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A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM.
The "little cliff," upon whose edge he had so carelessly thrown himself down to rest, that the weightier portion of his body hung over it, while he was only kept from falling by the tenure of his elbow on its extreme and slippery edge — this "little cliff" arose, a sheer unobstructed precipice of black shining rock, some fifteen or sixteen hundred feet from the world of crags beneath us. No consideration would have tempted me to within half a dozen yards of its brink. In truth so deeply was I excited by the perilous position of my companion, that I fell at full length upon the ground, clung to the shrubs around me, and dared not even glance upward at the sky — while I struggled in vain to divest myself of the idea that the very foundations of the mountain were in danger from the fury of the winds. It was long before I could reason myself into sufficient courage to sit up and look out into the distance.
I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian Geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum. A panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination can conceive. To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black and beetling cliff, whose character of irredeemable gloom was but the more forcibly illustrated by the surf which reared high up against it its white and ghastly crest, howling and shrieking forever. Just opposite the promontory upon whose apex we were placed, and at a distance of some five or six miles out at sea, there was visible a small, bleak-looking island; or, more properly, its position was discernible through the wilderness of surge in which it was enveloped. About two miles nearer the land, arose another of smaller size, hideously craggy and barren, and encompassed at various intervals by a cluster of dark rocks.
The appearance of the ocean, in the space between the more distant island and the shore, had something very unusual about it. Although, at the time, so strong a gale was blowing landward that a brig in the remote offing lay to under a double-reefed trysail, and constantly plunged her whole hull out of sight, still there was here nothing like a regular swell, but only a short, quick, angry cross-dashing of water in every direction — as well in the teeth of the wind as otherwise. Of foam there was little, except in the immediate vicinity of the rocks.
We had now been about ten minutes upon the top of Helseggen, to which we had ascended from the interior of Lofoden, so that we had caught no glimpse of the sea until it had burst upon us from the summit. As the old man spoke I became [page 236:] aware of a loud and gradually increasing sound, like the moaning of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie; and at the same moment I perceived that what seamen term the chopping character of the ocean beneath us was rapidly changing into a current which set to the eastward. Even while I gazed, this current acquired a monstrous velocity. Each moment added to its speed — to its headlong impetuosity. In five minutes the whole sea, as far as Vurrgh, was lashed into ungovernable fury; but it was between Moskoe and the coast that the main uproar held its sway. Here the vast bed of the waters, seamed and scarred into a thousand conflicting channels, burst suddenly into phrensied convulsion — heaving, boiling, hissing — gyrating in gigantic and innumerable vortices, and all whirling and plunging on to the eastward with a rapidity which water never elsewhere assumes except in precipitous descents.
In a few minutes more, there came over the scene another radical alteration. The general surface grew somewhat more smooth, and the whirlpools, one by one, disappeared, while prodigious streaks of foam became apparent where none had been seen before. These streaks, at length, spreading out to a great distance, and entering into combination, took unto themselves the gyratory motion of the subsided vortices, and seemed to form the germ of another more vast. Suddenly — very suddenly — this assumed a distinct and definite existence, in a circle of more than a mile in diameter. The edge of the whirl was represented by a broad belt of gleaming spray — but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific funnel, whose interior, as far as the eye could fathom it, was a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering motion, and sending forth to the winds an appalling voice, half shriek, half roar, such as not even the mighty cataract of Niagara ever lifts up in its agony to Heaven.
In regard to the depth of the water, I could not see how this could have been ascertained at all in the immediate vicinity of the vortex. The "forty fathoms" must have reference only to portions of the channel close upon the shore either of Moskoe or Lofoden. The depth in the centre of the Moskoe-ström must be immeasurably greater; and no better proof of this fact is necessary than can be obtained from even the sidelong glance into the abyss of the whirl which may be had from the highest crag of Helseggen. Looking down from this pinnacle upon the howling Phlegethon below, I could not help smiling at the simplicity with which the honest Jonas Ramus records, as a matter difficult of belief, the anecdotes of the whales and the bears; for it appeared to me, in fact, a self-evident thing that the largest ship of the line in existence, coming within the influence of that deadly attraction, could resist it as little as a feather the hurricane, and must disappear bodily and at once.
The attempts to account for the phenomenon — some of which, I remember, seemed to me sufficiently [page 237:] plausible in perusal — now wore a very different and unsatisfactory aspect. The idea generally received is that this, as well as three smaller vortices among the Ferroe islands, "have no other cause than the collision of waves rising and falling, at flux and reflux, against a ridge of rocks and shelves, which confines the water so that it precipitates itself like a cataract; and thus the higher the flood rises, the deeper must the fall be, and the natural result of all is a whirlpool or vortex, the prodigious suction of which is sufficiently known by lesser experiments." — These are the words of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Kircher and others imagine that in the centre of the channel of the Maelström is an abyss penetrating the globe, and issuing in some very remote part — the Gulf of Bothnia being somewhat decidedly named in one instance. This opinion, idle in itself, was the one to which, as I gazed, my imagination most readily assented; and, mentioning it to the guide, I was rather surprised to hear him say that, although it was the view almost universally entertained of the subject by the Norwegians, it nevertheless was not his own. As to the former notion he confessed his inability to comprehend it; and here I agreed with him — for, however conclusive on paper, it becomes altogether unintelligible, and even absurd, amid the thunder of the abyss.
"Myself and my two brothers once owned a schooner-rigged smack of about seventy tons burthen, with which we were in the habit of fishing among the islands beyond Moskoe, nearly to Vurrgh. In all violent eddies at sea there is good fishing, at proper opportunities, if one has only the courage to attempt it; but among the whole of the Lofoden coastmen, we three were the only ones who made a regular business of going out to the islands, as I tell you. The usual grounds are a great way lower down to the southward. There fish can be got at all hours, without much risk, and therefore these places are preferred. The choice spots over here among the rocks, however, not only yield the finest variety, but in far greater abundance; so that we often got in a single day what the more timid of the craft could not scrape together in a week. In fact, we made it a matter of desperate speculation — the risk of life standing instead of labor, and courage answering for capital.
"We kept the smack in a cove about five miles higher up the coast than this; and it was our practice, in fine weather, to take advantage of the fifteen minutes' slack to push across the main channel of the Moskoe-ström, far above the pool, and then drop down upon anchorage somewhere near Otterholm, or Sandflesen, where the eddies are not so violent as elsewhere. Here we used to remain until nearly time for slack-water again, when we weighed and made for home. We never set out upon this expedition without a steady side wind [column 2:] for going and coming — one that we felt sure would not fail us before our return — and we seldom made a mis-calculation upon this point. Twice, during six years, we were forced to stay all night at anchor on account of a dead calm, which is a rare thing indeed just about here; and once we had to remain on the grounds nearly a week, starving to death, owing to a gale which blew up shortly after our arrival, and made the channel too boisterous to be thought of. Upon this occasion we should have been driven out to sea in spite of every thing, (for the whirlpools threw us round and round so violently, that at length we fouled our anchor and dragged it) if it had not been that we drifted into one of the innumerable cross currents — here to-day and gone to-morrow — which drove us under the lee of Flimen, where, by good luck, we brought up.
"I could not tell you the twentieth part of the difficulties we encountered 'on the grounds' — it is a bad spot to be in even in good weather — but we made shift always to run the gauntlet of the Moskoe-ström itself without accident; although at times my heart has been in my mouth when we happened to be a minute or so behind or before the slack. The wind sometimes was not as strong as we thought it at starting, and then we made rather less way than we could wish, while the current rendered the smack unmanageable. My eldest brother had a son eighteen years old, and I had two stout boys of my own. These would have been of great assistance at such times, in using the sweeps, as well as afterward in fishing — but, somehow, although we ran the risk ourselves, we had not the heart to let the young ones get into the danger — for, after all is said and done, it was a horrible danger, and that is the truth.
"It is now within a few days of three years since what I am going to tell you occurred. It was on the tenth day of July, 18 — , a day which the people of this part of the world will never forget — for it was one in which blew the most terrible hurricane that ever came out of the heavens. And yet all the morning, and indeed until late in the afternoon, there was a gentle and steady breeze from the south-west, while the sun shone brightly, so that the oldest seaman among us could not have foreseen what was to follow.
"The three of us — my two brothers and myself — had crossed over to the islands about two o'clock P. M. and had soon nearly loaded the smack with fine fish, which, we all remarked, were more plenty that day than we had ever known them. It was just seven, by my watch, when we weighed and started for home, so as to make the worst of the Ström at slack water, which we knew would be at eight.
"We set out with a fresh wind on our starboard quarter, and for some time spanked along at a great rate, never dreaming of danger, for indeed we saw not the slightest reason to apprehend it. All at once we were taken aback by a breeze from over Helseggen. This was most unusual — something that had never happened to us before, and I began to feel a little uneasy without exactly knowing why. We put the boat on the wind, but could make no headway at all for the eddies, and I was upon the [page 238:] point of proposing to return to the anchorage, when, looking astern, we saw the whole horizon covered with a singular copper-colored cloud that rose with the most amazing velocity.
"Such a hurricane as then blew it is folly to attempt describing. The oldest seaman in Norway never experienced any thing like it. We had let our sails go by the run before it cleverly took us; but at the first puff both our masts went by the board as if they had been sawed off — the mainmast taking with it my youngest brother, who had lashed himself to it for safety.
"Our boat was the lightest feather of a thing that ever sat upon water. It had a complete flush deck with only a small hatch near the bow, and this hatch it had always been our custom to batten down when about to cross the Ström, by way of precaution against the chopping seas. But for this circumstance we should have foundered at once — for we lay entirely buried for some moments. How my elder brother escaped destruction I cannot say, for I never had an opportunity of ascertaining. For my part, as soon as I had let the foresail run, I threw myself flat on deck, with my feet against the narrow gunwale of the bow, and with my hands grasping a ring-bolt near the foot of the foremast. It was mere instinct that prompted me to do this — which was undoubtedly the very best thing I could have done — for I was too much flurried to think.
"No one ever will know what my feelings were at that moment. I shook from head to foot as if I had had the most violent fit of the ague. I knew what he meant by that one word well enough — I knew what he wished to make me understand. With the wind that now drove us on, we were bound for the whirl of the Ström, and nothing could save us!
"You perceive that in crossing the Ström channel, we always went a long way up above the whirl, even in the calmest weather, and then had to wait [column 2:] and watch carefully for the slack — but now we were driving right upon the pool itself, and in such a hurricane as this! 'To be sure,' I thought, 'we shall get there just about the slack — there is some little hope in that' — but in the next moment I cursed myself for being so great a fool as to dream of hope at all. I knew very well that we were doomed, had we been ten times a ninety-gun ship.
"At first I could not make out what he meant — but soon a hideous thought flashed upon me. I dragged my watch from its fob — it was not going. I glanced at its face by the moonlight, and then burst into tears as I flung it far away into the ocean. It had run down at seven o'clock! We were behind the time of the slack, and the whirl of the Ström was in full fury!
"When a boat is well built, properly trimmed, and not deep laden, the waves in a strong gale, when she is going large, seem always to slip from beneath her — which appears very strange to a landsman — and this is what is called riding, in sea phrase. Well, so far we had ridden the swells very cleverly; but presently a gigantic sea happened to take us right under the counter, and bore us with it as it rose — up — up — as if into the sky. I would not have believed that any wave could rise so high. And then down we came with a sweep, a slide, and a plunge, that made me feel sick and dizzy, as if I was falling from some lofty mountain-top in a dream. But while we were up I had thrown a quick glance around — and that one glance was all sufficient. I saw our exact position in an instant. The Moskoe-ström whirlpool was about a quarter of a mile dead ahead — but no more like the every-day Moskoe-ström, than a mill-race is like the whirl as you now see it. If I had not known where we were, and what we had to expect, I should not have recognised the place at all. As it was, I involuntarily closed my eyes in horror. The lids clenched themselves together as if in a spasm.
"It could not have been more than two minutes afterward until we suddenly felt the waves subside, and were enveloped in a wilderness of foam. The [page 239:] boat made a sharp half turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt. At the same moment the roaring noise of the water was completely drowned in a kind of shrill shriek — such a sound as you might imagine given out by the waste-pipes of many thousand steam-vessels, letting off their steam all together. We were now in the belt of surf that always surrounds the whirl, and I thought of course that another moment would plunge us into the abyss — down which we could only see indistinctly on account of the amazing velocity with which we were borne along. The boat did not seem to sink into the water at all, but to skim like an air-bubble upon the surface of the surge. Her starboard side was next the whirl, and on the larboard arose the world of ocean we had left. It stood like a huge writhing wall between us and the horizon.
"There was another circumstance which tended to restore my self-possession; and this was the cessation of the wind, which could not reach us in our present situation — for, as you saw yourself, the belt of surf is considerably lower than the general bed of the ocean, and this latter now towered above us, a high, black, mountainous ridge. If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by the wind and spray together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection. But we were now, in a great measure, rid of these annoyances — just us death-condemned felons in prison are allowed petty indulgences, forbidden them while their doom is yet uncertain.
"How often we made the circuit of the belt it is impossible to say. We careered round and round for perhaps an hour, flying rather than floating, getting gradually more and more into the middle of the surge, and then nearer and nearer to its horrible inner edge. All this time I had never let go of the ring-bolt. My brother was at the stern, holding on to a small empty water-cask which had been securely [column 2:] lashed aft under the coop of the counter, and was the only thing on deck that had not been swept overboard when the gale first took us. As we approached the brink of the pit he let go his hold upon this, and made for the ring, from which, in the agony of his terror, he endeavored to force my hands, as it was not large enough to afford us both a secure grasp. I never felt deeper grief than when I saw him attempt this act — although I knew he was a madman when he did it — a raving maniac through sheer fright. I did not care, however, to contest the point with him. I knew it could make no difference whether either of us held on at all; so I let him have the bolt, and went, myself, astern to the cask. This there was no great difficulty in doing; for the smack flew round steadily enough, and upon an even keel — only swaying to and fro, with the immense sweeps and swelters of the whirl. Scarcely had I secured myself in my new position, when we gave a wild lurch to starboard, and rushed headlong into the abyss. I muttered a hurried prayer to God, and thought all was over.
"As I felt the sickening sweep of the descent, I had instinctively tightened my hold upon the barrel, and closed my eyes. For some seconds I dared not open them — while I expected instant destruction, and wondered that I was not already in my death-struggles with the water. But moment after moment elapsed. I still lived. The sense of falling had ceased; and the motion of the vessel seemed much as it had been before, while in the belt of foam, with the exception that she now lay more along. I took courage, and looked once again upon the scene.
"Never shall I forget the sensations of awe, horror, and admiration with which I gazed about me. The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic, midway down, upon the interior surface of a funnel prodigious in circumference, immeasurable in depth, and whose perfectly smooth sides might have been mistaken for ebony, but for the bewildering rapidity with which they spun around, and for the gleaming and ghastly radiance they shot forth, as the rays of the full moon, from that circular rift amid the clouds which I have already described, streamed in a flood of golden glory along the black walls, and far away down into the inmost recesses of the abyss.
"The rays of the moon seemed to search the [page 240:] very bottom of the profound gulf; but still I could make out nothing distinctly, on account of a thick mist in which everything there was enveloped, and over which there hung a magnificent rainbow, like that narrow and tottering bridge which Mussulmen say is the only pathway between Time and Eternity. This mist, or spray, was no doubt occasioned by the clashing of the great walls of the funnel, as they all met together at the bottom — but the yell that went up to the Heavens from out of that mist, I will not attempt to describe.
"Our first slide into the abyss itself, from the belt of foam above, had carried us a great distance down the slope; but our farther descent was by no means proportionate. Round and round we swept — not with any uniform movement — but in dizzying swings and jerks, that sent us sometimes only a few hundred yards — sometimes nearly the complete circuit of the whirl. Our progress downward, at each revolution, was very perceptible, but slow.
"Looking about me upon the wide waste of liquid ebony on which we were thus borne, I perceived that our boat was not the only object in the embrace of the whirl. Both above and below us were visible fragments of vessels, large masses of building timber and trunks of trees, with many smaller articles, such as pieces of house furniture, broken boxes, barrels and staves. I have already described the unnatural curiosity which had taken the place of my original terrors. It appeared to grow upon me as I drew nearer and nearer to my dreadful doom. I now began to watch, with a strange interest, the numerous things that floated in our company. I must have been delirious — for I even sought amusement in speculating upon the relative velocities of their several descents toward the foam below. "[[']]This fir tree,"[[']] I found myself at one time saying, "[[']]will certainly be the next thing that takes the awful plunge and disappears,"[[']] — and then I was disappointed to find that the wreck of a Dutch merchant ship overtook it and went down before. At length, after making several guesses of this nature, and being deceived in all — this fact — the fact of my invariable miscalculation — set me upon a train of reflection that made my limbs again tremble, and my heart beat heavily once more.
"It was not a new terror that thus affected me — but the dawn of a more exciting hope. This hope arose partly from memory, and partly from present observation. I called to mind the great variety of buoyant matter that strewed the coast of Lofoden, having been absorbed and then thrown forth by the Moskoe-ström. By far the greater number of the articles were shattered in the most extraordinary way — so chafed and roughened as to have the appearance of being stuck full of splinters — but then I distinctly recollected that there were some of them which were not disfigured at all. Now I could not account for this difference except by supposing that the roughened fragments were the only ones which had been completely absorbed — that the others had entered the whirl at so late a period of the tide, or, for some reason, had descended so slowly after entering, that they did not reach the bottom before the turn of the flood came, or of the ebb, as the case might be. I conceived it possible, in either [column 2:] instance, that they might thus be whirled up again to the level of the ocean, without undergoing the fate of those which had been drawn in more early, or absorbed more rapidly. I made, also, three important observations. The first was, that, as a general rule, the larger the bodies were, the more rapid their descent — the second, that, between two masses of equal extent, the one spherical, and the other of any other shape, the superiority in speed of descent was with the sphere — the third, that, between two masses of equal size, the one cylindrical, and the other of any other shape, the cylinder was absorbed the more slowly. Since my escape, I have had several conversations on this subject with an old school-master of the district; and it was from him that I learned the use of the words 'cylinder' and'sphere.' He explained to me — although I have forgotten the explanation — how what I observed was, in fact, the natural consequence of the forms of the floating fragments — and showed me how it happened that a cylinder, swimming in a vortex, offered more resistance to its suction, and was drawn in with greater difficulty than an equally bulky body, of any form whatever.
"There was one startling circumstance which went a great way in enforcing these observations, and rendering me anxious to turn them to account, and this was that, at every revolution, we passed something like a barrel, or else the yard or the mast of a vessel, while many of these things, which had been on our level when I first opened my eyes upon the wonders of the whirlpool, were now high up above us, and seemed to have moved but little from their original station. I no longer hesitated what to do. I resolved to lash myself securely to the water-cask upon which I now held, to cut it loose from the counter, and to throw myself with it into the water. I attracted my brother's attention by signs, pointed to the floating barrels that came near us, and did everything in my power to make him understand what I was about to do. I thought at length that he comprehended my design — but, whether this was the case or not, he shook his head despairingly, and refused to move from his station by the ring-bolt. It was impossible to reach him; the emergency admitted of no delay; and so, with a bitter struggle, I resigned him to his fate, fastened myself to the cask by means of the lashings which secured it to the counter, and precipitated myself with it into the sea, without another moment's hesitation.


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Major Thomas Benton Jr. is a Suffolk native, Vietnam Veteran, self-named vagabond, artist and writer who published four books during the COVID-19 shutdown. (submitted photo)
Suffolk author passes on wisdom
By Rachel Wartian
Published 10:15 pm Wednesday, December 30, 2020
A former Suffolk resident recounts his experiences to assist others who are also trying to navigate life in his books.
Major Thomas Benton Jr. is a Suffolk native who published four new books this year. He took advantage of his new free time due to the COVID-19 shutdown to comb through journals and articles he had written over the years to turn into books.
After serving in Vietnam for 13 months as part of the U.S. Marine Corps, Benton struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder. He has found that his best way to cope is through the arts.
"Writing and painting are cathartic to me," said Benton. "A great way to get things out is by getting them on paper or canvas. This has always helped me. As bad as this year has been, I have taken advantage of this extra time and made the most out of it."
The first book he published this year is "Humor in the Writings of Henry David Thoreau." After serving three years in the Marines, Benton received his master's degree in American literature from the University of Maine with his thesis about Henry David Thoreau.
"I have followed him all my life, and his words have been very influential to me," said Benton. "I kept hearing people say, 'Oh, he's so boring and has no humor; how can you read that?' I was like, wait, he has a lot of humor. I went through his top four books and his essays and journals and pulled out his sarcasm and wit for people to see. I have gotten a nice response."
His second book, "Pieces of my Puzzle, Selected Writings from a Reputable Vagabond," contains personal journal entries, published and unpublished articles, and other personal memories pieced together in one place. Similarly, his third book, "You Know You Live in Key West When…200 Humorous Sayings about Key West," puts together personal memories from the decade he spent living in the Florida Keys.
Lastly, "Major Morsels, 550 One-Line Quotes of a Lifetime" is a lifetime collection of quotes Benton has collected over the years. In this book, much like the others, Benton wants to help others by relaying the knowledge he has learned over the years.
"My primary desire is to spread the word about these books in the hope that others who suffer or suffered from PTSD can learn from my experiences," said Benton. "It's surely not the money. Any profits that I may earn from these books will be donated to the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys, where I enjoyed an extremely positive and amazing 10-year connection that changed my life for the better. The encounters with dolphins were incredible."
Benton is a graduate of Suffolk High School, class of 1960, and remembers that if the wind blew from one direction, he could smell the peanuts from Planters. However, if it blew from the other direction, he could smell International Paper in Franklin.
Today, Benton no longer lives in Suffolk but Ajijic, Mexico. Being in Vietnam trained him that staying in one place for too long is dangerous, he says, so he frequently moves around. He has lived in Key West, New Mexico, the Virgin Islands, Maine, Tennessee and Massachusetts.
To buy one of the four new books from this year, search for "Major T. Benton" on Amazon.
Links help others for holidays
Members of the Suffolk (VA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated have been helping others in a big way this holiday... read more

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Woodstock 50 plans roll on; court nixes cancellation bid
Jennifer Peltz / The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The Woodstock 50 festival is back on after a court rebuffed an ex-investor's effort to cancel the anniversary extravaganza — but organizers will have to do without some $18 million, at least for now.
Manhattan judge Barry Ostrager ruled Wednesday that the festival's former chief backer, Amplifi Live, couldn't singlehandedly call off the August show but also doesn't have to put the $18 million back into it. The money dispute and other issues are poised for arbitration.
Organizers celebrated the ruling, which came after dueling claims about whether the festival was on or off.
"We have always relied on the truth and have never lost faith that the festival would take place," said Michael Lang, one of Woodstock 50's organizers and a promoter of the original 1969 Woodstock concert.
Amplifi, meanwhile, said it felt vindicated by the judge's ruling on the $18 million.
"The court did not rule that Amplifi Live's assumption of control over the festival was improper," the company noted in a statement, adding that it doesn't plan to invest further in Woodstock 50 because of issues including "the compressed timeframe and multiple health and safety concerns."
The event is planned for Aug. 16-18 in Watkins Glen, New York, and is billed as a "once-in-a-lifetime" tribute to the 1969 concert that became a defining moment in pop music and a cultural touchstone.
Saying organizers had made a mess of planning, Amplifi cited safety concerns and announced April 29 that it was cancelling the three-day concert.
The organizers' group, Woodstock 50 LLC, retorted that Amplifi was undermining the show — which was still a go — and had snatched $18 million from the festival's bank account. Amplifi, an arm of Japan-based marketing firm Dentsu, said it just reclaimed what was left of the $49 million it put in.
After a hearing this week, the judge said Wednesday that Amplifi presented "convincing testimony" that it was trying to stem its losses from a festival that was facing significant hurdles with just three months to go.
While over 80 acts have been booked, production company Superfly dropped out this month after tangling with organizers over how many people the Watkins Glen International racetrack could accommodate. Organizers envisioned 150,000, but Superfly said 65,000 was the "safe and appropriate capacity."
Ticket sales have been delayed, permits are still in the works and major venue improvements — including roads and a temporary water system — need to be made, according to court documents and testimony.
"You're basically creating a city for three to five days," Peter Office, a music festival planner who works with Amplifi Live, testified at the hearing.
The judge said arbitration might ultimately determine that Amplifi was within its rights to take control of the festival, but ruled the investor "does not have the right to unilaterally cancel the festival" under its contract with Woodstock 50 LLC.
The organizers have said they're working to line up a new production company and source of financing.
With Jay-Z, Dead & Company and the Killers as headliners, the lineup includes some original Woodstock veterans, such as Santana and John Fogerty. But the show will also feature artists from newer generations, like the Raconteurs, Chance the Rapper and Miley Cyrus.
A separate anniversary show is planned on the same dates at the site of the original Woodstock concert, now run by The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, New York. Performers expected there include Ringo Starr and Santana.
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I have purchased a 9-cell battery for 1 Dell XPS 15 L502X. But do not know why that was the only use battery non-rechargeable , the machine is off continuously. The battery must be mounted to the new boot. But go in windows remain disabled. Do not know if it was due to counterfeit or battery problems, please just teaching people to please.
I bought a DELL 6-cell battery for my DELL XPS 15 l502x laptop. I need to know if this is an authentic one. Can you please check and tell me?
PPID (Dell Part Piece Identification) or DP/N printed on it is 0W3Y7C.
The battery part# W3Y7C is a 6 cell battery designed for the XPS 502x.
However, the authenticity of the battery depends on the reseller you purchased the battery from. It could be a new battery or a refurbished. Only the reseller can furnish this detail.
I am going to buy new dell xps laptop for my Dell xps L502x early 2011 15 inch laptop which came with 6 cell battery.
My battery light is flashing four times orange then once white. It's showing "54% available (plugged in, not charging)". When I remove the power supply the light keeps flashing and the computer enters power save mode like normal.
I thought my issue was with the batter so I bought a new one. I switched them out and the battery light stays solid white and shows "63% available (plugged in, charging), but I left it for four hours and didn't charge at all. And on this battery whenever I remove the power supply the computer immediately dies.
What is my issue and how do I fix it?
Please update the BIOS to the latest version from our Dell Support Site.
Check in BIOS if the adapter or battery is recognized.
Check if the light on the adapter stays on.
Hi just logged onto Dell website and noticed under "drivers & downloads" there is a bunch of downloads should I download and install them.
Update BIOS and drivers. Grab GPU drivers directly from nvidia or intel or amd.
I have a dell xps L502X service tag no: <Service tag removed>, my hard drive has crashed. So I want to upgrade my hard drive to ssd. But even after contacting service centre and dell exclusive store no one could exactly tell me which ssd will fit into my laptop. Can anyone tell me which ssd will fit into my laptop and which is the best one?
Any standard 2.5" SATA SSD will work. You may need a shim to install an SSD, as they're all 7 mm or slimmer, while your system is designed for a 9.5 mm hard drive. Some drive kits come with these; if yours doesn't, they're only a couple of dollars.
Hello everyone,I am aware of an ongoing issue with the webcam for the Dell XPS L502x models. Usually if the webcam malfunctions, a power cycle will typically do the trick to get the webcam to function. However, my issue is software/driver related.
One day, I left my laptop sitting on my desk, and Windows decides to install it's own generic webcam driver. By the time I got back the Windows generic driver was installed, not the Dell Quanta h.264 driver. Thus, I updated the driver to use the original driver. In the device manager, it states that the driver is working fine, but whenever I use Skype or Dell Webcam Central, it says there is a program that is using the webcam thus it cannot function. I doubled check for any processes and also use a program named "Process Explorer" and found nothing.
I also ran Malwarebytes, CCleaner to make sure there were no suspicious activity going and found nothing.
If anyone knows if there is a solution, that would be great.
After many years of my webcam not working, I got my webcam to work again by replacing the webcam module with a replacement I got from eBay. Everything is working as it is before.
In summary, buy a OEM replacement of the Dell L502x webcam.
I need to buy new Subwoofer for my laptop Dell XPS L502x. CAn any one suggest me from where I can buy this in India.
Thank you for your message.You can contact India phone support spares team on 1800-425-4026 / 080-2510-8026 Mon – Fri, 9 AM – 7 PM or reach out to the nearest service. Click on this link http://dell.to/2gUGHEA to find the nearest service center.
Q: Dell XPS 15 L502X - Overheating?
I am the owner of an XPS 15, bought in December 2011, and I am at something of an impasse. For the last year I have been close to the end of my tether with this device. It started and continued with a weird audio/video freeze. At the beginning it was 10 minutes into any game, later that dropped to the start menu of even games from 1997. Performance was horrible and the machine was slow at even the most menial of tasks, like using the internet.
In response, I removed the Nvidia Geforce Experience and re-installed the original proprietary drivers for my GT 540m, I also cleaned the fan with a healthy blast of canned air and bought a notebook cooling stand which the machine now lives on. I also under-clocked the CPU to allow use of Turbo mode. With these measures, I can play games from around 2005 on middling settings. Compared to before, when I could run Skyrim on high, this is rather uninspiring.
The problem still occurs, but requires a little more time. What is intriguing however, is that when it does, the machine itself doesn't really feel all that hot, so I'm at a loss as to what the real issue could be. I'm aware that the relative age of the machine, along with the notoriously poor cooling efficiency of my particular model are definitely partly to blame, however I can't help but feel that there is something more that is holding the machine back.
I would appreciate any help that is offered, I'm rather desperate.
A:Dell XPS 15 L502X - Overheating?
When I opened it up, apart from the thermal paste on the cpu (i7-2630QM) and gpu (Nvidia GT-540 2gb), there were several white pads, and one grey pad. The grey pad was above the motherboard HM67 chip. This is the first time I ever saw a heat sink with thermal pad needed to cool down the motherboard. Or am I missing something? And what are all these small white pads? They seem to be covering different chips on the motherboard. Does anyone know the width of these white pads, and grey pads? Are all of these thermal pads to conduct heat? Or some are meant to block heat? I think the white ones are meant to block heat, but I may be wrong.
HDD of my Dell XPS 15 L502x is failing. I want to upgrade the HDD and also want to install an SSD by removing optical drive.
Can someone please confirm the maximum capacities supported by the laptop.
The drive itself comes in a 2.5-inch form factor.
I was using my Dell XPS 15 l502x when it turned off (didn't shut down just turned off instantly) and now it won't power on.
Battery shows full power but i get nothing when pressing the power button and it has now been off for 1 hour.
I have tried battery in + AC, battery in alone, no battery + AC and none of it works.
When the AC power is connected the charging light does not come on either.
No indication as to what the issue is, it wasn't hot, there wasn't a burning smell, had only been on for ten minutes, had a full battery, was AC connected and the AC adaptor is fine (it has the normal blue glowing light).
The issue was that the Nvidia chip became dry ( that's what they said ) and they had to recondition it. Cost me around 1000 INR ( around $17 ).
Okay, so I have a Dell XPS L502X system with 4 GB RAM, Windows 7 64 bit OS.
I've had Blue Screen issues for quite some time. Usually, the problem occurred once a month, when I'd close the lid of the laptop and the system automatically shut down... on restarting, it'd tell me that windows had shut down unexpectedly... I was told that my Synaptics touchpad driver was out of date and this is why this was happening. So I updated the driver yet the problem persisted... Did a system restore, yet it didn't stop.
for any window updates you might need.
press F8 to select advanced startup options, and then select safe mode.
Q: DELL XPS L502X worned out?
I have a 7 years old dell XPS L502x. it was a great laptop and it still works which, I guess, is pretty good for a laptop. But right now, it has become incredibly slow and is running quite hot. I have ran some hardware failure tests but nothing came up. Then I formatted the harddrive and installed a fresh windows but the system is still lagging. could it be that my laptop (or parts of it) is just dying? The battery is, that is for sure. it only charges till 50% or so. maybe someone has some advice for me, like put it in the oven or freezer or install driver in a special order.
I want to upgrade my Dell Xps L502x with a SSD.
I want to replace my HDD with a SSD unit of at least 250 GB like the Samsung 750Evo 250BG SATA-III 2.5 inch. I don't know if it is compatible with the slots from my motherboard. I will use de SSD to run my OS and move the HDD in the place of the Optical Drive.
Q: Dell XPS 15 (L502X) DVD-R Drive.
Hi, I'm looking for a new "Dell XPS 15 (L502X) DVD-R Drive" and I'm wondering where the best place is to buy one I'm based in the UK if that helps.
A:Dell XPS 15 (L502X) DVD-R Drive.
Amazon sells in the U.K., so you may be able to buy a replacement disc drive there.
Q: Dell XPS L502x sound problem.
I have a nasty problem with my Dell L502X. Some time ago I gave it to a technician to mount an SSD in place of the mechanic disk, and the problem began.
The laptop returned to me with the fan running nearly at full speed, and the led/buttons at the top, the ones near to the wifi leds not turning on, and not working at all.
All of these did not solve the problem. What could be the solution? I'm thinking that the led bar (bettere: the little card that manages it) causes this issue, but how could it be possible? Any idea? I can't believe it's SSD's fault.
Just joined because I saw so many helpful posts from people in this community. I thought I might have some luck narrowing out a problem on my son's laptop. He has had it quite some time now (I wanna say 2.5-3 years) and it has always run well for him. Recently, he has been experiencing instant system shutdowns at completely random intervals. I have downloaded temperature reporting software to his system and watched it closely and it appears to have no bearing on when it decides to shut down. any thoughts ?
I have been getting BSOD's from Driver_Power_State_Failure over the past couple of days.
More often than not it occurs when browsing (particularly youtube). The system will hang and sometimes recover (loading what I was trying to load) but if not I get the BSOD with the error above. Strangely it doesn't seem to happen whenever I am playing games, even online ones. My specs are below and I have attached the 2 files asked of me in the attachments.
There's a copy protection program on your system that dates from 2004 (the driver lirsgt.sys is the one from 2004). It's probably not compatible with Windows 7 and must be uninstalled. It may have been when you installed an older movie or viewer on your system.
I can't tell for sure, but if you have more than one antivirus or firewall installed - please remove all but one.
Q: Dell XPS 15 L502X upgrade experience?
So is anybody out there who has upgraded to windows 10? Are you facing any driver issues or any other issues? Is there anything else that I should be aware of before proceeding with my upgrade?
A:Dell XPS 15 L502X upgrade experience?
I've upgraded 8 systems to Windows 10. Seven of them Dell desktops and laptops. Some up to 6 years old. Some running Windows 7 Home or Pro, some running Windows 8.1 core.
Windows 7 and 8.1 drivers usually work in Windows 10. If there are any yellow flags in the Device Manager after installing Windows 10, loading a Windows 7 or 8.1 driver from the Dell drivers page for that model fixed it.
I have attached the required zip file.
I would really appreciate any help you guys can offer.
So, My Dell XPS L502x's integrated webcam kept connecting and disconnecting as my slightly loose and unhinged monitor opened and closed. So, in order to prevent any problems, I disabled my webcam. I didn't realise it also disables mic and prevents an external mic from connecting either. Now, I can't access my webcam as it's not listed in Device Manager so I know it's disabled but I can't re-enable it again since it's not listed.I tried booting from BIOS but I'm not sure there was a webcam option (maybe I wasn't looking in the right place?)I'm thinking it's a connection problem so I was thinking of taking the bezel off to make sure everything is okay.I wanted to know whether it's necessary to go through the entire process of disconnecting the back and taking out the I/O devices etc? Can't I just remove the battery and remove the bezel?Thanks!
Does the webcam show up under Imaging devices in device manager? If it does not, then the hardware itself is not being detected.
You have mentioned that the display is loose. I would suspect the webcam cable might be loose and hence it is not being detected.
Swivel the LCD and check if the webcam gets detected.
The mic and camera are part of the same assembly module.
If the bezel is loose, then I would not suggest you to open the chassis as the display could come loose. You might end up replacing the entire LCD assembly.
If you are new to opening the chassis, I recommend visiting a local tech to get it checked.
If you are comfortable in opening the chassis - download the service manual here - http://dell.to/2bdUZiR and reseat the webcam cable and check.
I have a dell xps 15 ( l502x) bought 4.5 years back. I wish to upgrade the laptop in whichever way possible. Here is my current specs : i7 processor, 6 GB RAM, NVidia 525M graphics card, Network card Intel wireless N1030, 500GB HDD ( upgraded to 1TB ).
What all can I upgrade from this specs? HDD is already upgraded, next I will be upgrading the network card, as my system doesnt support 802.11ac. I am planning to upgrade it with Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260.
what else can be changed? is motherboard upgrade required to improve the system performance? although the system is handling the day to day applications with occasional slowdown of whole system. Yesterday the system slowed down to a state where audio was breaking.
Please let me know what all can be done.
Crucial states (and guarantees, if you buy via its memory configurator) 16 G.
The hard drive has failed - you need a new, 2.5" SATA notebook drive.
I recently bought a dell XPS L502x, I also had the same problem with the fan speeding up to full speed for a few seconds, then off again, then on again, then off again. I am using windows 7 home premium. This is only a issue on Windows, Ubuntu seems to work without any problems.
I have figured out a simple fix, seems to have worked so far and my fan just stays on at a slower constant speed. My CPU temps have stayed constant and within range.
3. Under the power setting you are using (Balanced in my case), click on `Change plan settings`.
5. Scroll down to `Processor Power Management` > `System Cooling Policy` (Expand them both to view the options).
6. Under `System Cooling Policy` > Change `On Battery` & `Plugged In` to `Passive`.
and... Tada!....The settings should take effect immediately, if they don't, a reboot should do it.
That's It! The constant fan ramping up and down will be fixed, and will just stay at a constant speed now!!
Hope this helps someone, cos it dam well annoyed me, I mean I bought a £750 laptop, Dell could have at least configured it properly to reduce wear and tear on the laptop.
No answer required, it has already been posted. Unless you have a better solution, id love to hear it. Thanks!
My hard drive died in my XPS L502x. So i put a new SSD in. However, i accidentally unplugged most of my WLAN cables. For some reason my laptop has two cards in this area an loads of wires (the other card is by AVer Media), all of the online tutorials have one card and two wires. Because of this i do not know how to reconfigure this area and get wifi back on my computer.
I can post pictures if need be.
I have XPS L502X and I have only 1 USB working, no other one, HDMI not working and the SD card reader not working too.
And my keyboard is also missy..
I tried to find a new motherboard replacement but I couldn't find one with everything already installed with it - I mean the USBs, HDMI, and the card reader - to buy.
And a new keyboard with Arabic letters on it.
This system is now old enough that rather than replace the mainboard, you may want to consider either buying a complete used system (perhaps newer than this one) or a new system altogether. If you add the cost of a mainboard and keyboard alone, you'll likely find it approaches or exceeds the cost of a complete, used system.
A board + keyboard will run you $200-300 depending on the video type -- complete used systems for this model run $250-350 depending on condition and configuration -- and newer systems not much more.
I've been reading a lot that this laptop is prone to overheating and fan issues. I think I have the same problem, but it is more complicated for me, as I run Ubuntu 13.04 and not Windows, so pretty much no support for Graphics from Dell or NvIdia (I had issues installing the drivers). Anyway, my laptop isn't under much load, RAM usage down to minimum and same goes for CPU. My fan keeps running at an extremely high speed, but to no avail. I can monitor that my CPU is running at close to 100 C which is pretty crazy for me. The other thing is that I am living in Germany and not in the US (don't speak much German). In this case, what sort of action would you be suggesting to me?One additional thing, my laptop is no longer under warranty (it's now close to 2 years old), though it always had these fan issues which became worse in recent days.
I have Dell XPS L502X laptop purchased in Oct 11 which came pre-installed with Win7. Last year i upgraded it to Win 8.1 Pro OS.
Post that, I'm having issues with the JBL system. Thoguh the Front speakers are working perfectly, the JBL subwoofer on the back are not working. I have installed the Realtek HD Audio driver (with Waves Maxxaudio) but couldn't get the Soundblaster driver for Win 8.1 for this model.
Last year i upgraded it to Win 8.1 Pro OS.
Post that, I'm having issues with the JBL system. Thoguh the Front speakers are working perfectly, the JBL subwoofer on the back are not working.
Hello. If the woofer worked for a while after installing Win8.1, but then stopped working, it could be hardware failure. The woofer was prone to failure on that model. The solution would be to replace the woofer.
1. Download and save the driver to your desktop or any convenient location on the hard drive. 2. Double click on the new folder to extract (unzip) the driver files.3. The extractor wizard will create a new folder for the driver files. It will be at "c:\dell\drivers\xxxxxx". Write down the exact location that the wizard creates. 4. If the driver begins to install automatically, halt (cancel) the installation.5. Browse to the driver files on the hard drive (the location you wrote down).6. Find the "setup.exe" file.7. Right click on setup.exe to open the context menu.8. Select the Properties.9. Select the Compatibility tab.10. Check the box "run this program in compatibility mode for"... Win8.
I am in process of upgrading my system to latest specification, whichever it can support. I wish to add a network adapter which supports 802.11ac. What is the best possible network adapter card that I can fit to this over 4 year old system?
I found about Intel AC 7260 card series while searching in google. But I did not find any particular model discussed anywhere.
Would someone please mention the model numbers for this or other card series launched after this series, which might be compatible with L502X chipset.
So, i'm trying to install Dell's Dpm on my xps so if i can better manage my battery's life span, but I keep getting that the software is not compatible with my laptop.
At the donwload page, it states it supports xps brands. So I'm confused. Any help on this?
Property(C): NotDellSystem = The target system can not be identified as a Dell Power Manager supported system. The installation will exit.
MSI (c) (58:20) [15:44:15:123]: Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: Dell Power Manager. Product Version: 1.1.0. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Dell Inc.. Installation success or error status: 1603.
Same issue with an XPS 15 L521X running Windows 10! I'm disappointed not to see any replies to this post since 2014.
I have a dell xps 15 L502X laptop. I have mostly upgraded the hard drive, network card, RAM. This works fine for me even after 6 years. I wish to improve its audio quality now. If that works out fine, I can delay buying another laptop for at least 2-3 years.
What I was thinking was buying a USB DAC/ USB sound card to improve the audio. Or would it be better if I buy some audio enhancing software like DFX. I already bought Creative Sound Blaster XFi software, but its useless. It does enhance the sound but it has lots of issues with windows. Mostly it stops working with windows audio controls.
So, I am not looking towards USB DAC/ USB sound card as the solution. Would it be a better option? What are the best ones in budget of $75? I am looking for option available in India, but I am open to purchasing internationally also if there is some good options available.
Which windows operating system is on the laptop?
Improve the sound of the laptop's own internal speakers, or external? If external, what is your setup -- stereo hi fi, powered speakers, surround sound system, or what?
I reinstalled the firmware PLDS DS-6E2SH 12.7 Tray BD-Combo Firmware Update(SE2_CD11.zip ) from Dell support site but this did not help.
The only way I can get it to work is by uninstalling the device, rebooting and when it starts up again, it reinstalls the driver and the drive works. A thing to note is that this also does not work everytime.
I have a Dell XPS L502x with the Nvidia Geforce GT 540M. I first noticed an issue when installed windows 10. After reading through the internet i came to conclusion that windows 10 was the culprit so it downgraded to windows 7 which it was before. But still I have noticed that the Device Manager shows the yellow triangle for my Nvidia Geforce GT 540M.
It shows Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43) as the device status. I have tried multiple versions of the driver both from Dell and Nvidia. Nothing makes the video card work.
I am not a novice but cannot find any solutions to the issue. I have used the Nvidia drivers and done a clean install of the newer drivers. I have tried uninstalling the hardware and installing again. I have tried to use the Nvidia control panel but it will not start because there is no display attached to the graphics card.
If anyone has any experience with this issue, the help would be appreciated.
I have a problem. Currently I am using a 7200 rpm hard drive and I recently bought a SSD. I want to install windows into the SSD but before I do that I read that I have to remove the original HDD during installation. However, there is a stripped screw stopping me from removing the HDD. What are some options for me?
Have you tried using a needle-nosed pliers with extreme patience, steady hand and dynamic tension?
So I my XPS came with Windows 7 pre-installed as per usual, however, my sister had recently purchased Windows 8 pro and gave it to me. I upgraded, willing to try it out, however, I was not told that she had already used the product key to activate it so I am stuck with an inactive Windows 8. I am trying to do a factory image restore but none of the options I have looked up are options available to me.
Like I said I am currently running windows 8 but want to run a Dell Factory Image Restore so it reverts back to its original Windows 7 OS. I have followed the instructions in my XPS setup guide, ran it and nothing finding out later that since its windows 8 it does not apply. I have tried the windows 8 reset but it does not work. I have run the same process for windows 8, but my laptop does not have the backup and recovery option, it still runs the dell datasafe local backup, which also does not allow me to run a factory image restore for some reason. Can someone help me PLEASE!!! This is frustrating beyond belief. Just want to go back to windows 7 but the factory image restore is not showing up as an option. How do I get there? and How do I revert back to Windows 7?
You will need to clean install. Dell Backup and Recovery/Dell DataSafe usually don't work after system partitions are changed or an OS has been manually installed/upgraded.


Travel to and from school has become the focus of a government initiative aimed at cutting traffic congestion, reducing pollution and encouraging pupils to take regular exercise by walking or cycling. Every school is required to produce its own Travel Plan, and, to speed up this process for the 420 schools in Derbyshire, the County Council's Road Safety Team is now using an AutoData forms processing system from Kendata Peripherals.
Each school's travel plan is based on the results of a travel survey, which provides detailed information about how pupils get to school and back home again. In Derbyshire, the processing and analysis of the travel survey questionnaires is carried out centrally by the Road Safety Team.
"We used to enter all the data manually," said Kevin Senior, School Travel Plan Co-ordinator for Derbyshire County Council, "but as the work built up, we found that it was taking too long to get the results back to the schools. So we decided that some sort of automated data entry would be preferable."
At that time, the Council's Integrated Transport Group Data Team was already successfully using an AutoData forms processing system for a variety of traffic monitoring and car park surveys, and soon the Road Safety Team was put in touch with the system's supplier - Kendata Peripherals.
A high-speed A3 scanner was duly installed in the Road Safety Team's office, together with the latest AutoData Scannable Office forms-processing software. In addition, Kendata took the team's existing questionnaire and redesigned it for use in the scanner-based system.
The resultant four-page A4 form features a standard centre spread, with the front and back pages custom overprinted for each school. As well as tick boxes, the form includes handprint recognition fields, free text entry boxes and each school's DfES identification number as a barcode.
According to Kevin Senior, the printing arrangement with Kendata works very smoothly: "We just send them the name of the school and the quantity of forms required, and within two weeks they arrive."
The forms are then distributed to schools, filled in and returned to the Road Safety Team for scanning. Information from the forms is automatically entered into a database, analysed and the results presented in a way that can be readily understood by schools' travel-plan working groups, which usually consist of representatives from governors, staff, parents and pupils.
"About 130 Derbyshire schools already have travel plans or are going through the process at the moment," added Kevin Senior. "With the AutoData system, we can now provide the quickest possible turnaround for schools' travel surveys, so we are confident that we'll meet the government's target of having all travel plans in place by 2010."


My Top 4 Eyeshadow Crayons!
A recent favourite beauty product of mine has been Eyeshadow Crayons. They are undoubtedly the most fool proof way of achieving gorgeous colour on eyelids, you just swipe and go and they are blendable with each other and with eyeshadows too. You can add definition to the lash line, or blend out over the lid, with fingers or a dense brush – and the best part is that they are so easy to master that even I can figure out how to create the perfect smokey eye with them!
I find crayons to be much longer lasting than shadows and the dainty size of them make them ideal for popping in travel beauty bags or in your gym bag. As well as some from luxe brands, I've been trying some drug store alternatives and have to say that the cheaper options have 'wowed' me just as much as the more pricey crayons.
For the beauty of their colour options, the Elizabeth Arden Cream Eye Shadow Stylos have won my heart for the best luxe eyeshadow crayons, the pearly shades include this pink 'freshwater pearl' shade which gives a beautiful bright sheen to eyelids and I've also been using it to smudge over the lower lash line to give a really bright 'awake' kind of look. For a bolder eye look, their bronze pearl style is stunning for hazel eyes – I have only recently discovered bronzey hues on my eyes and it's quickly taken over as my favourite evening eye look.
Another luxe option to be highly commended is the Laura Mercier Caviar Stick – I had this in my makeup bag for over a year and never really experimented with it until recently, but have been adding this in to a smokey eye look. It's got super lasting power and doesn't crease up even after hours of wear.
On the high street, the Bourjois Colourband sticks have impressed me very very much indeed! Firstly, the price. at £5.99 they're an absolute bargain, so much so that it took all my willpower not to stock up on all 6 shades, They are designed like a chunky eyeliner (only negative being that they have to be sharpened) but the variety of shades has to be the most people-pleasing selection of all the high street offerings. I chose shades similar to my Arden picks, a pink and a bronzey shade, both of which create a subtle shimmering wash of colour and stay put just as long.
You have to be speedy when applying as they dry and set in a way that shadow doesn't, but as long as you complete one eye at a time, you should be safe.
Another budget favourite is the KIKO eyeshadow crayon – I picked this one up in my Glossybox and have been so impressed with the gorgeous colour payoff. It is less than £6 to buy but has all the characteristics of a more expensive eye crayon – beautiful colour, creamy consistency, long lasting and its roll up instead of being in a sharpenable pencil!
Have you tried any eyeshadow crayons?


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Das Kraftwerk General San Martín () ist ein Wasserkraftwerk in der Provinz Mendoza, Argentinien. Es liegt etwa 5 km westlich der Stadt Luján de Cuyo an einem Kanal, der ungefähr einen Kilometer westlich des Kraftwerks vom Río Mendoza abzweigt. Ungefähr 20 km westlich des Kraftwerks liegt die Talsperre Potrerillos.

Das Kraftwerk wurde 1950 in Betrieb genommen. Die installierte Leistung des Kraftwerks beträgt 6 (bzw. 6,48) MW. Die durchschnittliche Jahreserzeugung liegt bei 22 GWh. Die 3 Kaplan-Turbinen leisten jede maximal 2 MW und die Generatoren jeweils 2,5 MVA. Die Nenndrehzahl der Turbinen liegt bei 375/min. Die Fallhöhe beträgt 16 m. Der Durchfluss liegt bei 17,5 m³/s.

Siehe auch
 Liste von Wasserkraftwerken in Argentinien

Einzelnachweise

Wasserkraftwerk in Argentinien
Wasserkraftwerk in Südamerika
Kraftwerk General San Martín
Kraftwerk General San Martín

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Tourists are still welcome in Tenerife after incorrect reporting in the media – TUIfly Belgium maintains flights
Response from the Tourist Office for Tourism after incorrect reporting in the media
Yesterday, there was confusion about travel to and from Tenerife following the stricter measures announced by the Canary Government. Contrary to what has appeared in various media, travel to Tenerife remains possible. National and international tourists who plan to go on holiday in Tenerife can still do so, subject to the applicable measures. These entail that travellers must complete a health form in advance and must be able to present a negative corona test on arrival. On the island, it remains possible to experience various tourist activities as long as you travel in small groups with the necessary social distance.
Travel arrangements to Tenerife
Travelling to and from Tenerife will therefore continue in exactly the same way as before. For example, travellers will be able to present a negative Covid-19 test on arrival to prove that they are not infected with the coronavirus. The test must be performed within 72 hours of arrival and the statement may be in English or Spanish. If travellers cannot provide this test result, they must agree to a local corona test. Furthermore, before departure, foreign passengers must also complete a health check-up form via the website https://www.spth.gob.es or the Spain Travel Health-SpTH app.
Measures for holiday experiences in Tenerife
The measures for excursions on the island also remain unchanged. Guided tours and active excursions can continue to take place with up to 20 people divided into fixed bubbles of four people. The safety distance between the different bubbles must be maintained at all times. The transport during the excursions depends on the organisation and it is best to check in advance with your travel agent or the organizer of the excursion.
Furthermore, there will be a curfew on the island from 22:00 to 06:00 from next Saturday. Restaurants and cafes may only keep their terraces open and dining is only possible with your own family. Shopping centres remain open, but with limited capacity. Wearing a face mask remains mandatory in public places, as in the rest of Spain, except in nature reserves and rural areas where you can keep sufficient distance.
TUI fly Belgium operations
After consultation with the competent authorities of the Canary Islands, TUI confirms that tourists are always welcome in Tenerife. Of course, travel advisories from different markets for this popular Canary Island destination still apply and should be taken into account.
In addition, the condition that tourists must be able to present a negative test result upon arrival in Spain still remains in force.
TUI will therefore operate the planned flights to Tenerife for the next few days and during the Christmas holidays. With the negative travel advisory for Tenerife for the past few weeks, TUI does not currently offer any package holidays to the island, but plane tickets can still be booked. Package tours to Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Palma (orange zones) are still available.
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AMD Carrizo Rumoured for December Launch
Bohs Hansen / 5 years ago
According to the latest leak coming from notebook manufacturers, the new AMD Carrizo APU will make its début as early as December 2014. This however wont be the desktop version but rather the Carrizo-L APU. It is designed for the entry-level notebook segment and will replace the current Beema and Mullins APUs. The full version of Carrizo is said to be scheduled for March 2015.
The Carrizo-L will be set to compete against Intel's entry-level Pentium and Celeron processors. The new APU is still built upon the 28nm process and has support for dual-channel DDR3-2133 memory. It isn't really a surprise that AMD didn't go for DDR4 here as this is a budget oriented processor and the current DDR4 prices would blow the balance. Like the predecessor, these new APUs will have four CPUs cores and eight GPU cores in one die.
The biggest highlight is probably that the new APUs will use the latest Excavator cores, these are the 4th generation of the Bulldozer. While we are promised a significant performance boost of 30% from these new cores at their 15W TDPs, most people aren't too optimistic on the improvements. AMD have surprised us in the past, so I wouldn't write if off just yet. At the same time experts speculate that the higher wattage CPUs won't get as good a boost as these entry-level models. The third generation Graphic Core Next (GCN) should also give these tiny APUs a great boost in the graphics department.
The slide above is from earlier this year, but it has all the relevant information about the new architecture collected in one. A thing worth noticing is that the CPU side only has half the L2 cache the Kaveri had. If this is a Die-size issue or it simply wasn't needed in these models is up to any ones best guess, but this is something that could hurt the performance in some scenarios.
With support for DirectX 12 and HDMI 2.0 these tiny things will be able to handle 4K monitors up to 120Hz. This could make them perfect as HTPC or for product demonstrations. We've already seen the Delta Core function mentioned in the slide on the Tonga R9 285 chips. This is a compression technique that has allowed AMD to increase the memory bandwidth by 40%, something that without a doubt will help the APUs who depend on shared DDR3 memory rather than having their own dedicated GDDR5.
It looks like AMD is getting ready for a full-scale launch on the mobile market with the news about Nolan and Amur just a couple of days ago. These two are aimed at 2-in-1 devices and the tablet market and now the Carrizo-L for the entry-level notebooks.
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Natural-Language Processing Makes Sense of Doctors' Notes
The technique could ultimately offer a way to make electronic medical records more useful.
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Despite billions of dollars in incentives to support the adoption of electronic medical records, evidence that these systems improve the efficiency or quality of care has been scarce. But a new study shows that natural-language processing—a branch of computer science that employs linguistics to analyze regular speech—may greatly increase the utility of these records in improving care.
Researchers used this approach to sift through physicians' notes, the richest and most complicated aspect of electronic medical records, for postsurgical complications such as pneumonia and sepsis. The method proved considerably more accurate than other automated systems. They say similar approaches could be used for a variety of applications, including predicting which patients are at risk, and developing automated tools that help doctors choose treatments.
"You can finally see how clinical data can be used to measure patient safety more systematically, and that we will really be able to use these things to manage care," says Ashish Jha, a physician at Harvard Medical School who wrote an editorial accompanying the paper. The paper and editorial were published this week in Journal of the American Medical Association.
One of the most anticipated benefits of electronic medical records is computerized tracking of patients and institutions—to detect whether a particular patient is at risk for a specific complication, for example, or a specific department or hospital is performing more poorly than others.
Automated tracking is already in use in prescribing; for example, to detect when two medicines interact. Because prescription information is a highly structured part of the medical record, it has been fairly easy to analyze with software. However, harnessing the vast information available in less structured parts of the medical record, such as clinicians' notes—which contains free-form entries about the patient's history and status, including postsurgical complications—is much harder.
"If we can't access that information, we will have a hard time monitoring records to improve care," says Jha. "This paper is so powerful because it shows you can do this."
Harvey Murff, a physician at Vanderbilt University, and collaborators tackled the problem using natural-language processing algorithms that incorporate certain rules of speech and language into analysis. For example, a keyword search could retrieve all instances of the word "pneumonia," but natural-language processing could also take into account modifiers, such as "no signs of" pneumonia, that would yield a more accurate count.
Researchers analyzed nearly 3,000 medical records from patients who had surgery at six medical centers that are part of the Veterans Health Administration for signs of pneumonia, sepsis, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and myocardial infarction. Tracking adverse incidents after surgery can help hospitals and health-care systems monitor how well an institution is following safety guidelines. But current methods can require extensive manpower—manually going through records to identify complications—or lack accuracy. "We wanted to try to replicate what a human would do, but in a way that would be scalable to a larger health-care setting and more cost-effective," says Murff.
While developing the algorithms involved some trial and error, the end result was highly sensitive—they could identify between 80 percent and 90 percent of the complications previously noted in a manual review by trained nurses. The natural-language processing approach was more sensitive than another automated method that used billing codes to identify postsurgical complications. For example, Murff's approach detected 82 percent of acute renal failure cases, compared with 38 percent for the billing-codes approach.
However, the new approach was less specific in many cases, detecting more false positives. "I think with more iterations, we could improve that," says Murff. His team is now working on using the data in clinicians' notes to predict patients' risks of complications or other safety hazards.
One of the benefits of natural-language processing is its flexibility. Jha says the approach could be used for a number of applications. Most notable, he says, are clinical decision support tools, "where you give physicians ideas for how to treat patients better. Giving physicians suggestions that take information in clinical notes into account would be very powerful."
Nuance, a leading maker of voice-recognition software, is already developing commercial systems that use natural-language processing to analyze medical information. The company is collaborating with the IBM team that developed Watson, the robot made famous by beating human contestants on the television game show Jeopardy, to apply the robot's natural-language processing tools to medicine.
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Q: Parallel of transformers. Is R/X condition necessary? Let say I've got two transformer T1 and T2 with both the same voltage ratio. Each transformer has an internal impedance Z1=R1+jX1 and Z2=R2+jX2 respectivley. Also each transformer has a power capacity S1 and S2 [kVA]. Then I connect both them in parallel (parallel windings to the same supply line, and secondaries to the same load)

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab

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*What conditions should Z1 and Z2 meet in order to achive an evenly distribution of load betwen the two transformers?

I'm pretty much sure that the only condition that should be met is that:
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|Z_1|\cdot|I_1| = |Z_2|\cdot|I_2|
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where I1, and I2 are the nominal currents of each transformer.
Also, I have read about the condition:
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\frac{R_1}{X_1}=\frac{R_2}{X_2}
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I've been thinking about this relation and I think it's only necessary to achive the same current phase in both transformers, but it is not necesary to accomplish an evenly distribution of load betwen the two transformers.

*Can you provide any evidence that the last relation is useful in any way other than the one alredy explained (3.b. is the one explained useful)?

*Is it really necessary to met the last reltion to connect two transformers in parallel?

...this issue is treated in most textbooks. Though, I found that some sources state that the ratio R/X is a necessary condition, and I don't think so.

A: Looking at the equivalent circuit as being constructed from ideal components, it is not necessary for X/R to be equal. In addition/ X/R can only be equal if R1 = R2 and X1 = X2. Considering factors such as temperature coefficient of resistance, the transformers will not share the current equally unless they are identical in every way.
Consider that the drop across the parallel combination of R1 + jX1 and R2 + jX2 is V1. The current I1 = V1/Z1@a and I2 = V1/Z2@b where a and b are phase angles determine by X/R. If Z1 an Z2 have equal values but different phase angles, the currents I1 and I2 will also have equal values but different phase angles.

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By Beautiful Pixels on 22nd December '14 in The Highlight
The Highlight 2014 — Best iOS 8 Feature Additions
2014 was a phenomenal year for iOS apps. At WWDC '14, Apple announced a a variety of different new APIs that developers could use to enhance their apps, most of which we never thought would be possible on a closed platform that is iOS. Once iOS 8 was released to the public, we saw some amazing new apps & updates being released on the App Store. This year, to start off our annual 'The Highlight' series of posts, we're bringing you our picks of the Best iOS 8 Feature Additions in apps. Make sure your subscribe to us via our RSS, Twitter or Facebook feeds so that you don't miss out on the posts from The Highlight 2014.
Day One for iOS is by far the best journaling app out there. Its extensive feature-set and the companion Mac app collectively make it the best journaling suite for Mac & iOS platforms. The developers have been consistently adding features and improving the experience and the Mac app even won an Apple Design Award at WWDC '14. After the release of iOS 8, Day One v1.15 brought two stellar new features to the app. The app now comes with a configuratble Today Widget in the Notification Center that displays a graph of your recently entries as well as a feed of your photos from the past. Additionally, it also makes a Share Extension available that lets you send & save photos and other content directly from other apps into Day One. We've sung praises for Day One many times in the past and it's easily one of our favorite apps on iOS. The Universal app is currently on sale for just $0.99.
Banca was one of the first apps that I tried with an iOS 8 specific feature that really blew my mind. Banca 6.0 introduced a Today Widget in the Notification Center on iOS 8 that automatically converts a currency value copied to the clipboard. This is great when you want to quickly convert the prices of products or services to your local currency when you are browsing ecommerce websites. Banca has consistently been an amazing currency converter for iOS along with its sister app Unitica that helps you convert a wide range of units. If you haven't already tried Banca on your iOS device, why the wait? It's a Unviersal app and currently on sale for just $0.99.
Stacks, another currency converter for iOS also managed to leave us with our jaw on the floor with its iOS 8 share extension. Stacks version 2.0 that was released a few weeks ago introduced this fantastic new feature which lets you directly convert all the currencies listed on a webpage in Safari via the Stacks share extension. Next time you're browsing sites like Amazon, NewEgg or pretty much any other site that has a bunch of products listed with varying pricing, Banca's approach may not be the best approach. Stacks here works its magic right away on all the prices in one go. Simply choose the from & to currencies and you should be good to go. Stacks is available as a Universal app for just $2.99.
Evernote's iOS app was one of the first apps to be updated with a pretty nifty Today Widget for the Notification Center in iOS 8. The widget sports some beautiful glyphs that let you add various kinds of notes to your notebook from anywhere on iOS. It manages to look minimal, all while sporting the Evernote colors and font style. Evernote for iOS also has a Share Extension that puts the native iOS share sheet to shame with its look and design. Evernote is available as a Universal app for Free on the App Store.
It often feels like we talk about Fantastical all the time. Flexibits keeps making the apps better and improving on an already phenomenal piece of software. With iOS 8, Fantastical got updated and gained a stunning Today Widget and a Share Extension. The widget is a great window into your schedule. It looks great and works brilliantly well. Fantastical was already a phenomenal calendar app for iOS and with these iOS 8 additions, the app has only gotten better. It is available for iPhone for just $2.99 and for iPad at just $6.99. on the App Store.
Junecloud outdid themselves in 2014 with not only a fantastic update to Deliveries on iOS 8, but also the release of a stunning Mac app crafted with OS X Yosemite in mind. The iOS app got supercharged for iOS 8 thanks to the introduction of a Today Widget as well as a Share extension to add your deliveries directly to the app. Deliveries' widget has great typography and has your package delivery status visible at all times in the Notification Center. These two feature additions make opening the app redundant for the most part. Deliveries is one of the most essential apps available on iOS and OS X. Deliveries for iOS is available on the App Store as a Universal app for $2.99.
PCalc
PCalc is easily the best calculator app suite for iOS and OS X. On iOS 8, PCalc has a Today Widget that is a fully functional calculator on its own. On large screen devices, it has a scientific calculator layout and the widget looks really good. There's a nifty option to collapse it as well, so it doesn't take up too much space when you don't need it. PCalc remains one of the best apps available today with continuous support through updates. PCalc is available on the App Store as a Universal app for $6.99. There is also a lite version with limited functionality available for Free on the App Store.
1Password on iOS 8 is probably one of the most important and essential apps ever. It drastically reduces the barrier of entry into better online security and works wonderfully on iOS. 1Password utilizes Touch ID for authentication, which means no more worrying about unlocking the app in public. The Safari Share Extension allows functionality we only saw on desktop browsers, come to iOS. Logging into websites is a just few taps away now. There's even an app extension sdk available for third party apps. 1Password for iOS 8 is available as a Universal app for free on the App Store. There's no excuse for sloppy passwords anymore.
Clips is quite possibly one of the most powerful apps on iOS right now. It puts all other clipboard managers to shame and still does so much more. Our favorite feature of Clips is its Today Widget. It syncs your clips across all your iOS devices, thanks to iCloud. The widget isn't just a dumb list like the Dropbox one. Your clips are actionable and can be copied in a few ways. Clips showcases what is possible now that Apple has started opening up a bit on the iOS front. Clips is available for Free on the App Store with an IAP that unlocks syncing and a few other features.
iOS 8 has made some tremendous new features possible in apps and app developers are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in their apps. 2015 is going to be an exciting year for us as well as you, the consumers.
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Will Writing Services near Farnworth
If you are in the process of creating a Will, you may not yet be aware that Will writing is something which can also be outsourced to professionals in Farnworth. Will writing services are available online through Farnworth legal firms and there are many advantages in using these Will writers, rather than doing it yourself or finding a family member or friend to do it for you. The main reason people put off Will planning is because they see it as complicated - something which only difficult legal procedures are reserved for attorneys with years of experience. However this cannot be further from the truth! Farnworth Will writers offer an affordable service which doesn't require any specific legal knowledge. Will writing services in Farnworth come under different names such as will writers, will preparation services... it's important to find one who provides the Will service you're looking for.
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