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SYNONYM

#### According to
The Catalogue of Life, 3rd January 2011

#### Published in
Ann. Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. nat. Hist. 30: 39 (1878)

#### Original name
Agaricus delicatellus Peck, 1878

### Remarks
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There is an exotic pet auction that is held in Pierz, Minnesota in the spring. Day one of the auction is hooved animals. We had heard that you could get lambs at a good price which is why we (hubby and I, boy child and his friend) were driving into Pierz that Friday at 10:30am.
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We had left home with a plan, and suddenly everything felt up in the air. Do we go in? Is the $32 worth it (4 people x 8)? We only needed sheep and I only wanted to spend $60 out of the farm account on them. Was this going to hinder the number of lambs we could buy?
We decided to pull extra cash, then we settled in to wait. We ate doughnuts and had coffee, and waited. A few people left, and twice as many went in, and still they were working through cattle. We played a few phone games, chatted with others, waiting. The boys were hungry again. Quite a few people came out and my hubby went in to find us seats. The boys finished their chili (we had been waiting long enough that they were hungry again). In we went. And sat. The room had cleared out because they had fencing sections to auction off. And when they finally came back in they were still auctioning off stuff – horse tack. Item by item. They boys were restless; we were restless. It was late and we hadn't seen anything we wanted to even consider bidding on. When they finally brought out the minidonkeys and minihorses I was desperate to get something. But they all went for more than $60. It was nearly 3pm. We were debating the value of staying.
Then they brought out the pigs, mostly potbellies and most were going for $10-25. The hubby, perhaps jokingly said you couldn't beat that price for bacon. I couldn't help myself. It was such a small amount. I bid and won a potbelly male. Then we tried on a few feeder pigs for friends who want to raise them, but the price and bidding went so fast we couldn't get them. But then they brought out this large and ugly potbelly boar. He was bigger than the rest. From where we sat I thought he might be around 100 pounds. I went for it. Cheap pork is great. Right?
Finally they brought out this beautiful bottle lamb. Tiny and black. His price went up so fast we didn't stand a chance. The second lamb was much the same, plus I thought there would be more lambs coming out next, but then they switched to goat bottle babies.
Boy child desperately wanted one of the first ones out, but by the time hubby and I had discussed it, we had missed our chance. Boy child was so tired and overwhelmed he started sobbing. We bought the next baby boy without really thinking about it. A cute Nubian Alpine cross (my guess). We then proceeded to bid here and there on the ones we liked the colors of, forgetting about spending limits and why we really were there. It was exciting and overwhelming. Finally one came out that we really wanted. A pretty dark colored Alpine or Toggenburg cross. We won the bid. Last one. So we went to check out, uncertain how many goats we had purchased, and completely missing the sheep.
I was worried that I had overspent the cash we had withdrawn and that we had purchased more than we should have. I went to checkout and they had only 2 pigs and 1 goat for us so far. I thought I had purchased at least 2 more goats and I wasn't sure what prices I had agreed to. I would raise my hand when it was at $5, but by the time the auctioneer had seen me the bid was up to $15 or more.
They were only able to find 1 other complete bid for us. Fortunately. We had purchased 2 pigs and 2 goats and the total only came to $67. Not what we had set out to do, but we felt content. But then I saw him. The boar pig we had purchased was a monster. We had planned to buy lambs. We had the truck and a large dog kennel to transport him. We brought the kennel in, we wrestled the boar until we had him mostly in the kennel, but he didn't fit, he was too big, and he broke the kennel in the process and bruised the helper.
We had to leave him behind and make plans to return the following day. 10 minutes into the drive we pulled over and debated just forfeiting him. I was feeling a little buyers remorse. $12.50 for such a large pig was a great price, but this meant driving back to get him in the trailer, and was the time and energy and gas worth it. The day had lasted much longer than expected and the goat babies were so cute. Did we really need the pigs?
We have a butcher appointment for him in 2 weeks.


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Bug Severity vs. Priority in Testing With Examples
Software Testing is undertaken essentially to detect glitches in a software application or package. Such activities are driven by the larger goal of ensuring a flawless customer experience with the end-product. However, certain issues pertaining to nomenclature remain inconclusive. The severity of a software bug and the priority assigned to such a bug connote a variety of things. The true meaning of these terms, if left unexplored, exerts a certain stress on the outcomes of Quality Assurance services.
Severity: Many Grades
This term is deployed by Software Testing professionals to denote the absolute gravity which defines an undesirable incident during the use of a software product. Every QA Company must acknowledge the severity of such an incident and assess the impact of such a glitch on product performance. In line with this, test professionals may grade severity in terms of 'critical' or 'major' or 'minor' or 'low'. Certain experts aver that the assigned level of severity to a bug implies the high quality of testing practices undertaken by a Software Testing Company.
Severity: How Critical?
The QA Services offered by a Software Testing Company consider the impact of severity in broad brush strokes. They define the term as the extent to which a particular bug/defect/glitch could create an impact on the normal operation of a software application. Some instances of severity appear when an e-commerce app fails to load despite repeated inputs; a digital shopper faced with an odd situation wherein a shopping app accepts an order but cancels it after a certain interval of time.
Severity: Critical
Glitches in software products that seriously hamper the efforts of Software Testing professionals represent critical grade of severity. Such bugs deserve the focused attention of testers who must work to attain immediate resolution. Similarly, critical bugs can result in the repeated crashing of an application, wherein testers are unable to proceed with assigned QA Services. In a similar vein, catastrophic system failures qualify for critical grade of severity. For instance, email systems that crash immediately after a user has entered credentials represent critical bugs that destroy the user experience; the QA Services offered by test professionals must remediate these immediately.
This term implies the act of prioritizing a defect based on the demands of business requirements and the severity of the defect. Priority connotes the importance (or urgency) of remediating a glitch in modern software applications. Typically, testers working in the domain of modern Software Testing services must invoke priority by viewing a malfunctioning product from the perspective of the end user. In common terms, bug priority can be assigned various values such as 'low' or 'medium' or 'high' or 'immediate'. Veteran testers advocate the use of said matrix because prioritizing a bug in the correct manner helps boost the quality of the software development life cycle.
Priority: Conflict with Severity
Legacy Internet browsers typically remain behind the curve in terms of aesthetics and pure functionality. Such a scenario may spotlight the deficit in legacy browsers by rendering sub-standard views of an application. This, per se, indicates a major glitch in the code underlying the legacy browser, thereby indicating a high level of severity. However, Quality Assurance professionals may allocate a low priority to this glitch owing to the fact most Internet users update their browsers, thereby ruling out chances of mass malfunction in the display system. In view of this, the typical QA Company may not consider the glitch worthy of immediate attention at any level.
An experienced team of Software Testing professionals may consider muddled views of a website to be a high priority target for bug remediation. Such an action finds justification since a late-edition browser would be unable to create sharp displays of a website. Hence, the code underlying the website deserves the immediate attention of QA Services professionals who must re-calibrate the visual representation of said website. Experts note that there is the lack of serious performance issues in such a scenario; however, Software Testing professionals must remediate the glitch in the interests of driving a smooth user experience.
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Q: Checkbox value true/false I have a form with checkbox and I want to keep it checked after submitting the form when it goes back to the same view with an error. I heard that the value attribute can help me to make the checkbox be checked so im trying to set it to true/false. Anyway, the input value stays "false" even if I click it. What happens exactly?
I thought the value goes true/false after clicking the checkbox
<input type="checkbox" name="acceptRules" class="inline checkbox" id="checkbox1" value="false">

A: To return true or false depending on whether a checkbox is checked or not, I use this in JQuery
let checkState = $("#checkboxId").is(":checked") ? "true" : "false";

A: If I understand the question, you want to change the value of the checkbox depending if it is checked or not.
Here is one solution:

$('#checkbox-value').text($('#checkbox1').val());

$("#checkbox1").on('change', function() {
  if ($(this).is(':checked')) {
    $(this).attr('value', 'true');
  } else {
    $(this).attr('value', 'false');
  }

  $('#checkbox-value').text($('#checkbox1').val());
});

<input type="checkbox" name="acceptRules" class="inline checkbox" id="checkbox1" value="false">

A: Try this

$("#checkbox1").is(':checked', function(){
  $("#checkbox1").prop('checked', true);
});

<input type="checkbox" name="acceptRules" class="inline checkbox" id="checkbox1" value="false">

A: Use Checked = true
$("#checkbox1").prop('checked', true);

Note: I am not clear whether you want to onclick/onchange event on checkbox. is(":checked", function(){}) is a wrong in the question.

A: Checkboxes can be really weird in JS. You're best off checking for the presence of the checked attribute. (I've had older jQuery versions return true even if checked is set to 'false'.) Once you've determined that something is checked then you can get the value from the value attribute.

A: jQuery.is() function does not have a signature for .is('selector', function).
I guess you want to do something like this:
      if($("#checkbox1").is(':checked')){
          $("#checkbox1").attr('value', 'true');
      }

A: I'm going to post this answer under the following assumptions.

1) You (un)selected the checkbox on the first page and submitted the form.
2) Your building the second form and you setting the value="" true/false depending on if the previous one was checked.
3) You want the checkbox to reflect if it was checked or not before.

If this is the case then you can do something like:
var $checkbox1 = $('#checkbox1');
$checkbox1.prop('checked', $checkbox1.val() === 'true');

A: Or you can solve this with only JavaScript by using onClick:
<input type="checkbox" name="acceptRules" class="inline checkbox" id="checkbox1" value="false" onClick={e => console.log(e.target.checked)}>

A: Good practise to use this:
$('.name-checkbox:checked').length

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WMGAX / Class A SharesWMGBX / Class B SharesWMGCX / Class C SharesIMCEX / Class E SharesIYMIX / Class I SharesIGRFX / Class N SharesWMGRX / Class R SharesWMGYX / Class Y Shares Track Fund
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Kimberly A. Scott, CFA
Kim Scott is co-portfolio manager of the mid cap growth product suite of mutual funds and institutional accounts. She has been portfolio manager of Ivy Mid Cap Growth Fund since 2001 and of Ivy VIP Mid Cap Growth since 2005. She has been co-portfolio manager of Ivy Mid Cap Income Opportunities Fund since 2014. She assumed co-portfolio manager responsibilities for the mid cap growth product suite in 2016. Ms. Scott joined the organization in 1999 as an equity investment analyst. She was appointed assistant vice president in 2000. She was appointed vice president in 2001 and senior vice president in 2004. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Scott served in various levels of research positions throughout her career affiliated with the following companies: Bartlett & Company, NBD Bank, Johnson Investment Counsel, Inc. and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Her primary responsibilities included fundamental analysis of companies and equities for mutual funds, separate accounts, and personal trusts. Through this experience, Ms. Scott provided sector coverage for consumer non-durables, technology, retail, food and beverage, and tobacco. Ms. Scott graduated from the University of Kansas in 1982 with a BS in Microbiology. She earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Cincinnati in 1987. Ms. Scott is a CFA charterholder. She is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Kansas City.
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Nathan Brown is co-portfolio manager of the mid cap growth product suite of mutual funds and institutional accounts. He has been co-portfolio manager of Ivy Mid Cap Income Opportunities Fund since 2014. He had been assistant portfolio manager of Ivy Mid Cap Growth Fund and Ivy VIP Mid Cap Growth since 2011. He was named co-portfolio manager of the mid cap growth product suite in 2016. Mr. Brown joined the organization in 2003 as an equity investment analyst. He was appointed assistant vice president in 2010 and vice president in 2014. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Brown interned with Morgan Keegan. From 1999 to 2001 he completed five rotations at General Electric-Aircraft Engine's financial management program. In 1999 he was a securities analyst for Krause Fund, where his responsibilities were concentrated in the utilities sector. Mr. Brown graduated with honors from the University of Iowa, Henry B. Tippie School of Business in 1999 with a BBA in Finance. He earned an MBA with an emphasis in Finance and Accounting from Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management in 2003. Mr. Brown is a CFA charterholder. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Kansas City.
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Daily NAV Change ($0.19) -0.50%
Weekly NAV Change ($0.15) -0.39%
Ticker Symbol WMGAX
Fund Type Domestic Equity
Dividends Paid December
(as of 12/31/2020) $7.3 bil
Morningstar Category Mid-Cap Growth
Benchmark Russell Mid Cap Growth TR USD
Performance at NAV does not include the effect of sales charges, if it had, performance shown would be lower. Class A shares, including sales charges, reflects the maximum applicable front-end sales load.
Fund at NAV 48.43% 48.43% 26.94% 22.47% 15.07% 10.11%
Fund with 3.50% sales charge 39.88% 39.88% 24.46% 21.02% 14.39% 9.79%
Russell Mid Cap Growth TR USD 35.59% 35.59% 20.50% 18.66% 15.04% -
Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth 39.26% 39.26% 19.77% 17.80% 13.83% -
Select Year Range 2016-20202011-20152006-20102001-2005
Class A 6.03 27.00 -0.10 37.96 48.43 -0.61 13.11 29.68 7.86 -6.08 8.38 12.85 -38.09 48.19 29.70 -12.71 -25.84 30.42 18.89 11.96
Russell Mid Cap Growth TR USD 7.33 25.27 -4.75 35.47 35.59 -1.65 15.81 35.74 11.90 -0.20 10.66 11.43 -44.32 46.29 26.38 - - 42.71 15.48 12.10
Category: Mid-Cap Growth
Overall out of 564 ★★★★
3 Year out of 564 ★★★★
10 Year out of 383 ★★★★
3 Year 75 /564 14
Fund 19.36
Russell Mid Cap Growth TR USD 17.90
Alpha 2.29
Upside: 110.44%
Downside: 100.26%
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Top 10 Equity Holdings as a % of net assets as of 12/31/2020
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Medium ($2 - $10 bil) 15.2%
Small ( < $2 bil) 0.9%
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Health Care Equipment 10.9%
Application Software 8.7%
Semiconductors 7.7%
Research & Consulting Services 5.7%
Building Products 4.5%
Regional Banks 3.7%
Industrial Machinery 3.7%
Life Sciences Tools & Services 3.7%
Restaurants 3.5%
Semiconductor Equipment 3.5%
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Health Care 22.49%
Industrials 16.14%
Consumer Discretionary 12.82%
Financials 6.73%
Communication Services 4.33%
Materials 3.20%
Consumer Staples 1.21%
Domestic Common Stock 91.59%
Foreign Common Stock 4.27%
Other Financial Instruments 0.19%
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United States 95.5%
Canada 2.1%
Denmark 1.2%
Ireland 1.2%
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Der erste Plymouth Duster war eine Halbfließheckvariante des Modells Valiant, den Chrysler unter dem Markennamen Plymouth von 1970 bis 1976 herstellte.

Der Duster trat gegen Fords kleineres Fließheckmodell Maverick an, der 1970 eingeführt wurde. Der Maverick ersetzte den Ford Falcon, der mit dem Plymouth Valiant konkurriert hatte. Den Maverick gab es als Viertürer, den Duster nicht. Der Duster entstand aus dem Wunsch der Plymouth-Designabteilung, das 1970 angesammelte Geld für die Überarbeitung des Valiant für etwas Prickelnderes als nur wieder einen neuen zwei- oder viertürigen Valiant zu benutzen. Unter kritischer Beobachtung der Geschäftsleitung schufen die Ingenieure und Designer von Plymouth ein eng an den Valiant angelehntes Stufenheckcoupé, das auf dem alten Chassis das gewünschte moderne Aussehen bot. Der Duster sollte auch die Lücke schließen, die der auf dem Valiant beruhende erste Barracuda hinterließ. Als das Pony Car Barracuda 1970 von der A- zur neuen E-Plattform wechselte, hinterließ er in der Modellpalette eine Lücke, die mit einem kompakten Sportwagen gefüllt werden musste. Der Duster füllte diese Lücke und trug damit auch zum Misserfolg des neuen Barracudas auf der E-Plattform bei.

Vom Duster gab es zahlreiche Varianten, die mal eher die Wirtschaftlichkeit betonten, dann wieder die Ladefähigkeit oder die Fahrleistungen. Dies führte zu Modellnamen wie Feather Duster, Gold Duster, Space Duster oder Duster Twister.

1970: Vorstellung

1970 enthüllte Plymouth das neue Modell, dem das 1969er Konzeptfahrzeug Duster I zugrunde lag. Vor der Spritzwand glich der Duster dem Valiant aufs Haar, aber der Rest des Wagens unterschied sich stark von der Limousine. Er hatte ein Halbfließheckdach und ein spezielles Heckabschlussblech mit doppelten horizontalen Rücklichtern. Nur im Modelljahr 1970 hatten die Wagen an den vorderen Kotflügeln über der Beschriftung "Duster" einen kleinen "Valiant"-Schriftzug.

Den 1970er Duster gab es in zwei Ausführungen: den Duster Standard und den leistungsstärkeren Duster 340. Als Antrieb waren neben dem 3,2-Liter-Chrysler slant6 Reihensechszylinder und einer 3,7-Liter-Version des gleichen Motors zwei Chrysler LA–V8–Motoren mit 5,2 Liter und 5,6 Liter Hubraum erhältlich.

Ab der Mitte des Modelljahres gab es das Ausstattungspaket Gold Duster für das Standardmodell. Den Gold Duster gab es nur mit dem 3,7-Liter- oder dem 5,2-Liter-Motor. Außerdem hatte der Wagen "Gold Duster"-Schriftzüge, goldfarbene Seitenstreifen und andere Luxusausstattung. Insgesamt wurden in diesem Modelljahr 217.192 Duster verkauft, davon 24.817 Exemplare mit der großen 5,6-Liter-Maschine.

1971

Der Duster war für Plymouth ein so großer Erfolg, dass Dodge 1971 eine eigene Version des Wagens unter dem Namen Demon produzierte. Im Gegenzug wurde von Plymouth, als Version des zweitürigen Hardtop-Coupé Dodge Dart Swinger, der Plymouth Scamp hergestellt.

1971 gab es am Duster nur kleine Veränderungen. Die "Valiant"-Schriftzüge und das "Plymouth"-Wappen am Kühlergrill verschwanden. Ein neues Ausstattungspaket namens Duster Twister wurde vorgestellt. Der Duster Twister zeigte das aggressive Erscheinungsbild des Duster 340, hatte aber nur versicherungsfreundliche Sechszylindermotoren oder maximal den kleinen V8 mit 5,2 Liter Hubraum. Zum Ausstattungspaket gehörten auch spezielle Seitenstreifen, die die Streifen des Duster 340 nachempfanden, eine mattschwarze Motorhaube und den besonders "gezahnten" Kühlergrill des Duster 340. Dazu gab es auf Wunsch zwei funktionslose Hutzen auf der Motorhaube und einen Heckspoiler, sowie Schalensitze und doppelte Auspuffrohre.

1972
Auch 1972 wurde der Duster nicht wesentlich verändert. Neue, stärker auftragende Seitenleuchten ersetzten die vorherigen in die Karosserie eingelassenen, die Rücklichter wurden leicht verändert und die Motorauslegungen den strengeren Emissionsvorschriften angepasst.

1973
Wie der Valiant bekam auch der 1973 Duster eine neue Motorhaube, einen neuen Kühlergrill und neue Rücklichter. Die vorhergehenden Modelle hatte doppelte Rücklichter auf jeder Seite; die neuen hatten nur noch ein Rücklichtgehäuse für jede Seite. Mitten in der ersten Ölkrise, 1974 war das beste Verkaufsjahr des Duster mit über 277.000 Einheiten.

1974
Plymouth ersetzte die 340er- durch eine 360er-Maschine (5,9 Liter Hubraum), die allerdings wegen der strengeren Abgasvorschriften eine geringere Leistung entwickelte.

1976
Im Jahr war der Feather Duster ein Konstruktionserfolg; er hatte viele Leichtbauteile, wie z. B. die Ansaugbrücke, die Stoßfängerhalter, Zierteile an Motorhaube und Heckdeckel, sowie das Gehäuse des manuellen Getriebes. Er hatte den 225er-Reihensechszylinder (3,7 Liter Hubraum), der auf Wirtschaftlichkeit getrimmt war, ein Auspuffsystem mit besonders geringem Gegendruck, eine lange Hinterachsübersetzung und es gab ihn entweder mit einer dreistufigen TorqueFlite-Automatik oder einem manuellen Vierganggetriebe mit Overdrive (Typ A833OD). Der Wagen hatte (zusammen mit dem baugleichen Dodge Dart Lite) bei weitem den geringsten Benzinverbrauch in seiner Klasse. Es gab auch eine Version namens Space Duster, der umlegbare Rücksitze hatte und einen großen Kofferraum mit 1350 Liter Inhalt. In diesem Jahr war der Duster 360 einer der wenigen Fahrzeuge auf dem Markt mit einem hohen Verhältnis von Motorgröße und Fahrzeuggewicht. 1976 wurde auch das Sondermodell Duster "Spirit of 76" eingeführt, als Gegenstück zum Dodge Dart Hang Ten, mit Features wie rot-weiß-blauen Sitzen.

1976 war das letzte Baujahr des Duster.

Wiederauferstehung des Namens Duster

Zuerst tauchte der Name Duster wieder für ein Ausstattungspaket des 1979er und 1980er Plymouth Volare Coupé auf, später dann am frontgetriebenen Plymouth Turismo der Baujahre 1985 bis 1987 und schließlich am Plymouth Sundance – Coupé und den Fließheckcoupés der Jahre 1992 bis 1994 mit Mitsubishi V6-Motor.

Trivia
 Chrysler nutzte den alten Plymouth Duster in der 2000er-Werbekampagne für den Hemi-Motor.
 Das in der Sitcom Eine schrecklich nette Familie als "Dodge" bezeichnete Familienauto ist tatsächlich ein Plymouth Duster.
 Ein Plymouth Duster (Baujahr 1973 oder 1974) taucht auch im Film Happy Gilmore auf, wo er von Adam Sandler gefahren wird.
 Fred O'Bannion (Ben Affleck) fährt einen 1973er oder 1974er Duster im Film Confusion – Sommer der Ausgeflippten.
 Todd Ianuzzi fährt einen 1973er Duster in Beavis and Butt-Head
 Die Band The Cars verwendet einen Duster 340 für das Cover ihres Albums Heartbeat City.
 Homer Simpson (Die Simpsons) fährt in einer Episode einen Duster, was man anhand der Rücklichter erkennen kann.
 Im Film Edward mit den Scherenhänden wird mehrmals ein gelber 73/74er Duster gefahren.
 In der Serie Two and a Half Men (S3E18) wird erwähnt, dass Alans Freundin Kandi einen 1981er Duster fährt.
 In der Serie Alf fährt Trevor Ochmonek, Nachbar der Familie Tanner, einen Duster.
 In Stephen Kings Roman Christine fährt Arnies Freund Dennis einen 1975er Plymouth Duster. Im Film wird ein 1968er Dodge Charger genutzt.
 Der Protagonist Beauregard "Bug" Montage in S. A. Cosbys Roman Blacktop Wasteland fährt mit seinem Duster illegale Beschleunigungsrennen im ländlichen Virginia.

Weblinks

 Duster-Website des Muscle Car Club (englisch)
 Plymouth Duster (englisch)
 Valiant.org -Duster-Seite (englisch)

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The McQueeney Volunteer Fire Department is looking to build a new fire station at the corner of FM 725 and Lakeview Trail. Dalondo Moultrie – The Seguin Gazette
Members of a local volunteer fire department are ready to start a capital campaign in earnest to build a new fire station after getting the property for their new station approved by the county.
The Guadalupe County Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously agreed on final approval of a subdivision plat where the McQueeney Volunteer Fire Department plans to put its new building, Chief Tim Bogisch said.
"This action allows the fire department to close on the purchase of the land for our new fire station," he said. "Once that is done, hopefully in the next couple of weeks, we can move on to a major fund-raising effort."
The land is a 3.25-acre tract at the intersection of FM 725 and Lakeview Trail in McQueeney. Commissioners preliminarily approved the plat in February and gave it a more official go-ahead Tuesday.
Bogisch has said the department needs a new fire station at a new location for several reasons.
The current station, located on less than an acre of land, lacks adequate space, has no room for expansion and is located in a heavy traffic area at the intersection of FM 725 and FM 78, he said.
Traffic conditions are beginning to make it more difficult for fire department personnel to effectively respond to calls, Bogisch said.
The department is planning to build a new station that is large enough to house all of the department's equipment, he said. Fire trucks will fit comfortably in the new facility as it is currently planned with five drive-through bays for vehicles.
An administration/living quarters side of the station will have a large training/meeting room, administrative offices, a large kitchen and four bedrooms for personnel to stay at the station overnight, the chief said.
Construction of a new building also will provide for future growth, Bogisch said. The improvements will help the department better serve the community, he said.
Dalondo Moultrie is the assistant managing editor of the Seguin Gazette. You can e-mail him at dalondo.moultrie@seguingazette.com .
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Human Needs
Wallace Warfield
Former CRS Mediator, New York and Washington, D.C. Offices; Associate Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Interviewed by Julian Portilla, 2003
This rough transcript provides a text alternative to audio. We apologize for occasional errors and unintelligible sections (which are marked with ???).
Q: What should you consider when dealing with other cultures, when you are intervening in new places where the cultures are different from your own?
A: Kevin Avruch talks about understanding the common sense logic of a culture. You're not going to understand all cultures. It's impossible in our field. There are thousands of different cultures. You're not going to know the nuances of thousands of different cultures. But I would argue, that every culture has a logical common sense about itself. If you can understand that common sense logic in that culture, then that is a different story. I'm not satisfied that the debate is settled between human nature and culture. The Avruch/Burton debate: does culture trump basic human needs? Kevin's argument is that it is okay to know that parties in deep rooted conflicts are motivated by certain basic human needs, whatever that may be: identity, security, and so on. Recognition. If you don't understand the cultural manifestations of that then you're going to be in trouble. Okay, fine, Kevin, but I'm dealing with the southern Sudanese tribe - how am I going to learn this so I can do this? I think I come back to a Burtonian perspective, that, okay, everybody has these human needs. I don't care who you are, if you're a human being you've got them.
Now, not culture, in terms of the manifestations in a particular nuance sense, but what's the common sense the group has about itself? If you can get to that, what motivates people, from the bases, than I think you can operate and function from there. I think you can get that by simply - and I think you can't do it all in an assessment, that's not going to give you the tools - but you can get some of it by simply talking to people, and being with people, understanding and talking about lots of different things.
For instance, I spent some time before getting deeply involved in a situation, if I can get somebody to translate the papers for me, the newspapers, periodicals, the television programs that people watch in those cultures. It gives me a sense of what the common sense logic of that culture is. This is how they reason in that particular culture. What can I take from that? I may not know literally, because I don't know what's going to happen. When people value these kinds of things in these sorts of ways, I'm going to see if I can use that. I'll look for that manifestation or an opportunity to use that knowledge and information in the situation we'll be involved in.
Also, there's a part of that that says that there are more things that we think of models. In fact, I'm writing an article now that's a response to Carrie Menkel-Meadows's article that she wrote for the Missouri Journal of Dispute Resolution, a couple of months ago. Actually that'll be published in the journal that's coming out in the fall. Carrie's argument is that there is no unifying field theory for conflict resolution that you can't take essentially Western models and Western techniques and make them work in international settings and different cultures. While I think there is a certain amount of truth to that, I'm getting tired of hearing about the kind of berating of the so-called western model. What are people really saying when they say "western model?" They're talking about the U.S. They're not talking about Canada, they're not talking about Germany, they are not talking about anything but America, and those Americans who are sort of colonizing the world with their western models of conflict resolution. Well, this is a bit of the baby with the bath water in that.
???, Larissa Fast and myself are working in Rwanda. We're doing, planning the workshops with the leadership groups we're working with there in Rwanda. We're debating whether or not we should do a training piece on interest based negotiation skills. Oh, this can't work because this is a different culture, and ??? is concerned, he's an African, this won't work. We think they need it, we think this is an important tool for them to have, and we agonize for days over this. It really didn't get settled until one o'clock in the morning on the day we were supposed to do the training, we decided to it, and they got it. And we said, "Well, how did this happen?" It's a whole different culture, Hutus and Tutsis. Because their leadership people heading up NGO organizations, they're in a post-modern environment, they're all educated people, they're middle class culture - France - they're local culture. So this is really quite interesting. So there was a revelation there
A: So there was a common sense logicthere that they were involved in running and heading up organizations that had to collaborate with each other on the distribution of scarce resources. They had to also know as leadership people how they might need to negotiate with the government. So negotiations are negotiations. There is a common sense logic there. Now, could we have done this on one of the back villages of Rwanda? No, it wouldn't have worked; But it worked with this particular group.
Q: So the idea of culture isn't such a wide blanket as it may have first seemed when we were talking about it. There are class differences within cultures that may be more Western looking than we assume. That's a really interesting example.


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The last time that cartographers mapped Benin, Elvis Presley had just released Jailhouse Rock, the Soviets had launched Sputnik — and the country was still a colony named French Dahomey.
Things in the West African state have sure changed since 1957, and the old maps were left in the dust as the population nearly quadrupled and cities and towns expanded relentlessly.
Today, though, map-makers are proud to unveil a 21st-century digital chart that they hope will serve Benin for many years, helping to guide development and preserve its environment.
"It's the first complete map of (post-colonial) Benin, from the (Atlantic) ocean in the south to the Niger river in the north," says Roch Bah, director of the National Geographical Institute (IGN) of Benin.
"And we are the first country in French-speaking Africa to have one on the scale of 1:50,000," Bah adds, proudly.
For more than two years, two aircraft crisscrossed the skies to take high-resolution aerial photographs. With these, some 30 Beninese cartographers used digital technology to map every waterway, road and building. But that was just the first step.
Once an area was digitalised, teams on the ground had to trek through thousands of towns and villages to check on names, boundaries and the state of roads.
"We had the old maps," said Cyril Romieu, of Paris-based IGN FI, a geographic information company awarded the tender in 2014 to carry out the mapping.
"But names change when they're not written down. So we asked local elected representatives and the population.
"As for boundaries — between the villages — we drew those on the basis of what people told us," he said.
The project arose from work to safeguard trees around streams in Benin where deforestation can lead to flooding, pollution and greater poverty for local communities, according to the United Nations.
The study was subsequently extended to the whole country at a cost of 8.3mn euros ($9.3mn), financed by the European Union and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
A comparison with French colonial maps of the 1950s shows the extent to which urbanisation has taken hold in Benin, a nation of about 11mn. The capital, Porto Novo, has grown from a settlement along the Oueme river into a widely spread city.
The map-making process also revealed that there are approximately 1,550 health centres, 8,500 schools, 9,025 water sources and 9,400 places of worship dotted across the country. In mid-April, the new National Map was presented to the Beninese authorities, who started to work with it at once.
"The old one was obsolete and unusable," said Minister of the Living Environment and Sustainable Development Jose Tonato.
"We are already basing ourselves on the new one, notably to pick the sites for the implantation of future markets."
The website of IGN-FI, which operates globally, says the new map will provide crucial data for sustainable development.
Any urban planning project — from infrastructure, transport, tourism and power supply to the impact on agriculture — depends on accurate cartography and precise geographic statistics, says IGN FI's technical and quality director Aurelie Milledrogues.
"Once you know your territory well, you can properly think through changes and control them," she said.
The map will likely prove to be a precious tool in the struggles against deforestation and the coastal erosion that threatens Cotonou, the economic capital, port and biggest city in Benin. "We're going to get to know better our national spaces and to better plan our projects," said Aristide Adjademe, director general of Water, Forests and Hunting, for whom the map is "a jewel".
Some of the collated data has been put on the Internet in French and English.
"Will we be able to have access to the full map for free?" asked Sam Agbadonou, president of the Open Street Map Benin association.
Several technology startups have asked the same question, in the hope of building the likes of tourism apps, which would require access to all the data.
For now, the whole National Map is only available on paper.
Geographer Vincent Orekan, a GPS expert and associate professor at Benin's University of Abomey-Calavi who took part in the mapping project, points out a new social need born of the work.
"In Benin, we're not used to reading maps," he said. "We need to raise awareness in the public."
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Varsity Volleyball Serves Up Spirit
Amanda Weirich
Hammond's Varsity Volleyball team is looking to continue making big improvements for the upcoming years. The team consisting of one sophomore, seven juniors, and four seniors has a record of 1-8 so far this season. Although they may not have many wins, they are determined to continue working hard.
Senior captain Trinity Addo says "This season we wanted to work on communication and keeping energy up, and I think we have definitely improved on that, and we continue to work on it." Communication was a big part of their win against Patapsco High School, and is the start to them winning more.
Some of Varsity Volleyball's toughest opponents include Atholton and Oakland Mills. Sophomore Abbie Weirich stated "Our toughest opponent was probably Oakland Mills. It was a tough loss for all of us and was a team we could have beat, but we just didn't terminate." Addo added that "Atholton has been our toughest opponent because they are two time state champions and they have really good skill on their team."
With Hammond's Varsity volleyball being a new team, they have made quick adjustments and have worked hard to try new things. "I knew that this would be a new group of athletes working together, so I really wanted them to gel as quickly as possible, and to try different positions. That's something they've been doing since the very beginning of the season. No matter what I request, or [what] spot I ask them to try to find on the court, they do a really good job of listening" says Coach Corey.
Volleyball has been working hard and has come a long way with many improvements. Senior captain Hannah Gorel says "We have improved most [in] communication, and where everyone will be on the court."
Weirich and Addo also agree that communication has been the biggest improvement, "In the beginning of the season we did not talk very much, and maybe that was because it was a new team, but we have come a long way" Weirich says.
"I am definitely most proud of some solid blocks and some solid kills. Even against teams that haven't been quite the match for us, even if they're ahead in points, we still have been consistent about trying to score. We don't let our heads get too low, and this year we have had less roller coaster rides" explains Coach Corey.
Motivation is key to leading a team, and Hammond's Varsity Volleyball offers that. Senior captain Hannah Gorel says "I lead and motivate the team by trying to put my best effort forward. I try my best to stay positive and talk to teammates about what to change." With communication as a main focus, Varsity volleyball tries to do many team bonding activities. They have done an escape room and many times they like to go out to eat on days off or before the games.
"If we accomplish one of our team goals in a game our coach will give us a chick fil a gift card" Weirich says. This is another small way the volleyball team stays motivated. Now is a crucial time for the team to be motivated for the playoff season, "Playoffs we always go back to basics and capitalize on the positive moments we've had and celebrate those. When we come into playoffs we are going to be focusing on just making solid passes and trying to connect well with the ball. Communication is always huge in volleyball, so we're going to be working on that. For the most part we are going to try to play Hammond volleyball and not give up on anything and give 100 percent" says Coach Corey.
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Tomorrow Dakota will be at Irwindale Drag strip, and as right now he is the points leader, we shall be cheering him on even more to accomplish his goals that he has set out for, the last 2 meets Dakota had at irwindale, he won- so lets hope this will be a ti-fecta for him. Come on 7111, we know you are capable, lets hope track conditions are perfect for him. his Grandpa is Crew chief ( Bob Pine )- and makes sure everything is all set for the lad to hit the loud button when he gets on the track.
Dakota Kai Sun is racing against his pops too- Aaron Pine, and this time, they are both racing on the same model machines, ZRX1400, Aaron's is in Blue and Dakota is in Red, these will be a good match up as pretty much set up the same.
Aaron will be on his ZRX racing for the first time, as this is a brand new machine and will be great to see how the bike dials in at the track, he had a few runs on Thursday and hopefully all will be well.
I want to thank Lucas oil, Mav Tv, Muzzy, Penske Racing Shocks, Shinko Tires for giving these guys the chance to show what they are made of, They Both race for the Bronze star racing group and Both have become Champions with them, so- this must be a great formula.
Dakota Kai Sun is only 19 and I am sure that people all around the drag Racing fraternity will know his name sooner or later and can get to race all around the USA, he is from a racing Family, as i said, his dad races the same model bike and a Gixer too in mid 5's, and now , Dakota's little brother Gavin pine is racing mini dragster series and he won his first event last meet too, rare to have that these days and we all welcome any support for them.
So- if you can make it out to Irwindale on Sunday, come and give Dakota a shout and a wave as he rides his Bronze star Racing group Kawasaki ZRX 1400 up the strip to a win.
I shall be there with his Mum Jennifer ( my Girlfriend) and we shall be posting about how the event goes through out the day on Facebook too.
Send positive thoughts and be great if we see ya there, Go Kota Kai!!!!!
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Steve Frank Ashley (born 9 March 1946) is an English singer-songwriter, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, writer and graphic designer. Ashley is best known as a songwriter and first gained public recognition for his work with his debut solo album, Stroll On (Gull, 1974). Taking his inspiration from English traditional songs, Ashley has developed a songwriting style which is contemporary in content while reflecting traditional influences in his melodies, poetry and vocal delivery.

Biography and career

Early life and career (1946–1971)
Ashley was born in Perivale, London, England and grew up in Northolt, Middlesex (now in the London Borough of Ealing). In his early teens, he immersed himself in rock 'n' roll, blues and American folk music. He saw Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent and Lonnie Donegan perform live during his first years at secondary school. In 1960, he learned to play the mouth organ and developed a blues style influenced by Sonny Terry and Sonny Boy Williamson.

After secondary school, he enrolled at Ealing Art College for the two-year Groundcourse under the tuition of Roy Ascott. Among Ashley's contemporaries at the college were many musicians, including (in the year ahead) Pete Townshend, Ronnie Wood and Roger Ruskin Spear. By 1962, Ashley was singing and playing blues harmonica in various bands. He also became seriously interested in British traditional music, performing unaccompanied songs in West London folk clubs. In 1964, he moved to Maidstone, Kent to study graphic design. There he met Peter Bellamy and joined him as a fellow resident singer in folk clubs in Maidstone and Rochester. Ashley led the art college blues band, The Tea Set, on vocals and blues harmonica.
It was during this period however that his interest became increasingly focussed on English traditional folksong, which he heard and performed in the folk clubs, notably at the "Wig and Gown" club in Maidstone.

In 1967, Ashley qualified with a BA Hons and returned to London to start his first job as a graphic designer at The Observer, working with record producer Austin John Marshall. In 1968, now as a folk songwriter, Ashley formed a duo with guitar player Dave Menday called The Tinderbox. Managed by Marshall, The Tinderbox recorded a single for Polydor and a session for John Peel on his BBC Radio 1 Nightride show. The A side, "Farewell Britannia" was about the planned removal of the image of Britannia from the British penny. Just before the release of the record the image was saved on the 50 pence piece and the single was scrapped. Shortly after, The Tinderbox disbanded.

In 1971, Marshall landed a production and publishing deal for Ashley with Harbrook Music which gave Ashley free access to recording time at London's Olympic Studios, to record his first album. At this time Marshall also played the early demo tapes to the folk critic Karl Dallas, who interviewed Ashley for Melody Maker.

Acting as producer for Harbrook Productions, Marshall hired Robert Kirby to create string arrangements for many of Ashley's songs. He also hired a number of musicians to back Ashley, including members of Fairport Convention and Pentangle, plus a section of the London Symphony Orchestra, directed by Kirby. By the late summer of 1971, the first version of Ashley's debut album was completed and offered to a number of major and independent labels.

Albion Country Band and Ragged Robin (1972–1974)
By the spring of 1972 however, the album was still unplaced with a label, and then Ashley was invited by Ashley Hutchings to join the first touring ensemble of The Albion Country Band. This line-up included ex-Fairport members, Hutchings, Simon Nicol and Dave Mattacks, plus American fiddler Sue Draheim and ex-Young Tradition singer, Royston Wood.  Sharing the lead vocal role with Wood, Ashley performed a few of his own songs plus a number of folk songs, including a 17-verse ballad, "Lord Bateman".  The Albion Country Band was signed to Island Records but the band broke up before recording, after just nine months together.

By 1973, Ashley formed his own short-lived folk-rock outfit Ragged Robin, with Richard Byers, Brian Diprose and John Thompson. They performed in clubs and colleges, and at Cambridge Folk Festival, and also held a residency at Roy Guest's Howff in London's Primrose Hill.

After this band folded, Ashley initiated the formation of a contemporary folk club at The New Merlin's Cave near King's Cross, London.  With help from Anthea Joseph and Heather Wood "Merlins" was host to many of the folk scene's leading players, including Sandy Denny and A L Lloyd. The club's resident performers with Ashley were Richard Thompson, Linda Peters, Simon Nicol, Robin and Barry Dransfield, Lea Nicholson, and Ragged Robin's Byers.

Writing in Melody Maker in 1973, Dallas described Ashley as "one of the finest singer-songwriters in Britain, if not the entire English-speaking world".

In November, Ashley signed a solo recording deal with Gull Records, and with a few track changes, his long-delayed first album was finally released in April 1974 entitled Stroll On.

Solo career – recording, live performance and campaigning (1974–1992)
After a three-year wait to find a deal, Stroll On was met with widespread critical acclaim in the UK. In The Daily Telegraph, Maurice Rosenbaum declared: "Ashley's own songs are the product of an extraordinary gift for creating material of true folk quality" and in Melody Maker, Karl Dallas hailed it as "the finest album since folk became contemporary". By the year's end it was awarded "Contemporary Folk album of the Year" in the leading monthly folk magazine, Folk Review. During this period, Karl Dallas frequently linked Ashley's name with Richard Thompson, as being in the vanguard of a new approach to folk song writing.

In 1975, Gull Records licensed the album to Motown in the United States and Ashley's first American tour was underwritten by that company. In spring 1975 Ashley undertook a six-week solo tour of the US and Canada, opening shows for many artists including Leon Redbone, Tracy Nelson, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and Jonathan Edwards. In a review of his performance in New York's Greenwich Village, Variety magazine said: "Steve Ashley... is a delightful surprise ... The performer not only sings his originals well, but has one of the funniest of dry stage raps. His voice is good. His originals are sensitive, ex-of the Albion Country Band, Ashley can hold an audience."

Back in the UK he recorded the follow-up, Speedy Return, and undertook a series of solo tour supports for a variety of headline bands, including Supertramp, Planxty, Isotope, Gong and Fruup. However, by the end of 1975, Gull's deal with Motown fell through and Ashley was without a record company.  His planned third album, Rare Old Men, was never released and it was not until 1979 that Fairport's Dave Pegg recorded, produced and eventually released what was his third album, Steve Ashley's Family Album, on his own Woodworm label. In 1978, Ashley formed the Steve Ashley Band,  an electric folk band that performed sporadically for 12 years, including appearances at Rotterdam Folk Festival (1978), Glastonbury Festival (1985) and Cambridge Folk Festival (1990).

In 1978, at the Rotterdam Folk Festival, Ashley met the Australian folk-rock band, The Bushwackers, whose leader, Dobe Newton, asked Ashley to write some musical settings of poems by the deceased bush poet, Henry Lawson. As a result, The Bushwackers recorded three of Ashley's settings, and published four in their Australian Song Books.

In 1981, Ashley became active in Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's campaign to ban Trident and remove US Cruise missiles from the UK. He recorded and released two cassette albums of peace songs. Around this time he began a part-time involvement in Oxfam's publicity and campaigning work as a graphic designer and copywriter. During the CND campaign of the 1980s he performed from the main stage at Glastonbury Festival (with Bruce Rowland and Chris Leslie) and also solo to 250,000 peace protesters in Hyde Park, London. He recorded a single with CND's Bruce Kent and the Labour peer, Lord Noel-Baker. Later, he took part in the blockade of the nuclear weapons factory at Burghfield and was eventually arrested for obstruction in the mass sit-in at the USAF base at Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire.  This event was recorded in the song "Sweet Affinity" on his next studio release Mysterious Ways (Line Records, 1990).  In 1992, Ashley retired from the music industry to concentrate on his design and copywriting work for various UK charities.

Solo "comeback" career (1999–present)
After an eight-year break from music, Ashley was encouraged to return by Peter Muir of the new Market Square Records label. First they released an anthology of Ashley's work, The Test of Time (1999) and, shortly after, an upgraded version of his debut album, entitled Stroll on Revisited. This album met with many welcoming reviews and the original album was celebrated in Mojo magazine in one its regular "Buried Treasure" features. Then, in 2001, Ashley signed a two-album deal with Topic Records, and in April they released Everyday Lives, his first studio album for ten years. Back on the road, Ashley performed as a solo artist and in duos with Al Fenn and Dik Cadbury, as well as making occasional guest appearances with Fairport Convention.

In 2006, Ashley celebrated his 60th birthday with a special concert with Robert Kirby conducting his arrangements for a six-piece chamber orchestra. Also taking part were Ashley's friends from Fairport: Dave Pegg, Chris Leslie, Simon Nicol and Martin Allcock, plus Show of Hands' Phil Beer, Planxty's Johnny Moynihan, Brass Monkey's Martin Brinsford and many other friends, including his old partners from The Tinderbox, Ragged Robin and the Steve Ashley Band. The event was recorded and released six months later as Live in Concert on Dusk Fire Records. Then in 2007 Ashley released his second album for Topic, Time and Tide, with three new string arrangements by Robert Kirby. From this collection one song "Best Wishes" was recorded by Fairport Convention and the female trio Grace Notes.

In 2015, Market Square released Ashley's first stripped back solo album, This Little Game, which was included in both The Telegraph and Folk Radio UK's lists of "The Best Folk Albums of 2015". In a four-starred review for The Telegraph, its Culture Editor Martin Chilton said that the album "shows a craftsman at work...In Your Heart shows he still has a power to move with his songwriting". Paul Woodgate, reviewing the album for Folk Radio UK, said: "This Little Game may just be one of his best".

Ashley's 2017 solo album Another Day was described by Colin Irwin, writing in Mojo, as "an understated album of sharp observations, lithe melodies and wry asides". It received five-starred reviews in R2 (Rock'n'Reel), FolkWales Online Magazine and the Morning Star.

One More Thing, his solo album released in 2018, received five-starred reviews from the Morning Star and FolkWales Online Magazine. Reviewing the album for Folk Radio UK, David Kidman said: "Steve's unafraid to name and shame, and as always he does so with a potent combination of lyrical poetry, delicious wit and darkly puckish humour...The album has an intimate, sharing quality, having been recorded simply at Steve's own home in Cheltenham... Despite Steve's insistence that One More Thing will be his final album release, the overall feel is far from valedictory."

His 1983 album, Steve Ashley's Family Album,  was re-released in 2021 as a CD on the Talking Elephant label, with the title Steve Ashley's Family Album Revisited. It includes two additional tracks ("Somewhere In A Song" from the sessions for the original album, and "For Bruce", a memorial to drummer and percussionist Bruce Rowland, who appeared on the original album).

Collaborations
Aside from his own albums, and the bands of which he has officially been a member, Steve Ashley has also performed on stage, TV, radio and recording sessions with a number other musicians. In 1968, with Tinderbox, Ashley recorded a live radio session with folk singer Shirley Collins for John Peel's Night Ride programme on BBC Radio 1. In 1973, at the request of folk singer Anne Briggs, Ragged Robin collaborated with her on arrangements and recording sessions for her album Sing a Song for You. In 1974 Ashley recorded a live session of his songs for Capital Radio's "Sarah and Friends" with Simon Nicol (guitar), Dave Pegg (bass), Dave Mattacks (drums) and Lea Nicholson (concertina).  In the same year he recorded a single, "Old Rock 'n' Roll" (for Gull Records) with backing from Fairport Convention.  In 1975 he recorded his songs "Old John England" and "Fire and Wine" for BBC Two's show The People's Echo in a band with Dave Pegg (bass), Richard Byers (guitar) and Bob Critchley (drums). In 1978, Ashley formed the first line-up of The Steve Ashley Band for a one-off show at Rotterdam Folk Festival, with ex-Decameron members, Dik Cadbury (bass), Bob Critchley (drums), Al Fenn (guitar) and Chris Leslie (fiddle). For some ten years after this show, Ashley and Leslie performed together intermittently in an acoustic duo.

In 1979, a band was formed to perform the songs from Steve Ashley's Family Album in a number of venues with a special "Family Show". Joining Ashley on stage were Fairport members, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg and Bruce Rowland, plus Chris Leslie and the melodeon player, Martin Brinsford. In 1980, Ashley opened a fundraising concert for Friends of the Earth with the classical guitarists John Williams and Gerald Garcia headlining at London's Roundhouse. In an encore, all three performed in a trio, Ashley's song, "Candlemas Carol". In 1981, he performed in a one-off trio with Chris Leslie and Bruce Rowland at Glastonbury Festival. In 1985, he performed with Fred Piek and Rens van der Zalm, two former members of the Dutch band, Fungus in Rotterdam.

Ashley was a close friend and creative associate of the naturalist author and filmmaker, Roger Deakin. Together they worked on two of Deakin's TV documentary films, The Ballad of the Ten Rod Plot and Stable Lads, with Ashley writing and recording music for both. Deakin also recorded a radio interview with Ashley about his forthcoming release, Everyday Lives, for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Ashley recorded harmonica for Richard Thompson's soundtrack for the movie, Sweet Talker (1991).

In 1981, Ashley and Leslie were joined by Dave Pegg, Simon Nicol and Bruce Rowland to perform songs from Ashley's anti-nuclear Demo Tapes songs at Cropredy Festival. Then in 1999, after Ashley's eight-year break from music he got up with Fairport at the Cropredy Festival to perform his song "Fire and Wine". In August 2007, Ashley also performed his song "Best Wishes" with Fairport at the Cropredy Festival, and again at Birmingham Town Hall – as part of Dave Pegg's 60th birthday celebrations in November 2007. Also in November 2007, the arranger Harvey Brough invited Ashley to sing his song, "The Rough with the Smooth" to a specially written string quartet arrangement as part of Brough's 50th birthday celebrations at Union Chapel, Islington.

Guitar and bouzouki playing style
As an acoustic guitar player, Ashley's technique is unusual. He plays a right-handed guitar, left-handed, without changing the strings, in the manner of Elizabeth Cotten. So, effectively, the instrument is played upside-down. As well as using standard tuning he utilises a number of guitar tunings. He also plays a custom-built electric four-string bouzouki. This unique instrument was designed to include a left-hand cutaway, and giving left-hand access to controls, but is once again strung as a right-handed instrument.

Other artists who have recorded or performed Ashley's songs
Artists who have recorded or performed Ashley's songs include: The Arizona Smoke Review, Phil Beer, Anne Briggs, Maggie Boyle, The Bushwackers, Fil Campbell, Paul Downes, Fairport Convention, Jo Freya, Grace Notes, Green Diesel, Wizz Jones, Tom McFarland, Ralph McTell, Steph Miller and The Winter Station, Johnny Moynihan, Dobe Newton, O'Hooley and Tidow, The Owl Service, St Agnes Fountain, Show of Hands, Martin Simpson, Sproatly Smith, Christine Wheeler and Bill Zorn.

Personal life
Ashley lives in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Discography

Albums
 Stroll On (Gull, 1974)
 Speedy Return (Gull, 1975)
 Demo Tapes (cassette only; CND, 1981)
 Steve Ashley's Family Album (Woodworm, 1983)
 More Demo Tapes (cassette only; PAC, 1985)
 Mysterious Ways (Lighthouse (Germany) LINE, 1990)
 Stroll on Revisited (Market Square, 1999)
 Everyday Lives (Topic, 2001)
 Live in Concert (Dark Fire, 2006)
 Time and Tide (Topic, 2007)
 This Little Game (Market Square, 2015)
 Another Day (Market Square, 2017)
 One More Thing (Market Square, 2018)
 Steve Ashley's Family Album Revisited (Talking Elephant, 2021)

Singles
 "Old Rock 'n' Roll"/"Fire and Wine" (Gull, 1974)
 "Down The Pub"/"Outside The Pub" (Dovetale,  1980)
 "Down The Pub"/"Down the Pub" (German version) (Papagayo, 1980)

Anthology
 The Test of Time (Market Square, 1999)

Compilations
 The Electric Muse – various artists (Island/Transatlantic, 1975)
 Tasty – various artists (Gull, 1978)
 All Through the Year – various artists (Hokey Pokey, 1991)
 New Electric Muse – various artists (Castle, 1996)
 The Acoustic Folk Box – various artists (Topic, 2002)
 Within Sound – Shirley Collins (Fledg'ling, 2002)
 The English Collection: A Definitive Collection of Classic English Folk Music – various artists (Highpoint, 2004)
 MidWinter – various artists (Free Reed, 2006)
 A Box of Pegg's – Dave Pegg (Matty Grooves, 2007)
 60th Birthday Bash – Dave Pegg (Matty Grooves, 2008)
 Three Score and Ten – various artists (2009). Released on Topic Records, it included Ashley's "Ships of Shame" from Time and Tide as track 13 on the compilation album's fifth CD.
 Topic Records: The Real Sound of Folk Music – various artists (2017). Released on Topic Records, it included Ashley's song "Ships of Shame" from Time and Tide as track 3 on the compilation's second CD.

DVD
 Fairport@Forty – Fairport Convention (2007)

Publications
 (with Dave Thompson) (2013) Fire and Wine: An Armchair Guide to Steve Ashley. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 248 pp.

References

External links

1946 births
Living people
20th-century British male musicians
20th-century British musicians
20th-century English musicians
20th-century British guitarists
21st-century British guitarists
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21st-century English musicians
The Albion Band members
Alumni of Ealing Art College
Bouzouki players
English folk guitarists
English graphic designers
English male guitarists
English male singer-songwriters
Labour Party (UK) people
People from Cheltenham
People from Perivale
Steve Ashley albums


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Q: Question about the details in meaning between gerund and supine (aka to-infinitive)
The supervisors were asked ______ tasks to new employees so that they could be trained to do them properly.

A. Delegate - infinitive
B. To delegate - supine
C. delegating - gerund
D. delegation - noun
I was wondering after improvising some structures in the sentence like below.
[Question1 - What if there is a choice for letter E and shows 'delegating for'?]
The supervisors were asked for delegating tasks to new employees so that they could be trained to do them properly.
[Question2] Could 'for' in brackets be a substitute of to? If so, will it have same meaning? The supervisors were asked delegating tasks to(for) new employees so that they could be trained to do them properly.
Could this make sense too? Under the premises that delegating tasks is the noun to have meaning itself.

A: Ask for takes a noun-phrase complement:
He asked for a cup of tea.  (he would like some tea)
He was asked for a cup of tea.  (he will prepare the tea; someone asked him for it)
It cannot take a clause headed by a gerund.
NOT CORRECT:
He was asked for  spending the city's money on personal luxury items.
CORRECT:
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Probably the most beautiful balloon flight in the world and the ultimate Safari Experience at 5:00 am, Serengeti Balloon Safaris will collect you from your central Serengeti lodge or camp, and transfer you by Landrover to our launch site near Maasai Kopjes.Here you will meet your pilot, receive a briefing and watch the inflation of your balloon at dawn we take off, rising as the sun rises and float in whichever direction the winds of the morning take us. Your pilot can precisely control the altitude of your balloon: sometimes flying at treetop height, sometimes lower, offering a unique perspective and great photographic opportunities of the wildlife below.
At other times he will ascend to 1000′ or more to see the enormity and wonderful panorama of the Serengeti. From time to time the pilot must put more heat into the balloon with the powerful whisper burners. In between these burns, there is silence apart from the natural sounds below.
Imagine sitting at a table under the shade of a classic umbrella tree on the Serengeti Plains.The table is laid with bone china and king's silver cutlery. The flight is for about one hour depending on conditions, and eventually you must land. You celebrate in the traditional manner with champagne (well, an excellent sparkling wine) before sitting down to a full English breakfast. Fresh tropical fruits, warm freshly baked bread and English traditional breakfast of bacon, sausage, eggs, mushroom, tomato are all served by stewards in customary Swahili dress. 9:30 am Arrive at Seronera ready to continue your day's activities.
I am on an organised safari with a set itinerary.Can I do this?
Yes, providing you are staying at any of the central Serengeti lodges (Seronera, Serena, Sopa, Mbuzi Mawe /Central Campsites) or Western Corridor luxury camps (Kiriawira, Grumeti River or Mbalageti)We collect you before the flight and return you to Seronera Lodge or Western Corridor rendezvous point at 9.30am to join the rest of your party & continue your day's activities.
We strongly advise you to book in advance with your tour operator to secure your place.There are only three balloons in the entire Serengeti and this exclusive adventure is frequently fully booked.
The price is US $499 pp (central Serengeti & Western Corridor), this is also the rate that you will pay if you book 'standby' on a space available basis in the Serengeti. This balloon safari is available from tour operators and travel agents worldwide, and the price may vary due exchange rates, local taxes, contract rates etc.
Our flying areas ( Seronera Valley & Western Corridor) have resident game populations year round. The wildebeest migration is a 'moveable feast' and is impossible to predict with accuracy. We expect big herds in Seronera Late May through June and again November / December. In The Western Corridor July/August can be particularly rewarding.
We prefer to call these the GREEN SEASONS.The 'long rains' (late March to early June) & the 'short rains' (November to mid December).The great migration passes through the central Serengeti during the green seasons.At these times it USUALLY rains late afternoon and during the night.The mornings are USUALLY bright and clear with gentle winds (great ballooning weather!).The landscape is lush and green and dust free (yes, your vehicle may get stuck in the mud – but our balloon won't!).
We do not carry children under the age of 7. There is no upper limit, however passengers must be reasonably mobile, fit to fly and prepared for an adventure.


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youth to provide them with support that endures.
I serve as the Program Director for Safe Families PLUS. I am a Chicago native with a deep love for the city. I grew up on the southside and graduated from Lane Tech College Prep. I'm also a former foster youth who strongly believes that, with the right social supports, all youth can excel in spite of the cards they are dealt. I've had a number of great mentors during my time in care, which made all the difference in the world!
I obtained a B.A. in English from Stanford and later returned home to receive a Masters in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago. In my free time, you can usually find me on a plane traveling to a new place, watching old episodes of Grey's Anatomy, or at spin class.
I am originally from Holland, Michigan and I am the middle of five siblings. In May 2017, I graduated from Moody Bible Institute with a Bachelor's in Pre-Counseling. I've been working for Safe Families PLUS as the Program Coordinator since June 2017. My primary role is equipping mentors and managing referrals. I am passionate about empowering youth and providing them with the love and support they need to excel. Some things I enjoy include sewing, eating Chipotle, spoiling my nephews, and exploring the city with my husband.
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Q: How do I have a child webpage receive a variable value from a parent webpage? For my school project I'm creating a mockup cinema website that has ticket booking service. Currently I'm trying to create the seat selection part.
I've successfully done that, and how the code detects if a seat has been selected is a Boolean value. (e.g. if they selected seat A1, a variable named "A1" will be set to true), now the only part left is to transfer the selection details users have selected to a popup webpage where they fill in their "payment" details. How do I exactly transfer variable values to a child webpage? Is a php file needed? I'm a noob at php so some guidance is appreciated.
I've been searching this technique for a while online(inc. stack overflow), but I couldn't find any right code that is right for my situation

The on/off button:
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The button that opens a new webpage:
<button onclick="confirm()"> Confirm</button>

For simplicity, I've made a simple web page that has an on/off button, and I'd like to have a confirm button that opens a new page and displays a text message depending on the status of the on/off button. Can anyone teach me how to do that?

A: You can do this with JS alone, but there are many other approaches too.

  <input type='text' value='defaultParamValue'>
  <button type='button'>send param</button>

You can do this with PHP, which is more realistic and practical.

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And this is how you retrieve the value with PHP at destination.php.
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Here is how to do it with your own example.

  The on/off button:

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  The button that opens a new webpage:

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Structuring your code makes it easier to spot issues (i.e. missing curly brackets) in your code.
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Happy Friday everyone. Here's some good and gay news to get your weekend started off right.
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3. ClexaCon was featured in Forbes Magazine. Even Forbes, one of the world's top business magazines, is recognizing that queer women are no longer a market to be ignored.
4. Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino will helm a new HBO limited series about a lesbian couple and their teenage son, Fraser. The series, We Are Who We Are, will take place on an Army base in Italy where Fraser and his mom and step-mom have been transferred because his mother is a Colonel. We'll likely see the series debut in late-2019 or early 2020.
5. Captain Marvel just got even better. In a recent press conference, Captain Marvel star Brie Larson expressed how she believes the deep bond between Carol and Maria, is the big love story of Captain Marvel. "Without being too showboating about it, this is the love of the movie," Larson said. "This is the great love. This is the love lost, this is the love found again, this is the reason to continue fighting and to go to the ends of the Earth for the person that you love. And it's her best friend and her best friend's daughter which, to me, is so natural." Two tickets, please!


Why is it that the KML layer works very intermittently with my project? I have a web folder using Spideroak and have two publicly shared files. There is a KML in there with an HREF tag which links to a PNG in the same for so I use the file name within the HREF tag. Funny thing is, I got this working before and stopped looking at it for a few weeks and when I go back to this it no longer works. I wish ESRI could provide more description of how to get this **** working in their documentation or troubleshooting methods.
The best way to troubleshoot this issue is to use the developer tools available in the browser. All browsers, Chrome, Firefox, IE etc have developer tools available. Here are the basic steps for how I'd test this issue in Chrome to try and figure out what was going on.
2. Open the Chrome Dev Tools (menu icon > tools > developer tools).
3. In the developer tools click the Network section then reload your app.
The network section shows a list of all requests your page has made. You can use the filter text box to find a particular request. To search for the kml utility request enter kml? in the filter box.
Then click the kml request to see more details including the response which may provide more info on why the request is failing.


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As the name suggests, Swiss screw machines were first developed in Switzerland and used to produce the small, complex parts that go into the country's famous watches. As the technology has evolved with the introduction of computer controls, a wider range of applications has emerged. Today, the demand for increasingly smaller technology has made screw machining the process of choice for automotive parts, medical devices, electronics and other manufacturing. Pins, pivot rods, spacers and electronic connectors and terminals, among other small parts, are all strong candidates for screw machining.
CNC screw machining is fast, reliable and can achieve tolerances of +/-.005". Use it in any application in which quality control is a priority. The main drawback to screw machining is that the guide bushing has to be precisely positioned to achieve optimal performance. This requires additional set-up time and the expertise of skilled staff who know how to work the machinery properly — all factors that drive up manufacturing costs.
We provide high-precision CNC screw machining for clients in any industry. We'll work with you to develop a turnkey solution that gets your product or part to market faster. We are happy to offer short-run machining services with no minimum order amount.
Swiss machines represent precision. If precision is important to you in your fabricated products and related applications, you want to use American Micro Industries for your CNC screw machining. At American Micro Industries, we always make an effort to have the most state-of-the-art machines in our facility, whether it is a CNC screw device, CNC milling, CNC turning or any other workpiece cutting or shaping tool.
Not only can we provide the precision you expect in your swiss screw machining, but we can also bring it to you fast. We have developed an organizational system with our screw machining and other machining processes that allow us to turn around orders extremely fast without sacrificing any quality. We have a feeling we may be exactly what you're looking for when it comes to screw machine services.
You might think this level of speed and precision comes with an elevated price tag, but our streamlined system allows us to save on costs, which we can then pass on to you. We're just that dedicated to delivering a machining solution that meets both your needs and budget.
We are always working to find better ways to serve our customers, and we will always strive for 100 percent customer satisfaction. We will take you through the entire fabrication process from start to finish — from design to completion — to make sure you and your company are getting exactly what you need.
For more information about our capabilities or to request a quote for any upcoming project, contact American Micro Industries to speak with a representative directly.