This Friday, four outstanding members of the Clean & Safe team and the 2017 Downtown Champion will be recognized for their exceptional work at the eighth annual Clean & Safe Appreciation Day event, from 10 to 11 a.m. at Director Park.
Every day on the streets of downtown Portland, more than 30 men and women are cleaning sidewalks, removing graffiti and alerting Portland Police officers to crime. This Friday, four outstanding members of the Clean & Safe team and the 2017 Downtown Champion will be recognized for their exceptional work at the eighth annual Clean & Safe Appreciation Day event, from 10 to 11 a.m. at Director Park.
In 2016, Clean & Safe cleaners picked up 638 tons of trash, 16,822 needles, cleaned 52,048 biohazards and removed 37,265 graffiti tags. Clean & Safe Appreciation Day is an opportunity to honor and thank the dedicated employees who work hard to keep downtown Portland vibrant and welcoming. Clean & Safe employs cleaners through a partnership with Central City Concern, who provides training and mentorship opportunities to those who were formerly homeless or experiencing other barriers to employment. Additionally, Clean & Safe partners with Portland Patrol Inc. to provide unarmed security officers to patrol the district. For more than 20 years, Clean & Safe has offered this opportunity for formerly homeless individuals to re-enter the workforce.
Mayor Ted Wheeler, along with Central City Concern's new president and CEO Dr. Rachel Solotaroff, and Clean & Safe board chair Peter Andrews of Melvin Mark Company, will attend the event to present the awards. This year's award winners are Clean & Safe cleaners Greg Davis and Matt Carr, and Clean & Safe security officers Josh Dyke and Samson Blakeslee. Mayor Wheeler will present the award to the 2017 Downtown Champion award, who will be announced at the event.
Downtown's Clean & Safe District was created more than 25 years ago to support additional cleaning and security in the central city. The district, funded by downtown property owners, includes 213 blocks in the central city. The district's cleaning work is conducted through a partnership with Central City Concern, as part of a homeless to work program; and the security team consists of many retired Portland Police officers with community policing experience.


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Kiboko Exploration Inc., a 10% Holder, acquired 1,333,334 Common Shares on a direct ownership basis at a price of $0.150 through a prospectus or prospectus exempt offering on December 31st, 2020. The insider also acquired 666,667 Warrants on a direct ownership basis at an exercise price of $0.200 until December 31st, 2022. This represents a $200,000 investment into the company's shares and an account share holdings change of greater than 100%.
In addition, William Brent Moure, a Director and 10% Holder, acquired 30,000 Common Shares for registered holder WMJ Metals Ltd. at a price of $0.160 through a private transaction on January 5th, 2021. This represents a $4,800 investment into the company's shares and an account share holdings change of 2.9%.
Tres-Or Resources is in the Integrated Mining Sub Industry Group under the Basic Materials Sector.
Tres-Or Resources Ltd. is a Canada-based resource company, which is in the business of exploration and evaluation of mineral properties. The Company is focused on exploring for diamonds and gold resources in the Temiscamingue and Abitibi regions of Quebec. The Company's projects include Fontana Gold Project, Quebec Diamond Project and Fabre Cobalt-Silver Project. Its Fontana Gold Project is located in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt approximately 16 kilometers (km) northeast of Amos, in Duverny Township, Quebec. The Company properties cover 8,700 hectares are approximately 60 km north of the Rouyn-Noranda, La Ronde, Malartic, Val d'Or gold corridor. Its Fabre Cobalt-Silver Project is in the Temiscamingue region of northwestern Quebec, covers silver-cobalt-nickel, copper, and gold showings within the eastern extents of the famous Cobalt Silver Mining Camp. It owns an interest in certain mineral claims in the Notre Dame du Nord area of Quebec.
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This position will handle a variety of legal projects primarily dealing with the company's anti-corruption compliance program, including, but not limited to, due diligence, vendor vetting, and contract drafting (e.g., activities related to the procurement of goods and services associated with the Resettlement and other initiatives in Cabo Delgado for AMA 1 ). The lawyer in this position may also be required, from time to time, to offer other legal support to the AMA 1 personnel working in Afungi.
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Norco '80, part 5: Bank robbery starts,…
Norco '80, part 5: Bank robbery starts, and it's a race against the clock
By Peter Houlahan |
PUBLISHED: May 22, 2020 at 5:00 a.m. | UPDATED: June 2, 2020 at 8:15 a.m.
Norco '80
The true story of the most spectacular bank robbery in American history
Eighteen-year-old James Kirkland was filling out a deposit slip at the island in the center of the Security Pacific Bank lobby when he heard someone threaten to blow his head off. When he turned to look, Chris Harven stepped in front of him, pulled an assault rifle out from under a green military poncho, and aimed it straight at his head. Kirkland hit the floor.
"Everyone down," George Smith commanded, swinging his HK91 from one terrified customer to the next until all dozen or so had complied. "This is a robbery, everyone down!"
Customer Beverly Beam was seated in a chair against the wall next to the entrance waiting for the new accounts manager when the masked men burst through the door. Afraid any movement would surprise the gunmen, she froze. George Smith caught sight of her, whirled and aimed the Heckler at her. "Do you want your head blown off?" he shouted. She shook her head, no. "Then get on the floor." Beam went down onto her stomach.
Seated at her desk, assistant branch manager Sharon Higman saw an opportunity to trigger the silent alarm mounted just below the edge of the desktop. But the moment she began to move her hand, Chris Harven had the assault rifle trained on her from 20 feet away. "If you hit that alarm, I will shoot your head off," he growled. Higman lifted her hands where he could see them and sat down on the floor beside her desk.
"If there are any alarms or anything," Smith barked, roaming between customers flattened out on the marble floor, "there are going to be a lot of dead people here. We have explosives. We won't be afraid to use them."
Manny Delgado crossed the bank lobby holding the riot gun at his hip and then vaulted the teller line. Standing atop the counter, he swept the barrel of his shotgun along the row of four cashiers manning their windows below. "You heard him, hit the floor!" he bellowed.
Standing behind the teller line sorting checks, proof operator Denise DeMarco was so frightened at the sight of the shotgun that she began to back away rather than sit down as ordered. "Get down on the floor!" Delgado exploded, lifting the shotgun in her direction. The petrified DeMarco continued to back away. "Please get down, Denise," one of the tellers begged. DeMarco reached the rear wall of the bank. Terrified, but unable to retreat any further, she slid down the wall and took a seat on the floor.
Delgado ordered the four line tellers to get up and threw a blue drawstring bag onto the counter. "Put the money in it!"
Tellers Janice Harper, Sharon Marzolf and Teresa DeRuyter emptied their drawers into the bag, DeRuyter adding her traceable bait money before passing it on to Marlene Faust. Faust put her cash in the bag and passed it back toward Delgado. Nobody in the bank knew it, but while Delgado had been busy threatening Denise DeMarco, Faust had remained calm enough to trigger the silent alarm button mounted beside her drawer. But Marlene Faust's silent alarm would do the customers and employees in Norco no good. Due to an installation error, the alarm had been transmitted to the police department in the neighboring city of Corona. Within minutes, police units were descending on the Corona branch of the Security Pacific National Bank, 5 miles away from the robbery in progress.
While Manny Delgado terrorized the teller line, Christopher Harven worked on getting at the big money. Harven turned his rifle on branch manager Ron Richter, seated on the floor with the other employees. "Come on, Manager, we're going across the lobby."
Seated nearby, assistant manager Sharon Higman knew that Richter was about to have a serious problem on his hands: There was no more money in the vault. Just an hour before, Richter had called for an armored car delivery of additional bills, but the delivery was late. Anticipating a volatile situation once the gunman saw there was no more cash in the main vault, Higman called over to the second assistant branch manager, Cynthia Schlax. "Cindy, give them the keys to the nests," she said, referring to the individual teller back-up currency in the vault, usually about $2,000 to $5,000 each.
"You come, too," Harven ordered Schlax.
"One minute left!" George Smith called out, checking his watch as he continued to pace the floor back and forth, menacing the prone customers with the Heckler. Smith looked over at Russell Harven guarding the west entrance against anyone going in or out during the heist. Standing behind an artificial ficus tree, Harven was transfixed on the activity within the bank, neglecting the only task he had been assigned. "Watch the door!" Smith barked at him.
When Russ turned back, it was too late. A woman opened the side entrance and walked inside the bank clutching her purse. Already a nervous young lady, Sheila Deno now seemed utterly paralyzed trying to comprehend the scene before her. Almost as surprised as Deno, Russell Harven stepped out from behind the tree and aimed the "Shorty" AR at Deno from 5 feet away, ordering her to the ground. Deno stood stone still, her eyes darting from the bodies strewn facedown across the lobby floor to the man standing on the teller counter waving a shotgun and back to the one in the ski mask aiming the gun in her face.
"Get the (expletive) down!" Russ yelled again.
Sharon Higman, seated on the floor at Deno's feet, reached up and took ahold of Deno's wrist, yanking her to the floor.
The moment vault teller Janet Dessormeau realized there was a robbery in progress, she had pulled closed the steel side entrance door to the vault, locking herself and employee Gail Altenburger inside. However, she had no time to swing shut the heavy main vault door. Now the only thing between the two women and the heavily armed man coming toward them was the grill gate.
Harven stuck the barrel of the Heckler through the bars of the gate. "You better get this vault open."
Dessormeau nodded, went to the side door, and opened it. Chris pushed Richter and Cindy Schlax inside and then shoved Dessormeau up against the wall of the vault with his rifle. "Don't look at me," he said. Dessormeau shifted her eyes to the floor as Schlax opened the teller nests, hoping Harven might not notice that the larger reserve area of the vault was completely bare. Ron Richter scooped bills from the teller nests into a drawstring bag held by Schlax. "We have no reserve currency," she whispered to him. "I know," he said.
"Stop wasting time," Chris growled, poking Richter in the ribs with the gun.
"Thirty seconds left!" George called out from the lobby area.
At the west entrance to the bank, Russell Harven did not notice Miriam Tufts approaching the door to the bank until the woman had pulled it wide open. Russ stepped out from behind the plant to face her. Tufts looked back at the two eyes staring out from the ski mask and then glanced down at the jet-black assault rifle in the man's hands. Without a word, Tufts turned and left, the door swinging shut behind her. "Don't go in there, the place is being robbed," she warned two customers crossing the parking lot.
At the same time, 17-year-old getaway driver Billy Delgado was running into trouble of his own outside the main entrance. Heart pounding, gulping in shallow breaths, Billy had been so busy trying see what was going on in the bank that he never saw Debi Paggen approaching. Paggen walked directly in front of the green van to the entrance of the bank, but paused and looked back just as she reached for the door. When she did, Paggen found Billy Delgado leaning across the passenger seat pointing a handgun out the window at her.
Paggen let go of the door handle. "Go ahead and rob the bank," she said, "I'm not going in there."
The boy with the gun said nothing, his hand shaking as he aimed it at her. Paggen backed away slowly and then turned toward the rear of the van and out of his line of fire.
At the two-minute mark, George Smith called out again. "Time. Now!"
Clutching his bag of coins and bills, Manny Delgado leapt down from the teller counter and made his way to the middle of the bank. Russell Harven abandoned his post at the west entrance and joined the other two. When Chris Harven did not immediately appear, Smith ran to the vault. "Quit stalling," he screamed at bank manager Ron Richter. "It's taking too much time!"
But they had already run out of time. Two minutes earlier, a customer getting out of her car at the Redlands Federal Savings Bank on the other side of the intersection happened to look in the direction of the Security Pacific Bank. Racing inside Redlands Federal, the woman approached teller Maria Casa Grande. "I just saw four men with guns go inside the bank across the street!"
At 3:32 p.m., veteran dispatcher Gladys Wiza took an incoming call at the headquarters of the Riverside County Sheriff. Scrawling the info on a notecard, she handed it to deputy Gary Keeter, who was working the dispatch mic. At about the same moment George Smith yelled "Time. Now!" Keeter dropped a priority alert tone over the Riverside County Sheriff's radio system: "Riverside to all Norco units. 211 in progress, Security Pacific Bank, Fourth and Hamner."
Billy Delgado had just slid the .45 Colt automatic back into the ankle holster after scaring off Debi Paggen when his side mirror lit up with flashing blue and red lights. Jerking his head around, he settled on a police car making a left turn from Hamner onto Fourth Street, its light bar whirling. Billy fumbled for the walkie-talkie in his lap and pressed the talk button.
Inside the vault, George Smith's radio crackled to life. "The cops are here," came the trembling voice of Billy Delgado.
George and Chris looked at each other. "There's no way," Chris said.
"Let's go, let's go!" called Smith, bolting from the vault area to the north entrance of the bank.
Still lying on the floor of the bank lobby, 18-year-old James Kirkland kept his cheek to the carpet as the boots of the four men stomped by inches from his head. "We've been seen," one of the men called out as they passed. "Let's go, we've been seen." The door flew open and the men ran out. Before the door swung itself closed again, Kirkland heard a final voice yell, "There's one!"
That's when the shooting started.
Coming Saturday: Part 6 – Shooting starts outside the bank and the robbers' plans change on the fly.
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Peter Houlahan | Contributing writer
Peter Houlahan is a freelance writer contributing to a wide range of publications. In his career as an emergency medical technician, he has written a number of articles related to his profession. He holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. A native Southern Californian, Houlahan now lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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Starring: Bill Nighy; voices of Nicholas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Tracy Morgan, Penelope Cruz
Theatrical Release Date: July 24, 2009
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While good family films are about as rare a find as intelligence in mainstream pop radio, Disney offers families a new action comedy this Summer in G-Force. Literally about a special task force consisting of trained guinea pigs, a mole, and a fly, collectively known as "G-Force," the film is preposterous from the get-go, urging viewers to check their brains at the door and just accept the film for what it is. G-Force mixes CGI-animated animals with live action actors to present the silly idea in a "realistic" setting.
The charm (and I do use that term carefully) of G-Force lies within the animated characters themselves and their solid voice acting. The same, however, cannot be said for the live action actors. It's a wonder why a respected British actor like Bill Nighy would take the role of the chief villain in G-Force as a billionaire who has plans for some kind of technological domination across the globe. Nighy seems to sleepwalk the role a bit, putting in the occasional snarl he gave to Davy Jones but with less passion. In the end, an animated version of him probably would have been just as effective (if not more so). Zach Galifianakis, who helped make The Hangover a success at the box office this Summer, plays the straight man to the animal antics. He has enough warmth in his character as Ben to carry the part out, but doesn't add much to the film overall. The same can honestly be said for all the other secondary characters as well, with the exception of the FBI agents wasting their time trying to chase down the G-Force team who overact and simply dumb down (even further) the scenes that feature them. Lastly, comedic actor Will Arnett does a fair enough job as the purposefully unlikable FBI agent who issues plenty of threats to Ben and the team. In the end, the material isn't strong enough to give these actors much to work with, so naturally their presence is almost instantly forgettable.
But such is quite often the case with movies that use live action actors to sort of fill in the background for a story that is really about animals or some kind of animated character. They did it for movies like both Garfield films, for example, which ended up being their biggest problem (aside from weak scripts). Sam Rockwell voices the central guinea pig, Darwin, who believes with his whole heart he's a genetically-altered super guinea pig (think Bolt), and is accompanied by the adventure-loving Blaster, voiced by SNL/30 Rock's Tracy Morgan and Spanish actress Penelope Cruz voices the lone female, Juarez. Together, their antics are frequently entertaining, but sadly, seldom funny. It isn't until the team finds themselves in a pet store that smirks turn into actual laughs. Part of this is due to the presence of a fiesty hamster named Bucky who is wonderfully portrayed by Steve Buscemi. It's also when we're introduced to the chubby longhair guinea pig Hurley, voiced by actor/director Jon Favreau, who quickly becomes Darwin's shadow. G-Force is almost solely about these characters, and I couldn't help but wonder if the end result would have been stronger - and seemingly less cheesy - if it had been entirely animated (a la Bolt or The Incredibles). There are some fun action moments (that will bring Transformers to mind for sure), classic action movie quote references, and enough eye candy to help keep G-Force moving along, but an overall sense of mediocrity washes over the picture to keep it from really becoming anything great.
The content for Disney's G-Force is thankfully kept pretty tame (and that's not at all the cause for its mediocrity. If anything, more crude or crass humor would have just made it worse). Language is limited to one use of "suck," while the only other content to really be concerned about is violence. There are some intense scenes (and while we didn't see it in 3-D, there is a moment where a snake lunges at the screen, which would probably terrify little kids especially with 3-D glasses on), and the finale involves a giant machine that terrorizes people. Most of the violence is comedic or nonlethal, so there isn't much to be too cautious about.
When all is said and done, G-Force is a cute and mildly entertaining family film that doesn't break any new ground (if anything, feels all too familiar in parts), but will likely bring about a surge in interest in guinea pigs if anything. A mediocre script and unenthused human actors put a damper on the movie overall, but there's still enough mindless fun to keep the flick worth a matinee or rental. The kids will probably like it more than the adults, but pet lovers (especially of the furry little central characters) will most likely enjoy watching the G-Force gang in action most. You could certainly do a lot worse in a movie, but given the right ingredients, G-Force could have been a lot smarter and sharper. If they do greenlight a sequel, perhaps something a little more engaging could be assembled to really create something memorable.
Sex/Nudity: None. There's just an innocent who-likes-who love triangle with	Juarez, Blaster, and Darwin
Vulgarity/Language: 1 "suck," 1 "Oh my G-d"
Blood/Gore: None.
Violence: Mostly comedic action violence. Darwin runs over a fire pit as it is turned on and his furr gets singed in a small part; A hamster maliciously pushes a guinea pig out of a cage; a robot chases and shoots at two little animals; a giant robot starts tearing up an area and threatens many lives; a microwave explodes and traps some G-Force members; A character appears to be dead after falling but is OK; A character is thrown into a garbage truck and is believed to be dead; Speckles is chased by a dog; and other assorted violence


The Forte AP is equipped with 54 mm ceramic flat burrs. Ceramic burrs can last longer when compared to metal ones. They can also prevent heat transfer which affects the flavor of coffee.
You can do weight-based dosing with this grinder. You can set the desired ground to around 0.2 g and the unit will do the weighing while grinding. It will stop automatically once the set dose is reached.
The motor of the Forte is 70% more powerful when compared with the motor of the Vario. It also rotates slower so as to prevent heat transfer.
The removable hopper allows you to transfer beans smoothly without leaving any mess.
It is equipped with an easy to read and use touch LCD display.
The Forte has a portafilter holder, which makes hands-free grinding possible.
Has three programmable settings which can be based on weight or time.
The Forte AP grinder is made Baratza, a leading name when it comes to coffee grinders.
Baratza is a U.S. based manufacturing company that produces coffee grinding equipment for espresso machines. It was founded in 1999 by the dynamic team of Kyle Anderson and Kyra Kennedy, since then Baratza has quickly emerged as the company to turn to for quality, innovation, and consistency. They are focused on consumer level grinders for use at home. Baratza has received a number of SCA awards and has been a well-known name to professionals and coffee enthusiasts. That is why there is no doubt that Baratza is a high standard and recognized around the world.


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Coinbase condemned in the context of the fight against money laundering
Coinbase, a leading cryptocurrency exchange in the ecosystem, will have to pay $100 million for various compliance issues. Stressed, its registration process was deemed too simple and its tracking of suspicious transactions was questioned.
Lack of anti-money laundering supervision
New York State has introduced drastic measures as the world calls for more regulation of the cryptocurrency industry.
Coinbase, the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, has admitted to paying $100 million for failing to require its customers to provide adequate anti-money laundering guarantees, confirms a New York Times report.
"Coinbase has failed to build and maintain a functioning compliance program that could keep pace with its growth. This failure exposed the Coinbase platform to potential criminal activity," said Adrienne Harris, superintendent of DFS New York.
US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has reached an agreement with New York's Department of Financial Services (DFS) to pay $50 million (€47.1 million) to end the regulator's investigation, both sides have announced Wednesday.
DFS's investigation focused on the company's compliance with anti-money laundering regulations.
DFS found that Coinbase treated the issue of verifying customer information as a "simple checkbox" when customers landed on the platform.
In a statement, DFS said the company failed to conduct proper background checks as cryptocurrencies are often targeted to be used for money laundering.
"Coinbase acknowledged the ministry's shortcomings in this regard. Additionally, some of these issues have been known to Coinbase since at least 2018 and have been reported by both internal assessments and external audits. […]. While Coinbase has worked to correct these issues, its progress has been slow: progress in some areas has only occurred recently, and the work remains unfinished to this day. »
Efforts should be made
The company will also need to spend an additional $50 million over the next two years to improve its compliance with U.S. laws governing the industry.
The settlement also requires Coinbase to engage a third party to monitor its compliance process. In fact, Coinbase has contacted an independent monitor to help bring it into compliance.
Depending on the agreement between the platform and the NYDFS, such an entity may be required to continue doing business with Coinbase for an extended period of time.
The New York Department of Financial Services also reported that Coinbase had over 100,000 suspicious unverified transactions as of the end of 2021.
In addition to DFS, Coinbase is also under the control of the US Securities Police, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company previously disclosed that it received a subpoena and requests for documents and information from US stock market regulators.
Until a few months ago, the cryptocurrency market was poorly regulated. Companies entering trading are not subject to the same requirements as other financial institutions, both in the United States and in the Old Continent, which is trying to change that.
The stock was up more than 10% as Wall Street opened on Wednesday.
New York State still requires business operators to obtain a license to practice, which allows authorities to exercise some oversight of the business. In August last year, platform Robinhood was also fined $30 million for violating money laundering rules.
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies: the real currencies of the future?
FTX and BlockFi: US justice gets its hands on 450 million dollars in Robinhood shares


Oh, my goodness lovely followers, the past couple of weeks seem to have been eaten up with a trapped nerve in my back, trading, painting and a day learning more about how to paint from Julie Tonkin, a senior journeyman with the now folded Waterways Guild. More about that next time. Today's post is more about my fixing up Pea Green. In previous posts I have already mentioned the outside paint-job and sign-writing, along with the cleaning up of the inside of the boat. Over the past 18 months I have also done some fixing and DIY on the inside too.
I am not a major DIY-er but as the boat is quite small much of the work seemed do-able. Especially as unlike a house lines are curved – good for my wonky eyes, and if things went wrong I hoped it wouldn't be too hard to put right! Basically, I have continued the gung-ho attitude that led me to boat buying in the first place. Much of the work has been cosmetic and repairing bits and pieces that hadn't been maintained for a long time.
As I don't have a major stash of cash to spend on the boat I have kept the layout the same and have tried to replace and update using recycled wood or other cheap options, and with the exception of the electrics I have done all the work myself. As a girl who went to school in the 70s and 80s I had the dubious honour of never being given the option of DT at school. Plus, as a left hander I always seem to be trying to work out ways to do things the opposite way around. As a result I know my woodwork is not the best, this is where the curves of the boat come in handy, they cover a multitude of sins.
The boat is a single cabin, with no internal doors, except the bathroom cupboard. In the main cabin when I bought the boat it had a click-clack sofa-bed with a wild, sparking, nylon, flowery cover, under this there were multiple layers of various raggedy mattress covers. Next to the stern doors is a full length hanging area, which now doubles as Monte's hidey hole. When I bought the boat the only other storage in the main cabin was a pine bedside cabinet, which was pointless as it provided no real storage and didn't fit the curved line of the boat. This of course annoyed me immensely and it had to go.
I replaced the cabinet with two built in shelf units, one at each end of the sofa bed, using wood from the local Freecycle listings. I managed to work out how to cut the wood with the curve of the cabin wall and bought a jig-saw for all my wood cutting – so much easier than a hand-saw. These built in shelves have been so useful for storing clothes, bedding and other bits and pieces, finally somewhere to put things!
When it came to the sofa bed I took the sofa bed back to the house and re-covered them, sewing on an old mattress cover before re-upholstering with fleece. The fabric was not too expensive and I wanted something I could remove and wash, rather than a heavy-duty upholstery fabric. I then went into crazy cushion making over drive and made lots of different cushions. I used scraps of fabric, my favourite dress from when I was 10 and other bits from another dress circa 1972! Other fabric was left over from previous projects, and a day of block printing with my sister gave me another cover. I did buy transfer paper and made one cushion with my favourite Alice in Wonderland quote, 'Would you tell me please, which way I go from here?' and of course featuring the Cheshire Cat.
Other soft furnishings have been the blinds, again using left over material and making a porthole bung. My first foray into cutting a circle with my new favourite power tool – a jig-saw. The boat is small and with blinds there is no need for rails to hold the curtains back, nor do they take up wall space. I did buy roman blind kits and have lined with black-out material to help block the light. The galley and bathroom cupboard have roller blinds, I did succumb to buying new fabric for these! I also made a snip rug for the floor. I had no idea how much fabric they take, nor how heavy they are once finished.
When it came to the kitchen area the boat did have an old Flavel cooker when I bought it. The previous owner did warn me that one ring didn't work, which cleverly my Dad managed to fix – a tiny spring had gone in the knob. However, when I had a gas check I learnt the oven was not burning a blue flame, and despite my best efforts to remove the rubbish/rust from the burner I still could not get a constant blue flame. This would mean the cooker would fail the Boat Safety Certificate. I was left with little option to to bite the bullet and find a replacement.
Luckily, Ebay was my saviour and I found a second hand Force 10, Eno marine cooker for the bargain price of £100. It was a risk to buy unseen and I did have to drive to Norwich to collect it, but I reckoned it was worth a punt – especially as new they sell for upwards of £700. It was actually a great buy and as a keen cook I regularly use it for homemade pizzas, scones and all sorts on the boat. I built in a new shelf for it to sit on, again using Freecycle wood, and left room underneath for the bin and other bits and pieces. The previous cooker although smaller was on a much lower shelf, which just seemed a bit odd.
Similarly, the old fridge had to go. It was an old 3 way, and took up a huge amount of space, but inside you could probably fit an egg and a small can of tonic! There was also a problem with starting it, and I never did manage to light the ignition. This was clearly no use at all. Again, gas or 12v fridges are expensive, so I did some digging and found that Waeco Tropicool TCX coolbox was probably the way to go. These coolboxes are very efficient and don't use too much power, but again all of this efficiency comes at a price… £250 for a 35l version. Once again, I struck lucky and found an ex-display model online for £100 less, so now I have room to keep my tonic cold.
With the kitchen appliances sorted, there has been some work to do on the work-surfaces and splash backs. I was very bothered that a full-size house kitchen sink took up all of the work-top. The work-surface also overhung the end of the units by about 8cm – also a point of irrational irritation. Plus, (yes really it gets worse) I was even more bothered by the row of grim looking 1970s tiles didn't actually meet the work-surface nor the back of the cooker. It was as though they had been stuck on as a 'feature' rather than a working splash back.
The question was, what to use and how to cheaply source the materials. It would have been easy to go out and spend a fortune on new work-surface, swanky tiles and new sink – but of course I didn't. Also I didn't want to buy 3m of worktop a I only needed a little over a metre. Ultimately, I used more unusual materials, in the form of my old shed roof.
Last year, my Dad, who continues at the age of 79 to be a DIY wizard extraordinaire, came to replace my shed roof, as it was beginning to leak. The marine ply that was underneath the felt was not suitable for the new rubber roof. I kept the old wood, 'just in case' and as no marble worktop dropped from the sky I decided to use the wood for the worktop and splash back.
I bought a new small sink, with a ½ drainer from Scewfix (where my job title is listed as 'Queen of the Pixies'). I then managed to cut the old shed roof without mishap. The biggest issue was fitting the new tap, as I found a number of leaks on the existing boat pipework. Little wonder the water pump had been making kur-plunk noises on a regular basis. The previous owner had 'fixed' this with toilet-paper wrapped around the leaking joints… My new friends at Screwfix helped me get the right fittings and I was very excited when the new shed-roof-worktop, sink and taps were in place. With lots of wood still left I made the splash back from another piece of the shed roof. The wood has blended well with the existing pine panelling, and although not to everyone's taste defiantly looks 'right' on the boat.
I didn't use the wood as a cooker splash back – it didn't seem a safe option. Instead I sorted it when Dad supplied me with two pieces of Formica off-cuts from my parents' new kitchen.
I have added a small shelf to the sink and worktop splash-back and was very excited to come across some old -including a couple of original – Kilner jars on Freecycle, perfect for storage. They fit so well alongside all of the old wooden crates again found by my Dad lurking in his garage. The boxes originally came from my grandparents' old house. These too have made perfect shelves and storage in the boat.
It has been a long haul and there are still a number of 'works in progress' but most of my OCD moments are now dealt with. More about other changes I have made in future posts.
Box from my grandfather. It had a 3 shilling deposit on it..
For a "non-DIY" person you're sure doing a great job. I love the sink counter-top from the old roof. Very nice work all around.
Thanks David! Yes the shed roof has been amazing 🙂 used it for lots of jobs.


At //build/ 2014, I was expecting a lot of exciting announcements around mobile and web development as well as cloud infrastructure. Microsoft's direction has been changing significantly in recent history to embrace more than just their creations and ecosystem – for example, Office 365 is now available on Apple devices. But there was one announcement that I was hoping to hear at the event above all else, and it had to do with Roslyn.
In summary, Roslyn (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/roslyn) has been a long-running project within Microsoft. Roslyn is a framework to bring compiler features into the managed world. That is, the .NET compilers for C# and VB are now written in C# and VB. Furthermore, this information can be used through APIs for code analysis and refactoring tools. Needless to say, this is powerful stuff! But take note of the phrase, "long-running project". I don't know exactly when it started, but demos started to surface at the PDC around 2008. That's at least 6 years of a project in-flight before it moved into a RTM world. A couple of years ago, MS finally released CTP bits of the framework, but these were few and far between. Some people in the .NET developer community wondered if this was really going to become a released product, or if it was going to die on the vine.
Well, today, the world found out, and the news was quite unexpected. Anders Hejlsberg announced that, not only were new Roslyn bits available to the public, but the entire Roslyn code based was open-sourced. In fact, he pressed the "let everyone see the code" button right on stage! You can check it out here: http://roslyn.codeplex.com/. That took a lot of people by surprise, me included. He showed how you could add your own language feature to C# if you want, and have that work in the Xamarin world as well, as Miguel de Icaza demonstrated. While I don't expect a lot of .NET developers to customize the .NET compiler in this way, it was fascinating to watch this take place.
Then they also announced the .NET Foundation (http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/), which, according to their site, "foster(s) open development, collaboration and community engagement on the .NET platform." As I perused all of the frameworks that fall under this category, it dawned on me just how different Microsoft is in 2014. They're releasing more and more to the open source community, something that would have never happened 10, or even arguably 5 years ago. One may still find faults with them, and arguably they still have their pain points. But I find it hard see them as the company they were years ago.
I think there are some very interesting times ahead for developers who have been in the Microsoft world. Universal apps, Azure improvements, and now, an open source compiler. I really need to find time to work in that "disposable" keyword into the C# compiler!


This midi dress is perfect for adding a fierce touch to your look. Featuring a three quarter kimono sleeve and round neckline with a black belt. Style this dress with some strappy heels and complete the look with a clutch.


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Q: C++/OpenGL/GLSL Blending two textures edges Firstly here is the screenshot:

I am trying to blend in multiple textures on the mesh based on the height of the point on mesh.
Now what i want to achieve is a smooth blend at the borders(unlike what is currently a sharp line).
Also i would like the border to be slightly random and have a factor to control the randomness.
Here is my current code :
#version 430 core
out vec4 FragColor;

#define NUM_TEXTURE_LAYERS 8

uniform vec3 _LightPosition;
uniform vec3 _LightColor;

in float height;
in vec3 FragPos;
in vec3 Normal;
in vec2 TexCoord;

uniform sampler2D  _DiffuseTextures[NUM_TEXTURE_LAYERS];
uniform vec3  _DiffuseTexturesHeights[NUM_TEXTURE_LAYERS];

vec4 GetTextureColorBasedOnHeight(vec2 coord){
    for(int i=0;i<NUM_TEXTURE_LAYERS;i++){
        if(height > _DiffuseTexturesHeights[i].x && height < _DiffuseTexturesHeights[i].y){
            return texture(_DiffuseTextures[i], coord*_DiffuseTexturesHeights[i].z);
        }
    }
    return vec4(0.0f);
}

void main()
{
    vec3 objectColor = vec3(1, 1, 1);
    objectColor = GetTextureColorBasedOnHeight(TexCoord).xyz;
    vec3 norm = normalize(Normal);
    vec3 lightDir = normalize(_LightPosition - FragPos);
    float diff = max(dot(norm, lightDir), 0.0f);
    vec3 diffuse = diff * _LightColor;
    vec3 result = (vec3(0.2, 0.2, 0.2) + diffuse) * objectColor;
    FragColor = vec4(result, 1.0);
}

I did try the random boundaries but that was not very good and still blending is the issue!
Here is the code with randomness:
vec2 hash( vec2 p ) // replace this by something better
{
    p = vec2( dot(p,vec2(127.1,311.7)), dot(p,vec2(269.5,183.3)) );
    return -1.0 + 2.0*fract(sin(p)*43758.5453123);
}

float noise( in vec2 p )
{
    const float K1 = 0.366025404; // (sqrt(3)-1)/2;
    const float K2 = 0.211324865; // (3-sqrt(3))/6;

    vec2  i = floor( p + (p.x+p.y)*K1 );
    vec2  a = p - i + (i.x+i.y)*K2;
    float m = step(a.y,a.x);
    vec2  o = vec2(m,1.0-m);
    vec2  b = a - o + K2;
    vec2  c = a - 1.0 + 2.0*K2;
    vec3  h = max( 0.5-vec3(dot(a,a), dot(b,b), dot(c,c) ), 0.0 );
    vec3  n = h*h*h*h*vec3( dot(a,hash(i+0.0)), dot(b,hash(i+o)), dot(c,hash(i+1.0)));
    return dot( n, vec3(70.0) );
}

vec4 GetTextureColorBasedOnHeight(vec2 coord){
    for(int i=0;i<NUM_TEXTURE_LAYERS;i++){
        float nv=noise(coord*0.01f);
        if(height+nv > _DiffuseTexturesHeights[i].x && height+nv < _DiffuseTexturesHeights[i].y){
            return texture(_DiffuseTextures[i], coord*_DiffuseTexturesHeights[i].z);
        }
    }
    return vec4(0.0f);
}

A: Generally speaking, you will want to do multiple texture lookups and combine the results together, mostly likely via a weighted average.
A straightforward way to go about it it to always sample all available textures (optionally with an early out for textures with 0 influence). This way, the "combining" logic and "influence determination" logic are kept cleanly separated. This is very flexible, as it doesn't limit you to creating smooth edges. You can use any combining logic you want, using an influence-map for example.
float getTextureInfluence(int tex_id, vec2 coord) {
  // have fun!
}

vec4 GetTextureColor(vec2 coord) {
    vec4 accum = vec4(0.0);
    float total_influence = 0.0;

    for(int i = 0; i < NUM_TEXTURE_LAYERS ; i++) {
      float texture_influence = getTextureInfluence(i, coord);

      // This if is optional.
      // It may help or hurt performance depending on what
      // percentage of samplers are used on average per sample.
      if(texture_influence > INFLUENCE_MIN) {
        total_influence += texture_influence;
        accum += texture(_DiffuseTextures[i], coord) * texture_influence;
      }
    }

    if(total_influence > 0.0) {
      accum /= total_influence ;
    }
    return accum;
}

Followup: As far as using this to create blurred edges:
Your current code is effectively the same thing as the following profile: at every point, one texture gets full influence and all other textures get none. This creates a square step like so:

influence
^
|           Sharp edge
|                |
|                v
| |--------------||--------------|
| |              ||              |
| |     Tex[0]   ||   Tex[1]     |
| |              ||              |
+-----------------------------------> Height

Instead, overlapping the textures' influence like the following pattern will give you a smooth transition from one texture to the next.
influence
^
|           Blurred edge
|                |
|                v
|      ---------    -----------
|     /         \  /           \
|   /   Tex[0]   /\    Tex[1]    \
| /            /    \              \
+-----------------------------------> Height

Using a polynomial or exponential decay instead of linear also gives different results, finding the exact math that will lead to the results you prefer will take experimentation.

A: Thanks to Frank's answer, I am able to finally have something i  like,
Here is the result: https://youtu.be/DSkJqPhdRYI
The Code :
#version 430 core
out vec4 FragColor;

#define NUM_TEXTURE_LAYERS 8

uniform vec3 _LightPosition;
uniform vec3 _LightColor;

in float height;
in vec3 FragPos;
in vec3 Normal;
in vec2 TexCoord;

uniform sampler2D  _DiffuseTextures[NUM_TEXTURE_LAYERS];
uniform vec3  _DiffuseTexturesHeights[NUM_TEXTURE_LAYERS];

vec2 hash( vec2 p ) // replace this by something better
{
    p = vec2( dot(p,vec2(127.1,311.7)), dot(p,vec2(269.5,183.3)) );
    return -1.0 + 2.0*fract(sin(p)*43758.5453123);
}

float noise( in vec2 p )
{
    const float K1 = 0.366025404; // (sqrt(3)-1)/2;
    const float K2 = 0.211324865; // (3-sqrt(3))/6;

    vec2  i = floor( p + (p.x+p.y)*K1 );
    vec2  a = p - i + (i.x+i.y)*K2;
    float m = step(a.y,a.x);
    vec2  o = vec2(m,1.0-m);
    vec2  b = a - o + K2;
    vec2  c = a - 1.0 + 2.0*K2;
    vec3  h = max( 0.5-vec3(dot(a,a), dot(b,b), dot(c,c) ), 0.0 );
    vec3  n = h*h*h*h*vec3( dot(a,hash(i+0.0)), dot(b,hash(i+o)), dot(c,hash(i+1.0)));
    return dot( n, vec3(70.0) );
}

float getTextureInfluence(int i, vec2 coord) {
float h = height + noise(coord*5)*2;
  float midVal = (_DiffuseTexturesHeights[i].x + _DiffuseTexturesHeights[i].y)/2;
  float p = 0;
  if(height < midVal)
    p = _DiffuseTexturesHeights[i].x - height;
  if(height >= midVal)
    p =height -  _DiffuseTexturesHeights[i].y;

  return pow(2.713, -1.0*p);
}

vec4 GetTextureColorBasedOnHeight(vec2 coord){
    vec4 accum = vec4(0.0);
    float total_influence = 0.0;

    for(int i=0; i < NUM_TEXTURE_LAYERS ; i++){
        float texture_influence = getTextureInfluence(i, coord*_DiffuseTexturesHeights[i].z);

        total_influence += texture_influence;
        accum += texture(_DiffuseTextures[i],  coord*_DiffuseTexturesHeights[i].z) * texture_influence;
    }

    if(total_influence > 0) {
      accum /= total_influence ;
    }
    return accum;
}

void main()
{
    vec3 objectColor = vec3(1, 1, 1);
    objectColor = GetTextureColorBasedOnHeight(TexCoord).xyz;
    vec3 norm = normalize(Normal);
    vec3 lightDir = normalize(_LightPosition - FragPos);
    float diff = max(dot(norm, lightDir), 0.0f);
    vec3 diffuse = diff * _LightColor;
    vec3 result = (vec3(0.2, 0.2, 0.2) + diffuse) * objectColor;
    FragColor = vec4(result, 1.0);
}

If you are interested in the full source : https://github.com/Jaysmito101/TerraGen3D


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I'm Tired of Bunting
By Matthias Kullowatz
The present and future of the Mariners franchise was up with runners on first and second, and no outs. He squared up to bunt twice, buried himself in an 0-2 count doing so, and then struck out on the next pitch.
Did you know that sacrifices are successful in the American League just 67% of the time? And that doesn't even include at bats like Dustin Ackley's where a player is forced to bat from a bad hitter's count after trying to bunt. In other words, if we could somehow count all the times players started an at bat trying to bunt, we would probably see success rates closer to 60%-65%.
Did you know that Ackley has an excellent .353 OBP in 377 plate appearances against right-handed pitchers? Or that during his career, Jose Valverde has been significantly worse against left-handed batters than righties…and that those splits are even more extreme in 2011 and 2012 where he's allowed an OBP above .360?
Did you know that with runners on first and second and none out, the average team in 2012 scores 1.40 runs that inning? With runners on the second and third and one out, the run average actually drops to 1.28. Yes, you read that correctly. Barring an error, the best possible scenario for Ackley bunting in that situation actually lowers average runs scored. But situationally, perhaps bunting is the right move if two runs are needed?
Nope. According to research by Tom Tango, the chances of scoring from first with none out–the equivalent of tying the game for Seattle Tuesday night–are virtually the same as scoring from second with one out. In other words, if Ackley could sacrifice successfully 100% of the time, then Tuesday night's ninth inning bunt was strategically a lateral move. Please refer to rhetorical question number 1. Bunts are not properly executed 100% of time, or even close to it.
Did you know that Ackley, in fact, has never successfully sacrificed in his short career? Sure players practice that stuff all the time (I think?), but it's probably not quite the same as doing it in a real game off the other team's closer.
Wedge knew none of these things, or didn't want to pay attention to them, or something.
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When he heard his car alert blare and saw the orange glow through his bedroom window, UCLA neuroscientist J.
David Jentsch knew his fears had come true.
His 2006 Volvo cars, parked next to his house on the west side, were lit and destroyed in an attack early in the morning of March 7.
Jentsch has become the latest victim of a series of violent incidents aimed at University of California scientists who use animals in biomedical research.
"It is clear that the people who do my work in this environment expect this to happen, and in fact it is likely to happen," Jentsch said . ", He used vervet monkeys in his research on the treatment of mental division and drug addiction.
He did not receive any threats prior to the attack, but only took limited precautions, including keeping photos away from the Internet.
"I try to be as careful as I can, don't be paranoid," he said . ".
After a similar incident, scientists at the other University of California, Los Angeles, became almost seclusion due to safety and public curiosity about them.
Three years ago, another neuroscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, tired of harassment and threats to his family, completely abandoned animal research and sent an email
The email is sent to an animal rights website that says, "you won.
"But Jentsch has decided to push back.
Jentsch, associate professor of psychology and psychiatry, set up an organization at the University of California, Los Angeles to support research that uses animals in what he calls humane, carefully regulated ways.
He's organizing a pro.
The research campus rally on April 22, which was due to animal rights activists who had arranged their own UCLA protest on the day, claimed that his research involved abuse and unnecessary killing of the primatus.
"People always say, 'don't respond.
This will give [if you respond [the attackers]
Jentsch, 37, said in a recent interview at the University of California, Los Angeles office.
"But being silent doesn't make us feel safer.
Whether you give them credibility or not, it's a pointless question if they come to burn your car.
Jentsch said: "These events have caused trauma to many professors and students on Westwood campus, far beyond the circle of people directly affected. He was not injured in a car fire.
He said the rally was "an attempt to repair some of the trauma that people feel by uniting and sharing experiences.
"Speakers are expected to include pro-
Test, a British group established in 2006 to support animal research.
The researchers said that patients with the disease are also likely to appear, and one day they may be cured by treatment found in these experiments.
The new University of California, Los Angeles organization was named University of California, Los Angeles
Test to honor the British group.
Jentsch says its message is that ending animal research "will have a devastating, absolutely devastating impact on the loss of knowledge and its practical application to human health.
"Holder, he is now leading a similar America. S. -
A Jentsch-based organization called "talking about research" praised Jentsch's efforts.
"I think it's great that scientists finally find their voices and stand up against animal rights extremists," he said in a telephone interview in the UK . ".
Over the past three years, the University of California, Los Angeles, has reported at least 10 arsons, arsons attempted and other vandalism against professors and researchers, as well as many unrealized threats.
On February, four animal activists were arrested on suspicion of involvement in attacks and harassment of animal researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz, California, but according to FBI spokesman Laura Emler, no case has been arrested at the University of California, Los Angeles.
She said the incidents were under investigation as domestic terrorist acts.
In recent years, the University of California system has spent millions of dollars to improve the safety of researchers in their homes, classrooms and offices.
Jentsch declined to take photos of the article for security reasons.
Two days after Jentsch's car was burned, a dirty word-
The Internet information released by the dark Animal Liberation Brigade is believed to be a credit for the fire, just as in the past UCLA attacks.
"You and other people like you are so cruel and disgusting about what feels like, and we can't believe anyone can live with themselves," the News wrote . ".
"David, this is a message to you, and when you least expect it, we will come to you and do more damage to your property than your property.
Jerry frasack from Los Angeles
A frequent spokesman for the regional doctors and animal rights movement said he and other activists were not involved in the attack and did not know who was behind the attack, despite his sympathy for the attack.
According to Vlasak, Jentsch "is hurting and killing Africa
Every day, there are human beings.
If it is necessary to hurt him to stop his torture, it must be morally reasonable.
Vlasak said that Jentsch's new team is a publicity stunt designed to preserve the federal funding of researchers and divert public attention from their own work,
Vlasak and others said they wanted to meet Jentsch in a public debate, but a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said he was only willing to meet people who did not tolerate violence. Elliot M.
San Rafael President Katz-
He said there is a lot already known about addiction treatment, and further animal experiments only help the pharmaceutical industry to develop unnecessary products.
Jentsch said he stopped getting any money from the pharmaceutical industry a few years ago and he responded that the claim was ridiculous because there was no FDA
Approved treatment for meth addiction.
Gene Block, president of the University of California, Los Angeles, a biologist who used mice in his circadian studies, welcomed new relatives
Test organization.
"Faculty and students at the University of California, Los Angeles, refuse to be intimidated by extremists who ignite cars, threaten violence and harass families
"The test campaign not only demonstrates their courage, but also their commitment to public service," he said in a statement . ". Jentsch (
Pronounced "ybench ")
Growing up in Texas, before arriving at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001, he received a bachelor's degree from John Hopkins University and a doctorate from Yale University.
His research was supported by the branches of the National Institutes of Health and received federal examinations and standards, focusing mainly on two areas: possible gene and brain function related to mental Division, and the effects of various drugs on the brain region, which affect the willingness to abstain.
The goal, he said, is to improve opportunities for treatment and early diagnosis.
In the North Carolina State facility shared with Wake Forest University, Jentsch works with a group of more than 450 vervet monkeys, which he calls non-mandatory and painless memory tests, DNA samples and
He says 10 or fewer animals are injected to death each year, so that researchers can perform post-mortem examinations.
In a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, he took meth for about 24 monkeys and took them out of it;
About six people die each year after death.
He argued that the animals had not suffered any pain at work.
"The pain of addiction is when you lose your relationship, lose your child, lose your job, and when your health drops.
"Animals will not suffer from these things," he said . ".
"They are not suffering from the psychological pain caused by addiction. "larry. gordon@latimes. com--(
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In the past three years, anonymous animal rights activists have claimed responsibility for violence aimed at preventing scientists from using animals in research at the University of California.
These incidents include: June 2006: an explosive device was ignited but failed to be fired at Bell-Air home.
Its goal is clearly a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles.
June 2007: A car parked next to a home on the west side of the University of California, Los Angeles eye doctor and researcher, a burning device was ignited but not lit.
October 2007: The vandal broke a window and flooded the house of a professor studying nicotine addiction at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a garden hose.
The damage was more than $20,000.
February 2008: just four months ago, a burning device damaged the front porch of the same West End residence.
June 2008: a vanpool vehicle at the University of California, Los Angeles, was severely damaged in a fire in Irving's parking lot.
August 2008: two scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, attacked a house and a car in a Molotov at different locations.
Before the fire was put out, the car was destroyed and the house was full of smoke.
One of the scientists, his wife and two young children fled home the next day. story window.
November 2008: A car was destroyed in an arson attack in front of a palm tree and two others were damagedarea house.
An animal rights group claimed to have attacked the home of a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, but police said the target was the wrong house.
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Posted on November 12, 2022 by jilldennison under animals, Bits 'n Pieces, Environmental Issues, Humour, Saturday Surprise
I have been at a bit of a loss for motivation to do Saturday Surprise posts of late, so I haven't. But last week, this years Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards finalists were announced, and that's always fun stuff!
The annual Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are fun, sure, but there is a deeper purpose behind the project. The project began when co-founder Paul Joynson-Hicks, a professional wildlife photographer who was living and working in East Africa at the time, was going through some of the photos he had taken and found himself laughing at a few of them. At that point, he realized that the humour of these photographs was both entertaining and a means to engage people with the threats facing these same animals. Says Mr. Joynson-Hicks …
"Our world is extraordinarily beautiful and interconnected, yet the human race is doing its best to over-exploit and damage it. Issues of wildlife conservation and sustainability are gaining momentum globally, yet the messages and images tend to be negative, depressing and enervating."
If you have time, check out their website … you'll find not only lots of fun pictures from the current competition, but from years past as well, and a number of ideas for things you can do to help protect and preserve wildlife! And now, for the fun pictures!
"Talk To The Fin!" By Jennifer Hadley — This was shot on the Falkland Islands. These two gentoo penguins were hanging out on the beach when one shook himself off and gave his mate the snub.
"Tight Fit!" By Mark Schocken — I was going to see and photograph this eastern screech owl nest in a local park in Florida. One morning, a few days before the two owlets fledged, one owlet tried to squeeze into the nest hole with Mom, maybe to see the outside world for the first time. It was hilarious and I was glad I was there that morning to photograph it. The moment lasted only a few seconds as Mom didn't seem very happy with the arrangement. Check out the expression on her face.
"The Wink" By Kevin Lohman — An American Red Fox casually walked up to the edge of the woods and sat down, then turned around and gave a wink. Moments later, this sly fox disappeared into the trees.
"Mum Life" By Sophie Hart — A baby long-tailed macaque clings on to its weary mother.
"Pegasus, The Flying Horse" By Jagdeep Rajput — Actually this is Indian Saras Crane attacking a Bluebull from behind, the bull happened to venture close to Saras's nest, where in, it had laid a single egg. The Saras Crane, which is tallest flying bird in the world, opened it's huge wings and attacked the bull from behind, driving the bull away from the nest.
"Curtain Call II" By Dave Shaffer — This little guy had a blast playing with a stick . I also had a very good time watching him .
"Fight Back" By John Chaney — This salmon decides to punch the bear in the face rather than be lunch.
"Not So Cat-Like Reflexes" By Jennifer Hadley — This 3 month old cub and his sibling were in a tree. The other lionesses were in other trees and on the ground. He wanted to get down and walked all over the branches looking for the right spot and finally just went for it. It was probably his first time in a tree and his descent didn't go so well. He was just fine though after landing on the ground. He got up and ran off with some other cubs.
"Jumping Jack" By Alex Pansier — A red squirrel jumps during a rainstorm, so you can see the drops flying around.
"Maniacs" By Saverio Gatto — Lappet-faced Vultures in display.
"What Shall I Write Next" By Torie Hilley — Most bear cubs do cub-like things. Like, follow mom around, nurse, and be generally cute. But this cub took it to another level of cuteness. She found an eagle feather and started to play with it for a good 10 minutes! As she danced and rolled with the feather, she held it in her mouth for a moment – as if she was thinking of what to write next! Cuteness overload!
"Say Cheeeese" By Arturo Telle Thiemann — A couple of triggerfish looking into the camera, captured at the Azores.Even they may look funny, these fish can be quite aggressive. In this case they didn't attempt to bite me, but the domeport of my camera housing ended up with some scratches… life is hard… at least it wasn't me who was hurt.
"Rushing Little Owl Fledgeling" By Shuli Greenstein — I was told that I can find a lot of little owls in the Judean Lowlands in Israel. So, I went on a journey early in the morning and really, I found a lot of little owls standing on the ground, on stones, near the nest and on tree branches. Suddenly, my eyes were caught by two fledgelings that were playing with each other on the ground. One of them crossed my field of vision. I started taking pictures in sequence and this is what came out…
"It's All Kicking Off!" By Michael Eastwell — Apart from its beauty, Cape Hillsborough is renowned for its resident kangaroos and wallabies. I visited the area for three consecutive sunrises, but it was on my final morning that I captured this beautiful spectacle, two wallabies playing / fighting on the beach as the sun burst through the surrounding clouds.
"I'm Gonna Strangle You!" By Emmanuel Do Linh San — I was following a group of meerkats on foot in the Kalahari Trails Game Reserve, in South Africa. Most individuals, including adults, were in a playful mood. It gave me a unique opportunity to capture very interesting and dynamic interactions between some members of the group. In the photo that I have selected, there is no aggression between individuals, but rather an interaction that reminds us of humans when one of your friends jokes about you and you pretend to strangle them and, in response, they open their mouth like a simpleton.
"Uncomfortable Pillow" By Andrew Peacock — These elephant seal weaners were practising their jousting skills for many minutes before they collapsed in exhaustion. One looks to be resting far more comfortably than the other!
"Monkey Wellness Centre" By Federica Vinci — Walking near a cambodian temple where groups of wild monkeys lived, I came across this scene: a wild monkey in total relax, while its friend was taking care of it.
"Misleading African Viewpoints 2" By Jean Jacques Alcalay — Hippo yawning next to a heron standing on the back of another hippo.
"Stop And Stare" By Andy Evans — After hearing Borneo's borders would reopen again in April 2022 I couldn't wait to visit and photograph some of the weird and wonderful wildlife on the island. After 2 years with no tourists it seemed like the wildlife was just as shocked to see me as I was to see them. This young proboscis monkey watched in amazement as I cruised by on the kinabatangan river.
Saturday Surprise — Environmentally Fun!
Posted on September 14, 2019 by jilldennison under animals, Environmental Issues, Global Issues, Humour, Saturday Surprise
Welcome and Happy Saturday, my friends! Big plans for the weekend? Not me. Chris is drumming this morning at the Walk for Prostate Cancer, and the rest of the weekend will likely be spent just trying not to roast, as our air-conditioning is still, after a new heat pump, new thermostat, and new condensing unit, not working! And, of course Mother Nature picked this time to send temps to record highs in the 90s for a ten-day streak.
Today's two stories are both eco-friendly … they pertain in one way or another to conservation … but they're fun, too!
I am not a fan of McDonald's … at least not the food. Many years ago, when Miss Goose was little, we made it a once-a-week destination, but fortunately her palate matured, and she has moved on to other favourite restaurants. But, today I must give two thumbs up to McDonalds for their environmental conscience!
Most of us are aware of the bee crisis. It is estimated that in the U.S., 44% of the bee colonies died out in 2016 alone, and since bees pollinate some 80% of the food we eat, this has serious implications for life on this planet. McDonald's in Sweden has begun trying to save the bees in the most charming ways!
It started out with planting bee-friendly flowers around the restaurants, and hosting beehives on their roofs. But then, a few months ago, McDonald's commissioned a professional carpenter to make the 'smallest ever McDonald's," which is, in fact, a fully functioning beehive featuring a McDonald's sign, drive-through, an outside seating area and even little advertisements on the windows!
But it doesn't end there! Now, they are at it again by creating small 'bee hotels' on the back of their billboards. 30% of wild bees in Sweden are threatened, mainly because they do not have enough resting areas, so the company teamed up with outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux to turn the backs of its billboards into tiny "hotels." Granted, these are all small things, likely only to save a few thousand bees, but hey! It's a start, right?
This week celebrated the 5th year of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, and as you might guess from the name, some of these animal pictures are quite funny! If you're looking for your daily dose of cuteness, you've come to the right place!
Family Disagreement
Holly Jolly Snowy
Deer? What Deer?
Squirrel Wishes
Warning: Territory Marking. Follow At Your Own Risk
Monday Morning Blues
Laughing Zebra
Dancing … Yeah
Who Would Like A Peanut?
To Be Or Not To Be?
Sea Otter Tickle Fight
Snarling Snappin In The Slow Lane
Tom Sullum and Paul Joynson-Hicks are the founders of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, and in addition to having fun with it all, they have a serious purpose as well …
"Remember, we are all about conservation. We want you to take up our banner of wildlife conservation, bang the drum, beat the cymbal and make some noise, we need to spread the word – wildlife, as we know it, is in danger, all over the world and we need to do something to help save it. You can start by going and having a look at what the Born Free Foundation are doing at www.bornfree.org.uk"
And finally, it wouldn't be Saturday Surprise without a funny animal video, now would it?
Have a wonderful weekend, my friends!
Saturday Surprise — Jolly Takes Over
Posted on September 15, 2018 by jilldennison under animals, Humour, Saturday Surprise
Hey Y'all! It's me, Jolly!
Gwammie got stuck in a wabbit hole dis week, and she tol' me since I keep disappearin', it's my turn to write Saturday Surprise 'cause she ain't here to write it. I tol' her not to eat so much an' she wouldn't get stuck … but does she listen?
So anyways … I found dese funny aminals tonite an' I bet you'll laugh! I even maked up some o' da captions! Captions is words at da bottom o' da picture, in case ye dinna know.
Whooooo … Me???
Not tonight dear, I've got a headache
So there! pbthhhhh
"Shall we dance", said one komodo dragon to the other
I know it's in here somewhere …
You DON'T SAY!!!
Step away from the nuts and nobody gets hurt … Step BACK!!!
I'm WAAAAAY taller den you!
Stop me if I'm boring you …
WHOA Dude!
I'm so ashamed …
Ha ha ha ha ha … they'll never find it here!
Dat's all I got today. I hope you liked it, but if you dinna, will you tell Gwammie that you did so I don' get in twouble?
** Note to readers: All photos are finalists in the 2018 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, sponsored by the Born Free Foundation, a wildlife conservation organization.
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The Bearkat men's basketball team remains stagnant at fifth place in the Southland Conference splitting their recent road stretch against Oral Roberts and Central Arkansas.
A second half comeback wasn't enough for the Sam Houston State (7-6 SLC) squad to cap off a win against ORU (11-3 SLC), losing 74-64 Thursday. The Bearkats were, however, able to establish a strong presence inside the arc for an 80-75 win against UCA Saturday.
James Thomas conducted the SHSU offense, shooting double digits against Oral Roberts (11 pts.) and Central Arkansas (26 pts.) on the road. Accompanied by Terrance Motley, Thomas kindled a 20 minute run to outscore ORU 40-33 in the second half. The Golden Eagles hindered a Bearkat comeback coming off their 17 point lead from halftime and remained on cruise control.
Thomas, Motley and shooting guard Will Bond posted double digits in Thursdays matchup, shooting for a combined 48 percent from the floor and 50 percent from three point range.
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James Thomas is a hard worker with a big heart and a motor that never stops," head coach Jason Hooten said.
UCA rallied in the second half to narrow SHSU's lead to five, but was unable to stop Thomas and Bonds rhythm at the free throw line. They had a combined 12 points.
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To keep things interesting for yourself, your blog posts don't need to be strictly business. Enhance your posts with personal anecdotes and gentle humour to achieve a friendly tone that keeps people coming back to read more.
Photography is another popular pastime that can help boost your business. Keep your camera or smartphone handy and aim to take one picture per day. Edit and upload relevant snaps to your website to keep it looking fresh and appealing. These easy and regular updates will keep your hit counter rising.
Reading can be a bit of a love-it-or-hate-it hobby. However, regardless of whether we think we enjoy reading, all of us spend a lot of time doing it. Whether it's the morning newspaper, a book you're engrossed in or the content of your Facebook feed, opportunities to read are everywhere.
By reading other companies' websites, blogs and social media content, you can improve your knowledge of the industry. Regardless of how much you already know, keeping up-to-date with current thoughts, trends and ideas is vital. It will help improve your inbound marketing strategies by ensuring you're on top of what's going on in your industry.
Social networking has become part of our everyday lives – almost a reflex. But don't dismiss it just as a hobby: Twitter and Facebook are great ways to grow your business.
You may want to set up accounts for your business. Alternatively, you can link your personal pages to your company website. Either way, using your blogging and photography skills, you can use social media to bring clients and customers to your site with regular updates. Learn your way around social media as a business to promote your company and grow your network.
Here's how to go the extra mile: become a movie star. Even the most basic modern mobiles have video recording capability. Shooting videos is a fresh, modern way to introduce yourself and your business.
Videos give off a personal touch. They make potential clients and customers feel like they know you and can trust you. As with the other hobbies listed above, you barely have to lift a finger. Upload your videos to your company website and your visitors will come to you.
Finally, we'll leave you with a bit of a cheat – marketing automation software. These programmes will monitor the needs of your business and alert you when something in your company is missing. Whether it's an unpaid invoice, unusual levels of staff sickness, or a change in visit rates to your website, it will suggest a timely solution to help you get on top of the problem. A simple way to make sure you stay on top with minimum effort.
Blogging, photography, reading, social networking, movie-making and marketing automation are all hobbies you can use to improve your inbound marketing efforts. Most importantly, ensure you're regularly updating your website with fresh and engaging content to keep your website visitors coming back for more.
To learn more about how to improve your inbound marketing, contact us at Flowbird today.


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