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Steve Case: Here's How Trump Can Revive American Entrepreneurship
Steve Case
A century before the late co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, said, "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them," another American business giant, Henry Ford, observed that, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." This common thread from Jobs to Ford is part of America's core DNA: we accept risk and pursue innovation, with the promise of a brighter future.
Unfortunately, entrepreneurship today in America is at a crossroads. The engine that has fueled the country's nearly 250-year journey from startup nation to global powerhouse is sputtering. According to a recent report from the Kauffman Foundation, new firm formation remains in a long-term deficit, roughly half of where it was a generation ago. And without a serious course correction, America is poised to lose its entrepreneurial mojo.
We're approaching an era in which products and services will require the Internet, even if the Internet doesn't define them. I call this the Internet's "Third Wave," where the concept of the Internet of Things — of adding connected sensors to products — will be viewed as too limiting, because we'll realize that what's emerging is the much broader Internet of Everything.
With its emphasis on the transformational change of older economic sectors, the Third Wave will have far more in common with the companies that laid the groundwork for the Internet in the 1980s and 1990s (AOL, Cisco) than it will with the app-driven 2000s (Facebook, Twitter).
A new social app can—at least initially—garner hundreds of millions of users without ever bumping into a regulator. Today, entrepreneurs looking to disrupt many aspects of health care or financial services without engaging with the FDA or the SEC could end up out of business. Take Uber, for example. Someone always brings up Uber as an example of a company that didn't partner or even work with government. And that's partially right. Initially, Uber employed a strategy of "ask forgiveness, not permission." But that didn't— and couldn't—last long. As Uber expanded, the company faced lawsuits in dozens of states and significant, often insurmountable regulatory hurdles, in overseas markets such as China and Europe.
However, the onus should not be on Third Wave entrepreneurs to fight through red tape on their own. To get economic growth, America needs to support growth. It is the government's role to establish the conditions that allow our entrepreneurial community to flourish.
Rekindling a renewed sense of American entrepreneurship and a shared sense of prosperity will require collaboration across corporations, entrepreneurs and government. That's why I'm backing a seven-part "R.E.S.T.A.R.T. America" agenda that includes a mixture of policy, business and community initiatives to reawaken the entrepreneurship needed to vastly increase the number of startups being launched—the single most powerful tool to combat joblessness and stalled economic growth.
The agenda: (R) Reform the Way DC Works with Startups; (E) Educate for the Third Wave; (S) Source Goods and Services from Startups; (T) Tax Incentives for Regional Entrepreneurship; (A) Attract and Retain Talent; (R) Rethink Capitalism; (T) Transform Local Ecosystems.
Washington's role has to start with reforming complicated crowdfunding rules and the broader regulatory framework, which is intended to protect consumers, but sometimes has the unintended consequence of making it difficult for entrepreneurs to raise money and bring innovative ideas to market. As Third Wave technologies like drones, driverless cars, and artificial intelligence gain momentum, the government will need to carefully balance the desire to regulate with the need to let new and fragile innovations develop.
America's education system has done a better job the past few years focusing on STEM subjects, coding in particular. But we need to teach more people how to do things that machines can't do, including teaching entrepreneurship as a core skill and encouraging it as a career path. And to make it possible for more college graduates to pursue their startup dreams, we need to reform the federal student loan program to allow entrepreneurs to postpone repayment for at least two years; to give founders the opportunity to get their companies off the ground.
President Donald Trump and his team identified a large swath of the American population that feels left behind by globalization and technology, and ran a disruptive campaign to engage those people in the political process. As President Donald Trump approaches his first 100 days in office, it's worth asking what the administration and Congress will do to address the problems of those that propelled Trump's victory.
I've spent the better part of the last three years traveling through what people often refer to as "flyover country," where entrepreneurs struggle to unlock local and regional capital. Borrowing inspiration from the Empowerment Zone program, a government initiative that financed economic development projects in distressed communities across the country, we need a program of tax incentives to drive capital towards job producing innovative startups. Passing the Investing In Opportunity Act, which defers capital gains for investments in Rise Of The Rest cities, would be a good start.
Big businesses can play a role, too, by sourcing goods and services from the startups in their neighborhoods. This early money is like yeast for small startups, with the large corporations benefiting in turn from a long-term pipeline of suppliers, partners, talent and ideas.
Business leaders must also engage in an honest conversation about capitalism and entrepreneurialism. Capitalism deserves a bulk of the credit for improving the human condition, but business leaders can't let the short-term interests of transient shareholders push them to make decisions that will hurt them and their constituencies in the long run. That means that 'we the people' must demand companies put a greater focus on how their strategic plans affect society beyond the bottom line—including how technology affects future jobs.
Can we re-imagine capitalism and focus on both purpose and profit? Unleash a new, more diverse generation of entrepreneurs? Level the playing field and help the people and cities left behind rise again?
I believe we can and we must. To do otherwise won't mean the end of America. But it could mean the end of American leadership.
Steve Case is the co-founder of AOL, the chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC, and the author of the recently updated and expanded best-selling book "The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future."

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Q: How to be on same line after using %c in my code? PROBLEM: I have to print a string (character per character) several times in a same line but as soon as upper loop executed once line changes. So how to print it in a same line?
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

int main()
{
    char name[100];
    int m;
    printf("Enter the string\n");
    fgets(name, 100, stdin);
    printf("Number of times you have to repeat the string\n");
    scanf("%d", &m);
    int n = strlen(name);
    for (int j = 0; j < m; j++)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
            printf("%c ", name[i]);
    }
    return 0;
}

INPUT:

 Enter the string

  I LOVE TO EAT

Number of times you have to repeat the string.

 3

MY OUTPUT:

I L O V E T O E A T
 I L O V E T O E A T
 I L O V E T O E A T

EXPECTED OUTPUT:

I L O V E T O E A T I L O V E T O E A T I L O V E T O E A T

A: Just add one more statement after the call of fgets.
fgets(name, 100, stdin);
name[ strcspn( name, "\n" ) ] = '\0';

That is fgets can append the input string with the new line character '\n' that you should remove.
Pay attention to that calling the function strlen  the value of which is used in the inner loop is inefficient.
You could write instead.
for (int j = 0; j < m; j++)
{
    for ( const char *p = name; *p != '\0'; ++p )
        printf("%c ", *p);
}

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Turkmenistan: Survey Reports On Lack Of Religious Freedom
October 07, 2003 00:00 GMT
By Antoine Blua
A new report on religion in Turkmenistan shows a complete lack of freedom to practice any faiths except for Sunni Islam and Russian Orthodox Christianity. All of the country's other religious communities are de facto banned and their activities punishable.
Prague, 7 October 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Kurban Zakirov, a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses, was sentenced in 1999 to one year in a minimum-security corrective labor colony in Turkmenistan for conscientious objection to military service.
The same year, Zakirov was granted a pardon but was not released because he refused to give an oath of loyalty to President Saparmurat Niyazov by placing his hand on the Koran. In 2000, after Zakirov had completed his sentence, he was still not released because he again refused to pledge the oath.
He was subsequently sentenced to eight years in a high-security corrective labor colony for allegedly attacking the security services, a charge the denomination says is politically motivated.
Gregory Olds is a legal representative at the headquarters of Jehovah's Witnesses in New York. He described the condition of Zakirov's detention.
"We understand [Zakirov's] health is being ruined. We understand that Kurban now suffers from insomnia, which, of course, will accelerate his physical deterioration. We understand that he is kept in total isolation as a so-called 'dangerous criminal.' He is kept in a sealed cell. No visits. No parcels are allowed," Olds said.
Olds says five other Jehovah's Witnesses also are currently serving prison sentences in Turkmenistan for their religious activities or decisions about matters of conscience.
Zakirov's case is referred to in a new report by Forum 18 News Service, a Norway-based news agency covering religious freedom in the former Soviet republics and Eastern Europe. The agency recently issued a survey on religious freedom in Turkmenistan.
Felix Corley, editor of Forum 18, is author of the survey. He says Turkmenistan has one of the worst records on the issue of religious freedom.
"The government [of Turkmenistan] makes no pretense of its decision to ignore internationally accepted standards of human rights on the question of religious freedom. It has allowed only two religious faiths to register any religious communities -- the Sunni Muslims and the Russian Orthodox Church. In effect, it has made all other religious activity illegal," Corley said.
A law passed in 1996 requires religious communities to have at least 500 adult members before gaining registration. But in practice, Corley points out, these 500 believers must all live in one district, which made it impossible for religious groups other than Sunni Muslim or Christian Orthodox to register during a compulsory re-registration drive in 1997.
The activities of Baptist, Pentecostal, Adventist, Lutheran, and other Protestant churches, as well as Shi'a Muslim, Armenian Apostolic, Jewish, Baha'i, Jehovah's Witness, and Hare Krishna communities are, in effect, banned.
Corley says religious literature is no longer published in Turkmenistan and is routinely confiscated from members of unregistered religious minorities. Apart from Sunni Muslims, religious groups cannot maintain any kind of religious education.
But Corley says even Sunni Muslims are not free of harassment: "In January of this year, the president ousted the chief mufti, Nasrullah ibn Ibadullah, who is an ethnic Uzbek. And they replaced him with the young Kakageldy Vepaev, who was then only 35 and an ethnic Turkmen. And many people believe this was because Vepayev was far more pliant. He would do what the government wanted. Within the last few years, many of the older imams have been removed from their jobs in mosques and have been replaced with young people, many of whom had no or very little formal religious education."
Government tolerance of Sunni Islam has not extended to Sh'ia Islam, which is mainly professed by the ethnic Azeri and Iranian minorities in the west of the country. Corley says Shi'a mosques failed to gain re-registration in 1997.
Erika Dailey is the director of the Open Society Institute's Turkmenistan Project, based in Budapest. She says non-state-approved religious groups in Turkmenistan suffer varying degrees of harassment.
"The harassment has taken a variety of forms. In its most severe forms, it has resulted in the arbitrary -- we feel -- arrest of some leaders of the religious communities, particularly of those of the Evangelical order. But it really runs the entire gamut. There have been cases of torture reported of some believers. More broadly, religious gatherings, such as prayer groups and study groups, are often disrupted by local police. Groups are fined for holding any sort of religious activities. Their religious literature is often confiscated. Their places of worship are destroyed," Dailey said.
According to Dailey, the government is interested in promoting what it perceives as traditional Turkmen culture as the primary form of culture. As a result, the Sunni Muslim Board and the Russian Orthodox Church do not escape government control.
"The government controls religious activities inside the country through its Council for Religious Affairs. It's a state-appointed body, which has exclusive authority to hire, fire, promote, and pay any of the clerics operating inside of the country," Dailey said.
Many mosques lost their registrations and had to close down, as well as most Islamic schools. In the past, imams were educated in neighboring Uzbekistan, but that appears to have come to a halt.
(The survey is available at www.forum18.org/index.php)
Antoine Blua
Antoine Blua is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
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Q: Different versions of a pkgdef file per Visual Studio version We have a situation that other than the "main" .pkgdef file of the extension, we have another file which performs additional registration. This registration is different between the different versions of Visual Studio. An example of one such file is:
[$RootKey$\CLSID\{some guid}]
"CodeBase"="$PackageFolder$\MyUtility.vs11.dll"
...

with different values and GUIDs for other Visual Studios.
Until now, we had an external installer (msi) copy the correct additional .pkgdef file next to the main one, e.g. for Visual Studio 2012:
MyExtension.pkgdef
MyExtensions.vs11.pkgdef
...

We're looking to switch to VSIX deployment, but keeping a single VSIX, and a single extension (instead of building one for each version of Visual Studio).
The question is: since during package registration (devenv /setup) Visual Studio will process all .pkgdef files sequentially, is there a way to specify just the specific .pkgdef file(s) to register?

A: AFAIK, not currently supported. Vote here:
Conditions support for  section of VSIX manifest
https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/6364594-conditions-support-for-content-section-of-vsix-m


The hexadecimal color code #404143 is a medium dark shade of blue. In the RGB color model #404143 is comprised of 25.1% red, 25.49% green and 26.27% blue. In the HSL color space #404143 has a hue of 220° (degrees), 2% saturation and 26% lightness. This color has an approximate wavelength of 476.65 nm.


This finely embroidered tapis (ceremonial skirt) is from the Pubian people of central Lampung in South Sumatra. It is a full tapis skirt but the seam that allowed the textile to be worn as a skirt has been opened for display purposes.
It comprises silk-cotton dyed with blue, purple, mustard-yellow and orange dyes and is densely embroidered and couched with bands of metallic thread wrapped in gold and applique work including metallic sequins.
The copious use of gilded metallic thread makes the skirt relatively heavy – almost too heavy to be worn comfortably, and so such skirts were worn for only brief periods and for ceremonial occasions.
See Brinkgreve & Stuart-Fox (2013, p. 115) for an example, attributed to the 19th century, and which employs similar motifs.
The piece is in fine condition, particularly given its age and the material from which it is made. There are some loose threads but the losses are minor, and some minor blemishes or staining here and there. But overall, this is a very good piece.
See the final photograph for some Lampung women wearing tapis cloths – taken in central Lampung, in 1901.
Maxwell, R.,S ari to Sarong: Five Hundred Years of Indians and Indonesian Textile Exchange, NGA, 2003a.
Maxwell, R., Textiles of Southeast Asia: Tradition, Trade and Transformation, Periplus, 2003b.
Totton, M.L., Wearing Wealth and Styling Identity: Tapis from Lampung, South Sumatra, Indonesia, Hood Museum of Art, 2009.
Vanderstraete, A., Magie van de Vrouw: Weefsels en Sieraden uit de Gordel van Smaragd, (The Magic of Women), Wereldmuseum, 2012.


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Activations in Spain continued
31 October, 2019 vk1da
Thanks to the efforts of Guru EA2IF and Ignacio EA2BD I was able to activate more summits in Spain together with Juan EA1AER. Juan met me on the 21st of September, a Saturday in Léon, a very beautiful, historic city. Then he came back on 23rd Sept to take me for a trip out into some beautiful country north east of Leon.
The summits we went to were EA1/LE-197 and EA1/LE-165. These are north east of Leon requiring about two hours drive to reach the first.
The first required a good climb to reach the summit. From where the car was parked I actually doubted that it was possible to reach the activation zone. It looked steep and narrow. However I thought Juan had activated this in the past and assumed this was a well known summit. The climb started out as a mild stroll up a forest path then up some steps formed with wooden risers. I climbed up the lower sections quite easily, having just walked for almost 500 km in the previous 3 weeks.
Then it became a steep climb up earth and rock steps with a chain on the left for assistance. This was slower!
At the top the view was breathtaking. I could see the road but not the car as it was obscured by trees. It all looked a long way down. My photos probably don't show it well enough.
The first few photos are mine. Then I have added some of Juan's photos.
Some photos from Juan's website are copied here too.
After erecting the end fed 20m wire it was tuned for best output power on the 817 and I called CQ on 20m Cw. Contacts flowed quickly. Then Juan made more contacts.
Finally we packed up and ate some lunch. Just as we were preparing to start the descent I received a message from Ignacio EA2BD asking if we were still on the air. I had to say no, as everything had been packed away. Disappointing as I would have liked to give him a new summit unique.
Juan remarked that I would be the first activator of the summit. I then realised that my earlier assumption was incorrect. It had not been activated before and it was the first time Juan had been there.
Juan then showed me some more of the sights in the valleys of this area.
We then went to another summit but the contacts made from this one didn't qualify for SOTA.
This activation is also described on Juan's blog at: https://ea1aer.blogspot.com/2019/09/con-vk1da-en-pica-de-ten.html which is written in Spanish (use Chrome browser for an approximate translation).
Here is a photo of most of the group of Leon hams who met us on the second summit, partly to meet me and partly to visit the club's repeater site.
Amateur Radioft817Spain
Three activations in Tasmania, November 2018
21 November, 2018 vk1da
Having negotiated some SOTA time on our trip to Tasmania I thought I would be very happy to add one VK7 summit to my activation list, adding a new association in SOTA parlance to my list of associations activated.
The ideal summit in Hobart is the ever-present Mt Wellington which towers over the city and spends much of its time bathed in cloud or rain. At 1270m and only a few km from the city which is at sea level, it is a commanding presence to anyone noticing mountains as they scan the horizon, ie. any SOTA activator. In Hobart there are a number of SOTA qualified summits nearby.
On Wednesday 14th the weather forecast was for afternoon rain, but mid afternoon it seemed to be fine and I thought that could be my opportunity. So I ventured out with some cautious enthusiasm.
Arriving at the top of the mountain I could not see any details of the broadcasting towers and indeed had to look carefully to identify the trig point. There were very few people wandering around due to the threatening weather, which suited me very well.
I set up the gear and antenna using some large rocks as a protection from westerly wind and rain. The tarp I normally use to provide a clean surface to sit on was used instead to cover the radio to protect it from rain. I used an umbrella to keep most of the rain off my clothing, though I had donned the raincoat and pants. Radio conditions were not good, but I managed to make contacts on 40m and 20m using cw and ssb.
Rain on the legs and shoes
Here I am cowering under the umbrella while operating at Mt Wellington
The next day I had an opportunity to activate another summit in the Hobart area. I didn't know how ambitious to be with only a few hours available. So I opted for a local summit Mt Rumney which is between Hobart city and the airport. There is comms gear on the summit, which was producing some spurious signals on 40 and 20m.
I found a track just off the roadside at the top, which ended with a gate, for service access to the comms compound. The roadside barrier provided a mounting point for my antenna pole.
Operating setup at Mt Rumney
On Friday 16th Nov I drove from Hobart to Devonport, but via the Ben Lomond National Park where there was a very attractive option, Legge's Tor VK7/NE-001. This is a truly spectacular trip mainly for the passenger in the car, but the driver gets a few glimpses of the trip up the Jacob's Ladder in the few moments he can afford to look elsewhere but the road. The pics below show some of the scenery en route to the summit in the car, and the walk on foot. On the way back down I stopped several times to grab photos of the scenery, I don't think these shots do it justice.
On the radio, I made about 20 contacts on 40 and 20m, CW and SSB. After running out of available contacts I noticed a few spots of rain on the logging tablet, so decided to quit while I could walk down and be dry for most of the distance to the car, about 1.5km. As it happened, I had just opened the car and started making a cup of tea when the rain started to get heavy. Just lucky timing.
The small pole in the far distance made me think I had 500m to go, but in fact it was only about 200m and the pole was quite small. Heading up this way was the right way to reach the Activation Zone
At the summit area
The equipment setup at Legge's Tor. Convenient rocks making a seat and table.
Operating position
View towards the summit cairn
Moss on the rocks on the summit path
Summit path clearly visible
One of many huts on the summit, apparently used as ski lodges
View down into the valley from the summit path
Looking back towards the summit village, on the way down
Some of the rocks on the way down
Looking down on part of the "ladder" and the valley below
Rocks!
Part of the Jacob's Ladder on the way down
Looking out from the road into the valley
Part of the road down the Jacob's Ladder
The road ahead shown on the GPS
Finally back on the ordinary road, still with snow markers
This activation capped the SOTA part of the trip to Tasmania in a spectacular way.
Amateur RadioLegges TorTasmania
Testing a Mountain Topper Radio (MTR) model 3B
25 June, 2017 vk1da	1 Comment
Having seen the Steve Weber designed compact transceivers on the web and having seen an MTR owned by VK1FB, I was delighted to find one for sale on vkclassifieds.net.au recently. After duly receiving it and waiting for my birthday to pass (due to my wife's insistence on waiting for the actual day to receive gifts), I wanted to test it from home and learn the menu system, which like the radio itself, is very compact.
Using my home antenna, a fan dipole with elements for 80, 40, 20 and 10m, I connected the radio to power (a 3S Lifepo4), headphones and the antenna and turned it on. It sent the number 4 in morse, saying it was on 40m. I tuned it around the CW end of the band for a while and tried a few of the control functions. Then I returned it to the default 7030 frequency by switching it off and on again (where have I heard that before?)
Then in the headphones I heard "cq sota de vk5cz" which was Ian at summit vk5/ne-095 in the north east of South Australia. I listened to his contact with VK3PF and then heard him ask QRZ? ("who is calling", or "is there anyone else there?") to which I responded with my callsign. He replied immediately with a good signal report. I gave him a report and then told him this was my first contact with the MTR3B. He acknowledged that and wished me good luck. I returned the greetings and signed off.
Yes the new radio works despite being smaller than my morse paddle. It's the blue box in this pic. Produces about 3-5 watts on 7, 10 and 14 MHz amateur bands. The Mountain Topper Radio 3B.
Ian/Buhd vk5cz posted to facebook a comment that this contact was the highlight of the activation, which was great to read. And later he also published a video clip in which the contact can be heard taking place.
A day later I had the MTR connected again, this time on 14060. I tuned it up to 14062 and there was a familiar callsign, VK5CZ, in contact with someone. Looking at SOTAWATCH.ORG I saw that Ian had recently called CQ from another SOTA summit. I waited until the contact was finished, then heard him send QRZ? and again sent my callsign. Back he came with a 559 with QSB (fading) report, which was pretty good. I told him it was the MTR again, which he was pleased to hear about.
Now I need a contact on the remaining band provided by the MTR, 10 MHz, for which I need to make some alternative arrangements as my home antenna does not have a suitable impedance on that band. The MTR is designed for a 50 ohm non-reactive load. I will route it through an antenna matchbox which can be adjusted to present a 50 ohm impedance to the transmitter.
So far so good. I am very impressed by the MTR and look forward to many lightweight activations with it.
Amateur RadioMTRQRPradio equipment
Amateur Radio, equipment
Restoring memory settings in FT817
8 June, 2017 vk1da	4 Comments
After getting my FT817 final stage replaced, and all power settings reset to meet spec, I started to use the radio again and quickly realised that all the memory settings (frequency and mode) had been wiped.
This made it necessary to change bands using the band switch (!) and manually change between SSB and CW mode, or occasionally FM, dialing up and down the band as necessary. With the frequency settings in memories, I only needed to move between memory channels to go from SSB on 7090 to CW on 7032, for example. And on higher bands, I had several beacon frequencies stored in some memories, allowing me to quickly move between the various 10m and 6m beacon frequencies to get a quick impression of band conditions.
So today I dug out the details of the FT817 memory manager software, retrieved the file of frequency settings stored on the computer, added a few new ones and saved the lot in the 817. Then repeated the process for my second FT817. So they now have an identical set of frequencies in their memories. Makes them somewhat interchangeable.
All the second radio is missing is a cw filter. I have plans to sort that out soon.
The details of the memory manager and how to interface it with the radio from a windows box are all in a previous post to this blog. I actually read the post to remind myself of how it worked!
The previous post on this topic is here.
The blog documents it all.
Amateur Radioft817memory settings
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VHF/UHF Field day/contest Jan 14/15 2017
12 February, 2017 vk1da
The VHF/UHF field day in January is one of my favourite events. I have had some great surprises on these weekends. I had no idea what to expect this time, though the weather was forecast as damp on Saturday and dry on Sunday.
I arrived on site around 6pm Friday night. Along the route from Yass via the Mountain Creek Road I had noticed a lot of debris on the road, including some tree branches that had been broken off by high winds. I didn't realise a storm had gone through Canberra while I was driving to Mt Ginini, breaking trees and strewing debris all over suburban streets and bringing trees down over some of the arterial roads, leaving damage that would be visible for weeks afterwards.
This is how far I got setting up on Friday night. After this, the wind came up and the rain and sleet started.
The weather at the time was windy and when I tried to set up the tent it was clear that it would not survive that wind. In the hope that it would clear away in a few hours, I decided to sit it out and stayed in the car. By 9pm it was dark and I had to decide whether to re-pack my tent and go back to Canberra for the night or hang on. I decided to hang on. It rained quite heavily for a while and the wind kept howling so once it was really dark, I felt there was no other option.
In the early morning it seemed to be better. The wind was still there but didn't seem so bad. The rain had cleared. But I hadn't slept much.
I set about the job of assembling the antennas, the tent, the interconnections and generator. By 12 noon, the contest start time, I was just about ready to roll.
432 MHz preamp cabling
1296 MHz antenna – end mounted
The erected antennas looked very much like they have for the last 10 years so I didn't take any new photos of them. The 2m, ;70cm and 23cm yagis on one mast and the 6m 3el yagi on another, both rotated from the base using KR400 rotators. Feedlines: RG9B for 2m, CNT400 for 70cm and 23cm, RG213 or similar for 6m.
Here's a pic of the antennas from a previous operation at Ginini. A few configuration differences for the 70cm antenna but otherwise very similar this time.
VHF/UHF antennas on Mt Ginini
Once I got on the air, I found beacons from VK3 were very low, the Sydney beacons were almost undetectable and few portables outside the VK1 area. Only VK2IO was heard initially, but one or two others did emerge later in the weekend. VK1DSH, VK1RX, VK1RW, VK1MT and VK1AI were all out in the field, most of them on 50/144/432 and Dale was on 1296 as well. We had a small number of home stations operating the bands too.
After working Gerard VK2IO (Mt Bindo near Oberon) I then worked Phil VK5AKK on both 144 and 432. We tried 1296 too, but although I could hear a signal from his 100w, my 10w was too far down to make it a two way contact. A digital mode would have worked. hmm. More power on my end would have helped too. Double hmm.
The day progressed without any more surprising dx, and I found it hard to convince myself to stay awake after 9pm, having got very little sleep in the driver's seat of the car on Friday night.
At 5:30 in the morning, there were good signals from the vk3 beacons, Sydney was a bit better too. And I had a very good signal from the Mt Gambier beacon on 144.550 plus a weak signal from Mt Lofty on 144.450. I hoped this indicated something of the contacts to be made in the following hours.
It did, partly. VK5DK at Mt Gambier was worked, as was VK5PJ. But conditions were not good enough to give us contacts on higher frequencies.
My surprise contact on Sunday morning was being called by Mike VK3BDL/7 at Flinders Island. After working me on 144 and 432, Mike went on to work Chris VK2DO at Batemans Bay on 144, a contact which they were both very happy with.
Eventually the contest ended and I followed it up with a short period of activating Mt Ginini as a SOTA station, using the IC703 running from a LiFePO4 battery. I had at 6am set up the 20m vertical in the hope of making an S2S with a US station who was looking for VK contacts. I may have been a bit unlucky with conditions, or jut not spending enough time listening for the US signals. No luck with S2S but did have a good contact with home station NS7P on CW.
The packing process took about 4 hours and I left the summit at 5pm. A 2 hour trip back to Yass and a welcome shower and a cold drink when I got there.
The 6m beam seen in the foreground (in the shade, sorry) travels in a partially assembled state. The gamma match stays in place, but the extensions just come out of each element and it then is not much wider than the 2m beam and is narrow enough to be carried quite safely on the roof rack of the car.
Mostly packed up and ready to be loaded into the car and trailer. 2m and 70cm mast still to be disassembled.
Contacts made: 183 total.
Band totals:
50 Mhz: 39
Total points claimed under distance calculation rules: 55916
Points lost due to a wrong grid locator: about 10.
Points lost due to not enough other portables: 500,000.
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Pheasant Hill, sota vk1/ac-021, south of Canberra
1 November, 2016 vk1da	2 Comments
After activating Boboyan Range successfully the week before, I wanted to grab a few winter bonus points before they ended. Pheasant Hill is located west of the Boboyan Road, almost at the southern border of the ACT(VK1) with NSW (VK2) in southeastern Australia. It is in ecalytpus forest country and is 1455m above sea level.
So on this Saturday morning I drove along Boboyan road to the parking area of Brayshaw's hut (dating back a hundred years or more) and hiked westward through the forest with the sounds of nature around me.
About 20 minutes in you pass this sign
Map and information about the area
After turning to the north and heading up the hill the forest is thicker in places.
Forest views
Path faintly visible
Finally I reached the summit area and found a suitable clearing with a handy tree stump for one of my poles.
I used one pole for the linked dipole which can be used on any of the 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12 or 10 metre bands. The other pole supported the 6m vertical and a 2m dipole offset from the pole on a short length of 19mm PVC conduit.
Conditions on the bands were not bad. I made 4 contacts into New Zealand (ZL) on 20m, several "local" contacts on 2m FM back into Canberra using the dipole mounted at about 3m above ground. Only one contact on 6m, with VK1MA.
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Originally in our sota summit list this one was named Pleasant hill, but that was corrected later. As Ian VK1DI remarked after first activating this summit, it is indeed a pleasant hill.
I was tempted to stay there longer but the wind was rising and I didn't want to be caught in rain. So after about 2 hours I packed up and headed home.
Approaching Brayshaw's Hit from the west
One of the direction markers close up
50 MHz 1
144 MHz 6
7 MHz 17
Walking distance: it took me about 45 mins to reach the summit from the car park. The return trip was a bit faster.
Permissions: not required – it's in the Namadgi National Park and day trips are automatically OK.
Round trip from southern Canberra – about 120 km.
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VK1 Deferred QSO Party and VK2/4/6 SOTA anniversary
8 September, 2015 vk1da	1 Comment
It's not hard to think of a reason to have a QSO party. SOTA contacts are a lot of fun for all involved. For activators there is the question of whether to reactivate a summit already visited, possibly visited this year, or whether to look for a new personal unique summit, ie. one you have not previously activated.
This event was a combination of the postponed VK1 QSO Party and the anniversary of SOTA for VK2/4/6. For this event I wanted to make the best use of the winter bonus and also activate some new uniques. Yankee Ned and Mount Tumorrama seemed to be good options and I looked carefully at maps and planned my trip.
It was a fairly clear day as I drove from Yass to Wee Jasper, then continued towards Tumut on the Wee Jasper Road. There were many roos and wallabies feeding near the road, some creating hazards by reacting unpredictably to the approaching or passing car. I realised when I reached Brindabella Road that I did not have the map prepared at home. I looked up the lat/lon of Yankee Ned using Sotagoat on the phone (which had no coverage there), converted the decimal degrees to degrees, minutes and seconds and input the coordinates into the Garmin GPS. That gave me a direction and distance to reach the foothills of the summit, however on reaching the vicinity of the summit, my location was clearly wrong as there was a much higher summit to the west. I decided to walk up the higher summit and on reaching the top I compared the lat/lon details with SOTA Goat data. It was identical so I knew I was in the right place. I later decided I must have made an error in the conversion of lat/long in decimal degrees to degrees/minutes/seconds, so in future I will use decimal degrees on the GPS unless there is a reason to do otherwise.
Yankee Ned operating site
Getting the radios going I made contacts with Matt 1MA, Andrew 1NAM and Andrew 1MBE, Roald 1MTS. Then on 40m I had some CW contacts with a number of VK3 and VK5 callers. Close-in contacts were difficult, indicating propagation was favouring longer distances than usual.
I was hoping for a good number of S2S contacts from this summit. With conditions so unusual, I failed to reach Adan VK1FJAW at Mt Gillamatong. While I was on Yankee Ned, he ended his operation at Mt G and drove over to Mt Palerang, where he had a (self-imposed!) steep climb up the eastern side of the mountain. Conditions were still unfavourable so we missed each other on that occasion.
At about 1pm I packed up and walked down the north side of Yankee Ned, reaching the fire trail that encircles the hill, then walking back along the fire trail where my car was parked.
I spent 10 minutes making a cup of tea and lunch. Then drove on to Mt Tumorrama, which is easily reached by car all the way to the top. In fact the track I used to access Yankee Ned went back to Wee Jasper Forest Road and the access for Tumorrama was about 10m along the road, almost opposite where the Yankee Ned fire trail emerged from the forest.
At Mt Tumorrama I was unsure of whether the equipment in the building there would create any radio interference for me. In fact there was a lot of noise on 40m and 20m, making some frequencies very hard to use. The noise coincided with the running of cooling fans inside the building compound. I think operating further away from the building would be a better plan next time. Avoiding the blackberry bushes would also be better. A few thorns pierced my jeans and that was not a good experience…
Mt Tumorrama
view from Mt Tumorrama
On this summit I spent some time on 2m FM working into the Canberra area, then some time on 40m, both CW and SSB. A text message to Adan discovered he was about to arrive at his third summit, so I asked him to let me know when he would be ready for a contact on 144.150 SSB, as it was clear that HF would not allow any contacts between us. It was about 100km and I felt sure that our little radios would be able to do that distance on 2m ssb. Eventually we did make that contact so that was worth waiting for.
The weather on the hill had gradually changed so by 4pm it was quite cool and rain clouds were building up. I packed up soon afterwards and started the 2hr trip back to Yass at about 4:15pm.
On the way back I noticed this unusual circular pattern of partly submerged rocks on the hillside opposite the road. Not related to SOTA. Included as a bonus.
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Two summits on 9th August 2015
18 August, 2015 vk1da	2 Comments
Today's plan was to activate three summits to add them to my 6m/10m log and in two cases, gain activator points for 2015 as I had not activated them yet in 2015.
The summits were One Tree Hill near Hall, ACT, Isaacs Ridge to the east of the Woden Valley in Canberra and Mt McDonald, adjacent to the Cotter dam west of Canberra. This selection was designed to complement the plans of VK1NAM and VK4JAZ who were activating three summits that day.
Leaving Yass at 7:10 after discovering the chooks had no water (and getting my bike gloves wet), I found the Barton Hwy was fogbound for part of the trip to Hall.
I planned to ride my bike to the base of One Tree Hill, hoping to save some time. I recalled the walk as basically flat with a few undulations but I didn't mind walking the bike for a few hundred metres. Well, it was about 4km and most of it seemed to be uphill. It took about an hour so to reach the hill so riding the bike seemed to have saved very little time on this leg of the trip.
At One Tree Hill I set up the antennas including the dipole for 6m, connected both to the FT817 transceiver and looked at SOTAwatch to see who was on from where. I was excited by the spot for JS1UEH on a Japanese summit and tuned to his 21 MHz frequency, but the whole band sounded dead. Hearing nothing there I resumed normal operation, moved the antenna links to 28 MHz and tuned up to 28.48. This sounds simple but my antennas were attached to the barbed wire fence and naturally, when the antenna was dropped down to make link changes, it caught on the fence when it was raised, making it a frustrating process. At the same time the 6m dipole was getting caught also. Finally I got the antenna up again and I could use it.
I found Gerard VK2IO at Mt Marulan on 28 MHz with a good signal. I called him and received a low signal report so I looked at my setup to check with antenna I had used on 28 MHz. The 817 has two antenna sockets and I use both, making it possible to switch between antennas as the 817 stores the antenna selection by band (or groups of bands actually).
I found that I had used the wrong antenna on 10m, so had been using the 6m antenna when I called and worked Gerard. What's more (or less), one side of the dipole had disconnected from the binding post in the process of raising it with the barbed wire fence not helping. So I had used half a 6m dipole to make that contact. Later I called Gerard again on 10m and found he was much stronger on the 10m antenna and also upgraded my signal report too. Barbed wire fences are off my list as a possible mounting point for antennas.
At this point I abandoned 6m and used only HF bands. There were a few contacts to be made on 10m and 40m found a good list of chasers.
During the activation there were several visitors to the hilltop, including some goats. And no, none of them seemed to be SOTA goats.
After making a reasonable number of log entries I packed up and walked back to my bike. The return ride to my car at Hall took only 18 minutes, not bad for 4km and clearly it was nearly all downhill! That time included chatting with some other riders when lifting bikes over a gate.
Then a quick drive across Canberra to Woden Valley where I parked near Isaacs Ridge on Long Gully Lane. About 20 minutes to walk up to the operating position and 10 minutes to set up the antennas. This time I had the vertical for 6m so was able to work a few locals on that band, including VK1NAM on Mt Taylor, about 4 km away on the other side of Woden! We had exchanged SMS messages updating each other on our progress and plans, so I knew he and Grant VK4JAZ were planning to operate from Isaacs Ridge after me.
I made a page full of contacts on 40m and a few on 10m. I was slow walking up this one so was then considering whether I could manage Mt McDonald later. I decided against it as it would be near the end of the daylight when I got there and would almost certainly be walking back to the car in the dark and would still have to drive home. So while I wanted to add one more summit to my 6m/10m challenge scorecard, I had to drop the idea. Coffee and food seemed a more attractive option, so that was the next step.
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VK1 SOTA party 2nd August 2015
8 August, 2015 vk1da	1 Comment
The SOTA party on 2nd August was almost washed out, with all night rainfall and rain continuing in the morning. By about 8am though, there was some sign of the rain easing for a while. Some of us decided it was too risky as we are generally not prepared to operate in the rain, but others decided to activate though not on the original sites.
I changed from my planned activation of Castle Hill to Mt Stromlo. A retreat could be made from Mt Stromlo within 15 minutes whereas at Castle hill it would take more like 30 minutes or more to reach the car, including packing time.
I originally set up on 6m and was about to set up the 10m antenna when two things happened. First I heard Dimitri VK1SV/VK2COW operating at his new home location near Gundaroo on 6m so I had to log contacts with him. Then Mark VK1EM arrived on site, so we organised for him to make the 6m contacts that were available.
The linked dipole went up then, giving us 10m coverage. ALthough not all originally planned activations were on the air, enough were on to keep us busy, with Mt Ainslie (AC040) operators including Marcus VK3TST and Paul VK1ATP, Adan VK1FJAW was at Black Mt (AC042) using 2m fm only (and having trouble with overload in his Baofeng), Roald VK1MTS and John VK1JP were at One Tree Hill (AC035). Then Grant VK4JAZ arrived on Mt Ainslie and it must have been bedlam on that site.
After struggling to make his contacts on Black Mt, Adan decided to join us on Stromlo and was soon there, making his contacts on 2m and 10m.
In among this a few spots turned up on 40m so the antenna was changed over to 40m to work Tony VK3CAT, then a spot turned up on 10m showing Gerard VK2IO, so the antenna was changed back to 10m, but although I even rotated the dipole to favour that direction better, I could hear nothing of Gerard. Should have tried CW.
Finally as lunch time approached, so did the dark clouds so we packed up quickly and were being lightly rained upon by the time we reached our cars.
In something of a compensating operation for the cancelled activation on 2nd August, VK1NAM has alerted for a 3 summit day on 9th August. I am planning a 3 summit day too, activating two of the same summits and another different one. Aiming for 10m/6m contacts on each, so hoping for fine enough weather to let it happen.
In addition, there will be a combined VK1/VK2 focussed SOTA QSO party on Sunday 30th August. Already, interested VK1/2/3 activators are making plans. Why not join in? VK4/5/6/7/8 activators would be welcomed with many potential contacts…
SOTA activation at Boboyan Range VK1/AC-044 1st August 2015
Andrew VK1NAM and I set off for Booroomba Rocks and were watching the weather as it seemed likely to rain some time during the day. But as it turned out there was a locked gate several km away from the parking area with a sign advising people to keep out of the area. This was probably due to fallen trees, slippery rocks on the ascent or other hazards.
A quick evaluation of the alternatives along Boboyan Road resulted in the choice of Boboyan Range VK1/AC-044, which Andrew VK1NAM had activated recently but I had never been to. Other options were either going to be longer walks or likely to be unsuitable.
Having parked just off the road we headed up the hill finding our way around various trees and parting the undergrowth. Half way up the first section of the trip was this pair of trees making a grinding noise as they moved with the wind.
After checking our location with the GPS we were eventually high enough to be inside the Activation Zone (within 25m of the top) so we selected a small clearing with a suitable log and set up the gear.
We were happy to be able to add this site to our 6m/10m tally, including a contact with WH6WI in Hawaii, who was also pleased to make a contact with us using both his home station radio (TS480HX) and with his FT817 running 5 watts. He then asked for a CW contact on 28.028 MHz which was readily done.
While operating the FT817 I noticed a small visitor on one of the knobs.
The weather stayed fine though the wind remained gusty.
Some pics of the forest on the way back to the car…
Coming around a corner on the way back to Canberra we found an eagle busily munching on some road kill. I didn't get my camera on and focussed in time for the photo, unfortunately. By the time of the exposure the eagle had decided he didn't like visitors, gathered the meal in his claws and took off to the west.
Another successful activation. Thanks to Andrew Moseley VK1NAM for driving and providing the equipment for the activation.
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Netflix will kick off the first of its weekend's additions with a title from its 2021 Here for the Holidays lineup. On Friday, Nov. 26, A Castle for Christmas will debut. A Netflix original film, the new holiday movie follows Sophie Brown, a famed author who travels hoping to buy a small castle of her own, though her plans run a bit amiss when Duke Myles, the owner, is hesitant to sell to a foreigner. As the two butt heads in an effort to reach a compromise, the beginning sparks of romance start to fly. A Castle for Christmas stars Brooke Shields and Cary Elwes.
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A Milestone for Asian-American Alumni
by Sarah Zhang
At the Asian AmeriCAn alumni summit—the group's first-ever University-wide gathering—even the menu seemed symbolic. Attendees at the opening reception on October 15 mingled over drinks and Korean barbecue beef—fitting considering the audience, but also one of the most popular dishes in the College dining halls today, and thus perhaps a subtle sign of the Asian-American community's growing influence within Harvard. The summit celebrated progress made since the 1970s, when an Asian-American presence was virtually nonexistent on campus, and examined remaining challenges faced by Asian Americans today.
Organized by the Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance (HAAAA, one of the more than 40 Shared Interest Groups approved by the Harvard Alumni Association), the three-day event drew more than 400 alumni from six decades and all of Harvard's schools. "We are immeasurably diverse as a group, yet we share many of the same goals," said Jeannie Park '83, who co-chaired the summit with Jeff Yang '89. President Drew Faust echoed that sense of solidarity in her remarks at the opening ceremony: "I hope that this is the first of many such gatherings…because your input and your presence mean an enormous amount to us."
The diversity that Park spoke of was evident in the backgrounds of the summit's 50 speakers and presenters, who included Secretary of the Cabinet Chris Lu, J.D. '91, novelist Gish Jen '77, and professional poker player Bernard Lee '92, A.L.M. '94. The summit events ranged from panels on social entrepreneurship and public service to film screenings and an elevator-pitch competition (in which entrants competed to pitch their ideas for startups, social entrepreneurship, or unproduced artistic works persuasively in eight minutes, and three won $2,500 prizes).
Alumni spanning four decades and a current undergraduate compared stories at the opening plenary session, "Where We Stand: The Changing Asian-American Experience at Harvard." William F. Lee '72, managing partner of WilmerHale and the first Asian-American to serve on the Harvard Corporation, spoke of a time when encountering another Asian student at Harvard was a rarity. By the time Jane Bock '81 arrived on campus in 1977, a critical mass of Asian-American students was ready to be politically organized. They worked to gain minority status for Asians at Harvard, and Bock's sociology thesis, "The Model Minority in the Meritocracy: Asian-Americans in the Harvard/Radcliffe Admissions Process," prompted a Department of Justice inquiry into the treatment of Asian-American college applicants. The number of Asian-American students at Harvard doubled in the next four years.
Affirmative action and race-blind admissions were recurrent topics of discussion at the conference. Several speakers expressed concern that enrollment of Asian-American students at Harvard College, currently 17 percent, has remained flat for the past 30 years despite their growing representation in the applicant pool. Philip Lee, J.D. '00—a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education, the former assistant director of admissions at Harvard Law School, and another speaker on the plenary session—questioned the idea that the success of so many Asian Americans meant they did not face discrimination. William F. Lee added that he believed law-school admissions should be race-blind, though the current system is not.
The summit was also a forum to advocate academic study of Asian-American culture at Harvard. Eileen Chow '90, former assistant professor of Chinese literary and cultural studies, who helped develop the Asian-American studies minor track in the East Asian studies program, spoke at the plenary session as well. HAAAA also campaigned heavily for the newly created undergraduate secondary field in ethnic studies. Athena Lao '12, who was active in the ethnic studies effort and currently serves as co-president of the Asian American Association (AAA) student group on campus, was the youngest speaker at the plenary. She said she sees AAA as a way of bridging the plethora of more ethnically specific Asian cultural groups at Harvard, and wants students identifying with the Asian-American community "to say it proudly."
Reaching across divides in the Asian-American community was also a theme in the keynote address by Chris Lu, who as secretary of the Cabinet serves as an assistant to his law school classmate President Obama. Lu emphasized responsibilities beyond Harvard, pointing out that although the "model minority" stereotype applied to all the Harvard graduates in the room, it didn't necessarily apply to the Hmong high-school dropout. "Let us commit ourselves to those who have not fared as well," he said. "I put forth that we start in our own community, the Asian-American community."
When Lu asked the audience to raise their hands if their parents were immigrants, nearly everyone in the room put a hand in the air. "My story is your story. It's the quintessential immigrant story," he said after narrating his then 18-year-old father's arrival in America, which involved a five-day bus ride to Tennessee during which all he ate were the two items he could name in English: hamburgers and milk. Many speakers cited the importance of their immigrant parents having given them the opportunity and, in some cases, the freedom to pursue their dreams.
All the same, if there's any constant at gatherings of Asian-American Harvard graduates, it is jokes about overbearing Asian parents—and those abounded at the panel "The Road Less Traveled: Asian Americans in Atypical Careers." Georgia Lee '98, director of the film Red Doors, said her parents told her, "You can do anything you want as long as you are a biochemist, doctor, or lawyer." Such comments allude not only to the stereotypes foisted on Asian Americans by others, but also to expectations within the Asian-American community.
In bringing together Asian-American students, faculty members, administrators, and alumni of all ages, the summit constituted a first. But an offhand remark from summit organizer Jeff Yang—noting the names of two of the summit venues, the Fong and Tsai auditoriums—provided further evidence of the progress Asian Americans have already made at Harvard. As former U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, M.B.A. '79, summed up at the opening reception: "We are a community on the move."
Sarah Zhang '11 is a Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine.
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Swans and Dragons: Shaun MacDonald
In a regular website feature, we look back at former Swansea City players who have also turned out for Wales at full international level.
Just a few months after celebrating his 17th birthday, Shaun MacDonald made his first-team debut for boyhood club Swansea City.
The midfielder came on as a substitute for Owain Tudur Jones in extra time of the 3-1 defeat at Reading in the League Cup in August 2005, and made his league debut in a 5-2 victory over Walsall four days later.
Those were the first of 40 appearances MacDonald made for the Swans prior to joining Bournemouth in 2011.
His first start in South Wales came in a 3-1 win over Torquay United in the Football League Trophy in October.
MacDonald played four times in that season's competition, including the first leg of the southern section final against Colchester United.
The Swans went on to lift the trophy at the Millennium Stadium thanks to a 2-1 victory over Carlisle United.
Between 2005 and 2006, MacDonald played in five matches for Wales' under-19 side, scoring once, and made his under-21 debut in a 5-1 victory over Estonia at The Racecourse.
He went on to break former Swans striker James Thomas' record of 21 caps at that level with 25 overall and scored two goals.
In October 2010, just over a month after MacDonald made his last appearance for the under-21s against Italy, he made his senior international debut as a late replacement for David Vaughan in Wales' 4-1 defeat against Switzerland at St Jakob Park.
He had previously been an unused substitute for the Dragons on three occasions dating back to 2008.
At the time of his Wales debut, MacDonald was on loan at Yeovil Town – one of five temporary spells he had with the Glovers over three seasons – and had made the last of his appearances for the Swans in a goalless draw with Reading in August 2009.
Both of his goals in a white shirt came in a 2-0 victory over Brentford in the League Cup 12 months earlier.
MacDonald made a total of 64 appearances on loan at Yeovil, scoring nine times, before moving to Bournemouth in August 2011.
The Blaenymaes-product netted six times in 101 appearances for the Cherries through to the end of the 2015-16 season.
He was part of the Bournemouth team who were promoted from League One to the Championship in 2013, as well as reaching the Premier League two years later.
In March 2015, MacDonald received his first international call-up in almost five years for Wales' crucial Euro 2016 qualifier away to Israel.
He came on as a substitute for Aaron Ramsey in a memorable 3-0 victory in Haifa and was also on the bench for the famous 1-0 win over Belgium.
He replaced Ramsey once again in Wales' 1-0 triumph over Cyprus, while being an unused substitute in further matches against Israel, the Netherlands and Northern Ireland.
His most recent appearance for the national side came as a substitute for Jonny Williams in a friendly against Ukraine in March 2016, and he has been named in the squad for five matches since.
In October 2015, MacDonald made his Premier League debut as a second-half substitute in Bournemouth's 5-1 defeat at Manchester City, while it was fitting that his second top-flight appearance came at the Liberty Stadium in a 2-2 draw with the Swans the following month.
His third, and most recent, Premier League outing came in the Cherries' 2-1 victory at Aston Villa in April 2016.
MacDonald signed for current club Wigan Athletic in August 2016 and made 41 appearances for the Latics in his debut season. Yet in the penultimate match of the campaign, he sustained a broken leg in a 1-0 loss at Reading and, as his recovery continues, everyone at Swansea City wishes him well.
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Radical Firearms (RF) is an up-and-coming Title II NFA gun manufacturer that is slowly but surely making big moves in the industry. The Texas-based gunmaker is not just some budget assembly shop either, they produce some seriously sweet rifles and other firearm equipment. In fact, their growing collection now includes pistols, shotguns, machine guns, bolt guns, suppressors, and AR uppers.
Radical also is not afraid of showing their true colors. They have no reservations about being American Made, Texas Proud or for their military veteran hiring preference. This company is what American gun manufacturing is all about. To top it all off, RF is even a great underdog story. It began as a small little hobby shop, eventually added CNC machines, and now receives up to 400 orders a day. Besides for picky gun enthusiasts, Radical proudly makes firearms for military/law enforcement, competition shooters, and anybody looking for affordable custom-quality products. Although many people doubt the quality of their guns because of their low prices, but Radical has taken several measures to cut costs without cutting corners. In effect, they even offer an exclusive lifetime warranty on all of their products. Let's get to it and take a closer look at some of their most popular firearms.
After doing a bit of research and asking around, I finally got my hands on an RF AR15, more specifically the 16″ 5.56 NATO 1:7 Mid-Length SOCOM Rifle – 12″ M-LOK FCR Gen3. I'm happy to say that I was able to go through around 1,200 rounds without any malfunctions or anything. I should also make it clear that I wasn't gentle with it either. I fired in basically any and all positions imaginable, and even ran through a few mags in the rain. Additionally, I was immediately impressed with the RF AR15, completely regardless of its remarkable price tag.
As a MIL-SPEC rifle, the Radical Firearms AR is an excellent tactical weapon capable of some pretty impressive things. I did a quick field-strip and all of the internal components seemed to be in order and well-made. So much so that I can't understand why more people aren't buying these rifles. Between their Melonite bolt carrier group, sweet rail system, direct impingement gas system, and 41V50 Chrome Moly Vanadium Steel SOCOM barrel, these rifles seem to have it all.
In addition to their great collection of AR15s, Radical also boasts a pretty sweet lineup of 300 BLK firearms. Although ATF-regulated, these MIL-SPEC pistols are hard to pass up. While they may be solid CQB weapons right out of the factory, there are endless ways to add tactical upgrades to them. For instance, they feature a full length M1913 Picatinny rail along the top of the handguard and a Radical FGS Round handguard rail, plus offer options for the bolt carrier group, charging handle, and sights.
The 458 SOCOM round is pretty freaking big. The relatively uncommon cartridge uses the .50 Action Express as its parent case and is, therefore, often used for big game hunting. After doing some ballistics readings, I came out that these rounds had an average muzzle energy of about 2,400 ft⋅lbf and an average muzzle energy of approximately 1,950 ft/s. In comparison, 5.56 NATO (.223 Rem) has an avg. FPS of 3,100 and muzzle energy of 1,200. Similarly, 9mm Luger only has about 1,100 FPS and 350 ft⋅lbf average muzzle energy.
Anyways, besides for CMMG Inc and Wilson Combat, Radical Firearms is the prominent manufacturer of rifles chambering 458 SOCOM. These direct impingement gas system rifles feature hardcoat anodized finishes to complement their 16″ 41V50 chrome moly vanadium steel HBAR barrels and custom Panzer brakes.
Overall, I'd consider Radical Firearms to be a hidden gem. I had a great experience with these rifles and carbines, I just have trouble comprehending why they aren't becoming even more popular. I also am a big fan of their commitment to their values and taking pride in their connection to Texas, America, and our Military Veterans.
Thanks for visiting Gunivore & Stay tuned for more in-depth firearm news and reviews!
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Joe Reed II
This article is about the Quarter Horse stallion who foaled in 1936. For other uses, see Joe Reed (disambiguation).
Joe Reed P-3
Grandsire
Joe Blair (TB)
Nellene
Maternal grandsire
Fleeting Time (TB)
J. W. House
1942 Champion Quarter Running Stallion
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American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
Joe Reed II (1936–1964) was a Quarter Horse racehorse from the early days of the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) that became an influential sire with the breed.
The American Quarter Horse, or Quarter Horse, is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances. Its name came from its ability to outdistance other horse breeds in races of a quarter mile or less; some have been clocked at speeds up to 55 mph (88.5 km/h). The Quarter Horse breed began when colonists in the 1600s on the Eastern seaboard of what today is the United States began to breed imported English Thoroughbred horses with assorted "native" horses. This included the Chickasaw horse, which was a breed developed by Native American people from horses descended from Spain, developed from Iberian, Arabian and Barb stock brought to what is now the Southeastern United States by the Conquistadors.. The American Quarter Horse is the most popular breed in the United States today, and the American Quarter Horse Association is the largest breed registry in the world, with almost 3 million living American Quarter Horses registered in 2014.
The American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA), based in Amarillo, Texas, is an international organization dedicated to the preservation, improvement and record-keeping of the American Quarter Horse. The association sanctions many competitive events and maintains the official registry. The organization also houses the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and Museum and sponsors educational programs. The organization was founded in 1940 in Fort Worth, Texas and now has nearly 234,627 members, over 32,000 of which are international.
Death and honors
Joe Reed II was registered number 985 in the AQHA's stud book. He was registered as a chestnut stallion that foaled in 1936. His breeder was recorded as J. W. House of Cameron, Texas, and his owner when he was registered was Bert H. Wood of Tucson, Arizona. [1] He was the son of Joe Reed P-3 and Nellene, a daughter of Fleeting Time (TB). [2] He was over half Thoroughbred by breeding, as both his sire and his dam were by Thoroughbreds. On his dam's side he traced twice to Traveler. [3] His paternal granddam, Della Moore, was a Louisiana bred mare. [4]
A stallion is a male horse that has not been gelded (castrated). Stallions follow the conformation and phenotype of their breed, but within that standard, the presence of hormones such as testosterone may give stallions a thicker, "cresty" neck, as well as a somewhat more muscular physique as compared to female horses, known as mares, and castrated males, called geldings.
Cameron is a city in Milam County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,770 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Milam County.
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and is home to the University of Arizona. The 2010 United States Census put the population at 520,116, while the 2015 estimated population of the entire Tucson metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was 980,263. The Tucson MSA forms part of the larger Tucson-Nogales combined statistical area (CSA), with a total population of 1,010,025 as of the 2010 Census. Tucson is the second most-populated city in Arizona behind Phoenix, both of which anchor the Arizona Sun Corridor. The city is 108 miles (174 km) southeast of Phoenix and 60 mi (97 km) north of the U.S.–Mexico border. Tucson is the 33rd largest city and the 58th largest metropolitan area in the United States (2014).
Racing career
In 1942 Joe Reed beat the famous Clabber to be proclaimed Champion Quarter Running Stallion. [2] He raced three times that meet, and won all three races. He had a foot injury and the last race he bled from the foot the whole race, but managed to win the race anyway. [5] After his racing career was cut short by that injury, Joe went on to sire such outstanding horses as Leo P-1335, Little Sister W, Joak, Joe Queen, and Tonta Lad. [6] [7]
Clabber (1936–1947) was a Quarter Horse stallion known as the Iron Horse for his ability to run and win match races after a day of ranch work.
Leo (1940–1967) was one of the most influential Quarter Horse sires in the early years of the American Quarter Horse Association.
Joe Reed II died in 1964 at Fort Bridger, Wyoming. [2]
Fort Bridger is a census-designated place (CDP) in Uinta County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 345 at the 2010 census. The town takes its name from the eponymous Fort Bridger established in 1842.
Joe Reed was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 1994. [8]
The American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and Museum was created by the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA), based in Amarillo, Texas. Ground breaking construction of the Hall of Fame Museum began in 1989.The distinction is earned by people and horses who have contributed to the growth of the American Quarter Horse and "have been outstanding over a period of years in a variety of categories". In 1982, Bob Denhardt and Ernest Browning were the first individuals to receive the honor of being inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame. In 1989, Wimpy P-1, King P-234, Leo and Three Bars were the first horses inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.
Faustus (TB)
Bonnie Joe (TB)
Bonnie Rose (TB)
Bowling Green (TB)
Miss Blair (TB)
Com-I-Cut (TB)
Crazy Cue
Old DJ
Della Moore
Dilly
Ultimus (TB)
High Time (TB)
Noonday (TB)
Great Britain (TB)
British Fleet (TB)
Belle Nutter (TB)
Brown Billy
mare by Traveler
Little Red Nell
Texas Chief by Traveler
Red Nell
↑ AQHA Official Stud Book and Registry Combined 1–5 p. 110
1 2 3 Close and Simmons (ed.), Legends: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares pp. 152-154
↑ Pedigree of Joe Reed II at All Breed Pedigree retrieved on June 22, 2007
↑ LeBlanc Cajun-Bred Running Horses pp. 32-34
↑ Nye "A Dash of Greatness" The Quarter Horse November 1946
↑ Pitzer Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires pp. 62-63
↑ Wagoner Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition p. 316
↑ American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "Joe Reed II". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
Wimpy P-1 was the first registered Quarter Horse for the American Quarter Horse Association, or AQHA.
Go Man Go (1953–1983) was an American Quarter Horse stallion and race horse. He was named World Champion Quarter Running Horse three times in a row, one of only two horses to achieve that distinction. Go Man Go was considered to be of difficult temperament. While waiting in the starting gate for his very first race, he threw his jockey, broke down the gate, and ran alone around the track; he was eventually caught and went on to win the race. During his five years of competition until his retirement from racing in 1960 he had 27 wins, earning more than $86,000.
Depth Charge (1941–1965) was a Thoroughbred son of Bold Venture who went on to become an outstanding sire of American Quarter Horse racehorses. He was posthumously inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame
Joe Hancock (1926–1943) was an influential Quarter Horse sire in the early years of the American Quarter Horse Association.
Joe Reed (1921–1947), often known as Joe Reed P-3, was a Quarter Horse racehorse from the early days of the American Quarter Horse Association that became an influential sire with the breed.
Bert (1934—1956) was one of the most influential sires in the early years of the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). He was posthumously inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.
Driftwood (1932–1960) was originally known as Speedy while he was a rodeo horse. Driftwood was known for siring rodeo and ranch horses.
Jet Deck (1960–1971) was a Quarter Horse racehorse and sire.
Moon Deck (1950–1974) was an influential Quarter Horse sire and racehorse.
For many years, Oklahoma Star (1915–1943) was known simply as the Tommy Moore Horse, after his breeder, owner, trainer and race jockey. He was an influential Quarter Horse stallion in the early days of the breed.
Rocket Bar (1951–1970) was a registered Thoroughbred stallion that made his mark on the Quarter Horse racetracks and as a breeding stallion.
Sugar Bars (1951–1982) was a Quarter Horse racehorse and stallion who sired many Quarter horse race and show horses.
Royal King was an outstanding cutting stallion and Quarter horse sire from the early days of the American Quarter Horse Association.
Joe Cody (1952–1989) was a Quarter Horse stallion famous for siring reining horses.
Peppy San (1959–1989), a Quarter Horse stallion, has the distinction of the being the first National Cutting Horse Association World Champion to sire an NCHA World Champion.
Texas Dandy was a Quarter Horse stallion who not only raced well, and sired outstanding broodmares, he was a movie star also.
Shue Fly (1937–1963) was a Quarter Horse mare who was one of the dominant racehorses on the racetrack during the 1940s.
Lightning Bar (1951–1960) was an American Quarter Horse who raced and subsequently became a breeding stallion. He was bred by his lifelong owner Art Pollard of Sonoita, Arizona, and was the offspring of Three Bars, a Thoroughbred, and Della P, a Quarter Horse mare from Louisiana, then noted for the breeding of sprint horses. Lightning Bar raced ten times, achieving four victories and four other top three finishes. His racing career was cut short by illness after only one year, following which he spent two years as a show horse. As a breeding stallion he sired seven crops, or years, of foals, among whom Doc Bar was the best known. In 1960 Lightning Bar died of an intestinal infection at the age of nine. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (AQHA) Hall of Fame in 2008.
All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Joe Reed II retrieved on June 22, 2007
AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on September 1, 2017
American Quarter Horse Association (1961). Official Stud Book and Registry Combined Books 1-2-3-4-5. Amarillo, TX: American Quarter Horse Association.
Close, Pat; Simmons, Diane, eds. (1993). Legends: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares. Colorado Springs, CO: Western Horseman. ISBN 0-911647-26-0.
LeBlanc, Francis S. (1978). Cajun-Bred Running Horses: Notes on Horse Racing in Southwest Louisiana. Lafayette, LA: The Acadiana Press.
Nye, Nelson C. (November 1946). "A Dash of Greatness: Some Interesting Facts about Joe Reed II". The Quarter Horse.
Pitzer, Andrea Laycock (1987). The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires. Tacoma, WA: Premier Pedigrees.
Wagoner, Dan (1974). Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition. Grapevine, TX: Equine Research.
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier which is intended to be unique. Publishers purchase ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency.
Nelson Coral Nye (1907–1997) was an American author, editor, and reviewer of Western fiction, and wrote non-fiction books on quarter horses. Besides Nelson C. Nye he also wrote fiction using the pseudonyms Clem Colt and Drake C. Denver. He wrote over 125 books, won two Spur Awards: one for best Western reviewer and critic, and one for his novel Long Run, and in 1968 won the Saddleman Award for ""Outstanding Contributions to the American West."
Wohlfarth, Jenny (December 1996). "Just One of the Joes". Quarter Horse Journal: 14.
Joe Reed II at Quarter Horse Directory
Joe Reed II at Foundation Horses
Joe Reed II at Quarter Horse Legends
Quarter Horse racehorse and sire


WHO: Mike Schmidt, BayCare Clinic's director of strategic growth and business development, visited WLUK Fox 11's "Good Day Wisconsin" on Thursday to promote the third annual Get Your Rear in Gear-Green Bay 5K run/walk presented by Aurora BayCare Medical Center. Schmidt is the event's race director.
WHAT: Schmidt encouraged registrations for the Saturday, August 5 event.
WHERE: The interview aired on WLUK Fox 11.
WHEN: It aired Thursday morning. It is available online. Watch the video.


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László Kádár (born 31 March 1969) is a Romanian professional darts player who currently plays in World Darts Federation (WDF) events. He is a Apatin Open and Slovak Open champion. His other big achievements to date was qualified and advanced to the second round of the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship.

Career
Kadar has been playing at international World Darts Federation tournaments since 2010, made his debut at the 2010 WDF Europe Cup, where he was defeated by a whitewash in his opening game against Christian Demazure. In his subsequent 2010 Winmau World Masters debut, Kadar won his first game against Peter Holczer before losing to Dennis Harbour in the third round.

In 2011, Kadar took part in the 2011 WDF World Cup for the first time, winning his first game against Kevin Jacob 4–3 in legs. It was followed by the end against Hiroaki Shimizu in the second round. In the years that followed, Kadar only played the WDF tournaments in his region, primarily in Romania. He landed a bigger success at the 2014 WDF Europe Cup, where it went to the third round in singles competition, but lost 0–4 to Ross Montgomery.

In 2017, he advanced to Last 16 stage at the Hungarian Classic for the first time. Two more rather meager years were then followed by a significant improvement in form from 2020. Kadar made it to the final of the Romanian Open, but had to admit defeat against Nick Kenny. In 2021, he snagged his first tournament victory at the Apatin Open, did it in a decider leg over Oliver Ferenc.

In 2022, he won the Slovak Open against Scott Marsh. As the best Eastern European player in the World Darts Federation rankings, Kadar qualified for the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship for the first time, where in the first round he beat Andreas Harrysson by 2–1 in sets. Kadar survived match darts and advanced to second round, but failed to win a set against Richard Veenstra.

World Championship results

WDF
 2022: Second round (lost to Richard Veenstra 0–3) (sets)
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Performance timeline

References

1969 births
Living people
Romanian darts players
Romanian sportspeople of Hungarian descent

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Two weeks ago we announced the exciting news that Harrison Ford will be joining the City Church staff as our new Assistant Pastor for Christian Formation. Today we get to announce more exciting news about our staff team.
Beginning Monday, April 8, 2019, JB Burtch will join our staff as City Church's new Director of Mentoring.
As our part-time Director of Mentoring JB will be available to meet with individuals seeking personal discipleship, vocational discernment, and spiritual direction. In addition, he will work hard to develop a church-wide commitment to and structure for mentoring relationships. The Session is confident that JB's work in this role will be well-received by City Church and that he will advance our commitment to whole-life discipleship.
Many of you already know JB as a long-time faithful worshipper with the City Church community. As he begins in this new role, we will provide a fuller introduction via both our website and personal interaction. JB is eager to meet those of you he doesn't know and share more about his vision for catalyzing more and more mentoring relationships throughout our church community.
As always, if you have any questions about JB's role or the work of the church in general, please reach out.