Well, my dining room draperies still aren't finished. But it's not for lack of trying! I worked on them quite a bit this weekend, but only got three of the four done.
I've said before that I'm kind of slow when it comes to sewing, and that's not just because of my procrastination. 🙂 I'm actually slow once I get started, especially on drapery panels. I just like to really pay attention to details since any little mistake or oversight (like not trimming off the selvages, or not getting fabric perfectly straight and square) can have a pretty big effect on the outcome.
So I have one more panel to finish today, and I'll show you how all they all turned out tomorrow. In the meantime, I wanted to share my top suggestions for creating beautiful, professional-looking draperies.
Drapery lining makes all the difference in the world in the finished look of your draperies. Unlined curtains can look thin and cheap, and when the sun streams through the fabric, the colors can look distorted and every seam and thread on the back can be visible from the front. It's just not a good look.
And it's an even worse look from outside your home, where anyone looking at your windows can see the back side of the fabric, any seams, and the back side of the side hems.
Lining drastically changes the look, and while I suppose any lining is better than no lining at all, I personally prefer blackout lining. Blackout lining has a rubbery backing on it, and doesn't let any light through at all. Even on panels that are purely decorative and won't ever be closed, I always use blackout lining simply because of the difference it makes in the appearance of the fabric. It keeps the colors true and undistorted, hides the appearance of seams and threads from the front view, and gives a nice, clean, finished look from the outside of the house.
It also adds weight, both literally and visually, which makes the drapery panel look more substantial and luxurious.
The problem with that is that if your window is positioned in such a way that you get a side view, you can see right between the drapery panel and the window.
That's just not a great look. But adding a drapery return will close up that gap.
Header tape, also called buckram, is the woven interfacing-type stuff that goes in the top hem of the panel.
I buy mine at Joann Fabric, but it's available at most fabric stores (both brick-and-mortar and online), and it's very inexpensive. When it's sewn into that top fold of the drapery panel, it gives the fabric enough body so that the top header stays upright, rather than the header drooping and sagging under the weight of the fabric.
A droopy, sagging drapery header is almost always a bad look, with the exception being very thin, lightweight, gauzy fabric panels that are intended to give the room a very casual, breezy look. But that's a very specific look for a very specific type of style. 99.9% of the time, even sheers look much better with header tape used in the top.
When it comes to how you treat your pleats and folds, there's really not a "right" and "wrong" way, but it's important to give attention to this detail because the way in which the pleats and folds are treated can have an impact on the overall look of the room.
Right now, my dining room drapery panels have "untrained" pleats and folds. I simply finished sewing the pleats, hung the panels, and just let the folds fall where they wanted to fall on their own.
In order to achieve that look, it just takes some time and patience to fold the fabric from each pleat so that it's even from the top to the bottom of the panel. And you have to do that with every single pleat. (If you don't have pleats, just fold the fabric so that the folds are evenly spaced on the whole panel). It generally helps to have a helper who can hold the folds in place. Once the folds are in place, use a scrap piece of fabric to tie around the panel to hold the folds in place, and leave it for a couple of days.
I generally tie mine in three places — top, middle, and bottom — and sometimes it helps to use a steamer or steam iron to really help the folds stay in place. After a day or two, remove the ties, and your drapery panel shoudl have perfectly trained pleats and folds for a very tailored look.
I love draperies so much that I never think a room is finished with out them. And because I love them so much, I'm always shocked when someone tells me, "Oh, I don't like curtains on my windows." What?! How can that be?!
But about 99% of the time, they follow up that sentence with, "I don't like to block the view," or "I don't want anything blocking the sunlight." Aaaahhhh, okay. I get it. The problem isn't that they don't like draperies. The problem is that they're hanging them wrong.
Draperies look their absolute best (in my humble opinion) when they're hung high on the wall, and wide on the window. Not only does that make the ceiling look taller, and the window look bigger, but it also doesn't block the view or the light.
In my mind, draperies should act more like frame on a piece of artwork. If you have a beautiful oil painting of a landscape, and you take it in to be framed, you wouldn't choose a frame that covers up several inches of the painting on each side, right? You'd choose a frame that just barely covers the painting (maybe 1/4 inch on all sides) just enough for the painting to be secure in the frame, but any decorative part of the frame would add inches of height and width to the overall look of the artwork rather than being placed over the artwork.
It's the same concept with your draperies. Don't cover up any of the beautiful landscape that you see through the windows. Instead, use your draperies to frame that landscape, only covering up as much of the edges as necessary in order to create that beautiful frame.
Leave the clip rings for the young girls decorating their dorm rooms and first apartments. Because the fact is that even if you can cleverly hide the clips on most of the fold and pleats, there will always be one or two clips (e.g., on the leading edge) that can't be hidden. And this is definitely something that separates the DIY look from the professional look.
It really doesn't take any more time, effort, or money to use the clipless rings and actual drapery hooks, the finished look will be much more professional and polished.
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Thank you Kristi! I am going to do what you said about tying the drapes. I had luck with using clothes pins one time, but I am afraid with my new drapes the clothes pins would leave a mark.
I am not sure I agree with the clips. I am 47 and like clips, it makes opening the curtains easier — I have two teenage boys and a husband that would prefer the curtains are closed vs. open so I have to make them easy to open.
I agree with you about the clips. They make it easy, and they are, in my opinion, much more "today" than heavily pleated and folded draperies. Doing it Kristi's way if you want a formal look, but I don't think the people that shop at places like PB, WS etc are going for those looks. They tend to use lined silk in formal rooms with clips and unlined linen in less formal rooms, in addition to wooden blinds or even shutters. It is a more layered looking window.
Clip rings are not more "today" than standard rings and drapery pins. They may seem that way because they're available in abundance at every Bed, Bath & Beyond, JC Penney, Target, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe's, and every other store that sells curtain rods. But where you'll never see clip rings is in the pages of Elle Decor, Traditional Home, etc., or in the portfolios of nationally known designers like Toby Fairley, Caitlyn Wilson, Amanda Nisbet, or any of the others whose names and work are regularly featured in design magazines. Clip rings are for DIYers and homeowners looking for quick, easy, and cheap solutions. But regular rings and drapery pins have always been and will always be the standard with designers. And they don't require pleats, either. If a person doesn't want pinch pleated draperies (which still remains the most common style seen in the aforementioned magazines and portfolios), that's fine. You can hang almost any style of header with proper pins and rings.
Thank you for your tips. They are very helpful!
The only thing I take exception to is your condescending reply to the commenter above. Certainly you could have acknowledged her opinion and given suggestions why rings with pins are preferable. These negative retorts just give the commenters over at GOMI more fuel for the fire.
Quite honestly, and with all sincerity, I really have zero cares in the world about what those idiots at GOMI have to say about me. 🙂 I acknowledge that I sounded harsh in my comment above, and that's because I was incredibly frustrated when I wrote it. That particular commenter was asked last week to not comment on my blog anymore because lately, she seems to get her thrills out of turning my comment section in a drama-filled free-for-all cat fight with other commenters who take issue with her tone and her continual snarkiness which has been on display for months now. She stayed away for a couple of days, and the returned with a new username and new email address, obviously thinking I wouldn't notice. I did notice (IP addresses, people!), and it really frustrated the heck out of me that she was back, yet again, to basically insult me over yet another project (Perhaps someone should tell her about GOMI. I'm sure she'd love it over there!) In hindsight, I should have just deleted her comments, and not said anything. Unfortunately, I didn't do that, but I will from now on.
Kristi, is there any way you could ban the problematic commenter by IP address? I suppose not, or you'd have done it by now. Seems perhaps you're going to have a bit of a housekeeping issue with deleting her comments from now on, which is a PITA that you don't need to deal with. I can't understand why anyone would continue to cause trouble on a blog when they were specifically asked to leave, and not just by you but by other commenters.
I was *thisclose* to e-mailing you about her, then saw you openly address her negativity on your blog. In trying to rationalize her behavior, I honestly thought at first that she'd had turned to drugs or drink, then I thought maybe senility had set in (people can become abusive and rude with Alzheimer's), then I thought maybe it was one of an assortment of mental illnesses that was motivating this vile behavior. All I know is she has the unenviable talent of totally bringing down the room, and like you I had taken to cringing and scrolling past her comments as fast as possible. I do wish there was a way you could auto delete her comments, because no one wants to see them or hear from her. I think I speak for more than just myself when I say that your blog is one of the highlights of my day, and Snidely McSnarkington sure can spoil the happy buzz I get reading your posts!
I think maybe there is a misunderstanding about the difference between clip rings and rings attached with drapery pins. You can still get the easy open and casual drape look with the rings and drapery pins… just forgoing the clipped on to the fabric part. I don't care for clip rings because I've found it's possible to tug the curtain out of the clips if they hit a bump when opening or closing.
I think you're right about the misunderstanding. When I hear "drapery pins", I think of the drapery rods with the pull chain like my mother had. I forget that you can use rings with the pins and still have the easy open/close.
I don't understand how clip rings would be easier to open and close than regular rings. Rings are rings…they both slide on a curtain rod. And with regular rings and drapery pins, you can't pull the fabric out of the clip. I used clip rings on the curtains that I hung over the closet with the washer and dryer in the condo, and I was constantly pulling the fabric out of the clip when I'd open and close them, and constantly having to get the ladder and re-clip the panel. You never have to deal with that with standard rings and pins.
A very informative post. I must admit to having a preference for unlined curtains and drapes in some instances. Perhaps because I'm a quilter, I find that the seams where two fabrics are joined (if done correctly) add a graphic element that I like. A lot of it depends on the type of fabrics and if there is a major difference in the colors or a minimal one. I don't find it pleasing when printed fabrics are used though. Not a problem as I generally prefer a solid or tone on tone fabric at my windows, lol!
Thank you for your sewing tips regarding drapes. At this time, I am needing to make drapes for two-story windows. The fabric needs to be a quality fabric, but not heavy. The current fabric is lovely (drapes were installed by the former owner), but it is deteriorating. They are also nicely lined. I don't know what type of fabric to purchase. They need to be as light in weight as possible. I am wondering if they may be a silk fabric combination–they hang so beautifully. If you could make any suggestions, it would be so appreciated.
I find that decorator cottons and cotton blends are by far the easiest to work with.
I think lined silk would be work as well as lined linen. Both are very lightweight and if you get a lightweight cotton lining it should be fine. When I worked I had a few clients who had the really high windows. They look beautiful once they are all finished.
My dilemma is no wall space around the windows, both in my living area and master. The back walls in each room are simply walls of windows, so I guess I must cover some of the view if I want to add the color and softening effect of fabric (the main reason I want them). Is there a formula for how wide decorative panels need to be to look right on each end of a wall of windows? I do not want them so that I can close them, although in the master that would be luxurious to have a full wall of fabric at night!
Hi Kristi ~ Have you posted where you purchased the hardware for your B&W panels? I do not want to miss that info!
Thanks for all the tips. I can hardly wait to see these draperies completed.
I didn't know about "returns," so the information was very helpful. My mother made draperies for our living room when I was about eleven and I found it interesting even then. There was the "pleater tape" (hers were pinch pleated), the painstaking measuring of fabric and lining and the weights. Weights (square pieces of metal) were sewn into the bottom corners of the panels to help the drapes hang properly. When finished, the drapes were hung on traverse rods, which were hidden by upholstered wooden valances. (A style from another era.) My mom was lucky enough to have an older friend who made drapes professionally to help her through the process. She used her standard Singer machine, which didn't make any fancy stitches, but had plenty of power to glide through heavy fabrics. The used Necchi that I have makes fancy stitches but doesn't equal that old Singer in power or stitch quality.
I totally agree about draperies being lined. I remember a certain subdivision near me that required all drapery to be lined in white or off-white linings, so they were uniform from the street view! Kinda wish that were the case where we just moved from – the young people across the street from us had four panels in one window, and they alternated turquoise, orange, turquoise, orange. They hung like that for 7 years, fading out and looking worse, until they decided to list their house. No, they did not take them down for the sale, but the new owners removed them first thing, and installed blinds on all their windows. I hated looking at those faded panels, and wondered if they would ever change them. It looked like a circus tent hanging in their window!
So yes, please line your drapes!
Thanks for all the great info. Those small details really add up! I had never considered returning the drape, but it does make a difference.
Great post, Kristi. I agree that curtains need a good lining and buckram for a professional look and I'm not sure how you'd put in drapery pins without damaging or distorting your fabric otherwise. Lining them also prevents them from getting sun damaged so you don't need to replace them as often. I like to use drapery weights on my curtains too, particularly if the decorative fabric is somewhat light, so that even after "training" they hang straight and crisp. For those who find traditional French pleated drapes too formal, inverted box pleats are more casual while still providing a polished look.
One thing I noticed you didn't mention in the Part 1 of these drapes but maybe you have in past drapery posts is the width of the panels. Not everyone realizes that in terms of the fabric needed, you must have 2-3 times the width of the finished drapes i.e. a 48 inch window where the drapes will be hung 12 inches on either side needs 2 panels where the bottom width of each finished panel is at least 72 inches = 144 inches total.
Another tip for lining is that while blackout lining is great at keeping summer heat out of your house, those that live in cold climates should add a thermal interlining. After my first winter in the Midwest, I took apart my curtains and added a layer of heavy flannel drapery lining which cut my heating bill by more than 25% the following winter.
Kristi, thanks for sharing your drapery expertise again. I've relied on your previous post (lined, double width, pleated drapes) again and again as I've sewn my way through drapes for most of the windows in my house. i like to make two-finger pleats and tack them at the top for a more modern look. Your detailed directions and many tips gave me the courage to challenge myself to sew drapes that don't look homemade. You are the best.
Kristi, thank you for another great post about draperies!
I had my fabric and lining delivered and am looking for the rest of the materials now. It seems there are different types of buckram – "fusible" (with some sort of adhesive), which stick to the fabric if ironed, or buckram, which is just fabric without any adhesive. The fusible can be one sided or double sided. Which type would you recommend?
Hi. A question about interlining – An earlier poster mentioned it for insulation. Are there other reasons for using it? Thank you!
This is unrelated to your drapes although I do enjoy all your posts!
Just came across this on Home Depot site, a Crown Moulding Jig! Thought you may be interested!
I "eavesdropped" on your comment and followed the link. That's a handy tool! I'm very math impaired…so thank you!
Oh, man…I'm always asking questions…sorry!
I was wondering about interlining. Any advice on when to, or not to, or if it's ever even necessary?
Thank you SO MUCH for your very informative posts!!! I've sewn many different types of curtains, and wish I had the benefit of your tips sooner. I have a quick question (and apologize if you have answered this on another post) – how do you correctly insert drapery pins? I sewed some really pretty silk dupioni double wide panels (decided against pinch pleats). I refuse to use the awful clips (after spending that much money on the fabric I don't want my curtains to look cheap). Can you walk me through the proper placement/insertion of the pins?
Jennifer, the pins go on the back of each pinch pleat. After you add your pleats, you'll have vertical seams on the back of the header where the pleats have been sewn. The pin is inserted right into that seam, and you want it towards the top so that the top arch in the drapery pin is about 1/8″ to 1/4″ from the top of the drapery header.
I know I'm coming to this discussion about 2 1/2 years late, but I'm hoping it's still open. I'll be making some flat panel drapes soon, and I want to get your opinion, Kristi, on the use of the header tape on these. I'll be using rings and drapery pins to hang them. The fabric is a medium weight cotton and will be lined. From all I've read, the buckram tape is used primarily for pleated and grommet drapes. Have you used the tape on lined, flat panel drapes? Thanks.
Yep, I use it even on flat panels. It just gives the header such a nice crisp look.


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Q: When NOT to use promises After having read dozens of articles on how great es6 promises are and why we should implement them I have been left with the feeling that ALL of my (non-trivial) javascript functions should be promises.
In fact I feel great when writing code using them since I avoid the triangle of doom and seemingly get clear and concise code. (it really makes reasoning about execution much simpler).
What I haven't been able to find is: When do you NOT use promises? When do I avoid using them?
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While I have seen some great points like API consistency I have yet to find a solid NO case. The answer by Lux suggests that operations that fetch event emitters should avoid them since recurring callbacks are incompatible with promises. I do however feel like the answer is still lacking in substance to check it(as correct) right now.

A: You use promises for one-shot asynchronous operations.  Initiate the operation, carry out the operation, notify a caller of completion or results or error and then done for good.
The situations where you do not use promises are those that are different than described above:

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*When your operation or function is entirely synchronous.  Putting an async API (even with promises) on a synchronous operation just makes things more complex than need be.

*In place of events that can occur multiple times.  For example, you wouldn't use a promise for a button click handler.  An eventEmitter or other event-like structure is still a better structure for recurring events.

*When you have a callback situation where the callback is designed to be called multiple times (such as reporting progress or providing a plug-in service via callback).

*If you're adding one new operation to an API that is already designed some other way (e.g. with traditional callbacks) and API consistency is desired.

*If you are targeting older environments that don't natively support Promises (like old browsers) and you're trying to optimize the download size of your code and you're only doing one or two async operations and you aren't using something like jQuery or Angular that already has a form of promises built-in that you can just use.  If you're doing any significant amount of async work, then it is likely worth using a Promises polyfill, so this point is only for cases where size is extremely important and there's very little async work.

*For situations where the action often does not finish or occur.  Promises are an object with state and thus consume some memory.  It would not make sense to create thousands of promises to get notified of lots of different things that usually won't occur because this would create thousands of promise objects (usually with their accompanying closures) that would mostly never get used.  This is just inefficient memory usage and is probably better served by some sort of event notification.  As I said above, promises work best when you initiate an operation, carry out the operation, notify caller of results or error.

A: Well Promises have one use case: async results that only come once.
You don't use Promises if you can return the result in sync, and you still need callbacks for events, because they may occur multiple times.

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However if the method can be synchronous sometimes, and asynchronous sometimes (multiple code paths based on internal or external state), it should be asynchronous always. Otherwise, you may encounter unexpected subtle discrepancies in how your code behaves in complex scenarios, so it's best to avoid mixing the two attitudes.
[edit] As noted in comment, when your method is synchronous for now, but you strongly believe it might need to do async work at one point in the future, you might want to use promises from the beginning to avoid costly refactoring.

*In general, your API should be consistent, so it's best to either use promises everywhere, or callbacks everywhere. This will make it easier to reason about the code.

*If you are writing ultra high performance code and/or need low memory footprint, you may consider not using promises but callbacks, or using a promise library with a focus on performance, like bluebird, instead of the native Promise implementation / general use case polyfill.

*[edit] Anyway, new additions to the web platform, like global fetch function, return a Promise, and it seems that in the upcoming future more and more browser built-ins will be operating on promises. So if you're willing to write modern code, you're not going to escape promises.

A: Most often Promises are used to ease working with asynchronous tasks. Sometimes, we deliberately do some things asynchronously to avoid overloading the working thread as there is only one thread per tab. There's no need for Promises when things that are small or that can be handled by a Web Worker.

A: You may decide not to use Promises, if you want your code to run in the browser (which may not have Promises built in) and size REALLY matters, so you can't afford to use Promise shims/libs.

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Maybe having a toaster, panini grill would have been handy. As no full cooker facilities just a 1ring hob.
As others have said, the restaurant next door is noisy sometimes, but only at the weekend, absolutely fine the rest of the time.


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China issues white paper on historical matters concerning Xinjiang
The State Council Information Office on Sunday issued a white paper on historical matters concerning Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China.
The white paper stated China is a unified multi-ethnic country, and the various ethnic groups in Xinjiang have long been part of the Chinese nation. Throughout its long history, Xinjiang's development has been closely related to that of China.
However, in more recent times, hostile forces in and outside China, especially separatists, religious extremists and terrorists, have tried to split China and break it apart by distorting history and facts, the document titled "Historical Matters Concerning Xinjiang" stated.
The paper added Xinjiang has long been an inseparable part of Chinese territory. Never has it been the so-called "East Turkistan." The Uygur ethnic group came into being through a long process of migration and integration, adding that it is part of the Chinese nation.
It is pertinent to mention here that in Xinjiang, different cultures and religions coexist, and ethnic cultures have been fostered and developed in the embrace of the Chinese civilization.
Islam is neither an indigenous nor the sole belief system of the Uygur people. It has taken root in the Chinese culture and developed soundly in China, the document said.
The surge in religious extremism around the world has caused a rise in religious extremism in Xinjiang and has resulted in an increasing number of incidents of terror and violence, it noted.
"Xinjiang's fight against terrorism and extremism is a battle for justice and civilization against evil and barbaric forces. As such it deserves support, respect and understanding," it said.
The document further said that some countries, organizations and individuals that apply double standards to terrorism and human rights have issued unjustified criticism of Xinjiang's effort.
This kind of criticism betrays the basic conscience and justice of humanity, and will be repudiated by all genuine champions of justice and progress, it said. GNP
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Warwickshire County Council's consultation on improvements for walking and cycling routes closed on the 9th July. Cycleways response is reproduced below and proposes a Visionary Cycle Network for Warwick District.
Cycleways, in conjunction with Clean Air for Leamington Spa and Clean Air Warwick, have launched their Visionary Cycle Network for Warwick District. You can find out more on our Facebook Page here In the short time since our launch on 2nd July we have already gained 189 supporters through social media and many more through discussions both within and outside our memberships.
Whilst many of our members have taken part in your consultation exercise identifying specific locations for walking and cycling improvements, it is clear to us that there would be much more benefit in the longer term from a network-wide approach to planning infrastructure improvements. Then each scheme and improvement can be considered within the context of a much more ambitious plan. What we have presented here is a basis for that plan and we hope that it will assist you in considering options for responding to community aspirations and government policy objectives for active travel. All of our materials are presented under Creative Commons licencing for your use without restriction.
Our aims through producing this Visionary Cycle Network for Warwick District are as follows:
To promote a network that can compete with other transport modes for attention and funding, particularly in the view of the DfT's recent announcements on cycle infrastructure funding and the need for it to be transformational (note: over the last 7 days we have featured in several local media sources including the Leamington Observer and BBC Coventry and Warwickshire Radio demonstrating clear interest in the plans)
To develop a network that supports government policy objectives and helps to meet the commitments around climate emergencies, sustainable travel and air quality
To consolidate and highlight wide-ranging public and organisational support for transformative cycle infrastructure, originating in the community
To increase the visibility and awareness of existing infrastructure by promoting opportunities for additional wayfinding and route identity, based on the principals of LTN 1/20
To benefit from the skills and knowledge within the large membership of all three groups to help WCC in the preparation and delivery of their plans and strategies
To provide a structure for Cycleway's ongoing engagement with WCC and developers, working towards a shared vision
We propose that the Visionary Cycle Network for Warwick District is put forward for early implementation as a showcase scheme that could then be rolled out across Warwickshire based on its success. In the meantime, we offer our full assistance in the development and implementation of your plans for safer, more attractive and comprehensive cycle infrastructure.
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Home Features No Agreement In Make-Or-Break Amcu Talks!
No Agreement In Make-Or-Break Amcu Talks!
ON Thursday, make or break talks to end the three-month platinum mining strike collapsed once again.
The third face-to-face meeting between the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) and the employers, Anglo Platinum, Impala Platinum and Lonmin ended without an agreement.
The mineworkers downed tools in January, demanding a R 12,500 basic salary per month.
Employers and AMCU held two round table discussions on Thursday, but in the end the union rejected the employers' latest offer to increase wages to R 12,500 over five years by tweaking benefits and allowances for mineworkers.
The employers have called off the talks and demanded that AMCU leaders go and foist the settlement package on their striking members, otherwise they will attempt to do it.
The strike has cost the three platinum giants over R 21 billion in lost revenue and salaries.
In a statement, AMCU said: 'It is with dismay that our latest proposal at reaching a settlement was arrogantly rebuffed by the platinum cartel of Angloplats, Impala and Lonmin.
'We made several different proposals based on increases to the basic pay of the lowest paid workers.
'These proposals looked at ways of addressing the affordability concerns of the employers within the mandate of our members.
'In spite of all our efforts we were faced with complete intransigence and games of smoke and mirrors. The employers refused to provide information on the cost of these different proposals.
'When Angloplats eventually presented us with their calculation today after 13 weeks of the strike, it was found to be exaggerated by between R300 and R500 million.
'Their unaffordability argument collapsed when they were forced to acknowledge their false claim. Even the government officials observing the negotiations were left bewildered by their methods. AMCU will address mass meetings of its members exposing the behaviour of the employers.
'We were extremely livid at these underhand methods. It is difficult to predict how our members will react and what mandate they will give us faced with this situation.
'The lack of seriousness with which the Cartel is approaching the negotiations was evidenced by the failure of most CEOs and CFOs to attend. We are left with the strong impression that there is a hidden agenda at play.
'This too will be discussed with our members and we will work out a joint strategy to break the employers' intransigence and arrogance. This will include solidarity actions and efforts with our brothers and sisters all over the world where these companies operate and market their metals.
'The employers must know that we will not be diverted from our just struggle for a decent life for our members and for all mineworkers in our country. Nevertheless, we as a responsible union remain optimistic that we will find a solution to this impasse.'
• Talks also broke down yesterday over a settlement to the 11-day strike at Continental Tyres in Port Elizabeth by workers in the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA).
Over 900 workers downed tools last week (Tuesday 15 April), and proceeded to picket the company's Sidwell plant, demanding time-and-a-half payment for working on Saturdays and double rates for Sundays in accordance with a bargaining council agreement reached in 2010.
The workers sing struggle songs and dance while carrying placards which read: 'Stop maximising profit by using cheap labour'.
Eastern Cape Regional Secretary of NUMSA, Phumzile Nodongwe, addressed the strikers on Friday as production was again halted. Company spokeswoman Nomfundo Hlela revealed their scabbing operation by stating 'production has started with non-NUMSA members'.
Numsa also issued a statement ahead of this Sunday's 20th anniversary celebrations to mark the end of apartheid rule. NUMSA general secretary Irvin Jim said: 'On the 27th of April this month, we will be celebrating 20 years of our neo-liberal liberal democracy which has not uprooted our colonial economy and society, and its symptoms of mass poverty, unemployment and extreme inequalities.
'Our ruling politicians and elites are busy spreading the ideological fog of a "good story to tell", whilst the Black African majority is faced with abject poverty and living under scandalous conditions 20 years into our neoliberal democracy.
'Our country remains a place where poverty and opulence exist side-by-side. The economic jewellery of our country still resides in the hands of our previous oppressors; whilst we, the majority of South Africans who are Black and working class, only celebrate our stinking shacks or Apartheid old streets re-named after our liberation stalwarts.
'Our true story remains that of class struggle to build an egalitarian society as envisaged in the Freedom Charter, as opposed to the current neo-liberal path that favours the bosses and politicians and their extended families.
'For us the working class, it is aluta continua! For them, it is Looting Continues!'
• President Jacob Zuma has described the Marikana massacre on 16 August 2012 as an 'unfortunate incident' that happened in spite of South Africa's 'very good collective bargaining framework'.
Addressing a group of leaders from the Afrikaans community at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria on Wednesday night, blamed the AMCU and platinum producer Lonmin for the overall situation.
He claimed that fewer miners would have died at Marikana if the police had been 'more firm' in the days leading up to the police shootings.
• The National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (NEWAHU) of South Africa has welcomed the Palestinian reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas.
NEHAWU reaffirmed its solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, noting that the two factions move to form a unity government comes seven years after Hamas broke away from the Palestinian government in the West Bank.
Last week's decision by Fatah and Hamas led to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu breaking off peace talks unless PLO leader Mahmud Abbas cancels the unity deal with the Gaza Strip government, meaning 'peace' talks brokered by the US are effectively over.
In a statement issued by the NEHAWU Secretariat Office, the union states: 'This is a positive and a welcome development and hopefully will strengthen the struggle for a free and independent Palestine.
'The reaction from the Israeli government and its apologists was to be expected because they do not want to see the people of Palestine united against their racist and oppressive regime.
'The divisions amongst the Palestinians were benefitting the apartheid state of Israel and its sponsors.
'NEHAWU will continue to give its maximum support to the struggle for a free Palestine including supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign and its associated activities including the annual Israeli Apartheid Week. We will continue to ensure that every local municipality/government department is an Israeli Apartheid-Free Zone.
'We call upon our government and all others around the world to acknowledge the divisive nature of the Israeli state and to argue for its isolation until it is prepared to dismantle its apartheid infrastructure in favour of democratisation and commit to abiding by UN resolutions.
'We will continue to speak out against all forms of discrimination including anti-semitism, Islamophobia and other sectarian sentiments in favour of a secular and tolerant approach to the crisis in the region.
'We reaffirm our solidarity with the people of Palestine and we are calling for an end to the evictions of the Palestinians from their lands. We are fully behind the call for all political prisoners and detainees to be released immediately.
'Our union supports the formation of an independent Palestinian state with East-Jerusalem as its capital. The Israelis must affirm the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland.'
The message of solidarity with workers and youth in Palestine comes as class antagonisms in South Africa also deepen and sharpen, with strikes in the mining sector and amongst car workers continuing.
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Do you love holiness? Is the word sweet and precious to you? Or does it conjure up images of a stern and inflexible God and a strict and joyless life?
During the 19th century the National Holiness Movement labored for a return to the vibrancy and passion of John Wesley and the depth of commitment so evident in the original Methodist movement. Sadly, they were not always successful. Their version of "Holiness" often degenerated into a hideous form of legalism in which one's maturity was measured by the number of activities from which one abstained. Whereas many in the holiness movement were godly and yearned for Christ-like righteousness, others defined holiness as abstinence. On their list of taboos: the theater, ball games, playing cards, dancing, lipstick, tobacco, alcohol, all forms of female makeup, the curling or coloring of one's hair, neckties for men, Coca Cola, chewing gum, rings, bracelets, or any form of worldly "ornamentation," etc. One was prohibited from attending a county fair, lodge meetings, or being involved in political parties or labor unions. Life insurance was seen as a lack of faith in God and medicine was generally viewed as poison. How tragic!
Jonathan Edwards' perspective on holiness is stunning. It shouldn't be. It says something about how far removed we are from the biblical vision of holiness that we are surprised by his comments, that we find them so rare and unique and refreshing. Like the psalmist, he cherished the laws and precepts and commandments of God more than silver and gold (see Psalm 119). He speaks of a "longing" and "eager thirsting" and "earnest pressing after" the "blessed rules of the gospel."
Why do we find it odd that someone would feel such passion for authentic holiness? Edwards speaks of continual self-examination and "diligence" and "earnestness" in the pursuit of a holiness that he envisioned as "ravishingly lovely" and "amiable". Why? For one simple reason: He knew that God would never command or require or exhort or prohibit anything that was harmful to his children. He knew that God's rules were the expression of a heart that sought nothing but good for those who fear him.
God's aim in all his commandments is our joy in Jesus. He prohibits nothing except what tends to diminish that joy. He commands nothing save what enhances that joy. Biblical laws and requirements and warnings exist solely to protect us from what will ultimately undermine our satisfaction in God's Son. They have been given not to deprive us of joy but to deepen it, not to inhibit our souls from experiencing eternal pleasures but to intensify and expand our capacity to see and taste and feel and sense the beauty and splendor of Jesus.
So, read Edwards below. But read him with a prayer that such passion for purity would be yours, that God might awaken in your soul a hunger for holiness and a desire, as Edwards says, to be "conformed to the blessed image of Christ."
"My sense of divine things seemed gradually to increase, until I went to preach at New York, which was about a year and a half after they began; and while I was there, I felt them, very sensibly, in a much higher degree than I had done before. My longings after God and holiness, were much increased. Pure and humble, holy and heavenly Christianity, appeared exceedingly amiable to me. I felt a burning desire to be in every thing a complete Christian; and conformed to the blessed image of Christ; and that I might live, in all things, according to the pure, sweet and blessed rules of the gospel. I had an eager thirsting after progress in these things; which put me upon pursuing and pressing after them. It was my continual strife day and night, and constant inquiry, how I should be more holy, and live more holily, and more becoming a child of God, and a disciple of Christ. I now sought an increase of grace and holiness, and a holy life, with much more earnestness, than ever I sought grace before I had it. I used to be continually examining myself, and studying and contriving for likely ways and means, how I should live holily, with far greater diligence and earnestness, than ever I pursued any thing in my life; but yet with too great a dependence on my own strength; which afterwards proved a great damage to me. My experience had not then taught me, as it has done since, my extreme feebleness and impotence, every manner of way; and the bottomless depths of secret corruption and deceit there was in my heart. However, I went on with my eager pursuit after more holiness, and conformity to Christ."
"I remember the thoughts I used then to have of holiness; and said sometimes to myself, 'I do certainly know that I love holiness, such as the gospel prescribes.' It appeared to me that there was nothing in it but what was ravishingly lovely; and highest beauty and amiableness, a divine beauty; far purer than any thing here upon earth; and that every thing else was like mire and defilement, in comparison with it.
Holiness, as I then wrote down some of my contemplations on it, appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul. In other words, that it made the soul like a field or garden of God, with all manner of pleasant flowers; all pleasant, delightful, and undisturbed: enjoying a sweet calm, and the gently vivifying beams of the sun. The soul of a true Christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the years; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory; rejoicing as it were in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrance; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms, to drink in the light of the sun. There was no part of creature holiness that I had so great a sense of its loveliness, as humility, brokenness of heart and poverty of spirit; and there was nothing that I so earnestly longed for. My heart panted after this, to lie low before God, as in the dust; that I might be nothing, and that God might be all, that I might become as a little child."


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Q: Angular promise service as global dataservice I'am not pro in Angular and am still lerning. Hope I get some help here.
I want to build an App with different views. I need to detect the browser and also fetch some data from a server. For this I created a service, where I do this work.
My desire is to use the data of the service all views. How is proper way to store and cache the data so that I can use it in all  my Views/Controllers?
Here is what I got so far.
My Service:
.factory('DataService', function($http, $q, $timeout) {
var data = { };
return {
    notes: function() {
        // This exposed private data
        return data;
    },
    addItem: function(itemname, itemvalue) {
        // This is a public function that modifies private data
        data[itemname] = itemvalue;
    }
    getPlatform: function() {
        var getPlatformData = function() {
          var deferred = $q.defer();
          BrowserDetect.init();
          deferred.resolve(BrowserDetect.OS);
            return deferred.promise;
        };
        return {
            getPlatformData: getPlatformData
        };
    },
    getServerData: function() {
        //if(!data.getServerData){
        var getData = function() {
            var deferred = $q.defer();
            $http({
                url: 'js/fakeGet.json',
                method: 'get',
                dataType: 'json',
            }).success(function(data) {
                data.scanResponse = data;
                deferred.resolve(data);
            })
            return deferred.promise;
        };

        return {
            getData: getData
        };
        //}
        // return data.scanResponse;
    }
};
});

My controller:
DataService.getPlatform().getPlatformData().then(function(platform) {
    console.log('Another browserDetect request');
    $scope.platform = platform;
    DataService.addItem("platform", $scope.userPlatform);
});

A: First of all, as nordyke mentioned in his answer, you'd better split the service to smaller ones.
Second, you're asking for how to caching the data, and since you're using promise, $q.when() is what you need. I will take the getPlatform as an example to get you started:
.factory('DataService', function($http, $q, $timeout) {
    var os; // this variable is used to store the result

    return {
        getPlatform: function() {
            var getPlatformData = function() {
                if (!os) { // no previous data available, look into other service to fetch the data
                    var deferred = $q.defer();
                    BrowserDetect.init();
                    os = BrowserDetect.OS; // store data
                    deferred.resolve(os);
                    return deferred.promise;
                }
                return $q.when(os); // there is previous data, return it as promise
            };
            return {
                getPlatformData: getPlatformData
            };
        }
    };
});

In this way, OS information is cached, and
DataService.getPlatform().getPlatformData().then(function(platform) {
    ...
});

will only fetch the platform information once during the life-time of the DataService. You can apply the same idea to getServerData as well to cache the data from the server.

A: Caching your data in a service singleton is a good approach, and I like your straightforward implementation of it.  My only recommendation would be to split up your 3 concerns into separate services.

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*Browser Detection

*Server Requests (which will be split up even more once you have more requests.)

*Data Caching


It is no surprise that POC regularly calls on the services of Isabelle Onraet. The Belgian interior designer is known for her warm, stylish projects and she consistently manages to transform the anonymous feel of a new project into an intimate, personal space that instantly makes us feel at home. Curious as to what inspires Onraet, we fired off a couple of questions.
What do you find most important when designing a space?
I generally find it most important to start with a vision for the overall atmosphere, because a space should never be seen as separate, but rather as part of a whole. That's why I consistently tend to opt for clear, clean-cut lines. I'm led by my passion for noble materials and eye for colour, as well as by the interaction between different textures and the way they feel. Depending on the project, this is how I look for a solution to the client's wishes so as to achieve a highly personal result.
When it comes to the projects you develop for POC, do you let the sea inspire you, and if so, in which way is that reflected?
People often tend to go for lighter shades and materials in seaside homes, which is reflected in that specific atmosphere you always encounter in show apartments by the coast. That's why I find it important to innovate in terms of materials and style.
I try to keep an open mind when I look at the world around me, and can be inspired by any- and everything: a specific type of material, an image or even a single item of furniture or decoration can inspire me to develop an entire setting or atmosphere.
What would you consider the biggest challenge with these kinds of projects?
Holiday homes require a smart use of space. People often end up with this mix and match of spaces where there may be room for everything, but the space as a whole feels cluttered and chaotic. The challenge is to create bright, open spaces where each need has a proper, functional place.


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Terry Gifford, one of our crowd funding donors, has written an article featuring step in stone for the Alpine Journal, a hardback publication. Terry is the unofficial gardener of climbs at Fairy Cave Quarry, a judge for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 2016 and was Director of the annual International Festival of Mountaineering Literature for 21 years. Former Chair of the Mountain Heritage Trust, he is the author of The Joy of Climbing (2004) and is in his 52nd year of rock-climbing. Terry helped Cath attach some of her Gabions high up on a sheer rock face at Fairy Cave, and was a great support throughout the project.
The Alpine Journal won't be published for several months and a hard copy will be hard to get, so Terry has given us permission to publish his article in advance.
'step in stone' exhibition, Fairy Cave Quarry, Somerset, October 2015
(Review offered for publication in the Alpine Journal 2016)
Mountaineers on the Alpine Ridge (PD) under full winter conditions, catching the last of the winter afternoon's sun, photographed in close-up, can look very impressive on social media. But this is Fairy Cave Quarry's easiest route to the quarry rim, all one hundred meters of it. When I moved to the Mendip Hills of Somerset four years ago, Stephen Venables was summing up the local climbing for me, adding, 'and there are some over-rated grotty quarries'. A month after I moved into Stoke St Michael, unaware of this particular locked quarry (BMC website for access details) just a lane away from my house, it announced itself in the guise of a Climbers' Club guidebook all of its own. It has since become the best-selling CC guidebook ever. What began as a bit of a joke – a sop to activists down in the lonely Southwest – from the CC guidebook committee has become a runaway success going through reprint after reprint.
So what is the secret to Fairy Cave Quarry's popularity that draws climbers not just from Bristol and South Wales, but from all along the M4, from the south coast, and even tempts Iain Peters out of Devon? Most of its climbing is north-facing and it has a reputation for limestone looseness and vegetation. But it has the nearest slabs to London. And there's not a bolt or peg in sight. The clean line of the classic Rob's Crack (4c), benign beginners' routes on the west-facing Balch's Slide (4a) area, and the thin steeper challenge of Withy Crack (5a), plus plenty of tricky overlapping slabs at higher grades, attract climbers on most dry days of the year. But actually this is a cavers' quarry, owned by a caver, the locked carpark reserved for cavers and its management committee dominated by cavers whose base is the cavers' hut at the top of the lane. Apparently the many locked cave entrances in the quarry give access to some of the best decorated caves in the Mendips, where many cavers are also climbers. Withy Crack's first ascent is credited to Cerberus Speleological Society in 1992. Given that it is also an SSSI (great crested newts; at least two species of orchids; ravens reared three young last year; Western Red Cedar has just been discovered there) climbers need to be aware that Fairy Cave Quarry is a place that we share, like so many of our crags, with other interests.
But what about three gabions of orange plastic hanging from the diagonal crack of Halfway to Kansas? Or the quarry floor littered with strange white tents on wheels in which green shoots grew from teapots? Or a disembodied voice speaking from somewhere up in the West End? Then over 1200 people finding all sorts of other oddities around the quarry during the two weeks (three weekends) when it was open to the public? Actually climbers seemed to have enjoyed sharing the quarry with the 'step in stone' sculpture exhibition for two weeks in October 2015 and may not have realised that they became exhibits themselves in the time-lapse, attention-provoking, photographs of Christina White displayed at the Earth Science Centre down the road. Indeed, climbers were responsible for hanging those gabions at the request of the artist, Catherine Bloomfield, so that their impact (unintended by the artist, apparently) as people entered the quarry was like a parody of three ducks on a wall. Actually, more subtle than that, they were the highest of a line of orange gabions that had colonised the quarry and clearly wanted to join in the climbing.
Poet Ralph Hoyte's voice works were both an echo of the human construction of the quarry and an eerie post-industrial mysterious communication of echoing absence. Sally Kidall's white tents on stick and sisal platforms looked like some post-industrial survivors' attempts at nomadic domesticity that were now abandoned and being reclaimed by nature. From the climbers' perspective on the quarry rim this seemed to be a community that had run its wheels into a dead-end before it simply gave up. Duncan Cameron developed a picture of the quarry site through evening, day and overnight 'expeditions', collecting fascinating found materials (including a wrist watch – but no old pegs!) that he finally mounted in his 'Fairy Cave Cabinet' on the dramatic cliff-edge start of the Alpine Ridge. For those climbers who walked around into the West End with their eyes open, a dome set into the ground will have revealed another miniature world of insects, ants and a dead bird. Tessa Farmer's fairy world was a predatory one that certainly suggested 'Alice's unsettling journey down the rabbit hole into Wonderland' as she puts in the excellent catalogue representing all fourteen artists who took part in the larger project involving six venues with workshops, walks, talks and performances that attracted 8114 visitors in total. Amazingly, the curator of all this, Fiona Campbell, found time to make work for at least three sites where ancient sea creatures that might have inhabited what is now limestone. Here, her 'Eviscerated Earth' combined rusty steel bits with wax, cloth, paper and wire to evoke, ironically, the strange formations lost in the destruction of caves by quarrying. Actually, what remains was not only the inspiration for the artists, but also for the audience: the natural folds and features of Fairy Cave Quarry itself, especially in the Death Wish Area, attracted a lot of public attention, which should remind us of how lucky we are to have access negotiated by BMC volunteer Ian Butterworth.
So could there be limits to sharing climbing rock with other artists? (Like bullfighting in Spanish culture, rock-climbing, we know, is an art form.) Only one climb was made more difficult for only two weeks here. And from the quarry rim climbers still get the benefit of various imitations of the famous Salt Lake land art 'Spiral Jetty'. But on some gritstone boulders in West Yorkshire and Lancashire six poems by Simon Armitage have been carved into the rock to comprise the Stanza Stones Trail of 47 miles. Each poem is about a form of precipitation: 'Rain', 'Snow', 'Mist', etc. These are semi-permanent, although expected by the poet to be mossed over, erased by their subjects and climbed over. Unlike bird-bans, they don't require art-bans. But they have, with a kind of hubris, humanised the natural rock we come to climb. Is it our rock? Of course not, and climbing is still possible. Indeed, you might feel enriched by being reminded of climbing 'up here where the front of the mind distils the brunt of the world' in 'Rain', for example. For years we've shared the crags with ravens and ring ouzels, and now we must share them with conservationists and curators.
My three nuts from which the gabions hung stayed untouched by other climbers for two weeks. When I mistakenly removed them, thinking the exhibition was finished, other climbers replaced them with stones so the final weekend show could go on. But at another, open, quarry, a weekend rave of six hundred people destroyed one artist's work. There are other people we should resist sharing the crags with – the 'green trail' 4×4 drivers, the destructive trail bike riders, the access improvers, the commercial bolters, the selfish route-hogging groups. Beside these, a few though-provoking, amusing or distinctly odd fellow artists are life-enhancing presences for which we should be grateful, as many climbers obviously were at Fairy Cave Quarry in 2015.
Terry Gifford


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Griswold, Thomas II
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Name Griswold, Thomas
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Born 11 Jan 1673 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Find A Grave Memorial 125730114
Died 19 Oct 1729 Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Buried New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Griswold-Leete Cemetery, Guilford Green
Person ID I32146 Sullivan Burgess Family Tree
Family Bradley, Sarah, b. 17 Oct 1676, Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA , d. 29 Oct 1729, Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (Age 53 years)
+ 1. Griswold, Sarah, b. 15 Jan 1706, Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA , d. 9 Mar 1749, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA (Age 43 years) [natural]
Born - 11 Jan 1673 - Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Died - 19 Oct 1729 - Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Buried - - New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Thomas was a blacksmith and came to Guilford 1695, either at the request of the settlers or upon a private enterprise. He was given no grant of land and the records show he made no purchase until about 1725 when he established a home at Nut Plains. Where he lived in Guildford settlement is unknown, he may have lived on "Crooked Lane", State Street, near or with Stephen Bradley. The home he established has long since disappeared. He was a steady citizen but never prominent, a man amoung men, content to forge the iron for himself and neighbors who battled the wilderness and laid bare the forest for the plow..
Thomas d. Oct 19, 1729, age about 56 years. No special epitaph marks his passing. He was buried on the Guilford Green with the other early settlers and his grave marked by a simple finely carved sandstone monument, when it was determined to clear the Green of monuments and obliterate the cemetery, the gravestone of Thomas, with others were removed to the church..
The records show it was finally removed to the premises of George Griswold on Boston Street, where it has lain for perhaps a hundred years, His gravestone has recently been found but is almost illegible and well worn. The inscription. " Here Lyeth ye body of Mr. Thomas Griswold who died Oct 19, 1729 aged about 56 years".
Source: Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
Griswold-Leete Cemetery, Guilford Green. His stone is lying against a stone wall which is on the east side of house and bounding this property of Shelly. This property is the old original home-site of First Thomas Griswold who settled in Wethersfield.


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HAINESPORT � On the day that was to be the sixth birthday of Tyrone Bowers-Morris, his family received news that no criminal charges would be filed against the man driving the truck that struck and killed him.
The accident occurred March 23 while the 5-year-old was playing just yards from his home in the Davenport Village townhouse community off Marne Highway.
As he ran across the main stretch of road that winds through the complex, the boy was hit by a pickup truck driven by a 32-year-old man from Pemberton Township, authorities have said.
Tyrone died later that night at Cooper University Hospital in Camden.
On Tuesday, his family and about three dozen people from the townhouse community gathered at the accident site, where a memorial of toys, stuffed animals, pictures and flowers still stands two months later.
They congregated to mourn a child who was described by many as full of energy and life, and to celebrate the day he was supposed to turn 6.
The family had prepared a special cake in the style of Spider-Man, Tyrone�s favorite superhero, but the event was far from a happy one.
Neighbors said the dozen or so children who played with Tyrone every day and witnessed the accident were still traumatized.
On Tuesday, authorities said the investigation into the accident was closed and that neither criminal charges nor any motor vehicle citations would be leveled against the driver, who was not identified because he was not charged with a crime.
�We extend our condolences to Tyrone�s family. However, the circumstances do not warrant criminal charges against the driver,� said Joel Bewley, spokesman for the Burlington County Prosecutor�s Office.
The New Jersey State Police, which covers Hainesport,� also said that they had not cited the driver, and that their investigation also was closed.
Earlier Tuesday, Tyrone�s father received a letter to that effect from the Prosecutor�s Office. To him, the lack of any punishment for the driver was made all the more bitter because he opened the letter on his son�s birthday.
Morris� sister, Karima Morris, had even stronger words, and both believe there should be some consequences for the driver.
As stunned as the family members are, they are not sure what their next step will be.
Already, they are being inundated with thousands of dollars in bills from the accident and the funeral arrangements, and the tab from the hospital has not even arrived, they said.
Morris is not ruling out some sort of civil lawsuit.
Although she also is still stinging with raw anger, Morris� sister sees a harsh reality, no matter the outcome of any legal case.
�There is no amount of money that�s going to bring him back,� she said.


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How to understand exactly why gravity darkening happens on rotating stars?
Phys.org's TESS delivers new insights into an ultrahot world links to KELT-9 b's Asymmetric TESS Transit Caused by Rapid Stellar Rotation and Spin–Orbit Misalignment (readable in arXiv)
The assymetric dip in the light curve comes from a near-polar transit across a rotating, oblate star where the poles are hotter and therefore brighter due to gravity darkening:
KELT-9's high internal angular momentum ($\nu \sin(i)$ = 111.4 ± 1.3 km/s) flattens it into an oblate spheroid, making the equatorial radius of the star larger than the polar radius. Additionally, the star's abundant centrifugal force near its equator distorts its hydrostatic equilibrium, causing its effective temperature to vary by nearly a thousand Kelvin over the surface of the star. These two effects of stellar oblateness and varying effective temperature – together commonly referred to as gravity darkening (Barnes 2009) – change the total irradiance on KELT-9 b (Ahlers 2016).
Those links discuss gravity darkening but don't offer a simple explanation.
Wikipedia's Gravity darkening says:
When a star is oblate, it has a larger radius at its equator than it does at its poles. As a result, the poles have a higher surface gravity, and thus higher temperature and brightness.
Question: Why exactly does the increased surface gravity at some places on a given star lead to a higher temperature at those locations? Is it related to the difference in scale heights? The surface brightness relates to the temperature at the photosphere, is the reason simply that a higher pressure therefore higher temperature is needed to support the same density in a higher gravitational field?
Figure 2. (Left) KELT-9 b begins its transit near the star's hot pole and moves toward the star's cooler equator. Our transit analysis directly measures the stellar inclination (i★), the planet's projected alignment (λ), and the orbital inclination (i.e., the impact parameter b). We find that KELT-9 varies in effective temperature by ∼ 800 K between its hot poles and cooler equator. (Right) KELT-9 b's phase-folded primary transit from TESS. The transit depth steadily decreases throughout the eclipse, indicating that KELT-9 b begins its transit near one of the host star's hotter poles and moves toward the dimmer stellar equator.
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The argument goes something like this.
Hydrostatic equilibrium means that the local pressure gradient is proportional to the local density multiplied by a latitude-dependent local gravity. If the pressure just depends on density and temperature, this means that those quantities will also just depend on latitude and therefore will be constant along an equipotential surface. i.e. pressure, temperature and density are functions of the effective gravitational potential $\phi$.
For stars with radiative outer envelopes, the heat flux is proportional to the temperature gradient, multiplied by some stuff (like inverse opacity) that just depends on density and temperature.
But $$\nabla T(\phi) = \frac{dT}{d\phi}\nabla \phi = f(\phi)g_{\rm eff}$$
If we now say that at the surface $\sigma T_{\rm eff}^4$ equals the radiative flux, then we recover the Von Zeipel gravity darkening law that $T_{\rm eff}$ is proportional to $g_{\rm eff}^{1/4}$.
The missing step in this argument is to show the $f(\phi)$ is constant. Given that the photosphere is defined as where the optical depth is some fixed value (usually 1 or 2/3), and may be assumed to depend only on temperature and density, then this also lies on an equipotential. But $dT/d\phi$ also only depends on $\phi$ and so must also be constant along an equipotential.
For more detail, although missing the last paragraph above(!), see https://www.astro.umd.edu/~jph/Stellar_Rotation.pdf .
The situation is much more complex for stars with convective envelopes or differential rotation and I think can only be tackled through detailed modelling.
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$\begingroup$ Thank you for the answer! Would it be safe then to say that at the equator the photosphere has a lower temperature and therefore a higher density than it does at the poles? $\endgroup$ – uhoh Jul 2 '20 at 8:27
$\begingroup$ @uhoh Along an equipotential the pressure would be constant. I don't think that is quite the same thing. Where the photosphere is depends on density and temperature in a complex way. But given that I said all the relevant quantitites are functions of the potential, then I guess where the optical depth is 1 will also be on an equipotential. So I think you are right (if we are just talking about a perfect gas). $\endgroup$ – ProfRob Jul 2 '20 at 8:36
$\begingroup$ In fact, that is the simple argument as to why $f(\phi)$ can just be replaced with $f(\phi_0)$ at the photosphere. $\endgroup$ – ProfRob Jul 2 '20 at 8:41
From the same Wikipedia page:
This means that equatorial regions of a star will have a greater centrifugal force when compared to the pole. The centrifugal force pushes mass away from the axis of rotation, and results in less overall pressure on the gas in the equatorial regions of the star. This will cause the gas in this region to become less dense, and cooler.
So it appears that the equatorial bulge is caused centrifugally via rapid rotation (as expected). This outwards-directed force relieves the pressure acting inwards arising from gravitational contraction, and of course temperature is proportional to pressure. Therefore surface temperature will be higher at the poles than the equator.
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$\begingroup$ Hmm... pressure is proportional to temperature at constant volume but I think it's necessary to explain further here. The temperature of the radiated light is that of the photosphere, and so we need to understand why the photosphere is cooler near the equator. I'm not sure the Wikipedia article really addresses this. $\endgroup$ – uhoh Jul 1 '20 at 10:42
$\begingroup$ I don't know these objects, but I assume the rotation speed is constant. The equations of hydrostatic EQ say pressure gradient is proportional to density. Density will be higher when surface gravity is stronger. The luminosity at the surface is equal to the energy flux at that distance which is proportional to density. $\endgroup$ – sunra Jul 1 '20 at 11:22
$\begingroup$ I don't think stars have proper "surfaces". There is a layer called the photosphere where the material becomes transparent enough to let light escape to infinity, and its distance from the star's center is determined by both temperature and density. See What is the density profile within the Sun's photosphere? Which one of these is wrong? and Photosphere is relatively transparent. Is that right? It is the temperature of the photosphere that determines the brightness of a given area. $\endgroup$ – uhoh Jul 1 '20 at 12:07
$\begingroup$ One way to think about the photosphere location is that there needs to be a certain column of material above it, just enough so that a photon can escape from there. (It's a surface at a certain optical depth, and absent big equator-to-pole T variations we could take optical depth and column density as proportional to each other.) So that fixed column above a spot on the photosphere has a certain mass, but at the poles it will be closer to the star's center, and thus experience more gravitational force, than at the equator. Therefore, photospheric P and T will need to be higher at the pole. $\endgroup$ – ELNJ Jul 1 '20 at 13:00
$\begingroup$ The surface is a mathematical boundary a distance r = R from the centre. I recommend you study hydrostatic equilibrium. "Astrophysics for Physicists" is an excellent postgraduate level book cambridge.org/core/books/astrophysics-for-physicists/… $\endgroup$ – sunra Jul 1 '20 at 13:41
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Lakers, LeBron James visit Golden State on Christmas
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Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James stands on the court in the 4th quarter against the Brooklyn Nets on December 18 at Barclays Center in New York City. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
OAKLAND, Calif. -- LeBron James will make what has become a regular Christmas visit to the home of the reigning NBA champion when he leads his new team, the Los Angeles Lakers, against the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night.
The Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers, led by James, have won the last four NBA titles, with the champion each of the first three times earning the right to host the runner-up in a rematch on Christmas.
But it's only half-true this year, with the NBA opting to invite James and his new team rather than the Cavaliers.
The Warriors beat the Cavaliers in their last two Christmas rematches in Oakland following their first two championships in 2015 and 2017. James had 20 and 25 points in those losses.
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The Warriors had not yet signed Kevin Durant when they beat the Cavaliers 89-83 on Christmas of 2015, with Stephen Curry scoring 19 points and Klay Thompson 18.
After the Cavs beat the Warriors when the clubs met in Cleveland in 2016 -- because the Cavaliers had won the championship six months earlier -- the Warriors prevailed again at home last Christmas despite Curry sitting out with an injury. Kevin Durant (25 points) and Thompson (24) led the way.
The Warriors and Lakers are meeting for the first time since James moved west in the offseason. They currently sit second (Warriors, 23-11) and fourth (Lakers, 19-14) in the Western Conference standings, creating the possibility they will meet in the playoffs for the first time since 1991.
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The last time the Warriors won a playoff series from the Lakers, Jerry West and Elgin Baylor were on the losing end of a 3-0 sweep in the 1967 Western semis when the opponent was known as the San Francisco Warriors.
The Warriors will take the floor Tuesday having won seven straight over the Lakers and having dominated them to the tune of 13-3 in the Steve Kerr era.
They are coming off two nail-biting home wins on back-to-back nights -- 120-116 over Dallas on Saturday and 129-127 over the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday.
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"It will be fun," Kerr said upon turning his attention to the Lakers after Sunday's win. "I love Christmas games, as long as they are at home. We are lucky we're at home."
The Lakers have lost three of their last four games, including a 107-99 defeat at home against Memphis on Sunday night.
They likely once again will be without center JaVale McGee, who has missed four straight games as he has battled pneumonia.
McGee felt good enough to make the trip north, and will receive his 2018 championship ring in a pregame ceremony.
A key contributor to the Warriors last season when he made nine playoff starts, McGee admitted Sunday he was just happy to be back at the arena and working up a sweat after being hospitalized.
"It felt good, man," he said of his pregame warmup, something he hopes to build upon Tuesday. "Just getting back to the routine. For the past eight, nine days, my routine has been laying in bed. And that's it. So it's real refreshing."
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Many lovers of Test cricket still believe the newest format of the game, Twenty20, is destroying the traditional Test cricket, but that is not the case, as Lachlan Ballingall reports.
When Twenty20 cricket first arrived in the early 2000s to revitalise the sport as a whole, Adam Collins had doubts about the negative impact it could have on Test cricket.
Being a freelance cricket journalist, he is very much a traditionalist who has grown up loving the longest format of the game.
Like many he values the traditions of Test cricket such as the white clothing with the red ball. But many cricket fans now believe these long-standing protocols have given way to the colourful clothing and the white ball used in Twenty20 cricket.
What has surprised Collins is that Twenty20 cricket has grown on him and he believes it isn't affecting Test cricket negatively as most think.
"Every single measured person who understands modern cricket has shifted in that view. I don't know a single anti-Twenty20 warrior now. Those who do don't have a clue," Collins said.
Adam Collins on the right commentating cricket in England. Photo Adam Collins.
Twenty20 cricket has been on the rise. It now has an international Twenty20 World Cup alongside various franchise competitions played across the world, more notably the Big Bash League in Australia and the Indian Premier League in India.
It has become this generation's favourite format of the game with its entertaining and quick nature.
Twenty overs to bat and bowl – it's that simple. Test cricket on the other hand is five-days of play for 90 overs. There is a significant difference between the two formats.
People can go to a Twenty20 match for a few hours and still get a good night's sleep before work or school the next day, so it's no surprise many had fears about the state of Test cricket when Twenty20 cricket was first introduced.
Twenty20 cricket can also offer a massive payday for professional cricketers and sometimes the lure is too much to refuse.
Yet, despite Twenty20's popular nature, Test cricket has still managed to gain the highest television audience for a session of cricket over the recent summer in Australia, according to Cricket Australia.
A total of 2.189 million watched the final session of the fourth day of the day-night Adelaide Test match, which shows that Test cricket isn't plummeting as some might think.
So is Test cricket really on a downward spiral due to the popularity of Twenty20 cricket as many media outlets like to report?
Collins now says he believes that Twenty20 cricket benefits Test cricket and more people need to understand that.
"The idea that Twenty20 cricket erodes Test cricket neglects that short form cricket is where the kids and women and potential new customers for Test cricket are," said Collins.
Nuwan Ranasinghe, a passionate cricket fan and occasional columnist for RealSport, said the negative hysteria around Twenty20 cricket and its threat to take over Test cricket is uneducated.
"There was a time when I thought Test cricket was going to suffer when I saw the popularity of Twenty20 rise exponentially like a rocket heading for the moon," said Ranasinghe.
The recent Test series between India and Australia in the subcontinent saw a record-breaking television audience of 1.1 billion gross impressions across the four Test matches, according to Star India.
There are those who do worry about the attendance numbers in stadiums, but the fact Test cricket is mainly played during working days certainly impacts that.
Daniel Lang, cricket editor for RealSport, says most people would love to go to a Test match, but ultimately struggle due to the hours and days the games are played.
"Getting to Test cricket can be hard. People can't always spend a whole day down at the ground watching a Test and it often shows," said Lang.
Test cricket has traditionally always been played during the day, but 2015 saw the introduction of day-night Test cricket to add a bit of life into it when Australia played against New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval.
It proved to be a big hit with Nuwan Ranasinghe. "Changes like having day-night Test matches are a great way to increase attendance levels," said Ranasinghe.
Despite Test cricket remaining in a strong position due to changes such as day-night Test cricket, there are people who have doubts about some players' motives.
Recently, an English professional cricketer named Ben Stokes went for $2.8 million in the Indian Premier League auction for the 2017 season.
The Indian Premier League season runs in-between April and May. It's a fair payday for such a short period of cricket and there are other Twenty20 competitions that run throughout the year similar to the Indian Premier League, so the payday is always around.
The West Indies in particular has had cricketers in recent times turn away from representing their nation in the Test arena to instead play Twenty20 cricket around the world due to excessive offers they receive.
Ultimately, these professional cricketers can set themselves up for the rest of their lives by playing Twenty20 cricket.
Daniel Lang said that although Test cricket is healthy, there will always be players who find Twenty20 cricket attractive due to the money.
"It certainly is a large part of the appeal from a player's perspective," said Daniel.
Collins though is adamant that there is nothing to worry about when it comes to professional cricketers and the lure of a payday on the Twenty20 circuit.
"Ask a cricketer like Glenn Maxwell what form of cricket he prefers playing. He makes millions – literally millions – playing Twenty20 franchise cricket," said Collins.


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