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By Stef Schwalb
When you think of Kansas City, Mo., cuisine, what's the first thing that comes to mind? It's a pretty safe bet most people would say barbecue, but Chef Howard Hanna of The Rieger has been leading the charge to change that perception.
While the goodness of grilled meats cannot be denied, this Midwest destination – and Chef Hanna's restaurant in particular – offers much more. The wealth of gourmet history and an abundance of amazing local food sources are making their mark as signature dishes and memorable meals in the city's vibrant downtown.
Opening its doors in 2010, The Rieger is operated by co-partners Chef Hanna and Ryan Maybee, co-founder of J. Rieger & Co., the iconic and historic spirts brand. Chef Hanna, who was born in the Midwest, graduated first in his class at The Culinary Institute of America and followed up that achievement working with Larry Fiogione and Danny Meyer in New York City. He also spent some time traveling through California, France and Italy, holding positions at numerous world-acclaimed restaurants.
Chef Hanna then returned home to Kansas City bringing knowledge, global influences and world-class techniques with him. Chef Hanna's philosophy for The Rieger is simple: He believes the best ingredients and the dishes they inspire are grown in the heartland – the places closest to forests, trees, and farmland.
Driven by the motto, "Beautiful Food for the People," the restaurant is centrally located within Kansas City and showcases the region's bounty with pride. Offering food and beverage lovers "traditional heartland hospitality with classic dishes and handcrafted cocktails," The Rieger's menu changes on a quarterly basis to feature a variety of regional seasonal ingredients.
The building, which houses the speakeasy-style bar Manifesto (also owned by Maybee), opened originally in 1915 as a hotel. Throughout Kansas City's early years, it was home to numerous travelers, railroad workers and salesmen. Most of the original décor has remained intact. By adding a lasting, fine-dining landmark, The Rieger helps honor the neighborhood's history.
Many of the dishes served at the restaurant feature some interesting backstories. Take for example the celebrated Rieger Pork Soup – a favorite of both locals and visitors alike. "I created the base of this soup for a pork-centric competition called Cochan 555. I wanted to do a simple but delicious pork soup by making an amazing pork stock, reducing it down a bit and enriching it with some trotters," Chef Hanna explains. "For another dish, I made some pork confit and I had several heads of garlic left over. I decided to puree them in my pork broth and call it 'pork and garlic soup.' Then I garnished it with nettle pesto."
With French soup in mind, he decided to add shredded-up pork confit to mimic the traditional onions and then float a crispy pork skin on top instead of croutons to hold up the oozy, melted Gruyere. "Thus, The Rieger Pork Soup was born," Chef Hanna enthuses. "While this is an extremely rich and hearty dish, I finish it with Angostura bitters and sherry vinegar to balance it out and cut the fat. It's become a signature dish, and it is the only item that has been on the menu since we opened."
The team at The Rieger also has prepared a lot of dishes with bison in the last year, working with local/regional purveyors such as KC Buffalo in Belton, Mo., and Chef Hanna is thrilled with how well it's been received. "We've really done several bison preparations, but I've recently been thinking about how to show it off as simply as possible to let guests know what it really is," he adds. "The concept is about putting the bison back on the prairie to truly taste and understand it better."
Since bison has always been synonymous with life on the Great Plains, it has played an integral part of Heartland cuisine. For Chef Hanna, coming up with his own unique take on it – currently Bison Tartare – has been an ongoing process. "This dish has been on my mind for a couple of months. You know the story: A young, passionate cook studies, travels and learns, battles his demons, wins some successes, survives some heartbreak and comes back home searching to find his style," he reveals. "He is then awestruck with the beauty of the places where he was raised, which he is now able to see with new eyes, and creates a dish that simply but beautifully expresses that terroir."
Local Sourcing
Speaking of the region's beauty, catfish was served as early as 1921 in the original Rieger Hotel and is a food of historic importance in the Midwest. The Kansas City region has numerous streams and rivers.
For his housemade Tonnarelli Pasta, KC Shrimp and Spring Vegetables, Chef Hanna sources local from KC Shrimp (a Pacific variety), sustainably farmed-raised fish from the Green Valley. It's also featured in his Whole Fresh Catfish preparation, which is breaded and fried in a light, homemade cornmeal-tempura that harkens back to the restaurant's origins.
Additionally, Chef Hanna sources classic rainbow trout, another staple of the area, from Troutdale Farm in Gravois Mills, Mo., for his Smoked Trout Toast. This dish is an enticing option at The Rieger, as well as Ça Va, the champagne bar Chef Hanna co-owns, located in Kansas City's historic Westport district.
It would be remiss not mention some of the delectable vegetable dishes Chef Hanna has on the menu, including The Rieger's Coal Roasted Beet Salad, which features locally-grown golden, Chioggia, and Detroit red beets cooked through and charred to intensify their flavor and add a little smoke. It includes homemade dukkah (an Egyptian snack food) created from Missouri Northern pecans and Kansas sunflowers seeds.
Although most charcuterie boards are all about meat, at The Rieger, the Vegetable Terrine has layers of vegetables, such as melted leeks, raw turnips, carrots, shaved red onions, poached wild garlic and more, held together with vegetable stock. It's chilled, then unmolded, and cut into slices. The Chilled Pea Soup, which is topped with a mousse made from Green Dirt Farm fresh cheese of Weston, Mo., is another sumptuous standout that makes the ideal start to any meal.
A born and bred New Yorker, Stef Schwalb's love of everything culinary knows no bounds. She has written about food and beverages for several years, covering everything from how to make goat cheese to pairing oysters and Chablis. Schwalb is the senior content manager at Gregory White PR where she writes about enticing food and wine experiences at restaurants, bars & lounges, wineries and wine regions across the globe.
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Fun fact: The Mosler Property has a functioning orchard on it, and pears and apples grow every year.
The Mosler property is part of a cultural landscape of great significance to the Kumeyaay people, who lived in the area until the 1800s. In the late-nineteenth century, the Mosler family acquired the property, diligently stewarding the land and dedicating a small portion of it to Francis Mosler's beloved apple orchard.
Francis Helen Mosler passed away in 2007, leaving instructions that the property should be remain as open space, and granted title to the Native American Land Conservancy, our sister organization, in 2009. When the KDLC obtained its non-profit status, the NALC granted the land and endowment to the KDLC, making it the first KDLC property.
The acquisition of the Julian property is part of a long-term goal of the KDLC to acquire natural and cultural heritage sites throughout aboriginal Kumeyaay territory. The Julian property, like other prospective acquisition sites and areas, will provide a location for cultural enrichment programs for the Kumeyaay people and help preserve ancestral knowledge. Our plan for the Mosler property also includes special uses for the general public to promote outdoor education programs.


Knoxville, Iowa (June 6, 1971) - Marion Robinson was talking about racetracks and race cars while sitting at his usual spot - the floor.
He wore a two-tone shirt: Dirt-on-blue. He had almost enough grease on his hands to lubricate his pickup truck. He had red spots on shoes that were coming apart at the seams.
Robinson, 64, doesn't know if he should be called a racing promoter or a racing manager. Whatever it is, alligator shoes, $18 striped shirts and double-knit coats are not his bag.
He nearly always looks like he just stepped out from under the hood of a car – and he probably has. He can do it all at the track, including drive the car.
Robinson once had races going at Bloomfield, Iowa; Newton, Iowa; Knoxville, Iowa; Des Moines, Iowa; Webster City, Iowa; and Dayton, Iowa. Now, white-haired and at an age when a lot of men have retirement on their minds, he handles weekly racing shows at Knoxville and Newton. Knoxville is his showcase.
It is impossible for him to talk modestly about the Saturday night - any Saturday night - super-modified races there.
Robinson is a junior high school dropout with six children and 25 grandchildren. He has seen a half -dozen men die in auto race crashes and he once had to go to Beaver Dam, Wis., to bring a brother- in-law home from a race.
The trip was made in a pickup truck. The brother-in-law was in a casket. He had died at a track.
Robinson said there are 62 tracks operating in Iowa now. Races are held somewhere in the state seven nights a week.
Marion drove in his last race - a midget event in Marengo, Iowa - 12 years ago.
When Robinson isn't hanging around a track somewhere, he's probably rebuilding a motor or tearing the transmission out of someone's passenger car at his repair shop.
Marion said be owns some suits - including a 25-year-old double-breasted job that is suddenly back in style - but usually wears them only to funerals and weddings.
"People will always take your money," he said, "no matter how you're dressed."
How is it with Robinson and the green, stuff?


Home » News » Getting Fit For 2019? So How Much Exercise Do You Really Need?
The effect of exercise on health goes beyond saying. It can protect you from a range of conditions, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers. But the type and amount of exercise you should do changes as you age. To ensure you are doing the right type of exercise for your age, follow this simple guide.
In childhood, exercise helps control body weight, builds healthy bones and promotes self-confidence and healthy sleep patterns. The government recommends children should get at least one hour of exercise a day.
Lots of non-scheduled physical activity, such as playing in playgrounds, getting involved with school sports of any kind can promote a sense of wellbeing and uplift a child's sense of worth. Doing a regular form of exercise from the early years of academic learning can promote an active lifestyle that can stay with a young person throughout their adult life. This will set a pattern of regular exercise from teen years, through early adulthood and into middle and even retirement age.
Exercise habits tend to steadily decline during teen years, particularly in girls. Getting enough exercise promotes a healthy body image and helps manage stress and anxiety. Again, which a young person can take with them as they get older.
You are at your physical peak, with the fastest reaction times and highest VO2 max - the maximum rate at which the body can pump oxygen to muscles. After this peak, your VO2 max decreases by up to 1 percent each year and your reaction time slows each year. Regular physical activity can slow this decline. Building lean muscle mass and bone density at this age helps you retain them in later years.
It is important you maintain cardiovascular fitness and strength to slow normal physical decline. If you have a sedentary job, make sure you maintain good posture and break up long periods of sitting by forcing activity into your day, so you are moving every half an hour where possible.
Work smart. Try high-intensity interval training, where bursts of high-intensity activity, up to 80 percent of your maximum heart rate, such as sprinting and cycling, are broken up with lower-intensity exercise. HIIT training is a great way to incorporate this into your regular exercise routines. The high-intensity workouts push your body to it's max and even while you're resting you're still benefiting from that workout by continuing to burn off calories.
Most people start to put on weight. Resistance exercise is the best way to optimize calorie burning to counteract fat accumulation and reverse the loss of 3 to 8 percent of muscle mass per decade. Ten weeks of resistance training could increase lean weight by 1.4kg, increase resting metabolic rate by 7 percent and decrease fat weight by 1.8kg.
Take up running, if you don't already. You get more bang for your buck with running versus walking.
Pilates can build core strength to protect against back pain, which often starts in this decade.
A regimen of strength training incorporated 3 times a week, along with cardio can provide you with the resistance and muscle toning you need in order to slow down your body's aging process. Now, there is no stopping the aging process, but with regular exercise that targets your core, muscle groups, and cardio, you can definitely add years to your life.
Aches and pains may crop up and chronic conditions, such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, can manifest. As estrogen declines in postmenopausal women, the risk of heart disease increases.
Do weight-bearing exercises, such as walking. Walk fast enough that your breathing rate increases and you break a sweat. Remember, anything worth doing is worth doing right.
And monitoring all of your exercise routines provides you with trackable data with which you can set goals, meet them and push pass them on to new ones.
This smart activity tracker with wrist-based heart rate and built-in GPS for mapping out your walk or runs. It also includes strength training and cardio activities. Safe for swimming and showering, Vívosport is the perfect accessory for everyday exercises and tracking your active life. Monitor your fitness level with VO2 max and manage your stress with all-day stress monitoring.
Get connected features such as smart notifications, Live-Track and automatic uploads to the Garmin Connect™ online community, where you can see your personalized data on cool graphs, compete in weekly challenges and connect with other fitness enthusiasts. This slim, sporty tracker also features an always-on color Garmin Chroma Display and gets up to 7 days of battery life.
Maintaining a high level of physical activity can help prevent cancers and reduces the risk of developing chronic conditions such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Again, the old adage is truer at this stage of your life than at any other. That "Use it or Lose it!" If you don't maintain an active lifestyle at this age of your life you may soon find yourself slipping back into a sedentary lifestyle and all or any of the good you did as far as routine exercises could be lost in a few short years. So why throw all of that good strength building away. Maintain, Maintain and continue to shoot for newer goals.
Incorporate strength and flexibility exercises twice a week. Aqua-aerobics develops strength using water as resistance.
Maintain cardiovascular exercises, such as brisk walking, power walking and short bursts of running to get that heart pumping.
Exercise helps prevent frailty and falls and is important for cognitive function. If you have a period of ill health, try to keep mobile, if possible as strength and fitness can decline rapidly.
By incorporating strength, balance and cardiovascular exercise on a regular basis, you can help yourself be better able to live and enjoy an active and mobile lifestyle. Instead of sitting back on a porch and watching the world pass you by.
As always, seek advice from your physician as you continue your exercise program.


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Overview of Vibration-Induced Fatigue
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Vibration Fatigue is a specific type of mechanical fatigue that is caused by the vibration of equipment during operation. Like other forms of fatigue, vibrations can initiate a crack which may lead to propogation of the crack and eventual failure of the equipment. The most commonly affected areas of vibration fatigue include areas around pumps, compressors, and rotating equipment.
The amount of damage is related to the magnitude and frequency of vibration and results in the form of brittle cracking. Cracking caused by vibration fatigue can be detected using surface nondestructive testing (NDT) techniques. However, inspection is not the most cost-effective or reliable method for locating and monitoring cracks caused by vibration fatigue.
Not all materials are subject to vibration-induced fatigue failures. Some materials, such as carbon and low alloy steels, have an endurance limit (sometimes called the fatigue limit). The endurance limit is the stress amplitude below which the material will never fail by fatigue, regardless of the number of fatigue cycles. For carbon and low alloy steels, the endurance limit is usually 40 to 50% of the tensile strength of the material. Materials such as the austenitic stainless steels (i.e. the 300-series) do not have endurance limits. Regardless of the stress amplitude, these materials will eventually fail if they are in a vibrating service for a sufficient length of time.
Mitigation Measures
The best defense against vibration-induced fatigue is in initial design, the use of supports, and vibration dampening equipment. Some important notes on mitigation:
Material upgrades are usually not a solution.
Small bore piping near pumps or compressors has higher risk to vibration-induced fatigue. Installation of gussets or stiffeners can mitigate small bore piping fatigue problems.
Installation of restraints in the wrong places can aggravate the problem instead of mitigating it. Therefore, post-construction installation of restraint systems should be done by personnel qualified to judge where such restraint will be beneficial.
Vortex shedding can be minimized at the outlet of control valves and safety valves through proper side branch sizing and flow stabilization techniques. Note that purpose-designed pressure reducing valves are available that are essentially immune to vibration-induced fatigue failure.
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After the war, the Sovietization of Estonia resumed. The republic's war-ravaged industry was rebuilt as a component of the centrally planned economy. Agricultural collectivization was enforced, climaxing in March 1949 with another, more brutal wave of deportations involving some 25,000 people. The Estonian Communist Party was purged in 1950 of many of its original native leaders; they were replaced by several prominent Russified Estonians who had grown up in Russia. After Stalin's death in 1953, Nikita S. Khrushchev's liberalization also touched Estonia. Efforts at economic reform were undertaken, and repression was eased. By the late 1960s, consumerism had taken root, and intellectual life was relatively vibrant. Following the Soviet Union's suppression of Czechoslovakia's "Prague Spring" reform movement in 1968, the trend toward openness suffered a reversal, but Estonia continued to maintain a standard of living well above the Soviet average. In 1980, during the period of stagnation under Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev, some 2,000 schoolchildren demonstrated in the streets of Tallinn against a major Russification campaign launched from Moscow. Several dozen Estonian intellectuals later came together to write their own protest letter, but to no avail. Karl Vaino, the Russified Estonian leader of the Estonian Communist Party at the time, was particularly hostile toward dissent of any kind.
Estonia's absorption into the Soviet Union as the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic was interrupted in June 1941 by the German invasion. Still, that one year of Soviet rule left a deep mark on the Estonians. In addition to the takeover of their country and the rapid nationalization of their capitalist economy, on June 13-14, 1941, before the German invasion, Estonians also saw the mass deportation of some 10,000 of their countrymen to Siberia. Of those seized during the one-night operation, over 80 percent were women, children, or elderly people. The purpose of this action seemed to be to create terror rather than to neutralize any actual threat to the regime. The 1941-44 German occupation witnessed more repression, especially of Estonia's Jewish population, which numbered about 2,000. In September 1944, as the Red Army again neared Estonia, the memories of Soviet rule resurfaced vividly enough to prompt some 70,000 Estonians to flee the country into exile. These émigrés later formed ethnic communities in Sweden, the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere, continuing to lobby for Estonia's rights during the next fifty years. Altogether, from 1939 to 1945 Estonia lost over 20 percent of its population to the turmoil of Soviet and German expansionism.
For all the ups and downs Estonia's independent government experienced during the interwar period, its termination by Stalin in 1940 was clearly not among the range of solutions favored by most Estonians. Yet, chances of holding off the Soviet onslaught with an army numbering about 15,000 men were slim at best. Thus, Estonia's only real hope for the future lay in continued Western recognition of its de jure statehood, which other European countries and the United States declared in 1940. Over the next fifty years, this Western policy of token recognition nearly fell into desuetude. Yet, the policy's survival into the late 1980s would allow it to become a rallying point for Estonia's new drive for independence. Thanks to this continuing Western recognition, Estonia's calls for sovereignty from Moscow by early 1990 could not be considered merely secessionism. Rather, they represented demands for the restoration of a state still existent under international law. This appeal to international legality dating to 1940 would frustrate the attempts of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to control Estonia and the other Baltic states in the late 1980s.
Although the period of authoritarian rule that lasted from 1934 to 1940 was a low point in Estonian democracy, in perspective its severity clearly would be tempered by the long Soviet era soon to follow. The clouds over Estonia and its independence began to gather in August 1939, when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence. Moving to capitalize on its side of the deal, the Soviet Union soon began to pressure Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into signing the Pact of Defense and Mutual Assistance, which would allow Moscow to station 25,000 troops in Estonia. President Päts, in weakening health and with little outside support, acceded to every Soviet demand. In June 1940, Soviet forces completely occupied the country, alleging that Estonia had "violated" the terms of the mutual assistance treaty. With rapid political maneuvering, the regime of Soviet leader Joseph V. Stalin then forced the installation of a pro-Soviet government and called for new parliamentary elections in July. The Estonian Communist Party, which had only recently reemerged from underground with fewer than 150 members, organized the sole list of candidates permitted to run. Päts and other Estonian political leaders meanwhile were quietly deported to the Soviet Union or killed. With the country occupied and under total control, the communists' "official" electoral victory on June 17-18 with 92.8 percent of the vote was merely window dressing. On July 21, the new parliament declared Estonia a Soviet republic and "requested" admission into the Soviet Union. In Moscow, the Supreme Soviet granted the request on August 6, 1940.


The axe. The gitbox. Lucille.
Whatever you choose to call it, the electric guitar was arguably the most important step in the long evolutionary path of the guitar, which archeologists claim dates back 4,000 years to the Mesopotamian tanbur instrument.
But since the first electric guitar was revealed to the public in 1931 by inventor George Beauchamp, very little has changed. With the further popularization (and physical standardization) of the instrument by companies such as Gibson and Fender, you would be forgiven for thinking that innovation in this area ceased at some point in the early 1960s.
One Lithuanian designer and his band of merry men hope to change all that by combining SOLIDWORKS CAD modeling, modern hardware features and traditional luthier practices to produce a gitbox that is truly worthy of the 21st century.
Lava was created two years ago by industrial designer and guitarist Rapolas Gražys, who wanted to make an ergonomic guitar that enhanced playability while reducing weight. As explained by Gražys at the SOLIDWORKS World 2016 conference, traditional electric guitars don't particularly allow for playability for higher notes at the bridge end of the neck, due to poorly shaped cutaway sections (the horns on the guitar). The problem is that the cutaways just aren't cut away enough.
And as for the weight, some electric guitars weigh north of 18 lbs. If you are standing on stage for hours at a time, that can become tiresome. The Lava guitars weigh in at a manageable 6.6 lbs. At the slimmest point, the Lava Drop's range measures just 12 mm, which gives you some idea of where the instrument saves on weight.
Traditional electric guitars also feature frets along the fingerboard. Frets do have an advantage in the sense that the notes are perfectly divided up along the neck, making it easier to hit the correct note each and every time—but that practical advantage is also a tonal disadvantage. Due to the division of the frets, a standard fretted guitar is only capable of playing tones and semitones. This is fine for most western music types, but what of eastern-influenced music, which makes use of microtones?
Gražys decided to remove the frets, allowing for a greater range of tonality. Also, fretless necks are easier on the fingertips. Fretless guitars are generally uncommon in the world (compared to fretless bass guitars) and tend to exist as modified standard guitars—however, in these cases, the frets are removed with pliers.
And so, the Lava Drop range of guitars was born. They got their name from the flowing form exhibited by lava drops, a form which is mirrored in the ergonomic shape of the new instruments. There are currently three variants of the Lava Drop guitar, which I will describe later.
First, let's have a look at the design and manufacturing process.
The basic silhouette of the guitar was modeled in SOLIDWORKS (see image below), and static loading simulations were performed on one of the thinnest part of the neck to ensure that it was strong enough to withstand breakage. According to Gražys, the design's basic silhouette was created in just 20 hours with SOLIDWORKS, which is pretty nifty.
Figure 2. Modeling the Lava in SOLIDWORKS.
After the silhouette was modeled, the CAD file was sent to a 5-axis CNC router to cut out the main body. The main body was cut from a piece of maple, glued together. For the prototype, the same piece of maple was used to create a separate bolt on the neck for the guitar.
Due to the separate neck, the prototype was found to have poor sustain and resonance, so a new instrument was created from a single solid piece of wood—that is, the neck and body are cut from a single, uninterrupted piece, with no joining required. This design feature has been adopted into all new variants of the Lava guitar series.
Next, the body was removed from the router and hand finished by the luthier in the team to give it flowing and fluid curves.
The neck was finished professionally by hand to produce nice organic curves and the groove was cut and drilled to install the truss rod (a steel rod that runs along the length of the neck). The fingerboard was then glued onto the neck and the headstock hardware and tuning heads were added.
Next, the guitar body was coated with tung oil or acrylic to provide a tough but natural-looking finish. After the shape and the finish were complete, the electronic and mechanical hardware was added, including pickups, circuitry, pots, a jack plug input and knobs.
As mentioned previously, the Lava Drop is available in three different models, the Lava Drop +, Lava Drop – and Lava Drop X (as seen in the picture below). Each guitar is as unique as the grain of the piece of wood it's cut from, ensuring the instrument is one-of-a-kind and impossible to copy or plagiarize.
Figure 4. The Lava range.
This model is the 24-fretted version and is made from a single piece of American/European maple wood together with ebony fingerboard. In terms of hardware, it features a Schaller tremolo bridge and two Lace Alumitone split-coil humbuckers (allowing for five-pickup tone combinations) and apparently creates rich, bright tones suited to rock, blues, country and funk.
This is the fretless version and is handcrafted from one piece of dark sapele wood with an ebony fingerboard. This guitar has the same hardware as the Lava Drop +, but due to the lack of frets, it's better suited to jazz, world music and slide guitar styles.
As a guitarist and synth player, this version is of most interest to me personally. It has a laser-controlled MIDI controller, which means that it can connect to a computer or synth and musicians can control whatever synth or tonal parameters that they've programmed into the synth—purely by waving their hands around in thin air (similar to a theremin)!
In terms of physical hardware, it is manufactured from a single piece of merbau wood (used in shipbuilding), has aircraft-grade aluminum trim and has actual hardened volcanic lava embedded as fingerboard inlays (fret markers). Again, this is a fretted version, with 24 frets. It features a Lace Deathbucker split-coil bridge pickup, a standard jack output and an XLR output. For MIDI usage, the Lava Drop X can be hooked up to any software sequencer package (such as Ableton, Cubase, etc.) via a custom interface box.
Figure 5. Traditional luthier handiwork.
As you can see, SOLIDWORKS has been a useful tool in the creation of the Lava Drop range—and there are many other ways you can utilize the software for designing instruments.
This article on the SOLIDWORKS blog shows how you can use simulation to analyze the frequency of tensioned guitar strings. After all, a guitar string is effectively just a beam that is fixed at both ends, and as we know, SOLIDWORKS simulation is pretty good at beams.
This video tutorial shows how you can model a tuning head using SOLIDWORKS 2015.
There are a whole bunch of other videos on YouTube showing tips and tricks for those wishing to design a guitar of their own.
Personally, I would love to see someone model the entire guitar with tensioned strings and perform simulations on the neck. There can be over 200 lbs of tension across the strings on a guitar neck, which is why most guitars contain a truss rod!
The Lava Drop range is now available through a Kickstarter campaign, which Gražys hopes will spread the word of his beautiful creations. So feel free to click the link and show some support. And maybe you too can own one of these unique instruments.


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Q: Golang bit only use unsigned? This is a java function, i converted to golang code, but appear error.
How can I solve this problem?   please teach.
java code:
int p = -1;
int x = 0;
x |= 0x1 << p;
p++;

golang code:
var p int = -1
var x int = 0
x |= 0x1 << p
p++

shift code type int, must be unsigned integer

A: This is an error because as per Go specifications, bit shifting only works on unsigned ints:
left shift             integer << unsigned integer
right shift            integer >> unsigned integer

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China's national and provincial post-Covid recovery packages will put three times as much cash into fossil fuel projects as into renewable energy.
China is "focusing its recovery on high-carbon energy and infrastructure, as it did after
One of China's vanity projects: a puffer fish statue in Jiangsu province, which provoked social media outrage when it was unveiled
the 2008-09 global financial crisis", says Carbon Brief, who analysed the spending plans. Dozens of new coal-fired power stations and climate-trashing coal-to-chemicals plants are among the key items.
The plans make a mockery of Chinese premier Xi Jinping's claim to the United Nations in September to be aiming for "carbon neutrality before 2060".
This chasm between words and actions makes Xi a "climate arsonist" still more dangerous than Donald Trump, Richard Smith, a US-based China researcher, writes in a recent article. Smith fears that Xi is "abandoning the transition to renewables".
In a book published last year, China's Engine of Environmental Collapse, Smith argues that China's combination of bureaucratic dictatorship and capitalism has exacerbated Read the rest of this entry »
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As China's ruling elite connives with European and American politicians to promote false climate "solutions" via the international talks, its defenders on the "left" claim it is aiming for an "ecological civilisation".
A common approach is to foreground geopolitics: to present the trade war between the USA and China as part of the battle between capitalism and "socialism" and to sideline the class struggle in China.
The Chinese elite's role in driving forward unsustainable capitalist expansion, so obscured and downplayed by its defenders on the "left", is analysed by Richard Smith in his book China's Engine of Environmental Collapse, which I discussed in a linked post, that you could read first.
In this post I contrast Smith's approach to that of John Bellamy Foster, a writer on "ecological Marxism" and editor of Monthly Review, and comment on a review of Smith's book by Andrew Burgin, a UK-based socialist activist. It's in the form of five questions.
Does the Chinese elite's support for renewable electricity generation show that it is leading the way to an "ecological civilisation"?
The Chinese coal-fired boom of the last 20 years has made a substantial contribution to the climate and ecological emergency – and yet prominent "ecosocialists", without Read the rest of this entry »
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"There will be no dialogue on the street: let that be a warning", Natalia Konchanova, speaker of the upper house of parliament, told protesting health workers in Belarus last week.
She was addressing hospital managers, after more than 4000 health workers signed an open letter, calling for an end to violence against the protest movement; investigation of
A memorial event in Grodno yesterday for Belarusian murder victim Roman Bondarenko. Photo: TUT:by
torture allegations; an end to obstructions to health provision for imprisoned demonstrators; reinstatement of their colleagues sacked for protesting; and new, lawful presidential elections.
Doctors and health workers have been on the front lines of the protest movement in Belarus since the results of the 9 August presidential election were announced. Their first demonstration, in Minsk on 12 August – with posters saying "doctors against violence" – was triggered by their shock at the horrendous wounds inflicted by police on demonstrators.
That led to a chain reaction.. Hospital directors and rectors of medical schools were dismissed for failing to crack down on staff and student protests. Medical staff and doctors were dismissed or arrested for demonstrating; their colleagues were dismissed or arrested for demanding their release.
Konchanova's statement, on 11 November, soon provoked a reply, on facebook, from Nikita Solovey, the chief consulting expert on infectious and parasitic diseases at the Minsk city council's health committee and an associate professor of infectious diseases at the Belarusian State Medical University. Here we republish his post in full:
Madame Konchanova! I hope that this would be an appropriate way for slaves to address a master? Because slaves is how we, the medics, are now seen by bureaucrats and administrators, who believe that we have a duty to treat everyone at all times, but Read the rest of this entry »
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) systems, touted as techno-fixes for global warming, usually put more greenhouse gases into the air than they take out, a study published last month has confirmed.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS), which grabs carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by coal- or gas-fired power stations, and then uses it for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), emits between 1.4 and 4.7 tonnes of the gas for each tonne removed, the article shows.
Direct air capture (DAC), which sucks CO2 from the atmosphere, emits 1.4-3.5 tonnes for
Biological carbon removal: a forest in Turkey. Photo: Fagus/ wikimedia
each tonne it recovers, mostly from fossil fuels used to power the handful of existing projects.
If DAC was instead powered by renewable electricity – as its supporters claim it should be – it would wolf down other natural resources.
And things get worse at large scale.
To capture 1 gigatonne of CO2 (1 GtCO2, just one-fortieth of current global CO2 emissions) would need nearly twice the amount of wind and solar electricity now produced globally. The equipment would need a land area bigger than the island of Sri Lanka and a vast network of pipelines and underground storage facilities. (See endnote 1.)
Claims made that CCS could be "green" – by generating the energy from biofuels, and/or storing the carbon instead of using it for oil production – do not stand up to scrutiny either, the article shows.
The paper – "Assessing Carbon Capture: public policy, science and societal need", by Read the rest of this entry »
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The popular revolt against the autocratic regime in Belarus and its thuggish security forces is now going into its fourth month. On Sunday, mass anti-government demonstrations were staged for the 13th week in a row – and more than 1000 people were arrested.
A first-class analysis of the relationship between the street demonstrations and the Belarusian workers' movement was published last week in English, on the Rosa Luxemburg foundation site.
The article, by two researchers of labour movements, Volodymyr Artiukh and Denys Gorbach, compares the labour protests against the Belarussian regime, which they call "state capitalist", with those in Ukraine, where private capital dominates.
In Belarus, the falsification of results in the presidential election in August first gave rise
Medical students demonstration in Vitebsk on 20 September. Polina Nitchenko is carrying the sign, which reads: "You can't just wash away blood like that, I can tell you". Photo: Ales Piletsky, TUT.By
to monster street demonstrations, and then to a wave of strikes, mass meetings and other workplace actions. (I published what information I could find here, here and here.)
This was not only "the most numerous, geographically diverse, and most sustained labour unrest" since 1991, Artiukh and Gorbach write, but also "the first large-scale labour protest to happen within the context of a broader political mobilisation".
Three months on, the unrest has "gained a more individualised, sporadic and invisible form", they argue. The workers' acts of defiance "have been effective, but more on the symbolic level than in material terms".
Workers "became an inspiration for the broader protesting masses" and were greeted on the streets with banners and chants – "a significant exception in the region, for in no Read the rest of this entry »
Plenty of lies on facebook. Donald Trump's lying page is working fine. And Breitbart News's. And Fox news presenter Tucker Carlson's. And Trump's former press secretary's Kayleigh McEnany's. And Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon's (although, to be fair, facebook has stopped him adding posts, after he called for the execution of Anthony Fauci, the White House medical science adviser).
But facebook has blocked anyone from posting links to peoplenature[dot]org, my humble web site where I write about socialism, ecology, the labour movement in eastern European countries and stuff like that.
It's certainly a computer that decided to block me (for "breaching community standards" – as if!!). I've complained to the computer. And the computer may eventually notice its mistake. Or not …
So if you usually follow peoplenature[dot]org on facebook – as many of you lovely people do – please let's use alternatives:
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A plan to pipe hydrogen, instead of natural gas, to millions of UK households is being pushed hard by the fossil fuel industry. It sounds "green" – but could wreck efforts to make homes truly zero carbon, using insulation and electric heat pumps.
Oil and gas companies support switching the gas grid to hydrogen, as a survival option in case of decarbonisation, as hydrogen is usually fabricated from gas.
But the hydrogen strategy cuts across the approach recommended for years by housing
The gas grid: better to replace it with heat pumps. Photo by Ran-Allen / Creative Commons
policy wonks and architects: to use insulation to slash the amount of heat needed, and install electric pumps (which work like fridges in reverse).
Leeds Trades Union Council (TUC) last month launched a campaign in favour of retrofitting homes with high-quality insulation and heat pumps.
It's an issue many people can unite around – those fighting for better housing and tenants' rights, campaigners against fuel poverty, trades unionists fighting building industry cuts, and all of us who want to tackle climate change.
And there's a choice to be made we cannot avoid.
If the gas grid is switched to hydrogen, that will block for good the electrification-and insulation approach, that heats homes better, more cheaply, with technology that we know works, and is truly zero-carbon. We cannot have it both ways.
We will be locked into extra dependency on fossil fuels, instead of speeding the shift away from them.
That gas-to-hydrogen switch is being planned in north-east England by Northern Gas Networks (NGN): its H21 project would convert 3.7 million homes and businesses by Read the rest of this entry »
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Global warming is upsetting the monsoon, making droughts more likely, and changing the lives of hundreds of millions of Indians, writes NAGRAJ ADVE, in a guest post based on his pamphlet, Global Warming in the Indian Context.
The average sea level rise worldwide over 2016-2020 was nearly half a centimetre per year, says the United in Science 2020 report, published last month by the World Meteorological
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Organisation (WMO), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other scientific institutions.
The rate of sea level rise is now significantly higher than the 20th century average, largely due to the loss of ice from the great ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland, besides warmer ocean waters expanding.
Reading the United in Science 2020 report made me think about sea level rise in terms of centimetres rather than millimetres – for the first time in the 15 years that I have been engaging with the climate crisis.
The impact of rising waters in the Indian sub-continent is one of the many issues covered in a new edition of my pamphlet, Global Warming in the Indian Context, published today by People & Nature. I have updated the pamphlet – which was first published on People & Nature in June 2016 – to highlight many things about the climate crisis that have changed since then.
But the first thing to emphasise is that the social context in which climate change hits people in India is very different from that in the UK or mainland Europe.
■ In India, 650 million people rely on agriculture or related occupations; the average landholding per household is merely 2.5 acres, and half the area is under key crops such as rice and wheat;
■ Millions of small and marginal farmers have no access to irrigation, are entirely dependent on the rain, and hence more vulnerable to climatic changes; and
■ In the world's most disastrous Covid-induced lockdown, 120 million people have lost their jobs or livelihoods – and there is no sign of economic recovery in sight.
Extreme climatic events have been getting more intense and frequent in India (and worldwide) in recent years – particularly extreme rainfall events. These result in floods, loss Read the rest of this entry »
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It's sunny in New York today.
In Los Angeles, it's rainy and cold. Flooding is the enemy of the Oscars since there's no runoff here for rainstorms. Water just accumulates. On the radio, the announcers actually have to instruct listeners on how drive in the rain. They don't know turn on lights or windshield wipers here.
The 2018 Oscar weekend is underway, and it's a snore so far. The studios– Fox Searchlight, Focus/Universal, little A24, Sony Pictures Classics–are so paranoid about sexual harassment claims and other mysterious notions that they banned the press from their parties. All season they preyed on us for publicity, and now, not even a canape.
At Fox Searchlight that idea boomeranged since the studio's two Best Actress nominees– Sally Hawkins and Frances McDormand– didn't bother showing up. Fox Searchlight is also teetering since despite two Best Picture nominees, the little sub studio may be eaten by Disney in weeks to come.
The irony here too is that suddenly wherever you go the odds on favorite to win Best Picture is neither "Shape of Water" nor "Three Billboards." All anyone talks about is "Get Out," the Jordan Peele directed thriller-social satire from Universal. Could "Get Out" be the "Moonlight" of 2018?
And then there's the Academy's actually brilliant idea of bringing back Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway for a do-over from last year. Will they flub the winner's name again? No. But they'll make fun of it. Whoever had this idea– Mike DeLuca? — has created buzz for a show that had none. The whole world now has to watch the very end of the show to see what Warren and Faye. Now we've got game.
This afternoon comes the Indie Spirit Awards. Last year, "Moonlight" won Best Feature before scooping up its Oscar. Will this be a replay of the same thing? "Get Out" here, "Get Out" there? The Spirit Awards are also awarding Best Ensemble to "Mudbound," which already received the same exact award from the East Coast version of the Spirits, the Gotham Awards. But at least that makes two times to see Mary J. Blige in person, so that's the upside.
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Game 2 Open Thread: Cleveland Cavaliers @ SA
By sungo Nov 4, 2005, 3:02pm CST
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Tonight's game will be televised nationally on ESPN starting at 7 p.m. central time.
Starting lineups:
CLE (1-0, 0-0 away)
PG Eric Snow
SG Larry Hughes
SF LeBron James
PF Drew Gooden
C Zydrunas Ilgauskas
SA (1-0, 1-0 home)
PG Tony Parker
SG Manu Ginobili
SF Bruce Bowen
PF Tim Duncan
C Rasho Nesterovic
Mohammed's minutes will likely slowly ramp up as the season progresses. You probably heard that his wife gave birth during the preseason and both mother and child fell ill soon after, causing Nazr to miss the majority of team events. Nazr's wife and child are now doing well.
Also, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan ended yesterday. Ramadan involves fasting (including no liquids) while the sun is up, which is not exactly conduscive to getting into basketball shape. (No, pregnant women, children and the sick do not fast during Ramadan.)
CLE made some big changes in the offseason. They hired two former Spur employees, Danny Ferry and Mike Brown, to fill the vacant GM and head coaching spots. They also added Larry Hughes, Damon Jones and Donyell Marshall while resigning Zydrunas.
Both Jones and Marshall provide much needed perimeter shooting, while Hughes is a young, gifted scorer who was actually named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team last year. I think that was mostly do to his leading the league in steals (by almost 0.50 SPG); he's not a great lockdown defender.
Ilgauskus was second in the NBA in offensive rebounds last year, but he's not much on the defensive end. Keeping him off the glass will be Nazr's and Rasho's primary duty tonight.
Then there's Lebron James. He's going to win the MVP award this year (by a large margin, too) and will be a top 3 player the minute he decides to play some defense. Oh, and Tony Parker is going to lead the Spurs in scoring this year. And there is a housing bubble that will burst in the next 8-12 months (maybe sooner) due to rising interest rates and the recent (as in the last 4 years) influx of exotic mortgages.
Tonight's line: SA -7.5. My pick: CLE. The Spurs are 1-0 ATS this year with an average margin of +4. Your friendly blogger who does not condone, encourage or participate in any activities related to gambling is 0-1.
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L'église Saint-Paul de Chailly-en-Bière est une église et style romane et gothique du , sise à Chailly-en-Bière en Seine-et-Marne en Île-de-France. Inscrite aux monuments historiques depuis 1926, elle est célèbre pour apparaître sur le tableau L'Angélus du musée d'Orsay, du peintre Jean-François Millet vers 1857.

Historique
Une première église carolingienne est construite en 808, sous le règne de l'empereur Charlemagne, sur l'actuelle route nationale 7, en lisière de la forêt de Fontainebleau, à 10 km de Fontainebleau et de Melun, sur une route royale du Moyen Âge du Pays de Bière du Gâtinais. Elle est dédiée à l'apôtre du Christ Saint Paul de Tarse par l'évêque de Sens.

L'actuelle église romane est construite sur la précédente au , avec ogive du , quelques lancettes du , chapelle seigneuriale (actuelle sacristie) du , baies du , chœur et chapelles latérales du , clocher du , et toiture en tuile plate...

Le cœur et le clocher sont détruits par un incendie en 1752, et restaurés en 1753 avec des lambris du château de Fontainebleau. Le clocher est à nouveau incendié et reconstruit vers 1765 grâce à un don financier du roi Louis XV et de Madame de Pompadour. Les trois cloches  (Lucie-Gabrielle, Lucienne-Marcelle, et Solange) ont remplacé à ce jour le gros bourdon fêlé qui sonnait L'Angélus de Jean-François Millet au .

Dans le choeur, figure une copie de La Vierge de la famille de Vic.

L'Angélus et l'église de Chailly de Jean-François Millet

Cofondateur de l'École de Barbizon du hameau voisin de Barbizon, où il vit, le peintre Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) peint son célèbre chef-d'œuvre  L'Angélus du musée d'Orsay, vers 1858, scène de peinture de paysage et de vie paysanne réaliste, inspirée de ses souvenirs d'enfance, où un couple de paysans de la plaine de Bière pose ses outils de travaux de champs de pomme de terre, à la tombée du jour, pour la prière de l'angélus (ou prière à l'archange Gabriel et à Marie) sonné au loin par le clocher de cette église en arrière-plan.

Millet peint également L´Église de Chailly en 1867. Il s'applique alors à travailler les jeux de lumière, de pénombre, et de clair-obscur, dans ses tableaux, préfigure de l'impressionnisme.

Jean-François Millet à Chailly-en-Bière et Barbizon
Originaire d'une famille paysanne de Normandie où il passe son enfance, le peintre intègre les Beaux-Arts de Paris, puis s'installe définitivement en 1849 (à l'âge de 35 ans) dans sa maison-atelier d'artiste (actuel musée) du hameau voisin de Barbizon, ou il vit et cofonde l'École de Barbizon. Il se marie dans cette église, y fait baptiser ses enfants, et y repose dans le cimetière voisin auprès de son grand ami peintre Théodore Rousseau. Il peint ici de nombreuses scènes rurales de vie paysanne, entre Chailly-en-Bière et Barbizon, dont :

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Articles connexes
 L'Angélus
 École de Barbizon
 Liste des monuments historiques de Seine-et-Marne (ouest)

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Greetings from the Council of Love, I am Gabrielle, Lily of Love and Herald of God. We wish to speak of entry to the 13th Octave, the place of wholeness within the Universal Mind and Soul.
There will be those who are on a spiritual path who will question how the 13th Octave is different or "new". Know right now and feel within your heart that opening that is a gift from One. God is a being or energy and beyond comprehension to most, even those who have spent eons of time at His side and within His embrace. This is not because God wishes to remain a mystery being but because he is constantly changing, evolving and inventing new forms, new ways for all to unite with his energy, new ways in which to become One with Him. The Universe is not static, it never has been. Nothing remains the same if it is a part of the Divine – it is dynamic, it is living breathing and having different experiences, reaching different levels of knowing always. This change is not the same as chaos for it is self-directed through the heart of God. It is expansive in tandem with the Universe, not in combat with it. This is why the Earth has wished to move and evolve beyond her former state of a 3rd dimensional being. She has always understood the bigger picture, the grander scheme.
Many correctly believe that the purpose of their spiritual journey here on Earth has been to clear all blockages, obtain balance, then merge and experience the Divine. This Union, particularly for those who do so on a daily basis, results in and promotes a state of clarity, of balance and of extreme joy. To date, that was all that was truly available to those within your energy grid of 12 planes and 12 existences. This has now changed. God created the next energy plane, the next circle long ago, but it has never been open or available to those in physical form on Earth. That is why it initially will be difficult for some to understand and accept.
Those in a state of advanced knowing, those who through their daily ritual of joining with the Divine will be the least resistive. They have always known that there was much more beyond the veil, they have always prayed that they would enter the next phase alive, conscious and ready. It is those who have pursued a spiritual path and have not yet reached that plateau who will question.
It is a good thing that they question, for it opens their hearts and minds to new information. They have trepidation for they are like small children worrying about what will happen if they do not choose, what will happen if they do not enter, what will happen if they do enter, what will happen if they are left behind. These questions, this process catapults them to exactly where they need to be, to take the next step, and enter the 13th Octave.
With the preparation and clearing of outstanding debris they will shed their concerns and cynicism and become enthusiastic about the possibilities of a new creation of an energy field; a new gift from their personal and One creator to their hearts and their beings. For, as we have said before, this is a very personal gift. While there will be group initiations, the gift, the passage the entry is a soul/sole journey.
The purpose of the group gatherings is to merge energy, to increase your vibrations to such a level that you can accept the next levels of energies without blowing your circuits. You come together to celebrate, and to create a synthesis that will be greater than the individual parts. It is possible for us to reach the hearts of each person individually, and some will be touched in this way. Our method is to use groups because the purpose of the entry into the 13th Octave is to return in service to the One, and, the one united humankind who remains within their path of 12:12.
This is a community undertaking and mutual support, Love and unity are the benefits of this type of gathering. Also fun, for believe me when I say the Divine intent of this entire process is Joy and that means having fun!


Just finished uploading the photos from Brixton from a few weeks back! Sorry for the quietness of Whopper! They can be located in the gallery. Enjoy the photos!
Now all sing along with us... "I've Met Jesus...I'veeee met Jeeessuusss!"
"Richie Edwards is one of rock music's true success stories after the one-time roadie rose through the ranks to play bass with The Darkness and become frontman for one of Britain's best new bands. rushonrock caught up with the Stone Gods frontman ahead of Monday's gig with Airbourne at Newcastle's Carling Academy."
"It is with great regret that, due to illness, we've had to pull out of the Inverness and Dundee shows. We'll be back to giving it 100% for Glasgow.
Heartfelt apologies to anyone who feels disappointed, we assure you we do to!
As always, love and respect, SG."


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New iPhone 3.0 OS available
A revised operating system for Apple's iPhone is now available, adding functionality such as system-wide search and cut-and-paste to the popular handset.
By David Meyer | June 17, 2009 -- 11:02 GMT (04:02 PDT) | Topic: Mobility
iPhone 3.0 was first shown off to developers in March. The update is free for iPhone users and $9.99 for iPod Touch owners. It can be uploaded from iTunes.
System-wide search is provided by the Spotlight tool, which is already found on desktop Macs. The tool allows the user to search for a phrase across the handset's contacts, messaging, email, calendar and iTunes applications.
The cut-and-paste functionality is called up when the user double-taps on a section of text, then selects the desired action. Mistakes can be reversed by shaking the handset.
Push notifications have been enabled, so users do not need to constantly remember to check for new messages, and iPhone users will now be able to invite contacts to meetings and forward contacts to colleagues.
Version 3.0 of the operating system also adds the option of using the soft keyboard in landscape mode. Emails, text messages and contacts can now also be viewed in landscape mode.
Gallery: iPhone 3G S and iPhone 3.0
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A native voice recorder application has also been added to the iPhone's operating system for the first time, and users will now be able to send multimedia (MMS) messages.
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'It has some real problems': How Swedish model could help cut accidents on Scotland's most dangerous road
A82 public consultation aims to reduce accidents
By Caroline Wilson Senior Reporter
Kate Forbes, SNP MSP is asking drivers to shape new safety improvements for the A82, one of Scotland's most dangerous roads
IT is one of the most scenic roads in Scotland but is also one of the most dangerous due to the layout and high volumes of traffic, especially at the height of the summer tourist season.
Now a motoring expert has said that more use of two plus one overtaking lanes and raising the speed limit for HGVs could help cut accidents on the notorious A82 which links Glasgow and Inverness.
A public consultation is being launched aimed at improving the safety of the A82 "gateway to the Highlands" trunk road, which twists its way via Loch Lomond, Glencoe, Fort William and Loch Ness.
READ MORE: Grim statistics reveal Scotland's 10 most dangerous roads
Road safety campaigners say the road has been under the radar because of a focus on the A9 in Perthshire, generally regarded as the country's worst for safety – statistics published last year revealed there was a crash resulting in a casualty every three days during 2018.
Since 2017, more than 20 people have lost their lives through accidents on the A82 and there has been a series of crashes in recent weeks. Herald figures published earlier this year found there has been 73 serious or fatal accidents between January 2017 and summer 2019, the highest tally in Scotland.
The notorious Loch Lomond stretch has benefited from widening, while significant works are planned from Tarbet to Inverarnan.
Kate Forbes, SNP MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, who is launching the consultation, said its purpose is to identify the other areas most in need of safety measures, which can then be prioritised for work.
Drivers cite the stretch from Glencoe to Fort William and the area around Loch Ness as particular trouble spots.
Neil Greig, policy director for motoring charity IAM Roadsmart, said greater deployment of overtaking lanes, which are said to have dramatically reduced head-on crashes in Sweden, should be considered.
Two plus one roads consist of two lanes in one direction and one lane in the other, alternating every few kilometres and separated, usually with a steel cable barrier.
READ MORE: Michael Matheson defends £3bn upgrade of A9
He said: "It's a road with lots of character but one that I think has been possibly a bit under the radar compared to the A9 and the A83 Rest and Be Thankful of late.
"It is a major and important route to the Highlands and I think it has some real problems, for example at Loch Ness.
"In an ideal world you would like to see the resources being targeted at the areas where accidents are happening so it should be data led, but my feeling about the road is that a lot of the problems are caused by frustration, through lack of over-taking opportunities.
"You can't feasibly dual most of the A82 in the way of the A9 because of the nature of the land it goes through.
"What we would like to see is more over-taking opportunities and that could be done with trying out better designs of two plus one. That was tried on the A9 and wasn't particularly successful but it's accepted practice in Sweden and the rest of Europe that you do this.
"We would probably need to look at new designs of it because what would happen is that people would use it as a three-lane road.
There is a section of two plus one at Loch Lomond which seems to work quite well. If people know there are overtaking opportunities ahead, they are more inclined to wait for those opportunities."
Mr Greig said raising the speed limit for the biggest HGVs – in England it has been lifted to 50mph from 40 could also help.
READ MORE: Two people cut free after serious crash on major Scottish road
He added: "It sounds a bit counter-intuitive, but it seems to make people more comfortable and not attempt silly over-takes. People think they are being held up by an HGV doing 40mph but that is the speed limit. In England it's 50 and it hasn't led to crashes.
"The good thing about the consultation is that they are treating it as a whole route and an important route.
"A combination of major engineering work to straighten out some of the corners, more overtaking, junction improvements and widening where they can would be good.
"People do get fatigued on these roads and I also think there does need to be more stopping opportunities."
SNP MSP Kate Forbes, whose constituency includes the majority of the A82 route, said she will use the survey results to lobby for "realistic and evidence-based improvements".
She said: "It is widely accepted that the A82 is in need of further investment and upgrade work. People like me who drive the road on a regular basis will know some of the best and worst bits, and that is the purpose of this survey."
The consultation will close just before Christmas and it is hoped that the results will be announced in early 2021.
To contribute to the survey go to www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VJZLKL3
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Verna Carlsen, age 86, of Mankato, MN, died on Wednesday, April 01, 2020 at Cottagewood Senior Community in Mankato.
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Verna Gertrude Bird was born December 10, 1933 at Roseau, Minnesota to Glen and Gunda (Haukom) Bird. Verna graduated from Roseau High School in 1952. She continued her education by attending nursing school in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. As a young woman, Verna left Minnesota for California. She was united in marriage to James R. Carlsen in 1957 at Berkeley, California. In 1959 the couple returned to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. They were the parents of three ornery sons, James, Michael, and Douglas. Verna worked as a nurse at several hospitals in the Twin Cities area. In the early 1970's, she and Jim established North Star Ambulance service in the Twin Cities.
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Quentin Tarantino Loses Big In Trying To Paint Gawker As A Copyright Infringer
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Wed, Apr 23rd 2014 7:47am — Mike Masnick
We didn't write about this case when it came out because it just seemed so ridiculous, but filmmaker Quentin Tarantino sued Gawker Media earlier this year for linking to a script he had apparently been working on. There had been a bunch of media coverage over the fact that his script for The Hateful Eight leaked, and was being shared around Hollywood, though not online. Gawker then asked anyone if they'd seen a copy, leading to a followup post which included a link to the newly leaked script.
Tarantino argued that by soliciting from the public a copy of the script and then subsequently linking to it, Gawker was guilty of contributory infringement. Thankfully, a federal court that actually understands copyright law has quickly disabused Tarantino of that bizarre interpretation of copyright law, granting Gawker's motion to dismiss. The big problem: at no point anywhere in the process above, did Tarantino's lawyer show how Gawker's actions resulted in anyone infringing on anyone's copyright. That makes it quite hard to pin "contributory infringement" when there's no direct infringement in the first place:
However, nowhere in these paragraphs or anywhere else in the Complaint does Plaintiff allege a single act of direct infringement committed by any member of the general public that would support Plaintiff's claim for contributory infringement. Instead, Plaintiff merely speculates that some direct infringement must have taken place. For example, Plaintiff's Complaint fails to allege the identity of a single third-party infringer, the date, the time, or the details of a single instance of third-party infringement, or, more importantly, how Defendant allegedly caused, induced, or materially contributed to the infringement by those third parties
In a footnote, the court further notes that even if Tarantino's lawyers could dredge up some example of direct infringement based on someone reading the script, the lawsuit still wouldn't make any sense:
Even if Plaintiff alleged that individuals accessed the links contained in Defendant's article in order to read Plaintiff's script, such an allegation would still not support Plaintiff's contributory infringement claim against Defendant. Simply viewing a copy of allegedly infringing work on one's own computer does not constitute the direct infringement necessary to support Plaintiff's contributory infringement claim. See Perfect 10, Inc., 508 F.3d at 1169 (where alleged primary infringers merely view pages containing infringing images, but do not "store[] infringing images on their computers," there is no infringement). In addition, based on the allegations of the Complaint, there can be little doubt that Plaintiff has a strong claim for direct infringement against Doe 1, a/k/a AnonFiles.com. However, Plaintiff has not alleged and it is highly unlikely that Plaintiff will be able to plead facts demonstrating that Defendant somehow induced, caused, or materially contributed to the infringing conduct by publishing a link to the screenplay after it was wrongfully posted on AnonFiles.com.
The court notes that Gawker spent a lot of effort explaining why this is fair use but notes that, "albeit persuasive and potentially dispositive," it doesn't even need to bother with that argument since there's no infringement to defend against fair use here anyway.
Once again, it seems like people who grow up totally immersed in a world of copyright maximalism automatically leap to the conclusion that "something I don't like" must be an infringement of copyright. Thankfully, the law (mostly) doesn't work that way.
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Kill Gawker?


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