As some of you know, I have been working to gain a clearer perception of true communications from those dwelling in the other side, the afterlife, Heaven, the Summerland, whatever you choose to call it.
I'm not exactly sure how I'm doing this. Sometimes it's me copying down clairaudient information (copying speech I hear), although that is rare. Sometimes it's me interpreting information from all of the other senses aside from hearing it, which is most common. Other times, my perception becomes so intense and clear that my actual penmanship changes and takes on characteristics of the deceased person. This has been called automatic writing or channeling. I have done it but it takes a lot out of me, so I typically prefer to keep a buffer between myself and the messenger. In most cases, I'm doing this on a private basis for people when their loved ones seek my attention during one of these sessions and I never talk about it in public. I'm just a conduit. It's not my place to talk about it.
I'm still learning about this and I'm under the supervision of someone far more experienced. The reason why I'm pointing that out is because I don't want the rest of you thinking it's romantic and cool to say, "Hey Casper, come take my pen and write some stuff!" Any type of communication with spirit should only be done under the supervision of those far more experienced until you yourself are experienced enough and only if you feel the undeniable call to do so. It took me a year of talking to different people experienced in these things just to decide if I should listen to that call. I was a child medium, so I ultimately decided that this is just a more advanced form of communication and no more or less dangerous than the other medium work I have been doing since I could talk. When you mess with the other side, you have to understand that you're opening a door for anything to come through – good or bad. It doesn't matter if you're playing with an Ouija board, doing EVP sessions, channeling, automatic writing, or simply saying, "Give me a sign of your presence." You're still essentially doing the same thing – inviting contact with the afterlife. If you don't know how to maintain your energy, your home, your spiritual boundaries, and those of your loved ones, then you're just asking for trouble. This is not something that should be taken lightly.
That being said, one of my recent sessions with a regular spirit in my "collection" became a message that I was instructed to share with all of my readers. I will not name this spirit. Sorry. The following text came through my pen on my private notebook and I transcribed it for you, my readers, as per the spirit's instructions. It was a mixed message from all senses, so I hope I got it as right as I could, although I am merely human. You'll see said spirit refer to me as "O". My mother had intended to call me Olivia when I was born and some of my regulars call me O or Olivia to get my attention.
Read it. Soak it in. Take it to heart. It's as much meant for each of you individually as it is for the collective whole.
I'm speaking to those in the physical with O's help. She is a flicker of light and warmth that should be felt everywhere.
Powerful currents of emotional energy have been building for a long time in the wrong direction. I has become more important than we. Things – the material – have replaced the soul. These are not new ideas. The world is increasingly aware – with a bitter tongue, I might add – of humanity's shortcomings, but our message is shifting here in the spirit as your perception is shifting in the physical. We're standing on the edge of a cliff, my friends, and it's time to push forward in the awakening. Reality is so much bigger than perceived through the human eye if you only open your spiritual eye and look around. If we don't come together now, the human race will collapse on itself and be forced to start over again. Petty differences mean nothing in the larger scope of things. Look at the things causing you anger, sadness and hopelessness. Are they really caused by other people or are they caused by something broken in yourself? Only honestly cracking open your chests to look at your raw souls will heal the hurt. Be truthful. The time for excuses and procrastination is done, my friends. Truth and love are universal languages that will heal all wounds, settle all differences, and end all wars.
To those whose family and friends moved from skins to spirits, now is not a time for despair. We're here, we're well, and we're always as close as your thoughts, whispers and love. Just as you feel us, we feel you. That which parts our planes of existences is thinnest when the physical world allows itself to swell with love in any form. December is a time for embracing family and friends both here and there but you must learn to carry it throughout your years. Speak to us as you speak to anyone if you need the closeness. We hear you no matter if you feel us lingering around or not. Most importantly, speak to those nearest you. Never wait for the next minute, the next hour, the next day, or the next year to express your love for all people and gratitude for life. Never allow darkness to overtake you no matter how it comes – loneliness, hopelessness, poverty, physical suffering, or emotional anguish – because as quickly as things can get worse, they can get better too.
Stop and feel the breath in your lungs.
Feel your feet on the ground.
Feel the love of all the souls you've come across in your existence.
Reconnect with the beauty of your own soul.
Never allow yourself to believe you're unworthy of love. Your life is an integral piece of the universe. Your love is necessary for the greater good. Love a stranger during these holidays because a stranger will love you. Heal a piece of your enemy by giving them love.
I saw this cartoon on Facebook today. This is how I see myself, although sometimes my alter ego shadow is a mermaid. Legs are overrated.
I'm writing from bed, so forgive me if there are any mistakes.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm really doing any good. It's the simplest question I ask myself almost every day, whether I'm really doing any good and helping people. Part of doing what I do is feeling everything on a deeper level. Not just my own emotions but everyone else's emotions too and that makes me get mired down in the muck sometimes. I spent tonight trying to get organized for this week and answer my ridiculous flow of email and I found myself getting overwhelmed. People are waiting for their readings, responses to emails, advice, help with spiritual problems, general chatter, and so forth. I found myself sitting there staring at all of it, not sure where to start and ready to not do any of it. (Don't worry – I am doing it.) I wish I knew how to explain it to people. In order for me to function as an intuitive, I have to be in good mental, physical and emotional condition. I haven't been lately. I got thrown off track with my leg injury last month and I'm only just now starting to really pull it back together again.
What right do I have to offer people spiritual assistance and advice when I go through these moments of struggle? Should I not be leading by example? Am I not supposed to be a pillar of efficiency and strength for those who really need help?
I don't feel worthy of the responsibilities I've been given with this lifetime. Who decided I'm strong enough to carry the burden of being able to see the past, the spirit world, and the pain of others so clearly? I don't feel like people believe in me enough, that my intentions are in a higher place and I am a woman of my word. Sometimes it takes me a lot longer to do things and unfortunately I work on their clock too (spirits) and they don't always see the business practicality of it. I don't like charging money for readings but I have to in order to survive. All other forms of income I try never work. It's like the universe keeps telling me, "You are working for us over here so you're not allowed to do anything else." I keep my fees as low as I can but I don't make enough as it is. Who does, really?
I think I'm more frustrated because I know doing readings for peanuts is not my whole purpose. I don't feel like I'm reaching enough people. Seeing so much pain, suffering and lack of spiritual understanding in this world actually causes me grief like I'm not personally doing enough healing work. I have felt this sense of responsibility since I was a child. It isn't anything new. Now that I'm a few months away from 30, however, that responsibility is pressing on me even more. Am I doing enough? Have I really honestly helped anyone improve the course of their soul's journey? Or am I failing with the gifts I've been given because I struggle to be satisfied in my personal journey?
But then, tomorrow I will get up and keep going like I do every day. I've made it 30 years without a strong support system who truly understands this life. I can survive another 30. Maybe I am stronger than I look. I may not always understand why I have this responsibility and why I have it alone but I don't have any other choice than to keep moving forward, hoping I touch a few lives and teach a few lessons handed to me by the universe.
I suppose the moral of this story is just because you see an intuitive, medium, whatever you want to call it, doing good work doesn't always mean they have it together. Some are lucky to be thriving with what they are but many do struggle. It can be a lonely life of not feeling understood and struggling to really form intimate connections with regular people. The act of doing readings and doing spiritual work leaves the intuitive exposed because there has to be an exchange of energy. That's a very intimate experience. For that reason, many of us are very emotionally guarded when we are not working unless we recognize one of our own kind.
Be kind, be gentle and be patient with people who have a raw nerve exposed to the spirit world. It can be hard for us to live with one foot here and one foot there.


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The most popular music streaming platform is not Spotify
By Kelly T. O'Connor on March 21, 2021 Popular music
When asked to think of the best music streaming services, Spotify and Apple Music are probably the first two that come to mind. They could be followed by Pandora, Deezer, and Amazon Prime Music. While they all enjoy a healthy subscriber base, none of them are the biggest or most popular music streaming service – by far.
YouTube and its two billion monthly active users crush all the competition in terms of numbers and popularity. How YouTube, the video streaming service, surpasses the mighty Spotify in music? We will tell you.
Running Spotify
Founded in 2006 and launched in 2008, Spotify has achieved critical success around the world. Home to 60 million tracks, four billion playlists and 1.9 million podcasts, Spotify is a leading destination for music and other audio content.
The popular streaming music service saw its first real growth when it launched in the UK in 2009 and later in the US in 2011. Spotify hit its first million paid subscribers in Europe in March 2011. It doubled that number to two million in September. of the same year. By August 2012, Spotify's total user base had reached 15 million active users, with around four million paying subscribers. The company quickly reached 20 million listeners worldwide and five million paying users, including one million in the United States, in December 2012.
See also: 15 tips to get the most out of your Spotify premium account
Spotify's numbers continued to grow by leaps and bounds. In May 2014, it reported a total customer base of 40 million, with 10 million paying. The meteoric increase continued the following year as well, with 75 million total users and 20 million paying users. Spotify reached 100 million total listeners and 40 million paying subscribers in mid-2016.
Today, Spotify has 345 million monthly customers, of which 155 million pay for one of Spotify's premium plans. The service is available in 178 markets around the world. To put that into perspective, the world's number two dedicated music service, Apple Music, had around 72 million subscribers as of June 2020, Statista reports.
Spotify's millions can't compare to YouTube's billions
While Spotify's numbers are impressive, YouTube's numbers are mind-boggling. The Spotify vs YouTube race isn't even close. There is, however, a small caveat which we will come back to later.
Here's what you need to know. If you don't count children's songs as "music videos," then seven of the 10 best YouTube videos of all time are music videos. Additionally, 17 of the Top 20, 27 of the Top 30 and 37 of the Top 40 are also music videos. In fact, almost all of the 100 best YouTube videos of all time are music videos (not chat content). It gives you a really good idea of why people are using YouTube. Major artists no longer release their latest tracks on MTV. No, this honor is reserved for YouTube. Luis Fonsi's "Despacito", for example, has 7,087,915,396 views. There are plenty of other names in the all-time top 10 that you might recognize. These include Ed Sheeran, Wiz Khalifa, Mark Ronson / Bruno Mars, Psy, Justin Bieber and Maroon 5.
Related: Best Music Streaming Apps For Android
YouTube has a distinct advantage: it's a premier internet destination around the world. In fact, YouTube is the second largest website in the world. It has the second largest search engine on the web and has over 30 million daily active users. They watch about a billion videos a day. Additionally, YouTube accounts for 37% of all internet traffic, and users watch up to 40 minutes on their mobile devices each day.
Specifically, YouTube is included natively on the vast majority of Android phones sold around the world. For 2020, IDC expects shipments of Android phones to reach 1.055 billion. Spotify, for comparison, ships on relatively few out-of-the-box phones. This gives YouTube a leg up on the competition. Google's video platform is available in over 80 languages in over 100 countries.
YouTube Music is another story
Technically, YouTube is not a music streaming service. The main product of the website is video, although people surely use YouTube as their de facto music service. How can they not?
YouTube Music – a standalone music streaming service from YouTube – exists with its own online destination, app, and user base. The service first appeared in November 2015. Earlier this year it supplanted Play Music as Google's primary / sole music streaming service. Like Spotify and Apple Music, YouTube Music is available in free and paid levels. It is available in approximately 95 countries around the world.
Still, YouTube Music's numbers are pale compared to other music services, at least for now. YouTube Music's paid subscribers total around 30 million, according to Google's most recent data from October 2020. However, this is a significant increase from its number of 20 million in 2019. This means that Google Music's transition to YouTube Music grossed 10 million new million from YouTube Music. users quickly.
More reading: YouTube Music vs Spotify: Can Google even compete?
Obviously, YouTube Music is a nascent service that follows Spotify and Apple Music far behind. YouTube proper, however, is so far ahead of any other service that despite its emphasis on video, it will remain the number one destination for music for the foreseeable future.
This is the twelfth article in our "Did You Know" series. We dive into the history books of Android and mainstream tech to uncover important and interesting facts or events that have been forgotten over time. What do you want us to cover next? Let us know in the comments and check out our previous entries in the series below.
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Alaska communities prepare for Northwest Passage cruise ship
Annie Zak, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, June 13, 2016 at 13:37 — Last Updated: Monday, June 13, 2016 at 13:45
The Crystal Serenity is planning a 32-day voyage through the Northwest Passage this summer. (Handout photo/The Canadian Press)
This summer, an extravagant cruise ship voyage will make history, and it's starting in Alaska.
A luxury vessel, the $350 million Crystal Serenity can carry up to 1,070 passengers and 655 crew members, and measures 820 feet long. On board, you'll find a casino, a library, penthouses and shops with name brands like Gucci, Armani and Dior, among other countless amenities.
On Aug. 16, the ship, full of creature comforts, will set out to travel through one of the world's harshest sea routes — the icy and isolated waters of the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean. It will wind through narrow waters in far northern Canada as it sails for the first time from Seward to New York City — a 32-day voyage geared toward affluent world travelers.
All you need is about $22,000 to be a passenger. That's on the cheaper end of the scale — it's as much as $120,095 for the fanciest penthouse (but not to worry: even the lower-level penthouses come with personal butlers). Even if you can afford the trip, too bad — the cruise has been booked since shortly after tickets went on sale in 2014.
Such a voyage comes with specific challenges should something go wrong. Alaska is bracing for how it might handle the worst-case scenarios that might be unique to the unprecedented journey, which California-based Crystal Cruises says is the largest cruise ship ever to take this route.
Some communities in Alaska have been getting ready.
In Nome, Mayor Richard Beneville said the town has been planning for months to prepare itself for the largest infusion of tourists it has ever seen at once from a cruise.
"Without a doubt, Crystal Cruises' Serenity is the largest one and is kind of a game changer," Beneville said. "It's indicating what's going to be the future of transportation through the Bering Strait because of climate change."
Beneville said that Nome is working closely with the Coast Guard to prepare for what to do in the case of an emergency with massive ships like the Crystal Serenity. But an upcoming training exercise there won't happen until the day after the ship departs from Nome in August, which may seem counterintuitive.
"What they're really concerned about is those areas north of Nome," Beneville said.
Safety preparations
Derek Martin, the city manager in Kotzebue, told Alaska Dispatch News last year that an emergency response to accommodate 1,700 people would "create a bit of chaos" in the town of about 3,200. The ship won't be stopping there, or in Barrow, but those areas would be affected if passengers had to unexpectedly disembark and head to the nearest community.
The Coast Guard, over the past few years, has carried out rescue operation exercises and workshops or developed emergency plans for cities like Kotzebue, Nome, Barrow and others, for what to do in the face of things like a man-made incident or natural disaster. This preparation is part of what's called Operation Arctic Shield, the Coast Guard's seasonal deployment to the Arctic.
Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Jason Boyle said that while the agency doesn't do any rescue drills just for one specific company or industry, the Coast Guard has used the Crystal Serenity as the basis for some rescue operation exercises.
"What we would do from an agency perspective, how you would evacuate people if there was an accident on a ship if it was somewhere in the Arctic," he said. "We've walked through with the communities about what the challenges are if you were to have a number of people show up in your community, where do you shelter the people? How do you deal with medical injuries?"
As sea ice in the region continues to recede, more Coast Guard attention and resources will probably go to such exercises, said Cmdr. Mark Wilcox, Arctic operational coordinator for the agency.
Cruise industry eyes North
Logistics and communication are the biggest hurdles when it comes to being prepared for the worst on routes like the one the Crystal Serenity will take, Wilcox said.
"Adapting to these constraints is the biggest challenge," he said. "Communication is difficult in the Arctic; it's more remote, the weather conditions are more extreme."
Passengers on board the Crystal Serenity need to be prepared, too. They are required to get $50,000 in emergency evacuation insurance to cruise through the Northwest Passage. The ship will also be traveling with its own escort vessel, the RRS Ernest Shackleton, which has ice-breaking capabilities. That vessel will be complete with helicopters on board for safety purposes, and will join the cruise ship at the Canadian community of Uluhaktok.
Crystal Cruises isn't the only company navigating the Northwest Passage. German company Hapag-Lloyd Cruises also has a Northwest Passage cruise that will depart in August and traverse Arctic waters around Canada and Greenland. Cargo ships have also made this voyage. Still, the Crystal Serenity appears poised to be the largest cruise ship to ever travel the route.
The company is wasting no time planning for next year — it has already announced another Northwest Passage voyage for summer 2017, and tickets are on sale.
Environmental questions
Lower levels of sea ice in the Arctic have opened this route up to vessels. Last month broughtanother record low for Arctic sea ice, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
As far as environmental concerns for traveling through such a sensitive area, Crystal Cruises spokesman Paul Garcia said that both the cruise ship and the icebreaker will travel using low-sulfur fuels. He also said the company will discharge gray and black water — that's wastewater from things like showers, washing machines and toilets — no less than 12 nautical miles from shore.
As for planning for the worst, Nome Mayor Beneville proceeds with caution.
"No one is expecting anything to happen," he said, "but that's what they said about the Titanic, too. We have learned over the years to try to be prudent."
Canada: Arctic cruises are risky business says expert, Radio Canada International
Finland: Most luxury cruise liners still dumping sewage in Baltic Sea, Yle News
Iceland: Calls for action at Arctic shipping conference, Alaska Dispatch News
Norway: Arctic shipping: The myths, the realities & the challenges ahead, Eye on the Arctic
Russia: Arctic cruise industry expands, Cryopolitics Blog
Sweden: Swedish icebreakers gear up for Arctic role, Radio Sweden
United States: Arctic no shipping rival to Suez: expert, Alaska Public Radio Network
Arctic, Crystal Serenity, shipping, tourism, travel
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Těšnovice (Tyessnowicz, Czessnowitz, Tiessniowicze, Teschnnowitz, ale i Těšňovice) je vesnice, část okresního města Kroměříž. Nachází se asi 4 km na jihovýchod od Kroměříže, na posledních výběžcích Chřibů, sklánějících se do údolí říčky Kotojedky. Další vesnice nedaleko Těšnovic jsou Velké Těšany, Bařice a Trávník. Je zde evidováno 156 adres. Trvale zde žije 419 obyvatel. Předsedou osadního výboru je Jakub Erker.

Těšnovice je také název katastrálního území o rozloze 3,12 km2.

Historie
První písemná zmínka o obci pochází z kupní listiny olomouckého biskupa Jindřicha I. Zdíka z roku 1131. Další zmínka je až z 13. století, kdy byly Těšnovice rozděleny na polovinu patřící zpupnému (svobodný, dědičný) statku a druhá lennímu statku biskupa olomouckého.

Obyvatelstvo

Struktura
Vývoj počtu obyvatel za celou obec i za jeho jednotlivé části uvádí tabulka níže, ve které se zobrazuje i příslušnost jednotlivých částí k obci či následné odtržení.

Pamětihodnosti
 Kostel svatých apoštolů Petra a Pavla se samostatně stojící zvonicí, opěrným zdivem (opevněním kostela) a sochou sv. Floriána jsou kulturní památkou České republiky evidovanou v Ústředním seznamu kulturních památek České republiky pod rejstříkovým číslem 28486/7-6160.

 Socha svatého Jana Nepomuckého je kulturní památka České republiky evidovaná v Ústředním seznamu kulturních památek České republiky pod rejstříkovým číslem 27064/7-6161. Socha pochází z 18. století. Stávala naproti panského dvora a později byla přemístěna do obce.

 Boží muka se sochou Panny Marie stojící na vysokém kamenném sloupu při rozcestí polních cest mezi Těšnovicemi a Trávníkem jsou kulturní památkou České republiky evidovanou v Ústředním seznamu kulturních památek České republiky pod rejstříkovým číslem 101304. Socha je dávného původu, ale žádná zpráva o jejím postavení se nedochovala.

 Torzo Ježíše Krista na kříži, který původně stával v zatáčce před domem čp. 115. V padesátých letech za nejasných okolností zmizel. Snad, protože stál blízko cesty, do něho narazilo vojenské vozidlo a pak už byl jen krůček k pokynu na definitivní odklizení. Místní lidé celou památku uložili na zahradě fary. Vlastní kříž se tehdy zcela rozbil. Tělo Krista bez rukou a nohou bylo umístěno na zdi budovy. Na základě požadavku občanů se v roce 1999 rozhodlo o obnovení památky. Odborná komise zvolila ze tří doporučených návrhů umístění na zeleném pásu nedaleko autobusové zastávky. Nejprve se shromáždily všechny kamenné pozůstatky a pak umělecký restaurátor a kameník Mgr. Jaroslav Budík z Vyškova zhotovit chybějící tělo kříže. Protože nebyly známy původní tvary a polohy končetin korpusu umístilo se na kříži na základě konzultace s Památkovým ústavem Brno tělo Ježíše Krista v dochovaném stavu, aby připomínalo události vedoucí k odstranění kříže z původního místa. Při restaurování bylo na zadní straně kříže objeveno datum postavení v roce 1908, velmi nečitelný nápis a na boku signatura zhotovitele Josefa Klapila z Kostelan. Instalování historické památky proběhlo 26. září 2000.
 V lokalitě Hertlov stojí objekt bývalého větrného mlýna, který v současné době slouží k rekreačním účelům. Objekt není památkově chráněn.

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Richard Burne
PRODUCTS, NEWS
We are excited to announce that our Fab 25 Table Lamp, designed by ISM Objects, has received a prestigious Good Design Award for Product Design, recognising its outstanding design and innovation.
We work hard to design and manufacture innovative and sustainable contemporary lighting and it is an honour to receive this award alongside the high calibre of our industry peers
Fab 25 Lamp is the evolution of our original Fab Lamp designed in 1991, which won an Artist & Industry award for design and production. The original Fab Lamp embodied many of the concepts that we set out to explore when they established ISM Objects: local batch production, flat-pack assembly for economical transportation and disassembly for recycling at the end of the product lifecycle. There have been many advances in manufacturing and lighting technology since the Fab Lamp, so Simon and Celina designed a new product that referenced the original but incorporated innovative new features.
Like the original, Fab 25 is a modern and appealing table lamp. It has an elegant shape machined from aluminium and stainless steel and comes in a flat-pack gift box. It now also incorporates the latest technology including LED lamp, cordless battery power and USB re-charging.
We set ourselves a challenge to redesign an item that was very special to us and a major step in the evolution of our design careers. For both the Fab and Fab 25 lamps to receive industry awards is affirmation of our commitment to designing and manufacturing products based on progressive and sustainable thinking.
Good Design Australia hosted the annual awards ceremony at the Sydney Opera House on 17 May, celebrating the best of Australian design. This year marked the 60th anniversary of the awards and it attracted a record number of entries. Danish architect Jan Utzon congratulated all the 2018 winners, and the products will be showcased to the general public during Vivid Sydney from 25 to 27 May 2018 at the Overseas Passenger Terminal, Circular Quay.
Tagged: AWARDS, FAB 25
PROJECTS, PRODUCTS
8bit 360, located on Little Collins Street, is the third and largest outlet of the Melbourne-based burger brand. Inspired by American diners, old-school video games and the local fish 'n' shop, 8bit 360 is a contemporary throwback to the colourful 1980s, and our Wink Table Lamp and HD3 Wall Lights are adding to the nostalgic fun.
The first 8bit started as an ode to the fish 'n' chip shop with arcade machines in the corner. The classic games still remain but the outlets have become streamlined and slicker with time. For 8bit 360, Architects EAT created a playful and interactive space with bold primary colours, pixelated patterns and Nintendo-inspired wall graphics.
Architects EAT created pockets of intrigue and surprise as they played with colour and materiality. Tiles, like pixels, cover countertops; stools and booths are in blue powder-coated steel; and green and yellow acrylic tubes hover over high tables. Timber elements keep the space warm and inviting, and include the timber-batten world map suspended from the bright yellow ceiling; timber panels surrounding the menu; and a timber batten screen with the logo carved it.
Studio IO designed the original branding and established the red, yellow, dark blue and aqua colour palette, which the studio describes as "a nostalgic, quirky and instantly recognisable homage to good old-fashioned gaming." Indeed, it's nostalgia for the late-20s, early-30s demographic that form the target market.
Our Wink Table Lamp and HD3 Wall Lamps in marine were the perfect choice for the colour palette, and complement the simple, pared-back forms throughout the space. Wink table lamps are perched on the counter around the windows. Inspired by candle lamps of yesteryear, they have a spherical bulb, dish base and optional metallic reflector for more control of the glowing LED lamp.
HD3 has a similar form with a wall attachment. Fixed at alternating heights, the uplights cast patterns of light and shadow across the wall, adding another dimension to the gaming-inspired graphics. Each light has a 6W LED spherical frost lamps, a good choice for hospitality due to their long life, low energy use and high-quality light output.
Tagged: Architects EAT, HD3, WINK
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Our latest lighting collection has been developed to provide a solution for 2 common workplace needs - high quality energy efficient lighting and improved acoustics.
The Teamwork pendant has been designed to possesses special acoustic qualities to help it to absorb sound in the workplace making it the perfect pendant for meeting spaces and open plan offices. The effect of this sound absorbing feature is that the lighting contributes to enhancing both concentration and collaboration in the workplace by reducing ambient noise.
The Teamwork pendant shell is expertly crafted from spun aluminium and has a decorative fabric panel that discretely conceals an internal sound absorbing material.
The outer shell is finished in matt anthracite or white. The fabric insert panel is available in a choice of 22 contemporary colours, with custom fabrics available on request. At the heart of Teamwork is an environmentally efficient LED lamp source with a special thin diffuser to ensure light is fully dispersed. This makes it an ideal light source for long meeting tables that require an even distribution of light to enhance workplace collaboration.
Teamwork is also flexible enough to suit individual needs. It can direct light in a downward direction only but is also available with the option of up and down lighting, with both options compatible with a choice of popular dimming protocols.
Tagged: Acoustic Lighting, Pendant Lights
We seek to create endearing and enduring products designed to bring a space to life, which has been integrated in our latest Grapho Bubble design that appears to have a wonderful life of its own.
Imbued with personality and character, our Grapho Bubble is skilfully handcrafted in our Mentone factory from beautiful Japanese rice paper, which provides the light with an interactive quality, making it an irreverent take on a classic paper ball light.
First launched at Melbourne's DEN Fair 2017, the Grapho Bubble takes its name from the word meaning 'to write' or 'to sketch' as custom graphic designs can be added to the pendants during productions.
When illuminated, our Grapho Bubble comes to life in more ways than one. A small fan inside the Grapho Bubble pendant is connected to the sustainable LED light source and inflates the rice paper when switched on. The LED can also be dimmable (upon request) for a variety of ambient settings. The Grapho Bubble inflates in as little as 20 seconds from being switched on and when switched off, the fan stops turning the light and it gently deflates.
The Grapho Bubble is available in a diameter of 600mm and 1500mm.
We invite you to preview the Grapho Bubble's interactive feature in the video below.
POP PENDANTS REVISITED
We are constantly updating the ISM Objects collection to keep pace with the latest technological developments in lighting, and the POP is a great example of this.
The revised POP pendant will add just the right amount of luxe to interior environments. Beautifully crafted from moulded polymer with a polished finish, their classic spherical shape makes them an enduring addition to any commercial or residential space plus our latest versions are LED compatible.
Even the finest interior designs can fall flat without the right lighting. That's why the our Pop Pendants are the perfect addition. They enhance the atmosphere of any interior space and bring a pop of personality that is truly unique.
The Pop Pendants are available in two sizes and their suspension comes in a smart black fabric cable with black metal components, which is adjustable on installation.
The pared-back palette (including Opal, Clear, and Smoke) along with the classic form of the Pop Pendants makes them the perfect complement to a wide range of interior design schemes and like all ISM Objects' designs, they'll never goes out of style.
IDEAS, PRODUCTS
KEEPING IT CLASSIC WITH BLACK & GOLD
There are always dominant trends in interiors. Black and gold is firmly cemented in the spotlight as a versatile combination that suits a range of interior styles and with a beautiful selection of designs from us it's clear we think it has a bright future.
The combination of black and gold makes an elegant statement within interior environments. Designers need not be limited in their ways of introducing this trend to the finest spaces, a lighting statement perfectly captures the sleek, striking blend of black and golden brass.
Here are our favourite black & gold designs from our collection...
The Clinker Pendant collection
The Luxe Wall light
The Loft Wall light
The Studio 6 Desk lamp
The Nudie Pendant
We think these perfectly capture the classic interior trend for black and gold. They feature classic forms and unique detailing that will never date.
CUSTOM LIGHTING, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
STORY COFFEE & FOODSTORE - CHRIS CONNELL
The warm timber interior of Story Coffee & Foodstore provides a welcoming retreat from the concrete corporate towers of Melbourne's Docklands. The interior is by the wonderful Chris Connell Design and our custom lighting plays a key role in creating its intimate atmosphere.
Chris Connell Design is responsible for the elegant interior of some of Melbourne's hospitality institutions, such as Café e Cucina, Mr Wolf and Il Bacaro, which was inducted into the Design Hall of Fame at last year's East Drink Design Awards.
In addition to hospitality designs, this Melbourne-based architecture and interior design studio has been creating beautiful retail and residential spaces for almost 30 years. Design director Chris Connell is also co-founder of MAP international furniture and designs timeless, simple pieces with a strong attention to detail and a clear respect for materials.
The Story Coffee & Foodstore exhibits the same qualities. Located on the ground level of the NAB building development in the Docklands, it is part of the Dukes Coffee family of cafes, which Chris Connell also designed.
The latest Dukes addition to the Docklands features smooth wooden panels and soft lighting via custom brass feature pendants that we had the pleasure of creating for Chris Connell Design.
Made from spun brass with a contrasting black paint feature, the pendants complement the warm timber interior and add to the café's elegant atmosphere.
O'CONNELL CENTENARY HOTEL - TECHNE ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR DESIGN
Techne Architecture and Interior Design is responsible for the transformation of some of Melbourne's best-loved watering holes, such as the Prahran Hotel, the Terminus in Abbotsford and the Bridge Hotel in Richmond. When they turned their award-winning design minds to another Melbourne institution, O'Connell Centenary Hotel in South Melbourne, they selected our Boss Pendants and Shady Table & Wall Lamps, which we modified to fit perfectly with Techne's vision for the interior.
Techne is highly regarded for their hospitality designs. In addition to hotels, they have designed the interior of restaurants such as Lee Ho Fook, Jimmy Grants and Movida, and the studio is also highly regarded for their commercial and residential work.
The iconic O'Connells was one of Melbourne's first 'gastro' pubs and Techne's refurbishment shows great sensitivity to both the history of the venue and its current patrons. Its character has been enhanced through modern additions and refreshed traditional elements.
Lighting from ISM Objects has helped create the warm and welcoming atmosphere. Our Boss Pendants feature a circular pendant lamp and were made for this project in a custom bronze finish. Our Shady Lamps, designed by Daniel Barbera, were also modified to suit the O'Connells interior design. The wall lamps were customised as double fixtures while the lamps were fixed directly into the joinery.
The refurbishment of this Melbourne institution shows great respect for the venue's history. Techne describes the interior design as 'evolutionary' rather than 'revolutionary'. We'll drink to that.


<> Upton, Shimkus, and Pallone Support Bipartisan Effort to Improve Chemical Safety - Building on work begun last Congress to reform chemical management, bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders unveiled a discussion draft of the TSCA Modernization Act. The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), will hold a legislative hearing on the draft legislation Tuesday.
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<> Energy Department to Fund R&D to Advance Low-Impact Hydropower Technologies - $7 million funding opportunity for the research and development of innovative technologies for low-impact hydropower systems -- funding to advance hydropower drivetrains, which transfer rotational energy from turbines to generators, and structural foundations that will minimize environmental impacts and reduce the lifetime costs associated with operating and maintaining new hydropower projects.
<> Winter Severity and Frost Depth in a Warming Climate - Scientists calculate and evaluate a new version of NOAA's air-freezing index that can be used to estimate maximum soil frost depth.
<> 100 Mayors adopt Seoul Declaration for sustainable cities - 100 mayors from around the world were onstage at International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) World Congress 2015 to adopt the Seoul Declaration -- a collaborative document that sets out a path to urban sustainability.
<> Lowe's Agrees to Phase Out Bee-Toxic Neonicotinoid Insecticides - April 9, 2015 (Washington, DC)—After months of pressure from the public, Lowe's Home Improvement has announced it will begin taking steps to protect bees and similarly affected pollinators from toxic insecticides. . .
<> API: Offshore oil & gas operations are safer than ever - In a press conference call Jack Gerard, API President and CEO said, "In the five years since the tragic events at the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, America's oil and natural gas industry and our regulators have kept our commitment to make offshore operations safer than ever before."
<> EDITORIAL: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative needs full funding - More work remains to be done; from cleaning up the nutrient runoff blamed for harmful algae growth to defending the lakes against invasive species such as Asian carp.
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<> Five Historic Lighthouses to Receive Nearly $120,000 in MI State Preservation Grants - Charlevoix South Pier Lighthouse, Crisp Point Lighthouse, Mission Point Lighthouse, Sand Point Lighthouse and South Haven Pier Light to undergo preservation and rehabilitation projects.
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<> Huron County Commissioners pass wind energy moratorium - The Huron County Board of Commissioners voted 4-3 for a zoning ordinance amendment that halts any new wind energy development for 90 days or until the ordinance is updated with changes recommended by the Wind Energy Zoning Committee.
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The number of times have you listened to that Search Engine Optimization will pass away? I think you can not track the variety of times. Directly I have actually shed matter. Some individuals also most likely to as for anticipating that Search Engine Optimization will certainly pass away in the following 10 years! Obviously that is not real; below are reasons Search Engine Optimization will not pass away.
Possibly it's due to their easy names or the extended period they have actually been about, however every person appears to understand the preferred online search engine. Image this, Google is made use of by over 300 million individuals each day, yahoo is made use of by 140 million individuals day-to-day and also Bing is utilized by 70 million individuals daily. These are extremely big numbers! Exactly what makes it much more fascinating is that it forecasted that these numbers will certainly triple in the following 5 years as increasingly more individuals begin utilizing smart phones to gain access to web. Exactly what is not seen by numerous is that the majority of these web site individuals worldwide do not know the LINK for the lots of web sites that complete for their focus. Just what they just recognize are the key words and also the online search engine to look the key words, duration. This reality just validates that Search Engine Optimization is right here to remain. Unless, naturally, the internet site proprietors begin a door to door advertising project to connect to customers.
Attempt looking a key phrase as well as you will certainly obtain 2 points: 10 outcomes matching the keyword phrase and also an expression analysis "10 of one million outcomes". This discusses an easy truth – one million sites are contending for just 10 ports for a specific search phrase. To ensure of getting on the very first web page you should maximize for that specific keyword phrase. To keep visibility in the very first web page you likewise need to proceed enhancing your internet site, failing to which you go down positions right into the various other web pages. Site will certainly as a result need to proceed doing Search Engine Optimization to preserve getting on the initial web page or to obtain to the very first web page.
Prior to the introduction of internet search engine, the searching website traffic was really reduced. This was just since individuals that were doing searches on the internet were not obtaining exactly what they were looking for or were not obtaining the ideal outcomes. Nevertheless with the internet search engine, you obtain a listing of various result in pick the one that matches your search best. This basic advantage has actually made online search engine popular with customers making a growing number of individuals to proceed making use of internet search engine. Seo likewise generates income. Remaining in the initial web page of the online search engine results assurances noticeable on-line existence, this equates to sales if you are an organisation. If you are a Search Engine Optimization firm you generate income for aiding web site climb positions right into the very first web page. This is an additional reason that Search Engine Optimization will certainly not pass away due to the fact that it profits customers.
With Search Engine Optimization, you could inform just what solution remains in need. This is merely done by inspecting the website traffic on a particular keyword phrase from online search engine devices such as the Google AdWords. With this, organisations are offered a possibility to recognize just what solutions are being sought for by consumers online. This implies just one point, also if Search Engine Optimization does not function to offer web sites existence in the very first web page, it will certainly still be made use of for various other factors such as analyzing the need for sure key phrases.


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The Book of Isaiah 15
1 The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. 2 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.
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1 At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered. 2 Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his...
A Disclosure of the Hidden Treasures of Heaven Contained in the Holy Scripture or Word of the Lord, Together with Amazing Things Seen in the World of Spirits and in the Heaven of Angels 27
27. Verse 9. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together to one place, and let the dry [land] appear; and it was so. When it is known that there is both an internal and an external man, and that truths and goods flow in from, or through, the internal man to the external, from the Lord, although it does not so appear, then those truths and goods, or the knowledges of the true...
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259. That by the "heel" is meant the lowest natural or corporeal cannot be known unless the way in which the most ancient people considered the various things in man is known. They referred his celestial and spiritual things to the head and face; what comes forth from these (as charity and mercy), to the chest natural things, to the feet; lower natural things, to the soles of the feet; a...
268. That the "ground" signifies the external man, is evident from what was previously stated concerning "earth" "ground" and "field." When man is regenerate, he is no longer called "earth" but "ground" because celestial seed has been implanted in him; he is also compared to "ground" and is called "ground" in various p...
561. But what are remains? They are not only the goods and truths that a man has learned from the Lord's Word from infancy, and has thus impressed on his memory, but they are also all the states thence derived, such as states of innocence from infancy; states of love toward parents, brothers, teachers, friends; states of charity toward the neighbor, and also of pity for the poor and needy; in a wo...
609. As the state of the man of this church which is called "Noah" was altogether changed from that of the man of the Most Ancient Church, he could no longer-as said before-be informed and enlightened in the same way as the most ancient man; for his internals were closed, so that he no longer had communication with heaven, except such as was unconscious. Nor, for the same reason, could h...
868. Until the waters were dried up from off the earth. That this signifies the apparent dissipation of falsities, is evident from the state of man when he is being regenerated. Everyone believes at the present day that the evils and falsities in man are entirely separated and abolished during regeneration, so that when he becomes regenerate, nothing of evil or falsity remains, but he is clean and...
1408. These and the things which follow occurred historically as they are written; but the historicals are representatives and all the words are significative. The case is the same with all the historicals of the Word, not only with those in the books of Moses, but also with those in the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings. In all these, nothing is apparent but mere history; but although it...
1450. And he removed from thence into the mountain on the east of Bethel. That this signifies the Lord's fourth state when a child, is evident from what precedes and from what follows, and also from the order itself. The order was that the Lord should first of all be imbued from infancy with the celestial things of love. The celestial things of love are love to Jehovah and love to the neighbor, an...
1469. That "Sarai," as a wife, is the truth that was adjoined to the celestial things which were in the Lord, is evident from what has just been said concerning the signification of Sarai his wife. It is said, "the truth that was adjoined to celestial things," because the Lord possessed all truth previous to His instruction. What is celestial has truth with it, the one being in...
1502. From all this it is now evident that Abram's sojourn in Egypt represents and signifies nothing else than the Lord, and in fact His instruction in childhood. This is also confirmed by what is said in Hosea: Out of Egypt have I called My son (Hos. 11:1; Matt. 2:15); and again from what is said in Moses: The dwelling of the sons of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was thirt...
1548. Toward the south. That this signifies into celestial light, is evident from the signification of "the south," as being a state of light as to the interiors (spoken of before, n. 1458). There are two states from which comes celestial light. The first is that into which man is introduced from infancy; for it is known that infants are in innocence and in the goods of love, which are t...
1748. That from a thread even to the thong [or latchet] of a shoe. That this signifies all natural and corporeal things that were unclean, is evident from the signification of "the thong of a shoe." In the Word the sole of the foot and the heel signify the ultimate natural (as before shown, n. 259). A shoe is that which covers the sole of the foot and the heel; a "shoe" therefo...
1771. Certain spirits also were in unbelief concerning the Word of the Lord, as to there being such things stored up in its bosom, or within it; for in the other life spirits are in unbelief like that in which they had been in the life of the body; and this is not dissipated except by means provided by the Lord, and by living experiences. On this account, while I was reading some of the Psalms of...
2310. CHAPTER 19 The Internal Sense of the Word has already been many times treated of; but I am aware that few can believe that there is such a sense in everything of the Word, not only in the prophetical, but also in the historical parts. That there is such a sense in the prophetical parts can more easily be believed, because in them there is not so connected a series of t...
2494. When men who are in love to the Lord and in charity toward the neighbor are living in the world, they have with themselves and in themselves angelic intelligence and wisdom, but stored up in the inmosts of their interior memory; which intelligence and wisdom cannot possibly appear to them until they put off corporeal things. Then the memory of particulars (spoken of above) is put to sleep; a...
2588. Abraham's wife. That this signifies in order that spiritual truth might be conjoined with celestial good, is evident from the representation of Sarah as a wife, as being spiritual truth conjoined with celestial good (see n. 1468, 1901, 2063, 2065, 2172, 2173, 2198, 2507); and from the representation of Abraham, as being celestial good conjoined with spiritual truth (see n. 2011, 2172, 2198,...
2851. And thy seed shall inherit the gate of thine enemies. That this signifies that charity and faith shall succeed in the place where evil and falsity were before, is evident from the signification of "inheriting," as being to receive the Lord's life (see n. 2658); here, to succeed in the place, because when charity and faith are in the place where evil and falsity were before, then th...
2967. Current with the merchant. That this signifies adapted to their state, is evident from the signification of the "merchant," and thence of "current with the merchant." A "merchant" in the Word signifies those who have the knowledges of good and truth; and their "merchandise" signifies the knowledges themselves; hence "silver current with the mercha...


The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reports that, in fiscal year 2017, nearly half of all charges filed with the agency included claims for retaliation. What exactly is retaliation – and why is it a potential problem for so many employers?
a "causal connection" between the two.
Protected activity can include "opposing" unlawful activity – such as making an internal complaint of harassment – or "participating" in proceedings regarding alleged unlawful activity – such as testifying in a coworker's discrimination lawsuit.
Virtually any state or federal anti-discrimination statute is a potential source for a retaliation claim. Other federal statutes – such as the Fair Labor Standards Act (addressing proper pay practices) and the Family and Medical Leave Act – also can give rise to retaliation claims, as can state laws, including workers' compensation and whistleblower laws. Importantly, these laws can provide the basis for retaliation allegations even if the claim underlying the protected activity ultimately is unfounded, or the request for leave (FMLA), accommodation (ADA) or workers' compensation benefits is denied.
Although adverse employment actions do not include every perceived unfair treatment in the workplace, they do include actions such as termination, a material change in job functions, an involuntary job transfer or a failure to promote. The third retaliation element, causal connection, often can be easy to establish, particularly when the adverse action takes place soon after the protected activity.
All employers should have a clear, written policy against retaliation. The policy should spell out exactly what retaliation is and should make clear that the organization will not tolerate retaliation from managers or other employees. The policy should include a reporting mechanism with multiple avenues of reporting so that employees can report suspected retaliation before it escalates.
All employees should understand what constitutes retaliation in the workplace. Managers, supervisors and human resources representatives need to know how to properly respond when an employee complains or participates in an investigation. Retain training documents and sign in sheets as proof of having taken practical steps to prevent retaliation.
The fewer people who know about a complaint or other protected activity, the lower the chances of retaliation. While some people will need to be aware of any given situation, keep that knowledge on a need to know basis and remind those individuals of the organization's anti-retaliation policy.
When an employee raises concerns, particularly those regarding discrimination or harassment, thank the employee for coming forward and explain that the organization takes all complaints seriously. Explain the organization's anti-retaliation policy, and assure the employee that the organization will not tolerate retaliation.
When considering any adverse employment action, review whether the employee has engaged in protected activity such that the adverse action could be viewed as retaliatory. Weigh the retaliation risk carefully, follow relevant policies and avoid treating the person more severely than other employees who have engaged in similar misconduct or performance problems.
When in doubt, employers should consult with experienced human resources professionals and/or labor and employment counsel about the appropriate course of action. For MEA members, the Hotline and a Member Legal Services attorney are available to provide this assistance.


Miki (Teddikuma My Masquerade) was one very spoilt "only child" for the first few years of her life.
Then little Caleb arrived and turned her world up-side-down.
By using patience, perseverance, love, understanding and devotion, her owners were able to help Miki re-adjust and today Miki and Caleb are best buddies and totally inseparable.
HOW GOOD IS THE AKITA WITH CHILDREN?
The Akita should have an absolute affinity with children as its history suggests they were once used as babysitters while the parents worked the fields. Akitas brought up in a family with children are usually extremely good with them however Akitas allowed to grow up without any contact with children do not always readily accept them. The success or failure of any relationship that an Akita has with children strongly depends on the temperament of the Akita, its upbringing and the behaviour of the children.
All Akita puppy's are cute but temperaments can vary like their colours. It is important for the sire and dam to have good temperaments in order for the puppies to grow up with good temperaments. For this reason it is highly advisable to view both the sire and dam of the litter. Purchasing an Akita puppy as a family pet should never be rushed.
An experienced breeder can evaluate their litter and help choose the puppy with the soft temperament needed to become that ideal family pet. Teaching that puppy to respect children lies firmly in the hands of the new owner.
An Akita puppy must be socialised with children of all ages during its puppy hood and adolescence period. This is particularly important for owners that have no children but intend having them at a later date. This does not mean throwing the puppy into a yard full of rowdy kids as this will create fear and could work quite in the opposite way. A fear biter is a dangerous Akita. Alternatively, children should be encouraged to be gentle with the puppy, in a controlled environment where petting and play are supervised. An Akita must associate any contact with children as pleasant experiences not frightening ones. So children must also be taught to respect the Akita puppy and treat it with kindness.
Teaching an Akita puppy bite inhibition during this period is also extremely important. Akita litter puppies bite each other in play and bite inhibition is something all puppies learn while still with their siblings. If bitten during play, they squeal till the sibling lets go. This lets the sibling know it has played too rough. Humans can learn from this too. Puppy's all need to chew and they will bite almost anything. Should puppy play bite a human, a high pitched squeal is usually all it takes for it to let go. By instantly giving it something it can bite, such as a toy along with heaps of praise, puppy will learn bite inhibition. Positive reinforcement with reward is always the best form of teaching.
Problems can also arise when family friends come to visit. An Akita may be fine with its own children in the family but it may not tolerate any boisterous behaviour from children that don't belong. A squabble between children could cause an Akitas protective instincts to react. Children at play should always be supervised if the Akita is nearby.
Akita's are very bonded to their immediate family, particularly if allowed to live inside the house, sharing in daily activities. Problems may arise when the family grows and a newborn baby is brought into the household. Some Akita's can get quite distressed and suffer a type of "second child syndrome" being jealous of this new arrival. The Akita may see this new addition as a threat to its security and so problems arise.
This is usually evident if there are no other children in the household. Sadly, it is not uncommon for Akita owners to dispose of their Akita for this reason, many doing so before the baby is born. However, there are many things that can be done to help the adult Akita accept baby's arrival, ensuring a much happier scenario.
Introductions of the baby with the Akita should be done immediately the baby is brought home. Hiding the baby away from the Akita will instil suspicion and help create a negative situation. Start by allowing the Akita to familiarise itself with the baby's scent. This is done using a piece of bedding or clothing from the baby. Always be very confident, upbeat and happy while introductions take place. The Akita must sense that the addition of the new baby is something new and good, not something it needs to be cautious or wary of.
Human babies sleep most of the day and it is highly advisable to allow the Akita supervised visits to be near the baby while baby sleeps. During this time pay special attention to the Akita, with lots of praise hugs and pets. The Akita will associate this special attention while being near baby as something positive and therefore be more accepting of the new family member. Equally important is to avoid any special attention with the Akita while the baby is not in the room. In other words the Akita receives special treatment and attention in the presence of the baby and NOT in the absence of the baby.
A few examples of bringing baby and Akita together safely with positive results are as follows. While feeding the baby feed the Akita, while playing with the baby include the Akita in the games. Allow the Akita to observe nappy change time takeing with the Akita during this process. When taking the Akita for it's daily walk, bring baby along in it's stroller. While people stop to coo at the baby, attention & affection should be increased toward the Akita. It is very important to create good times and happy times while the baby is present. This is positive reinforcement and teaches tolerance and respect towards the new addition to the family, and can be a wonderful experience for both owner and Akita.
On the other hand, if an Akita is locked away from the new born for fear of an attack, it will sense these negative feelings and fear generated and become more anxious and agitated during baby's presence. Negative feelings between the Akita and the new born will intensify and it may attribute these fears toward the helpless child.
If introductions are done correctly while baby is still in arms, by the time baby's crawling or toddling around the Akita will already have accepted it into the family. It is now very important to show confidence by allowing the Akita supervised visits but always use common sense. The height of a toddler is at eye level with an Akita so any poking or prodding by the child towards the Akita can be dangerous. The child must be taught to pet the Akita, not poke at it.
There are just as many instances where the Akita immediately adopts the new family member and assumes that untaught role of babysitter and guardian. This however happens more often with females than males. The stories of Akitas used as babysitters for Japanese children certainly have their origin in families lucky enough to own one of those special Akitas who innately love and respect children.


You could make this vegan or vegetarian, as well! Omit the chicken and/or substitute the butter and milk for oil and alternate your milk choice, such as almond, rice or soy.
1 small yellow onion, minced Coarse salt and freshly ground pep.
Chicken stew: In a medium Dutch oven, or, we use a regular stock pot, melt butter over medium-high heat. Add onion, carrots, celery, and thyme; cook until the onion is translucent, about 4 minutes. Add flour and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Gradually add broth stirring constantly, and bring to a boil. Add chicken and return to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes. Stir in green beans; season with salt and pepper.
Enjoy! It's quick, delicious and our kids love it! Let me know what you think!
Martha Stewart, 2014. One Pot. New York:Clarkson Potter.
*We do not toast the cumin and oregano. Maybe we'll give it a swirl sometime.
If you have a super duper black beans and rice recipe that you would like to share, holler!


It is what is says, people! ;-) I ducked out some handling noise, but for the most part the audio is unaltered. Enjoy.
Yes, the Noise Jockey Corporate Yacht follows the Noise Jockey Online Branding and Color Usage Guidelines.
Kayaking on the Whiskeytown Reservoir in Northern California, I was surrounded by motorboats pulling wakeboarders. I wanted to see what all those speedboats sounded like underwater, so I dropped my hydrophone over the side and took a listen (with my field recorder safely under the deck of my kayak, in a dry bag). The inboard engines emitted a clean, high-tech whine with none of the chunky, air-gulping combustion engine sounds we typically hear in the air. "Spaceship," I instantly thought.
I merged two recordings of these motorboats, each about half a kilometer away, futzed with them just a tad (sorry, my effects chain is lost to the dim mists of time!), and turned it into a loopable drone.
Beer, toiletries, ice chest, field recorders. Yep, that's a well-stocked camping trip!
The metal bearproof food locker is a common sight in the developed campgrounds of the Sierra Nevada mountains. They're infamously noisy to open, close, and move things around in, and are usually the first sounds you hear in the morning. They do their job, though…provided you have them closed. I once had a close encounter with a bear whose head was stuck right into my slightly open bear locker (in my defense, it was in the midst of dinner preparation), but that's another story for another blog.
I finally decided to record one on a trip this summer. It was a kayaking trip, so I had both my Zoom H2 [yeah, this is an older sound] and a hydrophone, so I decided to use both: The Zoom would get the stereo effects and the hydrophone would pick up the raw vibrations. I placed the H2 horizontally centered in the locker, and placed the hydrophone on the single shelf inside. Holy resonance, Batman!
Use gear made by those who make gear they themselves use, and make gear for other users. That's prosumerism.
The title of this article isn't what you think it is.
You can't shop for electronics or technology without hearing "prosumer." People assume this portmanteau is a contraction of "professional-consumer." Only marketing wonks have made it so.
That is neither its original meaning, nor the topic of this post.
The term was coined in Alvin Toffler's seminal book Future Shock as a contraction of "producer" and "consumer," predicting the merging of the roles of consumption and production into the life of one individual, primarily due to customization of mass-produced objects and the creation of highly specialized products. That is, person A makes widget X, who sells X to person B who makes widget Y, which person A, in turn, buys…it's a massively networked set of cottage industries. This trend has exploded in the last decade. When Wired writes about micro-manufacturing and "no more factories," we've probably arrived at a prosumer tipping point.
That, dear friends, is what this post is about. And yes, this is audio-related. Chances are, this article is probably about you, too.
"Sump pump." I mean, ewww. What is "sump," anyway? Sure sounds like it's something in need of pumping!
Our house is very poorly placed on its lot. Since our place is downslope from the street, water runs down the driveway towards the house. Thankfully, someone long ago put a pretty good drainage system with an electric pump that pumps the water back to the curb, where it can run to a drainage grate in the street.
In the midst of a week of spring rain, I decided to toss the ol' hydrophone into the drain box and record the pump, which is activated when a bobber reaches a certain height. The drain box is poured concrete, so it's acoustically reflective. The pump kicking in is my favorite part, sure to be used for something later on. The big dropoff in volume is where the hydrophone was left high and dry when the water level dropped. Notice how the sound of air bubbles become more pronounced as the water level meets the capsule, and then passes by it. Water turbulence right on the capsule tends to be very loud, as it imparts direct mechanical vibrations to the mic element itself.
Dipping struck finger cymbals into water creates some great filtering effects.
So a fellow gets a hydrophone. He's excited, and starts recording all sorts of crap. But then he has a free hour to himself and realizes that he's got a box full of sound-making toys and objects that could sound pretty interesting underwater.
Let's say I'm that fellow.
Before work one day, I sifted through said toybox and decided to give this a whirl. In search for a large container to fill with water, I decided to record in the executive washroom of Noise Jockey World Headquarters, and the photos in this post will give you a glimpse of the sumptuous luxury in which we conduct our noisy business.
Since our high-tech executive spa didn't have a stopper handy, I grabbed a plastic tub and filled it with lukewarm water. I put the hydrophone halfway between the surface of the water and the bottom of the tub, suspended from a boom arm so the cable would be isolated from noise and the mic element wouldn't sit on the bottom.
An Aquarian H2-XLR hydrophone set into a tub of water.
The Aquarian H2a-XLR hydrophone is pretty heavy and holds quite still. One gotcha is that a high-frequency hiss can occur from air bubbles forming on the microphone casing. This can be a challenge if the water coming out of your spigot is highly aerated. I'm still working on solving that one.
I donned a pair of finger cymbals (truly something every sound recordist should own!) and dipped one or both of them in the water after striking them together. They went into the water at a 60°-90° angle, so that they'd not create entry splashes or secondary water drips. This created a really neat tone that combined a pitch bend with a very resonant filter cutoff.
I've attached an edit of the raw recordings to this post. Pitch-bent down or up, obviously, there's a lot of sonic possibilities for sound design. As with all such experiments I do, I tracked at 192kHz to ensure enough latitude for further sonic malfeasance.
Hydrophone + Ice + Tonic. Sound and cocktail design in one easy step.
I also got the rubber cup that enables it to be used as a contact microphone, and I must say that it also excels in this capacity: Super-low noise and very articulate, even recording human heartbeats with clarity (Hint: Aim for the sternum, the pecs have too much muscle and fat in the way). The H2a's weight, however, prevents it from being easily taped upside-down or held in odd positions like my other contact mics I've used in previous posts.
When the H2a came in, I placed this device in all the usual places you'd expect for some quick tests: the sink, the bathtub, the cats' water fountain. But having just discovered some very tasty tonic water for making cocktails, it struck me that I'd not recorded carbonation before. After hearing the clear, but not overly-bright, tones of the carbonation, I decided to mix up the room-temperature tonic water with some ice cubes.
The ice's cracking, melting, and expansion was largely in the same frequency neighborhood as the carbonation bubbles and added an interesting dimension to the sound. Some initial sound processing makes me think that melting ice in still water might make for a cool creature sound pitched down -3 octaves or so, but for today, let's listen to the original recording, unadorned and unprocessed.


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Peace and Freedom II
May 8, 2019 Eric Leave a comment
The poster here is announcing the "Peace Illumination Walk" held in New York City on Friday Dec 23 1966, one month after the "Love & Peace & Freedom" walk that was announced in the companion poster (pictured in the previous posting). Another early Peace March in opposition to the Vietnam War. As my previous discussion mentioned, there was a small window where a jubilant ecstatic tenor outweighed an angry and vengeful tone that slipped into the "movement" of the 1960s. This is that moment.
For Love and Peace and Freedom
March 18, 2019 Eric 5 Comments
November 1966*
Historians (and other social scientists) think and work and research in two dimensions. There's the vertical. And then there's the horizontal. Take Pompeii as an example. The vertical aspect is the moment in time that was frozen with the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. Archaeologists (primarily) and historians study the ruins to reconstruct that lost moment. The graffiti on the walls, the perfect frescoes in the long-ago atria, the petrified corpses in last gasp poses. Each remaining artifact has a place in the reconstruction. The deeper you go into the analysis the fuller the picture of that one moment. Vertical thinking digs deep.
On the other hand, horizontal thinking casts its nets across far distances — both of time and space. Wikipedia has adopted this approach with its "List of Years" pages. Each page documents known events that took place around the world during the same year. Historians need to keep both perspectives in their work. To ignore the larger context runs a risk of missing a key element in the story.
That brings us to the image above. This was a poster designed for a protest of the American Vietnam War. The protest took place on Nov 5 1966 starting at 11am in Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan, New York City. It was a march through city streets. The protesters eventually ended up in midtown Manhattan for a rally at 2pm. This was 1966 — three years after the first protest against the war organized by the War Resisters League. And seven years before all U.S. combat troops would be pulled out of a war that a generation of American youth had come to loathe.
What's so interesting about this poster — from a horizontal historical perspective — is the moment in time. Fall of 1966. Think of what else was happening on the radical social and cultural landscape of America at that moment. In September, the Artists Liberation Front announced their program of Free Fairs in San Francisco. The Black Panthers formed in Oakland in October and issued their revolutionary Ten Point Program. The Diggers formed in the same month as the Panthers, issuing a series of street manifestos and offering the first of a series of Free community services. Lenore Kandel's Love Book would be busted along with three booksellers in November in San Francisco, leading to the coalescence of resistance by a community that would embrace the concept of love as their siren call the following year — the Summer of Love. And as this poster clearly evidences, the American Peace Movement had fully surfaced.
The fall of 1966 thus was a moment in which the politics of ecstasy was in ascendancy. Soon, the winter of discontent would seek to erase the memory of this moment of hope. The Peace Movement would become the Anti-War Movement. As such, perhaps it was inevitable — in confrontation with societal powers, the blush of hope is soon burnished. But just as rivers can flow underground before surfacing in unexpected places, so can avant-garde culture fade then reappear. Who knows when? Who knows where? Keep a horizontal perspective to know the answer.
*Image courtesy of Museum of the City of New York.
Digger Bread (another recipe)
January 19, 2019 Eric Leave a comment
My friend Frank notified me that a local bulletin board had a listing for sale of a copy of The Mother Earth News, volume 1, number 1 (Jan 1970). Somehow, Frank (who is a collecting wizard in his own right) knew that this particular issue had a copy of the Digger Bread recipe. Last year, I completed the Digger Bread & Free Bakery(ies) page and one of the clippings I included from 1970 mentioned the forthcoming premier issue of TMEN and a listing of articles, one of which was the "digger bread" recipe. Due to Frank's swift alertness, I was able to obtain this issue and scan the article. Here then is the recipe that Mother Earth News printed in their premier issue:
[Note: for background info on "digger bread" and the Free Bakery, refer to link above.]
Note the "correction" at the bottom of the recipe. This was obviously added by the editors at Mother Earth News. If any curious reader will compare this version to the original recipe that the All Saints Church diggers published, there are several differences worth mentioning. First, of course, is the mistake in the amount of water. In the original recipe, it was "2-1/2 cups warm water." Here (before the correction) it is "1/2 cup lukewarm water." Obviously somewhere along the line the "2" got dropped in transcription. (The editors at Mother Earth News realized this, but their version only uses 1-1/2 cups of water and a banana, an innovation of their local baker.) Another interesting difference (although, in reality, just a difference of emphasis) is the discussion of whole wheat flour. The original recipe stated emphatically, "White flour, or bleached whole-wheat, is not allowed for Free Bread." The recipe (above) says, "Nasty old white flour will never do!" So, the emphasis on whole wheat versus white flour remains; the emphasis on Free has been dropped. Undoubtedly the baking of bread was (by 1969) more of a daily, communal operation — rather than a revolutionary act.
Trust People, Not Money
December 20, 2018 Eric 1 Comment
The Homebrew Computer Club was an important nexus in the underground computer culture that developed in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970s. Out of this informal grouping of computer hobbyists, freaky engineers and long-hair technologists came several of the early computer companies that would quickly develop and spread the Personal Computer revolution and ultimately the Internet/World Wide Web domain two decades later. In the traditional telling of this history, the influence of the San Francisco Diggers has been completely overlooked and overshadowed by the rise of the commercial products of the computer revolution—Apple, Microsoft, IBM PC, etc. But the Diggers played a key role in the early culture of the computer underground that continues to this day in the form of open-source software and the idea that the Internet should remain Free. Here's the proof (i.e., evidence) of this thesis.
Fred Moore was one of the founders of the Homebrew Computer Club. The history of this group is well documented.* But one aspect of Fred Moore's philosophy has never been mentioned. Fred was inspired by the Diggers. I will delve into this in more detail but for now, after long desire to get this document posted for all to share, here's one of Fred's digger-inspired manifestos. He wrote this in 1974.
Put Your Trust in People, Not Money
(published anonymously by Fred Moore, 1974)
Money is obsolete, value-less, anti-life, etc. The use of money displaces trust, causes alienation, fragments community, tends to reduce everything and every being to a commodity, etc. Money is the economic language of our present society. Buying, selling, renting, and charging interest are the rituals that maintain and reinforce the myth of the market economy. The myth is that everything has a monetary price. And the only value is price.
Money is a symbolic tool. Yes, and in using that tool over and over we have subjected ourselves, our social relationships, and the ecology of our environment to that tool—so that now we are finding that we are not the master of the tool, but the tool has become the measure of us and our world. Money is God.
*Here's an excerpt from Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs. This is an account of how Steve Wozniak met Steve Jobs and Woz's early inspiration to give away his Apple computer for free, and how Steve Jobs convinced him otherwise.
Woz was usually too shy to talk in the meetings, but people would gather around his machine afterward, and he would proudly show off his progress. Moore had tried to instill in the Homebrew an ethos of swapping and sharing rather than commerce. "The theme of the club," Woz said, "was 'Give to help others.'" It was an expression of the hacker ethic that information should be free and all authority mistrusted. "I designed the Apple I because I wanted to give it away for free to other people," said Wozniak.
This was not an outlook that Bill Gates embraced. After he and Paul Allen had completed their BASIC interpreter for the Altair, Gates was appalled that members of the Homebrew were making copies of it and sharing it without paying him. So he wrote what would become a famous letter to the club: "As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Is this fair? . . . One thing you do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? . . . I would appreciate letters from anyone who wants to pay up."
Steve Jobs, similarly, did not embrace the notion that Wozniak's creations, be it a Blue Box or a computer, wanted to be free. So he convinced Wozniak to stop giving away copies of his schematics. Most people didn't have time to build it themselves anyway, Jobs argued. "Why don't we build and sell printed circuit boards to them?" It was an example of their symbiosis. "Every time I'd design something great, Steve would find a way to make money for us," said Wozniak. Wozniak admitted that he would have never thought of doing that on his own. "It never crossed my mind to sell computers. It was Steve who said, 'Let's hold them in the air and sell a few.'"
Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs (pp. 61-62). Simon & Schuster.
Lew Welch Special
December 5, 2018 Eric Leave a comment
Here's a scan of Lew Welch's piece "A Moving Target Is Hard To Hit" which the Communication Company printed and distributed on Haight Street in the pre-Summer of Love (March, 1967). I was talking with my friend Mel Ash today and it turns out we two were similarly affected by Lew Welch's outpouring of poetic genius. I thought I had posted this scan on the Digger web but it turns out I only have the xerox that I made in 1974. I will have to update the catalog to remedy that oversight. But in the meantime, here's for you, Mel (and Lew).
The hypocrisy of political correctness
October 18, 2018 Eric 2 Comments
The hypocrisy of political correctness. The City removed the tableau on the other side of this monument* in San Francisco's civic center that depicted a Native California Indian in a subservient pose with two Spanish figures (missionary, vaquero). And yet this statue remains depicting the miners who flocked to California after news of the discovery of gold in 1848 at Sutter's mill first spread to Yerba Buena (the Spanish pueblo that would become San Francisco) then nationwide. The Forty-Niners (depicted below) on the whole were a catastrophe for California Indians, much more so than the Spanish and subsequently Mexicans had been. The Forty-Niners carried out what can only be called genocide on the Native peoples.
WHY NOT TELL THE HISTORY INSTEAD OF HIDING IT AWAY?
*known as Pioneer Monument, located on Fulton between Larkin and Hyde.
Planet Drum Retrospective
September 7, 2018 Eric Leave a comment
In the history of the 1960s Digger movement in San Francisco and the West Coast, there is an arc of events and a continuity of intention that can be discerned starting in the late 1950s with the Beat poets and avant-garde happenings amidst the burgeoning social movements of the period. The Diggers themselves formed out of a nexus of radical arts and social consciousness that swirled around the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Haight-Ashbury formations that took place in 1965 onward. Ecology was always an important aspect of this continuity. When the Diggers dispersed from their daily activities on the streets of San Francisco after the Summer Solstice 1968, many moved to rural outposts with the intent of creating new social formations as they had done in the urban context. Planet Drum was a signal moment in 1972 when Peter Berg and Judy Goldhaft returned to the City from their travels to remote communes and country families. Planet Drum at first was a communication medium — periodic bundles distributed to a wide-flung network to stay in touch with others who were attuned to the idea that would come to be known as "bioregion." Later, Planet Drum was the name of the non-profit foundation that was incorporated to engender awareness of and communication with all manner of bioregional groups and activities across the continent and worldwide. Planet Drum Foundation is still active with dozens of programs and projects.
The San Francisco Public Library's Wallace Stegner Environmental Center is hosting a retrospective exhibit on the history of Planet Drum. This exhibit takes place from September 1 through November 29, 2018. For anyone close by, it is well worth the visit.
Click here for more information on the exhibit. The collage of images (above) are a selection of the informative placards in the current exhibit. Judy Goldhaft will host groups of 5-20 people who are interested in a guided tour of the exhibit. Contact Planet Drum (415-285-6556 or mail@planetdrum.org) to make the arrangements.
Angels of Light Protest Paid Show
April 11, 2018 Eric Leave a comment
The Angels of Light were one of the groups that survived the Fall of the Haight in the late 1960s and became part of the thriving Free Commune movement in San Francisco in the 1970s. The Angels had broken away from The Cockettes in 1969 to perform Free Theater for other communes and the counterculture community in the Bay Area. "Free" was an inviolate principle, which had been passed down from the original Diggers in the Haight starting in 1966. The Diggers had held an event called the "Free City Convention" on May 1, 1968, at the Carousel Ballroom. It was at this event that Ralph met Jet and Irving and Hibiscus from the Sutter Street Commune. The rest is history.
Here is a photo from a protest the Angels organized in 1973 at the paid showing of "Pickup's Tricks" a film that Gregory Pickup produced in part from footage he had taken at an Angels performance. Paid shows (like this film) were boycotted in the Free community.
What is a Fou Ratt?
January 9, 2018 Eric Leave a comment
Came across this article from the East Village Other in 1967. It highlights Jim Fouratt and his escapades as a digger in New York after he left San Francisco in 1967. (See below for transcription of the article which appeared in the 8/19/67 issue of the paper.)
Transcription of the text:
A Fouratt is a small furry digger who gets arrested all the time.
Jim Fouratt used to be a member of Progressive Labor, he was active in the civil rights movement, and before that a child actor. Recently he has completed the cycle and has become a digger, or in effect returned to being a child actor.
Doing his thing in Newport he was thrown out of the city for distributing obscene literature which was in reality a poem by Gary Snyder. He was arrested in Newark after the riot for "inciting a riot" which was in reality giving away free food, but to be sure the police also charged him for "passing out food without a license" and "refusing to obey an officer's command" who merely asked, "What are you, a boy or a girl?"
"I guess there is something about me that makes cops go crazy. I'm a coward. I'm not afraid to die, but I don't like violence. I don't carry flowers but you should choose your weapon," Fouratt explained one day after collecting a number of nights in jail in his biography.
"My only weapon is peace and love. We're in such a hostile society that sometimes love or peace, or that kind of approach seems dangerous to the people with guns, and they treat me as if I'm carrying the same weapon they are.
"I seem to bring out a confrontation. But my confrontation is more on a sexual level with the cops. Maybe their masculinity is threatened by my hair? I really thought about this a lot, wondering why my friend Abbe Hoffman, who's got as much hair and does just as many things as I do doesn't get arrested."
"I never tried to get arrested. I just do my thing and if it means getting arrested, then that happens when it happens.
"The beautiful thing about Newark was after I got arrested the only trouble I had was with the cops. I got into jail and the people were beautiful in jail, and they really turned on to the idea of the diggers and acid and the whole psychedelic thing.
"These were people who had been in there for 20 days and hadn't even been allowed to make their phone call. I got them phone calls so they could get out. There's a lot of work to be done in jails."
Every Sunday night there will be a digger benefit at the Scene, a night club at 301 W. 46th St. Jim Fouratt might be arrested even there.
"Yes, I'll have a stage arrest. That's how I'm beginning to feel."
East Village Other, Aug 19, 1967, pg 3
Black People's Free Store
The new page in the Digger Archives that tells the story of the Black People's Free Store (Fillmore district, 1967-68) just went up. Included is the video clip below.
What is a Digger?
For the back story, check out the new page. But long story short, I'm trying to figure out who this is. I thought it might be brother to Roy Ballard. If anyone knows for sure, please let me know.


WHAT'S "BABY BOTTLE TOOTH DECAY" ?
Baby bottle tooth decay is caused by the frequent and long-term exposure of a child's teeth to liquids containing sugars. Among these liquids are milk, formula, fruit juice, sodas, and other sweetened drinks. The sugars in these liquids pool around the infant's teeth and gums, feeding the bacteria that cause plaque. Every time a child consumes a sugary liquid, acid attacks the teeth and gums. After numerous attacks, tooth decay can begin.
WILL CHANGES IN MY CHILD'S DIET PREVENT BABY BOTTLE TOOTH DECAY?
Gradually dilute the bottle contents with water over a period of 2-3 weeks. Once that period is over, if you give a child a bottle, fill it with water .The only safe liquid to put in a bottle to prevent baby bottle tooth decay is water.
Decrease consumption of sugar, especially between meals. Children should be weaned from the bottle as soon as they can drink from a cup, but the bottle should not be taken away too soon, since the sucking motion aids in the development of facial muscles, as well as the tongue.
Giving an infant a sugary drink at nap or night time is harmful because during sleep, the flow of saliva decreases, allowing the sugary liquids to linger on the child's teeth for an extended period of time. If left untreated, pain and infection can result. Severely decayed teeth may need to be extracted. If teeth are infected or lost too early due to baby bottle tooth decay, your child may develop poor eating habits, speech problems, crooked teeth, and damaged adult teeth. Healthy baby teeth will usually result in healthy permanent teeth.


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Melt butter in large saucepan; stir in sugar, honey and salt. Cook and stir until mixture comes to a boil. Reduce heat to medium; boil without stirring about 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in orange peel and soda. Place popcorn into a greased 15×10 inch baking pan. Slowly pour syrup over the popcorn while stirring. Bake at 250 degrees F 45 minutes; stir every 15 minutes. Cool, break into serving pieces. Makes 3 quarts.


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UTC Aerospace Systems Delivers First Sonar Dome Rubber Window of New U.S. Navy Contract
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- UTC Aerospace Systems has delivered, on schedule and on budget, the first sonar dome rubber window to the U.S. Navy on a new five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract. This delivery marks the 345th surface ship sonar dome rubber window delivered to support the Navy Fleet. UTC Aerospace Systems' Engineered Polymer Products (EPP) team in Jacksonville, Florida, has supplied sonar domes for FFG-7, DDG-51, and CG-47 class ships to the U.S. Navy and allied navies for more than 50 years. EPP is part of the Aerostructures business of UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX).
The EPP team began its initial manufacture of the sonar dome rubber windows in 1964 out of its Akron, Ohio, facility. These sonar domes were shipped by C-5A military transport aircraft from Akron to Virginia, then barged to the different shipyards building the cruisers and destroyers for the U.S. Navy. EPP moved to its present Jacksonville location in 1987. Located on Blount Island, EPP is situated next to a deep water port, where ships and barges can dock to transport sonar domes for delivery to the shipyards, thus saving taxpayer money through lower shipping costs.
Mounted on the bow of destroyers and cruisers, a sonar dome rubber window is an acoustically transparent housing that surrounds the sonar transducer array, forming the sonar's sensor system. The dome protects the ship's sonar array, and offers minimum interference with the sound transmission and reception needed to enhance detection and classification of underwater targets. EPP pioneered the development of rubber wire-reinforced surface ship sonar domes for anti-submarine surface combatants. The rubber's unique energy absorption and reflection properties enhance the ship's detection capability.
Designed and built to last, EPP's sonar domes are one of the ship's most durable components, with a number of domes in service on U.S. Navy vessels more than 25 years old. "The drive for continuous improvement by our team at EPP and endless focus on improving our sonar systems technology, combined with the development of innovative processing techniques, uniquely positions us to offer superior acoustic technologies," said Marc Duvall, president, Aerostructures. "Our proven capabilities and outstanding focus on quality have assisted in our efforts to remain the exclusive supplier of the sonar dome rubber window in support of the U.S. Navy."
EPP also provides its customers with field services for the installation, inspection and repair of its sonar domes. With its staff of experienced engineers and technicians, EPP's field service professionals are available to be deployed around the world, 365 days a year, to ensure reliable quality performance.
UTC Aerospace Systems designs, manufactures and services integrated systems and components for the aerospace and defense industries. UTC Aerospace Systems supports a global customer base with significant worldwide manufacturing and customer service facilities. Follow the company on Twitter: @utcaerosystems.
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