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Why Tunnel View was originally called Tunnel View...
April 23, 2013 02:30PM Registered: 11 years ago
From the program given to spectators at the dedication:
Re: Why Tunnel View was originally called Tunnel View...
A TIFF file with massive jpeg artifacts. Why?
April 23, 2013 04:29PM Moderator
It's from 1933. It must be an artifact.
Heh, it was screen capture of an image in a PDF file. The screen capture program defaults to the TIFF format.
(Oh, and the PDF file was a digital scan of an issue of YA's Yosemite Journal I came across.)
I thought it was still called Tunnel View and originally called Discovery View.
I think we have had this discussion before. The first time I heard it called Discovery View was after they "restored" that area but that does not mean that this was not the name used first. On the Yosemite NPS website it is referred to as Tunnel View. Somewhere in my house is a book on Yosemite names and I will have to find it and see what it says.
You need to read his post and then my post. Literally read them.
(I'm just pulling his leg)
It's still Discovery View on the usgs maps.
(to be clear... it was originally called Discovery View... )
Z Map Wit Discovery View Marked
At least now I won't have to go and look though boxes of books. My legs are short so they are harder to pull.
Of course I could be completely full of it too...
You full of it? NAAAAA
Ok. Now I'm not sure. Sigh. Was it first Tunnel View, then Discovery View, then back to Tunnel.
or Inspiration Pt, Tunnel View, Discovery View, Tunnel View.
Where's wherever?
I'm here. But I think that you are both wrong. Tunnel View is the view from inside the tunnel, as the original program showed. Discovery view is the view from the parking area.
I can see why they don't encourage people to stop in the tunnel to get a picture framed by the tunnel mouth....
April 24, 2013 06:26AM Moderator
My leg hurts
The official name change to Discovery View occurred in August of 1989. Here's a link to the official USGS GNIS record of the name: GNIS: Discovery View
(The pink bird is just clowning me, as he is apt to do. )
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Tom Harrison doesn't think Tunnel, Discovery, or Valley View are worth any ink.
As the saying goes "No matter where you go, there you are." or "A tunnel by any other name would still have a view."


LOUISVILLE, Colo. – May 24, 2011– Zayo Group, a provider of fiber-based bandwidth infrastructure and network-neutral colocation services, announces it has joined the Dark Fiber Community, an online resource for network operators that build efficient broadband networks and for the vendors that support them.
The Dark Fiber Communityis an educational platform that connects communications equipment providers, dark fiber manufacturers, data center builders, tower builders, and financing sources. The community addresses what dark fiber equipment to use, who can build it, and who can manage it.
"Joining the Dark Fiber Community is a natural move for Zayo, following the 2010 launch of Zayo Fiber Solutions, a business focused on dark fiber services." states Matt Erickson, President of Zayo Fiber Solutions. "We look forward to working with Allied Fiber and leveraging the community to enable customers with the long-term and scalable bandwidth infrastructure afforded by dark fiber.
With members coming from various industries, such as financing, industry associations, infrastructure engineers, and equipment providers, all seeking to benefit from dark fiber, the Dark Fiber Community now has over 85 members. The community's success is due in part to industry data and information being freely accessible to all.
To view the Dark Fiber Community, please visit http://dark-fiber.tmcnet.com.
Allied Fiber owns, builds and will operate its own network-neutral, fiber optic cable system, connecting sub-sea landing points, cell towers, data centers, carrier hotels, colocation huts, enterprise buildings, schools and governments with next generation, long-haul and short-haul dark fiber. This necessary dark fiber network, planned to unite along its route the continental United States, is created to address America's need for more broadband access, wireless backhaul, data center distribution and lower latency communications services. Allied Fiber is employing the most advanced fiber optic cables in its multi-duct dark fiber system to meet the ever increasing bandwidth demands for wireless, Video over IP and other advanced technologies thus enabling the development of the Global Broadband Economy for the United States. For more information, please visit www.alliedfiber.com.


Brussels, Belgium, 10th December 2007 – OW2 Consortium confirms the strong momentum of its community at JavaPolis in Antwerp, Belgium, 10th-14th December, where its members are displaying a comprehensive range of open source middleware solutions. At the OW2 Village and during the OW2 conference session, OW2 Members present and demonstrate leading OW2 projects working together to provide a full-featured open source information system.
OW2 Members show live demonstrations of Java projects covering the whole middleware spectrum: Enterprise Application Server, Enterprise Service Bus, Data Integration, Business Process Management, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Monitoring, Wiki and Portal.
OW2 Members exhibiting at JavaPolis include Bull, EBMWebsourcing, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, eXo Platform, INRIA, Talend and XWiki.
"This is probably the first time such a broad range of open source middleware solutions are presented in such a consistent way" says Cedric Thomas, OW2 Consortium CEO. "It is a unique demonstration of maturity by the OW2 community" he adds.
Visitors at the OW2 Village have the opportunity to discover the full value provided by the OW2 open source middleware ecosystem. The OW2 conference session is scheduled Wednesday, 12th December, 2:00pm. JavaPolis is the main Java technology trade show held in Europe. OW2 participates in the event as a Premium sponsor.
Founded in January 2007 as a result of the merger of ObjectWeb and OrientWare communities, OW2 is an independent industry consortium dedicated to developing open source code middleware and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. Building on the legacy of ObjectWeb and OrientWare, OW2 federates more than one hundred organizations and 6000 developers in Europe, Asia and the Americas. OW2 hosts some one hundred technology Projects, including Lomboz, Funambol, eXo Platorm, XWiki, SpagoBI and JOnAS. Several of these projects are combined into market-driven Initiatives, such as the ESB/SOA Initiative and the Business Intelligence Initiative, which facilitate their implementation by systems integrators, OEMs and end-users. A typical global open-source organization, OW2 aims to bring together grassroots communities across all continents through Local Chapters.


The elders met on September 6th.
The "prime directive" for the board (i.e.: the basic framework for all decision making) was also highlighted. The prime directive being "What is best for the church at this time?"


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APE to MAN. Life of the first men in the Nile River.
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Artifacts discovered in and around the narrow floodplain that surrounds the Nile's eastern and western banks, from the rocky, turbulent First Cataract in the south to the wide, fan-shaped delta in the north, indicate an early human presence and dependence on the land.
As early as 700,000 years ago, the unique geography of the world's longest river facilitated the distribution of Homo erectus, or "upright walking man," through eastern Africa into the Levant, modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and much of southeastern Turkey, India, and eventually to Java, where the most recent Homo erectus fossils have been discovered.
Unfortunately, no such fossilized remains have yet been discovered in the region that would later be known as Egypt.
However, the uncovering of uniquely pear-shaped, flaked, flint hand-axes is considered to be related to Homo erectus indicating that these early nomadic hunter-gatherers traversed the valley for thousands of years.
The environment surrounding the river at the time resembled savannah rather than the dry, desertified climate we know now, and enormous populations of
gazelle, hartebeest, gigantic buffalo, and other grazing animals offered an abundant food source.
Homo heidelbergensis, which shared some characteristics with Homo erectus but had a larger braincase, coexisted with its possible ancestor for at least 500,000 years, until around 200,000 BCE, and must have passed through the Nile Valley because evidence of its presence in the Levant dates back to 790,000 BCE.
Homo heidelbergensis may have been more communal than its predecessor, as evidenced by the construction of hearths and the demonstration of the first human-made fire.
They were also more inventive, substantial innovations to the flint hand-ax, as well as the production of wooden spears, point to the growth of early human hunting abilities.
In this case, Homo heidelbergensis is credited with becoming the first big game hunter.
While Homo heidelbergensis withstood darker evenings and freezing winter temperatures in Europe and the northern Mediterranean region around 400,000 BCE, delicate evolutionary genetic mechanisms were at work. One result of these events was the emergence of a new branch of the Homo genus, Homo neanderthalensis, or Neanderthals as we have come to know them.
The name Neanderthal comes from the Neander Valley in Germany, where their remains were first identified, as well as parts of southwest and central Asia, where the discovery of their more sophisticated stone tool technology, called Mousterian, as opposed to Homo erectus archaic Acheulean hand-ax technology, attests to their presence.
Neanderthals lived in a little more polished, but not drastically different, style than their ancestors.
They lived in a community, constructed shelters, regulated fire, and hunted large animals with spears.
Forensic research of Neanderthal skeletal development reveals that Neanderthals utilized these spears by thrusting rather than throwing, implying two things:
To succeed, Neanderthals had to get up and personal with their prey on a regular basis, and they had to hunt collectively in bigger groups.
The Neanderthal tool scraper, used to extract animal meat from skins that were discovered in Western Sahara near the Nile Valley, indicates the existence of Neanderthals from roughly 70,000 BCE to 43,000 BCE.
Unfortunately, the apparent disappearance of Neanderthals from the Nile Valley region after that time overlaps with the appearance of the first modern humans, the effect of whose earlier Cognitive Revolution enabled them to outcompete their genetic cousins, drove them to extinction.
After around 30,000 BCE, there is no trace of Homo neanderthalensis in the fossil record elsewhere in the world.
Where did these new kids on the block come from?
The Omo Valley of southern Ethiopia witnessed what has proven to be a watershed moment in world history, close to 200,000 years ago, with the first appearance of Homo sapiens, dubbed 'Anatomically-Modern Humans' to distinguish them from later, post-cognitive-revolution Homo sapiens sapiens, dubbed modern humans, appeared between 70,000 BCE and 30,000 BCE in Eastern Africa.
The former shared many of the cultural qualities of their Homo heidelbergensis ancestors, but they didn't seem to create much of a genetic ripple until the Cognitive Revolution.
"But then beginning about 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens started doing very special things," says Harari. Concerning those who remained in Eastern Africa after the departure of Homo sapiens bands during the second "Out-of-Africa" event around 65,000 BCE, and who migrated into the Nile Valley around 43,000 BCE, archaeological evidence reveals dramatic advances in tool technology and construction, hunting practices, pottery crafting, pigment grinding for cosmetic and ceremonial uses, and burial of the dead.
Western Sahara was rich with flora during the time of the Out-of-Africa migration, circa 65,000 BCE, due to cyclical climatic and environmental cycles that transformed the once-arid region into lush savannah.
That cycle had reversed itself when Homo sapiens first arrived in the Nile basin, bringing the return of dry and less livable conditions beyond the valley's outskirts.
Despite the fact that climate change lowered Nile river flow during this time period, evidence suggests that men employed fishing to produce food for their families.
The people lived in smaller groups of 25-50 individuals. They were still hunters and gatherers, but their bigger brains and cognitive hardwiring enabled them to innovate in terms of subsistence practices and technology.
Men, for example, had shifted away from cutting chert blanks, which would eventually be fashioned into primitive axes and blades, in favor of more durable and sharper materials like obsidian, flint, or quartzite.
During this period, mankind figured out how to construct a sickle, which they used to harvest wild crops.
The agricultural revolution was thousands of years in the future!
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With: Cui Lin, Li Bin, Zhou Xun
Written by: Wang Xiaoshuai, Tang Danian, Peggy Chiao and Hsu Hsiao-Ming
Directed by: Wang Xiaoshuai
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violence and brief nudity
Language: Mandarin with English subtitles
Beijing Bicycle (2001)
Stealing Bikes and Movies
Vittorio DeSica's The Bicycle Thief (1949) is a great film, but it's pretty Film School 101. Most filmmakers and film buffs have seen it and acknowledge its contribution to world cinema. In other words, it's not that interesting when a filmmaker like Wang Xiaoshuai pays tribute to (read: copies) it in a film like the new Beijing Bicycle.
For one thing, The Bicycle Thief was the centerpiece of the Italian Neo-Realist movement, created specifically as a retaliation against the stagnant mainstream of the time. Beijing Bicycle doesn't really retaliate against anything. Instead, it collects bits and pieces from the most honored and Miramaxed films (i.e., lightweight cream puffs with delusions of grandeur) of today in a blatant attempt to garner some respect of its own. It's cloying rather than angry.
As the film begins, Guei (Cui Lin) arrives in Beijing from the country and lands a much-coveted job as a bicycle delivery boy. He works for a while for 20 percent of his delivery profits until he earns enough to buy his fancy new bike from the company. After that, he gets 50 percent of the take.
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that Guei's bike will be stolen -- and just one day before he's able to call it his own. This scene turns out to be more interesting than expected, though.
Trying to make a pickup from someone called Zhang, Guei is sent into the bowels of an expensive spa and asked to take a shower before he can see Zhang. But the rich and cranky Zhang doesn't know what Guei's talking about. "Try Zhang Yimou," he says, referring to the acclaimed director of Raise the Red Lantern and The Road Home.
The counter girl tries to make Guei pay for his shower before everyone realizes that the manager, also named Zhang, has been waiting for his pickup. After all this fuss, Guei returns to his bike parked outside to find it gone.
The film jumps over to Jian (Li Bin) who now has the bike. We assume that he's the thief, but we later learn that he bought it used on the black market and that the real thief will never be known. Jian is a student forced to wear a suit to school. The bike is important to him for more superficial reasons: to keep up with his friends and to impress a pretty girl who lives down the street (Zhou Xun, from Suzhou River).
Eventually the two young men catch up to one another, and the bike changes hands at least three more times. And, true to Italian Neo-Realism, the film ends on a downer.
Director Wang shoots in wide, lengthy shots, similar to the Taiwanese filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang, but without the beauty or grace -- these shots are more deliberate than organic. More to the point, Wang keeps things on a pace with Majid Majidi's Children of Heaven, another film that apes the Neo-Realism of The Bicycle Thief. As a result, Beijing Bicycle looks like the kind of film that's just begging for an Oscar.
That's where the irony sets in. It makes sense that Wang would want to disrupt the subdued, profound status of the older generation of Chinese filmmakers like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige with something wild and dazzling like Lou Ye's Suzhou River. Instead, he's trying to copy them, like a young Hollywood filmmaker imitating Spielberg in the hopes of winning box office receipts and prestigious awards.
It's a pity, but we wind up with a meaningless morality film that seems most at home clattering away on an elementary school classroom projector than in art houses.


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On Saturday Ms Nielsen tweeted that she "could not be more proud" of border patrol agents, praising their "compassionate, humanitarian response" to border security. It is unclear, however, if he will have much more of an effect on issues at the border.
During her 18 months at the head of the powerful agency, Nielsen became synonymous with the controversial policy of separating children from their parents, making her a frequent target of progressive groups and the Democratic opposition who repeatedly called on her to resign.
Colorado-born Ms Nielsen has also overseen the huge swell in migrants trying to cross the border into America. She told a Senate committee that removing children from parents facing criminal charges happens "in the United States every day".
He had previously threatened to close the US-Mexico border if Congress and Central American governments did not act to stem a flow of migrants that saw Nielsen last week order an "emergency surge" of personnel to handle the situation. Right now there is space for about 3,000 families, and facilities are at capacity.
She led the federal agency since December 2017 and was this administration's third Homeland Security secretary.
Nielsen also advocated for strong cybersecurity defense and often said she believed the next major terror attack would occur online - not by planes or bombs. A protege of Kelly's, he brought her to the White House after Trump named him chief of staff.


The first thing you'll see when you open Microsoft Office is a clean, new look. But the features you know and use are still there — along with some new ones that are huge time savers.
Microsoft Office 2016 is a cloud-integrated revision of the software which works with smartphones, tablets, and even on PCs that don't have Office installed. So now you can always get to your important files, no matter where you are or what you're using.
If you are upgrading from Microsoft Office 2003 you will be confronted with many changes. For example, the Menu Bar has disappeared, the Toolbar layout has changed, how to open a file is not immediately obvious, plus there are other changes which will reveal themselves as you work through the program.
M.S Planet Computer Training has a 2 hour presentation that delivers a thorough overview of the changes including demonstrations of common functions and allows ample time for questions from participants.
These 2 hour introductions to Microsoft Office 2016 can be followed up with individual or roving training as may be required.


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Blues > Urban Blues > Soul-Blues
The Blues Don't Lie
The Blues Don't Lie (2022)
by Buddy Guy
I Let My Guitar Do the Talking
Blues Don't Lie
The World Needs Love
We Go Back
Symptoms of Love
Well Enough Alone
What's Wrong With That
Gunsmoke Blues
Backdoor Scratchin'
I've Got a Feeling
Rabbit Blood
Soul > Soul-Blues
Regional Blues
Blues > Modern Electric Blues > Modern Electric Chicago Blues
Blues > Electric Harmonica Blues > Modern Electric Blues
Buddy Guy fell into a comfortable groove with producer/drummer Tom Hambridge way back in 2008, when they joined forces for the fine set Skin Deep. The Blues Don't Lie is their fifth album since then, a streak that includes two Grammy-Award winning albums. Such success is a clear indication that Guy and Hambridge found a comfortable, relaxed groove long ago, so maybe it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that The Blues Don't Lie sounds relaxed and comfortable, a clean execution of familiar sounds enlivened by guests. Here, ... Read More
Buddy Guy fell into a comfortable groove with producer/drummer Tom Hambridge way back in 2008, when they joined forces for the fine set Skin Deep. The Blues Don't Lie is their fifth album since then, a streak that includes two Grammy-Award winning albums. Such success is a clear indication that Guy and Hambridge found a comfortable, relaxed groove long ago, so maybe it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that The Blues Don't Lie sounds relaxed and comfortable, a clean execution of familiar sounds enlivened by guests. Here, Guy invites blues singers Mavis Staples, Wendy Moten, and Bobby Rush along with rockers Elvis Costello, Jason Isbell, and James Taylor, each musician enjoying their time in the studio as much as Guy. Whether it's the gnarled "Symptoms of Love" or the breezy "Follow the Money," these six cuts are the highlights of The Blues Don't Lie, giving the record a bit of a spark. Elsewhere, Guy sounds appealing -- perhaps his voice is a little too digitally polished, but that's countered by his guitar, which still sounds muscular -- but ever so slightly too cozy. It's so laid-back that The Blues Don't Lie is as close to a chill-out record that Buddy Guy has ever cut. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi Read Less
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Nic Roldan Biography – Polo Player And Model
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Published On: Sunday, July 3rd, 2022
Nic Roldan has won more than 40 titles in America. Image Source: Nic Roldan's Instagram.
Birth DateDecember 4, 1982
Birth Name Nicolas Ezequiel Roldan
Also Known As Nic Roldan
Height 6' 0''
Father's Name Raul Roldan
Mother's Name Dee Roldan
Birth Place Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality Argentine, American
Profession Polo Player
Partner Hannah Selleck
Relationship Status In a Relationship
Official Website https://www.nicroldan.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/nicroldan
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NicRoldan
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nicroldan/
Youtube youtube.com/user/NicRoldan
IMDB https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4464230/
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nic_Roldan
Nic Roldan is an eight-goal professional polo player and a model popular for captaining Prince Harry's charity team in the 2010s. Roldan is currently the captain of the American Polo Team and is the leading American polo player. He is also the youngest athlete ever to win the US Polo Open with the Escue Team.
Having been at the top of his game for such a long time, Nic has managed to make quite a name for himself. He is a successful businessman as well and has established himself as one of the most hard-working polo players in the country. Now, in this biography, let's talk more about how Nic Roldan was able to pursue various career choices while keeping up his momentum as a player.
A Long Lineage Of Polo
Nicolas Ezequiel Roldan was born on December 4, 1982, to Argentine parents Raul Roldan and Dee Roldan. Nicolas was surrounded by polo throughout his life as his dad was a famous polo player. Nic Roldan's father used to play polo with the Sultan of Brunei's team in Brunei.
Likewise, his great grandfather, Audilio Bonadeo Ayrolo, who won the Argentine Open in 1931 and 1938, and his grandfather were also polo players. On the other hand, Nic Roldan's mother worked as an interior designer. The former grew up with his sister Lupe Roldan in Wellington, Florida.
Nic Roldan's father, grandfather, and great grandfather were all polo players. Image Source: Nic Roldan's Instagram.
It's obvious Nic was going to do well in the game as his family had been nurturing his talent and his dad encouraged him from a young age. His parents had shifted to the USA, and his talents clearly were a step above the other kids. Furthermore, Roldan played in his first tournament when he was only 6. He played in many junior tournaments and turned professional at fifteen.
After winning the US Open Polo Championship, Nicolas was rewarded with the Young Player of the Year title. He earned a three-goal handicap the same year and stunned everyone with his incredible skills. Speaking of his education, the athlete graduated from Cardinal Newman High School in West Palm Beach in Florida.
Also Read: More About Polo Player Adolfo Cambiaso
Nic Roldan Net Worth And Career
Having started his career at such a young age, Roldan has gone on to achieve many victories by now. He has won more than 40 titles in America, followed by a couple of major titles in his country. With his career in both polo and modeling, one can assume Nic Roldan's net worth must be immense.
Nic has won a total of 46 US titles in his long career so far. With two wins in the US Open, he must have amassed a significant amount of money. He also earned a lot of MVP awards when he was at the junior level.
Likewise, the Argentine-born athlete grabbed five Hall of Fame cups and one Triple Crown trophy. Nic has also won 11 international titles, which include Queens Cup, Copa Camara de Diputados, and the Australian Open. He was also the captain in the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Governors Island, playing for Prince Harry.
Also, Nic won a total of $50,000 with his team after winning the USPA National Twenty Goal title in 2021. An average pay of a polo player in the US is $1.5 million per year. So, Nick Roldan's salary must also be a notable sum.
Earnings From Other Businesses
Aside from that, the player also works as a real estate agent. He has designed many houses and properties in collaboration with his interior designer mom. He has also sold many houses at mega prices and has some major listings too. Nic must have earned a fortune from those sales.
Here are some of his real estate listings:
House Location Condition Price
14814 Grand Prix Village Drive, Bedford Park Sold $8.8 million
3045 Blue Cypress Lane For Sale $7.2 million
3141 Blue Cypress Lane Sold $5.75 million
11740 Marblestone Court Sold $1.2 million
2835 H101 Polo Island For Sale $950,000
Table Source: Nic Roldan Official Website
Furthermore, Roldan has released his signature merch, consisting of sweaters, t-shirts, and hoodies. He is also sponsored by many companies, including World Polo League and Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach. Moreover, Nic is a model for Wilhelmina Models and has represented the watchmaker and jewelry company Piaget SA.
Hence, from all these ventures, Nic Roldan's net worth must have skyrocketed over the years. Facundo Pieres is another Argentine polo player with considerable earnings.
Dating A Fellow Polo Player
Nic is in a loving relationship with fellow polo player Hannah Selleck. She is the daughter of famous Hollywood actor Tom Selleck, best known for his role in the popular TV show Magnum, P.I. Nic Roldan's girlfriend did not follow in her father's footsteps and decided to start a horse breeding business and play polo.
Nic Roldan's partner was born on December 16, 1988. She is a professional horse rider and started playing sports from an early age. The couple often attends a lot of events together, most notably, they attended the World Polo League match in 2022.
Nic Roldan is currently dating polo player Hannah Selleck. Image Source: Nic Roldan's Instagram.
Before being in a relationship with Hannah, Roldan dated polo player Jessica Springsteen. Jessica is the daughter of American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen. Also, there have been several queries regarding whether the polo athlete is married, however, he has yet to reveal any marital plans.
Overall, Nic seems to be leading a great life with his family and girlfriend. Let's hope he can achieve more success and stay happy.
Nic has six tattoos, including a quote by Dalai Lama.
He taught Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian to play polo.
He has 25.7K followers on Instagram and 4.2K on Twitter.
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Are you planning your office party this year? Want to make sure that your colleagues only hear jingle bells, and not alarm bells?
Then according to the TUC's workSMART organisation and RoSPA, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, you need their guide to safety in the festive season.
Among the (serious) suggestions the guide makes are not to put up mistletoe in case it encourages sexual harassment and reminders that food should be kept in the fridge and you should be carefuil when putting up decorations.
Office furniture isn't designed to be as sturdy as the furniture in your local pub, so dancing on desks could do them and you a lot of damage. Likewise, the boardroom table is meant for weighty documents, not overweight executives.
Resist the temptation to photocopy parts of your anatomy – if the copier breaks, you'll have Christmas with glass in painful places.


If you expect fairness you will deeply disappointed.
You will never be satisfied or content.
You will be miserable, and miserable to be around.
You will find yourself broken, brittle, like a ship in a gale, shattered on ragged rock.
Or you can choose to accept all this unfairness.
And take setbacks with grace and good humor, as soon as you are able.
And make choices today that make your life a little better than it was yesterday.


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The Corsair SP (Static Pressure), AF (High Airflow) 120/140mm Fan Review
by E. Fylladitakis on November 25, 2015 8:00 AM EST
Introduction & The Fans Fan Testing Methodology The Corsair AF140 LED QE and SP140 LED Performance The Corsair AF120 and SP120 Performance Final Words & Conclusion
Both the selection and the testing of a fan can be a rather complicated matter. Even if someone knows the exact performance curve of a fan and can make an educated assessment regarding the airflow impedance, parameters such as the quality and noise come into play as well. Through our fan reviews, we will attempt to simplify some of these parameters and assist you with making a proper selection. Today we are looking at several of Corsair's high-end fan offerings in the 120mm and 140mm size from their SP (Static Pressure), AF (High Airflow) and LED ranges.
As this is our first proper fan review, our primary focus is to showcase and explain the differences between different kinds of fans, as well as to begin the composing of a performance database. Corsair is our company of choice for our first review, as they offer a variety of cooling fans wide enough and designed for different applications, permitting us to easily showcase the difference between fan designs. Corsair supplied us with six different fan products, which are:
The AF140 LED White Quiet Edition 140mm fan (High Airflow)
The SP140 LED White 140mm fan (High Static Pressure)
The AF120 Performance Edition 120mm fan (High Airflow)
The SP120 Performance Edition 120mm fan (High Static Pressure)
The AF120 Quiet Edition 120mm fan (High Airflow)
The SP120 Quiet Edition 120mm fan (High Static Pressure)
Theoretically Corsair's offerings end up with many degrees of freedom - select AF or SP, select 120mm or 140mm, then select Performance or Quiet, the LED or no LED. This could lead up to 16 different combinations (colors of LED not withstanding), although Corsair picks and chooses so only a few of these to produce.
We should start by immediately mentioning that the LED fan versions are not of equal design and performance as the standard versions. We will examine these differences thoroughly, but take care not to confuse the standard with the LED versions of each fan. For example, the AF140 Quiet Edition and the LED version (the AF140 LED White Quiet Edition) do share a similar product number but the non-LED version ends up having significantly better performance specifications.
The LED versions of the AF140 and the SP140 both have black plastic frames with narrowed bezels and semi-transparent blades with a "frost" texture. The wiring and the connector, as well as the provided screws, are all black.
There are four LED lights installed on the frame, in parallel with the plastic engine support bars. We received the white version of the fans but they are also available in blue, red, green and purple.
The AF140 and the SP140 side-by-side look almost identical, with the exception of the fan's blades. The high airflow AF140 has more (11) and narrow blades, capable of creating higher airflow when there is no restriction, while the SP140 has fewer (7) and wider blades, allowing it to create higher pressure and overcome airflow obstacles.
A mere look on the non-LED version of the fans is enough to reveal that they are higher performance designs than the LED versions. The plastic frame is about the same but it is of higher quality and there are hard rubber anti-vibration supports. A colored ring surrounds the intake side of the fan. By default, the SP series fans come with the blue ring and the AF series fans with the red ring installed out of the box, but all three colors (blue, red and white) are included in each package.
The Quiet and Performance versions of both the AF120 and the SP120 120 mm fans are physically identical to each other. Once again, the large differences are between the AF120 and the SP120 version fans, with the former having more and narrow blades and the latter fewer and very wide blades. However, the number, shape and angle of the blades is different than their LED counterparts, which explains their significantly different performance specifications.
Corsair advertises the SP120 and AF120 fans, both the Performance and the Quiet editions, as having a "hydraulic bearing". A hydraulic bearing technically is a sleeve bearing with the bearing and axle immersed and sealed in fluid. Technically, the axle and the sleeving do not come in contact with each other, as the fluid interferes. Unfortunately, we could not capture this in a mere picture, as the destruction of the seal and the removal of the shaft disappeared the fluid within it.
If one looks closely at the specifications of the AF140 LED and the SP140 LED fans, as well as all of the LED versions, they will notice that there is no mention of an "advanced hydraulic bearing". This is because the LED versions of the fans have an entirely different engine. When we broke the seal and removed the impeller, what we found was a self-pumping rifle bearing, which is yet another improvement of the standard sleeve bearing. What the rifle bearing does is that it uses the motion of the fan's axle itself to serve as a pump, constantly moving lubricant around the axle and the bearing. The lubricant is sealed in using a rubber seal at the top of the axle and a permanent seal at the bottom.
Fan Testing Methodology Introduction & The Fans Fan Testing Methodology The Corsair AF140 LED QE and SP140 LED Performance The Corsair AF120 and SP120 Performance Final Words & Conclusion
DanNeely - Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - link
A suggestion for when you've got data on more fans. Since the scales on the graphs aren't constant; it would be really helpful for comparison if Bench was able to take the datapoints used to generate the performance curves and use them to create a single combined chart for the user selected set of fans/speeds. Reply
BurntMyBacon - Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - link
A max and min speed chart also needs to be in there as user selected fan speeds ignore the fact that some fans can spin quicker/slower than others are capable of spinning. Reply
Stuka87 - Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - link
My Corsair 380T came with the LED version of the fans and I was not happy with them at all. I ended up changing them out for the Enermax "Batwing" LED fans (which have removable blades for cleaning) which are much quieter but also have better airflow. Reply
supastar1568 - Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - link
Very well written write up with lots of good information.
Curious, how did you go about increasing/decreasing the air resistance levels for the fans? As an mechanical engineer, I've been reading up on fan curves for work and I believe an adjustable duct type thing is common. I've always been curious to how this part is done.
Also, for anyone interested, the AMCA 210 Standard has lots of good info as well. A quick google search will bring you to the .pdf. Reply
simonpschmitt - Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - link
Hey, nice to see a more in depth review of the matter.
Just two suggestions:
First, why are you plotting pressure over volume? Iwould have done it the other way around.
Second, could you measure the impedance (ballpark figures) of some typical obstructions and post photos of them? For example finger guards, one or two tower coolers, typical filter (ideally clean and dirty, would be interessting to see the effect). Just to get a feel for the dimensions involved.
jann5s - Thursday, November 26, 2015 - link
+1 Reply
EddyKilowatt - Thursday, December 3, 2015 - link
I think a necessary corollary of AT doing such a solid job of reviewing and explaining fan performance, is that they will also (have to) start measuring and publishing flow curves of the things they review that fans get hooked up to. I was mainly thinking of cases and coolers, but you are right, filters and guards qualify as well. Maybe someday that kind of data will be part of the specs that manufacturers publish. Reply
rocktober13 - Monday, November 30, 2015 - link
+1 to both suggestions Reply
@simonpschmitt: "First, why are you plotting pressure over volume? Iwould have done it the other way around."
Typically the controlled variable is X and the measured variable is Y. They are controlling pressure and measuring airflow so typically it would be represented as you state. That said, the data is all there and the author is technically free and correct to use R and W for variables if he chooses as long as the axis' are labeled. Though in the end, I'd just as soon have the author use the typical approach to avoid confusion.
@simonpschmitt: "Second, could you measure the impedance (ballpark figures) of some typical obstructions and post photos of them? For example finger guards, one or two tower coolers, typical filter (ideally clean and dirty, would be interessting to see the effect). Just to get a feel for the dimensions involved."
This. Very this. Also, since the author mentioned "dense radiators", measurements and photos of dense vs sparse radiators. Reply
JanW1 - Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - link
"one Pascal is the pressure required to accelerate 1 kg of mass at a speed of 1 meters per second squared"
Looks like you mixed up the definitions of a Newton and a Pascal. One Pascal is the pressure required to exert the force of one Newton per square meter. The square meter disappeared in your definition. I guess you could say "one Pascal is the pressure required to exert on a surface of one square meter the force required to accelerate 1 kg of mass at a speed of 1 meters per second squared". Reply


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US / 2015 / Color / 129mins
The gay rights drama "Stonewall" takes us back to 1969 to New York's Greenwich Village, where a police raid on Stonewall Inn ignites a riot and a crusade for gay rights. Danny Winters is a young man newly acquainted to New York after recognizing himself as a gay man. He joins the crowd at Stonewall Inn, the prominent hang-out of the local queer culture. There he witnesses passion and activism, but also corruption and violence. The film is directed by Roland Emmerich ("White House Down", 2013) and features Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeremy Irvine, and Ron Perlman.
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story R
Human rights / HIV / Hollywood stars
Michael Stabile
In the 70s and 80s, Chuck Holmes' Falcon Studios was synonymous with gay pornography. Chuck begins his career in San Francisco in 1971 when most gay men are still in the closet. By bursting out of the closet and pushing sex all the way to the forefront, he quickly gains attention. Vice squads and the FBI find their way to his door, and fellow porn makers land in prison, but he fights on. As his wealth grows, he turns his attention to gay rights. He soon finds out, however, that with Falcon and gay sex behind his name, where his money is welcome, he often is not.
Stories of Our Lives Stories of Our Lives PG
Bisexual / Human rights
Jim Chuchu
Kenya / 2015 / Black and White / 62mins
The country is Kenya. The theme is gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex. The characters are high school students, farm workers, researchers. The stories are dramatizations of real-life events in the country where laws stigmatize and criminalize homosexuals.


Signs can differ depending on culture, background, age and a host of other factors. This was an interesting article I found on the difference between signs in the African-American culture vs. Caucasian cultures. Take a look.
I've been teaching a beginner level sign language class and some of my students were really amazed that some Deaf people use more English word-for-word while others are more ASL. They thought all Deaf people sign exactly the same. I might use this article in my next class… I'm sure they'd be really interested.
Thankyou. Students always ask if people in other countries use ASL. I relate it to English if they were to travel to foriegn country would their primary language be English. Then we view different versions of signed communication and compare them to ASL they learn a lot and so do I:) It's true more and more users and learners of ASL see that quite abot of the deaf poplation uses Contact sign/Pidgen Sign English and even SEE beacause it is what they are accustomed to. Thankyou for sharing and feel free to share any tips and topics you may use with your class to get them connected to ASL.
LOL…the many ways of signing birthday in which one way has several meanings.
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The Liberal Party of Kosovo () is a liberal political party in the Republic of Kosovo.

The party is an observer member of the Liberal International and a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.

In the 2004 parliamentary election, the party won 0.5% of the popular vote and 1 out of 190 seats in the Assembly of Kosovo. However, in the 2007 parliamentary election, it failed to pass the election threshold of 5%, thus becoming a non-parliamentary party. Like all other Kosovo Albanian political parties, the party supports Kosovo independence and does not take part in the general elections in Serbia nor any other election or referendum organised by the Serbian parliament. The current president of the Liberal Party of Kosovo is Gjergj Dedaj.

See also
Liberalism
Contributions to liberal theory
Liberalism worldwide
List of liberal parties
Liberal democracy

References

External links
Liberal Party of Kosovo The official website

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party member parties
Liberal parties in Kosovo
Political parties with year of establishment missing

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It has been a long time since the last Update, and that's because we have been so so busy getting integrated into the communities here. We are currently involved in three distinct communities: first, our church community of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; next, the local community in the small town we live near, Luperon; and lastly, the slowly rotating community of boaters that pass through the harbor.
Of course, we have also begun our real work here, which is to help the poor of this country improve their economic lives through self-employment to become economically self-sufficient. There is a lot of the "self-" here, people supporting themselves, but very little "sufficient", almost no one has what we would consider even barely sufficient.
On that front, we have made a good start. To date we have made four micro-enterprise loans to individuals and families. One to a woman who wished to refurbish and unused room on her property so she could rent it out. Another to the owner of a "hole-in-the-wall" motorbike parts and repair shop to increase his inventory of the more costly (and more profitable) goods, such as tires. And the third to a supervisor on the docks to increase the capital of a impromptu "credit union" that he runs. And the forth as sort of "debt consolidation" loan to the owner of a "colmado" or "corner grocery" operated on a dirt road by a family with seven children - the oppressive interest he has been paying on several small loans forces him to keep his shop open on Sunday, when he would rather close.
The third requires a bit more explanation, as this loan is a bit outside of what we had envisioned for the project. The workers on the docks, the stevedores, are day workers, employed only a day at time. As such, they have incomes that vary week to week and have no access to normal credit. When a child gets sick, or the family car (a 20 year old Honda 50 cc motorbike) breaks down, they go to the moneylenders on the streets for the necessary cash. The moneylenders (read "loan sharks") are happy to lend the required 1000 pesos for the hospital ($25 US) at the very reasonable rate of up to 10 per cent per day. This debt becomes all consuming, eating up the income of the stevedore. To break this destructive cycle, our client, call him "Tomas", repays the loan shark debts of his workers (one at a time) and allows them to repay his "credit union" at humanitarian interest rates. To ensure repayment, "Tomas" stands at the payroll line each day and collects from the credit union borrowers as they receive their day's pay the agreed upon amount. The credit union members pay only when they work. If they don't pay, they don't work. "Tomas" started this with his own savings and came to us for capitalization to allow him to serve more of his oppressed workers.
Last night, we attended a "job training fair" in Santiago (the countries second largest city) sponsored by the church. There we met many people, including a representative of the countries "Secretariat of Employment" (rough translation) who was favorably impressed with the idea of our project (and, in that very Dominican way, offered to "smooth any bumps" for us in the future). We met five or six families there that are interested in loans to start or grow they family micro-enterprises -- a computer maker, a cake and pastry maker and a cheese maker, amongst others.
Sadly, almost everyone here needs or could use financial help. Credit is hard to get and expensive if one can get it. The normal business cycle is almost nonexistent here because of the credit situation. 95% of new businesses fail, most because of under capitalization or over enthusiasm (unreal expectations). Thus, you have the continuing situation of "those with money, make money".
It is not hopeless, a good business plan approached with realistic expectations and a willingness to work hard coupled with "a little help from your friends" (a Family-to-Family Project loan) can get a family on the road to success, or help them pick up speed along that road.
Sort of a cross between New York City driving at its worst and amusement park bumper cars (except the cars are not allowed to touch each other). Throw in a million small motor scooters and motorbikes, each with two or three passengers and you begin to get some idea. For Dominican's, the phrase "traffic rules" is an oxymoron. There simply are no rules. Lanes, speed limits, one-way signs, traffic signals, no passing zones, and even "which side of the street to drive in which direction" are all alike suggestions or general guidelines for other drivers. For oneself, they don't apply at all.
We tried to take pictures of this, but couldn't get out of the confusion far enough to get an illustrative image. At one point, at a major intersection, we counted six flows of traffic, interlaced. And that was only counting one of the major roads leading into the intersection.
One of the great mysteries here is what I call "Faith in the Horn". It works like this: a driver is approaching an intersection, through which cars and motorbikes are hurtling with wild abandon. Since the driver doesn't want to stop, and doesn't want to be killed, he blows his horn and continues through the intersection, confident that because he blew his horn, all will be well. This works when passing on a blind curve, just pull out and blow the horn and, miraculously, you don't get killed. Well, it works often enough that the people here seem to believe it.
To be fair, it isn't that the local drivers totally ignore the traffic lights. The fact is that 90% of the traffic lights don't work at all (no lights showing ever). The other 10 % are spread out over the other available options: disfunction, malfunction, burnt out bulbs, only work when the electricity is on, and most surprisingly, an intersection where the lights works exactly as we expect.
On the country roads, single lane paved roads, built in the 80's and never repaired, no lanes painted on them, killer potholes, no lights. Nothing is darker than a dark country road here. One bombs along at a good clip, comes around a curve or over a hill, and there, parked taking up 1/2 the road, is a pickup or minibus, driver chatting with someone along the side of the road. Waves and smiles as you panic swerve around the obstruction, missing by inches.
On the other hand, if two cows are being herded down the road by a guy on a donkey, he'll have a fellow on a motorbike drive ahead and wave a red flag at the approaching cars to slow down. Apparently, cows are more valuable than human life.
The best form of transportation here is the motorbike, as long as you stay out of the city center. The are small, slow, and maneuverable. Not very comfortable in the rain.
We had cold weather the day before yesterday. That is to say, the temperature dropped below 75 degrees F for several hours. Generally, it is hot and dry, or hot and rainy. Occasionally, both on the same day. We are right on the north coast (for those of you with atlases, we are at N 19°53.949' W 70°57.261') and get lots of breeze, but do have some rather hot humid days, and lots of hot and humid nights.
The campo is the countryside. It is beautiful and green. The hills start up right at the coast and climb into the interior. Rugged hills and serene valleys. Royal palms mixed in with grassy pasture. Lime trees grow wild. Cattle and dairy cows in the pastures. Orchards and banana patches.
This is a agrarian society. Farming and ranching are the major industries. Lots of cattle, dairy, and lots and lots of sugar cane. Farm and ranch owners have nice houses and SUVs. Farm and ranch workers live in small wooden houses with thatched roofs and walk or ride motor bikes, occasionally horses, donkeys, mules and burros. Others who live in the countryside may not work at all. Many have basically nothing - no possessions to speak of, little furniture, a change or two of clothes, and lots of children. Unfortunately, many of these houses are in such poor condition, if they were on our property in NY state, we wouldn't want to store our lawn tractors in them.
We are working with another group to see how we can best help the poorest of the poor in the campo.
Ola to all our faithful friends and family all over the world. We are alive and well as another day passes in paradise. Well, not really paradise when you take a close look, but from afar the green hills, beautiful skies and waving palms could fool you.
We are trying hard to change our names from "Gringos" to Dominicanos by swimming at the Dominican beach, eating "pastillos" from the street vendor and driving crazy per above description (Kip, that is). My long blond braid and pale face are a distinct disadvantage to establishing our new identity, but Kip's darkened arms, neck and face make him a likely candidate. Speaking of skin color, one finds the apparently universal myth of whiter is better quite alive down here. All the stars on TV are pale. The President could be mistaken for a guy on the insurance board in NY. In the rich sections of town (yes there are such, not Everyone is dirt poor) one finds the pale skin and "good hair". Its quite odd how its works out this way. But here one can find every shade of color from midnight black Haitian to beautiful cinnamon with blue eyes, to the aristocratic white skin of the pure Spanish descent.
The two things I find most annoying in an underdeveloped country are the roads and lack of nice bathrooms. Atrocious is too kind for most of what pass for roads here. There is just no maintenance and driving down one traces a squiggly line as one swerves here and there to miss huge potholes or whole sides of the road washed out. It is hilarious to find a road with all the cement washed away, eroded to ruts and mounds with the speed bumps still intact. One has to creep along at 5 mph to avoid leaving the underside of the car on the road to begin with. That's why we drive a 4 wheel trooper type tank. And I do miss a well appointed bathroom I must admit. Mostly we have a bowl with water in it as a toilet, no seat, no flush, no paper and no washing up. Oi vey! Of course there is plumbing but I usually have to go when there is no electricity and no water running.
Enough complaining already. Truth is its kind of exciting driving on these roads. I've had my lovely bathrooms and will probably again someday.I have found the Dominicans to be really fine, hardworking, warm people. With little attention put on material things they have lots of time for family, friendships and just being happy people.Although they work hard, they dont have many modern conveniences if you can imagine.The abusive use of credit cards is much less than in USA My friends in the church and in Luperon are working very hard to make ends meet with wife and husband both earning and often a second enterprise on the side. Building material is extremely expensive so people live in what we would consider substandard housing. They take three or more years to build a house, buying a few blocks here and there until its done AND paid for. But they send their kids to university when they can. There are wealthy, gated communities I have discovered but they are rare and very beautiful. The norm is dirt floor, tin roof, especially in the country. Mostly there is a lot of activity going on; alternately one sees a fair amount of still life. Just sitting and waiting for an opportunity to come round. Or just someone to say hello to and share the beautiful burden of life.
Our family has expanded to include two parakeets. Jon keeps them in upside down laundry baskets in his cabin. The birds are chirping away. I have also begun my on board garden with some lovely blooms:I was promised "siempre flores" meaning always has flowers, which is almost a rose garden, a reference for you literati. Jon is gone most of the time now being very busy with his new enterprise of room service to the boats from the restaurant. They call in and he delivers via motorcycle and dinghy. He is quite the entrepreneur, launching a second enterprise of selling tee-shirts soon. He has little need for parents at this stage of the game. I'm reaping what I sowed as a youth: OUCH.OUCH.OUCH.
Our project is expanding day by day. Now that word has spread we already have more requests than we can supply. Mostly people want to expand their enterprises : for example one woman runs an upholstery business from her home but has no place to actually work or show people her stuff. Another sister makes and delivers hundreds of lunches to factory workers from her small business location. She also wants to expand. and hire more people. Borrowing from a bank or street lender with suicidal interest rates is not really an option. The loans we have made so far have made many people happy, including getting out of a terrible debt situation. Families here are gaining appreciation for their brothers and sisters in the USA who are generously helping. We really have so many opportunities and privileges in the USA its hard to imagine being without them unless you see an underdeveloped country like the DR. Support systems are virtually non-existent.
Gave a talk in Spanish in our branch last Sunday. The President asked me to do it the night before! Now tell me Heavenly Father does not help us when we need it! I now have my piano installed at the Branch and am playing for our meetings. I am extremely happy and thankful that we accomplished this feat, getting over hurdles of customs and transport all in due time. The members are so pleased to have music. Jon attended his first Spanish Seminary and was not impressed. Looks like Spanish lessons are in order for all of us as the cute pidgin a few words here and there stage is definitely over. I want to talk to people and understand what they say in more than a 4 year old's sentence structure. Just happened to walk into a little burrito shop along the side of a road and who should we find running the place but a disaffected Jack Mormon from Utah.We invited him to church. And he thought he had run far enough away. Ha!
So someone recently asked if the sacrifice was worth it. Being able to help families is worth it. Expanding my family of saints and friends is worth it. Overcoming the odds is worth it. Finding lost sheep is worth it. Learning to trust God is worth it. Working with Kip is worth it. I miss people but have the hope we will meet again and that, my friends, is the brightness before me. It may not be the other side of heaven yet but we're working on it. Love you all.
3) via postal mail sent to our Saugerties address -- Kip, Arden and Jon Hansen, The Family-to-Family Project, 153 Malden Tpke, Saugerties, NY 12477. Mail is forwarded to us periodically (and not received here dependably).
4) Cell phone 1 809 386 3356 (dial just like any other US area code).


I remember that evening clearly. It was a couple of days before my birthday, almost a year to the day since I had ended my marriage and I was having a moment of reverie. Thinking about how life was so much better since moving P out, new friendships and how I would love to see Sir, and show him how much I had grown since he went away. It was rare that I allowed myself to miss him, I always felt foolish when I did, vulnerable and childlike.
"Ping" says my phone in my pocket, alerting me to a very rare Facebook message. Puzzled, I looked and it was from a new contact… S Dom. Did I want to accept this message? My brain couldn't quite work out who the message was from. There was only one person that it could realistically be, but my brain wouldn't accept that He would be messaging me. It had been seven months since we had last been in contact and for all I knew he was dead. I certainly wasn't ever expecting to hear from him again. So I asked who it was, and when he confirmed that he was who I thought it was, Sir. I couldn't hold back my tears.
I had learnt to love foot play, would he indulge me? I can do that with you, but it would be when I feel it is appropriate.
I have friends who are dominant males, could I keep them? I have no problem with you having friends N.
Would it be possible to have an alternate contact method, just in case…? I will provide you with a number, but expect you to contact me in the media instructed.
Reading back through those emails today is interesting, to say the least.
He would always be aloof, I would remain aware of that and look after my heart.
I had forgotten this conversation until today, re-reading our correspondence, and it is the same as I feel today. An emotional attachment without expectations on him to reciprocate.
Anyway, I told him that I wanted to continue with him, and he set me tasks again. He asked me to fill him in with what I had been up to, to tell him about my new-found interest in foot play, and my experiences with pee play. Also, he wanted to know about my home life and availability for him. I got started straight away, pleased to have re-established contact and to be working hard for him again. Was I a fool for wanting him back in my life? Maybe, but if I was at least I was His fool.
The time we had been apart melted away and we were back to painting our picture again.


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Cammell Laird ready to help the North West 'level up' as part of UK shipbuilding plan
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One of the UK's most famous shipbuilders says it's ready to help 'level up' the North West, as it continues investing in its apprenticeship programme and delivering social benefits to the wider Wirral community to help secure the future of shipbuilding in the region.
Merseyside-based shipbuilding giant Cammell Laird says it's in the perfect position to support a renaissance in Britain's maritime sector, as outlined in the updated National Shipbuilding Strategy.
Cammell Laird CEO David McGinley said: "As the UK's premier commercial shipbuilder, Cammell Laird is absolutely ready to deliver future programmes.
"We are pleased to see the formation of the National Shipbuilding Office, and look forward to building a strong relationship with Rear Admiral Cox and his team, such that they understand the value that UK shipbuilders can provide into developing the National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh (NSBSR) programme, which in turn will unlock wide-ranging social benefits, employment and apprenticeships for the people of Merseyside.
"Shipbuilding will also play a critical role in supporting the Government's levelling-up agenda by delivering significant infrastructure programmes in the North West and other regions of the UK."
Cammell Laird has completed some of the most ambitious shipbuilding projects in modern times, through the recent construction of the RRS Sir David Attenborough, the Aircraft Carrier Alliance and delivering the Astute and Dreadnought submarines on behalf of BAE.
The company is now setting its sights on the £200m 'national flagship', a state-of-the-art yacht to boost British trade and drive investment in the UK's economy, as well as the contract to deliver a surveillance vessel to protect telecommunications cables. Two programmes the company says it is ready to deliver on right away.
Speaking about the national flagship, David McGinley said: "It would be a huge honour to be trusted with such a prestigious project and we are eminently qualified for the task.
"We've clearly demonstrated over many years that Cammell Laird knows what it takes to deliver vessels of vital national importance.
"The cable laying ship in particular also has many synergies with the RRS Sir David Attenborough, which will help Cammell Laird de-risk the programme.
David went on to say: "This wealth of experience makes us one of only a handful of UK shipyards who can partner with Government to deliver these vessels. What sets Cammell Laird apart is our ability to deliver at speed, which will achieve maximum value for money for British taxpayers."
Cammell Laird's success is made possible by a highly skilled workforce and a strong apprenticeship programme, introducing young talents to the industry.
Indeed, it has enlisted 46 apprentices in the last year alone and remains committed to growing its apprenticeship programme in spite of the challenges posed by the pandemic.
David said: "Cammell Laird has both a rich history and an exciting future, and our apprentices play an essential role in helping to protect our heritage and forge our ongoing success.
"We're determined to provide career opportunities to people from the local area during this challenging time and our apprenticeship programme allows us to do this.
"We're proud to provide world-leading maritime experience on projects you wouldn't find anywhere else, along with our commitment to helping plug the engineering skills gap in the North West and supporting the local economy through job creation."
The sheer breadth of unique, high-profile projects means Cammell Laird apprentices work on a wide variety of ships and vessels gaining invaluable maritime experience.
Trainee ship manager John O'Brien, who started at the firm as an apprentice in 2007, said: "It's really quite unbelievable the opportunities I've had over the years to work on prestigious projects.
"One of my personal highlights was working on the Red Kestrel ferry and watching it grow into a fully finished ferry. In fact, we went down to Southampton and I was asked to press the button to start the engines.
"It just goes to show that, whatever your background, anyone can be me and anyone can get to where I am now."
Apprentice Callum added: "The most exciting project I've been on is the RRS Sir David Attenborough - one of the most advanced polar research vessels in the world. I started my apprenticeship from the keel laying all the way to when it went out into the Mersey."
The Cammell Laird apprenticeship programme is one of the biggest in the UK maritime industry, representing an investment of over £19m to date.
The firm knows this is money well spent when it comes to nurturing eager, motivated, flexible and loyal employees with a broad skillset designed around the needs of the industry.
Director of production Michael Hill, who started as an apprentice back in 1996, said: "The scheme is absolutely vital to the business in terms of its continued success and enabling us to pitch for these high-profile Government projects.
"Over the last 12 years, Cammell Laird has recruited almost 300 apprentices across a broad range of roles.
"The social value of that is just massive. We've got somewhere in the order of 1,500 people working at our 130-acre Birkenhead site, and they are all contributing to the local area in terms of retail and leisure.
"In short, Cammell Laird's success, now and into the future, helps underpin job and wealth creation on Merseyside."
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Eduard 1/72 Bf-110G-2
KIT #: 7085
PRICE: $25.0 'Used'
DECALS: Four options
REVIEWER: Scott Van Aken
NOTES: Profipack
Although the Me 210 entered service in mid-1941, it was plagued with problems and was withdrawn from service for further development. In the wake of the failure of the Me 210, the Bf 110G was designed. The G model was fitted with DB 605B engines, producing 1,085 kW (1,475 PS) at their Notleistung (war emergency) top-level setting, and 997 kW (1,355 PS) at 5.8 km (19,000 ft) altitude. The Bf 110G also had upgraded nose armament, and underwent some changes which improved the aerodynamics of the aircraft. The rear cockpit access was moved forward from the transversely-hinged, "tilt-open" rearmost canopy glazing to a side/top hinged opening section of the main canopy, opening to port, with a new rearmost framed glazing section fixed in place. No Bf 110 G-1 existed, so the Bf 110 G-2 became the baseline Bf 110G. A large number of Rüstsätze field conversion packs were available, making the G subtype the most versatile production version of the Bf 110. The initial batch of six pre-series production G-0 aircraft built in June 1942 were followed by 797 G-2, 172 G-3 and 2,293 of the night fighter-dedicated, three-seater G-4 models; built between December 1942 and April 1945. Pilots reported the Bf 110G to be a "mixed bag" in the air, in part due to all changes between the G and F series. The Bf 110G was considered a superior gun platform with excellent all-around visibility, and considered, until the advent of the Heinkel He 219, to be one of the Luftwaffe's best night fighters.
Eduard is not the first to do a nice Bf-110, but their G kit stands out from the ones by Italeri and Revell in this scale, much because it is a newer tooling. This kit is the profipack version that includes canopy/wheel masks and a color photo etch fret.
There quite a few bits that are not used in this kit as Eduard uses many of the same sprues for their earlier DB.601 powered kits. A note about the p.e. bits. They are not absolutely needed and are simply used to enhance what is there. This set includes instrument faces, rudder pedals, and antennas. In some cases you need to trim old bits to install them. The only new item are the seat harness/belts. Most of the fret is used in the cockpit, which is very nicely detailed. You even have some sidewall detail and there is an insert for each side to cover the holes where the wing attaches.
Speaking of which, the wing assembly is a single lower wing with upper halves and separate ailerons and wing tips. Any holes for fuel tanks and wing/fuselage mounted weapons need to be opened at this point. The engine cowlings are handed and contain much of the main gear wells. When closing the fuselage halves, one also attaches the nose assembly and here as well you have two different lower nose pieces depending on the markings option you choose. Then the wings and tail plane pieces are glued in place.
You are provided the opportunity to model the various greenhouse panels open or closed, but you still have to attach all of the various panes, which will be rather time consuming. The Profipack boxing includes masks and it is at this time that Eduard shows the guide for attaching these. Frankly, I would have liked a single piece greenhouse as I normally build my models closed up.
Construction then moves to the underside where you attach the radiators, undercarriage, antennas and your choice of things under wings. Depending on the markings option you choose, you can do a belly mounted 37mm cannon or twin 20mm guns, belly and wing mounted bomb carriers, wing mounted drop tanks, and either singe or double tube 21cm mortars. There is an addendum sheet to help out with these as well.
The color instruction booklet is well done with Gunze paint references. All options are in RLM 74/75/76 with various degrees of mottling. Units provided are 4./ZG 76 in Czechoslovakia in early 1944, 5./ZG 76 in itial during mid 1943, 10./ZG 76 in Norway in early 1945 and 5./ZG 76 in Austria during the winter of 1943/44. The fairly large decal sheet is well printed and provides all you need in the way of stencils and other markings. A separate stencil guide is provided.
In all, it looks like it will make into a great model. Those not fond of p.e. will want to gravitate towards the weekend edition, but you'll need to get the masks separately.
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Anglo-Sikh War- A Story of the Loyal Sikh Community
The Sikh community has always been the most loyal guards of their motherland. Their battle against the Britishers is not limited to the Anglo-Sikh war. Out of 121 patriots hanged in British-ruled India, 93 were Sikhs. Unfortunately, in the Anglo-Sikh battle, the bravery and patriotism of the Sikhs fell short to the well-established British troops.
Ranjit Singh, a great king, had brought together many smaller Sikh tribes into one big kingdom. After his death, that kingdom fell apart. The power struggle to be the next king was on. The East India Company had sensed the vulnerability and set up tents near Punjab's border. The East India Company looked upon Punjab as a flock of vultures looked upon dying animals.
Panicked by the presence of British soldiers, the Sikhs rallied behind a makeshift military general. They crossed the river Sutlej, which by a treaty between Ranjit Singh and the British was the border between the two. This action gave a clear motive for the Britishers to attack.
Unfortunately, the military general Lal Singh and Tez Singh were sold out to the British empire. They were constantly giving information to the British. The Sikhs lost five battles at five different fonts. Lahore, the capital of the Sikh Empire was lost too.
The Sikh army surrendered and the treaty of Lahore was signed. According to this treaty, some tactically valuable places were given to the Britishers. The British also imposed a debt of 1.5 million rupees as war reparations. Failing to pay the price, Sikhs have to give up a major part of their land near Jammu to Gulab Singh. Gulab Singh was an ally of the East India Company.
The British also constructed a residential fort in Lahore. And finally, they made the infant Dulip Singh the new king of Punjab.
The Sikhs were angry with the treaty. The conditions were very one-sided. With Dulip Singh as the King, the Sikh army was like a body without its head. They still have a large army but no one to lead it. The presence of the British in the Lahore Fort was a constant reminder of their loss, salt to the wound.
The second war started when the governor of Multan, Mulraj killed a British officer. The East India Company sent a local general Sher Singh to capture Mulraj. But to their surprise, Mulraj convinced Sher Singh to join the fight against the company.
Three battles took place in the second Anglo-Sikh war. The battle of Ramnagar was won by the Sikhs. But unfortunately, the battle of Chillianwala and Gujarat was lost. And so was every hope of further revival. Lord Dalhousie, the Governor-General of India took the matters into his own hands.
Nihangs, the finest Sikh warriors were persecuted in large numbers, a lot of religious places were destroyed, Sikhs were distributed throughout India as British Police. Dalhousie made sure that the Sikh empire never stands on its own again. Furthermore, he put three British governors in charge of the area.
Sikhs, though far from their motherland, kept fighting against the British Empire. The stories of their heroism kept sprouting from different parts of India.
Keeping the loss aside, the British historians wrote a lot in praise of the Sikh army. From the sheer size of their men to the extraordinary valor they possessed. Impressed by the Sikhs, the British made sure to include Sikh soldiers in their own ranks and hence the British Sikh regiment came into existence in 1846.
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Media and Digital Policy Youth Policy 10/25/2019
Media policy is youth policy
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On October 25-27, 2019, the DBJR General Assembly adopted the position "Media policy is youth policy".
Today, young people are naturally producers inside, transmitters inside and receivers inside of medial contents on many channels and platforms. The media shape the growth of young people and are an essential and constant companion. A central task of the youth associations and youth councils in the German Federal Youth Council is to represent the media-political interests of young people and to describe, demand and implement good framework conditions for young people to grow up.
Because the socialisation of young people today is essentially shaped by media and virtual spaces, the design of these spaces and the framework conditions of the media forms of offer are also an essential part of the representation of young people's interests. Thus media policy is also youth policy and youth policy must also be media policy, in addition to many other policy fields.
Media law, youth media protection, digital policy, media concentration law, copyright law, data protection, etc. shape, among other things, the framework conditions for young people growing up and must therefore be political fields of action for youth association work. DAs means, for example, that youth associations and youth councils are committed to ensuring that legislative procedures in fields of media policy are transparent and participatory and that a youth check is a fixed, regular and important part of the legislative process. We will also work to ensure that children, young people and young adults have equal and non-commercial access to media and information. The media and the infrastructure for their dissemination must therefore be regulated in such a way that they can fulfil their task for democracy. Media and distribution channels must not be subject to market power alone.
The list of examples of media policy fields that decisively shape the framework conditions for young people to grow up is long. A youth policy that does not take these essential areas of life into account and does not have a shaping effect on these areas ignores essential areas of the world in which children, young people and young people live. The image that media convey of youth, which is often characterised by problem situations and border crossings, must be discussed. The aim must be to ensure that the diverse lifestyles of young people are presented and communicated in all their breadth in the media.
The DBJR and its member organisations are committed to shaping media policy wherever it affects young people and their interests as part of their youth policy mandate to represent young people as advocates and to developing and strengthening media education approaches. The aim is to establish media policy debates as a regular and significant component of youth policy debates and decisions in the DBJR and its member organisations.
The Conference of Broadcasting and Media Councils is an important place for the discussion and development of media policy positions in the DBJR. Here, representatives of the youth associations are networked in radio and media councils and in regular discussions on current developments in media policy. The professional and media-political assessments that are made here are a good basis for media-political exchange in youth association work.
Unanimously with four abstentions decided by the Plenary Assembly from 25 to 27 October 2019 in Berlin.
Themen: Media and Digital Policy Youth Policy
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Commentary: Domestic Violence, Folk Etymologies, & "Rule of Thumb"
© (1998) By Jennifer Freyd and JQ Johnson
Like many folk etymologies, the commonly understood origin of "rule of thumb" seems to have some inaccuracy. The Oxford English Dictionary indicates that the phrase has been used for about 300 years to refer to measurements that are based on experience instead of exact science. However, some people currently believe that the phrase "rule of thumb" originated from English common law, and that the phrase reflects a law which allowed a husband to beat his wife with a whip or stick no bigger in diameter than his thumb.
Others have used this belief as an example of feminist exaggeration. For instance, Christina Hoff Sommers, in her 1994 book Who Stole Feminism: How Women have Betrayed Women wrote on page 203: "Because many feminist activists and researchers have so great a stake in exaggerating the problem and so little compunction in doing so, objective information on battery is very hard to come by. . .The 'rule of thumb' story is an example of revisionist history that feminists happily fell into believing."
Our reading of the literature in this area suggests that the interpretation that there was a legal standard about hitting wives that relates to the size of a "thumb," came not from feminists or grassroots activists but is much older and comes perhaps from a judge from the American South over a century ago. In recent years many people in society, including feminists and non-feminists, the popular press (and not necessarily a feminist popular press), have contributed toward the "story" of the phrase that relates it to English common law.
The reality about the history of this phrase seems to be a fascinating and complex. The best current source of which we are aware is:
Kelly, Henry Ansgar (1994). Rule of Thumb and the Folklaw of the Husband's Stick. Journal of Legal Education 44 (3) [Sep 1, 1994], 341-365.
Kelly's overall position is that the "rule of thumb" is not a principal enshrined in the law, and that this idea that it is enshrined in law derives from a 1977 book by Davidson who claims that a "rule of thumb" is a traditional justification for wife-beating. He goes further to argue that the extent to which wife beating is accepted in the law varies with the source, but that in general wife beating (whether with a thumb-sized cane or anything else) is not traditionally permissible.
On the recent history of the idea of a "rule of thumb," Kelly's argument seems interestingly inconsistent. On the one hand he traces its misuse to Davidson (1977), but on the other hand he notes that Davidson and others cite William Prosser (1971) as a source. He observes as evidence that the error starts with Davidson that what Prosser actually says is "there is probably no truth whatever in the legend that he was permitted to beat her with a stick no thicker than his thumb." Prosser thus acknowledging a tradition that DOES involve a thumb standard, albeit without legal merit.
Kelly notes that the exact phrase "rule of thumb" itself never occurs in legal history, and that the idea of the thumb as a standard appears in "only" a handful of cases.
In America he cites a North Carolina case, State v Rhodes, 1868 61 N.C. 453, as "the only case on record in which a husband was let off because 'His Honor was of opinion that the defendant had a right to whip his wife with a switch no longer than his thumb.'" [Kelly, p. 345]. The State Supreme Court repudiated this argument but dismissed the case on the basis that the husband had not actually harmed the wife substantially. In other words, the rule of thumb was illegal, but wife-beating was legal as long as it didn't inflict much permanent damage.
Kelly also cites Bradley v State, 1824, 1 Miss (1 Walker) 156, in which the justice (Powhattan Ellis) acknowledges the existence of a popular thumb standard but rejects it as justification in the particular case.
In English law, Kelly notes that judge Sir Francis Buller, in 1782 (1781?) gave credence in a legal opinion to a "thumb" standard for permissible wife beating, and that this decision was cause for production of a set of cartoons of the period critical of Buller.
After reading Kelly, we are left with a somewhat different conclusion than his. He does argue persuasively that the "rule of thumb" has never been a widely accepted legal principal, and that the phrase itself has not had the wife-beating overtones until recently. However, his own research leads us to conclude that there was a popular (though far from universal) perception as early as 1782 that wife beating was acceptable and that a thumb standard for the instrument was appropriate.
On the general issue of the acceptability of domestic violence there seems little doubt that there has been a wide range of acceptance and approbation both in law and in popular culture. And there can also be little doubt that one's interpretation of the past is heavily colored by one's beliefs -- we read the same texts as Kelly and come away with an overall impression quite different from his.
We caution readers to use restraint in judging others harshly for either their use of the phrase "rule of thumb" or for their pain in hearing the phrase used and believing it refers to domestic violence. Keep in mind that folk etymologies are very often incorrect, and deriding people for a false belief in this area serves little purpose. Most importantly, the problem of domestic violence is truly severe, and our energy is best spent on understanding and preventing domestic violence.
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