Copenhagen is Scandinavia's most vibrant and affordable capital. Small and welcoming, it's a place where people rather than cars set the pace, making its pre-Christmas activity a lot easier to navigate. The city's Tivoli Gardens are transformed annually by half a million lights and thousands of Christmas trees and form a magnificent centrepiece to your festive meandering.
For many, Salzburg is the quintessential Austria, offering the best of the country's Baroque architecture, subalpine scenery and a musical heritage derived from the city's most famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Its festive market is compact and intimate and a frequent dusting of snow adds to its appeal.
Nuremburg in Germany is renowned for its Christkindlesmarkt (Christmas market), which sees 180 stalls stand cheek by jowl on the Hauptmarkt, offering toys, trinkets and gingerbread treats. It looks especially enchanting after dark.
An ancient place packed with the relics of over two thousand years of inhabitation, Rome could ensnare you for a month and you'd still only scratch the surface. Yet it's so much more than an open-air museum: its culture, food and people make up a modern, vibrant city. Faith and tradition play a key role in Christmas here, and there aren't many more suitable places on the planet to attend Midnight Mass.
A fantasy come true for kids and adults alike that refuse to grow up, Father Christmas's hometown is a must for anyone that still believes in the magic of Christmas. Of course the Santa Claus Village and Santa Park see most of the visitors, but nearby Rovaniemi also offers numerous delights.
The showcase capital of Scotland is an historic, cosmopolitan and cultured city. The setting is wonderfully striking – perched on a series of extinct volcanoes and rocky crags which rise from the generally flat landscape of the Lothians – and Christmas is done in style. Extend your stay for the world-famous Hogmanay a week later.
Canada's second-largest city is geographically as close to the European coast as to Vancouver, and in look and feel it combines some of the finest aspects of the two continents. It's a magical place at this time of year and a spin round (or tumble on to) the ice at the Patinoire du Bassin Bonsecours is a must.


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Colin McMenamin (born 12 February 1981) is a Scottish former professional football player, and is the current assistant manager of Annan Athletic.

McMenamin, who played as a striker, began his career with Annan Athletic before moving to Newcastle United. His first senior start came for Livingston where he spent three seasons. He also played for Shrewsbury Town, Gretna, Dundee, Queen of the South, Ross County, Greenock Morton and Stenhousemuir, as well as Falkirk and Livingston on loan.

Early life
McMenamin was born on 12 February 1981, in Glasgow and raised in Dumfries, and educated at St Joseph's College.

At age 15 he signed school boy terms with the club he had watched as a supporter, local side Queen of the South. He played in the same youth team as Chris Doig before moving on after a year and a half.

Beginning his senior career in 1999 at Dumfries and Galloway club Annan Athletic, then of the East of Scotland Football League, he was then signed by English Premier League club Newcastle United after one season. He was there for two seasons but did not make a senior appearance.

Club career

Livingston
He returned to Scotland on a free transfer to Livingston in August 2002. In three seasons with the SPL club he scored 10 goals in 50 league appearances. McMenamin also went on loan to Falkirk for half a season (August 2003 – December 2003) during this period; he scored 4 in 16 for the Division One club. McMenamin was cup-tied for Livingston's victory in the 2004 Scottish League Cup Final having previously played in the competition during his loan spell at Falkirk.

Shrewsbury
McMenamin was recommended to Shrewsbury Town manager Gary Peters by his assistant Mick Wadsworth. He signed on a free transfer in August 2005. McMenamin was a first-choice regular with the Shropshire club, averaging one goal every four games. With 14 goals in 43 games he was the club's top scorer in the 2005–06 League Two season.

Gretna
He joined Gretna in August 2006 on a free transfer, making his debut as a substitute for James Grady in the 6–0 win at home to Hamilton on 5 August 2006. He scored his first goals for Gretna in his second game for the club, scoring two goals in the 2–1 victory away to Clyde on 13 August 2006. He re-joined Livingston on loan in November 2007.

He scored 23 goals in 38 games as Gretna won the First Division title in 2006–07, and won the Gretna Player of the Year.

Dundee
It was announced, at the Dundee F.C. AGM on 22 January 2008, that he had signed for Dundee

McMenamin was one of the players made redundant when, on 15 October 2010, Dundee went into administration for the second time in seven years. In an interview with The Scotsman, McMenamin commented, "I've been through this before and this one has been the worst."

Queen of the South
Manager Kenny Brannigan announced on 22 October 2010 on the QoS website, "We had about half a dozen new faces joining us for training this week including Colin McMenamin. Colin of course comes from Dumfries." McMenamin was then announced as a starter on the team sheet for the league fixture the day after at Palmerston Park against Falkirk. McMenamin was officially listed as a trialist with Falkirk winning 5–1.

His first QoS goal was the opener in his second game for the club, an 18-minute right foot shot from six yards in a league fixture away to Ross County on 30 October 2010. The game finished 1–1. McMenamin's third and final game as a trialist for QoS was in the 1–0 win away against top of the table opposition with Ryan Conroy scoring the winner. This was against Raith Rovers on 7 November 2010.

Brannigan then announced via the club website on 9 November that McMenamin had agreed terms for a contract until the season's end. His first game as a contracted player was the 3–0 win at home on 13 November 2010 against Cowdenbeath.

His next goal was his first QoS Scottish Cup goal. This was the defeat by Brechin City on 11 January 2011. He scored the Saturday after in the 3–0 win at Falkirk to make it two in two games.

On 19 February 2011 McMenamin played in an uncharacteristic role in midfield in the 4–0 win away at Morton. He returned to a striker's role for the midweek 2–2 draw at home to Stirling Albion, a game in which he scored.

He returned to the midfield the following weekend at home against Dunfermline and again scored to notch his fourth goal in a run of seven games. He scored from midfield again the followed Tuesday away at Cowdenbeath. His next goal was at the ground of his former club, Dundee, on 12 March 2011. His strike 4 days later at home to Morton followed by a double against Stirling Albion on 26 March 2011 made it 9 goals in 15 games.

McMenamin missed out on the 2010 Scottish Challenge Cup Final appearance for Queens having already played earlier in the competition for Dundee. The opposition in the final were Ross County. After the season's end Queens announced on 19 May 2011 that McMenamin had signed a deal to join Ross County.

Ross County
McMenamin's first goal for his new club came in his second game, a 2–1 League Cup win against Queens Park. His first league goal was on 15 October 2011 in the 2–1 win at Dundee. He scored a double in the 3–0 win at Livingston on 26 November and followed that up the week after with a double at Raith Rovers on 3 December.

He ended the season as the divisional top scorer with 21 goals from the 34 league games in which he played.

Greenock Morton
McMenamin signed for Scottish First Division league leaders Greenock Morton on 24 January 2013 in a deal lasting until the end of the season. He was released after the final game of the season. After being released by Morton, McMenamin signed for Celtic Nation.

Stenhousemuir
After leaving Celtic Nation in 2014, McMenamin signed for Stenhousemuir and was later promoted to a player-coach. He was appointed caretaker manager of Stenhousemuir after Brown Ferguson was sacked in November 2018. Later that month, McMenamin was appointed Stenhousemuir manager on a permanent basis, and in January 2019 he announced his retirement from football. McMenamin guided Stenhousemuir to some good cup results, but the team were relegated from League One. He was sacked in September 2019, after a home defeat against Cowdenbeath. McMenamin's five-year association with Stenhousemuir saw him play 150 times, manage the under 20s, become first team coach and eventually manager.

Hurlford United
In October 2019, McMenamin returned to the pitch and signed with Hurlford United.

Cumbernauld United
McMenamin signed for Cumbernauld United as a player-coach in May 2020.

Annan Athletic
He was appointed as assistant manager of Annan Athletic in 2021.

Honours
Gretna
Scottish Football League First Division: Winners 2006–07
SPFA First Division Player of the Year: 2006–07
SPFA Team of the Year (First Division): 2006–07
Gretna FC Player of the Year: 2006–07

Dundee
Scottish Football League First Division: Runners-Up 2009–10
Scottish Challenge Cup: Winners 2009–10

Ross County
Scottish Football League First Division: Winners 2011–12
SFL First Division Player of the Year: 2011–12
PFA Scotland Team of the Year (First Division): 2011–12

Morton
Scottish Football League First Division: Runners-Up 2012–13

Celtic Nation
Northern Football League Division One: Runners-Up 2013–14
Cumberland Senior Cup: Winners 2013–14

Stenhousemuir
Norwegian Supporters Club Player of the Year: 2014–15
Stenhousemuir Player's Player of the Year: 2014–15

Manager

initially caretaker at Stenhousemuir.

References

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1981 births
Living people
Footballers from Glasgow
Footballers from Dumfries
Scottish footballers
Association football forwards
Annan Athletic F.C. players
Newcastle United F.C. players
Scottish Premier League players
Livingston F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
Falkirk F.C. players
English Football League players
Shrewsbury Town F.C. players
Gretna F.C. players
Dundee F.C. players
Queen of the South F.C. players
Ross County F.C. players
People educated at St Joseph's College, Dumfries
Greenock Morton F.C. players
Celtic Nation F.C. players
Scottish football managers
Stenhousemuir F.C. managers
Cumbernauld United F.C. players
Scottish Professional Football League managers

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Today's prompt: Pick a state (or province, territory, etc.), make it the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. A few possibilities include New York, California, Ontario, Bavaria, and Champagne. It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway: Feel free to bend this in any direction you wish.
into a longing as fresh and vivid as these fields against the moody sky.
The farm gathers among the fringed corn like a stoic congregation, waiting for the coming storm.


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Square Enix Forums > Games > Tomb Raider Series > Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris > LCTOO General Discussion > Did you wait until 'T.O.O' was on PS+ before playing it?
View Full Version : Did you wait until 'T.O.O' was on PS+ before playing it?
I got it on PS+. After Darrell billed it as xbox fans get ROTTR the rest get LCTOO as a substitute it lost a lot of appeal. I don't want to support that approach. I did play it on a friends computer though before I got it on PS+.
This! Except I didn't play it at all, before it came to PS+.
And I would do the same with ROTTR, if the chances of it coming to PS+ were high, but I seriously doubt it.
This is my way of supporting CD and SE, I'll give them the less money I can.


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Japonvar is een gemeente in de Braziliaanse deelstaat Minas Gerais. De gemeente telt 8.536 inwoners (schatting 2009).

Aangrenzende gemeenten
De gemeente grenst aan Brasília de Minas, Ibiracatu, Lontra, Patis, Pedras de Maria da Cruz en São Francisco.

Gemeente in Minas Gerais


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Souvenir | Meow Meow
Tessa Leon
Left – Meow Meow. Image – Claudio Raschella & Karl Giant
Kudos to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival for commissioning such a magnificent moment of theatre nostalgia. There could be no one better than Meow Meow to capture the history of Her Majesty's Theatre, and drag it purring right into the present.
She has the spectacular ability to hold a room of people magically suspended in a freefall of aural wonderment. And here we were treated to that experience, alongside a raw and candid style of storytelling rare for long-standing Meow Meow followers.
The concept of Souvenir premiered originally in the historic Theatre Royal in Brighton, UK as an homage to the theatre's past. So what a treat it was for the Cabaret Festival to re-commission it for Adelaide.
Her customary 'Kamikaze Cabaret' style was on point at the opening, while she straddled audience members to get up to the stage. Then this fierce and irreverent energy faded and was replaced with a more subdued nostalgic mood of honest storytelling.
Each song was preceded by a particular tale connected to the theatre itself. With lots of well-researched local name-dropping and connections, I must admit it was an educational experience for this reviewer and no doubt for the other less Adelaide-arts-history buffs among the audience too.
Conducting the delightful musicians of the Orchester der Kleinen Regiment, Musical Director Jherek Bischoff guided us into emotive crescendos and soft, hanging moments of tension in which the audience seemed to be holding their breath between beats. This musical virtuosity combined with Meow Meow's magnetic presence and spectacular voice constructed an achingly beautiful time out of time experience.
In contrast to the gentle, reflective mood, Meow Meow beautifully brought in a children's chorus, the 'Lilliputian Opera Company', to perform in several numbers, whose younger members provided a natural comic relief simply by being five years old and bedazzled under stage lights.
In between her moments as raconteur and comical diva we were treated to the full breadth of Meow Meow's spectacular vocal talent. She moves effortlessly from full tilt opera to spoken word poetry to heavy breathing Weimar style. And every moment is equally powerful and achingly beautiful.
She truly is a contemporary superstar of the cabaret world, and it was a privilege to see her perform with such an iconic Adelaide flavor.
Adelaide Cabaret Festival presents
Venue: Her Majesty's Theatre
Date: 17 – 18 June 2017
Bookings: 131 246 | adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au

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Asphondylia adenocarpi är en tvåvingeart som beskrevs av Tavares 1902. Asphondylia adenocarpi ingår i släktet Asphondylia och familjen gallmyggor.

Artens utbredningsområde är Portugal. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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I Admit it. I had planned for this to be a monthly blog.
But I have now allowed two months to go by in silence.
The Museum has had it's share of illness and troubles for February and March.
But we are back on track and things are beginning to wake up with the coming of spring.
We are beginning our planning for the Sock Hop coming up May 31st. We are planning on having the event in a smaller space closer to the Museum. DJ "Smokin' Bill" Rutherford with DJ the music for the night. Raffling some records/CDs for the event. We are looking into having Catered food as well. There will also be a silent auction and tours of the Museum.
Since it is Spring, we are engaging in spring cleaning. We're in the process of cleaning out our workroom and storage areas. We have designs on redoing the layout of the Museum to include a full old-timey classroom setup. Introduce the narrative of how Education in Knox County came to be by displaying our collection in chronological order as Knox County moved from the one-room school house into the County and City Schools and back again into one system.
We have plans for adding a small sound studio in order to host a weekly pod-cast focused around Educational History and local color. Stay tuned for more on this. We'll be doing some targeted fundraising for this project as we'll have to purchase the recording equipment.
We're busy but we always have the time for a visit from all of you. Come down and have a complimentary (free) cup of coffee and chat with our volunteers and Director.


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Home > Blog > General > Champions of Care bring passion to annual fundraising event
By: Mary Zahner Bauer, KCH Director of Donor Relations
Published: Sept 20, 2022
Dr. Mark Davidner and his wife Diane have a long history with Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care (KCH), from its very beginnings. As a local oncologist, Dr. Davidner had a vision to provide a way for his patients to receive compassionate, specialized end-of-life care in the comfort of their own homes. In 1980 Mark, along with Dr. Alan Fleming, worked diligently to bring together a group of hospital executives to make this dream a reality. Kansas City Hospice served its first patient on November 3, 1980. Fast forward to 2022 where Mark and Diane have come full circle to serve as honorary chairs of our signature fundraising event, Sunday Night Live, celebrating all that has been achieved because of his dream.
Diane & Dr. Mark Davidner, Honorary Chairs
Over the past 42 years, Mark and Diane have witnessed the expansion of our service area to 12 counties on both sides of the state line. We are proud to now provide both hospice and palliative care to patients in homes, long-term care facilities and two hospice houses. We have also expanded our community-based services with KCH Solace House, the regional leader in comprehensive grief support services. Diane has praised KCH for the care she saw provided to friends in the past, and more recently for the care given to her sister-in-law and, just as importantly, to her brother and nephew as they navigated their grief journey.
When our signature fundraising event started in 2004, its purpose was to help raise the capital funds needed to build the region's first free-standing inpatient facility, Kansas City Hospice House. One of the small but mighty women who worked hard to make that dream happen was Fran Martinsen. Fran's passion was brought full circle as she spent her final days receiving peaceful care provided at the sacred hospice house she helped build. In 2016, when Fran was the event's Honorary Chair, she was determined to try something out of the box and Sunday Night Live was born. KCH leadership determined the proceeds would benefit not only the Kansas City Hospice House but the multitude of programs we offer and community needs we meet.
This year, Fran's granddaughter Molly Wilson is leading in her grandmother's footsteps as one of the Event Co-chairs, along with Molly's husband Andrew Wilson and Carol Barnett. It's a meaningful experience for the Wilsons, as Molly has worked side by side with her grandparents for years helping with this event.
Honorary Chairs, Dr. Mark & Diane Davidner, Event Co-Chairs, Molly & Andrew Wilson and Carol Barnett, and KCH President & CEO, David Wiley
Carol herself is no novice to the event, as she was by Fran's side for the first Sunday Night Live event in 2016 and has worked tirelessly as a volunteer to further the KCH mission since 2006. Along with volunteering to co-chair Sunday Night Live, you can find Carol welcoming families at NorthCare Hospice House, Kansas City Hospice House and Solace House, as well as serving in her favorite role as a patient care volunteer. In her spare time, Carol serves on the Kansas City Hospice Foundation Board. Little did she know when her father was cared for by KCH in 2005, that the mission of bringing expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance and hope to those affected by life-limiting illness or by grief would enter her soul, leading her to become one of our most passionate advocates.
We could not ask for better Champions of Care to lead Sunday Night Live. We hope you will join this awesome group for a night of remembrance, joy, and support. Patron Party tickets are also available, for an evening hosted by Honorary Chairs Mark and Diane in their home.
Join us on October 2nd at Power & Light for a fun-filled evening of entertainment! KCHospice.org/SNL for event information and tickets.
Posted in General, Kansas City Hospice, News and Views, Our Stories, Stories of Support, Volunteer Stories


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#12 – Burning Through The Haze
Oswald Glendale followed his ex-wife Leticia to Emerald Heights but ran into Sarah Price first
Oswald Glendale became obsessed with Sarah Price at first sight.
Leticia McKinelle-Glendale's father died.
Sarah was positively walking on air when she arrived at the Price building that morning.
She pushed the double-doors aside and glided into the showroom. "Good morning, Juanita," Sarah said half-singing as she entered.
"Good morning," the young woman replied. Juanita's amusement was evident in her voice.
Sarah was generally a happy-go-lucky sort, but that morning was exceptional, that level of exuberance was exceptional, even for her. The effect of that morning's interview with Oswald Glendale played across her face; her broad smile, her bright eyes.
The staff shared glances and shook their heads at one another, no one knew what was buoying the spirits of young Miss Price, but that there was something was without question.
And so they guessed; merrily they guessed. Some figured she that was drunk, others that she had "gotten lucky", and there were others still who were more prophetic and assumed her to have received some unspecified accolade for a job well done.
She crossed the sales floor of Price with as much of a true skip in her step as she could have possibly mustered in the blue pencil skirt; she even hummed a pretty little tune while she waited for the elevator.
As she left the sales floor, having boarded the elevator and turned to look back at the sales girls who had formed a cluster and were watching her curiously, she smiled broadly and gave a half wave. If there was more the elevator door cut it short.
"Definitely drunk," stated one of the more cynical staff members.
Leticia entered Price in a haze. The sounds around her were muted and the colours were dull. She entered the building, as she usually did, through the front entrance and made her way across the sales floor and up to the office in which she worked without speaking to, or looking at, a single soul. She vaguely remembered someone saying something to her, but she couldn't recall who it was or what they had said. In fact, if pressed, she could barely recall anything that had happened over the past sixteen hours.
Richard McKinelle was dead; her father had died. He was never going to defeat the cancer that had ravished his body that much had been known for some time; but the knowing seemed to have done little to prepare his youngest daughter for the reality of it. She hadn't been there when he died; he had died alone. She hadn't been by his side as she had planned; it had been the reason that she moved back to Emerald Heights: to be with her father in his final months, his final minutes.
One of the housemaids had called her after it happened; Leticia had been at dinner. She was so shocked and dismayed at the news that she had dropped her cell phone into the soup bowl in front of her.
That was the last coherent memory she had; that was sixteen hours ago.
But she had an appointment that day, at Price, and couldn't reschedule. She was meeting with overseas vice-presidents and managers about the architectural rebranding for Price. The meeting couldn't wait; it couldn't be put off. They had to get back home to their respective countries.
And so, she soldiered on. She listened vaguely to their demands and responded when necessary. She nodded and jotted as the meeting carried on. She'd had the wherewithal to tell her assistant about her father. "I will take care of it," the assistant had said.
For Leticia the meeting had seemed interminably long and instantly over all at the same time. She spent all 90 minutes running over and over the choices that lead her away from her father's house the day before. And then, when the meeting had wrapped up, she couldn't remember any of it.
The vice-presidents were gone and so was her assistant. She was sitting alone in her office, alone at her desk, a pen clasped in her numb fingers, her unfocused eyes reading blank paper.
"Leticia!" Sarah exclaimed as she wheeled into the other woman's office. Leticia looked up and smiled; Sarah scrunched her nose in a way that she knew her father found adorable. "I had the greatest interview this morning!"
"Uh huh," Leticia replied, her eyes drawing back to the pages that sat in front of her.
"He's a magazine writer from…" she stopped, "hmmm… Grand City, I think. Fashionable Fashions is the name of the magazine, he writes for, though." She stopped for a breath, "we just had an interview this morning. He's going to be coming by later to take the pictures."
She repeated in a half-conspiratorial tone: "There are going to be pictures!"
Leticia looked up and nodded appropriately.
Sarah continued, "he's kind of handsome, too. He's tall and swank and he's got a nice car." She giggled, "you know this is the first article that a magazine has wanted to write just about me? I'm so psyched."
"That's great," Leticia chimed in on cue.
"He's got your same last name," Sarah added as if mulling that over for the first time. "Glendale, I mean, not the other one." Sarah was still entirely unaware of Richard McKinelle's passing. "It's Oswald Glendale," she smiled she spoke the name, "very dashing sounding, no?"
"Sure," Leticia replied.
Sarah frowned, "okay," she said finally getting the hint that Leticia was working on something that required her full concentration, "well, I'll let you get back to work. I'm going to see Jennifer and pick out a wardrobe."
She popped up out of the chair and headed for the door. "I can't wait to see the article," she said. Leticia didn't reply.
Leticia hadn't heard a word that she'd said.
Sometime later the phone on Leticia's desk rang and didn't stop ringing until she picked it up. "Hello," she said speaking for the first time Sarah had left her office hours before.
"Leticia, it's Mildred," the voice on the other end of the line stated, "you have to come to the house."
Perhaps it was the familiar voice of the housemaid that broke through the haze that was now twenty hours old. "What's going on?" Leticia asked.
"It's… your step-Mother," the other woman stated. "She's here with a lawyer – she's taking over the house."
Leticia slammed down the phone and stood in the same motion. "Do not call her that!" She shouted long after the phone had been hung up.
As she hooked her purse over her shoulder she mused out loud, "was Sarah in here before?" She honestly couldn't remember; which was a shame because it would have saved a lot of people a whole lot of trouble.
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Stories from Jonestown
Stories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski
University of Minnesota Press, 2/1/2013
The saga of Jonestown didn't end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jungle. While only a handful of people present at the agricultural project survived that day in Jonestown, more than eighty members of Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, were elsewhere in Guyana on that day, and thousands more members of the movement still lived in California. Emmy-nominated writer Leigh Fondakowski, who is best known for her work on the play and HBO film The Laramie Project, spent three years traveling the United States to interview these survivors, many of whom have never talked publicly about the tragedy. Using more than two hundred hours of interview material, Fondakowski creates intimate portraits of these survivors as they tell their unforgettable stories.
Collectively this is a record of ordinary people, stigmatized as cultists, who after the Jonestown massacre were left to deal with their grief, reassemble their lives, and try to make sense of how a movement born in a gospel of racial and social justice could have gone so horrifically wrong—taking with it the lives of their sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters. As these survivors look back, we learn what led them to join the Peoples Temple movement, what life in the church was like, and how the trauma of Jonestown's end still affects their lives decades later.
What emerges are portrayals both haunting and hopeful—of unimaginable sadness, guilt, and shame but also resilience and redemption. Weaving her own artistic journey of discovery throughout the book in a compelling historical context, Fondakowski delivers, with both empathy and clarity, one of the most gripping, moving, and humanizing accounts of Jonestown ever written.
With the phrase "drink the Kool-Aid" part of our lexicon it behooves us to go back and look at where that phrase originated. In Stories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski we learn that it wasn't Kool-Aid, but was, in fact, poisoned Flavor-Aid that was used in the mass suicide/murder of over 900 followers of Jim Jones People's Temple agricultural project in Guyana on November 18, 1978. About half of those who died were children. Included in the 918 people who died were U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and three journalists who were accompanying Ryan on a fact-finding mission to Guyana.
Jim Jones group began as a Christian church in Indiana. He moved to San Francisco in the 1960s. While the group began as a integrated group who wanted to help the community, it soon changed into a much less altruistic socialist experiment. But this book is not about Jim Jones. It is about the survivors. Some of them still think the Peoples Temple was wonderful, others wonder at their blindness to the warning signs that there were problems and Jones was no longer the man or leader they thought they were following.
There are already numerous accounts written about Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple murder/suicide. In Stories from Jonestown, author Fondakowski focus is on interviewing the survivors. She points out that only they "can truly know what it means to survive a tragedy of this magnitude. These are the stories of the survivors. It is a privilege to tell them." Fondakowski, a playwright, spent over three years interviewing survivors, reviewing documents, and collecting letters trying to compose a complete picture of what happened while gathering material in order to write a play about their experiences. The book is a compilation of the many interviews and stories she collected.
Very Highly Recommended - but not an easy book to read
Since Stories from Jonestown is composed of interviews and materials gathered for Fondakowski's play, "The Peoples Temple," this book does not include extensive research or a complete chronological record into all the details of Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple. Readers who don't have previous knowledge of Jim Jones and what happened in 1978 might want to look into some other works that cover that information. This book is about the survivors, what they remember and how they are handling dealing with those memories. Recommended books by those who know include: A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown by Julia Scheere; Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman; Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple by Rebecca Moore
Disclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of Netgalley for review purposes.
Since my copy was an uncorrected proof I am not including any quotes.
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Mrs. Joann (Abbott) Luis, 70, of Dracut, passed away Saturday March 25th at her home surrounded by her family.
Born in Lowell, she was the daughter of the late John and Virginia (Gower) Abbott. Mrs. Luis had been an area resident all her life.
She was retired from C. R. Bard Inc. where she worked in quality control and volunteered at the Collins Bowladrome. Mrs. Luis loved all things Elvis Presley and spending time with her family and friends.
She was pre-deceased by her brother David Abbott formerly of Lowell. Mrs. Luis is survived by her loving husband of 49 years Orlando Luis of Dracut, two daughters; Shannon and her husband William Gosse of Tewksbury, and Heather Landry of Lowell. Two sons; George Luis and his wife Kerry of Nashua, NH, Sean Luis of Dracut, and one brother Roger Abbott and his wife Juanita of Dracut. There are six grandchildren; Katlyn Bailey, Kenny Bailey, Kaleb Palmer, Nikole Gosse, Skyla Landry, and Penelope Rich. One great-grandson Nathan Brothers and several nieces and nephews.
Family and friends invited to attend her funeral Mass on -------- at -----AM at St. Francis Church 115 Wheeler Rd, Dracut, MA. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Edgar J. Racicot Inc. Funeral Home, 1400 Broadway Rd, Dracut. Online condolences can be shared at www.racicotfuneralhome.com.


Once Upon a Twilight!: Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop The Feeling!" from DreamWorks 'Trolls Gets Nominated!
Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop The Feeling!" from DreamWorks 'Trolls Gets Nominated!
Congrats to Justin Timberlake for receiving not one but three 2016 Teen Choice Award nominations for "Can't Stop The Feeling". This song was featured in Dreamworks TROLLS. The song is nominated in these categories: Choice Party Song, Choice Song from a Movie or TV Show and Choice Summer Song.
Learn more about JT's nominations and how to vote HERE.


Read up on these tips to help you win in the latest 'Overwatch' Deathmatch arcade mode.
The "Overwatch" Deathmatch Mode has just hit the live servers and players are excited to try it out. While some may opt for the Team Deathmatch, most are scurrying to test out the Free-For-All mode wherein the game puts you in a small area with seven other. The main objective here is to score 20 kills the fastest, and while it may sound simple, it might be harder than it seems. With that being said, here are some tips to help you out in the "Overwatch" Deathmatch mode.
Since this is a Deathmatch, you have to prioritize on killing your targets.
However, you should also be paying attention to your own stats as you never know when your score is dwindling. Remember, if you find yourself cornered, don't jump off the cliffs in the new map. If you fall or decide to take the plunge, you'll get deducted in your overall score. Instead, if you're playing heroes like D.Va or Lucio, don't be afraid to push people off cliffs. Also, take note of who is currently leading with the most number of kills, so you know how to take that hero down. It's better to gang up on the stronger one than pick off the weaker players.
You might be thinking that only Offense heroes specialize in the Deathmatch mode since they have the best capacity to kill. However, other heroes like Symmetra and Torbjorn are actually great for those who don't have the aiming reflexes. Aside from being able to shoot, they can also lay down turrets to distract and catch foes off guard. As a Symmetra, you can set up a nest of turrets near choke points, especially hallways or tight corridors. Once your enemy finds cover, you can sneak up behind them and attack with your gun.
Finally, you should learn to take advantage of the environments to your advantage. If you're under heavy fire, you should behind some walls and try to find a way to escape. Take note of your hero's escape skills as you can use it to get out of a sticky situation. Soldier:76 has his Sprint, Tracer has both her Recall and Dash, and Lucio has his Speed Boost + Amp It Up. If your hero lacks evasion skills, like Mercy or Zenyatta, you have no choice but to eliminate your enemies.
Similarly, you can also use things like jump pads to escape. However, make sure you don't get spotted if you're flinging yourself around the field. It's always best to stay undercover and surprise unsuspecting foes since the map isn't too big. Those who want to try the latest "Overwatch" arcade mode can download the game's latest patch.


Hard to believe the first month of 2017 is already over! What a good start it has been to the year, actioning some of our many dreams and schemes. We soaked up many of these gorgeous summer evenings in the garden, surrounded by various pets… and our numbers kept growing as we welcomed 2 clutches of chicks, one of 5, one of 4. We started building our raised veggie beds and were able to fill these with the many discarded weaver nests found in the garden as mulch. We enjoyed evening walks and were able to swim in the dam after the glorious rains for the first time! Our biggest project was the move of nearly 30 rose bushes (not ideal timing, yes) and clearing of a huge flower bed to make way for more raised beds. We are hoping to plant more veggies closer to the house for easier access, and hoping the baboons and porcupine won't come right to our back door! We will start planting in our new beds next week. Check out the before and after photos. We were treated to visits from a Kynsna Turaco family several times, they seem to have taken up residence in the trees in the garden, a family of scrub hare who pop out every evening and even a Geoffrey's Horseshoe Bat made his appearance while we enjoyed warm summer evenings around the braai. What a summer it has been! Waking up to the tickle of the Suns rays, early morning walks and cool showers, freshly picked bramble berry breakfasts, long lazy reads and picnics by the dam, chicken pecks and horsefly bites, fish eagle calls and cattle bellows, homemade ice tea, falling asleep beneath the twinkle of the stars to the laugh of an owl and the bark of bushbuck… What a beautiful Summer!


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Violinist Renaud Capuçon | VC 20 Questions Interview
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Piano Trio in A Minor, M. 67: III. Passacaille (Trés large)
Renaud Capuçon, Brussels Philharmonic, Stephane Denève – Le Grand Blond (Cinema)
Alexandra Cooreman et Renaud Capuçon Music Chapel Festival J.S.Bach Concerto in D minor
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DELAWARE: The 2003 Legislative Session came to a close on Monday, June 30, with a victory for gun owners. The legislature passed HB 178, sponsored by Rep. Nancy Wagner (R-31). HB 178 establishes a reciprocity system to recognize Right to Carry permits issued in other states. The bill has been signed into law by Governor Ruth Ann Minner (D). Please contact your legislators and Governor Minner who supported this bill and thank them for their commitment to protecting the Second Amendment. You can find contact information for your legislators by using the "Write Your Reps" feature found at http://www.nraila.org. Governor Minner can be reached at (302) 577-3210.


Zambia : Chester unveils highly anticipated video for "Banjo"
Chester released the highly anticipated music video for his hit song "Banjo".
The video was directed by S'mon G of Rattle Pictures.
This is really beautiful. Keep it up my man. Zambian music ORIGINAL!!!!!!!
I'm one of the people who loves your music, keep it up MR.
This man plays the best music ever.


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Ensure you have JDK 8 (or newer), Maven 3.5.4 (or newer) and Git installed

    java -version
    mvn -version
    git --version

First clone the Keycloak repository:

    git clone https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak.git
    cd keycloak

To build Keycloak run:

    mvn clean install

This will build all modules and run the testsuite.

To build the ZIP distribution run:

    mvn clean install -Pdistribution

Once completed you will find distribution archives in `distribution`.

To build only the server run:

    mvn -Pdistribution -pl distribution/server-dist -am -Dmaven.test.skip clean install

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**NOTE**

Classes from `org.keycloak.testsuite.*` packages aren't suitable to be used in production.

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## Starting Keycloak

To start Keycloak during development first build as specified above, then run:

    mvn -f testsuite/utils/pom.xml exec:java -Pkeycloak-server

When running testsuite, by default an account with username `admin` and password `admin` will be created within the master realm at start.

To start Keycloak from the server distribution first build the distribution it as specified above, then run:

    tar xfz distribution/server-dist/target/keycloak-<VERSION>.tar.gz
    cd keycloak-<VERSION>
    bin/standalone.sh

To stop the server press `Ctrl + C`.

## Working with the codebase

We don't currently enforce a code style in Keycloak, but a good reference is the code style used by WildFly. This can be
retrieved from [Wildfly ide-configs](https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-core/tree/master/ide-configs).To import formatting
rules, see following [instructions](http://community.jboss.org/wiki/ImportFormattingRules).

If your changes require updates to the database read [Updating Database Schema](updating-database-schema.md).

If your changes require introducing new dependencies or updating dependency versions please discuss this first on the
dev mailing list. We do not accept new dependencies to be added lightly, so try to use what is available.


'Morning Blossoms' is an extraordinary and breathtakingly beautiful 'Brave New Musical' produced by ODD Continent, fusing the disciplines of opera, ballet, dance, music and drama in a compelling performance about parents, children, families and communities separated by natural disasters.
World premiered at The Spiegel Theatre in Zwolle, Netherlands, the action starts on March 10th 2011, the day before the 9.0 Mw earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku which triggered devastating tsunami waves up to 40 metres high sweeping up to 10 Kilometres inland, annihilating large areas of Japan's East Coast and claiming over 15,000 lives.
Acclaimed international lighting designer Yaron Abulafia was an integral part of the talented creative team who have helped deliver the piece directed by Malcolm Rock, and he chose an all Robe lighting rig to help sculpt the drama and the intense range of emotional, atmospheric and locational scenarios.
Luminaires included DL7S Profiles, DL7F Washes, DL4S Profiles, BMFL Blades and BMFL Wash XFs, Robe Strobes and Spikies, all pushed to their limits during programming to unfold a story inspired by sensitive and difficult subject matter in an appropriate and uplifting way.
Says Yaron, "Using these luminaires really allowed me to sculpt the light (in the hazy space) exactly as I needed to achieve very complex and intricate cues, often combining 6 or 7 different parameters to be programmed independently. It has been an incredible and interesting journey lighting this show with these amazing tools".
Amazing new music composed by Chloé Charody was played by the 40-piece Dutch Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tecwyn Evans with movement choreographed by Remi Wörtmeyer. A choir added to the sonic richness, sheer scale and layering of the piece.
Yaron is known for his innovative and considered approach to lighting. He knew he needed to work with the highest quality fixtures to deliver the precision and depth he wanted to help engage audiences.
The two Acts needed totally contrasting lighting treatments, and with a minimalist set, lighting also played an architectural role.
He had been wanting to use Robe's refined DL7 LED range in a production for some time, and this was a perfect opportunity to specify these designed-for-theatre fixtures as the leading 'base elements'.
Thirty-three DL7S Profiles, 17 x DL7F Washes and 8 x DL4S profiles were distributed on overhead LX bars and on side booms.
The DL7Ss were arranged in four rows on the over-stage bars and used extensively for multi-tasking – from projecting colourful patterns onto the stage for the classroom, playground and picnic scenes for the first half, filled with playfulness and joy; for the destruction and chaos of the waves during the tsunami to the raw, visceral surreality, strangeness and sinister calm of the aftermath.
As music dropped away to dialogue throughout, quiet lighting without cooling system noise was essential … and the DL series was "Perfect".
The orchestra had no noise issues and even the hyper-sensitive ears of conductor Tecwyn and sound engineer Rene Botman were happy with the silence of the DLs.
"The DL7s are amazing performers" continues Yaron, "The optics are incredible and the shutters are really precise and reliable thanks to the 16-bit control which enabled us to light tiny objects on the stage in really close proximity without a single lumen of spillage".
He added that the colours – the whole range – from the purest saturates to all those challenging pastel hues - browns, ambers and lavenders, etc., where so many LED products struggle … "are so impressive in the DL7. You can get exactly what you want".
Many of the cues combined simultaneous 5 or 6 different effects. For the earthquake the DLs are shifted using several different options - random intensity, rotation, shutter cuts, blade movements – all in different combinations, running at different speeds and producing the disorientating perspective illusions of fear and uncertainty.
While the DL7s worked hard creating base lighting and specials, the BMFLs – of which he had 13 x BMFL Blades and 4 x BMFL Wash XFs – were also real workhorses.
Four of the blades were rigged over-stage on drop arms to give them a clear path to project custom tree-branch gobos – some with cherry blossoms - onto a front gauze for the walk-in and interval.
Using just five BMFL Blades on an advance truss in front of the stage – the fixtures are so light that this was a run of mini-beam truss - enabled Yaron to replace two whole bridges worth of what would normally be around 40 conventional sources provided by the venue.
So apart from being hugely quicker on get-ins and massively reducing the focusing time … he was in control and had the front light he wanted with the scope for a huge amount more than would have been possible using house conventionals.
These front BMFLs do lots of shutter work, dimmer effects and colour changing – and with a throw distance of 22 metres to the back of the stage at the Spiegel Theatre, they were plenty bright enough.
The BMFL Wash XFs were positioned in the upstage corners and used for specials and also to wash the whole stage area.
Towards the end of the performance 12 overhead DL7F Washes are used to create an incredibly small dot of intense primary red light on centre stage while 15 x DL7S Profiles project a smoky texture via subtle application of the animation wheel – the little red dot slowly broadens to become a large red 7 metre wide ring consisting of 12 thin rectangles (created by using the scrim effect), and softened by the frost filter. Simultaneously, a glass gobo of the atomic mushroom cloud is projected onto the scenery and the projection is enlarged by pulling the zoom out.
These and numerous other examples are what Yaron means when he refers to 'sculpting'.
He and programmer Bas Berenson experimented with many different ideas during their programming sessions which included two and a half days in Cue 1 Studios' WYSIWYG visualisation suite in Amsterdam, and a long and concentrated week on site at the Spiegel Theatre.
The eight DL4S Profiles were in the low 'shin-buster' positions on the floor in between the set legs, for providing focussed cross light which could be fine-tuned and shaped by adjusting the shutters and positions.
Above these on the same booms were eight of the DL7S profiles at head height – ideal for catching the upstage wall of hanging origami which is flown in and moved on three separate fly bars.
Fifteen Robe Strobes – the white version – are used to create the tsunami moment.
As the colossal waves consume everything in their path, the Strobes are a perfect illuminative metaphor – literally blinding the audience throwing them back in their seats with near physical effect – at the cataclysmic end of Act One.
They are on the floor concealed by gauze during the first act, revealed at the end and then struck in the interval.
As the post-tsunami world in the immediate aftermath emerges, the 10 Spikies are used to augment the torchlight in the first moments of the second act where individuals and search parties desperately trawl through the wreckage for signs of life … revealing the hope, optimism and strength of the human spirit.
The production tours the Netherlands until the end of November. Please check http://www.morningblossoms.nl/ for full details.


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Trico exists to assist maintainers and operations professionals, lean process allows Trico to improve on a constant basis.
Trico is committed to providing the best service and delivery to its customers. This time around it's updating and upgrading its machine shop to provide better cycle times, faster set-ups, and more reliable parts manufacturing. Trico has upgraded its machine shop by adding two additional 4 axis machining centers. The two new centers are designed to provide faster cycles on the parts that Trico machines from stock. These faster cycles will provide more capacity in terms of the number of parts per hour that are possible. The additional machining centers are built to include things like live tooling and additional quick change tooling to provide much faster set-up times compared to its other machining centers.
The set-up time on the new machines could be up to 50% faster, which means substantial productivity gains over time. Keeping movements of the tooling and operator touches to a minimum will provide a leaner process throughout the process from raw materials to finished parts.
Trico machinists and supply chain personnel studied the configuration of the shop floor as well, they were able to re-position the machines to provide an optimized layout, and this contributes to lean manufacturing by decreasing the movement of machinists on the shop floor itself. The expanded capabilities means that over time the options and opportunities for Trico will continue to grow.
Have you taken a look at the full spectrum of products that Trico can offer? When your customers repair or replace machining centers it is the perfect time to integrate new lubrication products like Trico dispensers or our line of coolants/lubricants.
Maintenance has improved via the use of technology, however, a basic understanding of regimes is important to find which route protects your most critical equipment.
In researching relevant topics for maintainers in an effort to provide value with this content, I realized that there are many posts dedicated to the explanation of various different regimes. Most of which are excellent informational posts designed to truly get to the core of each concept and provide much detail into the inner-workings of each. This brought me to the question: Is that valuable? Is that what people really use to put maintenance regimes in place? Does this help in making a determination in which regimes are right for an organization? I believe that the answers are yes…and no.
I believe that in no uncertain terms when you are ready to develop and implement a maintenance strategy the due diligence process takes over and thus no blog post or article should be the crux of said strategy. In fact Trico has built a business on training and providing the TLM (total lubrication management) regime. If maintainers and operators could simply get this information from a post or an article how could this be possible and have so much value? The reality is that maintainers and operators really desire a broad overview of regimes, which then get boiled down into more detailed plans based on the criticality of the machinery in the plant. There are industry specific regimes that could be generally applied not one, however, is 100% transferrable.
Here is the rundown of basic maintenance regimes, hopefully with just the right amount of detail. If you feel this post is too detailed or vague or would like to add or comment please do so via our twitter or facebook using the tag #tricocorporation.
This particular style is very simple and pretty self-explanatory. Run the equipment until it fails or goes hard down, requiring repair or replacement. This regime is typically used on non-critical assets which require low amounts of resources and don't have much effect on the bottom line when compared to downtime. Critical equipment is typically never run to fail unless repair or replacement is extremely fast and cost efficient. Interestingly a good lubrication program could potentially create value for this strategy in rotating equipment by extending its life past the normal or manufacturer recommended oil change frequency, increasing the bottom line by decreasing the overall cost of replacement.
This maintenance regime relies heavily on the care and servicing by personnel designed around maintaining equipment and facilities in such a way as to prevent equipment downtime. Maintenance, including tests, measurements, adjustments, and parts replacement, performed specifically to prevent faults from occurring. We've all heard the saying "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure", and this statement could easily be the crux for any PM programs.
Preventive Maintenance activities include partial or complete overhauls at specified periods (typically when down time is least burdensome on production), oil changes, lubrication, minor adjustments, and so on. In addition, data logging equipment deterioration can paint a picture of underlying issues that can cause system failure. The ideal preventive maintenance program would prevent all unplanned downtime due to equipment failure before the failures occur.
A few to note here as being popular in modern manufacturing, Reliability Centered Maintenance or better known as RCM, and Predictive Maintenance or PdM. These two are widely accepted and used to be sure that systems continue to operate at a maximum efficiency. This does not mean that equipment stays running 100% of the time, more that any down time can be planned for and that typically saves companies money in terms of lost production.
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) – An engineering framework that defines the operational parameters of an entire maintenance regime. First used by United Airlines to describe their optimum maintenance requirements for their fleet of aircraft, this regime can be used to create strategies around the most critical of assets in a plant. This framework specifically addresses maintenance preventable failures and can result in a program that exceeds uptime requirements with less resources. RCM uses techniques from standard preventative measures as well as predictive maintenance techniques.
Predictive Maintenance (PdM) – is the process of continuous monitoring of equipment condition to ascertain a reasonable failure window in time. This process saves time because maintenance tasks can be performed only when needed vs. on a standard schedule. PdM inspections are typically performed when the machinery is operating normally, reducing costly downtime. Successful PdM programs rely heavily on representative data which is consistently tracked and documented over time. PdM techniques include infrared, acoustic, vibration analysis, oil analysis, and others. In the future this type of monitoring will see extensive advancements in technology based on the current rate of sensor development and the development of wireless networks.
This regime is typically the care and minor maintenance and cleaning of equipment by operators in the field. This typically does not require any advanced training or skill to accomplish. The operator is aware of the state of readiness of the equipment and can quickly maintain the equipment reducing the delays in waiting for additional, more qualified, maintenance staff or engineers. Operational Maintenance may require the operator to perform things like changing out filters, blades, cutting tools, belts and the like but rarely requires any internal maintenance or any tasks that require specific knowledge of the system's function or design.
This is simply a task that gets performed once a piece of equipment or system has failed. This regime is to identify, isolate, and rectify a specific fault or series of faults so that a machine or system can be returned to normal operating condition within specified limits. Corrective Maintenance is generally reserved for those pieces of equipment which have been defined as non-critical. Many articles have been written about Corrective Maintenance as a regime because prior to the technology and systems development within PdM and RCM regimes, this was all maintainers had to work with in order to keep plants operating.
These regimes have a place in just about every type of plant, factory, and facility in existence today. Trico exists to provide the lubrication management tools of maintenance regimes as well as oil analysis and analytical ferrography, which is one of the most cost effective tools that makes RCM and PdM so useful.
If you are tasked with maintaining a plant's most critical of equipment this post may have some information that you might find useful. If you are a plant manager who is concerned with saving money on repairs, extending the life of your lubricants, read on.
At some point, someone convinced you that sending an oil sample to a lab for analysis is a smart thing to do. After some discussion, you dispatched your best technician to collect the sample. The technician used the best possible sampling techniques and properly labeled the bottle. A few days later you receive the results and can clearly read the numbers and charts on the report.
Now, I ask you, what are you going to do with that sheet of numbers? What does it all mean? How are you going to convert this presumably important information into some action that justifies both the lab cost and in-house cost charged against your department? Essentially what I want to understand is WHY?
If you remember elementary chemistry, you know that lubricants are nothing but a mixture of long-chain hydrocarbons that somebody dug out of the ground mixed together with some specialty chemicals designed to improve its properties. What is great for maintainers is that you can't simply destroy hydrocarbon molecules by grinding them between gears and mashing them between steel plates. Hydrocarbon molecules are immune to physical attack making them perfect for lubricating industrial machinery. These molecules do break down over time and through oxidation.
Oil analysis should address the fluid contaminants.
The sump and system from which your technician drew that sample constitutes a container. There are other fluids besides oil that can reside in that same container. These fluids are the enemy of your critical equipment and are considered contamination.
Oil analysis should address the bits and pieces of solid contaminants.
The only reason a machine requires a lubricant is that somewhere in its internal workings are some pieces of metal and other materials rubbing or banging against each other. This mechanical action induces stress that exceeds the metal's elastic limit and metal pieces break off and incorporate into the mix of lubricant and moving metal. The oil carries these pieces away so more stress can break off more pieces.
Oil analysis reports present a lot of information covering the properties of the oil, the fluid contaminants mixed in the oil and the solids suspended in the oil.
Let's get specific on some of the terms and metrics that can have an impact on your lubricants.
The specific gravity is nothing more than the mass per unit volume referenced to a standard temperature. Oil contaminated by solvents, for example, has a specific gravity different from that of clean oil. It's a nice number to know, however it's typically not a tell-all and may simply indicate that additional investigation is needed to see a bigger picture.
The most important characteristic of your lubricant. Viscosity is a measure of the oil's relative resistance to flow. Its value depends on the temperature at which viscosity is measured, the viscometer used for the measurement and the technique of the lab technician. For best results, always measure the viscosity at the same temperature on the same viscometer operated by the same technician. Since this may be impossible to do on-site, many companies outsource this measurement to insure total consistency.
Measuring viscosity at a constant room temperature yields the greatest resolution. At elevated temperatures, the difference between the viscosity of degraded oil and good oil is too close to differentiate. The correct viscosity is application dependent, temperature dependent, and has both a lower and upper limit. The specs on the lubricated machine should indicate the proper viscosity to be used. Using a lubricant that fits squarely in this range is critical to the longevity of the equipment.
Because lubricants are mixed on a per batch basis, you simply cannot count on your viscometer to give you readings shown on the label on the oil drum or on the oil spec sheet. To be sure your lubricant is in spec, measure the viscosity to get a baseline value for the current lot of clean oil. Get another baseline reading each time you start drawing from a different load of oil.
This measurement, in milligrams of potassium hydroxide per gram of oil, is related to the level of oxidation present in the oil – more oxidation, higher acid number. Get a baseline reading on a sample of clean oil.
As the additives deplete over time, the reported acid number drops, goes through a minimum, then rises. It drops because the additives are being depleted. The curve bottoms out when they are gone. It rises again because there's now genuine acidic material in your oil.
Acid buildup in oil is a bad thing. Chemistry being what it is, bases react with acids to neutralize them. The total base number is an aggregate measure of the concentration of components in the oil that counteract acid buildup. It's measured in equivalent milligrams of potassium hydroxide per gram of oil.
This test is generally performed only for oils taken from internal combustion engine crankcases.
There seems to be some controversy about changing oil on the basis of total base number. Some proponents advocate changing oil when the total base number depletes to 50% of the total base number of the virgin stock. Others advocate waiting until the total base number drops to somewhere around 2 mg. KOH/g. My advice – be conservative. Oil is cheap, machinery isn't.
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) is a versatile way to determine contamination levels and additive depletion in oil. Infrared radiation interacts with materials on a molecular level, not the atomic level.
The spectrometer measures the infrared light passing through the sample. The spectrograph is nothing more than a curve of the intensity of the transmitted IR as a function of wavelength.
This analytical method monitors the depleting concentration of antioxidants and anti-wear components. It also measures increasing levels of contamination from moisture, oxidation products and dissolved metals. If the sample is from an internal combustion engine, it also measures ethylene glycol and soot levels.
Particle count is a critical test in proper oil analysis that reveals the type of wear debris in the oil and its particle size distribution. Keep an eye on how the distribution curve shifts over time. If you want to gain the most value from this test, this data should be tracked regularly and trended.
Wear particle monitoring depends on the magnetic properties of the particles. Solids in oil is bad. Particle count is a direct measure of the degraded pieces of gear, bearing, and/or other metals which have disconnected from the machine and are loose in your lubricant. Since particle count isn't the only critical factor in lubrication degradation use this as part of a comprehensive series of tests vs. a tell-all.
Analytical ferrography is another form of wear particle analysis. This approach identifies the composition of the solid chunks in your oil sample. The objective is to identify the solid pieces seen in the microscope eyepiece. Getting meaningful results as the identity of wear particles, their sizes, counts, size distribution and shape is a matter of experience and training.
Because this test is a visual inspection, experienced technicians can identify nonmetallic and other nonmagnetic wear particles. Because analytical ferrography is a direct look at the particle, it provides more objective information about the machine from which the oil was taken. The test is neither inexpensive nor quick because there's a great deal of handling and expertise in testing this way. Ferrography can tell you what pieces of your equipment are wearing and at what rate which makes this test best for verification testing.
There are more test available – for instance, the entire series of ASTM standards for measuring oil. Practical oil analysis depends on the lubricant and the application. The key to making sense of oil analysis is understanding that no single test can give an absolute clear picture.
To make your results the best they can be, you must be consistent, get a representative sample, and provide trending for each of the tests that relate to your application and equipment.
From time to time your results may be so out of limit that it doesn't make sense. Good labs will re-test when this happens to make sure it was not an error in the test equipment or process. What is highly alarming is getting this result even after the sample is re-tested. The recommendation would be first get another sample to the lab as soon as possible to have that second sample re-tested as well. If the results are identical or nearly identical you should consult with the lab to discuss what may be going on in the equipment. That expertise isn't something that people just know, it comes from thousands of samples from similar equipment in other machines and environments. Your ferrography results don't lie, having someone be able to explain the result in a way that makes sense is the true value of the program in the first place.
Oil analysis is critical to reducing the costs of maintaining equipment and can assist your maintainers and operations teams in knowing the "how long" before maintenance or critical equipment failure is imminent. This understanding in the practical environment is the difference between maximum uptime, and lost revenue due to downtime. Trico is an industry leader in oil analysis, existing to assist industry in extending the life of critical equipment and lubricants. Contact our team today with any questions regarding lubrication practices, analysis, or training.


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Man Shot in Front of Open Door Mission Had Spent Earlier Part of Day in Different Shelter
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The map shows the area where Rochester Police encountered Tyshon J. Jones at around 3 a.m. March 10, 2021. File photo
The man with a knife who was shot by Rochester police shortly after 3 a.m. on March 10 in front of the Open Door Mission lived in Gates and earlier in the day had been taken by Gates Police to a different homeless shelter – after they first found the barefoot man a pair of shoes.
Apparently, the same shoes he was wearing when he died.
The Rochester Police Department announced March 12 that the man was identified as 29-year-old Tyshon J. Jones and said he lived in Gates with his mother.
According to Rochester and Gates police, Mr. Jones' final hours started with an altercation at a store in Gates, where the person he engaged ended up buying him food.
The story of Mr. Jones' final 10 hours left Gates officers "shocked and saddened," according to Chief James VanBrederode.
"Our officers recognized him from the RPD body camera footage and it was at that point that we realized he was a homeless person we dealt with just 10 hours before his death," VanBrederode said in a statement. "From the body cam video, it appears he was wearing these same boots when he died."
Rochester Police said the investigation continues but pieced together a timeline.
Mr. Jones left his home late on the morning of March 9. Between 3 and 4 p.m., he was at a store in Gates, where a confrontation with another person led to that individual buying him food.
Mr. Jones followed the person to his residence.
Gates Police were called because Mr. Jones had no shoes. He told the officers he was homeless, and police convinced him to let them take him to a shelter on Hobart Street. According to VanBrederode, the shelter refused to allow Mr. Jones to enter because he didn't have shoes. An officer found a pair of Timberland work boots, and Jones was able to go into the shelter.
According to the Rochester Police news release, Jones did not show any signs of being a danger to himself or others.
"Mr. Jones was treated with the utmost respect and compassion," VanBrederode said of his officers' interaction with the man.
Mr. Jones entered the shelter at about 4:30 p.m., according to RPD. He left at about 11:30 p.m. and for the next three hours wandered in the area of West Avenue, Chili Avenue, Main Street and downtown.
At about 2:20 a.m., Rochester police were called to a residential building on East Broad Street, where Jones allegedly entered locked doors. He left as police arrived and there was no interaction.
Police said Jones continued to wander in downtown until he arrived at the Open Door Mission at about 2:55 a.m.
Officers had been called to the mission at 210 W. Main St. and were told a man had taken knives. Officers encountered Jones around the corner to the west, where police said he was making threats to kill them and cutting himself.
Body-worn camera footage showed two officers repeatedly telling Jones to drop the knife, and one officer was asking his name. Officers retreated down Industrial Street, Cascade Drive and West Main Street. He closes the gap on one officer at the curb in front of 210 W. Main St. as the officer is backing up toward a wall. The officer tells him, "Don't, don't, don't. Back up right now."
Jones continued to advance and the officer fired five shots. The officer led the rescue effort, instructing others where to apply pressure to the wounds and talking to Jones until an ambulance arrived.
The officer is on administrative leave while RPD conducts an investigation.
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The best way for drivers in Barstow and Apple Valley to keep their auto insurance rates low is to fight their traffic tickets.
A recent survey rightly points out that taking a ticket to court is "the only way to get penalties reduced or dismissed." The survey encouraged drivers to fight their tickets even if they are morally guilty, because there is often a big difference between morally guilty and legally guilty.
Other strategies in this area include quickly resolving "fix-it" tickets and voluntarily taking a driving safety course.
In the previous millennium, when traffic ticket fines were rather low, the best way to fight a ticket was to simply set the case for trial. Since the amount of money the county got to keep usually did not exceed the cost of employee overtime, the arresting officer rarely showed up.
Penalty assessments have increased so much that the math no longer works in the driver's favor, so the prosecutor is almost always able to introduce evidence. That means that drivers need to have an effective defense.
Generally speaking, there are legal defenses and equitable defenses to a traffic ticket. Some examples of the former are incorrect signage, an inability to prove an element of the infraction (like children being present in a school zone), or certain technical defects on the ticket. Equitable defenses, or extenuating circumstances, can be just as effective in getting the case thrown out or the punishment reduced.
As an added bonus, most Central California courts allow an attorney to appear on behalf of a defendant, meaning that you don't have to waste a day sitting in traffic court.


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Flutterwave, a leading payment technology company in Africa, has announced a partnership with AfroSport Network to broadcast the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations free-to-air.
Speaking during the announcement, the company CEO said:
" It was clear that sports fans in Nigeria and across Africa are in for a treat as CEO and Founder Flutterwave, Mr Olugbenga GB Agboola, disclosed, "It's time to cheer for Africa."
He said the sponsorship would help the African Union of Broadcasters (AUB) offer a world-class AFCON 2021 on free-to-air television in Nigeria and across the continent.
Flutterwave affirmed the importance of sports and partnered with a platform that would provide top-notch content in sports stating that "Uniting Africa through sports is just as important as the work we do in uniting Africa through payments and commerce. Today, we have partnered with AfroSport Network, Africa's first Free To Air (FTA) sports channel, to broadcast the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations on free-to-air networks across Africa to grow our unity as a continent.
Flutterwave is a payment technology startup that helps sports betting companies and other sectors worldwide extend their operations in Africa and other emerging countries by providing a platform that allows them to conduct cross-border transactions using a single API. Flutterwave has raised $225 million in total and is one of the few African startups to have secured more than $200 million in funding.
Afrosport TV is a Nigerian 24-hour free continent-wide sports channel that broadcasts top-notch material in sports previously only available on pay-TV networks. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has increased its prize money for the winner for the 33rd edition of AFCON.
CAF has revealed the official fixture schedule for the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations following the successful draw in Yaounde, Cameroon. The first match took place at Olembe Stadium on Sunday, January 9, 2022.
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