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Burma, 1852. Arthur Bowman, a sergeant in the East India Company, is sent on a secret mission during the Second Anglo-Burmese War. But the expedition is foiled – his men are captured and tortured. Throughout their ordeal, a single word becomes Bowman's mantra, a word that will stiffen their powers of endurance in the face of unimaginable suffering: "Survival". But for all that, only a handful escape with their lives.
Painter Nick Steyn moves to the City Bowl in Cape Town after separating from his partner, Isabel. A young boarder moves in with Nick and they soon become friends. But one night she does not come home, and his attempts to trace her come to nothing. A few weeks later the prosperous artist Buks Verhoef makes an offer on Nick's house. Is there a connection between these events, and if so, could Nick's former friend, Victor Schoeman, the author of the outrageous novel The Shallows, have a hand in them? A parallel narrative concerns a nameless Stellenbosch woman who is writing a monograph on the famous Olivier brothers. One day she witnesses the murder of Buks Verhoef in a coffee shop; soon thereafter a sinister man starts stalking her. Could this also be Victor Schoeman? A fantastical, absurd yet haunting novel by the award-winning novelist Ingrid Winterbach. Translated as always by Michiel Heyns.
On the coldest day of the year, Sweden's Minister for Justice steps out of Parliament House and into a blizzard – and disappears. That same night, across the Baltic Sea, a Danish celebrity finds a stranger lurking in her snow-bound home.
One is a surgeon who carefully dissects his victims. The other is a brutal predator who targets women. Police in Stockholm and Copenhagen are closing in on their suspects. But as winter darkens and more people die, their investigations begin to unravel.
'More gripping than Jo Nesbo, blacker than Stieg Larsson and more bleakly human than Henning Mankell.' Tony Parsons.
'Atmospheric and complicated … with great cop characters and some imaginatively grisly perps.' Star Pick – The Sunday Times.
'Swedish crime writer of the year. Bliss' Irish Times.
'Grips like a vice.' Irish Independent.
Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories, they only come for the wild maiden.
Chile, 1988. The Human Solutions team (a detective, a psychologist, and an actor) work together to engineer social situations to help their clients with anything they might need – until a case leaves one of them tangled in a cult run by an ex-Nazi with torturous ties to the Pinochet dictatorship.
And he is good. Javier's manipulations never fail because he controls every moment of every interaction – he is precise, observant and emotionally ruthless —and this has served him well. But then one day he slips. He falls for a woman, and against his better judgment, and the council of his associates, Javier takes on her case – a case he would never touch under ordinary circumstances. The woman's name is Elena, and her son is locked behind the well-armed walls of a cult masquerading as an educational institution. She wants him out, so Javier agrees to go in.
Once behind the walls of the compound, Javier meets a man who is running a larger-scale social manipulation than he ever thought possible. The man is Peter Wenzel—or Uncle Peter, as he insists on being called—and as the charismatic leader of the cult he deftly manipulates his followers through a complicated system of fear, deception and brutality. Uncle Peter is an ex-Nazi, expelled from Germany for molesting children, and his ties with General Pinochet—Chile's barbarous dictator—are extensive and terrifying. He is a man with no conscience or fear—and Javier quickly realizes that he may have met his match.
In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice, The Refugees is a beautifully written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.
"The novel beats with a present-day urgency–a nation at war with itself, the unbearable grief of a father who has lost a child, and a howling congregation of ghosts, as divided in death as in life, unwilling to move on." Vanity Fair .
From our ancestors' first forays through the continent, to the contemporary diaspora spread around the world, people are eternally moving in, out and about the African continent. Not everyone leaves of their own volition, and not everyone comes with the best intentions: nevertheless, the story of Africa is the story of souls migrating, settling, unsettling, fleeing, seeking, resting, nesting and sharing stories, experiences and myths.
From treks both physical and spiritual, journeys both internal and across continents, from the comfort of ancient myth to the desperation of those currently fleeing their homes, Short Story Day Africa latest collection brings a fresh, urgent perspective to one of our most profound phenomena, and the basis of all our greatest stories.
The twenty-one exciting voices, both new and established, including Mirette Bhagat Eskaros, TJ Benson, Arja Salafranca, Sibongile Fisher, Fred Khumalo and Karen Jennings, make Migrations a moving, informative and immersive read.
When Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party and heir apparent to Nelson Mandela, was brutally slain in his driveway in April 1993, he left a shocked and grieving South Africa on the precipice of civil war. But to 12-year-old Lindiwe, it was the love of her life, her daddy, who had been shockingly ripped from her life.
In this intimate and brutally honest memoir, 36-year-old Lindiwe remembers the years she shared with her loving father, and the toll that his untimely death took on the Hani family. She lays family skeletons bare and brings to the fore her own downward spiral into cocaine and alcohol addiction, a desperate attempt to avoid the pain of his brutal parting.
For as long as I can remember, I'd grown up feeling that I was the daughter of Chris Hani and that I was useless. My father was such a huge figure, such an icon to so many people, it felt like I could never be anything close to what he achieved – so why even try? Of course my addiction to booze and cocaine just made me feel my worthlessness even more.
What does South Africa's balance sheet look like?
Are we already a failed state?
How strong is our democracy really?
What can we, as ordinary South Africans do?
This book gives perspective on burning issues, including education, the rule of law, lack of service delivery, the ailing economy, corruption, cronyism and the predator state. Eloff's fresh, fact-based analysis tells us how South Africa really works – and how we can all pitch in to make it better.
After matric Lesley took a gap year to the United States. Before she left, her mother, in jest or premonition, said: "Don't get married and don't join a cult" – but Lesley ended up in what is considered one of the most dangerous existing cults in America. In this book Lesley shares the story of her life-changing years with this group – living out of a backpack, an arranged marriage to a Brother, having home births, threats of losing her children and surviving in strange, glorious ways.
The book is told largely through a series of letters exchanged between Smailes and her mother.
I was twenty-six years old and an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America. That's all that most people knew about me. But beneath the surface, I was full of secrets: I was a drug addict, for one. A pillhead. I was also an alcoholic-in-training who guzzled warm Veuve Clicquot after work alone in my boss's office with the door closed; a conniving and manipulative uptown doctor-shopper; a salami-and-provolone-puking bulimic who spent a hundred dollars a day on binge foods when things got bad (and they got bad often); a weepy, wobbly, wildly hallucination-prone insomniac; a tweaky self-mutilator; a slutty and self-loathing downtown party girl; and – perhaps most of all – a lonely weirdo. But, you know, I had access to some really fantastic self-tanner.
By the age of 15, Cat Marnell longed to work in the glamorous world of women's magazines – but was also addicted to the ADHD meds prescribed by her father. Within 10 years she was living it up in New York as a beauty editor at Condé Nast, with a talent for 'doctor-shopping' that secured her a never-ending supply of prescriptions. Her life had become a twisted merry-go-round of parties and pills at night, while she struggled to hold down her high-profile job during the day.
Witty, magnetic and penetrating – prompting comparisons to Bret Easton Ellis and Charles Bukowski – Cat Marnell reveals essential truths about her generation, brilliantly uncovering the many aspects of being an addict with pin-sharp humour and beguiling style.
The details of most PDBs are highly classified, and will remain so for many years. But the process by which the intelligence community develops and presents the Book is a fascinating look into the operation of power at the highest levels. David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of secrets. He offers an unprecedented window into the decision making of every president from Kennedy to Obama, with many character–rich stories revealed here for the first time.
Technology moves fast – so where will it have taken us by 2050? How will it affect the way we live? And how far are we willing to let it go?
In Megatech, distinguished scientists, industry leaders, star academics and acclaimed science-fiction writers join journalists from The Economist to explore answers to these questions and more.
Twenty experts in the field, including Nobel prize-winner Frank Wilczek, Silicon Valley venture-capitalist Ann Winblad, philanthropist Melinda Gates and science-fiction author Alastair Reynolds identify the big ideas, fantastic inventions and potentially sinister trends that will shape our future. Join them to explore a brave new world of brain-computer interfaces, vat-grown cruelty-free meat, knitted cars and guided bullets.
The writers predict the vast changes that technology will bring to everything from food production to health care, energy output, manufacturing and the military balance. They also consider the impact on jobs, and how we can prepare for the opportunities, as well as the dangers, that await.
Thought-provoking, engaging and full of insight from the forefront of tech innovation, Megatech is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand tomorrow's world.
How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world – from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century, before leading us to the present.
He shows that as the world became modern those who were unable to fulfil its promises – freedom, stability and prosperity – were increasingly susceptible to demagogues. The many who came late to this new world or were left, or pushed, behind, reacted in horrifyingly similar ways: intense hatred of invented enemies, attempts to re-create an imaginary golden age, and self-empowerment through spectacular violence. It was from among the ranks of the disaffected that the militants of the 19th century arose – angry young men who became cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic revolutionaries in Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, and anarchist terrorists internationally.
On January 21st, 2017, five million people in 82 countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement around the many issues that were hotly debated during the 2016 U.S. presidential race immigration, health care, environmental protections, LGBTQ rights, racial justice, freedom of religion, and workers' rights, among others. In the mere 66 days between the election and inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States, 673 sister marches sprang up across the country and the world. ABRAMS Image presents Why I March to honour the movement, give back to it, and promote future activism in the same vein. All royalties from the sale of the book will be donated to non-profit organisations affiliated with the March.
The epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the creation of some of the world's most important vaccines.
Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated foetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted from an aborted foetus from Sweden, produced safe, clean cells that allowed the creation of vaccines against rubella and other common childhood diseases. Two years later, in the midst of a devastating German measles epidemic, his colleague developed the vaccine that would one day wipe out homegrown rubella. The rubella vaccine and others made with those foetal cells have protected more than 150 million people in the United States, the vast majority of them preschool children. The new cells and the method of making them also led to vaccines that have protected billions of people around the world from polio, rabies, chicken pox, measles, hepatitis A, shingles and adenovirus.
Meredith Wadman's masterful account recovers not only the science of this urgent race, but also the political roadblocks that nearly stopped the scientists. She describes the terrible dilemmas of pregnant women exposed to German measles and recounts testing on infants, prisoners, orphans and the intellectually disabled, which was common in the era. These events take place at the dawn of the battle over using human foetal tissue in research, during the arrival of big commerce in campus labs, and as huge changes take place in the laws and practices governing who 'owns' research cells and the profits made from biological inventions. It is also the story of yet one more unrecognized woman whose cells have been used to save countless lives.
With another frightening virus imperilling pregnant women on the rise today, no medical story could have more human drama, impact, or urgency today than The Vaccine Race.
Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades on one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century. In Russia to this day Lenin inspires adulation. Everywhere, he continues to fascinate as a man who made history, and who created a new kind of state that would later be imitated by nearly half the countries in the world.
Lenin believed that the 'the political is the personal', and while in no way ignoring his political life, Sebestyen focuses on Lenin the man – a man who loved nature almost as much as he loved making revolution, and whose closest ties and friendships were with women. The long-suppressed story of his ménage a trois with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a different character to the coldly one-dimensional figure of legend.
Told through the prism of Lenin's key relationships, Sebestyen's lively biography casts a new light on the Russian Revolution, one of the great turning points of modern history.
Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil. Foreign visitors who filled hotels, bars and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps. Among them were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, governesses and volunteer nurses. Many kept diaries and wrote letters home: from an English nurse who had already survived the sinking of the Titanic; to the black valet of the US Ambassador, far from his native Deep South; to suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, who had come to Petrograd to inspect the indomitable Women's Death Battalion led by Maria Bochkareava.
Drawing upon a rich trove of material and through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold, Helen Rappaport takes us right up to the action – to see, feel and hear the Revolution as it happened.
Carly Simon is a household name. She was the staple of the '70s and '80s Billboard charts and was famously married to James Taylor with whom she has two children. She has had a career that has spanned four decades, resulting in thirteen top 40 hits, including the Number 1 song 'You're So Vain', numerous Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. She was the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her song 'Let the River Run' (from the film Working Girl).
Boys in the Trees is a rhapsodic, beautifully composed memoir of a young woman's coming of age amongst the glamorous literati and intelligentsia of Manhattan (her father was Richard Simon, co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster), a reflection on a life begun amidst secrets and shame, and a powerful story of the strength to leave that all behind and forge a path of art, music and love in the Golden Age of folk and rock.
At once an insider's look into a life in the spotlight, a lyric reflection on a particular time in our culture's history, and a beautiful memoir about the pains and joys of love and art, Boys in the Trees is the story Carly Simon has long been waiting to tell the world.


"You wait here" is a typical instruction given by parents to countless children every day, but this time it was different. The 12 year old boy followed his mother's instruction and continued to sit on the side of the road in the hot Florida sun. He sat there for three days and nights remembering the last words his mother said, "I can't do this anymore. You wait here."
Bill Wilson, founder of Metro Ministries, continues, "My mom never came back. That's the beginning of my story and it's the same one we hear in the inner city of New York over and over again. It's about thousands of kids who have been abandoned by society. That's why we've been working in the city for so long. They need more. They need to be safe and well fed. They need a family. And they need something more . . . they need God."
2005 marked the 25th year that the once-abandoned boy, Bill Wilson, has been on the same corner in Brooklyn, NY reaching out to rescue the children left behind in this battleground of drugs, violence, abuse, filth and neglect. Through the Sidewalk and Saturday Sunday School programs pioneered by Bill, during a typical week, over 20,000 NY children and 11,000 in the Philippines and Africa will learn that; they are special; they have value; that God loves them. In a personal way.
Today, Bill and his staff of over 160 and army of over 420 volunteers have one thing in common; they know that one person can make a difference. But how do the over 140 weekly Sunday School sessions translate into a personal experience? With weekly visits to the children where they live.
Personal visitation in the homes is the key to the relationships shared between the families, volunteers and staff at Metro. "There's no intrusion, no pressure," Bill says. "The children just know we care for them and love them." These consistent visits build rapport with the families and in the community. When a tragedy hits, a family's first phone call is to Metro.
People from across the world have also become directly involved in the lives of individual children through the Won-by-One program. This active partnership between the sponsor and a specific child has a proven track record of changing lives. While the Metro staff and volunteers make weekly visits to the children in their homes, it is often difficult to get past the front door. This is where the sponsors really make a difference.
Armed with a letter or package from a sponsor, the staff person is often invited inside. During the time with them to help the child write a thank you note, they can see the home environment and share with the parent. This lets both the child and parent know that Metro and people outside of NY love them and are praying for them. Time and again, this simple act has been an effective tool for breaking down barriers that keep the adults away from church.
As Pastor Bill often repeats, "It is easier to build boys and girls than to repair men and women." The focus is on the children. The vision includes families. The heartbeat is Jesus.
Look for the Bill Wilson's program In the Crosshairs airing on Revelation Television and at the Issachar Institue in Brentwood February 23-25, 2006, where he will be teaching about how to organize, start and grow a successful Sunday School (Kids Club) program.
For more information on Bill Wilson, Metro Ministries or becoming a Won-By-One sponsor, visit their website."
On a much smaller level, but still very intense and with big impact, you could join us in our local Kids´ ministry among immigrant children here in Göttingen.
As Mother's Day comes to an end, the tides of shame recede for millions of women.
Being a mother (or father) doesn't depend on whether your children are living. And that includes adults behind the nearly 55 million abortions reported in the United States since 1973. The second Sunday of May can be a painful reminder.
God is not only a God of terrible holiness and wrath; he is also a God rich in mercy. And so he sent his Son into the world, not condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him from God's own wrath (John 3:17). He came not to be served but to give his life as a ransom for many (Mark 10:45). To lay down his life for the sheep (John 10:15). To bear our sins in his body on the tree (1 Peter 2:24). To provide us with a righteousness that comes, not from our law-keeping, but through faith (Philippians 3:9). And to reconcile us to God (2 Corinthians 5:18; 1 Peter 3:18).
All the children of wrath may become children of the Father through Jesus Christ. An aging abortionist, a few blocks from our church, after 3,000 abortions, can become a child of God. She could hear Jesus say, on her death bed, "Today you will be with me in paradise." The same is true for the mother of five aborted children. And for the selfish, responsibility-shirking boyfriend. And for the secretive, shame-fearing, overbearing parent. And for the desperate 14-year-old girl.
Jesus did not mainly come to stop abortions in this world. He came mainly to die for abortion-committing sinners. "I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance" (Luke 5:32).
There is one way to know God as your Father. And it's the same for the people at Planned Parenthood, and the people at Pro-life Action, and the people at Bethlehem Baptist Church — Come to Jesus.
Excerpted from Abortion and the Narrow Way That Leads to Life (2011).
Your day of shameful pain could become the day of mercy's triumph. Come to Jesus.


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Transforming lives and futures through an education centered on Christ from Pre-K through 8th grade.
Teaching Christian Values
The mission of Spicewood Christian Academy is to develop the next generation of Christ-centered leaders with integrity and academic excellence.
Outstanding educational opportunities for children from Pre-K through 8th grade featuring:
Devoted Christian teachers, parents and staff
Ideal small class size for optimal learning
Daily chapel/Bible class
Christ-centered environment
Partnering with parents and families
Active faith-based learning
Strong commitment to, and involvement in, our community
Commitment to teach the skill-based subjects of math and language arts systematically and logically; and commitment to teach the content-based subjects from a Christian worldview; teaching history across time periods and around the globe; and science across the wide spectrum of science disciplines.
A true liberal arts education that encompasses art, music and PE in addition to the core academics
Intentional focus on developing leadership in every student
4.5/5 day schedule (noon dismissal on Fridays with after school care until 4:00pm)
Daily schedule: 8:40am-3:00pm, with core academics in the mornings and enrichment courses in the afternoons
After school care M-F until 4:00pm
Afternoon enrichment courses are open to homeschool students
Currently the only private school in Spicewood, TX with students in Pre-K through 8th grade
SCA Statement of Christian Beliefs
"Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths."
Our goal is to prepare students to serve God and others, to develop their interests, to foster joy in learning, and to build community by partnering with parents to train up their children to become Christ-centered leaders for the purposes God has for them.
Students who have early musical training will develop the areas of the brain related to language and reasoning.
Giving wings to the artists who'd like to take it up as a career or just a hobby.
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A: The problem with WordPress is that their main goal is to support compatibility with old assets. This means over 10 years old technologies, that we are made to work on. WordPress has not ever implemented any software design pattern, nor even any 'best practices' guides have been released.
Official learning materials are the theme development handbook available at https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/getting-started/ , which was first posted in about 2007, and has not changed much.
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https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-12/

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Week #51 (17-21 December) 2018 has been a special one for Kitepower: the company's headquarters had temporarily moved to Valkenburg right next to the 100kW pilot system. During the week the team of engineers and developers of Kitepower have been busy advancing logistics and performance of the system and took the chance to introduce its operation to the new team members. This has certainly been a vivid and memorable way to close the year, a year that indeed gave us a lot of tough challenges but as many satisfactions. Within a 96 hours long time span, we flew 26 hours and made 974 power cycles. We are thankful to all of those who rely on our mission and grateful to those who nourish a new energy culture and technology awareness.
2018 has been a crucial year for Kitepower and for the worldwide energy transition to renewables in general. The global population and its industry are inevitably facing the by-products of the energy policies applied, ethics must evolve along with technologies. We believe in a future where renewable electricity generation is applicable everywhere and affordable for everyone, that's exactly what we are working on and the wind is playing in our team!
40 sqm kite flying during the first weekday of testing.
In 2018 throughout over 50 flight test sessions Kitepower has managed to double its performance. We are now harnessing stronger but even weaker winds than what we used to, so we expanded the geographical suitability of our system. On the field we now deploy only half of the people, so getting closer to an unmanned operation and it now takes only about an hour to set up the system whereas a year ago it all took more effort and longer time.
The past year had moreover brought us the first external operation of our 100kW system out of which the first iterations with end users started. We validated the necessity of Kitepower around the world and collected many precious feedbacks which are contributing to the fine-tuning of our product.


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Unique chance to buy a very rare pre-war Mortlach
By Kenny Smith - 28th August 2018
The 1938 Mortlach in its beautiful copper presentation set
A rare pre-war Mortlach whisky is to goes under the hammer for the first time since 2012.
Whisky-onlineauctions.com are listing this extremely rare bottling of Mortlach 60 year old, from 29 August until 5 September.
Distilled on 20 October 1938, the spirit was matured in Cask 2657 – which had previously held a high-quality sherry – by Gordon & MacPhail before being bottled in 1999 at the grand old age of 60 years old.
Gordon & MacPhail have a spectacular track record with Mortlach 1938, not to mention 1936 and 1939.
Bottlings from the 1938 vintage have been released from the Elgin-based bottler since the early 1980s, originally under the old white label and Connoisseurs Choice brands. In 1988, the first special presentation G&M Mortlach 1938 appeared as a 50yo bottled under the iconic 'Book of Kells' label.
Whisky fans know about the incredible Mortlach 1938 70 year old Gordon & MacPhail 'Generations' series that was the world's oldest whisky at the time of release in 2008, but a lot of people aren't quite so familiar with this particular Mortlach 1938 – a sister cask to the Generations – that was released at the turn of the century.
There are a few possible reasons for this. Firstly, the whisky appeared in 1999, when every distillery and bottler in Scotland was churning out Millennium special editions, and every week saw unprecedented numbers of new releases on the market. Secondly, there were just 100 of these beautiful bottles released.
The beautiful copper presentation case, meanwhile was designed and made by Forsyth's of Rothes, the distillery coppersmiths, in the style of a windowed wash still front using only burnished copper, wood and brass, as a tribute to the craftsmanship of the coppersmiths and the coopers.
The brass lock, meanwhile, 'recalls bygone times when glass-encased spirit safes were sealed and checked daily by excisemen'. The handmade nature of the case is reflected in the visible dimple marks from the coppersmith's hammers.
The case has a special drawer containing a crystal stopper and a separate miniature bottle of the same spirit with the more familiar Book of Kells-inspired label that many people will associate with previous bottlings of Mortlach 1938 and other Gordon & MacPhail prestige bottlings from the likes of Clynelish, Strathisla and Glen Grant.
The miniature itself is highly prized, and has gone for as much as £260 at previous auctions.
A spokesman for Whisky-onlineauctions.com said: 'We're looking forward to seeing what this 60 year old Mortlach achieves – a measure of the rarity of this bottle is that we've only ever had it on sale once before, way back in December 2012, when it made £4200. We believe that 2012 auction is the only time that this bottle has ever been auctioned online anywhere in the UK until now.
'We expect bidding to be particularly fierce for this beautiful bottle of Mortlach and a price far in excess of the previous record – who knows when it will come up again?'
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Famous YouTuber Asked For $22,000 to Cover Indie Game
Posted on September 12, 2015 by John Williamson
The popularity of gaming channels on YouTube is astonishing and already surpassed the influence of many leading print-based websites. Also, the huge array of indie games on Steam means it's very easy to be overlooked and requires marketing from a YouTube personality or website. Ideally, indie developers would like to engage in an advertising campaign but this isn't possible given their limited budget. As YouTubers become more powerful, there is a greater chance of personalities having a sense self-importance and making outrageous demands.
According to a post on Reddit, this appears to be the case as Ben Tester from Wales Interactive claims a very famous, undisclosed YouTuber asked for $22,000 to cover an unknown title. The developer in question created Soul Axiom and initially offered to send a review code. Ben divulged the course-of-events and said:
"On one of my normal PR rounds I received an email from a very popular YouTuber with a few million subscribers offering to have one of our games featured on their YouTube channel for a rate of either $17,600 for 2-3 talking points or $22,000 for 2-3 talking points AND a description link,"
"An interesting Tweet I saw from SteamSpy this afternoon claims there doesn't seem to be much of a correlation between number of Steam sales a game has after it's been covered by a popular YTer,"
He also clarified that the YouTube channel is genuine and declined the monetary offer:
"I must stress that I emailed the YTer first to ask if they would like to receive a free code for our game to play for their channel. The YTer did NOT mention anything about making a 'positive' promotion nor was this a scam from a fake YTer. Finally I'd like to state that I refused the offer."
The traditional gaming press has a terrible reputation with consumers and often seen as untrustworthy. This now appears to be plaguing at least one major YouTube channel and it's unknown how widespread this problem is. Perhaps, it's always best to be cautious and not idolize and kind of celebrity to prevent disappointment.
Thank you Wired for providing us with this information.
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PewDiePie Becomes First YouTuber to Exceed 10 Billion Views
Posted on September 8, 2015 by John Williamson
Whether you love, loathe or feel complete indifference towards PewDiePie, it's impossible to overemphasize his YouTube success story. Currently, PewDiePie's channel contains over 39 million subscribers and his official Twitter account has amassed nearly 6.5 million followers. Perhaps the most extraordinary feat came on the 6th September, as he became the first YouTube celebrity to surpass 10 billion total views. A report in July suggested he earned approximately $7.5 million in 2014 and generates over $4 million in ad revenue per year. This caused quite a deal of criticism as it's such an obscene amount of money. Nevertheless, PewDiePie addressed these concerns and said:
"Money is a topic that I purposefully tried to avoid for the five years I've been making videos. I just feel like it's not important to anyone. I just want to make entertaining videos."
"Whenever it comes out how much I made a certain year, people just get so shocked. A lot of people were also very angry. They thought it was unfair. They thought I just sit on my a** and I yell at the screen over here–which is true–but there's so much more to it than that."
"I understand that haters are going to hate, but I really think that money doesn't make you happy. I'm just as happy now as I was five years ago. I'm very happy that I don't have to worry about paying rent."
Personally, I do not enjoy PewDiePie's content and prefer to spend my time watching other channels. The whole 'brofist' mentality and screaming over horror videos isn't to my taste. However, he has almost become the face of YouTube and you have to acknowledge his achievements.
https://twitter.com/pewdiepie/status/640584442235494400
What do you think of PewDiePie?
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YouTube Plans to Introduce a New Paid Subscription Service
Posted on April 11, 2015 by Gabriel Roşu
There have been rumours of YouTube working on introducing a new paid subscription service for some time now, but there hasn't been anything concrete until now. The streaming service looks to add a monthly subscription that would allow users to watch videos without ads, having the revenue split between YouTube and content creators.
The paid subscription service aims to boost revenue for both YouTube and content creators alike after CPM rates have dropped this year. Aside from the latter, a lot of people are using AdBlock nowadays and that significantly reduces the money income for those who are making a living from YouTube.
There have been no subscription fees detailed just yet, but notifications have been sent out to content creators regarding the upcoming changes. The move seems to come after it was revealed that while the streaming service has an enormous pool of users, it is not making any profit at all.
Thank you KitGuru for providing us with this information
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Broad alumni picked as MBAs to Watch
By Chelsea Stein
On July 3, Poets&Quants released its annual list of MBAs to Watch, which profiles recent graduates expected to significantly impact their industry. Three Full-Time MBA students from the Class of 2021 made their way onto the list: Deepal Singh Chhabra, Danielle Chatman-Moore and Lea Mavar.
Deepal Singh Chhabra (MBA '21)
Chhabra came to Michigan State from India with a computer science background. In his time as a Spartan, he served as president of the Multicultural MBA Association — a key diversity, equity and inclusion resource group — and vice president of the Graduate Supply Chain Management Association.
A high point of his time at Broad was being part of the first-place team at the 25th International Case Competition in 2020. In every setting — from the competitions to the classroom — the welcoming culture at Michigan State is what helped Chhabra succeed.
"I always assumed a business school would mean sleepless nights, fierce competition and a race to find the best employment," he said. "What surprised me about the school was the collaborative spirit and a sense of empowering each other to find their dream jobs. The support from the MBA office, peers, professors and alumni was exceptional."
Danielle Chatman-Moore (MBA '21)
Since high school, Chatman-Moore was eager to pursue her MBA, and she hit the ground running as a Spartan.
The summer before her first semester, she was chosen to be an MBA Forté fellow, joining an elite group of women in business. And at the close of her first year, she became the first African American woman president of the Broad College's MBA Association. Along the way, Broad's close-knit cohort offered her the support she needed.
"The small class size stood out to me," she said. "Being able to have a relationship with my fellow candidates and my professors was very important to me."
Like Chhabra and Chatman-Moore, Mavar made the most of her time as a graduate student. She was president of the MBA-HR Association and served as a peer coach and a business presentation coach, to name a few. In addition, she was part of the all-female team to win this year's Extreme Green event.
Lea Mavar (B.A. International Relations '18, MBA '21)
Mavar is also a two-time Spartan, earning her bachelor's in international relations from MSU's James Madison College. She said getting her MBA at her alma mater was a no-brainer.
"We have this saying at MSU that 'Spartans stick together.' While I thought that was true during my undergrad, it truly shined in the MBA program.
"Broad truly cares about the success of all their students," she continued. "Even in a business school setting where it tends to be competitive, Broad is like a family where we all succeed together."
Beyond these stand-out MBAs, Broad alumnus Mwemba Mwemba Jr. (B.A. Marketing '14) also made the list as a graduate of Georgetown University.
Read more at Poets&Quants for in-depth interviews with Deepal Singh Chhabra, Danielle Chatman-Moore, Lea Mavar and Mwemba Mwemba Jr.
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"Frankly, in terms of the world over here, nobody noticed," the governor said during a telephone conference call.
Vermonter Aly Johnson-Kurts was one of the voices of dissent. She interrupted Shumlin saying that two years ago she had joined the campaign to end the "fracked gas pipeline" in Vermont, referring to the natural gas pipeline project underway in Chittenden and Addison counties.
Vermont Gas, the company building the pipeline, says it is impossible to know how much, if any, of the gas they import from Canada has been extracted through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Shumlin tried to stop Johnson-Kurts, saying "Aly come on now, settle on down." A detailed interaction between Shumlin and Johnson-Kurts was published by Vermont Public Radio.
Shumlin implored Johnson-Kurts several times to sit down, but Johnson refused.
"I worked with you in 2008 as a page at the Statehouse and today I stand with young people and Vermonters who oppose fracking and fracked gas infrastructure," Johnson-Kurts said.
"That's why we don't frack," Shumlin replied.
Johnson-Kurts continued, "Vermont banned fracking in 2012 and in the announcement speech you cited risks to safe drinking water and health."
Shumlin replied that he had signed the fracking-ban bill.
When Johnson-Kurts continued, Shumlin addressed her from the stage.
"I know your mom and dad and I know they taught you better manners than this," Shumlin said.
Johnson-Kurts and another protester continued to speak over the panelists.
Shumlin suggested that she and the other protester "come up and address the crowd." "Then we can move you out of here," he added.
Johnson-Kurts took Shumlin up on his suggestion and was mounting the stage when a moderator stepped in and said that there was an application process to speak at the events.
"Why don't you run along back to Smith," Shumlin said.
Johnson-Kurts is a student at Smith College in Massachusetts.
In the post-panel interview, Shumlin said, "My view is that they share our sense of urgency," referring to the protesters' call for moving toward a greater use of renewable power.
Shumlin, a supporter of Vermont Gas' pipeline extension into Addison County, said the debate over natural gas is a lively one in Vermont, but plays a much smaller role in the scope of an international agreement to slow global warming.
"I believe that running the gas pipeline to people who are currently burning oil to heat their homes and run their businesses is going to reduce our emissions and not increase our emissions, as well as putting money in our pockets," Shumlin said.
In an interview prior to the Paris conference, Shumlin said his intention was to speak about Vermont's efforts to develop regional solutions to climate change.
Shumlin to attend Paris climate conference
This story first appeared online on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015.
Contact Joel Banner Baird at (802) 660-1843 or joelbaird@FreePressMedia.com


But it is not the end, we are compiling feature list for BUGtrack 4.
For the next BUGtrack version we have planned the implementation of aggressive caching. What does it mean?
In order to display the page BUGtrack should perform many preparation steps. First of all, it should validate URL parameters. Is the bug specified in URL, is it accessible by the user? Does the project exist and accessible? Next, BUGtrack requests the data for various lists and items: what is current user's name? What projects current user has access to? And so on, and so on. However, this information does not change frequently, and most likely all subsequent checks and queries return same results - unless you modify your license settings.
What do we do now? On the first access to the license we load all its settings from the database into the object model that is cached in the server's memory. For all the information we need, we do query the object model, rather than the database. This way it works faster, much faster. And when you make changes in the license's settings, all the changes made in the cache are dumped to a database immediately, so even in a case of an unexpected failure everything will be saved and synchronized.
Beside of performance, the object model approach improves project's manageability. Not everything could be done easily on the database level; the code was split between the application and the database server. Now business logic resides in one place.
BUGtrack has a long story. It was created in 2001, before .NET era, utilizing contemporary technologies. It's back-end was generating various XML definitions, which, running through an XSL transformation, generated an HTML that was sent to a browser. Our next product, CRMdesk was released a year later and uses the same basic approach but implements it in ASP.NET, taking advantage of a streamed output and compiled XSL. TeamDesk, our latest creation, did a step further, implementing aggressive caching and automated page layout creation based on the meta-data.
While we were extending BUGtrack here and there, it's back-end eventually became kind of outdated and hard to maintain. It's about a time to power it up with the newest technology achievements and make a leap forward.
We are going to proceed in a few iterations. In first two or three iterations we'll try to upgrade the core of BUGtrack to establish a good base for subsequent extensions and changes. Even though the changes would mostly relate to an internal system restructuring and we won't promise much of visible improvements at this stage, yet there will be a few. For instance, we expect further performance improvements as an extensive caching would reduce number of database queries.
Please stay tuned as our next posts would reveal upcoming system enhancements.


ATEME today announced that Russian sport broadcaster TV Start, which specializes in the live transmission of various sport events, has deployed ATEMEs Kyrion encoders and decoders to upgrade its mobile television units.
LiveU, the leader in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions, has announced that more than 80 broadcasters from around the world have already used its technology during the first week of the 20th FIFA World Cup in Brazil, bringing the event to life and providing 360 degree coverage that would otherwise be impossible.
LiveU the pioneer of portable video-over-cellular solutions, has announced that Chelsea TV, Chelsea Football Clubs TV channel, is using LiveU cellular uplinking technology to provide live video coverage of its games, enhancing its communication with its fan base. LiveUs LU70 units have been used to transmit pre- and post-match interviews with managers and players, giving greater access to key personnel, and expand its live coverage of matches at home and abroad.


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Many group problem solving activities encouraging Leadership, Teamwork, Communication and Co-operation. Activities include Spiders Web, The Finger, Mohawk Walk, TP Crossover and London Bridge.


Fourteen years ago today, September 11, 2001, the United States of America suffered a horrendous, coordinated attack by Islamic extremists that took nearly 3,000 lives at three separate venues.
That date produced tragedy and heroism - and a lifetime of grief for those with loved ones who were killed in those cowardly attacks. Those innocent people who died that morning, and the brave first responders who went into the bowels of the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon looking for survivors, will remain in my heart forever. On this anniversary of that date I want to specifically remember two of the victims - the youngest and one of the most heroic.
Today Christine Hanson, who died along with her parents when they were vaporized when their airplane crashed into the World Trade Center, would have been sixteen years old. She would have been a junior in high school, perhaps on the cheer squad or a star on the soccer team. Or, perhaps, she would have been a budding musician or actress. Or, she might have been an outstanding student. Or, perhaps she would have fallen in love by now. We will never know, because that young life was snuffed out.
Todd Beamer was a 32 year old software salesman, father of two sons and a daughter that would be born in January, 2002, just a few months after 9/11/01. She is 13 years old today. Beamer and other passengers attacked the hijackers of Flight 93, keeping it from attacking the apparent target in Washington, D.C. The plane crashed in a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
I've written about this attack for several years on or around this date. Here are links to what I've written in the past.
Tomorrow, Friday, September 11, 2015 the City of Costa Mesa will hold a remembrance of the tragic events that occurred on that date fourteen years ago.
Here is the full text of the City announcement.
This Friday, Costa Mesa Fire and Police Departments will join with city employees and residents to hold an official remembrance ceremony. Each year, Costa Mesa and other fire and law enforcement agencies throughout the region (and the country) gather to honor and pay a special tribute to the members of the uniformed services who perished (343 members of FDNY, 23 members of NYPD, and 37 members of the Port Authority Police) and all of the innocent victims who perished (2,574).
The Costa Mesa Fire and Police Departments will hold ceremonies at City Hall and at all of the city's fire stations. The gathering area at City Hall will be adjacent to the flagpole from 8:30-9:05 a.m. on Friday.
8:40 a.m. - Brief opening comments – Fire Chief Dan Stefano and Police Chief Rob Sharpnack.
8:46 a.m. - Representing the time the first plane struck the WTC Tower #1; all fire apparatus will be pulled out on the front apron of the fire stations and all radios will be turned on in apparatus.
8:55 a.m. - Everyone will gather near the flagpole for a moment of silence.
9:00 a.m. - Uniformed personnel will be at attention and the regional emergency communications center will make a countywide broadcast acknowledging Patriot Day - A Day of Remembrance.
9:05 a.m. - End of official remembrance ceremony.
It seems somehow very appropriate on good old Throw Back Thursday to write about Costa Mesa's most notorious "throw back", our old buddy, The Mouth From Mesa North.
For most of the past dozen years he and I would spar. In fact, there was a time when the editors of the Daily Pilot would post our respective commentaries adjacent to each other, just for fun. Well, it was fun for me, anyhow.
The Mouth and I don't spar much any more. His bilge doesn't appear much in the Daily Pilot and I've cut back on my contributions there, too. Instead, we both post on our individual blogs - he for his audience and me for mine. There's not much overlap, except I KNOW he reads my stuff and I check in on his, too. Of course, when I do, I have to visit places like the Wall Street Journal, where REAL writers hang out, to flush his intellectual excrement out of my skull.
Every once in awhile - much to the chagrin of my sweet and patient wife - I will write about The Mouth, just to see if he's paying attention. I know he reads my stuff - probably eager to learn, since the hits on his blog have dropped of to such an extent that it doesn't even register on sites that measure such things. Such was the case when I posted a nice little observation that he briefly attended the recent Joint Study Session, learned everything he needed to know in the first 30 minutes of the meeting, then left to write a blog entry castigating the dozens of residents who actually attended and participated in the process.
Well, The Mouth didn't much like the publicity, so he dragged what's left of his scruffy old carcass to his computer and pounded out a nasty-gram about me, which you can read HERE. In that little diatribe, speaking of himself he wrote, in part, "....sinewy muscles that are still reminiscent of my time in the Marines, and in the photo you can see my ubermensch looking skull holding the mammoth brain that got me a seat on a genius TV show and my membership in Mensa and the so-called super Mensa."
Well, here's the image to which he refers. Yep, "sinewy" alright. When I first saw him that night I thought perhaps a homeless person was seeking refuge from the heat, for goodness sake!
For those of you new to this game, I invite you to visit this repository of his racist, inflammatory bilge and just scroll down and select a title - almost any title - click on it and read the work product of his "mammoth brain". If you actually believe his claims to Mensa membership, you may come away from reading some of those essays with a feeling of sadness that such an alleged prodigious intellect has been wasted - squandered - on such crap.
Old Mensa Marty - a term of endearment that former Daily Pilot Publisher Tom Johnson used for him - has wasted his life. He claims to have been an actor, and to have been the inspiration for Robert Deniro's performance in "Taxi Driver". Now, THAT'S a scary thought all by itself! I know that he has been in one movie - perhaps the worst movie of all time, "The Second Coming Of Suzanne", where he plays a reporter very briefly. I actually paid $1.26 to Amazon for a copy of this thing a couple years ago. Watching his performance, it's easy to see why his acting career when nowhere. If you're into self-abuse, watch the 19 minute clip of a review of this movie. The reviewer actually gets it right. If you look VERY closely, and very quickly, at the 12:44 mark you'll get a look at him with too much back light. Actually, that's the best way to see him.
He has also claimed to have been a lawyer and real estate agent, but who knows.
What we do know is that he takes great pride in the fact that David Duke, the former grand pooba of the Ku Klux Klan, considers him a wonderful writer. The Mouth uses that as a marketing tool. Let me ask you... would THAT endorsement drive you to Amazon to buy The Mouth's books? Nah, I didn't think so.
The Mouth didn't much participate on Social Media sites (using that term when applied to him seems so very wrong!) until the evolution - if you can call it that - of the Costa Mesa Public Square Facebook page. That site, with it's closed society, has given his putrefied views of the world a new, unsuspecting audience. He's become a major thought-driver on a site where folks just ramble on, agreeing with themselves with no actual discussion of important issues permitted. If you disagree, or post something they don't like - even if it's on another site - you will be bounced. No, sir.. no dissent permitted. The Mouth - with his Nazi tendencies - is in hog heaven over there.
And, it's interesting that The Mouth has chosen NOT to participate on other OPEN Facebook sites, including the threads on the Daily Pilot. Nope, for all his bravado and bluster - flexing his Marine background - he's not going to participate in a real exchange of ideas. For all his "Mensa" flag waving, he's actually a coward - afraid to engage in real discussions with us lesser beings. How very sad for him - but good for us.
So, I encourage you to learn about this insidious influence on our community before you jump on his bandwagon. Read a few of those essays - go back to the early ones for some REAL shockers - then decide if you want to cozy up to him.
Wednesday evening officials from Orange Coast College unveiled their scaled-back "modernization" plans to a standing-room-only room full of residents and students in the library building on campus. My best guess is that about 50 people attended the meeting - fewer than previous meetings and, interestingly, not a single City of Costa Mesa senior staffer was present.
Doug Bennett, Executive Director of College Advancement for OCC explained the format of the meeting, then introduced Dr. Dennis Harkins, President of OCC.
Dr. Harkins spoke very briefly about the new plan - he made a point to be sure we understood that this was a brand new plan, with a new Environmental Impact Report. He also made sure we understood this was a "modernization plan", NOT a "growth plan", since OCC presently is well below the high point of enrollment a few decades ago. This plan presumes a student population of 28,000 by 2020.
Issues being presented at this meeting were Traffic, Student Housing and Health issues.
The parking structure - that would have accommodated 2,000 cars - has been moved on-campus. There is no funding for it yet - Dr. Harkins told it is several years off.
The gymnasium will be relocated closer to the football field.
There will be some solar panels covering part of the parking lot.
The Recycle Center will be enhanced, with more parking available.
The Planetarium is ready to be built.
The controversial College Village - which had included a hotel - is on hold and will require a separate CEQA report.
Some of the historic buildings will be retained, including some of them by renowned architect Richard Neutra. However, some of those will be removed.
Rich Pagel, Vice President of Administrative Services, expanded on the current plans and told the audience that there will be tables around the perimeter of the room at which experts in each of the fields being discussed that night were available to answer all questions. However, there would be NO public comments before the group - a "recorder" was available to take questions/comments to become part of the permanent record of the meeting.
With that announcement the audience was unleashed to wander around, talking to experts. However, not everyone was happy about that. A local architect named John Linnert sprung to his feet with an associate, whipped out a chart showing an alternative plan and hijacked the meeting - at least, in part. He held court for nearly an hour - he was still going on and on and on when I left - preaching to an amorphous, but attentive group of mostly students. There was no attempt to stop him, which seemed like the right decision.
So, the information provided at this meeting will be consolidated and become part of the report and will impact how the college will move forward with this project. Most of the things that caused nearby neighbors heartburn - the hotel and parking structure, for example - have been put on hold. Progress is being made.
OCC's Environmental Sustainability Coordinator, Mike Carey, explains his new Recycling Center to an interested visitor.
If you wish to read the full documents, the brief overview (11 pages) can be found HERE.
The Full Revised Master Plan (550 pages) can be found HERE.
And, for you diehards, the full technical information (4,754 pages) can be found HERE.
Late Night Study Session "Fun"
(1) The Proposed Land Use Alternative For the Year 2015-2025 General Plan Update, Including the Fairview Developmental Center and the Los Angeles Times site on Sunflower. Read that lengthy staff report HERE.
(2) The Proposed Urban Plan Amendment to Amend the SOBECA and Westside Urban Plans, HERE.
Under normal circumstances a study session will take a couple hours, but this was anything but normal. This one took nearly five (5) hours! And, when it finally finished, you felt yourself wondering exactly what had been accomplished, because for much of the evening it seemed like the discussions were going in circles.
Although Councilwoman Katrina Foley and Planning Commissioner Tim Sesler arrived late, the only real absentee is pub owner Gary Monahan. He never did show up, but had apparently met with Development Services Director Gary Armstrong and left some of his thoughts behind.
The audience was a blend of anxious groups - developers, fearful of changes to the General Plan that would hamper their projects; building industry and chamber of commerce representatives; activists concerned about the lack of affordable housing and bicycle infrastructure and just plain old everyday residents concerned about how the changes in the General Plan will affect them, personally. I'm not sure any of them came away from this meeting feeling all warm and cozy.
Laura Stetson, Principal of MIG Consulting, took the lead on the General Plan discussion, providing an overview of the process - which, at this point, has taken a couple years. She quickly led the discussion on the history of the process and gave us an idea of the schedule we're following.
She tossed the ball to Darrell Surface of Stantec Consulting, who explained the traffic survey they had done. Then economic consultant Roger Dale provided a fiscal overview of the probable impact of the General Plan as proposed based on certain assumptions.
Leonard Glickman representing Rose Equities, a firm who wants to develop a chunk of land next to SoCo north of the I-405, introduced himself and his company.
George Sakioka, landowner and developer of property above the 405, urged a long-term view.
Kathy Esfahani, representing the Costa Mesa Affordable Housing Coalition stressed the need for affordable housing, transitional housing, playing fields and suggested the Fairview Developmental Center property would be a great place to begin that kind of development.
Robin Leffler, President of Costa Mesans For Responsible Government and long time activist, expressed concern for what she perceived as a quickened pace for the completion of the General Plan and hoped it would not be released over the year-end holidays, when folks are preoccupied with family issues.
Jeff Knightly (sp?), a representative of Kearny Real Estate, is working with the Tribune Companies on the potential development of the old Los Angeles Times printing press site north of the 405.
Former planning commissioner Eleanor Egan complimented the staff for their excellent work, then skimmed through parts of her nearly 3-page letter to the council/commission that was part of the staff report. She was concerned about traffic, and indicated that simply collecting park fees is not enough and told the group to not add uses that sell alcohol - we have enough of those.
Former councilwoman Wendy Leece observed that we have no Vision, and also complained that many people had left their homelife to participate in the consultant's "Great Reach" program, but no evidence of community participation is evident in the staff report. She was not the only person who made that observation.
Long time resident, Gay Royer, pleaded the case to use the Fairview Developmental Center property as housing, preferably for veterans and low income folks.
Former councilman Jay Humphrey expressed concern about the several mobile home parks around the city, which form one of the last bastions of affordable housing.
Justin McCusker, representing the Segerstrom interests, suggested consistency in application of trip counts.
Cynthia McDonald, a member of the Bikeways and Walkability Committee, observed that no mention of bikeability is made in the plan. She suggested any developments include bicycle transportation as part of their equation.
Long time Westside property owner and businessman John Hawley urged fairness in developing parks and other recreation venues.
Mike Balsamo, representing the Building Industry Association (BIA) made mention of Costa Mesa's "restrictive" parking rules and encouraged the council/commission to be reasonable.
Then the Big Dog took over. Mayor Pro Tem Righeimer leaped right into the midst of this issue and used the next fifteen minutes to deliver a monologue about what HE wanted to see - and delivered that message less as a request and more as an edict. I mean, he's apparently never had an idea that wasn't a perfect idea... don't get me started!
NO RESIDENTIAL NORTH OF 405!
He began by alienating most of the developers in the room by stating categorically that he didn't want residential north of the 405, west of South Coast Plaza. He then spit back at Leece for her "no vision" comment, citing that we're only talking about 4% of the land in Costa Mesa, so we don't need a vision for that.
He addressed the Segerstrom's Home Ranch property, indicating that the Segerstrom Family would like to see a major employer establish a home campus on the property. He said we should not give the LA Times property more density than the Home Ranch property. He addressed the Robinson Pharma property - Glickman's project - and said "no residential" there. He spoke about the Sakioka property and said their plan was way too dense, and it should be capped. His words were "That's what I wanna see!"
Oh, but he wasn't finished. Addressing the Fairview Developmental Center, he said it's a "once in a lifetime opportunity" that we shouldn't miss. He said there should be "no institutional business type play.", whatever the heck that means. He said 25% should be a park, then said "It's only 100 acres", indicating that it's not really a big deal. What?! He just said it's a once in a lifetime opportunity!
He wanted more information from the economic consultant - more data. Then he blurted out that he wanted this to come forward for a vote at the next council meeting so we can "move it forward". Well, that's impossible! The next council meeting is in 6 days.
Councilwoman Sandra Genis took the floor and, also, asked for more information from the economic consultant. She was concerned that the General Plan includes over 60% high density housing, and that we need transitional housing. She expressed concern that our plans will be perceived to be exclusionary. She was concerned that the forecast predicts 20,000 more people near-term and that means we need 85 more acres of park land - not likely in a built-out city.
Katrina Foley said she was OK with residential development north of the 405, but needed more information from the traffic study. She said she was interested in the plans for the LA Times and Robinson Pharma sites. She was concerned about the "canyon effect" of putting high density housing along Harbor Boulevard, and expressed concern also about Santa Ana's recent decision to permit high density housing along their section of Harbor Boulevard, which would directly impact Costa Mesa. She expressed concern about density around SoBeCA, and the traffic backlog. She also is not supportive of housing along Newport Boulevard - too close to the freeway.
Foley was also very concerned about the compressed timeline and the impact it has on the work being done by her Bikeway and Walkability Committee. She asked for clarification from staff about the timeline and how that committee's work will be finished in time to be included in the General Plan. Armstrong indicated that the timeline was dictated by the council. Foley didn't remember voting on it, so she wanted to know WHO on the council gave that direction... No answer.
Righeimer jumped back in, accusing Foley of being "disingenuous" about housing along Newport Boulevard, and accused her of preferring "pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers" on that stretch of roadway instead of nice, new high-end housing. He then ranted about not forcing property owners to make changes and I almost choked. I wonder what he calls the code enforcement, police and fire visits and the impact of his "Excessive Use Of Resources" Ordinance that forces property owners to make a choice - public safety or pay a fine. What a hypocrite!
Foley indicated that, in her mind, it's not an "all or nothing" proposition. Compromise is possible. She observed that Righeimer was politicizing this conversation.
Mensinger said he supported housing north of the 405 and observed that we need to find a carrot for the State to make future plans for Fairview Developmental Center more agreeable.
Righeimer, again, inserted himself into the discussion, observing that since 1999 nothing has changed, to which Foley responded that there are 3 people up here (or would be if Monahan showed up) and that the decision only go for developers. We were now just short of three hours into the agenda and only half-way to the end, so we took a break.
When we reconvened just after 8 p.m., the crowd had thinned out significantly. There were around 60 people in the room and more wandered out as the evening progressed.
Assistant Director of Development Services Claire Flynn took the lead on the presentation of the next agenda item, the proposed urban plan amendment for the Westside Overlay Plans and the SoBECA plan. She described the three different plans and went through a list of recently completed or in process projects. Without talking about all of them, the prices begin in the low $700,000s and go to the mid $800,000s - hardly "affordable" or even entry level housing.
She told us that "unlikely" buyers for those properties would be seniors, families with teenage children. She said "likely" buyers would include first time buyers, dual income professionals, move-up buyers, entrepreneurs with home based businesses, executive professionals that telecommute and above average wage earners - twice the average wage.
All the discussion guides are available in the staff report, above.
During the discussion Genis expressed concern about mobile home parks, a source of rare affordable housing. Righeimer responded that "Level 1 had a mobile home park." Well, that certainly didn't make her feel any better, since those prison-like units start at over $700,000.
The discussion of "open space", which included rooftop decks, bounced all around. Foley wanted more space on the perimeter of projects. Flynn observed that there's a tendency to mix and match elements of one urban plan with others - kind of a cafeteria approach to development (my phrase), which was certainly NOT the intent of those residents who worked very hard on the Westside plans.
Interest has been expressed in further refining the size of the "work" space in live/work units. Presently the work space can be no less than 250 square feet. It was suggested that it be made 500 square feet.. a concept that got not much support. The predominent concern was for those rooms being used as a bedroom, and that many of the units in those developments are being rented via AirBNB.
After 20 minutes of discussion Mensinger opened up Public Comments and 22 people spoke.
Gay Royer said the present development doesn't fit.
Jim Kerins wondered whatever happened to design guidelines.
Linda Tang, representing the Kennedy Commission and the Costa Mesa Affordable Housing Coalition, expressed concern that there are no affordable housing units available for vets.
Developer Peter Zehnder suggested gathering architects in a forum to present to staff, council and commissoners the most contemporary design trends. He also observed that Costa Mesa has difficult parking standards - that's developer-speak for "What, you actually expect me to properly park my project?"
Susan Iwamoto observed that she and other property owners have been quietly trying to find ways to combine their properties to make them more attractive to developers.
Brent Stoll, Chamber of Commerce appointee to the Bikeway and Walkability Committee (and member of the Rose Equities team), expressed the need for better bikeway planning, and for more destinations for bike riders.
Kathy Esfahani again expressed concern about low-income folks being priced out of the city. All the development is aimed at high-end earners. She suggested adoption of an inclusionary ordinance, requiring a percentage of all development to be affordable.
Wendy Leece observed that the Sea House project - one that Flynn had mentioned earlier - was near her home and it just doesn't fit into the neighborhood.
Eleanor Egan again spoke and observed that Amendment #1 to the Urban Plans has resulted in the current mess and that it should be repealed. She said cherry picking standards from various plans is not planning at all.
Taoward Lee observed that the open space, as presently calculated, is a joke.
Leonard Glickman - he of the Rose Equities group - spoke again about the wisdom of mixed use developments, which provide jobs and affordable housing.
Ann Parker expressed concern about the influx of AirBNB units in the city.
Cynthia McDonald indicated that the city is 10-15 years behind in bike infrastructure and changes need to be made soon.
Anna Vrska opined that development has bent toward profit - more appropriately, greed.
At this point we were not four hours into the meeting and the "crowd" had dwindled to fewer than 50 people.
Righeimer launched again, having regained his breath, stating "Everybody wants what's best for the community." (I'm sorry, but I smirked.) Addressing the Westside he said, "It didn't have 20 yards of concrete poured in 20 years." Yep, you Westsiders are such low-lifes that you can't build nice new houses like the mayor and himself (so we're told). Addressing the suggested 500 square foot work space, he said it would kill the Ametek project.
Genis said she didn't like the box houses and questioned the wisdom of using any part of the rooftop decks as "open space" in the calculations.
Foley expressed an interest in pocket parks to provide some much-needed open space.
Mensinger said he was fine with including a portion of rooftop decks in the open space calculation - suggesting half of it. Foley disagreed.
PLANNING COMMISSION TO JUDGE COLOR PALETTE?
Then the conversation turned to the "look" of some of the projects, with comments being made that the color scheme that had been presented to the Planning Commission is NOT what was actually applied to the project. Righeimer observed about the Superior Point project, across from Trader Joe's on 17th Street, indicating it was "too white". I smiled. He forgets those pastel pimples on the roof. He then suggested that the Planning Commission gets final approval of the colors! OMG! The world has gone mad! We're going to put four lawyers and a paralegal in charge of the "look" of a project - men with no architectural training? That's maybe the stupidest comment - in a long, long line of stupid statements - that he's ever made!
That generated one doozy of a conversation, with Genis telling us that if she wanted to live in a city where the government tells you what color you can paint your house she would have moved to Irvine!
Dickson said they just wanted to be sure what had been presented to them is what ended up on the project. Good grief!
Colin McCarthy, who had been absolutely mute until this point, expressed the need for guidance on the 250/500 square feet on the work space, citing multiple uses in the units. Dickson said we are already requiring ADA compliant bathrooms on the first floor.
Round and round the conversation went, with big concerns about the work space use. Dickson said the Homeowner's Association would be responsible for policing the use... really? "Knock, knock. Hi, I'm Fred from your HOA, here to check your ground floor room to make sure you're not misusing it. Wow, nice big screen TV! Do you have the NFL package? Nice pool table! No trouble getting it in that roll up door, huh? Hey, that's a snazzy bar you set up on that back wall! So, what's the business use here? Ah, Indoor Recreation Consultant! Great! Sorry to bother you. See ya around the grounds."
The conversation also included concerns about using the garage for actual car parking. Dickson also observed that the targeted buyer for those units is not looking for a city park. Really?
The meeting ended at 9:45 - a new record for a study session. By my count, there were 18 city staff members in the room until the bitter end, and that didn't count whatever staff of the Community Center were left to close the place down.
In case you really want to see and hear these discussion, Dane Bora and Brad Long, along with a full team from CMTV, were on the job last night. It will take them a couple days to blend the various camera shots and produce their final product, but it likely will be available for viewing on CMTV and on the streaming video on demand at the city website.
Almost forgot.. the cadervous creature, The Mouth From Mesa North, slithered into the meeting just before it began, took a seat closest to the exit, stayed a few minutes, then skulked away and didn't return. However, he promptly posted a blog entry criticizing those who actually came to contribute to the process. His drivel is going straight down hill... perhaps a sign of early onset dementia or some other malady typical of a man of his years.


What are your expectations for rest of this season?
To consolidate a mid table finish - after City we have two winnable home games in Newcastle and Reading so even a top half finish is possible. It's far beyond our expectations from the start of the season, which was just to remain in the Premiership. I think all West Ham fans would have taken 17th place for this season.
With the way we are set up I would say Andy Carroll is our key player. I can't think of many players realistically we could buy that would perform better in a lone striker role than he has. He bullies defenders, wins headers and is now scoring. I do hope the owners do everything they can to try and keep him but with his wages and value so high it may not be possible.
Diame has also been key to us in midfield. He really is the engine and has shown his class in many games. Aa surprise really, considering he was sitting on the bench at Wigan last season!
Kevin Nolan as a captain gets the team going and scores some crucial goals.
At the back the partnership with Collins and Reid has been excellent and they have made us defensively sound this season - I think Reid will win Hammers player of the season and deservedly so as he is really improving with each game.
We spent big on signings and wages at the start of the season so we knew in January we couldn't get much in. We needed to strengthen up front as Carrol was injured around this time so we bought in Chamakh and Wellington which we haven't really seen as Carlton Cole is our back up striker for when Carroll is out. Joe Cole was a good signing and nice to see back in a Hammers shirt - but as always the case with him injury's have taken their toll and he will never be the player he was. An OK transfer window, but the big signings at the start of the season in Carroll, Jarvis and Diame are the ones that will be remembered.
A bit of criticism that Big Sam gets is that he buys proven ageing players and doesn't promote within the club enough. Hopefully that might change as we have always been known to have an excellent academy.
Jordan Spence and Danny Potts have done well when given the chance. Also a young English kid called Blair Turgott is scoring goals for fun in our youth team and is being promoted through the ranks at international level.
Our away form and the lack of goals, we are set up too defensively and this has cost us in many away games with Carroll left isolated up front, lately Vaz Te has pushed with Nolan to give us more attacking options which is helping, but at the start of the season we were far too negative away from home.
Where to start! For sentimental reasons it would be great to have Tevez at the moment, as he is a Hammers hero for the season his performances and goals kept us up. But if I could choose any player from City I think it would be Yaya Toure. The guy is a machine and on his day can walk through defences. He scores goals, and looks to me like the complete midfielder.
You're now in the bracket of a 'world class' team. The title win last season was brilliant and well deserved. Obviously we envy the amount of money you have as it doesn't seem long ago that West Ham and City were battling mid-table together, but nowadays it takes more than money and Mancini has built a very good squad that will challenge the title every year. Your board don't seem as trigger happy as Abramovich and they seem to stay out of the media, which is a good thing. Your champions league campaign was disappointing this year but I am sure it won't be long till you are competing all the way for every major trophy there is.
Personally, I like City a lot. We have a lot of connections and history together and it is fitting that both clubs will honour Marc-Vivien Foe's death 10 years ago before kick off. Let's hope next year you will reclaim the Premiership title as no one likes to see the 'rags' win it.
Cant see many changes from the team that beat Wigan with the exception of Noble who is back from injury to replace O'Neill.
If your players are motivated enough I predict you will comfortably win 2-0.


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February 2016 iPhone Rumors Judged
This is the second in a multi-part series of posts looking back on the iPhone rumors from last year. I am doing this review to put this year's rumors into perspective. With the wisdom of hindsight, maybe we can look back on how last year's rumors shook out and see if that colors our view of the rumor season we're in now. At the very least this will be a fun trip down Apple rumor memory lane.
January post
February post
March post
April post
May post
June post
July post
August post
September post
Overall Score: 5.5/8
Feb 2 - First Details on iPhone 7 Design: Flush Rear Camera, No Antenna Bands Across the Back
Verdict: Partially correct. That picture has the antenna lines nailed, but the flush camera is exactly the opposite of what really happened.
Feb 5 - iPhone 5se May Come in Silver, Space Gray, and Bright Pink
Apple's rumored iPhone 5se may come in Silver, Space Gray, and a pink shade that's different than the Rose Gold of the iPhone 6s, reports Japanese site Mac Otakara, citing information obtained from a third-party vendor.
Verdict: Wrong! The iPhone SE comes in all the same colors as the iPhone 6s that was also out at the time. They also got the name wrong again.
Feb 12 - iPhone 7 Predicted to Adopt Lightning Headphones Without Noise-Canceling Capabilities
Rumors surrounding the exclusion of a 3.5mm headphone jack in the iPhone 7 began earlier in the year, although it was unclear whether the accessory would ship in the box or be sold as a separate purchase under the Beats by Dre brand. According to the analysts in today's report, the 3.5mm headphone jack will be replaced by another speaker thanks to an additional amp also provided by Cirrus Logic.
Verdict: Correct!
Feb 18 - iPhone 5se and iPad Air 3 to Use A9 and A9X Processors
Early iPhone 5se rumors were offered conflicting information on the processor that would be used, with some pointing towards the A9 and others pointing towards the previous-generation A8. Later rumors have solidified around the A9, and now we've got confirmation from a reliable source.
Verdict: Correct, although this was something the rumor mill got wrong earlier, as they were basically confirming A8 chips for the SE just a few weeks earlier.
Feb 26 - New 4" iPhone With 12MP Camera Said to Cost $400-$500, iPhone 5s to Receive 50% Price Cut
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a research note to investors, a copy of which was obtained by MacRumors, in which he claims Apple's next-generation 4-inch iPhone will feature a 12-megapixel rear-facing camera, as opposed to an 8-megapixel sensor as previously rumored.
Verdict: Correct, although this is another walk-back on the fact that we "knew" the SE would have an 8MP sensor a few weeks before this.
Feb 26 - Apple's Upcoming 4-Inch Smartphone May Be Called 'iPhone SE'
Verdict: Correct, they finally got the name right!
Feb 27 - Photos of 'iPhone SE' Screen Display Confirm No 3D Touch
Verdict: Correct.
Feb 29 - iPhone 7 May Feature Flush Camera, Stereo Speakers and Thinner Lightning Port
The site reports that the new phone will not have antenna bands across the rear and will have a flush rear camera, corroborating a MacRumors report in early February. The site notes that it's likely the iPhone 7 will also come with stereo speakers
Mac Otakara also reiterated its earlier reports that the iPhone 7 would not include a headphone jack, instead using an all-in-one Lightning port. The site claims that the Lightning port enclosure may be thinner than it currently is, but that it will still be fully compatible with current Lightning cables.
A source on Chinese social media site Weibo claimed that the iPhone 7 would be waterproofed and use new composite materials for its shell last September. However, Mac Otakara says the iPhone 7 will include neither, instead using the same aluminum material and will be as water resistant as the iPhone 6s.
Verdict: There's a lot to unpack here, but I'm going to say this was just wrong. They reiterated the no headphone jack and antenna line change that had already been reported long before this, but then they got everything else wrong. The Lightning plug is the same, and Mac Otakara fought against the idea of a new material and waterproofing, we all know the iPhone 7 is indeed water resistant, and has one model with a new material.
Feb 29 - High-End iPhone 7 Plus With Dual Cameras Could Be Called 'iPhone Pro'
The rumored high-end iPhone 7 Plus with dual cameras could be named the "iPhone Pro," according to questionable information shared by Chinese website MyDrivers [Google Translate]. Apple is reportedly considering the name to distinguish the device from the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, said to include standard single-lens cameras.
Verdict: Wrong, wrong, wrong.
March 2016 iPhone Rumors Judged
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January 2016 iPhone Rumors Judged
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AAPCHO Condemns Supreme Court Decision on Dobbs v. Jackson's Women's Health Organization
WASHINGTON— Today, the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down legal protections on abortion access and allow state governments to decide whether abortion access would be legal in their state. This decision limits access for at least 26 states and territories, leaving almost 40 million women without reproductive care, and exacerbating the barriers to health for many, especially for communities of color like Asian Americans (AAs), Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (NH/PIs), immigrants, and lower-income communities.
Jeffrey Caballero, executive director of AAPCHO, said:
"Accessible and safe health care, including reproductive care, is a human right. Today's Supreme Court decision overturning Roe is dangerous and sets an unacceptable precedent of government interference in the most private discussions between a patient and their health care provider. Limiting access to reproductive care and striking down the constitutional right to abortion that has been law for nearly a century jeopardizes a patient's health and threatens health care providers' ability to give informed health care to their patients. It will also reinforce obstacles for communities that already face barriers to care, including Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. AAPCHO condemns this decision and will continue to work with our members and partners to ensure that all people can get the health care they need. We call on elected leaders at all levels to pass laws that protect reproductive justice and equitable access to health care for all."
About AAPCHO
AAPCHO is a national association of community health organizations dedicated to promoting advocacy, collaboration and leadership that improves the health status and access of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the United States, the U.S. territories, and Freely Associated States. For more information on AAPCHO, please visit www.aapcho.org.
Kristine Cecile Alarcon, MPH, (510) 671-5054, kalarcon@aapcho.org
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. � The Tarleton TexAnn tennis team has been selected for the program�s sixth straight NCAA Division II Central Regional Tournament.
The TexAnns (13-5) will face Cameron (12-10) on Thursday, May 8 while host Incarnate Word (15-4) will play Central Oklahoma (11-8). The times and facility have not been set for the matches.
The winners will then play each other on Friday, May 9 for the Central Regional Championship and the right to advance to the Sweet Sixteen in Houston on May 14-17. The final four rounds of the national tournament will take place in Houston�s Memorial Park.
The other Central Regional tournament will be hosted by Abilene Christian (25-3) who will receive a bye. The Wildcats will play the winner of Northeastern State (19-3) and East Central (11-5) for the championship match of that tournament.
In all, 61 teams qualified for the NCAA Division II women�s national tennis tournament.


The exhibit ended on June 24th. Thanks to Cathie Berrey-Green and Al Green of BG Productions for taking portraits of couples for the exhibit, Bill Russell Studio and Gallery for providing a lovely space to host the exhibit, and to everyone who participated and attended. Enjoy the photos below!


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Q: How to make accurate capacitance measurements using LCR meter IET/QuadTech 7600 Plus Precision? Some students in my department are studying a flat capacitor comb printed on a Volterra PCB. The sample we measured had 19 fingers and a spacing of approximately 216 µm. I need help guiding them how to make accurate measurements using an IET/QuadTech 7600 Plus Precision LCR meter. Can someone help me?

A: The general approach is to run 4 shielded coax wires to a Kelvin connection at the DUT and to measure under open/short conditions first to zero the meter. Your LCR meter should have force and sense connections (maybe called current and potential) for both high and low.
Here, for example, is a measurement of a "gimmick" twisted PE wire capacitor which yields a stable 0.8pF reading on an inexpensive meter after calibration. Each side of each clip runs to a separate piece of coaxial cable (4 in total) which run back to BNC connectors on the meter.

Perhaps you could make a PCB with similar geometry open and shorts as well as the capacitor to be tested. Of the two tests, 'open' (zero pF) is more important. You can also perform a double check by connecting a commercial capacitor such as an NP0 10pF +/-1% part, which is quite inexpensive and likely tighter in tolerance than you  need.