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10 Cornish Museums to visit
It's not just restaurants that open up inside this week! On International Museum Day here are ten Cornish favourites that we're looking forward to visiting again.
Cornwall has an immense heritage, both gritty and magical and so is spoilt for museums exploring the past – including (and not limited to) sea-farers, artists, smugglers, pirates and sailors, tin miners and arthurian legends.
Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, St Ives
Top of my list is one of the most peaceful places in Cornwall, despite it also being the place of her death, with the studio and garden being largely as Hepworth left it the day before fire consumed the studio in 1975. One of the UK's most influential artists, Hepworth began creating her stone and later bronze sculptures in the garden tucked out of the way at Barnoon in St Ives in 1949 (she left London to escape the war a decade earlier but didn't start work at Trewyn Studio until much later). Walking around the garden and the small museum dedicated to her life and influences in what was her simple whitewashed studio is both magical and inspirational. A haven of tranquility just moments from the bustling St Ives high street.
National Maritime Museum, Falmouth
Head to the harbourside in Falmouth where you'll find the Maritime Museum at Discovery Quay, which opened in 2003. The building is the result of an architectural competition and the museum aims to promote an understanding of boats and their place in people's lives, and of the maritime heritage of Cornwall. Explore the centuries-old myths and legends, when chance sightings and odd appearances led to tall tales of deep sea creatures. Learn how, even today, these stories continue to capture imaginations, fuelled by fake news and conspiracy theories. Don't miss the rather fascinating tidal zone which gives a unique underwater perspective on Falmouth harbour.
Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle
This tiny museum on the harbourside at Boscastle, on the north coast, is home to the largest collection of witchcraft related artefacts held anywhere in the world. Exploring the history of witchcraft and magic in Cornwall and also Britain, new for 2021 is the postponed In the Land of the Bucca exhibition, which shows some of the many rich and strange stories from ancient Kernow to modern Cornwall.
PK Porthcurno (Formerly the Telegraph Museum), Porthcurno
This communications museum is set in what was once the largest telegraph station in the world. Most people think of the beach at Porthcurno as the star attraction (and it *is* gorgeous) but is also the location of a communications revolution since 1870. With sub-tropical gardens, underground WW2 tunnels and extensive exhibitions to captivate enquiring minds, it makes a great afternoon out.
Shipwreck Treasure Museum, Charlestown
The Shipwreck Treasure Museum in Charlestown is a museum of peril and possibility, where a seabed of salvaged stories waits to be explored – Life and loss at sea. The lure of the search. The reveal of the find. As you'd expect from a county bordered almost exclusively with coastline, Cornwall has seen a lot wrecks, and here you can view 8,000 finds from over a hundred of them – fascinating particularly for little ones obsessed by pirates.
Geevor Tin Mine, Lands End
Set in the wide open spaces of the Lands End peninsula on the dramatic Atlantic coast, the stunning Cornish coastline around Pendeen was once at the heart of the Cornish tin and copper mining industry. Geevor Tin Mine gives you the opportunity to visit a real mine and learn what life was like for a Cornish miner. Head deep underground and find out what life was really like for the men and boys who worked the mines between 1911 and 1990 during which time it produced about 50,000 tons of black tin.
Dark Walk, Bodmin Jail
Using state-of-the-art technology and the latest theatrical effects, the Dark Walk (age 10+) – a major addition to the attraction and the first of its kind in the region – sends you on an immersive, spooky and interactive discovery of Cornwall's most haunting histories. Stories of Cornwall's murky past are retold, and you'll be transported to life within the walls of the 18th century prison. If that wasn't chilling enough, Bodmin Jail is also home to the only working execution pit in the country and delves into the myth of the terrifying Bodmin Beast. Pre-booked timed entry slots essential & leave the littlies at home – this one is a bit noisy and might make you jump. Not spooky enough? Terrify yourself with late night ghost walks, scary cinema and paranormal tours. (Late night events suitable for 16-plus)
Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance
Built in 1865, as the home of the Branwell family, this fascinating museum / art gallery in Penzance gives insight into Cornwall's other artists mecca. The Newlyn School artists were also making their way in the art world, famous for painting outdoors, 'en Plein air'. Artists were drawn to Newlyn for the light and ease of living and became fascinated with the fishing way of life, chronicling this in their work. The current main exhibition is that of Laura Knight who was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain – the exhibition considers some of her work including Sennen (above).
Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
If Cornish life and culture is of interest, then the Royal Cornwall Museum in the centre of Truro might make a fascinating day out – particularly as this museum in Cornwall's capital includes contemporary stories of how Cornwall has responded to Covid-19 as well as a look into times past.
Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum, St Austell
Think of Cornish mining and you're probably thinking metal (Copper, Tin or maybe even Lithium), but china clay is actually Cornwall's largest mining industry – and along with the the Poldark-esque mining shafts, the spoils of the china clay industry have shaped Cornwall's landscape for the past 250 years (think the 'white' pyramids that surround St Austell). Super kid friendly, the museum at Wheal Martyn is a fascinating insight based in two Victorian era china clay works, now protected monuments.
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F-Secure demonstrates how. even if your laptop is fully encrypted, hackers can gain access to all the data stored on it if you leave it in sleep mode. Shutting down your laptop properly, or using hibernation and pre-boot authentication offer the best protection.
Cold boot attacks have been around since 2008 and involve stealing information stored on a computer that hasn't been shutdown properly, or left in a vulnerable sleeping state. They rely on data being left in memory, which has been guarded against more recently by ensuring the contents of RAM is overwritten when powering a machine back up. However, security company F-Secure discovered that isn't good enough.
If a hacker gains physical access to your laptop, then with the right tools even a fully-encrypted machine can be accessed and all the data stored on it stolen. You can see how this works in the video F-Secure produced below demonstrating the attack on real hardware.
As you can see, it is quite an involved process, but only takes a few minutes to achieve if you know what you're doing. If a laptop has been stolen then the hacker has more than enough time to find a safe location and perform the attack. This new variation on the attack works by manipulating the firmware settings, overwrites the non-volatile memory chip that triggers the RAM content to be flushed, and allows booting from an external drive such as a USB stick.
Encryption keys and other sensitive information can then be stolen from memory and full access gained to the system. Most laptops are susceptible to such an attack, but the good news is you can prevent it from happening by taking the appropriate steps to leave your laptop in a safe state.
F-Secure advises everyone to always either shut down or hibernate their laptop, never just place it in sleep mode. Why hibernate instead of sleep? Because encryption keys aren't stored in memory that way.
Security PIN entry on reboot is also a useful mitigation technique, and this can easily be enabled if, for example, you have Bitlocker installed. At the same time, Microsoft, Apple, and Intel are working on new ways to stop this attack from being possible, with Apple stating the T2 Chip used in its new laptops already contains security measures to counter cold boot attacks.


You are looking at a near show room condition 2004 Porsche Carerra C4S 6 Speed Manual. This is one example of genuine Porsche engineering. And this particular C4S is one owner, always garage kept, original paint, and very low miles with nice options. The performance and driving experience of these machines are out of this world. This C4S comes with important options like Full Leather Interior, Sport Seats, Sport Exhaust, and Heated Seats. This Porsche comes with two original keys, owners' s manual, all the tools, and factory floor mats.


Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year is a direct-to-video holiday film starring the Winnie the Pooh characters, released on VHS and DVD by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on November 12, 2002. It is a compilation film featuring the 1991 Christmas TV special Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too along with a newly-made special, Happy Pooh Year.
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Christmas is my favorite holiday not only because of time with family and friends but because of the holiday decorations. The house just feels so much warmer with all of the twinkly lights and festive decor.
Creating my own holiday decorations is another fun part of the holiday season. Today I am sharing with you an easy DIY for making your own Christmas wall hanging.
Dowel or large plastic candy cane. The size will depend on the size of your wall hanging (you'll notice I used a giant candy cane at first but changed it later because I wasn't crazy about the look).
Read the directions all the way through at first as there is a diagram further down that will help!
Decide on a size you'd want your wall hanging to be from the top of it to the bottom of the point. I preferred for my hanging to be long and skinny. Add 5 inches to the height (for the dowel pocket).
Fold the fabric in half.
Use a ruler/straight age and a measuring tape to measure and draw out the size of your wall hanging on your felt. I made mine 20 inches across. So I made my marks 10 inches in. And drew a straight line attaching the marks (creating a line for me to cut on).
Use a ruler or straight edge and place it on one end of the fabric at an angle pointing downwards. Draw a line. (See below what the drawing lines should look like. You can see what my line looked like below).
Create your design. Don't forget when you measure to leave about 5 inches at the top of your wall hanging so that you can fold it over to create the hole for the dowel. So if your fabric is 20 inches long, you'll want your design to only be 15 inches tall.
Cut your HTV design (you can download my design below for free).
Flip the wall hanging upside down.
Now, fold the entire top over the dowel. Use clips or clamps to hold it in place.
Add hot glue at the bottom of the fold to adhere it to the back of the wall hanging.
Once it's cooled, insert the dowel.
Tie one end of the leather lace to one end of the dowel next to the wall hanging.
Tie the other end of the leather lace on the other side of the wall hanging. Trim excess lace off.
You can make this same DIY wall hanging using the free SVG and Silhouette file. Click below to download the files. *You can personalize the hand towel wraps using the Adobe PDF file. The files are for personal use only and may not be used commercially in any way. To download, sign up here for the password! HINT: If you're interested in more craft files, make sure to sign up for the "All Things Mom Envy" group. Once you're signed up, download below using your members-only password.
Such a cute sign, great tutorial too!
What a fun way to greet guests for the Holidays! Thanks for the free print.
So fun being on this blog tour with you!
I love how simple this is to create!
This is so cute! I have been loving all of the scrolls that are so popular right now, and this is the perfect alternative for Christmas. Love it!
Love this sweet and easy sign! What a great tutorial!
Thanks so much! Thanks for stopping by!
What a fun and cute project! Thanks for sharing!


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Location: The Lake District, Haweswater, Mardale
Submitted: 5th July 2019
The Drowned Village
Author/Guide: Kathleen McGurl
1935, 2000s: A flooded village, rediscovered years later
Genre: Historical, Mystery
It's the summer of 1935 and eleven-year-old Stella Walker is preparing to leave her home forever. Forced to evacuate to make way for a new reservoir, the village of Brackendale Green will soon be lost. But before the water has even reached them, a dreadful event threatens to tear Stella's family apart.
An uncovered secret
Present day, and a fierce summer has dried up the lake and revealed the remnants of the deserted village. Now an old woman, Stella begs her granddaughter Laura to make the journey she can't. She's sure the village still holds answers for her but, with only days until the floodwaters start to rise again, Laura is in a race against time to solve the mysteries of Stella's almost forgotten past.
England - The Lake District
A: Penrith - Mardale Head
B: Haweswater Reservoir
C: Penrith - High Street
D: Mardale Ridge
E: Tarn Crag
Welcome to the mysterious Lake District and the drowned village
This is inspired by a very real lake and lost village. Brackendale and Bereswater are Mardale and Haweswater in real life. Imagine going and discovering these mysterious places for real! The author was inspired to write a novel based on a village which was flooded to make a reservoir.
She was visiting Mardale Head with a friend where she read something about the destruction of Mardale Green to make way for the reservoir. Her friend suggested she write a novel based on it, and history was made.
The author and her friend climbed Riggindale Ridge and High Street and then Mardale III Bell as Laura and Tom do in the novel (albeit via differently named mountains and valleys)
"Haweswater has dried out on a few occasions over the years revealing the remains of Mardale Green."
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Drowned Village
Destination: Lake District, Mardale Author/Guide: Kathleen McGurl Departure Time: 1935, 2012

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Street lights fail to turn on
Dunedin descended into darkness last night when the city's streetlights did not turn on as scheduled.
Delta marketing and communications manager Gary Johnson said the lights were scheduled to turn on at 8.52pm, but the automatic activation never occurred.
Reports of the issue from around the city started circulating on social media about 9.30pm.
The lights were switched on manually from 9.50pm and all lights were confirmed on by 10.10pm, Mr Johnson said.
"We apologise for any inconvenience and will be carrying out further investigation to pinpoint the reason the switching did not operate automatically as scheduled," he said.
The Dunedin City Council-owned company is under review by Deloitte, along with Aurora Energy.
The companies have been beset by issues recently following the revelation 3000 power poles in the Dunedin network are no longer fit for purpose.


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Q: Selecting default option in Angular generated dropdown I have the following code:
<select ng-model="sortYear">
    <option value="all">All Years</option>
    <option ng-repeat="article in news | orderObjectBy:'year':true | unique: 'year'" value="{{article.year}}">{{article.year}}</option>
</select>

Which works perfectly. I've even got sortYear bound at a different point on the page, and it's connected fine, etc.
My problem is, when I get to the page, I want the default, prechosen selection to be the top actual year, not "All Years". I've tried a couple things:
1) I set $scope.sortYear in my controller. I know it's setting it since the bound sortYear later in the page is showing up just fine on the initial load.
2) I tried using ng-init to set it to a year explicitly, as well as tried the ng-init="sortYear = getCurYear()" where I defined a function getCurYear in the controller (and verified that I was actually hitting that function and setting/returning what I thought I should be) but nada.
What am I missing?

A: use ng-value in option tag with ng-repeat like
<option ng-value="article.year" ng-repeat="article in news | orderObjectBy:'year':true | unique: 'year'">{{article.year}}</option>

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Q: Problema para instalar o nodemon Estou aprendendo Node.JS e tem uma parte que preciso instalar o nodemon.
Uso o comando:
npm install nodemon@1.19.4 -g

E ao verificar a versão do nodemon usando:
nodemon -v

Me aparece este erro:

A: Consegui, fazendo da forma de acessar o Visual Studio Code como administrador, entrar na pasta que está meu projeto, no terminal digitar:
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

E quando rodo
nodemon-v

Aparece a versão.


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Q: SVN, Samba and Symbolic Links. How to get them all to play together? I've got a website project under version control that relies on files from an unversioned directory on the same server via Symbolic Links.
I'm currently storing the symbolic links in the repository. The idea is that if someone checks out a working copy on to the same server they can edit and test the working copy of the project before committing it back to the repository.
When they checkout their working copy it successfully sets up the symlinks so that the entire site works when testing.
The users that work on the project are Windows users, so I've set a samba shares on the server and then mapped them to network drives in Windows. People can edit their working copies directly on the server via network shares and then test them in the web browser before committing their changes back to the repository via TortoiseSVN.
The Problem
The problem I have is that Samba resolves the symlinks as expected but when a user tries to commit their changes back to the repository, TortoiseSVN thinks the linked files are part of the project and tries to commit the target files to the repository and not the symlinks themselves.
I tried turning off symlink support in samba which means that the linked files cannot be resolved as I don't really want people to have access to the linked files nor do I want to import the linked files in the repository. The problem with this is that I get Can't stat '\webserver\projects\working\project\symlinked_file.php'. Access is denied
Apart from the symlink problem everything else works 100% perfectly. Users can either checkout website projects to their machine and work on them (but can't test) or checkout them out to their space on the dev web server and work on them and fully test. So I don't want to change the workflow process, I just need a solution to the symbolic link issue.
Many thanks.
Originally posted on StackOverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2400917/svn-samba-and-symbolic-links-how-to-get-them-all-to-play-together

A: I have got a somewhat similar setup, but I chose to not include the symlinks in svn.
Instead, I have made a script that simply creates the symlinks after the checkout.
Ger.


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Coolpad Launching A New Smartphone In India On December 28
Chinese OEM Coolpad has sent out invites to the launch of a new smartphone in India. The company has not revealed a lot of details in the invite, but we could be looking at the launch of a upper mid-range or a high end smartphone from the company. Coolpad also posted a tweet teasing the upcoming launch. Reports suggest that Coolpad could be launching a phone it has built in partnership with LeEco.
Coolpad And LeEco Rumoured Phone Launch
While the company did not mention the phone that will be launched on December 28, multiple sources have revealed that we could see a "Cool" series smartphone being launched at the event. LeEco and Coolpad have partnered on multiple phones by now – Cool 1 Dual, Cool Changer 1C and Cool S1.
Be ready to witness something remarkable that will redefine the smartphone performance. Stay tuned #CLifeAgain pic.twitter.com/mS1YcuJofL
— Coolpad India (@CoolpadInd) December 22, 2016
While we are not sure which phone will be launched on December 28, here is a quick refresher of specs of both the phones made by LeEco and Coolpad jointly.
Recommended: LeEco & Coolpad Launch Cool Changer 1C With Snapdragon 652
Cool1 Dual Specifications
The Cool1 Dual comes with a 5.5 inch full HD display and runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box. The phone features a 2.5D curve display and comes with a pixel density of ~401 PPI.
The Cool1 Dual is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 processor and comes with 6 GB RAM, 32 GB / 64 GB internal storage.
It also features a dual camera setup with two 13 MP sensors on the back, f/2.0 aperture, PDAF and dual LED flash. On the front the phone sports an 8 MP camera.
Dual SIM, 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS are also present. The phone is powered by a 4060 mAh battery.
Cool Changer 1C Specifications
The Cool Changer 1C was launched in November with a 5.5 inch full HD display, Android 6.0 Marshmallow and Snapdragon 652 processor. The phone comes with 3 GB RAM and 32 GB internal storage.
The phone features a 13 MP rear camera, dual LED flash and a front facing 8 MP camera. Other features include dual SIM, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS support. It is powered by a 4060 mAh battery.
Cool S1 Specifications
The Cool S1 is a high end smartphone, featuring a 5.5 inch full HD display, Android 6.0 Marshmallow and Snapdragon 821 processor. The phone comes with up to 6 GB RAM and 128 GB internal storage.
On the imaging front, it comes with a 16 MP rear camera with PDAF and dual LED flash. On the front, it has an 8 MP camera. Connectivity options include dual SIM, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. A 4070 mAh battery powers the phone.
iQOO 3 Launching Soon as First Snapdragon 865-powered 5G Phone in India


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Northern Ireland sees first abortion clinic open
October 19, 2012 · 11:55 AM CDT
Listen to the story.
About 200 anti-abortion protesters turned up to demonstrate against the Marie Stopes Reproductive Clinic. The new center will be the first to offer abortions on the island of Ireland. (Photo by John Sepulvado)
On the eighth floor of a glass plated Belfast office, next to a dentist and a solicitor, sits the first abortion clinic to operate on the island of Ireland.
It will be the most heavily regulated abortion clinic in the United Kingdom.
Northern Ireland law prohibits surgical abortions, so the doctors will give patients a pill, and if there are no complications, send the women home after a few hours. The women will have to show the pregnancy is a risk to their physical or mental health, and that conception occurred no more than nine weeks prior.
The clinic, operated by Marie Stopes International, will also offer other reproductive services, as well as crisis and sexual counseling. Marie Stopes, a British organization similar to Planned Parenthood, opened the clinic despite intense opposition from anti-abortion groups, including Pro-life Ireland and the Catholic Youth Defence.
Yet, despite full page advertisements from those groups, as well as orchestrated phone calls and emails to political leaders, demonstrations and picketing, the abortion clinic opened Thursday at lunchtime as scheduled.
If it weren't for the approximately 200 anti-abortion demonstrators peacefully protesting on Belfast's busy Great Victorian Street, there would be no indication the clinic had opened.
"There is no way a building would have been built back in Dublin 20 years ago, or Belfast, or anywhere on the island," said 42-year-old educator Barbara Kennedy. "The priests would've been, I would imagine, in the pulpits, on the Sunday, saying 'you've got to go against this,' and people would have listened."
College lecturer Fiona King, 42, said people no longer turn to the church for moral guidance.
"We're not as influenced by it," Kennedy said.
The women, like many others in urban centers, say the Irish clergy lack the moral standing, after numerous scandals in Catholic and Protestant churches, to effectively mount a campaign against the clinic.
Many Irish pastors and priests, like Trevor Brock, acknowledge that religious influence on the island is waning. Brock is the pastor of the Belfast Great Victoria Street Baptist Church, located just two blocks away from where the abortion clinic. He describes Irish Baptists as ideological cousins to the conservative Southern Baptist Convention in the United States.
Like the majority of those members, Brock's fiercely opposed to abortion.
Yet, Brock says he has no plans to talk about the clinic's opening during this Sunday's service.
"To make big blanket statements, I just don't see the value of that," he said.
Brock also doesn't plan on protesting at the clinic, or urging his parishioners to protest.
"It doesn't show much compassion to people who need compassion on the ground," Brock said. "We'd rather work through the issues and think our way through them and talk to folks face to face, then enter a confrontational battleground scene."
The protesters that did show Thursday took an almost gentle approach. Organizers went so far as to urge the group not to litter, or drop their cigarette ends on the sidewalk.
"We respect (the clinic's) right to operate ... under the law of man," said Michael Tiller. The 53-year-old came from Cork, a six-hour car ride to protest the clinic. "But we value life, and God's law, and that must come first."
Opponents like Tiller fear the clinic will lead to more liberal abortion laws, and attitudes. Abortion is illegal in the Republic of Ireland. U.K. health statistics show more than 6,000 Irish women travel to England for surgical abortions each year.
Only 43 abortions, according to those same records, were performed at hospitals in Northern Ireland in 2011. Marie Stopes International does not expect that number to dramatically increase as a result of the clinic's opening.
Political science of the periphery: Part I
Poisoned opposition leader Navalny arrested in Moscow; Migrants stopped in Guatemala; Bobi Wine's opposition party rejects Museveni win
Hospitals in Manaus run out of oxygen amid coronavirus surge in Brazil
Brazil struggles with new COVID-19 strain; Entire Dutch government resigns over child welfare scandal; Deadly earthquake hits Indonesia
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Halley, Edmond, 1656 - 1742 (astronomer)
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Script for 'The Night Sky in August', 1954-08
Scope and Contents A copy of Porter's script for 'The Night Sky in August' on statistical methods in astronomy; the Plough and the movement of Arcturus over 1,800 years since the time of Ptolemy, which Edmond Halley called attention to in 1718; the proper motions of stars, including Arcturus, Sirius and Procyon, analysed statistically by William Herschel, giving similar results to modern measurements; stellar velocities determined by spectroscopic analysis, the velocities increasing towards the galactic...
Dates: 1954-08
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0180/RGO, Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives / Papers of John Guy Porter / Scripts for B.B.C. Radio broadcasts / 'The Night Sky'
Script for 'The Night Sky in May', 1958-05
Scope and Contents An annotated copy of Porter's script for 'The Night Sky in May' on the Plough overhead, Arcturus in the south, Leo in the west, and Jupiter below Arcturus near Spica in Virgo; the retrograde motion of the planets, the difficulty in observing this motion and the lack of perspective in the sky; the misleading impression of distance given if apparent brightness is relied on, the proper motion of stars, and the importance of their distribution in this galaxy and their movements; the difficulties...
Script for 'The Night Sky in September', 1951-09
Scope and Contents Two copies of Porter's script for 'The Night Sky in September' on Mercury, Venus and Mars as morning stars and Jupiter; Vega, the Southern stars, Cygnus, Altair and Aquila, Vulpecula and Saturn, Sagitta, Equuleus and Delphinus; the Revd T.W. Webb's solution to the mystery of the names Svalocin and Rotanev for Alpha and Beta Delphinus; the Milky Way, the proper motions of stars and the movement of Sirius, Aldabaran, Betelgeuse and Arcturus listed in Ptolemy's catalogue and noted by Halley;...
Stellar observations and calculations, 1743 - 1771
Scope and Contents Various observations and calculations, primarily of the stars.1. Tables and equations for the Earth's perturbations by Venus and Jupiter and for the lunar equation.2. Catalogue of the stars for 1690 and 1760, with elements for their aberrations.3. Corrections for the tables of Dalembert, Halley, Mayer and Clairaut.4. To find the aberration in right ascension and declination.5. Comparisons with Nicholas Louis de Lacaille's star catalogue, 1750 and...
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0180/RGO, Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives / Papers of Nevil Maskelyne
Stellar positions and proper motion, 1765 - 1822
Scope and Contents Remarks and tables on proper motion and comparisons of star positions. The volume includes the apparent diameter of the Sun, Moon and primary planets as viewed from the Earth; changes in the obliquity of the ecliptic, 1668-1822, and that observed by the Arab astronomers, 832-1463; unused forms for observational results; proper motion of Arcturus in right ascension from Tycho's observations; rules on aberration of light in calculating the place of a planet; longitude of Cambridge, New...
Tables, observations and other papers, 1674 - 1689
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/50/K
Scope and Contents Eclipses predicted for 1675 (211r-213v); Halley's nonagesimal tables (216v-217r); equations of the earth's orbit (218v-219r); lunar tables and data (223r-232r); observations of stars omitted by Tycho (233v); 'De motibus stella Jovis Commentaria', with tables of Jupiter from several sources (234v-241r); a table identifying stars by numbers and Greek letters (244r-245r); tables of Saturn (246r-247v); 'An Opticall Essay proveing the truth and accuracy of coelestiall observations made with long...
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0180/RGO, Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives / Papers of John Flamsteed / Miscellaneous tables
Tables of Saturn's motion, 1680
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/48/L
Undated tables of Saturn's motion, apparently in Edmond Halley's hand.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0180/RGO, Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives / Papers of John Flamsteed / Lunar and planetary tables and calculations
Tables on Jupiter's satellites with respect to their mean motion, eclipses, relative position and immersions and emersions, 1760
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/66: 29-38v
Notes on how to observe the satellites and use the tables are included, together with copied pieces on Ole Rømer, 'Progressive Motion of Light in the Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites', from 'Philosophical Transactions', Vol. 1, p. 409; Edmond Halley's hypothesis of Jupiter's satellites and his counter-arguments, from 'Philosophical Transactions', No. 214, November and December 1694; and James Bradley, 'Observations of Jupiter's Satellites'.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0180/RGO, Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives / Papers of Nevil Maskelyne / Maskelyne notebook: rough drafts of solutions of various astronomical problems
'The Return of Halley's Comet' stamps: first day covers and stamped postcard, 1986-02 - 1986-11
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 97/5
A set of commemorative envelopes and postcards with Halley's Comet stamps affixed. Four Halley's Comet Stamps were issued to commemorate the return of the comet on 18 Feb. 1986, titled: 'Dr Edmond Halley 1656-1742' (17p), 'Giotto' (22p), 'Maybe Twice in a Lifetime' (31p), and [Comet] (34p).
Dates: 1986-02 - 1986-11
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0180/RGO, Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives / Astronomical Postage Stamps Issues: First Day Covers
Theories of the Sun, Moon and planets, 1875 - 1879
Scope and Contents Theories of the Sun, Moon and planets, including a circular from M. Montagne on solar parallax; notes on Montucla, Pliny, Ptolemy and Halley relating to the saros of solar eclipses; tables by S. Newcomb on the transformation of P.A. Hansen's lunar theory as regards longitudes into modern notations; letters and calculations on the motion of the Moon and other lunar theory; a formula for the heliocentric co-ordinations of a planet; and letters and calculations by A. Hall, M. Souillant, W.A....
Meteorites 6
Blackheath 1
Herstmonceux 1
Lewisham 1
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South Pacific Ocean 1


Why is Moving from Employee to Business Owner Important?
It sounds daunting doesn't it....but it basically boils down to you taking ownership and control of your financial circumstance, and, more importantly, your financial future.
You understand the challenges of "working for the man" but may not fully realise the opportunities that you have to take control. It is hardly surprising, we all of course were told by parents and teachers that if we worked hard, did as we were told, got the grades and got a good job all would be fine. We could expect to earn a good wage, work for 40 years, save for a pension and then retire comfortably into our twilight years.
We didn't think so. So what can the average 20, 30, 40 or even 50 something do about it - TODAY?
You see access to business systems in the digital economy has never been easier - we are proof of that here at DBM. We gained the skills, made the contacts, invested in our education and mindset, found the platforms, worked hard and then, finally, put ourselves in control of online business systems designed to operate in the key areas of education, e-commerce, investments and savings.
We take the income from our education and skills platforms, invest the same skills in e-commerce, scale the income then place the excess in investments - all online and hands free, before protecting our earnings in Gold. It works.... but let's not get ahead of ourselves, this takes focus, investment and determination. Our job at DBM - to help you break through.
For those still firmly entrenched in Employment - nothing wrong with that of course, we appreciate the last paragraph looks a little daunting. That's why we start with mindset, skills and education - I mean, where do you start with all this?
Once you have made the decision to "move" the first thing you need to do is understand the picks and shovels of your online business system. We have a saying at DBM - Systems Work, People Fail, hence having the right foundations and mechanisms in your business from the get go is crucial. The very best place to learn this is the 4% Group HERE - we provide a free 7 step video series that explains all in great detail - in fact the one and only Vick Strizheus (one of our mentors) will fill you with all the confidence and momentum you will need! Head over, Sign Up and we will pick you up on the inside.
So what happens once you have the skills and an initial product (the 4%Group) to sell? Well, then its time to get into cash-flow - business speak for generating more income than costs as soon as possible. Of course you will have to invest in YOU and YOUR business, and we want to keep this to a minimum. What better way to do that (with your new skills) than to leverage expenditure you ALREADY spend every month on food, household products and general stuff! That's where the ecommerce division of your business system kicks in. Over time you will simply use the money you already spend each month to buy the same "stuff", but this spend actually makes you a return. More on that later.
So now you have the skills, two income producing platforms and a fledgling business paying you everyday - even when you are asleep! What next.... well, we need to scale.
Our recommended way to do this is to take a stake in High Technology products and on this right now we run with Wearable Technology - learn all about Helo HERE and prepare to take your business to the next level.
So now you have 3 income vehicles - all utilising the same business systems and techniques to meet multiple customer markets. This is when things start to get serious and you are beginning to make money work for you (remember, as an employee YOU worked for money).
To accelerate this, and once you are generating cash in your business system, you are ready to move into the Investor section of the Quadrant - and this is where things really change in your monthly finances. You are of course welcome to invest anywhere you wish. At DBM we have property, shares and savings accounts, however we also continue the principle of "systems" by locating online mechanisms that provide us "hands off", passive income. This is where Questra comes into it own.
Finally and continuing the Investor - Money working for you - objective there is Gold!
Why gold, well there's a long story, but it basically boils down to security and the inevitable risk our Governments and Banks have put us all into in the false belief quantitative easing will lead to anywhere else other the high inflation.
The only protection against the dangerous game the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, Deutchebank and any number of other Central Banks are playing is Gold - so now, the final play in your quest for Financial Freedom - use a business system that allows you not only to take ownership of gold but also create income from it by helping others understand the need to secure their future on this sound commodity. Take a look at THIS to learn not only how important this is but exactly how we do it every day.
So what are the Pro and Cons of Employment v. Business Owner?
Cons - High Taxes. Taxed before you get paid. Security? Commute. Working for someone else's success. Tied to one economy (£/$/Euro). You work for money.
Pros - YOU own a system that works for YOU. Passive income. Global reach. Scale as you wish to. Lower Taxes. Money works for you.
So there you have it - not only why you need to make the move from Employee to Business Owner and Investor, but also a road map on exactly how you do it.
The rest, as they say, is down to you.
We are very proud of our ability to share this value with everyday people and we love helping people take control of their future using online business systems.
The Strangest Secret - Why do some succeed and some do not?
Of course we all have different definitions of "success". For some it is to be happy and healthy, others gauge success on monetary wealth or status symbol while others place great focus on how much they help others. Maybe true success is the ability to achieve a mix of all three?
Whatever your definition is the fact still remains that humans vary greatly in their achievement of "success". But how much of this is self inflicted and how much is circumstance - moreover at what point in life to people resign themselves to the whim of others in influencing their achievement of success?
This is not a modern question - it has been a mystery to the average soul forever, nowhere is this made more apparent than in a recording from the 1950's from Earl Nightingale.
Here at DBM we spend our time not only pondering this phenomenon but also doing something about it. First we help people wake up to what is happening around them, then we provide skills and support - focused on the digital economy so they can begin to create, then we support, then - once they too are in control and successful we help them help others.
A virtuous circle of learn - earn - share, we believe will soon replace the income based social welfare systems allow people not only to gain financial freedom - a real contender for the definition of "success", but also improve their well being through a sense of achievement and assistance of others.
Learn more about our road to success HERE and take your first steps towards gaining the skills, mindset and ability to answer the strangest secret.


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Mill Court is located just off Great Northern Road offering a wide range of local shopping facilities for everyday requirements, with the superstores at Danestone and Bridge of Don nearby. An excellent public transport service runs to and from the city centre and easy access can be gained to the main arterial routes north and south of the city.
ENTRANCE HALLWAY: The communal entrance is accessed via a security entry system.
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KITCHEN: 2.5m x 2.2m. On open plan with the living room. Fitted with a range of oak effect base and wall units. Granite effect worktop and splashback. Integrated electric hob with stainless steel single oven beneath and stainless steel chimney style extractor above. Washing machine and integrated fridge/freezer. Single stainless steel sink and drainer with mixer tap. Window to side fitted with wooden venetian blind. Solid wood oak flooring. Central decorative spotlight fitting.
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If you're learning web development in 2018—do yourself a favor and don't learn jQuery.
Plus, jQuery was easy to learn. There was tons of documentation, a big community, and a library of jQuery plugins at your disposal. It was how a lot of people got into web development back in the day.
Wait, but everyone still uses jQuery!
JQuery usage has been trending downward, but there's still plenty of uses of it on the web. Try opening up a WordPress site from the past ten years and you'll most likely find a mess of jQuery holding together a slideshow or an accordion.
If your passion is working on a bunch of old WordPress sites for Mom & Pop's corner store, more power to you. But most modern companies are going to be using much more current tech stacks. There's not much point in being stuck in the past. You don't need to be the guy specializing in last year's frameworks.
But, learning jQuery couldn't hurt, could it?
Well, it's one more thing to learn. Instead of jQuery, your time could be better spent getting yourself up to speed on something like React, vanilla JS, or a ubiquitous tool like Git.
If you do get a job where you have to use it, then that's a legitimate reason to learn jQuery. It's not that much work to learn, and the documentation is pretty solid. But why bother spending the mental energy if you don't have to?
Now, get out there and build some awesome things—without jQuery.


The exhibit from ten Indigenous women in Australia runs until March 31.
that is only here until March 31, so if you enjoy art, want to be a tourist in your own town or you have visitors be sure to catch it. The art is from 10 Indigenous women in Australia and the title of the show is "In Her Words."
It's not clear if the women consider themselves "artists" but they are admired and collected in many of the "best" galleries in the world. They describe how they are relating their understanding of the wanderings of their mothers, the dreams of their fathers, the land as they see it and the stories they have been taught.
The patterns are simple – repetitive dots or lines or both. The simplest materials and patterns result in mesmerizing, huge paintings, often on bark, a few on hollow eucalyptus branches (which in the past were used as ossuaries but now are decorative).
One woman describes how the tiny white petals of a "bush plum" flower would completely cover the ground and her paintings with millions of tiny dots, pull you in like a constellation. Another woman is reminded of fishing nets her grandparents made and covers massive canvases with fine, multi-coloured, intersecting and overlapping lines. A basket maker uses traditional skills for contemporary characters.
All the women are from remote areas in the interior of Australia, all have experienced themselves or through their families, the equivalent of residential schools and are using their art and their stories to teach their children and the rest of the world about their connection to a harsh landscape.
The patterns and the pieces are beautiful – some are inspiring. The stories and histories are interesting and rich. There are a couple of videos and several photos of the artists and their "studios" - mostly outdoors in vast deserts.
If you can, plan a trek to deepest Kitsilano to visit before it leaves, if only to appreciate a whole other perspective and how to document your reality in patterns of simplicity and complexity.


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"Cherry blossoms drawn by kids in the disaster-hit area (in Fukushima)... inspired me," designer Tokujin Yoshioka, whose works are known internationally, told reporters. Fukushima was chosen as the starting point for the Olympic torch relay. The passing of the flame is scheduled to start on March 26, 2020, and the torch will head south to the sub-tropical island of Okinawa -- the starting point for the 1964 Tokyo Games relay -- before returning north and arriving in the Japanese capital on July 10.


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While the number of people out of work has increased over the past few months, Indeed data from January and February 2014 shows strong job posting growth in key sectors, particularly in retail and IT, which increased by 6% and 8% respectively. With more than 2 million job seekers visiting Indeed monthly, Indeed is uniquely placed to provide data, analysis and insight into the Australian job market — and this picture fits with Indeed's global findings which suggest the greatest growth in the coming years for jobs in Australia will be in highly skilled sectors such as finance, IT and to an extent, service industries.
On the downside, telecommunications continues to be an area of decline, with opportunities at the larger telecommunications firms down 14% since November 2013. In manufacturing, while too early to determine any impact from the recent closure of several car manufacturing plants, growth in manufacturing roles has been more sluggish in 2014.
When reviewing the unemployment stats, Chris advised people to view the figures in the context of the global economy. While employment fell in December, the Australian job market remains in a strong position when compared to other international markets.
Watch the full interview to hear Chris McDonald's analysis of the Australian jobs report.


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A few weeks later, the woman died eating healthy pomegranate seeds
Damage to the liver from contaminated fruit
The media are currently reporting an extremely rare case. A 64-year-old woman has died after eating pomegranate seeds, according to Australian health officials. However, death did not occur immediately after consumption, but only weeks later. How did this tragic event come about? Health authorities in Australia are alarmed.
Very healthy - infections are rare
Pomegranate seeds are rich in potassium, iron and polyphenols. Secondary plant substances act as so-called antioxidants against free oxygen radicals, which can damage the cells. Some studies indicated that consumption can protect against cancer. But that very fruit was fatal to a patient. A 64-year-old woman became infected with hepatitis A pathogens by eating a pack of pomegranate seeds. The death is in the context of frozen "Creative Gourmet" pomegranate seeds. The kernels were recalled nationwide in April because of evidence of hepatitis A pathogens. In the course of the disease, at least 24 people who had previously eaten the product fell ill. In this context, the Australian health authorities speak of a "rare and tragic case".
"The death of the woman is the only death related to the nationwide recalled product," said Health Minister Paddy Phillips. Another 23 patients would already be "on the mend". The doctors expect a full recovery, as the minister emphasized. However, the population was asked to look in the refrigerators to check for suspicious pomegranate seeds. Because according to the authorities, despite the recall, around 2,000 packs of the contaminated cores were sold and thus sold. At the moment, no further infections and illnesses are expected. According to doctors, it takes between 15 and 50 days for the first symptoms to appear after infection.
Classic symptoms of hepatitis A
The classic symptoms of hepatitis A are jaundice (jaundice), fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, dark urine, and light-colored stool. The virus can be transmitted to other people through direct contact with hepatitis A sufferers. It can also get into the human body through the ingestion of contaminated food or beverages. In most cases, the disease is mild and usually heals completely. "It is only in very rare cases that the course is severe," says the minister. Older people in particular are affected.
Many do not notice the disease
Around half a million people in Germany suffer from hepatitis caused by viruses. Only a third of those affected suffer from typical jaundice with progressive liver inflammation. A third noticed flu-like symptoms and another third had no symptoms at all. The latter was initially pleasant for the patients, but at the same time particularly tricky. The late consequences of chronic viral hepatitis include liver cancer and cirrhosis. People can also get infected during sex or through contaminated foods such as mussels. (sb)
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African American Leaders Speak Out on SCOTUS Roe Reversal
by Patrick Washington August 9, 2022 January 11, 2023
Congresswoman Maxine Waters
By Staff and Wire Report | Los Angeles Sentinel
African American leaders across the nation largely condemned the U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued on June 24, overturning the federal abortion protections of Roe v. Wade, with some describing the action as a "pro-policing of women's bodies" and a move to "criminalize Black women."
The 5-4 vote overturns a 49-year-old landmark decision and puts abortion policy at the discretion of states, many of which have restricted or outlawed the procedure in recent months.
Issuing a strong reaction to the SCOTUS ruling, Congresswoman Maxine Waters declared, "I stand in solidarity with the 36 million women being stripped of their right to decide what is best for themselves. We WILL keep fighting!"
Waters pledged to defy and protest the Supreme Court following its decision Friday overturning Roe v. Wade. "You ain't seen nothing yet," she said from the steps of the court.
"Women are going to control their bodies no matter how they try and stop us. The hell with the Supreme Court. We will defy them. Women will be in control of their bodies. And if they think black women are intimidated or afraid, they got another thought coming."
"Black women will be out in droves," she continued. "We will be out by the thousands; we will be out by the millions. We are going to make sure we fight by the right to control our own bodies.
"As a Member of Congress, I'm proud to have voted to protect abortion access. Today's SCOTUS decision makes it even more clear: we need federal protections for reproductive health. I am committed to continuing this FIGHT: in Congress, in the streets, and at the Ballot Box!
The following are some of the other reactions shared with the Sentinel:
Congresswoman Joyce Beatty
Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Joyce Beatty: "The hands of time have once again been turned back. The extreme right-wing Supreme Court majority's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the law of the land for 49 years that gave a woman the right to choose, will have far-reaching and painful consequences. Moreover, in the midst of a Black maternal mortality crisis, restricting access to abortion care will disproportionately endanger the lives of Black Americans.
"Let me be very clear: government-mandated pregnancy is not pro-life, it is pro-policing of women's bodies. In response to this unacceptable decision, I, along with members of the Congressional Black Caucus, are co-leading a letter to President Biden urging him to swiftly declare this unprecedented attack on abortion rights and access as the public health the national emergency that it is. We have seen what life was like pre-Roe v. Wade, and America cannot afford to go back."
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland): "The conservative majority Supreme Court just handed down a decision that overturns the precedent set by Roe v. Wade — ending nearly 50 years of constitutional protections to the right to an abortion.
"The reproductive rights for millions of Americans are now at risk as Republican state legislators and governors prepare to ban abortion at the state level — with some bans going into effect immediately.
Today's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision will go down in infamy as we turn back the clock to an era before Roe. It's an era I know too well as someone who was forced to cross international lines to seek a back-alley abortion before they were legal in the United States.
As difficult as today might be, we cannot despair. There are too many people counting on us for answers.
"As co-chair of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, I can promise that I will continue to do everything in my power to advance legislation that codifies access to safe, legal abortion no matter where you live.
But until then, we must do our best to support those who will be impacted most by today's decision — people seeking abortion care. Today does not mark the end of our fight for reproductive rights."
Areva Martin
Areva Martin, Attorney, CNN legal analyst, autism advocate: "The aftershocks of today's SCOTUS opinion overturning Roe vs. Wade are already rippling across the country, as many states have trigger laws withdrawing the established right to abortion. This devastating decision is happening despite that documented fact that a majority of this country — Democrats and Republicans alike — support the abortion and understand it as a fundamental right.
"Black and brown women in this country have always struggled with obstacles to equality and with the bitter reality that, as citizens, we are "lesser than." And, as always, Black and brown women and those struggling to get by fincnaically will be hit hardest by the ruling.
"As a lawyer deeply engaged with civil rights issue, I am appalled at a ruling that claims, at its core, the justification that the right to abortion is not specifically enumerated in the constitution. The Constitution is silent on countless other rights we rely on every day in this country; it's telling that a woman's right to abortion is the one the Court has chosen to decimate today.
"The concurring opinion of Justice Thomas should be a wake-up call to everyone. Thomas calls out the rights to same-sex marriage and contraceptives as examples of others that are not enumerated in the constitution. He is laying out the game plan of the right. We should consider ourselves forewarned.
Melanie Campbell
Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and convener of the Black Women's Roundtable: "Today's U. S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is the culmination of a decades-long attack and campaign against women's rights led by conservative extremists. Since Texas' near-total abortion ban (SB8) in 2021, conservative state legislatures and governors have doubled down in their quest to deny women their fundamental right to safe and legal abortions.
"In 2022 alone, almost 550 abortion restrictions have been introduced across more than 40 states. Make no mistake, this is not just an attack on women's autonomy: this is class warfare, sexism and systemic racism at work. Who pays the price when abortions are outlawed? Poor women, women of color, women & girls who have been raped or molested and the millions of women who already have limited access to high quality healthcare.
"It is no accident that the states pushing cruel and oppressive anti-abortion legislation are the same states approving laws that brazenly disenfranchise and suppress the vote of the working poor and communities of color. This Supreme Court decision will only enable these states to further destabilize the pillars of our democracy while impeding our basic civil rights.
"Nearly 40% of all abortions in America since Roe vs. Wade have been by Black Americans. This country has declared war on Black women — and it's time that we fight back. We are demanding, once again, that the Senate abolish the filibuster and Congress immediately codify access to abortion into law. The 2022 Mid-Term Election Cycle is here and women will not forget who stood up to support women having control of our own bodies."
Ashley Shelton
Ashley K. Shelton, founder and president of the Power Coalition for Equity & Justice: "This moment is devastating. In a place like Louisiana, where you have the highest rate of maternal mortality in the country, you are literally sentencing Black women to death. Louisiana has a trigger law, and as soon as Roe came down, it automatically made abortion care illegal. This tramples people's rights, even beyond abortion. This is about privacy, it's about healthcare, it's about the criminalization of Black and poor women, and it's about what happens when a person's choices are taken away.
"What do you do when you cannot afford to fly or drive to a separate place for healthcare services? This will also criminalize Black women, attorneys and medical providers. This is a huge issue. I am a Black female Catholic mother and I believe these are individual choices. Everyone should be able to decide what is best for them."
Kendra Cotton, chief operating officer for the New Georgia Project: "Consider the states where this decision will have the greatest harm – it is Southern states. In these places, large majorities of Black and Brown women will be impacted.
Kendra Cotton
"This decision effectively attacks poor, Black, and Brown women. For many wealthy women, this will be another day. But in trigger states, this will do a lot of harm. In Georgia, our state minimum wage is still $5.15 an hour. This is an activist court that has tried to put upon the entire country, their conservative values and that is not what America is about."
Sue Dunlap, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles: "Make no mistake: Planned Parenthood Los Angeles health centers remain open, abortion is still legal in Los Angeles and California, and we will continue to fight to ensure everyone has access to care in Los Angeles, no matter what."
"The consequences of this devastating decision will fall largely on people who already face the greatest barriers to health care due to this country's legacy of racism and discrimination, including Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities, people with low incomes, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and people living in rural areas.
"In preparation for this ruling, PPLA has been working with the State of California, Los Angeles County and the cities of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and West Hollywood to prepare for this decision and the impacts it will have on Planned Parenthood health centers across California. In January, Governor Gavin Newsom declared California a Haven State for abortion access and following that announcement the County Board of Supervisors declared Los Angeles County a Haven County for access to abortion and reproductive health care. This momentum continued as cities such as Long Beach, Los Angeles, and West Hollywood signaled their strong support for access to safe and legal abortion and began preparing for the increase of patients who may seek care here due to hostile bans in their home state.
"The court's decision goes against the will of American people, 80% of whom support legal abortion. Even with today's decision, abortion is still legal in many parts of the country. People who need care should go to https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-los-angeles or call 1-800-576-5544.
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Recent Developments in Virtual-Reality and Augmented-Reality Technologies
Along with the advances in virtual-reality (VR) and augmented-reality (AR) technologies, many challenges remain. This is therefore an exciting time for the display industry and its engineers. In this article, we present a summary of select new developments reported at Display Week.
by Achintya K. Bhowmik
Virtual- and augmented-reality technologies, along with the increasingly numerous variants referred to as mixed- and merged-reality platforms, represent the next frontier of visual and interactive applications. These devices free us from the confines of conventional screens for immersive viewing experiences, and promise to seamlessly blend digital objects with the physical world. While these concepts have been pioneered over many decades, rapid developments in displays, sensors, and computing technologies in recent years are now pushing this dream toward reality. The applications are endless, including gaming, media, education, virtual tourism, e-commerce, etc.
This article provides a synopsis of some of the key new developments in the field as presented at Display Week 2017.
All the 'Realities'
"What is real?" asks the character Morpheus in the acclaimed 1999 science fiction movie, The Matrix. Then he rhetorically asks, "How do you define 'real'?" He goes on to answer his own question: "If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain."
Well … this is a profound definition of reality – one that engineers can readily accept! If we can understand the electrical signals that zip around the neurons in the cerebral cortex of our brain as we sense and perceive the world, then we may be able to artificially stimulate the neurons in someone's brain with similar signals. This would create the illusion of seeing something, or being somewhere, that is completely different from "actual" reality and yet indistinguishable from the physical world. That, precisely, is the goal that virtual-reality engineers around the world are striving to achieve.
There exists some confusion over the terms "virtual" reality and "augmented" reality, not to mention "mixed" reality, "merged" reality, and "extended" reality. The short course on virtual and augmented reality at Display Week 2017 presented by this author made an attempt at defining these terms.1 Virtual reality (VR) places the user in a virtual environment, generating sensory stimuli (visual, vestibular, auditory, haptic, etc.) that provide the sensation of presence and immersion. Augmented and mixed reality (AR and MR) place virtual objects in the real world while providing sensory cues to the user that are consistent between the physical and digital elements. Merged reality blends real-world elements within the virtual environment with consistent perceptual cues, scene understanding, and natural human interactions.
Augmented- and Mixed-Reality Devices
While the research and development of virtual- and augmented-reality technologies have a rich history going back several decades, recent advances in some of the key areas are now starting to make it possible to design and commercialize practical products with compelling new applications. These include significant progress in displays and optics, miniaturized and high-accuracy sensors with low latencies, high-performance and low-power graphics and computer vision processing, ergonomic system designs, understanding of the important human factors and their related issues and mitigations, and more.
The technical symposium at Display Week included several papers and demonstrations that narrated the state-of-the-art results in these key technologies and how they're being implemented in devices. The product development efforts in the industry that were presented at the event included Microsoft HoloLens, the Meta 2 Augmented Reality headset, Intel Project Alloy, Google Tango, and various other projects. A key enabling technology incorporated in all these devices is a new technique called simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), which is based on sensor-fusion approaches including computer vision and inertial measurement units,2 along with high-fidelity and immersive graphics and display technologies. The devices also included depth sensors for 3D spatial learning and gesture interactions for natural human interfaces. The system-design variants included all-in-one untethered mobile devices as well as head-worn displays connected to a computer.
B. C. Kress et al. detailed the display architectures for the Microsoft HoloLens mixed-reality headset,3 presenting a review of the key display requirements for the untethered system and the optical hardware module selections that were made for the device. The paper described the optical subsystem architecture consisting of the display engine, imaging optics, waveguide modules including diffractive optical elements, and the overall optical module assembly. Figure 1 shows the pupil-forming optics and the display module assemblies for the HoloLens device. The authors also described the user experience considerations that drove the technology selections, with a focus on viewing comfort and immersion.
Fig. 1: On the left, the Microsoft HoloLens display architecture3 incorporates a display module assembly consisting of a liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) microdisplay and pupil-forming optics. The right image shows the dual-display module assemblies with the shared optics for both eyes.
The second-generation immersive optical see-through AR system from Meta was presented by K. Pulli.4 Consisting of an optical engine based on a freeform visor display with a relatively large (90°) field of view and integrated sensor modules for 3D tracking and gesture interactions, the device is designed to connect with a computer that runs the applications, as depicted in Fig. 2.
Fig. 2: Meta has developed an optical see-through interactive AR display system.4
Among other presentations describing approaches to creating augmented imagery via head-worn display devices were the Lumus optical technology presented by A. Frommer,5 Avegant direct-view optics for near-eye displays presented by A. Gross et al.,6 and a complex amplitude-modulation technique presented by Q. K. Gao et al. from the Beijing Institute of Technology.7
D. Diakopoulos et al. presented the system architecture of the Intel Project Alloy platform,8 an all-in-one merged-reality device incorporating inside-out visual-inertial tracking, depth sensing and 3D spatial-capture technologies, integrated application and graphics processors, and hardware for accelerating computer-vision algorithms. The paper also detailed prototype applications based on scanning the 3D environment and blending real-world elements into the virtually rendered world, as demonstrated in Fig. 3.
Fig. 3: Intel's Project Alloy all-in-one device merges real-world elements into the virtual world. The top image shows the real-world scene; the middle shows the 3D scanned version of the scene; and the bottom shows the merged-reality environment where the real-world elements have been transformed and blended into the virtually rendered world.8
The technical details and applications for the Google Tango project were presented by J. Lee. This project integrates motion tracking, depth sensing, and area-learning capabilities into a smartphone platform to provide augmented-reality experiences.9 Figure 4 shows demonstrations for two of the applications, including real-time measurements and annotation, as well as augmentation of the real-world scenes with virtually created characters.
Fig. 4: These demonstrations of AR experiences on a smartphone platform are delivered by the Google Tango project. The left image shows real-time measurements and annotation with dimensions, while the right one shows virtual objects blended into a real-world scene.9
Improving Visual Acuity for VR
"How many pixels are really needed for immersive visual experiences with a virtual-reality head-mounted display?" was one of the most common questions raised during and after the short course this author taught at Display Week. So here we reflect on this a bit, and point to some recent developments and trends in the display industry as gleaned from the presentations and demonstrations at this year's event.
First, let's consider some basic, back-of-the-envelope math and calculations. Here are some facts related to the human visual system: An ideal human eye has an angular resolution of about 1/60th of a degree at the central vision. Each eye has a horizontal field of view (FOV) of ~160° and a vertical FOV of ~175°. The two eyes work together for stereoscopic depth perception over ~120° wide and ~135° high FOV.1 Since current manufacturing processes for both liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays produce a uniform pixel density across the entire surface of the spatial light modulators, the numbers above yield a whopping ~100 megapixels for each eye and ~60 megapixels for stereo vision.
While this would provide perfect 20/20 visual acuity, packing such a high number of pixels into the small screens of a VR head-mounted display (HMD) is obviously not feasible with current technologies. To put this into context, the two displays in the HTC Vive HMD consist of a total of 2.6 megapixels, resulting in quite visible pixilation artifacts. Most people in the short course raised hands in affirmative answer to a question about whether pixel densities in current VR HMDs are unacceptable.
Even if it were possible to make VR displays with 60 to 100 million pixels, there are other system-level constraints that make this impractical. One involves the graphics and computation resources necessary to create enough polygons to render the visual richness to match such high pixel density on the screens. Next, the current bandwidth capabilities cannot support transporting such enormous amounts of data between the computation engines, memory devices, and display screens, and at the same time meet the stringent latency requirements for VR.
So … is this a dead end? The answer is a resounding "no!" Challenges such as these are what innovators and engineers live for! Let's look at biology for some clues. How does the human visual system address this dilemma? It turns out that high human visual acuity is limited to a very small visual field – about +/- 1° around the optical axis of the eye, centered on the fovea. So, if we could track the user's eye gaze in real time, we could render a high number of polygons in a small area around the viewing direction and drop it exponentially as we move away from it. Graphics engineers have a term for such technologies already in exploration – "foveated" or "foveal" rendering. (See the article on foveated rendering in this issue.) This would drastically reduce the graphics workload and associated power consumption problems.
Due to the severe limitation in pixel densities in the displays that can be made with current manufacturing technologies, there is a significant ongoing effort to reduce the "screen-door" effects resulting from the visible pixelation artifacts. As an example, B. Sitter et al. from 3M presented a technique to incorporate a diffractive film to reduce the screen-door effect and improve the visual quality of a virtual-reality display.10 As shown in Fig. 5, the diffractive film is made with 3M's precision micro-replication process. The authors also presented a method to measure the effect that they used to demonstrate the efficacy of their technique. In another paper, J. Cho et al. from Samsung presented the results from their work on reducing pixelation artifacts by inserting an optical film that acts as a low-pass filter.11 The technique is illustrated in Fig. 6.
Fig. 5: Researchers from 3M demonstrated a technique to reduce the screen-door effect in virtual- and augmented-reality displays by incorporating diffractive films.10
Fig. 6: A paper from Samsung described the insertion of an optical film in the displays of a VR device that acts as a low-pass filter (left), with demonstrated reduction in the pixilation artifacts (right).11
Toward Matching Convergence and Accommodation
The optics and mechanics of human eyes allow us to "accommodate," i.e., adjust the shapes of our lenses dynamically to focus on the objects in the physical space that we "converge" our two eyes on in order to dedicate our visual attention to them. As we look at an object that is located at a close distance, we rotate our eyes inward such that the optical axes of both eyes converge on it. At the same time, the lenses of the eyes are made thicker by adjusting the tension in the muscles that hold the lenses in order to bring the light from the object to focus on the retina to form a sharp image. On the other hand, as we shift our visual attention to an object that is located farther away, we rotate our eyes outward so that the optical axes now converge at that distance. In parallel, the lenses are made thinner to adjust the focal lengths accordingly.
For natural viewing conditions in the real world, these convergence and accommodation mechanisms are in sync. In other words, there is a consistent correspondence between where our eyes converge to and the lenses adjust to focus on. However, in currently available VR and AR devices, such a correspondence is not afforded, thereby causing visual fatigue and discomfort. The displays in a conventional headset are located at a fixed distance, whereas the virtual objects are rendered at different distances to create a stereoscopic 3D visual environment. This creates a mismatch between the convergence and accommodation mechanisms, as illustrated in the top image of Fig. 7.12
There is significant ongoing research to address this human factors issue. For example, N. Padmanaban et al. from Stanford University reported their work on combining eye-gaze-tracking technology with adaptive-focus displays to minimize the mismatch between the convergence and accommodation points, as depicted in the bottom image of Fig. 7. The authors demonstrated prototypes with both focus-tunable lenses and mechanically actuated displays to dynamically adjust the accommodation points and provide natural focus cues. Demonstrations of technologies designed to solve this problem also included a tunable liquid-crystal lens by A. Jamali et al.,13 and a switchable lens based on cycloidal diffractive waveplate by Y. H. Lee et al.14
Fig. 7: An accommodation-convergence mismatch occurs in conventional VR and AR displays where the convergence points at the stereoscopic distances do not match the virtual image distances (top figure). Dynamic focus displays provide focus cues that are consistent with the convergence cues (bottom figure).12
VR/AR Challenges/Opportunities
Clearly, we are still in the early days of VR and AR technologies, with many challenges remaining to be solved, including presenting adequate visual acuity and truly immersive experiences on the displays. So, this is an exciting time for the display industry and its engineers, reminiscent of the days at the onset of display technology advances toward HDTVs and smartphones. The special track on VR and AR technologies at Display Week 2017 consisted of papers and demonstrations of new developments in this burgeoning field, including both commercially available products and results from ongoing research toward understanding and resolving key technical issues on the way to achieving compelling user experiences. There is much to look forward to at the next Display Week!
1A. K. Bhowmik, "Virtual & Augmented Reality: Towards Life-Like Immersive and Interactive Experiences," Short Course S-2, Display Week 2017.
2A. K. Bhowmik, "Sensification of Computing: Adding Natural Sensing and Perception Capabilities to Machines," APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, 6, 1, 2017.
3B. C. Kress and W. J. Cummings, "Towards the Ultimate Mixed Reality Experience: HoloLens Display Architecture Choices," Paper 11.1, Display Week 2017.
4K. Pulli, "Meta 2: Immersive Optical-See-Through Augmented Reality," Paper 11.2, Display Week 2017.
5A. Frommer, "Lumus Optical Technology for AR," Paper 11.3, Display Week 2017.
6A. Gross, E. Tang, N. Welch, and S. Dewald, "Direct View Optics for Near-Eye Displays," Paper 11.4, Display Week 2017.
7Q. K. Gao, J. Liu, J. Han, X. Li, T. Zhao, and H. Ma, "True 3D Realization in the See-Through Head-Mounted Display with Complex Amplitude Modulation," Paper 51.1, Display Week 2017.
8D. Diakopoulos and A. K. Bhowmik, "Project Alloy: An All-in-One Virtual and Merged Reality Platform," Paper 4.2, Display Week 2017.
9J. Lee, "Mobile AR in Your Pocket with Google Tango," Paper 4.1, Display Week 2017.
10B. Sitter, J. Yang, J. Thielen, N. Naismith, and J. Lonergan, "Screen Door Effect Reduction with Diffractive Film for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Displays," Paper 78.3, Display Week 2017.
11J. Cho, Y. Kim, S. Jung, H. Shin, and T. Kim, "Screen Door Effect Mitigation and Its Quantitative Evaluation in VR Display," Paper 78.4, Display Week 2017.
12N. Padmanaban, R. Konrad, T. Stramer, E. Cooper, and G. Wetzstein, "Optimizing Virtual Reality User Experience through Adaptive Focus Displays and Gaze Tracking Technology," Paper 4.3, Display Week 2017.
13A. Jamali, D. Bryant, Y. Zhang, A. Grunnet-Jepsen, A. Bhowmik, and P. Bos, "Design Investigation of Tunable Liquid Crystal Lens for Virtual Reality Displays," Paper 72.3, Display Week 2017.
14Y. H. Lee, G. Tan, Y. Weng, and S. T. Wu, "Switchable Lens based on Cycloidal Diffractive Waveplate for AR and VR Applications," Paper 72.4, Display Week 2017. •
Dr. Achintya Bhowmik is the chief technology officer and executive vice president of engineering at Starkey, the largest hearing technology company in the US. In this role, he is responsible for leading the company's research and engineering efforts. Prior to joining Starkey, Bhowmik was vice president and general manager of the Perceptual Computing Group at Intel Corp. He can be reached at achintya.k.bhowmik@gmail.com.


Whether through divine inspiration or deep insight about fellowmen, Jesus Christ promised mankind during the Sermon on the Mount that the meek would inherit the earth. Social injustice was patent at that time, and it continues to be today. Hope for social justice could only be conceived then as a reward earned for temporal suffering… to be cashed-in after death.
But for some, global capitalism is a now-hope, a now-cure to economic injustice.
In bottom line terminology, global capitalism will not prove to be a panacea to help us all, nor will it be a way for redistributing wealth from developed nations to the third world. The system will not benefit the people in Monrovia, London, Jakarta, Lima (Peru) or Lima (Ohio). Global capitalism will not hold prejudice, or bring benefit, on account of race, culture or geography. The benefits are likely to be restricted to the capital-holding class.
Perhaps clarity is needed in defining global capitalism. To many it might solely imply the advocacy throughout much of the world of a for-profit (capitalist) system. But it's much more than that; a for-profit system, yes, but one that relies on the more or less unrestricted transnational movement of capital. This system goes far beyond the free trade in goods and services, allowing capital holders to have inordinate power, and the key role, in determining the fortunes, or misfortunes, of individuals, communities and nations… plus a fortuitous lack of governmental control.
Global capitalism's virtuosity comes to us refracted through the prism of politicians and others holding the reins of power. It's presented to us as a magic elixir with the power to multiply the world's productive potential, and become the all-purpose tool, the economic Swiss army knife, capable of carving away and possibly eliminating poverty world-wide.
Although it's reasonable to assume that the sum total of wealth created under global capitalism is likely to be greater, indications abound that the distribution of wealth created will be disproportionately made; and poverty will increase, not decrease, with many existing fixed resources, and infrastructure, being wasted in the process.
Economic justice cannot be truly achieved unless all participants to wealth creation are equitably empowered to determine how wealth is both created and distributed. Under global capitalism, the importance of society (community labor) is minimized; since in the short term, unlike the other components of wealth creation-capital, natural resources and technology- it lacks mobility. The labor in a community cannot be simply wire-transferred elsewhere… nor can a community's fixed resources and infrastructure be neatly crated and shipped away. Capital and technology can move anytime to and fro any location at the speed of a cyber-click. Not so labor.
And as if mobility weren't enough to give them the upper hand, capital holders diminish the value of technology and natural resources by absorbing them. A future in global capitalism that takes us back to the past, the warring between capital and labor, except that capital no longer has the accountability to community or nation it had in the past.
In a society that aspires to fairness and an ever-improving human condition for all, capital, natural resources and technology must remain, to a reasonable degree, subservient to society and not the other way around, as the globalists would have it.
Global capitalism is not proving to be the vaccine that can aid against, much less prevent, economic injustice. On the contrary; it seems to be bringing a pandemic of high expectations and meager results. But just as the system will prove itself a failure in providing economic and social harmony to the world, there is little likelihood that it will encounter an economic collapse in either the capitalist or the Marxist tradition. It might even thrive in a two-class society with a continuing redistribution of wealth… the haves, becoming fewer in number as time goes on, graduating to the have-more class; the have-little, augmenting with time their number, eventually joining the world masses of have-nots.
"Laissez-faire" capitalism spread throughout the world, and carried to a maximum lack of societal control, will soon evolve transforming global capitalism into the rabid mercantilist monopoly of old, where the rich get richer and the poor stay poor, or even become poorer. Predatory capitalism in its purest form.
By undermining social values, superimposing economic considerations and making money as the unit of measurement in determining man's worth, global capitalism has become the scourge of democracy… but that is a topic that merits a treatment all its own.


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Ben Rector set to Rock Cedar City
SUU Student Alumni & Community Relations is partnering with the Student Programming Board to bring Ben Rector, a pop singer from Nashville, to concert during homecoming week 2017.
The singer-songwriter, who has sold more than 44,000 albums and single tracks, will perform on Tuesday Oct. 3 in the America First Event Center at 7:30 p.m.
Rector will perform both song covers and original music. His latest album "Brand New" contains 12 songs based on personal experiences from Rector's life. The top song on the album, also titled "Brand New" reached Top 5 on Hot AC's pop chart.
"There were a few artist we were looking at," Student Programming Board President Sarah Jones said. "We wanted to try hosting a concert that was more specific to students … After learning of his success at (Brigham Young University), we are really excited to have Ben Rector come to SUU."
Ticket prices are $15 for SUU students with a current ID card, $20 for High School students and $25 for general public. Concert tickets are available for purchase online at tbirdtickets.com.
For those interested in listening to his music, Ben Rector is on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and Youtube.
Photo Courtesy of Ben Rector
Ashleigh Mikesell
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War, Honor, and My Cousin Phil
Two months ago I was in Scotland and England traveling with friends Maggie and Ian, both formerly with the British Department of Defense. We saw extraordinarily historic sites, including Maiden Castle in Dorset, where a 6,000-year-old Iron Age settlement was invaded by Roman newcomers. But among the remarkable places we visited, none moved me more powerfully than the American cemetery sixty miles north of London, the only one of its kind in the United Kingdom.
The solemn buildings and stark lines of pure white crosses were softened by a light morning mist as we drove up to the gates of the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial and parked, among the first to arrive at this early hour. At the Visitor's Center interpretive guide Arthur Brookes urged us into an adjoining area where a film had just begun telling the story of the cemetery.
I sat down on a marble bench to listen. The American men and women buried here were mostly World War II airmen, but also members of the US Navy, Army, Marines and Coast Guard, nearly 4,000 in all, and the names of another 5,000 are inscribed on the Wall of the Missing. Unexpected tears ran down my cheeks as I watched aerial footage and cockpit recordings of doomed planes flown by boys who came willingly to fight and die on foreign land, so far from home. They were heartbreakingly young.
"In the UK we often think of the Americans in the War as the ones with cigarettes and chocolate," Arthur Brookes told our small group afterwards. "But their effort made victory possible." His careful, respectful account of that effort, as well as the cemetery's pristine grounds and buildings with maps and plates depicting military movements, made clear that these American war dead and their vital role in a common Allied effort are honored every day.
In 2014 we move through daily life in the U.S., often heedless of the true sacrifices American service men and women have made, and continue to make, around the world. But here in Cambridge, England, that sacrifice will never forgotten. I left with deepest gratitude to Arthur Brookes and all who maintain the cemetery, and hope others will take time to visit. It is located three miles west of Cambridge, England on Highway A-1303 and is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
My cousin Phil lives in Jacksonville, Florida, which you know as much by his drawl as by his address. Like many cousins, we stay loosely in touch, and every couple years there's a marathon phone call to catch up. I'm fond of all my cousins, but two things distinguished Phil: he was an Eagle Scout back when we were kids, and even I, his Massachusetts younger cousin, knew that was a considerable accomplishment. Also, he loves trees, perhaps more than I do, at least he knows them better. Every now and then he sends me a box of fragrant split pine fatwood from his land in southern Florida. Somewhere in the box there is always one piece of paper or kindling with the provenance of the tree within. I keep them, of course, who could simply burn such a record. One says, for example: Long leaf yellow pine Planted? 1920-1930's Killed by lightning Knocked down by tornado in 2004 Cut to dry in 2006 Split by hand 11/18/2007 A few years ago I learned that Phil honored my father, along with trees, Scouting, and his cherished wife Helen and their children. We were having one of our marathon catch-up calls on Veterans Day. I was intrigued to hear him say, "You know, I think of your father on this day every year."
We often talked about Daddy, but I was surprised to hear that this day had a special association with him. "In World War II he was in the thick of it," Phil said. "And he volunteered. He was one of millions of other people who did the same thing, but he was one of us, one of our family. He was in harm's way and he did his best."
My father, Howard V.R. Palmer, had married and joined the U.S. Navy in 1941. My parents shared their first Christmas together at the training center in Hanover, New Hampshire. With separation by wartime combat facing them, the only memory they shared, laughing, was always that their tiny fake musical tree was completely dwarfed by presents.
In 1944, he was a U.S. Navy lieutenant on LST 359, a troop landing ship delivering English soldiers to Normandy and returning for more. If you saw the opening half hour of "Saving Private Ryan" you saw what troop landing ships were doing. His ship was torpedoed, the captain killed. Although my father's back was broken, he kept command of the ship until they got to England. He was soon on his way to a military hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. He also participated in military action at Anzio and Salerno in Italy. It was a miracle I ever met him. When Phil graduated from the Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, my father and I drove down for the ceremony. "My instructors took one look at the medals on his chest, and they knew exactly where he had been in World War II and what he had been doing," said Phil. "They went to him like he was a magnet. I don't think I had understood how important he was, but they did." On Veterans Day, I'll always know that my cousin Phil, who worked as chief engineer on several Navy vessels, is remembering my father and honoring his deeds and actions of more than half a century ago. I thank him for that, as well as for the fatwood. P.S. I was sending Phil a fatwood thank-you bottle of Johnny Walker Scotch until a few years ago when he requested that, instead, I make a donation to the Wounded Warriors organization. And I pass along his recommendation.
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