kirke and Stuart Brooks backed veteran blues pianist Champion Jack Dupree on his 1968 album When You Feel the Feeling You Was Feeling, and played on his concurrent UK tour.[3][4] Kossoff and Kirke left the band soon after.
Guitarist Rod Price and drummer Phil Lenoir replaced Kossoff and Kirke.[5] Along with Short and the Brooks brothers, they recorded Barbed Wire Sandwich, the band's only album. It was recorded at Tangerine Studios and Decca Studios, and released in February 1970 on Decca's newly launched Nova label dedicated to progressive rock music. When the album failed to win the band critical acclaim, Short, Price and Lenoir left the band, effectively ending its existence.
Short went on to create a solo album entitled Anything for a Laugh in 1971, which also failed to win critical acclaim. Remaining band members Derek and Stuart Brooks were joined by vocalist Pete French and guitarist Mike Halls from the Brunning Sunflower Blues Band; after adding drummer Keith George Young, the outfit became the hard rock band Leaf Hound in 1970.[6] Also in 1970, Lenoir joined Steve Peregrin Took's band Shagrat. Rod Price later went on to become the guitarist in Foghat from December 1970. Pete French joined Atomic Rooster and later Cactus with the remnants of Vanilla Fudge. Mike Halls played for many years on the British blues circuit and later moved to California. Bob Weston, later of Fleetwood Mac, also spent time in the band.
DiscographyEdit
Barbed Wire Sandwich (1970)
^ a b Guerra, Tom. "The Story of the Back Street Crawler". Vintage Guitar. Archived from the original on 31 December 2006. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
^ Perry, Frank (1995). "Black Cat Bones". Archived from the original on 25 April 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2007.
^ Larkin C 'Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music' (Muze UK Ltd, 1997) ISBN 0-7535-0149-X) p57
^ "Champion Jack Dupree". Wirz.de. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
^ St. Michael, Mick. "Black Cat Bones". Retrieved 28 January 2007.
^ Joynson, Vernon. "Leaf Hound". Retrieved 28 January 2007.
Alex Gatlin's Black Cat Bones page
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The 12 Best Mods For PC Games
Luke Plunkett
Filed to:The bests
The real joy of playing a game on PC is that, thanks to mods, your entire experience can be improved by the work of dedicated fans.
Because some mods are so extensive, transforming almost everything about the source title, we felt it was only fair to list 12 of the best of them here, since they may as well count as their own new games.
Note that due to the nature of these lists we do—highlighting the very best titles on major platforms—we've decided to only include mods that create a significantly new experience, whether that be in the form of a "total conversion", or advances that fundamentally alter (or repair) a game. If all a mod is doing is tweaking features or adding items, while that's great for users/fans of that game, it doesn't warrant a shout-out on a standalone list like this.
A mod so good that it shouldn't even count. Really, it feels, and plays, like a standalone game, a professional remake that you'd pay $50 for. But hey, it's not, it's a mod, and a free one at that, one which took an insane amount of time to make but which turned out to be worth the wait.
A Good Match For: Those who have heard how awesome Half-Life is, but could never get into the original due to its... antiquity.
Not For Those Who Want: An all-new experience. It looks new, but it's the same old Half-Life. There's no sticking cover or regenerating health here, kids.
Here's how it looks in action.
You can get it here.
Game Required For Mod: Anything with a Half-Life 2 key.
What more needs to be said about DayZ, one of the success stories of 2012 and a rare time a mod doesn't just improve a game, but creates an all-new experience that teaches full games a thing or two about design. It's soon to be released as a standalone game, but for now, the ArmA 2 mod is the only way you can experience the horror of zombie survival.
A Good Match For: People who want a true zombie survival experience, not just an action game where zombies are used as a substitute for aliens/monsters. Also, those capable of getting a handle on a first-person game more complicated than your average shooter.
Not For Those Who Want: A quick, exciting experience. The game can drag, and being based on a serious combat simulator, isn't exactly "pick up and play", either.
Game Required For Mod: ArmA2: Combined Operations
The world has been starved of quality official Battlestar Galactica games. Thank the Lords of Kobol, then, for the team behind Diaspora, which takes old space shooter Freespace 2 and turns it into a Viper simulator the equal of any retail space shooter. Few of the usual pitfalls for mods of this kind—poor voice acting, a lack of polish—exist. It's fantastic.
A Good Match For: Fans of space shooters and Battlestar fans alike.
Not For Those Who Want: A truly cinematic Battlestar experience. The devs have done a fantastic job, but if you're hoping for guest starring roles from the cast of the show, you'll be sorely disappointed.
Game Required For Mod: None! While based on Freespace 2, the mod is self-executing, meaning you only need the mod files.
Sure, successors and imitators have come thick and fast over the years, but let's not forget that the inspiration behind League of Legends was a mod. A mod for, of all things, Warcraft III. It's a little long in the tooth now, at least visually, but the core experience is as strong as it ever was, and there are still plenty of people hanging around to play against.
A Good Match For: History buffs and those who'd like to see where the whole MOBA genre began.
Not For Those Who Want: To take this a little more seriously. The attention and crowds have moved on to more modern interpretations like Valve's DOTA 2 and Riot's League of Legends.
Game Required For Mod: Warcraft III
Eastern Front
It was tough choosing between this and Modern Combat, but in the end I had to settle for Eastern Front. The original Company of Heroes shipped with only three real sides: Germans, Americans and, later, the British. No Soviets. Company of Heroes 2 fixes this, but...it's not as good a game as the original, so you should download this mod, which not only adds new units, but goes all out to make it an authentic Soviet experience.
A Good Match For: Those a little tired of the existing factions in the game and after a new challenge, a new experience. It's also a totally free way to play as the Soviets in the Company of Heroes games, for cheapskates who don't want to pay for Company of Heroes 2.
Not For Those Who Want: All the improvements we're going to see in Company of Heroes 2. While there are dramatic changes here to everything from units to maps, this is still based on the original Company of Heroes, so this won't be a direct substitute for CoH2, especially in terms of things like the new advanced weather systems.
Game Required For Mod: Company Of Heroes
Just Cause 2: Multiplayer
This is somehow more than just a mod. It's a video game experiment. You can fit over 1000 people on the same enormous map, resulting in some of the most hilarious and explosive multiplayer this medium has ever seen. One round of this and you'll never think 64 players is "a lot" ever again.
A Good Match For: Pranksters, griefers and those who are prepared for the fact that when so many people get together on the one map, crazy and unpredictable things will happen.
Not For Those Who Want: A quiet, peaceful time. This mod does not feature quiet, peaceful times.
Game Required For Mod: Just Cause 2
The Nameless Mod
The Nameless Mod is a total conversion of Deus Ex, improving the visuals and building an all-new world, one bursting with thousands of lines of spoken dialogue and five endings. Its a shocking achievement, one that makes this feel like an official spin-off rather than the fan-made project it is.
A Good Match For: Those yearning for the days of old, when a Deus Ex game was a little uglier, but also a lot more complex.
Not For Those Who Want: Something like the new Deus Ex.
Game Required For Mod: Deus Ex.
Nehrim: At Fate's Edge
I shudder to think of the amount of work that went into this. Most Elder Scrolls mods, regardless of which game they're for, are about adding things to the world that's already there. Nehrim crafts a whole new "campaign", with new terrain, new buildings, towns, and even a new storyline. It's not even set in the Elder Scrolls universe!
A Good Match For: RPG fans who'd like an accessible, enjoyable and gorgeous game that's not set in the Elder Scrolls universe.
Not For Those Who Want: An Elder Scrolls game! Because this is an all-new world and story, the only things it has in common with Oblivion are visual assets.
Game Required For Mod: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
NEOTOKYO°
Tough, old as boots and utterly uncompromising, NeoTokyo isn't just one of the longest-serving mods on this list, it's also one of the prettiest. A Half-Life 2 mod designed to look like the coolest anime you've ever seen, it's a must-play for anyone who's wanted to shoot their way through a dystopian future Tokyo, but never had the chance. Because, you know, reality.
A Good Match For: Fans of games like Counter-Strike, who value fast-twitch response times above all else. It's also worth a look just for the art design.
Not For Those Who Want: An easy-going shooter. This thing is hard, particularly so for fresh meat who have never played the game before.
Game Required For Mod: Any product with a Half-Life 2 key.
The Sith Lords Restored
The sequel to Knights of the Old Republic was a crushing disappointment. Not because its content was terrible; it was pretty good! It's just, it wasn't all there. Parts of the game were missing, especially near the end, leaving players feel under-done. This project takes an unfinished game and finishes it. It's pushing the limits of my "must be transformative experience" rule for this list, but seeing as what it does salvages and restores a great game I wouldn't otherwise recommend, it makes the cut. Just.
A Good Match For: Star Wars fans perhaps looking for a more involving experience than the cold embrace of the Old Republic MMO, who might have been put off by KOTOR 2's lukewarm reception pre-mod.
Not For Those Who Want: A modern Star Wars RPG. Going back to these games after, say, Mass Effect shows how far BioWare's systems (even though this particular game was handled by Obsidian) have come.
Game Required For Mod: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
Star Wars: Galactic Warfare
Galactic Warfare transforms Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare into a Star Wars game. Aside from the weird shuffle of the infantry, the transformation is a complete one, from the levels to the weapons to the sound. Given the lack of new Battlefront games, this is as close as you're going to get to engaging in some contemporary Star Wars multiplayer gaming.
A Good Match For: Shooter fans longing for a new Battlefront game, who know deep down they're probably never going to get one.
Not For Those Who Want: A direct substitution for Battlefront. This is based on Modern Warfare, after all, so maps are tight and team sizes (relatively) small.
Get it here.
Game required for mod: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
Third Age: Total War
I love Total War. My personal favourite mod is Darthmod's overhaul of Empire, for example, but under the rules of this collection, that doesn't count. What does count is the incredible Third Age mod, which strips Medieval: Total War 2 back to its bones and replaces it with an epic strategy game straight out of Peter Jackson's original Lord of the Rings trilogy. The massive army sizes and melee combat of Medieval 2 were born for a mod pitting Rohirrim against Orcs.
A Good Match For: Anyone wanting to control the vast armies of Middle Earth, and left frustrated by the more "intimate" nature of EA's official RTS games from a few years back.
Not For Those Who Want: That same kind of "simple" experience you got from EA's games. The Total War series is a bit more involved, and requires more of your time (and brain cells).
Game Required For Mod: Medieval II Total War - Kingdoms


Guess Girls Red Apple Handbag.
Red apple handbag by Guess, made in faux leather with sparkly green glitter leaf appliqué. It has a gold chain strap, and it fastens with a zip on the top.
Comes with fabric dust bag.
Guess Girls Red Apple Handbag. Red apple handbag by Guess, made in faux leather with sparkly green glitter leaf appliqué. It has a gold chain strap, and it fastens with a zip on the top. 100% Polyurethane (Faux leather). Wipe clean. Comes with fabric dust bag.


An old face from way back in Season 1 makes an unwelcome return.
Marvel may be the masters of the post-credits scene, but Mr. Robot is quickly proving itself to be just as adept at teasing the future after the credits have rolled. In the Season 3 finale of the USA thriller, "Eps3.9_shutdown-r," a Season 1 character makes a bizarre return out of nowhere.
Spoilers for Mr. Robot Season 3 are ahead.
"Shutdown" was packed to the brim with twists and revelations. But the post-credits scene is setting up one major plot arc to be explored in Season 4: Fernando's return. In the post-credits scene, Darlene (Carly Chaikan) and a nameless prostitute, who walk to Elliot's apartment, talk about how things might finally get better again. (Impossible, but sure.) That's when a drug dealer rolls up demanding to see Elliot. And it's none other than Fernando Vera, reprised by Elliot Villar in his role from Season 1.
Back in Season 1, Elliot (show star Rami Malek) sent Fernando, who abused Elliot's crush Shayla, to prison. It was an example by Mr. Robot to prove Elliot's "heroic" side to his hacktivism. Capturing random child pornographers wasn't enough. There had to be a personal connection to Elliot's talents, which the show did by tapping into a Marvel Comics spirit by Elliot using his "powers" for personal gain, much like how Spider-Man first used his powers to make money from pro wrestling.
Fernando, as seen in 'Mr. Robot' Season 1.
It was all for naught, anyway. While Elliot was blackmailed into letting Fernando free (once again, using his hacking abilities), Shayla was killed anyway, which horrified the heartbroken Elliot. Since then, Shayla and Fernando have been absent from Mr. Robot as more colorful characters took precedence, but Season 4 seems to be a return to form with the show's original established world.
In a Deadline interview with series creator Sam Esmail, the producer called Fernando "a crazy person" and "an egomaniac and hopefully very entertaining to watch." He adds that Fernando will show just how close Elliot's actions with the global 5/9 hack will haunt him.
Needless to say, Mr. Robot Season 4 has certainly hacked its way to already being the most anticipated show for 2018. Season 4 returns sometime in the fall of next year.
Soon, we could delete memories just like in Westworld. Check out this video to find out how.


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Trump claims joyful Minnesota airport welcome for Ilhan Omar was 'STAGED' as he predicts HE will win the state and blasts media for not covering her 'vile and disgusting' anti-Semitism
Swimmers are left furious after wristbands adorned with Confederate flags are given out at a North Carolina pool on July 4th, but management claims staff didn't realize what they'd ordered from the supplier
North Carolina county pool-goers were given wristbands with a Confederate flag
Sage Magness complained to a pool staffer who laughed at the 'racist' wristband
The shocked mother said: 'My three-year-old had a Confederate flag wristband. It was kind of like an out-of-body experience ... What century am I in?'
Forsyth County initially said on Facebook that it was a 'generic' USA flag design
Deputy county manager said young employee who ordered wristbands didn't understand what the 'Stars and Bars' pattern symbolizes
County parks and recreation officials said the wristbands were disposed of
Wristband company said their employee who took the order didn't know use had been discontinued
A North Carolina mother is fuming after she and other pool-goers were given Confederate flag wristbands to celebrate American Independence Day.
Sage Magness said she was shocked to notice what was on the item at the Forsyth County pool at Tanglewood Park over the Fourth of July weekend.
It was very clearly a Confederate flag,' Magness told the Winston-Salem Journal about the design with a red background, and blue cross featuring white stars.
Magness said she was 'pretty mad because the Confederate flag is something I don't have in my life.'
She said she told a pool staffer, 'I am going to take this racist wristband off' but the young man kind of laughed and said, 'I guess the parks and recreation department bought them.'
North Carolina county pool-goers were given wristbands with a Confederate flag. Sage Magness complained to a pool staffer who laughed at the wristband
County parks and recreation officials said the wristbands were disposed of. The wristband company said employee who took order didn't know use had been discontinued
Magness was visiting the pool with her child while visiting the county she used to live in, when she decided to round out the holiday on Sunday with a refreshing dip.
But she was angry when she spotted the offensive design on both herself and the youngster.
'I'm looking at my wristband, and it is red, white and blue,' Magness said. 'I looked at it more and said, 'This is not the American flag.' I said, 'This cannot be what I think it is.
'My three-year-old had a Confederate flag wristband. It was kind of like an out-of-body experience ... What century am I in?'
The situation was made worse when Magness complained via the county's Facebook page and a social media manager responded that it was 'generic stars and stripes pattern,' sent from Med Tech Group.
They also noted never having any complaints when using it in past years.
Then the county said via Facebook that 'some of the bands and the way they were cut, can be viewed as having a similar pattern to the Confederate flag'.
But Magness shared her photo and explained: 'It isn't about how the band was cut. It's very clearly a red flag with a blue 'X' with stars inside. It isn't generic.'
Med Tech's offensive Confederate flag design (left), the Stars And Stripes pattern wristband (center) and the Fourth of July pattern (right). The company said it doesn't 'sell, support or promote these bands any longer' and their employee 'wasn't aware of what they resembled'
The bands were finally removed on Monday morning and the deputy county manager of Forsyth, Damon Sanders-Pratt, said that afternoon it was a mistake on the part of a young staffer.
'Our staff person selected two styles that they believed were patriotic in that they were homages to the American flag,' Sanders-Pratt said. 'One was called 'Stars & Stripes Red & Blue' and the other was called 'Stars and Bars Multicolored.'
Adding that the person didn't recognize the connotation, Sanders-Pratt added: 'The employee's intention was to recognize the American flag and Independence Day, but they made an uninformed selection.
'The county made a mistake by using these wristbands, no matter what they were called, and apologizes to those who were offended.'
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The Stars and Bars design offered by Med Tech is not identical as one with the same name referring to the first flag flown by the Confederacy on March 5, 1861. That one three horizontal stripes — two red and one white – plus a circle of stars in the canton.
After the county asked for a refund for the wristbands that cost $59 for 500, the company agreed to credit their account for five boxes an employee on their end also made a mistake.
'We do not sell, support or promote these bands any longer, and she also wasn't aware of what they resembled,' Med Tech said.
The state of South Carolina has a controversial history and many have called for the removal of some Confederate statues.
Critics say the statues were built decades after the Civil War to promote white supremacy while supporters say they are simply memorials to ancestors who fought and died protecting their homes.
A Confederate statue was finally removed from Winston-Salem in March.
Supporters of the Confederate statue at the corner of Fourth and Liberty streets in Winston-Salem sing Dixie during a gathering, on Sunday January 15
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Swimmer hit out after wristbands adorned with Confederate flags are given out at pool on July 4th
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Re-sist-ance is gallery artist Zheng Lu's first large-scale solo museum show in Shaghai. It comprises eight new works produced in 2016 that explore the aesthetics of resistance. This follows a successful solo exhibition at Taipei's Museum of Contemporary Art in 2015.