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Langdon Tactical
Red Dot Beretta 92
Impossible Engineering?
Written By Massad Ayoob
Mas finds the Langdon treatment comes to his eye faster than any other carry optic combo he's used.
They said it couldn't be done … but Ernest Langdon did it.
The firing pin block rises through the top rear of the slide when the trigger is pulled and the Beretta 92 has an open-top slide. How in Hell was anybody going to mount a red dot optic on one of those?
"Where there's a will, there's a way," it is said. Those old sayings have gotten to be clichés because they're generally true. The guy who figured out how to get an optical sight on a 92 was Ernest Langdon … and, I suppose, he was the logical guy to do it.
The Langdon mounting solution includes an integral rear sight, ready for a co-witness setup.
Sitting on my desk is a Langdon RDO LTT Elite Beretta 92 with a Trijicon SRO optic. It represents a confluence of two current trends, one of which Ernest Langdon is largely responsible for. The first is the renaissance of the Beretta 92 pistol, just when everybody thought it was going to be relegated to the military museum. Ernest's training and particularly his Fear Not the Double Action Shot video series on YouTube reminded America's shooters the Beretta could be made with a very sweet trigger both double and single action, and had long since proven itself to be one of the most reliable auto pistol platforms in existence.
The other trend is "carry optics": red dot sights are compact enough to ride in a duty holster, or even serve for concealed carry. The carry optic's red dot offers advantages. It's a natural for those whose vision won't give them a good focus on iron sights. For any user, though, the big advantage is what the military, police and armed citizen sectors found with the same optics on rifles: the aiming index — the dot — is seen by the eye on the same focal plane as the target.
Langdon customs, 20 years apart: LTT RDO above, customized 92G below.
How Langdon Did It
The Langdon Tactical crew explains, "This has been no easy task as the internal workings of the 92 slide have made the 'proper' low mounting of a red dot optic impossible. With the design of five new components and a custom mounting plate specific for the Beretta 92, Langdon Tactical can properly low mount a micro red dot optic.
"When we say low, we mean very low: Our system has a dot height above the center of the bore of 0.85″ (when paired with a Trijicon RMR), which is as low or lower than most direct milled striker-fired systems.
"A re-engineered firing pin and firing pin block permits the super-secure mounting of an adapter plate that is held in place with three mounting screws, a front dovetail, and a center indexing boss milled into the slide. This plate has a built-in back-up rear sight that mates up with a newly designed front sight for the Elite LTT and other Vertec type slides. The new system is a game-changer for the Beretta 92 owners.
"This RDO package comes with the red dot height front sight that matches the adapter plate built in rear sight pre-installed …"
Mas found the large window of the SRO and low position of the
mount made tracking through recoil easy.
I picked up my test sample barrel and slide assembly from Ernest and Aimee Langdon in early July 2020, a couple of weeks ahead of the anxiously awaited official announcement. In anticipation of my evaluation, I brought my Langdon Custom Beretta LTT which served as my teaching and personal carry gun for a two-week training tour. This gave me a leg up.
My Langdon RDO is fitted with a Trijicon SRO (Specialized Reflex Optic). These come with dot sizes of 1.5, 2.5, or 5.0 MOA. Mine is the Mama Bear middle road one, the 2.5, and for me it's "just right." Battery life is spec'd to be about three years, presuming the unit is adjusted halfway in the middle on the brightness scale.
It was reassuring to find the barrel and slide assembly I picked up from the Langdons, already affixed with the SRO in the Langdon mount, came pre-co-witnessed with the high-profile iron sights, the rear of which was pyramidal and plain black, and the front mounting a big, easy-to-see white dot.
I shot my LTT with its iron sights in early July 2020 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle on a 60-shot qualification course, and finished with a perfect score and about a 5″ group. I shot the same course on my home range after the announcement, with the SRO on top. The score was the same. The group was a little bigger, but I'd had less time behind the SRO than I'd had behind the irons. I didn't have students watching, but knew I was "shooting in front of 100,000 readers," and believe me, the stress was greater in the latter shoot.
On the 25-yard line, the Langdon gun with the carry optic routinely gave me six for six on Bianchi Plates within the nine-second limit. That's better than I was able to average with other guns in 11 times at the Bianchi Cup itself.
Langdon LTT Elite with RDO mount modification. Note how low the red dot sits on the slide.
Swapping slides on a 92-platform pistol is effortless, so ordering the side and
barrel assembly allows quick change between optics-ready and iron-sight configurations.
Something Magical
I've been shooting red dot sights on handguns since they came out. I shot an early Tasco ProPoint, then state-of-the art, atop a Cannon/Ayoob Custom compensated 4″ S&W 686 with Jarvis barrel weight at the 10th Bianchi Cup. I found this new combination of the Langdon Beretta and its very low-mounted SRO optic to come to my eye faster than any carry optic and pistol combination I've worked with yet.
At this writing, I've now had the Langdon RDO Beretta in the hands of six other handgunners. Most of them are match-winning shooters, and all are familiar with red dot sights. They hold several state and regional shooting championships, one or more national titles among them, and two are IDPA Five-Gun Masters. And we all came to a unanimous conclusion.
To a man (and two state champion women) we all found the Langdon Beretta brought the red dot to the eye faster than any other optic combo we had worked with.
Getting the red dot to the eye is the single biggest hurdle to overcome, all the more so for those of us habituated by years or even decades to open iron handgun sights.
I don't know about you, but I identify with felines on this. You know how hard your pet house cat works to catch the red dot you project with your laser pen/cat toy? Well, I had almost as hard a time "catching the red dot" on carry optics. The Langdon treatment of the SRO on the Beretta seems to cure this.
I'm still trying to determine what it is about this combination that makes it work so well. It may be the SRO sight, with its generously large window, significantly larger than its super-popular predecessor, the Trijicon RMR. It may be the very low-to-the-bore-axis placement of the red dot which Langdon Tactical Technologies rightfully emphasizes on their website. And it might be the Langdon Beretta itself.
If you order one of these, do yourself a favor and get Langdon's famous action job — it's famous for a reason! I got my first one about 20 years ago on a stock 92G I had won at a police event. It has since won several IDPA matches for me with the overall top score, and as best as I can remember, three out of four NRA Police Service Pistol matches I've shot with it. The current options are better than what we had 20 years ago: My LTT has the NP3 treatment on critical parts, created by the now-retired Robbie Barrkman, that reduces friction and makes the action both smoother and a bit lighter.
The red dot adds minimal carry bulk, shown here with an IPSC-approved Comp-Tac holster.
This gun ain't cheap, but it's more than worth its price. You can buy the whole gun from Langdon Tactical Technology, just the slide, or send your slide in for the work, provided it's a Vertec style. While you're at it, I'd urge you to invest in the action job: It darn sure proved its worth to me.
For more info: LangdonTactical.com
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Marie-Jeanne Aarts
About Marie-Jeanne
PhD, Department of Health Services Research, CAPHRI School of Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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One of the greatest joys of motherhood is to see one's kids bond in a loving relationship. A lot of people like to believe that kids who have only one parent in common can't be that close. Fortunately, they're absolutely wrong.
Rachel Sobel went through a stressful divorce and shares custody of her 8-year-old daughter with her ex-husband. She had another girl right after she re-married, and the girls share a loving, deep bond. In a post full of motherly emotions, the Pop Sugar website contributor described how awful it feels when people try to put a biological tag on her babies' deep relationship.
She's been okay dealing with the rancid and intrusive attitude people put up after a divorce happens. That's all about her and her ex-husband. She just won't sit with anyone who tries to meddle into her children's relationship with the use of the noun 'half-sister'.
Rachel initially thought there'd be some sort of bridge between the girls, seeing as the first is eight years older than the second. She later realized she was worrying for nothing.
A strong bond developed between them the first day they saw each other, and they've been so close ever since. Rachel feels that it's wrong to address her kids as half-sisters. They may both grow up with the notion and mentality that they're not completely sisters.
The older girl showers her baby sister with so much love and care, that it's hard to believe she's only 8. Why would anyone want to classify such a sweet relationship as 'half'?
"They are the best kind of sisters. The older one is the protector and the little one is her shadow. They are madly in love and I'm equally in love with them and their relationship.
"Every time the term rolls off somebody's tongue as casually as if they're placing their morning coffee order, my older daughter gets upset," Rachel wrote. The poor girl wonders why anybody would describe her sister as 'half'. The more people say it, the more confused she gets.
The little girl tries to understand if there is a different way she should feel about her supposedly half-baby-sister. Rachel says it's such an infuriating term to her. People really shouldn't try so hard to define a relationship for the little girls.
"They're whole sisters who love each other with their whole hearts. They play, bicker, and show affection like sisters. Sure they don't have the same father, but that has zero bearing on their bond.
Rachel insists that it's not easy for moms who have similar families like hers. People like to make it look as if there's something awfully different about them. It's not easy having to always be on her guard.
"Mothers like me have to work hard every day to facilitate healthy, strong relationships within their families," Rachel wrote. "So when others undermine that, they're belittling the circumstances under which my kids came into this world.


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Q: i am facing issue to add path to product urls.py file ,i dont know how ```

I am creating CRUD for categories I make a CategoriesViewSet.
on the other hand, I register the router as default in urls.py(Products) for viewset of categories but I don't know how to add a path into the product => urls.py and also the path I want to include into the core url.py file.

    product => urls.py

    router =routers.DefaultRouter()
    router.register(r'categories', CategoryViewSet)

    urlpatterns = [

        path('list/',ProductList.as_view(),name="View Product"),
        path('add/',AddProduct.as_view(),name="Create Product"),
        path('<int:pk>/',ProductDetails.as_view(),name="product_detail"),
        # path('categories/', CategoryViewSet.as_view({'get':'list'}))
        path(r'^', include(router.urls)),
        re_path(r'categories/', CategoryViewSet.as_view({'get':'list'}),
            name='product-detail')

    ]

    Core => urls.py

        path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
        path('api/product/', include('products.urls')),
        path('api/user/', include('user.urls')),

    ] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

    urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns(urlpatterns)

A: I don't think you have a clear idea of what Routers do in Django.
From DRF's official documentation:

Some Web frameworks such as Rails provide functionality for
automatically determining how the URLs for an application should be
mapped to the logic that deals with handling incoming requests.
REST framework adds support for automatic URL routing to Django, and
provides you with a simple, quick and consistent way of wiring your
view logic to a set of URLs.

This line:
router.register(r'categories', CategoryViewSet)

according to Django REST Framework's (DRF) documentation, generates 2 URL patterns:
categories/ - Return the list of categories
categories/{pk}/ - Return category with specified primary key (pk)

You don't need to add those again in Product's urls.py. You can either only specify the router.register(...) method, or manually add them like that:
path('categories/', CategoryViewSet.as_view(), name='product-detail')

A: It works. In my view I implemented and it works that's why I am asking First of all we have to add the
import [re_path and include] in the Urls.py (Products)
then we have to add--------------------
~the code will be added in the urls.py(Products) below the import library.
router = routers.SimpleRouter()
router.register(r'', CategoryViewSet, 'categories')

in Url Patterns~
re_path(r'^categories/',include((router.urls,'categories'),namespace='categories'))

it works.

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Like A Tree
(A Davis Morgan Mystery)
by Danny Pelfrey & Wanda Pelfrey
Like A Tree (A Davis Morgan Mystery)
Inspirational Cozy Mystery
4th in Series
CrossLink Publishing (March 26, 2019)
The movie industry spreading across Georgia has finally made its way to the little foothill village of Adairsville. Bookseller and police chaplain, Davis Morgan along with a young female clerk discover the body of a member of the movie company on a historic site at the foot of a large oak tree. Davis, despite his promise to his wife, cannot resist investigating the mystery. He and his young pal, policeman Charley Nelson, quietly dig into the case even though it is officially under the jurisdiction of the county sheriff. There is no shortage of suspects: the mysterious red headed man, sister of the victim, the fiancée and others. During the investigation an already troubled Charley is framed for a drug crime, and Davis receives word that an old enemy is on his way to Georgia after escaping from prison to make good on a threat against him. Late one afternoon it all comes to an astonishing conclusion beneath the same sprawling oak where it started.
Guest Post by the Authors
THE IMPORTANCE OF SETTING TO THE COZY MYSTERY
I once asked a writer's workshop leader who was both a writer and an attorney, "Am I walking on thin ice by using my hometown as the setting for my series of mystery novels?"
Her reply was, "Probably not, but to be safe, I think I would change the name of the town in my story." It was too late. By then, two of the four Davis Morgan Mysteries had been published with Adairsville, Georgia as the setting. There was no turning back. That workshop leader later informed me if I was not sued within one year of the release of the book, I was safe. I sort of hold my breath for one year after each book comes out. So far, no law suits.
The history of our city as well as its landmarks are everywhere in the stories, but I am extremely careful to create characters who are not even close to being like their actual counterparts in town. For example, if the police chief is young and thin, the one in my book will be overweight and ready to retire. If the mayor in our town is loud and extroverted with a thick head of hair, the one in the story will be timid and bald.
When my wife and I started writing the series, one of the things we decided we wanted to do was promote our little town of five thousand people. Its history is long and fascinating, and many of its landmarks are exceptionally interesting. More people need to know about such a charming place. I'm not sure if we have accomplished that as well as we hoped, but the setting has enabled us to generate a lot of new local fans for our books. I've seen no sells records, but since I own the only bookstore in the immediate area, I can tell you that our books outsell John Grisham, Stephen King and James Patterson locally. I haven't fooled myself into thinking that is because we are better writers than those gentlemen. Locally, people like our setting far more than the faraway places used by those more famous authors. It is my opinion that the setting can become another major character in a work of fiction.
Not long ago a lady told me her mother, who is getting on in years, having always been a resident of our town is now confined to a bed in a nearby nursing home. The lady informed me that her mother gets out of sorts if her granddaughter does not show up to read to her at least once a week. "The only thing Mother will let us read to her is one of your mysteries. She loves it when she recognizes the places you write about," I was told.
A group of ladies from Dalton, Georgia, which is thirty miles up the road. became interested in our Davis Morgan stories. They decided they wanted to see the places they were reading about. One day they came to Adairsville for lunch at the 1902 Stock Exchange, a prominent Davis Morgan spot. Then my wife, Wanda, took the six ladies on a Davis Morgan tour in which they saw ten or twelve locations they remembered from the book. Wanda anticipates giving other such tours in the future.
Several years ago, when the Mitford books were so popular, I would occasionally see bumper stickers that declared, "I'd Rather Be in Mitford." I visualized "I'd Rather Be in Adairsville," bumper stickers on cars across our nation. All because of our books. It hasn't happened so far, but it's not over yet. The fourth Davis Morgan Mystery, LIKE A TREE has just been released and we are starting a new series with new characters, but in an old location. The new series will also be set in Adairsville.
Danny & Wanda Pelfrey are a husband/wife team who in the past wrote helpful non-fiction books and material. Recently they have turned to producing "mysteries with a message." Their stories are usually set in a small southern town in Georgia called Adairsville. Danny grew up in a poverty situation where he was often without access to TV for entertainment so he found books. It was not unusual for him, in his high school years, to read three or four books a week. So his love affair with books developed early. Danny received a degree from Point University and a Master of Ministry from Kentucky Christian University. He spent many years serving pastorates with churches in several states. Danny is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers. Wanda started her writing career writing curriculum for various publishers. Among books she has authored is the popular, MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR CHILD'S TEACHABLE MOMENTS. She spent twenty-four years as a primary teacher in a Montessori school. She enjoys quilting and has never lost her love for reading. The Pelfreys have two daughters and five grandchildren. LIKE A TREE is the fourth Davis Morgan Mystery on which they have collaborated.
Website www.pelfreybooks.com.
Facebook www.facebook.com/danny.pelfrey.566,
Twitter Danny Pelfrey@dwpelfrey
Links for purchase: Amazon author page www.amazon.com/Danny/e/B001KMIKHM, CrossLink Publishing, Banes & Noble etc, www.pelfreybooks.com
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Thanks for featuring LIKE A TREE. You are appreciated.
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Thank you for being part of the book tour for "Like A Tree" by Danny Pelfrey & Wanda Pelfrey. Really enjoyed reading the importance of the setting in a cozy mystery as well as learning more about both book and author.
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I'm sure that they didn't know what to do with their feelings, their fears and her circumstances, so they turned her away.
She was a victim of circumstances.
She was born with HIV.
Love and sacrifice is what's needed when lives are at stake.
"Helping improve the lives of children, youth and families facing significant health challenges or social isolation" should have been a church tagline. Instead, filling a gap that at least one church failed to meet, One Heartland stepped into the gap.
Camp Heartland serves children and youth ages 7-15 either infected or directly affected by HIV/AIDS.
Life's NOT fair. What are you going to do about it?
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The Studio Museum in Harlem has long played a critical role in fostering the careers of contemporary artists of African descent. Since 1968 the museum has been the leading place to explore the diverse set of concerns that informs art by African-American artists. The five 2016 spring exhibitions that opened last week—Rodney McMillian's Views of Main Street, Rashaad Newsome's This Is What I Want To See, Ebony G. Patterson's …when they grow up... and two collection shows, Palatable: Food and Contemporary Art and Surface Area: Selections from the Permanent Collection—continue the museum's mission to offer both a look at the legacy and future of black contemporary art.
The three solo shows activate the Studio Museum in distinctive ways. Rashaad Newsome's exhibition of video and works on paper continues his exploration of both Vogue culture and European heraldry. The video ICON (2014) blends the influences of the black LGBTQ communities with abstracted and contemporary ideas of heraldry to reveal figures voguing to a ballroom bass-heavy beat through architectural structures comprised of Cuban link chains and other diamond encrusted bling. The collages L.S.S (Kevin JZ Prodigy) (2014) and Ballroom Floor (2014) continue his use of abstraction to explore the relationships that arise among power, status, and the black body.
Rodney McMillian uses the first floor galleries to stage an exploration of wealth and poverty through sculpture and painting. In Views of Main Street, the artist's use of tattered furniture—Couch (2012), Chair (2003), and Untitled (2011), an oddly shaped maroon carpet, presented on a wall as a cross between painting and sculpture— illustrates most forcibly the artist's fifteen-year fascination with the effects of inequality. The crumpled painting Untitled (The Supreme Court Painting), created over two years in the mid-aughts, lies on the floor of the main gallery of the museum. The work is a cutout of the façade of America's highest court. McMillian's representation evokes the ways in which government institutions historically, often now inadvertently, perpetuate class disparity.
Ebony G. Patterson's …when they grow up… turns a basement gallery at the Studio Museum into an immersive environment that centers around the concept of ephebiphobia. This phobia is characterized by a fear of youth that is shaped by an inaccurate negative perception of adolescent behavior. In the installation Patterson evokes a child's playroom, filling the bright pink gallery with toys, flowers, bedazzled embellished surfaces, and backpacks to question the cultural perception that often renders black children adults. The exhibit also features portraits of black children that emphasizes their humanity and recalls the deaths of 11-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland and slain children in the artist's native home of Kingston, Jamaica. The site-specific installation is a colorful shrine to lost black childhood.
The two group shows are comprised of artworks from the museum's permanent collection, which includes more than 2,000 holdings of painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media art. Palatable: Food and Contemporary Art features sixteen artists investigating the influence and cultural implications of culinary taste. The exhibition includes Carrie Adams's 2013 Untitled (Dinners) and David Hammons's Koolaid Drawing (2004), an abstract expressionistic work painted using real Kool-AID. Along a wall on the second floor is Surface Area: Selections from the Permanent Collection, which includes works by artists Jennifer Packer and Howardena Pindell, and explores the ways artists have expanded the possibilities of the flat two-dimensional canvas.
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Who created Viva La Vida?
We are a Dutch family who decided a couple of years ago to go on an adventure in the beautiful Andalusia. We first planned to go for a year, but we enjoyed it so much that we decided to stay here for a longer period.
We are very enthusiastic about the area and like to share it with other people. We organize yoga retreats, Yoga Teacher Training courses (TTC) and yoga & walking retreats all year round at the most beautiful places in Andalusia.


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JUULs and Teens: The Vaping Epidemic
By Isabella Sorresso
Being the daughter of a pulmonologist, I was taught to never smoke around the same time I was learning my ABCs. My mom found a photo I drew when I was about 5 years old that depicted a scribbly version of the "no smoking" sign. I had to have been the youngest spokesperson for "Tobacco Free Florida" that there was, and to this day I have never tried a cigarette. However, there's a new trend in smoking that my cautioning father couldn't have predicted 21 years ago. It's a vaping epidemic. Almost one in five school students have tried e-cigarettes or vaping at least once.
What is vaping?
"Vaping is the act of inhaling and exhaling the aerosol, often referred to as vapor, which is produced by an e-cigarette or similar device," according to the Partnership to End Addiction. Vaporizers, or vapes, come in all shapes and sizes and can emit either a small puff of smoke or huge, billowing clouds.
Contrary to what I heard one of my classmates falsely claim once, vaping is not "just water and nicotine." Even if that was the argument, that doesn't make them any less dangerous or addictive.
Just one refillable liquid cartridge could potentially have the same amount of nicotine as 20 cigarettes, according to Truth, an organization committed to spreading knowledge about the drugs we're consuming and the tobacco companies that push them on us.
The liquid that creates the smoke also comes in a variety of flavors and smells, such as cotton candy and mango, making them more appealing not only to smoke, but less upsetting to others when a bystander smokes. It's because of this sweet appearance that people are completely disregarding the fact that they are inhaling a slew of chemicals and slowly forming an addiction to nicotine each time they take a hit.
What kinds of vapes are out there?
There are several types of vapes, but the biggest risk potentially to your teens is e-cigarettes. They are often small and easily concealed, meaning that students can effortlessly bring them to school and smoke almost anywhere. Unless someone sees (or smells) their vapor cloud, Gen-Z teens could be sucking on these e-cigs all day if they wanted to.
One of the biggest culprits contributing to the spread of the vaping epidemic is the company JUUL Labs. Each JUUL (pronounced "jewel") e-cigarette is small and rectangular, closely resembling a USB flash drive. Because of the JUUL's sleek and streamlined appearance compared to other vapes, along with their popularity on social media, they have quickly become the "trendy" vape to have. In fact, JUUL Labs were under investigation by the Food and Drug Administration for targeting teens in their marketing campaigns last year. After the FDA warned of the risks associated with marketing e-cigarettes to minors and requested that JUUL send them their promotional materials for review, JUUL has since changed their tactics, featuring only real customers who have made the switch from cigarettes to vaping and who are at least 35 years old, according to an article from The Cut.
Today, the use of vapes has already shown ties to long-term effects. According to the American Lung Association, vaping with flavored chemicals can lead to a condition called "popcorn lung."
Popcorn lung, or bronchiolitis obliterans, gets its name from the serious cases of popcorn factory workers breathing in large amounts of butter-flavored chemicals containing diacetyl. Diacetyl is also present in the flavored vape cartridges that seem fun and inconspicuous to tween and teen smokers.
The condition causes irreversible "scarring of the tiny air sacs in the lungs resulting in the thickening and narrowing of the airways… that causes coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath, similar to the symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)," according to the American Lung Association.
So, while vaping may seem like a less dangerous alternative to smoking real cigarettes, the danger is still very present and more pressing than ever. Thankfully, Alachua County is striving to make a difference with teens and tobacco. Although youth vaping has increased by about 60 percent in the last two years, an ordinance passed in January that will prohibit the sale of tobacco products, those including e-cigarettes, to anyone who is younger than 21 years old in Alachua County.
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After shopping around for a new ultrabook, I finally settled on the Lenovo Yoga Pro 2. It features a 3200x1800 screen, 8 GB RAM and a 256 GB SSD, all weighing in at just over 3 lbs. The Yoga design allows the screen to rotate 360 degrees so that you get a (albeit hefty) tablet mode as well.
So, I thought I would share my solutions to some common annoyances that other developers will have with the Yoga.
I have heard a lot of complaints about the trackpad on the Yoga 2, and I have to agree that its gesture support just gets in the way. I would become really frustrated inside Visual Studio when trying to drag items around or use right-click context menus - whenever I tried to right-click, the mouse would move just a little bit off target before the click registered.
So here is what I did to make the trackpad a more "basic" experience, removing the gestures.
In the Search box, enter "mouse"
Now you will see the Synaptics Control Panel. Be sure to visit all three tabs here and uncheck all of the annoying gestures to your needs.
The top row of keys on the Yoga hav e both "function" keys and "utility" keys (for example, media controls, airplane mode, etc.) The default for these keys is to invoke utility keys when pressed, and as a developer you most definitely want the Function keys to be the default.
Here is how to change the default to Function Keys.
Shut down your Yoga 2.
On the right-side of the Yoga, right next to the power button is a small circular button with a little "refresh arrow" right next to it. You need to depress this tiny button with a small screwdriver or any pointed tool.
The Yoga 2 has a light sensor which automatically brightens or dims the screen depending on lighting conditions it is in. The problem is, you will sometimes be in a light condition where the screen will flicker rapidly because it can't settle on a brightness!
You can, however disable the auto brightness.
On the task bar, click the little battery icon at the right-most part of the task bar.
Select "change advanced power settings"
Screen Shots are HUGE. If you're used to taking screenshots or video, be prepared for huge files.
The Command Prompt... Another window that comes up very tiny. You can set the font sizes in the window properties, but in my configuration and font selection I am not able to get it to a comfortable viewing size.
The only fix I have found for these issues is to kick down the Yoga's resolution when needed - for example, if you're doing some Camtasia recording, it might be a good idea to lower the res before doing so.
If you're a developer and considering the Yoga 2 Pro, I would recommend checking out the numerous reviews from Engadget, CNET, and others. And while you will likely hit the same quirks as I did above, you sho uld be able to make these tweaks to improve your experience.
I have so much regret of buying this PC, its the worst computer/ the most expensive i bought in a long time, and I would never recommend it to any one.


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What do the Aurora Ipsilon, Columbus Academia, Filcao Nobile, Levenger True Writer, and Waterman Philéas have in common, beyond their being excellent bargain fountain pens? It's not their price; nor is it their color, size, body material, or filling system. The feature these pens share is their use of steel nibs.
In a world where consumers equate gold — the more the better — with quality, steel seems downright cheap and nasty to write with. And ugly, too. Yet none of that is true, and this article is intended to bust these myths.
Myth No. 1: Steel nibs are cheap. It's true that steel nibs are less costly than gold, but "inexpensive" does not equal "cheap." Obviously, steel nibs of poor quality and without hard tipping material do exist. These days, they're usually IPG nibs. ("IPG" is a reference to the IRIDIUM POINT GERMANY imprint that these deceptive nibs bear.) Such nibs are found on some Chinese-made pens and as a component of the usual kit of parts used by craftsmen pen turners, but they're far less common today than they were 70 years ago because fountain pens have come of age as writing instruments on their own merits, not as competition for ballpoints. And, like the pens that bear them, modern steel nibs have benefited from advances in technology since those bad old days.
If you pay more than about $20.00 for a new fountain pen, you can expect that it will have an iridium-tipped nib of decent, if not outstanding, quality and durability. For not very much more, you should expect a good-quality nib. Take a close look at a Waterman Philéas (street price about $35.00); you'll see a two-tone steel nib that is shaped well, finished well, and usually very smooth with good flow. It only gets better as you go up in price from there.
Myth No. 2: Steel nibs write horribly. Most steel nibs are firm. Some are truly rigid. But anyone who has written with a typical vintage Parker Duofold or a Waterman Edson can tell you that the gold nibs in these pens are as stiff as 20-penny nails. But they sure write nicely. And so do most modern steel nibs. In fact, steel nibs often come out of the box writing better than those big, glowing 18K babies we all admire so much.
This unexpected difference happens because steel nibs are generally made entirely by machines, while gold nibs — as befits their luxury status — are often finished by hand. Hand finishing can be better than machine finishing; but it's slower, and it's not as repeatable — machine-made steel nibs are more consistent, and therefore more consistently good writers than hand-finished nibs. Hand finishing also costs more; the artisanship to shape a nib so that it glides across the paper smoothly (but not too smoothly, or it will skip), is not common or inexpensive. If a steel nib isn't writing as well as it should, it can be tweaked or tuned, just as a gold nib can. If you buy a steel-nibbed pen and pay a nibmeister to tune the pen for you, you'll still usually end up paying less than you'd pay for a similar pen with a gold nib — which might also have to be tweaked.
Myth No. 3: Steel nibs are ugly. Ugliness is not the exclusive province of the metal from which any nib is made. Steel nibs can be ugly, it's true, but they can also be every bit as attractive as gold.
Here are two pens with customized steel nibs, a Levenger True Writer and a Columbus Academia:
After it has been polished (as shown here), the True Writer's unplated steel nib looks for all the world like a palladium-plated gold nib, and the Academia's gold-plated nib looks just about the same as an 18K gold nib. Just as with gold nibs, steel nibs can be customized attractively. The True Writer's nib has been reground to a 1.1-mm cursive italic for serious drama and swash as a signature pen, and the Academia wears a custom 0.6-mm stub for use as an everyday writer with a little extra writing panache. These nibs, finished with care, look as good as gold nibs, and they have been adjusted to write as well as they look. They will provide a lifetime of effortless, pleasure-filled writing for their owners. For a lot less money than gold.
Most of us are attached to our gold nibs. There's nothing wrong with that; I love mine, too. But those who are gold loyalists to the exclusion of steel are missing out on some quality writing experiences. Consider adding some steel-nibbed pens to your stable; they're workhorses, and they can be pretty enough to turn heads as quickly as their gold brethren.
The sad fact of cheap nibs in the kits used by pen turners is that many of these artisans produce superb pens, beautiful and durable. But because of the poor quality of the "guts," too many of these pens end up being pitched into desk drawers because they are not pleasing to use. But more and more pen turners are discovering that there are now resources for both steel and gold nibs of high quality that are designed to drop right into the most common pen kits, and it's no longer rare to see a lovely kit pen fitted with a very nice nib made by the likes of Germany's JoWo. (Edited June 2013)
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Craig A Mims Jr.
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Nasir Jones
Nasir Jones was born to his parents Olu Dara and Ann Jones in September of 1973. Nasir was raised in the Queensbridge housing project of New York. His Father Olu Dara was well known in their community for being a Jazz musician. Due to this Nasir was influenced by music at an early. Olu taught his son to play several instruments including the trumpet. His parents love for music and art made their home a place of peace, and refuge from the chaos that surrounded them in the projects. His safe haven didn't last long and resulted in Nas partaking in the illicit activities that consumed his neighborhood. In 1985, he dropped out of school after the eighth grade following his parents' divorce. Nasir's upbringing influenced him to begin using music as an outlet to express the turmoil he found himself in.
Nasir's coming of age tale coincided with the birth of a new genre of music, Hip-Hop. By the age of 20, Nas had begun battling local rappers on street corners in his community. Nasir created a new moniker for himself "Nasty Nas". Unlike Olu his lyrical content was dark in nature and described what he saw in the streets of New York. Nas Always had a passion for writing, which translated over well into his rhymes. He began to receive notoriety in his neighborhood for the creative metaphors, and knowledge he used in his lyrics. An older rapper named "Ill Will" was impressed by Nas's rapping ability and decided to take him under his tutelage. In 1991, Nas tasted fame outside of his local community. Nas was featured on a song by the group Main Source called "Live at the barbecue". After a few more singles Nasty Nas's lyrical ability became evident to everyone in the music industry. This recognition resulted in him being signed to Columbia records by Faith Newman and MC Serch.
After being signed to Colombia Nas went to work. All of his potential manifested into potentially the greatest album of all time "Illmatic". The collection featured some big name producers such as DJ Premier and Q-tip. His debut album was released in April of 1994. Simply put his work was nothing short of flawlessness. Its distinctive portrayal of inner city New York, and its unique beats guaranteed the album was a pleaser from start to finish.
True fans of Nas stood by his debut album as being his best work. Contrary to his fan-base, the world at large was mesmerized by his second album. Perhaps this was because his second album featured several of his award winning contemporaries. A few of these artists are Mobb Deep, Dr. Dre, and Lauryn Hill. His second album "It Was Written", was released in 1996 and debuted at No. 1 on both the pop and R&B charts for nearly 2 months. Compared with debut album, "It Was Written" was comprised of more complex production. The success of the album resulted in Nas becoming a millionaire. Ultimately the album went double platinum.
After his first two albums Nas released several singles that made the billboards. His third album as a whole didn't garnish much attention. "Nastradamus" was released in 1999 Critics said the album lacked diversity and sounded strikingly similar "Illmatic". Perhaps the only gem that was found on the album was a single entitled "Hate me Now" which did go platinum. Later the same year Nas released another album entitled "I Am". The album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, selling over 470,000 copies in its first week of sales. I Am… would later be certified double platinum in the United States, making it Nas' second best-selling release behind It Was Written. Nas's legacy was essentially cemented after his 4th album.
Nas's career followed the archetype of a rapper nearly to perfection. After enjoying years of success, he became entangled in a "rap beef". His contemporary Jay Z had experienced success much like his own. At the time Jay Z and Nas were arguably the best artists in the hip-hop industry. The deaths of Christopher "Biggie" Wallace and Tupac Shakur left two vacancies at the top of hip-hop. In a competitive, testerone filled industry being amongst the top two wasn't enough, the crown was all that mattered to both artists. The fact that both artists called New York home definitely didn't help diffuse the rivalry. After months of feuding, Jay Z decided to throw the first punch. Jay Z released a track called "Takeover" aimed at Nas, disrespecting him and dismissing his accomplishments. Jay Z referred to Nas as a "has been" and said his reign had come to an end hence the name of the track. Subsequently Nas released his fifth album entitled "Stillmatic" a follow-up to his debut and addressed the "beef" head on. A song on the album named "Ether" shook the industry to its core. When asked why he named the song Ether Nas explained "I was told a long time ago, ghosts and spirits don't like the fumes from ether, and I just wanted to affect him with my weapon and get to his soul". Ether is a pleasant-smelling, colorless, volatile liquid that is highly flammable. The definition of the word fit the track perfectly, as it was volatile in content and exploded the industry. Nas made several homosexual slurs in reference to Jay Z and his record label. Additionally he questioned Jay Z's credibility and threatened to escalate the dispute to a physical level. Many in the industry feared that the situation would result in a murder similar to the feud of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace. Due to this artists in the industry quickly intervened in hopes of diffusing the situation. Ultimately the feud didn't result in any violence and slowly fizzled out, but the question still remained who was the best lyricist in hip-hop? The answer to the question was truly subjective and was a matter of preference. After the feud, lines were drawn and fans made their choice. Eventually the two artists buried the hatchet and have collaborated quite a few times since the dispute.
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An Interview with Julian Koster of The Music Tapes / Neutral Milk Hotel
Siobhán Kane·
· 11th July 2013 ·12 min read
'We are and have always been, a kind of family' – Siobhán Kane spoke with Julian Koster ahead of The Music Tapes' gigs in Cork, Galway & Dublin this weekend.
There is a roaming nature to Julian Koster's creativity, and over the years it has danced around projects like the Elephant 6 collective, Miss America/Chocolate USA, Neutral Milk Hotel and The Music Tapes with a kind of tender grace; pausing for breath when it reaches true connection.
All of Koster's work has been about this type of connection, a sense of invention, and belief in a kind of magic; it is there on his mastery of the Singing Saw, and other instruments such as the banjo, organ, and inventions like Static the Singing Television, and on records such as Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes (2008) which is a wistful, folk-influenced, understated gem.
His latest work with the Music Tapes is last year's Mary's Voice, which sees his expressive vocal folded into a soundscape that takes in pump organ and church bells (among other things), to create an otherworldly, yet strangely familiar experience. This is also the ethos behind the Travelling Imaginary project, which involved making a custom-built circus tent for concerts that would include games, magic and storytelling – a transporting experience, which has met with great acclaim.
In some ways, Koster is the "sleepless sailor" that is referenced in the song "What the Single Made the Needle Sing"; he has a restless, intuitive spirit, the kind that has always set him apart, and the kind that draws him back to an acute sense of kinship, which makes Neutral Milk Hotel's reunion announcement unsurprising – since "we are and have always been, a kind of family", as he tells Siobhán Kane.
How has the Travelling Imaginary Tour been going? What have some of the highlights been so far?
I'm afraid we couldn't do the Travelling Imaginary in Ireland this tour – we couldn't afford to bring the show over – but have hopes to bring the new version over in 2015, but it was amazing. We had such wonderful nights on that tour. It was so nice to be able to travel bringing something so immersive. The moment people walked through the door, every aspect of their experience was something that we prepared for them. So the night becomes an orchestrated set of feelings, each feeling builds on the next one. And for us, it was like travelling with our dream home, and getting to invite guests into our world. It was as comforting as an adventure gets.
The evolution of the project has been a really interesting one, you had a Kickstarter campaign to commission a custom-made circus tent and sound system, and the Live Arts Bard programme has been very helpful – you were able to use their Fisher Centre as a way to explore the project, and did a lot of work in a sense before the tent was even made. Was it heartening to get that kind of support before even taking the project out? How did it all come about?
The support for this dream from ordinary people has been amazing and humbling. It would've been impossible without the astonishing outpouring through Kickstarter – the show ended up costing much more than we imagined, to make. I will always remember the seemingly instant, spontaneous, generosity of all those people.
And then there were these little miracles: the great artist Paul Matisse lending us his studio out of the blue for a week to put together the tent for the first time. Mr Matisse is one of my favourite modern artists. He is grandson of Henri Matisse, and stepson of Duchamp, and as much as I love their work, I have never responded half as much to it, as I have to a couple of Paul Matisse's works. He has made things that achieve, what is to me, the highest pinnacle of art. So, to be invited into his studio, and get to meet those pieces, along with our jolly team of collaborators, and spend a week working, was just amazing. And then, when we were desperate for a place to build the show itself, out of the blue and on incredibly short notice, the Bard Live Arts program stepped in and saved the day. The gave us the Fisher Centre and all of its resourses, and were so kind.
My favourite thing about the show itself was how it seemed to entertain people of all ages, from our 20-something and teen audience, to their parents, grandparents and little children. It was a great privillage to be able to entertain so many kinds of people all at once.
The project also consists of games, magic, storytelling – all within a giant circus tent – how did this idea come about?
I have always found games, stories, and unexplainable expiriences, as natural and exciting as dreaming up songs. We love the idea of making worlds for people to step into – presenting kind realities for play and amusement, or even just exploration. So we try to present as much of that as possible when we do a show.
This reminds me that as we get older, so many of us lose the sense of playfulness that is so natural to us as children; is this a way to remind us how the ability to "play" is as important as many other aspects of living?
I think play is a part of how we grow as living beings. Playing changes us. It is the part of the learning process that is lovingly using a given moment in the name of fun alone – you get the feeling the jazz man gets in playing his greatest solo, and in doing so, you achieve what generations have asked form drugs and all manner of things. Your consciousness expands. I believe this learning and growth continues as long as you are on this earth. It has to do with childhood, only in that it begins there – but it ought to go on and on.
The Music Tapes have always been about reclaiming that sense of play – it reminds me about some of the instruments you use – like the Singing Saw – how did your relationship with the Saw begin?
I saw an old man playing it when I was a little boy. I couldn't believe it was real. It was like a magical illusion, and the sound was so beautiful. So quivering and human, and real, yet so absolutely angelic at the same time. I just had to learn how to do it.
How is Static at the moment? He is one of my favourite parts of The Music Tapes, and seems like an honorary member. How did he come about in the first instance?
Static is well, thank you, and here with us on this tour. When I was a kid I had a television in a room that was broken. It didn't get a picture – only static, or sound – only a single tone. I used to listen to the tone until I could hear melodies in it. I became convinced that the television was singing to me, and it comforted me, and helped me sleep at night. That television is now part of the band. He sings for the audience.
How did your own relationship with music begin? Can you remember the first instrument you started out on, and how you perceived making and listening to music? It seems that your relationship is ever deeper with it, because you see it as something that has an almost spiritual content, that is as natural as the mountains and sea around us.
Thank you. I was born into a world where music was constantly being played, or playing. My father plays concert flamenco guitar, and played for hours and hours each day. Sometimes the gypsies would come visit us, and they would play and drink together. My mother was a modern dancer, and so there was also often electronic music she would listen to as part of a choreography. I remember them listening to The Beatles. So music was just a part of the world, something that was always there like the birds chirping. I think that music is a language that communicates a great deal that is too vast for almost any other language to communicate. It has a great deal to give.
I saw you last year in the Union Chapel with Jeff Mangum – you used the space so well, and it was a magical evening, how did that evening feel for you?
Thank you, that's so kind! All of the things that we hope to share, come from fits of inspiration that are some of my favourite experiences in life. They are moments that come from a sort of solitude and end in a kind of warm feeling of absorption in everything – the whole of the world. So I always hope that something of that feeling, and the feeling of the magic of working and striving to make things together with people that you love, is available to the audience. That feeling is certainly what we would like to make manifest for everybody.
The announcement that Neutral Milk Hotel would be touring together again seemed as natural a step as taking a sip of water, because there is so much affection between you all, and a sense of childlike enthusiasm for music that is very moving. You must be excited to work together again, although you have constantly worked with each other over the years.
Well, we love each other. We are and have always been, a kind of family. Playing together has been, and is, a lot of fun. So we will have a lot of fun. I think it will also be fun for that particular grouping of us to do all of that travelling together again. It's nice to see the world with your friends and play it music.
A sense of community seems very important to you. You have lived in so many places, gathering experiences and friends as you go, all part of a growing community of open-hearted people. Have you always been quite nomadic? Are you happy being inbetween places?
I have always been very nomadic, it's true. That is why my friends, these connections, have always been so important to me, because they make a home. Something outside of time and space. I have to admit that right now I do have a strong yearning to have a house that's my house. Still travel and go between places, but have a real home. But I don't know where yet. It will have to be a place I love very, very much.
Where are you based now? I read recently that you were living "in farm country" on the Hudson River, that sounds like a lovely place.
Right now I am mostly in New York City, but we have been travelling so much and will continue to for more than a year, that I am mostly where I wake up!
You helped the Paragon Carousel stay open, which was really heartening, how did that come about? Was it when you lived in Nantasket? That seemed like a very special place to you.
The Carousel, and Nantasket are special places to me. I lived there some in the mid-noughties, and visit regularly. It's not far from where my grandmother lives. Something about the place moves me. It's a magical place of amusement and holiday, yet it's also very working class and plain at the same time. It's kind of simple and safe too. You can ice skate in a park in the middle of the night and the police won't come. The Carousel is doing well. I think sometimes we get a little too much credit for that. We just saw a way maybe we could help a little. It's a nice place to visit if you are ever in the US.
You also once lived on the island in Maine – how did that come about? You said that you weren't really travelling around that time at all, instead you were spending time "being lost in your own world" – what was that time like?
The best part of that time, were these long days, which I just got to wander through, and really enjoy the feeling of time, of being alive in a beautiful place. I would wake up, drink coffee, usually write a little, then take a long walk around the island looking at the sea. There were very few people on the island, so there was a wonderful feeling of peace and solitude. I would go home and begin playing music. I'd usually record for a while, cook dinner, take another walk. There were deer on the island. That was where I learned that deer can swim in the ocean, and that lobsters live into their eighties.
It was very cheap on the island because nobody wanted to be there in the winter. It was a special time, but I should never have stopped touring, or been so far away from my Elephant 6 friends for so long.
It felt like Mary's Voice was a long time in the making – it is a great record, and so layered and rich, did it take a long time to record and come together?
Thank you! For The Music Tapes, it came together quite quickly. The Music Tapes record-making process sometimes feels like sea change. It often happens very slowly, but with a great feeling of arrival when it's done.
There seems to be an inherent optimism within your latest record, like being transported to a safe place – is that how it feels to you?
Aw, I'm so glad. Yes, that is how it feels to me. I mean to say, that's what making music and stories and games feels like to me – being transported to a safe place. I am an optimist. This world deserves optimism.
You have evolved a wonderful Christmas carolling tradition with the Singing Saw – going around to people's homes and other interesting places to bring the tradition to them – it would be lovely for you to do it in Ireland one day, since we have such a tradition of singing – what do you think?
You know, I would love that. I would love to do that on your side of the Atlantic. Hopefully someday we will! I am hoping we can be more constantly engaged in sharing the things we make, in Ireland, the UK, and Europe in the coming years.
What some of your highlights have been with the carolling over the last few years?
The highlights are all just people and their homes. We met so many kinds of people, were welcomed into so many kinds of homes. It's just always a wonderful feeling.
What other projects you have got coming up?
The Orbiting Human Circus – the name we have always given to our group of collaborators that produces all of the things we make beyond music, has just become a very real organisation. We are working on a big new version of the Tent Show that will travel in 2015 as a theatrical installation. It will feel something like a carnival of our original games and attractions with a nightly show in the tent. We are beginning development on that now.
There is also a new body of songs that will accompany it, and take album form.
What you are watching, reading, and listening to? I know that Kurt Vonnegut is someone you have looked to since you were quite little, he has such humanity, and humour – something that you and your work also possess.
Oh, that is lovely and kind. I love the Russian writers. I love Pushkin's prose stories. Chekhov's short stories are my favourite thing. And I love Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy, when he is just being a storyteller. I love Bruno Schulz. Theodor Dreiser, O. Henry, t he Marx Brothers. Ernst Lubitsch, and his film Ninotchka. Also, a wonderful film called Ruggles of Red Gap starring Charles Laughton; Employees' Entrance, a pre- code film from the 30's starring Warren William. The films of Terence Davies – one of our great living geniuses. A wonderful collection of R Stevie Moore songs called – Meet the R Stevie Moore. And always Billie Holiday, The Orioles, and Fred Astaire, especially doing Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and the Gershwins.
The Music Tapes play Cyprus Avenue in Cork on Friday 12th July, The Roisin Dubh in Galway on Saturday July 13th and The Workman's Club in Dublin on Sunday 14th July.
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Police are appealing to trace missing 40-year-old Andrew Gibson from the Stockton area.
Officers from Cleveland Police are concerned, as it's out of character for him not to be in touch with family members.
Mr Gibson was reported missing on Sunday March 24, however, he was last seen working in the Sunderland area at around 11.10am on Wednesday March 20.
He is described as a white man, 5ft 10ins tall, with a bald head and dark beard with blue eyes.
He was wearing a maroon hooded top, beige work trousers and work boots.
Anyone who may have seen Mr Gibson or anyone who may know of his whereabouts is asked to contact PC Al Wells at Cleveland Police on 101, quoting event number 049284.


Boris Johnson has stressed the need for the UK to come "fully out" of the EU customs union if the UK is to be a global trading nation.
Johnson said his recent trip to Latin America – during which he urged the prime minister to "get on with it" and take Britain out of the customs union "as fast as is reasonably possible" – made it clear that potential trading partners wanted the UK to leave the EU tariffs arrangement.
He said it was time to create deals with the "dynamic countries" he had visited "but our Latin American partners are emphatic: if this is to work, we must come fully out of the EU customs union". If the UK is to be a "valid trading partner, then we must take back control – as the PM has said – of our tariff schedules, and do deals that are unhindered and uncomplicated".
Brexiters have been alarmed by delays in cabinet decision-making over the future customs model and the prospect of a backstop deal which could see the UK closely aligned to EU rules for a number of years if alternative ways of resolving the Irish border issue are not found.
The foreign secretary's latest intervention came after Jacob Rees-Mogg called on May to take a tougher line with Brussels in the negotiations.
Rees-Mogg, the chairman of the European Research Group of Tories, said the government had proposed "over-complicated" solutions to the customs problem and must be prepared to tell Brussels it would walk away without paying the Brexit divorce bill, of almost £40bn, potentially leaving the bloc in the red.
On BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show, Rees-Mogg said May had made a mistake over her approach to the Irish border issue, one of the most contentious aspects of the negotiations, by ruling out the prospect of unilaterally keeping an open frontier after Brexit.
Rees-Mogg said: "The prime minister said in her Mansion House speech that she wasn't going to do this, I think that is a mistake. I think it is the obvious negotiating position to have. Bear in mind the Irish economy is heavily dependent on its trade with the United Kingdom, it is overwhelmingly in the interests of the Republic of Ireland to maintain an open border with the United Kingdom.


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Filed under the category "humans make bigtime mistakes" is a study that came out earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine about the results of using surgery safety checklists at major urban hospitals around the world. The results, in a word, were lifesaving.
234 million operations are performed yearly around the globe. It's difficult to get a handle on the death rate percentage from post-surgery complications, but I've seen estimates anywhere from 1.5 to 5% within the first 30 days after surgery. If we take the low end, that's more than 3.5 million post-surgery deaths a year. Of that number, a significant percentage–perhaps as high as 50%–is attributable to infections and complications that could have been prevented if safety procedures had been followed.
This study included eight hospitals in eight cities, including Toronto, New Delhi, Manila, London and Seattle — a socioeconomic and cultural cross-section of hospitals that participated in the World Health Organization's 'Safe Surgery Saves Lives' program. As a benchmark, data was collected on 3,733 consecutively enrolled patients 16 years of age or older who were undergoing noncardiac surgery.
After the surgical safety checklist was introduced, researchers collected data on 3,955 consecutively enrolled patients with the same criteria. Both the death rate and overall complications rate were analyzed for the first 30 days after the operation.
The results: the rate of death at the hospitals was 1.5% before the checklist was introduced and declined to 0.8% afterward. The rate of complications was 11% before the checklist, declining to 7% after. In short, using the checklist cut the death and complications rates nearly in half.
Which underlines with a massive boldface line that humans are dangerously mistake-prone, typically well beyond what we're willing to admit. Simple tools like checklists are required equipment to counterbalance the foibles of the organs in our skulls.
Other studies of U.S. hospitals further underscore just how important use of safety tools and procedures are to saving lives. Consider, for example, a study completed in 2007 that compared the top-performing U.S. hospitals with all the rest. Top hospitals often enjoy larger budgets to attract top talent, so a certain allowance should be made for that — but, another major distinction is that top hospitals are more rigorous in enforcing safety procedures; that is, they do more to prevent human mistakes from manifesting horrible consequences. The scary result of this study: if you're admitted to a regular (not-top) hospital in the U.S., you have a 28% higher chance of dying while you're there than if you had landed at a top-performing hospital.
To put that another way, if the quality of care at all U.S. hospitals matched that of top-performing hospitals, about 160,000 more lives would have been saved and 12,000 more major complications prevented over a three-year period. If you were one of those 160,000, where the ambulance brought you (and/or where your insurance let you go) made all the difference in the world.
For more on humans and the mistakes we make, check out this interview with Joe Hallinan, who just wrote a book on the subject.
And if you want to scare yourself with more hospital stats, you can search U.S. hospital death rates here.


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September 30, 2020 17:47 IST
Dance is a fun doorway to improving your physical, mental and emotional health, Choreographer Ashley Lobo tells Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com.
IMAGE: Ashley Lobo with actress Anushka Sharma. Photograph: Kind courtesy Ashley Lobo/Instagram
Dance, believes popular choreographer Ashley Lobo, can gift you a happy heart and a healthy body.
He calls dance a fun doorway to physical, mental and emotional health.
His message was particularly pertinent World Heart Day, an initiative by the World Heart Federation to spread awareness about cardiovascular diseases, including heart disease and stroke.
Research has connected cardiovascular diseases to a sedentary, unhealthy lifestyle, imbalanced diet and excessive use of tobacco and alcohol.
"I would encourage everyone to dance because dance is perfect for the heart," says the dancer-choreographer.
Video production: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com
Age is just a number when it comes to dancing, feels Ashley.
"Whether you're five or 95, once the music plays, the body just starts to move and you get transported to another world where you can live in that alternate reality.
"It's a great way to get away and be with yourself."
Talking about fitness in these difficult times, he says, "The coronavirus has opened our eyes about the need to stay healthy because just a simple flu can take you down.
"I think it's very important to stay healthy during this time and dance is a great way to do it."
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Local administration numbers October 2012
The Department of Local Administration (DOLA) has published the numbers of the various local administrative entities at the end of the fiscal year, i.e. October 1 2012. This thus includes all the municipal changes in the past fiscal year - the central administrative subdivisions are not part of this release, as these are under the responsibility of another department - and except a few new Muban there were no changes in those numbers anyway.
PAO (องค์การบริหารส่วนจังหวัด): 76
Municipalities (เทศบาล, Thesaban): 2266
City municipalities (เทศบาลนคร, Thesaban Nakhon): 29
Town municipalities (เทศบาลเมือง, Thesaban Mueang): 167
Subdistrict municipalities (เทศบาลตำบล, Thesaban Tambon): 2070
TAO (องค์การบริหารส่วนตำบล): 5509
Special administrative areas (องค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่นรูปแบบพิเศษ): 2
Comparing to the numbers of last year (though the list was from DOPA then), the municipal numbers have changed - 2 new cities, 12 more towns, and 170 more subdistrict municipalities, and 184 TAO less. Though a few of the TAO were directly upgraded to towns, the two new cities were towns before, so there were a few more than 184 municipal changes this year. I am now waiting for the list of all the changes to be updated, I am not sure if the board meeting transcripts are complete or an already approved changed was not executed.
Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2 comments:
Labels: DOLA, Statistics
"The Nation" gets it all wrong
On November 7, village and subdistrict headmen from all over the country plan to stage a protest at the Royal Plaza to protest against the amendment of the Local Administration Act, which is scheduled to be discussed in parliament that day. Now this won't be noteworthy as I already reported about similar protests earlier, but what is striking is the article published by "The Nation" on this topic.
Kamnan and village headmen nationwide will rally in Bangkok next month to demand that their terms end at the age of 60 rather than after five years in office, as is the case at present.
Apparently "The Nation" lives in a different time, as the current active law has the headmen end their term at 60, it is the amendment in the legislative process right now which would change that. That sentence would have been true between 1999 and 2008.
He said he expected a large gathering, as there are about 250,000 Kamnans and village headmen nationwide.
There are 74956 administrative villages in Thailand as of December 2011. Not all of these have a headman - Muban within a town or city municipality (until Amendment 12 of the Local Administration Act this was mandatory), thus there are definitely less than 75000 headmen. Subdistrict headmen are also village headmen, so there don't add to that number. Only if including the (non-elected) deputy headmen - every Muban has two deputies, not sure about the Kamnan - one could reach to the number of 250,000.
At present, each kaman and village headman works to a five-year term, replacing the previous rule that allowed each to stay in the position until reaching the age of 60.
As already stated, this is totally bogus.
Kunae said that they wanted to back to the previous rule, claiming that the present rule did not respond to continuity of work and caused widespread corruption.
It's interesting that every change is claimed to lead to corruption or electoral fraud, and of course every interest group claims that in their proposal it will have less of these evils. Since there were 10 years with short terms already, why has nobody thought about doing a survey if there was more or less corruption during these times than in the last 4 years.
In my humble opinion, how can one have more corruption if an office holder has to stand re-election every five years, and at that time has to explain his actions and performance or any wealth accumulation to the electorate. Even though such a check by the electorate isn't working well in Thailand yet, it is still better than to hope for the superiors to remove bad headmen from their office. Besides, if an election is for twenty or thirty years instead of five years, then the stakes are much higher and thus also the temptation to use illegal ways to get elected.
But as mentioned in the last posting on this topic, as long as the transitory clause to keep those headmen currently in office till aged 60, the amendment is not worth much, and the current headmen don't need to worry about their investments into gaining their post.
Posted on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1 comment:
Labels: Kamnan, Phuyaiban
Phuket to get a new province hall
The Ministry of Interior will invest 450 million Baht (15 million US$) to build a new province hall in Phuket. The province administration currently still resides in the historical province hall, a wooden building already 103 years old and already a registered monument under the protection of the Fine Arts Department since 1977 [Gazette]. The new building will be located right across the street from the historical building, an area which is currently occupied by tennis courts and the Sanam Chai sports field.
Plans to spend 450 million baht on a new Phuket Provincial Hall took a leap forward this week with the announcement of official approval to clear the 14-rai site on the corner opposite the current building.
Construction of the new center of administration for the island is hoped to begin next year.
Phuket Gazette, Plans unveiled for new, B450mn Phuket Provincial Hall, October 20 2012.
Compared with the historical building which has just two floors, the planned seven stories on a comparable base area seem a bit oversized, but on the other hand I was quite surprised when I walked along the current province hall and wondered how much small it is compared with other province halls, thus it must be very tight on office space inside. The new building is scheduled to take three years to build, thus it will be opened someday in 2016. The old building will then become an ideal location for a historic museum - like the historic province hall of Ratchaburi which now houses a branch museum of the National Museum.
Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 No comments:
Labels: Phuket, Sala Klang
Location: Damrong Rd, Talat Yai, Mueang Phuket, Phuket 83000, Thailand
Back to shorter headmen terms?
In 1999, the 10th amendment of the Local Administration Act of 1914 changed the terms of village and subdistrict headmen drastically. Until then, once a headman was elected he stayed in office until he (or she) reached the retirement age of 60, died or resigned, or did perform so badly in his job that the province governor removed him from his post. However starting in 1999, the headmen had to stand for re-election every five year, including those who were elected for a lifetime term before.
Amendment 11 in 2008 did revert this change and made the headmen again elected for a lifetime term. Interestingly, both these drastic changes were done by Democrat-led governments.
Now it seems Amendment 13 (Amendment 12 from 2009 kept headmen in office within town and city municipalities) is in the parliamentary process, and with that amendment the reversion will be reverted, thus five year terms will be re-introduced, and obviously creating fury among the headmen.
Some 400 kamnan and village headmen staged a brief rally at Parliament yesterday while lodging a petition calling for the legislature to drop a draft bill on local administration.
Coalition and opposition MPs agreed to initiate the bill after a public hearing, which showed that people wanted to elect their local chiefs, he said.
The draft provisions include a clause for local residents to elect their kamnan to serve a five-year term, he said, but there was no cap on terms served if re-elected.
Village headmen would also be elected officials, he added.
Under the draft, kamnan and village headmen would not be subject to mandatory retirement at the age of 60. In a transitional clause, incumbent kamnan and village headmen would be allowed to remain in office until retirement at 60 [Bolding added]. The draft would apply to their successors, who would have to be elected.
The Nation, Kamnan protest over Local Administration Bill, October 10 2012
While it is a return to the old system, the transitory clause makes this draft a sham - since the previous amendment almost all five year terms had expired and an election for a lifetime term was held already, thus it is certainly not what the people in the public hearing requested.
In my opinion, a lifetime term is an anachronism, which was justified in the past when it was difficult to organize local elections, but nowadays with easy travel and communication no reason remains why to stick to undemocratic lifetime terms. Especially since electoral fraud is still common in Thailand, a five year term give the local people the chance to correct their wrong decision influenced by money when the headman did not perform in office to their satisfaction. Right now, a headman has to buy his election into office just once, and then such needs to make sure any misdeeds in office aren't bad enough to get the governor's attention.
Posted on Friday, October 19, 2012 No comments:
New board meeting transcripts
Another batch of board meeting transcript has been uploaded to the website of the Legal Affairs Bureau at the Office of the Permanent Secretary of Interior. The details on each meeting concerning any municipal changes will be uploaded to the dedicated blog in the next days, depending on how much time I find to work through those lists. Thus below is just a concise summary of all those meeting which contain anything interesting.
The website with the transcripts (Board 1 and Board 2) have changed a bit with this update as well, as now not only the transcript but also the agenda (for forthcoming meetings) and additional documents are available for download - at least prepared as columns in the table, so far there are no additional documents yet.
Meeting 55 on 2012-08-01: four TAO upgraded to subdistrict municipalities [Transcript]
Meeting 56 on 2012-08-07: five TAO renamed and upgraded to subdistrict municipalites [Transcript]
Meeting 57 on 2012-08-08: five TAO upgraded to subdistrict municipalities [Transcript]
Meeting 58 on 212-08-21: six TAO upgraded to subdistrict municipalities [Transcript]
Meeting 55 (Board 1) on 2012-08-27: one TAO and municipality to adjust their boundary, and one TAO upgraded to a town [Transcript]
Meeting 63 on 2012-09-18: two TAO upgraded to subdistrict municipality, including one being renamed. [Transcript, Blog]
Additionally, the agenda of two forthcoming meetings contain relevant items as well.
Meeting 65 on 2012-10-16: two municipalities to modify their boundaries [Agenda]
Meeting 66 on 2012-10-17: one TAO to be upgraded to subdistrict municipality [Agenda]
More Streetview coverage in Thailand
Yesterday, Google added lot of areas all over the world with more Streetview imagery, including Thailand. Whereas in the original launch in March this year only Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket province got good coverage, now some more provinces got covered.
Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Nakhon Pathom, Samut Prakan and Samut Sakhon already had some imagery, especially the parts close to Bangkok, but now these provinces are covered almost completely.
Nakhon Nayok is also covered well, just the road through Khao Yai is missing
The more remote parts of Chiang Mai got added, as well as a good deal of Chiang Rai province
The road from Ayutthaya to Chiang Mai is also covered now, like the road from Bangkok to Phuket in the first batch
Also, the road to Si Sawat in Kanchanaburi can now be driven online
Small parts of Suphanburi and Ayutthaya province are added as well as the northern tip of Chonburi province.
Richard Barrow has posted a comparison of the coverage around Bangkok on his blog. According to Google, right now the Streetview cars take imagery in Chonburi around Pattaya as well as in Suphanburi. I hope the South as well as the Isan will see those cars soon as well.
Thaiyawat TAO
While browsing through this imagery is fun by itself, it is also a nice tool for my data collection on the local administrations. I still haven't found any comprehensive map with the locations of the local administration offices, and just looking from above often doesn't give any clear indication which building is the correct office.
With the first Streetview data I was able to complete my map with the local administrations in Phuket, so with a bit of luck I may be able to do the same with the provinces around Bangkok now. For example, when I wrote about the incident in Thaiyawat TAO two weeks ago, I tried to find the location of the office which seemed to be close to temple Wat Thaiyawat. But only with Streetview I was now able to identify the actual building - not a representative large new building easily spotted in satellite imagery, like the one in many local administrations.
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New Muban in Lampang
Yesterday the creation of two new administrative villages (Muban, หมู่บ้าน) in Lampang province was announced in the Royal Gazette. The announcement was signed on June 19 by province governor Thawatchai Thoetphaothai (ธวัชชัย เทอดเผ่าไทย), and came into effect the same day. The creation was approved by the Ministry of Interior on June 12 in the ministerial order มท ๐๓๑๐.๑/๓๑๑๒ - these ministerial orders however seem to be not available online anywhere.
Ban Mo Luang (บ้านเมาะหลวง), Mu 8 of Mae Mo subdistrict, Mae Mo district was split to form the new Mu 12 named Ban Wiang Hong Lan Na (บ้านเวียงหงส์ล้านนา).
Ban Huai Rak Mai (บ้านห้วยรากไม้), Mu 5 of Sop Pat subdistrict, Mae Mo district was split to form the new Mu 8 named Ban Mai Chalong Rat (บ้านใหม่ฉลองราช).
The announcement also includes the boundary description of both the new villages as well as those villages which had their boundary changed, but sadly I have not enough time to translate all the coordinates to a map this time.
And since I mentioned the ministerial order, I have now added that piece of data into my XML as well, thus the XML entry for these two new Muban now contains the line
<ministerialorder ministry="MOI" title="มท ๐๓๑๐.๑/๓๑๑๒" date="2012-06-12"/>
Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2012 No comments:
Province governor reshuffle 2012 - Part 2
In the cabinet meeting Tuesday last week, the province governor reshuffle list was approved, filling the vacancies created by retired and promoted governors. A total of 24 officials are t change post with immediate effect. The province governor posts which become vacant due to these transfers will be filled in another reshuffle by promotion of vice governors. The new governors took office on October 8, as found in the governor list of Chanthaburi, also that day the new Phuket governor arrived on the island.
The full list as found in the cabinet meeting transcript, with the governor romanizations done by me, hopefully without any big mistake.
Pracha Terat (นายประชา เตรัตน์), deputy secretary in the office of the permanent secretary to become inspector general in the office of the permanent secretary.
Charin Chakkaphak (นายจรินทร์ จักกะพาก), governor of Sakon Nakhon to become deputy secretary in the office of the permanent secretary.
Bunsong Techamanisat (นายบุญส่ง เตชะมณีสถิตย์), deputy director in DOLA to become governor of Sakon Nakhon.
Somsak Suwansucharit (นายสมศักดิ์ สุวรรณสุจริต), governor of Kalasin to become governor of Khon Kaen
Seni Chitkasem (นายเสนีย์ จิตตเกษม), governor of Rayong to become governor of Udon Thani
Wichit Chatphaisit (นายวิชิต ชาตไพสิฐ), governor of Chanthaburi to become governor of Rayong
Surachai Khan-asa (นายสุรชัย ขันอาสา), governor of Lamphun to become governor of Chanthaburi
Phonsak Choennai (นายพรศักดิ์ เจียรณัย), governor of Bueng Kan to become governor of Chaiyaphum
Phirasak Hinmueangkao (นายพีระศักดิ์ หินเมืองเก่า), governor of Ranong to become governor of Chumphon
Thanin Suphasaen (นายธานินทร์ สุภาแสน), governor of Chiang Rai to become governor of Chiang Mai
Phongsak Wangsamao (นายพงษ์ศักดิ์ วังเสมอ), governor of Nan to become governor of Chiang Rai
Wanchat Wongchaichana (นายวันชาติ วงษ์ชัยชนะ), governor of Roi Et to become governor of Nakhon Pathom
Somsak Khamthawiphrom (นายสมศักดิ์ ขำทวีพรหม), inspector-general in the office of the permanent secretary to become governor of Roi Et
Winay Buapradit (นายวินัย บัวประดิษฐ์), governor of Phetchaburi to become governor of Nakhon Ratchasima
Pricha Roengchan (นายปรีชา เรืองจันทร์), governor of Nakhon Sawan to become governor of Phitsanulok
Chaiyarot Midaeng (นายชัยโรจน์ มีแดง), governor of Phitsanulok to become governor of Nakhon Sawan
Siriphong Thantrakun (นายศิริพงศ์ ห่านตระกูล), inspector-general in the office of the permanent secretary to become governor of Pathum Thani
Pramut Lamun (นายประมุข ลมุล), inspector-general in the office of the permanent secretary to become governor of Pattani
Chakrin Plianwong (นายจักริน เปลี่ยนวงษ์), governor of Sukhothai to become governor of Phichit
Maitri Inthusut (นายไมตรี อินทุสุต), governor of Phayao to become governor of Phuket
Phichet Phaibunsiri (นายพิเชษฐ ไพบูลย์ศิริ), governor of Singburi to become governor of Lopburi
Khanit Iamrahong (นายคณิต เอี่ยมระหงษ์), governor of Buriram to become governor of Samut Prakan
Wanchai Sutthiwonchai (นายวันชัย สุทธิวรชัย), inspector-general in the office of the permanent secretary to become governor of Ubon Ratchathani
Kamthon Thawonsathit (นายกำธร ถาวรสถิต์), governor of Amnat Charoen to become inspector-general in the office of the permanent secretary.
Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 No comments:
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FLUX is a hypothetical exhibit and experience design conference for college-aged art and design students.
I performed extensive research on the conference topic, the conference goals, and the prospective audience.
and further explanation, see full case study here.