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Cobra 29 LTD BT Bluetooth CB Radio Review
Ever since Cobra debuted the new Cobra 29 LTD BT Bluetooth CB there has been an unprecedented amount of media coverage about this new radio.
As someone who uses my cell phone daily and talks on my CB daily the idea of a combination product was exciting, but I had questions about how this radio would perform. Can a CB still be loud and proud if it is also a Bluetooth device? Will it be easy to use with your cell phone?
I'll tell you right away that not only is it a great radio, but it's also a great Bluetooth capable device. Secondly, they added some new features to this radio and some new styling, which make it one of the nicest looking Cobras I've seen.
UNPACKING AND SETTING UP
Once you get everything unpacked you'll find that the radio comes with –
* Main CB Unit
* Bluetooth Capable Microphone
* Power Cord
* Mounting Bracket + Mounting Hardware
As I unwrapped the radio I was immediately struck by the new styling on the face of the radio. The Bluetooth radio has a black face much like the Dale Earnhardt edition they released a couple years back. The contrast of the black face and chrome knobs is stunning and it's easily the nicest looking Cobra I've used. While I've always liked the Nightwatch radios, I can say the combination of the blue lights and black face is just plain cool.
The radio is very easy to set up for those of you not as familiar with CB radios. Screw on the microphone, mount the radio in an easy to access location using the included bracket and hardware, plug in the power cord and hook it up to a power source and you're ready to go. If you want you can easily wire the power to a cigarette lighter adapter so you can just plug it into any accessory plug in the car.
FEATURES, CONTROLS & NEW ADDITIONS
This radio is a Cobra 29LTD at heart and much like the tried and true original it gives you all of the performance and features you expect from a 29 LTD. They've also added some new features that really make this radio stand out from the original. The BT version uses the same styling and layout as the BC (Black and Chrome Edition) radio that also debuted recently, with the addition of the Dual LED for the Bluetooth and the discarding of the chrome covers and microphone (a big plus in my opinion as the black covers look a lot nicer than the chrome).
The following features are found on the Cobra 29 LTD BT radio –
Dynamike (Mike Gain)
Talkback (variable with on/off)
SWR calibration control
S/RF & SWR meter
S/RF, CAL, SWR switch
NB/ANL switch (noise blanking)
CB / PA switch (radio is PA compatible)
Bright / dim Switch
Channel 9 priority switch
RX/TX light (Red during transmit, Green during receive)
ANT warning light / Bluetooth light
(Red for Antenna warning, Blue for Bluetooth)
40 Channel LED display
Blue meter light
Noise canceling microphone with Bluetooth control button
PA jack
External speaker jack
External Bluetooth microphone jack
I'm sure everyone immediately noticed the addition of talkback to this radio. Talkback is something that didn't used to be a factory installed feature on most CB's. With such a large number of microphones, echoes and noise toys on the market, CB manufacturers recognized that people want to be able to hear how they sound so they can adjust their microphone accordingly.
The talkback on the Cobra 29 LTD BT is variable so you can control the volume level. While on the highest setting it's not the loudest talkback I've heard, but it's definitely capable and I didn't experience any problems with feedback or squeal even with the microphone gain and talkback at maximum.
The other thing you'll see right away when you turn on this radio is the blue meter light and the blue LEDs in the channel display. Having blue lights in your radio is the "in" thing right now so it's no wonder they included them in the new Cobra radios since companies like Magnum and Stryker have had a lot of success and positive feedback with their blue lights. I have to say that I agree with the general public, the blue lights look cool, especially on a black radio like this one. The real reward comes when you run the radio at night as the blue LED's cast a nice glow in the vehicle and seem to light up the face of the radio better than the old style white meter light and red LED channel display.
Moving right along, I'd like to point out something that Cobra has gotten right and lots of other CB manufacturers have gotten wrong: the control knobs on the radio. It's doesn't seem like a big deal, but to someone who uses their radios every single day of the year (much like a lot of our truck drivers out there) flimsy or poorly designed knobs can drive you nuts.
I've had radios with knobs that were too loose, too tight, and too small. On just about every vintage Cobra I've ever owned the original knobs were still on the radio and still working perfectly. The new Bluetooth radio is no different. The knobs have that same solid Cobra feel and turn with just the right amount of resistance. I really wish everyone would use these same controls on their radios.
Another thing Cobra 29 LTDs have always been good at is cutting out electrical noise – this is one of the reasons drivers of tractor trailers have chosen these radios for many years. The NB (noise blanking) and ANL (Automatic Noise Limiter) functions on Cobra 29s are known for cutting out unwanted engine noise or fuel pump noise better than other radios.
When I first tried out this feature on this radio I was really surprised, not only because it worked so well, but because once I started making calls on the road I realized that this was the perfect blend of two pieces of technology I use on a daily basis. With many states now passing laws making holding your phone while driving illegal, this new feature will definitely come in handy.
This radio allows you to be talking on the CB and then with the push of a button you're talking on the phone and you don't have to touch your cell phone, reach over to grab a headset, or take your eyes off the road.
I'll explain how it works first. Once you go through an easy set up procedure to pair your Bluetooth- capable phone with the radio you then can use the CB to conduct your phone conversations.
The CB microphone has a blue button that allows you to make a call, receive a call, and hang up calls. The Ant/Bluetooth light indicator located just below the RX/TX indicator lights up blue to indicate the Bluetooth feature is active.
When you have an incoming call the CB itself will emit a ringtone and you'll press the blue button on the microphone to receive the call. You talk into the standard CB microphone and you hear the caller through the CB speaker. You do not need to push the PTT (press to talk button) when using the microphone on a call, and the CB functions of the radio are disabled except for the volume control.
When using this feature you'll notice the amazing clarity of the caller's voice through the CB speaker. If you've used the speakerphone feature on your cell phone before you'll know that often the caller will sound scratchy or hard to hear, or sometimes the cell phone speaker vibrates or the sound is distorted. The CB speaker is larger and provides much more audio than a cell phone so you can easily hear the person and the clarity is second to none.
At times it sounded as though the caller was sitting in the car with me – no joke.
I was worried that maybe because I was using a CB microphone that the caller might hear background noise while I was on the road, but with all of my calls everyone said I was loud and clear. In fact none of the people I called knew I was using the CB to make the call until I told them.
I found you could hold the microphone anywhere up to a foot away and they could still hear me speaking normally. It had excellent response and reproduced my voice very well. The radio also has an external Bluetooth microphone plug on the back for use with an external microphone.
For dialing out, you can call the last number dialed on your cell phone by just holding the button down for two seconds. If you want to make a call to a specific number that wasn't the last number called you will have to either select the number on the phone OR if your cell phone has voice recognition software you can just say the name and the phone will start dialing and will route it through the CB.
To really show off the Bluetooth part of this phone I did do a short video which can be seen here
The only downside I found at all with the feature was when you first turn on the radio and it synchronizes with the cell phone there was a slight digital buzz for around 20-30 seconds, but as soon as my phone matched up with radio it went away and I didn't hear it again.
After thoroughly testing the Bluetooth feature I can say I am very impressed. I would even go so far as to say it's the coolest new feature I've seen on a Cobra CB radio in a long time. Often manufacturers try to boost sales with features that aren't really that great or things that you'll never use, but Cobra has hit a home run with this one. I found this feature useful and even fun to use.
When word of this radio started spreading the idea of the Bluetooth got a lot of buzz but people were concerned that adding this feature to the radio might compromise the performance of the radio. Cobra 29 LTDs are known for being great talkers and radios which can handle modulation modifications well. Truckers and CB competitors have used them for years and have come to expect high performance out of these radios.
When I opened up the case I was greeted by a familiar radio, the Cobra 29 LTD BT looks much the same inside as previous 29 LTDs.
The stock radio had about a 3.5 watt deadkey with swing to around 8-10 watts. Average watts while talking was in the 5-8 watt range.
Incoming signals were easily heard and I had no problem picking up far off stations and even heard some DX on one of the days I was testing the radio. As with previous Cobra 29s the signal to noise ratio was very good.
Many previous Cobras I've purchased in the last couple of years used a crappy microphone and it was always the first thing I replaced. This radio has a special microphone for the Bluetooth and so you can't just swap out, but you don't need to. It captured the audio well and allowed for the radio to swing which is something previous Cobra stock mikes haven't done. So if having to use the Bluetooth microphone was a concern – don't worry. If you really want to add a different microphone I have seen people offering custom aftermarket mics modified to work with the Bluetooth radio!
As a stock radio it worked great, but of course people asking me about the new radio wanted to know how the radio would sound after it had some adjustments and tuning.
I adjusted the modulation pot inside (VR4) and was greeted with a 3-4 watt increase in peak output and the audio definitely came up quite a bit and sounded loud and clean.
The next thing I wanted to see was if it would take the capacitor/resistor modification (Often called the super modulation modification, swing mod, or deadkey mod). I've done this mod on many previous Cobra 29s and I wanted to see how well it would work on this radio.
The mod was exactly the same as any other 29 and the result was the same as well. It boosted the audio even more and gave the radio more swing while lowering the deadkey. (You can see the light blue capacitor in the picture below).
The end result of my playing around inside was a radio that could deadkey low and swing just like many of my other Cobra 29s I've owned in the past. The stock microphone gave good audio and as a noise canceling mic it also did well on the freeway, picking up my voice and cutting back on the roadnoise.
After testing out this new radio I can say that the performance of the CB was exactly what I expected – excellent. After all, this is a Cobra 29 LTD, one of the most popular CB radios of all time. The transmit and receive worked just as good as the previous Cobra 29s I've owned over the years.
For me the big surprise was the Bluetooth feature. I had expected it to work, I just didn't know that it was going to work so well. I found myself calling people to talk to them just so I could use it while I was driving around. It really was one of the coolest things I've seen on a CB in a long time and I have no problem recommending it to people as a great radio with a great feature.
Cobra did a lot of things right with this radio –
+ I love the look, the black case, black face, chrome, and blue lights just looks awesome.
+ Variable talkback – something people used to have to add themselves is now a standard feature.
+ Bluetooth – works perfectly and it allows you to have a great CB that also works as a great Bluetooth device for making phone calls. For truck drivers this radio is a must have – and for people in states where it's illegal to hold your cell phone this radio is going to sell very well.
+ Kept the features and setup of the original Cobra 29 LTD – why mess with a good thing?
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David "Fuze" Fiuczynski
David Fiuczynski is the multi-faceted guitarist with the chops to play about any style you throw at him from the common genres like rock, jazz, and funk, to microtonal middle eastern styles. He's been widely praised and greatly respected for his soulful playing, most notably from his performances in his band Screaming Headless Torsos, as well as a career as a session guitarist that spans 95 albums. Of these other bands he's performed with, Fiuczynski is known for his works with Hiromi's Sonicbloom, Hasidic New Way, Kif, Black Cherry Acid Lab, Gizmo, Hiromi Uehara, Planet Micro Jam, and Rudresh Mahanthappa.
While Fiuczynski's had been playing guitar since his formative years, his studies in music continued in greater detail at Hampshire Collecte and then at New England Conservatory where he would earn a Bachelors of Music. As he developed his style playing the double-neck guitar became more a trademark than something he did for one or two songs. Often concerts would be played entirely with one double-neck guitar.
In addition to his career as a performing musician Fiuczynski is a full-time professor at the famous Berklee College of Music.
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Planners of the world have taken much solace in sights like Pinterest that allow them to fantasize and put together their goals and dreams online before they actually materialize. It's a way to visualize and understand what we want before we actually attain these things. A new site that is aimed at helping millennial women plan just about anything from starting a family to launching a startup is called the Timeline Project.
Forbes reports about the Timeline Project developed by Bayer HealthCare that allows women to create a timeline of their goals and plans for the future. Some ideas for goals listed on the site include "Get my dream job", "Become a YouTube star", "Launch a startup" and "Adopt a kid". The site offers informative articles to accompany goals like birth control options for those looking at family planning and job tips for those looking to start a new career.
Just about anything can be a goal like avoiding negativity in your life or just brushing and flossing every day. The site, which offers a lot of information about family planning, hopes to help guide millennial women through the process of nabbing that career she wants and finding a balance if she also would like to start a family.
What do you think of the Timeline Project?
Do you think this would be a useful site to plan, visualize and attain your future goals?
As an older woman (non-Millennial), I wish there was something for my age group, but I would definitely recommend this to the younger women in my life.


The install size for Middle-Earth: Shadow of War has been revealed coming in at a large size at launch releasing on October 10, 2017 taking up a total of 47.10 GB on the Xbox Marketplace. Typically a Xbox Play Anywhere title would give us two install sizes though it appears they now just pick a single size to make available. Assume the game sizes will be similar for both platforms unless otherwise stated and I imagine this number will be adjusted further when the Xbox One X version releases since that will include 4k textures. If you're unaware of Xbox Play Anywhere, buy it once on console or PC and own it both places. The game will share Achievements, game saves and typically have cross-play though with this being a single player game that's not needed.
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War is the follow-up to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and continues the story from that release. This includes the well known Nemesis System where the enemies know when they've taken care of you. This time around you're heading behind enemy lines in Mordor to build up an army, meet massive creatures and basically just explore the largest take on Middle-Earth yet.


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[01] ND Leader Tours Piraeus
[02] OSE &Suburban Train 24-hour Strike
[03] Opening 17 Rehab Centers in next 6-Months
[04] Wrangling on Economic Policy
[05] Heating Oil Regular Supply Starts Friday
[06] PM Chairs Coordination Committee Meeting
ND party leader Antonis Samaras, accompanied by Basilis Mihaloliakos, the conservative party's candidate for Piraeus mayor, toured the city of Piraeus. He visited many shops and spoke to shop owners who expressed concern over the present economic situation as well as the situation of the city.
Mr. Samaras said his visit aimed to listen to people's views but also described Piraeus as the dirtiest city he has visited within the frame of his tours. The ND leader expressed concern about the over 40% drop in turnover and close downs of many shops while some shop owners complained that they had not sold even one product.
He said the ND party has a plan to move the country ahead and promised to do anything he can to change the situation.
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OSE and Suburban Railways employees have started mobilizations in protest against draft-bill on the purging of the organization. On Wednesday they are staging 3-hour work stoppages which have created several problems to commuters. On Thursday, they are staging a 24-hour strike halting all train services while there will be no metro services from Doukissis Plakentias to Athens International Airport. People can get to the Airport only ETHEL buses.
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Health Minister, Andreas Loverdos announced that OKANA ( Drug Combat Organization) with the cooperation of Health Ministry will open 17 new rehabilitation centers nationwide within the next 6-month period. Mr. Loverdos said the aim of the Ministry is total handling of drug addiction including use, prevention and re-admission to society. The Health Minister said that drug addiction problem could not be used to serve petty partisan expediencies.
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The 17 new rehabilitation centers will open at a respective number of hospitals mainly in Northern Greece to treat over 5.000 drug addicts who are in the long waiting lists.
OKANA survey shows that drug addicts not admitted in rehab programs are the ones who cause social annoyance. According to the survey 85% of drug addicts in 11 "sites" are not in any rehabilitation program, 40% have applied for admission into a program. Other statistical data show that 78% of drug addicts are males, 33.7 average age.
Prescription of methadone under strict preconditions has already started for ones involved in the rehabilitation program.
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Prime-minister George Papandreou successive work meetings with the so called production Ministries are centered on implementation of Memorandum, planning of actions in the next period and policies to boost growth and liquidity in the market. In his statements in Piraeus, ND party leader Antonis Samaras agreed with extension of period for repayment of Troika loan but totally opposed to a new memorandum and new austerity measures. Mr. Samaras launched strong attack against both Prime-minister George Papandreou and Finance Minister George Papakonstantinou.
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Distribution of heating oil starts on Friday, October, 15 as scheduled following an agreement reached during Wednesday's meeting of Finance undersecretary Dimitris Kouselas with the administration board of Gas Station Owners Federation. According to the terms of the agreement, fuel consumption tax paid by gas station owners in advance will be returned within two days while advance payment of consumption tax will be abolished as of January, 1, 2011.
In his statements, Mihalis Kiousis, president of Gas Station Owners Federation raised safety issue linked with the promotion of draft-bill reducing least distance between gas stations and public gathering sites. Transport Ministry draft-bill reducing distances between gas stations and public gathering sites opens the road for the creation of gas stations by super-markets.
Finance undersecretary D. Kouselas is to meet with the National Federation of Fuel traders. Sale price, based on Monday's refinery prices, for heating oil has been set at �0.67 per liter.
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The Government Coordination Committee, chaired by the Prime-minister , is holding a meeting at the Interior Ministry. Next Mr. Papandreou will have successive meetings at the Parliament with the Ministers for Finance, Employment and Regional Development, who are handling issues toping the priority list for the next period. Counter measures for low pensioners will be included within procedures for the drawing of 2011 state Budget. In the meantime, Prime-minister George Papandreou announcements at the ITF (International Thessaloniki Fair) will be specified in the coming period and before local administration elections.
On Tuesday, Finance Minister George Papakonstantinou, addressing the competent Parliament Committee discussing the new state budget draft , underlined that 2011 is the year to set in motion a stable and viable growth of Greek economy. He repeated the government's commitment to give back the share of their sacrifices to the worst hit by the crisis.
New Democracy party described as developmental and socially fair the draft of the new state budget. LAOS doubted that targets would be met. On its part the GCP forecast continuation of antipopular attack and SYRIZA spoke of a final strike against low income groups.
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The letter S is next to the letter D - on my keyboard anyway.
That means when my lifelong q10sec Ctrl-S twitch hits, there's a 1/200 chance I hit Ctrl-D instead.
In Outlook Ctrl-S saves an email, but Ctrl-D deletes it - without warning. In the midst of my work my email vanishes.
This is annoying, but I usually catch it. I make a trip to the Deleted Items folder and drag the email back to Drafts. The other day, however, I was multitasking and didn't notice I'd deleted my email. It wasn't in the UI, it wasn't in Drafts, I probably assumed I'd sent it. Later I emptied my Deleted Items folder (because, by default, Microsoft's slightly daft Search tool includes Outlook Deleted Items, I keep that folder empty).
The email was gone. Minor panic ensued the next day. Fortunately I realized the email was lost, so I responded with an apology rather than being obnoxious.
I resolved to fix the bug. I found very little on the web, really just this one unanswered question: Ctrl-D del adjacent to Ctrl-S save. Either this afflicts very few people, or most don't realize what's happening.
So I asked on our corporate social network (Yammer) and a colleague gave me the answer. He wrote me an AutoHotkey macro that swallows the Ctrl-D key when Outlook is running.


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Ontario moving away from worst-case projections but daily cases still expected around 800 to 1,200
Jacquie Miller
FILE: A healthcare worker attends to a coronavirus patient. Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA /AFP via Getty Images
The growth of COVID-19 in Ontario appears to be slowing, said public health officials Thursday as they outlined a very cautiously optimistic outlook for the province.
Ontario is moving away from the grim predictions presented at the beginning of October.
"Most indicators are showing a slowing growth in COVID-19 cases," said Steini Brown, dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and co-chair of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, at a press conference on Thursday.
"The trajectory appears to be moving away from the worst case, but cases are continuing to climb. It's not that we have crested and are now coming back down the other side the epidemic curve, we are just getting a slower period of growth within that curve."
Brown said Ontario can expect a "sort of steady state level" of daily cases from around 800 to 1,200 for awhile.
The province reported on Thursday 934 new cases of COVID-19.
However, the numbers could rise quickly if there are superspreader events, warned Brown.
There is considerable variation across the province in key indicators of how the disease is spreading, the data showed.
For instance, in the seven regions with the highest number of cases by population, the rates range from 83.1 per 100,000 population in Peel and 47.4 in Ottawa to 30.7 in Halton. In contrast, the number of cases per 100,000 population in other areas of the province is 12.8.
The growth in hospitalizations for the disease and admittance to ICU units has also slowed, according to the data presented.
However, Brown warned there are also worrying signs that the disease is percolating into the older population.
The average age of people testing positive is increasing, and is now 40.
There has been a sharp increase in deaths of people living in long-term care homes.
Between Aug. 15 and Oct. 8, there were 25 deaths in long-term care homes. That number has now climbed to 85, said Brown.
Brown said there are indications that the Stage 2 pandemic restrictions imposed in Toronto, Ottawa, Peel and York have had an impact. The restrictions include a ban on indoor service at restaurants and bars and the closure of gyms and cinemas.
There has been a substantial drop in the number of reported outbreaks in the Stage 2 regions, said Brown.
This chart shows the number of reported outbreaks and how the locations have changed. The category "other" includes restaurants, bars, gyms, and recreation centres, among other locations.
The data also compared the location of outbreaks in various cities. In Ottawa, for instance, 2 per cent of outbreaks were in restaurants, bars and clubs, compared to 14 per cent of outbreaks in Toronto that were in restaurants, bars and clubs.
(Outbreaks are only one measure of the prevalence of COVID-19, since in many cases public health officials have not been able to locate the source of infection.)
Ottawa restaurant owner John Borsten said he is frustrated by the restrictions, saying they are unfair and counterproductive. There is no evidence that restaurants are fuelling the spread of COVID-19, he said.
If people can't go to restaurants, where there are safety protocols in place, they will end up socializing less safely in homes, he said.
Borsten owns five restaurants, including three Zak's Diner locations. There are 200 staff, and only one has tested positive for COVID-19, he said.
The lockdown is devastating for businesses, he said.
"I've had to hire and lay off my staff now how many times?"
At his daily press conference, Premier Doug Ford said he isn't making any promises about easing restrictions in Stage 2 regions.
However, he expressed his support for a more "surgical approach" to restrictions.
For example, in the Peel region, Ford said, there have been "a few bumps in the road" with Mississauga and Brampton, and Caledon is complaining that they're being punished because the numbers are escalating in other areas.
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'The Magicians' Breaks Hearts and Changes the Game in a Shattering Season Finale
Posted on Thursday, April 18th, 2019 by Vanessa Armstrong
I came into the Season 4 finale of The Magicians ready for some major shit to go down, especially since showrunners John McNamara and Sera Gamble have been hinting that this finale will be particularly intense, and intense it was.
WARNING: Major spoilers ahead!
I was serious about the spoilers! Go watch the episode before reading!
Okay, now that we're all alone, do you need a hug? I sure need a hug, because Quentin's dead, you guys.
True, death on The Magicians doesn't necessarily mean that character is gone forever (Penny40, anyone?), but this episode does a good job establishing that Quentin, at least the version of Quentin we've been with over the first four seasons, is gone for good. The last third of the show, in fact, deals with the ramifications of his death, both for Quentin in the Underworld as well as the living who loved him.
Quentin dies in an act of bravery, using his newly found discipline in repairing small objects to mend the mirror to The Seam, a narratively convenient pocket universe that can house the essences of the Eliot and Julia-Monsters for eternity. In doing so, he not only protects the world from the evil entities, but also prevents Everett from becoming a god (something that he knows won't end well, no matter what Everett tells himself and others). Everett and Quentin die in the aftermath—using magic in the Mirror Realm is like lighting a match in a room pumped full of propane—and we see the whole incident in tear-jerking slow motion, with Alice helplessly looking on in horror.
There's still 15 minutes of the episode left once Quentin dies, and they are heart wrenching. Post-death, we have Penny40 meeting Quentin in the Underworld elevator. As hinted way back in Episode 7, Penny40 is here to help Quentin transition to the afterlife. At first, Quentin is unsure why he chose to die so bravely—did he do so to save his friends or, based on his early history of depression and suicidal ideation, merely find a way to finally kill himself? Penny40 takes Quentin to his funeral, more or less, where the gang sits around a campfire grieving through a tear-jerking singalong of A-ha's "Take On Me." (Side note: When the singing started, I may have cried out "Oh no!" so loudly that my dog came over to make sure I was okay.)
As they sing, each member of the gang throw beloved items that remind them of Quentin into the fire. It's Alice and Eliot's moments, however, that are the most painful. Alice, because the two of them so recently rekindled their relationship, something that made me happy in previous episodes but also fearful, since I worried (correctly) that it would lead to this moment, where death has ripped them apart once again. And then there's the love between Eliot and Quentin, a what-if romance (in this realm, at least) that always left me wanting more. The scene where Eliot hobbles out, injured but intact, and Quentin sees that he's okay is when the waterworks really started for me. And when Eliot throws the peach, a token of their life lived together in Fillory, I may have blubbered like a baby.
While the heart of the episode dealt with the death of Quentin and its repercussions, "The Seam" also tied up some of the other loose threads of the season: Magic no longer seems to be throttled by the Library; Kady took the Library's Poison Room antidote and Josh is no longer a fish; Julia is now a regular magician again after a brief stint at being a muggle human, and; Eliot is back in control of his body, although he's nursing a nasty stab in the gut from an ice axe.
In expected Magicians form, the last few minutes also throw a few challenges for the remaining gang to deal with in Season 5, including Eliot and Margo traveling back to Fillory to find they've inexplicably jumped 300 years into the future, and Zelda planning to recruit Alice to take a leadership position at the Library. But whatever their future entails, Quentin, it seems, won't be part of it. Penny40 makes this clear near the end of the episode, when he tells Quentin: "The story for them, it's just starting. But it won't be the same story, because of you. You didn't just save their lives, you changed their lives, as much as they changed yours. You didn't want to leave all that, did you?"
Quentin didn't, and we didn't either. If he's truly gone (and his taking his Underworld Metrocard is fairly definitive that he is) the show will be different. We can only hope that the show keeps actor Jason Ralph involved somehow, even though it's clear that Quentin as we've known him is gone.
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'The Magicians' Brings the Ensemble Back Together in "The 4-1-1" – Only to Split Them Apart Again
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Q: Trouble sending XML string to Java webservice from .NET I'm trying to send a very basic XML string from a Windows Phone application to a web service run with Java-WS (and the Provider implementation), and retrieve the response.  I can see that the string makes it (via TCP monitor on the server) and looks correct, but the web service immediately causes an exception saying that the source object is null.  Note that using Java as the client, I can get a response back (with the same request string listed in TCP monitor), although my implementation differs slightly.  Here's how I'm doing it in .NET:
 string req = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><request><requestor>WP7.1</requestor></request>";
 string url = "http://mywebservice/endpoint1test";

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 wc.Headers["ContentType"] = "text/xml";
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The result is always an empty string, because the server returns null on an exception.  I feel like I'm missing something simple, like a header or an encoding.  If it would be useful, here is the Java version of the client which works:
    String data = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><request><requestor>WP7.1</requestor></request>";

    // Send data
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    java.net.URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
    conn.setDoOutput(true);
    conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","text/xml");
    OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
    wr.write(data);
    wr.close();

    // Get the response
    BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
    String line;
    while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
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wc.Headers["Content-Type"] = "text/xml";

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Logan makes his comeback to the Marvel Universe in this week's Return of Wolverine #1. Logan has gone through some changes, including a gaining some new powers, and the series' writer has hinted at why that is.
Wolverine will return with adamantium claws that are not just razor sharp but also can heat up to extreme temperatures. Charles Soule tells Marvel.com that this new power may not be what fans expect.
Soule also teased the new villain who debuted in Hunt for Wolverine: Dead Ends, Persephone, will be a big challenge for Logan.
"The story has a new villain named Persephone, who's very interesting, with a power set and goals I don't think we've seen before in the Marvel Universe, at least not used in this particular way," he says. "She's closely tied to Logan's story and serves as a fascinating antagonist to him. I thought bringing in someone new with unknown abilities and goals would help make this story more about Wolverine; we don't know what Persephone can do, or why she's doing it, and so we're just as in the dark as Logan is at the beginning of the story.
What do you think about Wolverine's new "hot claws"? Let us know how you feel in the comments section!
Return of Wolverine #1 by Charles Soule and Steve McNiven goes on sale on Sept. 19th.


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For this program we'll look at how you may lose confidence in yourself and develop worthiness issues. And the worthiness question is the biggest issue people face when it comes to manifesting their prosperity.
Because prosperity is your natural state, it's about unlearning negative beliefs and undoing lack programming. I'll reveal the 11 most destructive and prevalent poverty mind viruses in the world today, and how you protect yourself from them.
Your boss, the government, or economy can't control your prosperity unless you let them. To manifest prosperity, you have to redefine yourself from a recipient to a co-creator. With this program you'll learn exactly how to do that.
This amazing session will show you how to develop the spiritual discernment that allows you to accept the abundance you are meant to have.
For you to manifest your prosperity, you must see it in your mind first. You see it there, then you create it in the real world. In this powerful program you'll discover exactly how to do that.
When you find your assignment – or probably more accurately – when your assignment finds you, your prosperity is inevitable. This session we'll explore how you can cause that to come about.
No amount of money or things can bring you joy when your health isn't right. We'll work on how you increase vital energy, eat better, find time to exercise, and other tips to manifest optimal health.
It's fashionable to demonize the ego today. But Napoleon Hill, Carnegie, Ford, Firestone, Branson, Getty and many other mega successful people used the power of ego to accomplish great things. This session will concentrate on how you control and harness the power of your ego to create abundance in your life.
There may be no more powerful prosperity power than faith. You want to live your life by reason, but have the faith to override it when it's called for. We'll discover how to channel the power of faith to create a life you'll love.
True prosperity is never about taking. And contrary to popular belief, it's not just about giving either, for that just leads to co-dependence and entitlement mentality. True prosperity is always based on creating value-for-value equations. You'll learn how to do that in this powerful session.
In my church we like to say, "The universe makes the light available to you, but you must still turn on the light switch." And nothing does more for your prosperity than your daily habits. In this session you'll learn about cosmic habit force, a lesser-known teaching from Napoleon Hill.
Happiness doesn't come from money and material things – It comes from the self-expression they allow you. In this enlightening seminar you'll learn how to attract the people, things and circumstances that bring real joy into your life. You'll learn the roles of money, health and relationships to happiness. It's about creating a vision and then choosing that future. You'll discover how to release being a victim and choosing to be victorious.
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The Royal Easter Show 2019 schedule and contact information.
Art, Livestock and Equestrian Schedule of Classes are available to download.
New attractions for 2019 will include 'Hands on Creatures' where you can get up close with creepy crawlies! We welcome for the first time Auckland Cavy Club who will be holding a two-day competition. A new breed display area will showcase Valais Blacknose Sheep, the 'cutest sheep in the world' and New Zealand's newest and smallest breed of dwarf goats, Nigerian Gypsy Goats. Plenty of our usual favourites will be on display and running competitions including alpacas, dairy goats, sheep, pigs, pet lamb and goats, sheep dogs, farm world and of course the ever-popular shearing section.
DAIRY & BEEF SECTIONS @ THE ROYAL EASTER SHOW 2019.
There will be no Dairy, Beef or Calf Club classes at the Royal Easter Show 2019. After much consideration it is with regret that The Auckland Agricultural & Pastoral Association has decided not to hold any Bovine Cattle Events. Our decision has not been taken lightly but given the risk Mycoplasma Bovis poses, we support the endeavours of MPI to control and eradicate the disease.
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Todos Santos offers several activities for both the indoor and outdoor enthusiasts. Todos Santos is home to several talented painters, sculptors, artisans and intellectuals; because of this influence, you will find many fine art galleries here and crafts for sale. This retreat town offers several yoga studios, where you can rest your inner spirit. Todos Santos also has miles of pristine deserted beaches, with no hotels or developments. Many beautiful beaches are located within a 30 minute drive of Todos Santos. Because of this, Todos Santos has some of the best surfing in Baja with virtually no crowds. Swimming and beachcombing are also popular activities in Todos Santos. Fishing is another popular activity, even though it is not really set up as a major fishing town. Marlin, yellowtail, dorado, roosterfish, swordfish, wahoo are caught almost year-round. In the months of January through March, it's likely that at some point during your stay you'll be treated to the sight of whales spouting off shore. Below is a list of types of activities in Todos Santos Baja California, Mexico.


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lorettamilestollefson in Historical Tidbits, New Mexico, Old West, Taos October 19, 2018 September 19, 2018 375 Words
Santa Fe Trail Survey Reaches Point of Rocks
On Wednesday, October 19, 1825, George Champlin Sibley's Santa Fe Trail Survey expedition arrived at Point of Rocks, New Mexico. But they didn't head to Santa Fe.
Sibley was one of three Commissioners named to head up the United State's survey of the road between Missouri and Santa Fe that had been inaugurated by William Becknell four years earlier. The survey had two purposes: 1. to facilitate trade with Mexico and 2. to negotiate with the Native American tribes along the Trail for safe passage for future travelers.
George Sibley was the only Commissioner to cross the international boundary into New Mexico. However, when he arrived at Point of Rocks, he didn't continue south along the Trail to Santa Fe. Instead, arguing that it was too late in the year to travel safely to the capitol, Sibley headed west across the Sangre de Cristos to Taos, where his business associate Paul Baillio was located.
Sibley spent the winter of 1825/26 in Taos, where he completed the map of the American portion of the Trail and waited for permission to complete the Mexican portion. Although there's no evidence he ever travelled the portion between Point of Rocks and Santa Fe, he felt confident enough of that section to note that there was no need to make physical alterations it, since "the open nature of the country" enabled wagon to pass "without the least difficulty … with no other labor than removing a few logs, poles, etc." (Gregg, 201).
In any event, in 1827, Sibley completed his work and returned to Missouri in 1827, where he and his wife established the Linden Wood School for Girls, which would later become the Linden Wood College, and is today Lindenwood University. In Missouri, he is probably best known for this school. In New Mexico, his name is still more closely associated with the survey of the Santa Fe Trail and the mystery of why he didn't actually travel the full length of the Trail.
Sources: Kate L. Gregg, ed., The Road to Santa Fe, the journal and diaries of George Champlin Sibley, UNM Press, Albuquerque, 1995; Leroy R. Hafen, ed., Fur Traders and Trappers of the Far Southwest, Logan: Utah State UP, 1997; Daniel J. Weber, The Taos Trappers, Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1971
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Beaver Flat ist eines von 42 Feriendörfern (Resort Villages) in der Provinz Saskatchewan. Die Gemeinde gehört zu der Gruppe der "urban municipalities" und verfügt, wie alle "urban municipalities" in der Provinz, über eine eigenständige Verwaltung. Es liegt, umgeben von der Gemeinde Excelsior No. 166, am südlichen Rand des Lake Diefenbaker.

Die Ortschaft befindet sich ca. 57 km nördlich von Swift Current. Der Highway 628 endet direkt am Rand von Beaver Flat.

Geschichte
Das heutige Resort Village Beaver Flat entstand mit der Entstehung des Lake Diefenbaker. Die drei Politiker John Diefenbaker, Jimmy Gardener und Tommy Douglas berieten in den 1950er-Jahren darüber, einen Damm mit einem See zu errichten. Louis St. Laurent, damaliger Premierminister der Provinz Saskatchewan, war gegen diese Pläne. Er empfand es als sinnlos, einen Stausee inmitten der trockenen und kargen Prärielandschaft von Südwest-Saskatchewan anzulegen. Zudem war die Gegend um den heutigen Lake Diefenbaker in den Fünfzigerjahren nur dünn besiedelt.

John Diefenbaker besaß jedoch eine eigene Agenda. Nach einem Umzug 1959 konnten die Pläne für die Errichtung des Damms verwirklicht werden. Innerhalb weniger Tage arbeiteten bereits hunderte von Menschen und Fachleuten und errichteten den größten von Menschenhand erbauten Wasserdamm der Geschichte. Der Wall hatte eine Länge von 5000 m und war 64 m hoch. Neben diesem entstand ein zweiter, etwas kleinerer Staudamm 45 km südöstlich an der Einmündung des Qu'Apelle River.
Die ausgehobenen Erdmassen wurden mithilfe von Baggern und Lkws wegtransportiert. Ein Felsen, der nach dem Aushub freigelegt worden war, musste gesprengt werden, da dieser sonst eine Gefahr für die Schifffahrt dargestellt hätte. Danach waren die Arbeiten weitestgehend fertiggestellt und der zukünftige See konnte geflutet werden.

Die unter der Regierung von Ross Thatcher in den 1960er-Jahren gegründete Goodwin-Abteilung erstellte einen Plan, der Maßnahmen für die nötige Infrastruktur enthielt. Nach diesem Rasterplan wurden Straßen gebaut sowie Strom- und Wassertrassen verlegt. Thatchers Abteilung sah zudem vor, Grundstücke anzulegen, um diese später zu vermieten oder zu verkaufen.
Nach einem kurzzeitigen Baustopp und einem Treffen der Verwaltungsorganisation in Swift Current wurde Ernie Wittal am 1. April 1981 offiziell als erster Bürgermeister von Beaver Flat ernannt. In seiner Amtszeit erfolgte auch die Namensänderung von Goodwin Subdivision in Beaver Flat.

In den Folgejahren entstanden rund um den Lake Diefenbaker zahlreiche Einrichtungen und Freizeitmöglichkeiten, darunter ein Yachthafen, eine Golfplatzanlage, Spielplätze sowie mehrere Geschäfte.

Demografie
Im Jahr 2006 hatte Beaver Flat ca. 58 Einwohner. Bis zum Jahr 2011 sank diese Zahl um 31 % auf 40 Personen. Zugleich verkleinerte sich die Fläche von 63,2 km² auf 43,6 km². Nach der Volkszählung von 2016 besitzt der Ort 72 Einwohner. Die Zahl der Wohnfläche stieg auf 78,5 km². Das Durchschnittsalter liegt bei 56–59 Jahren.

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Los Angeles, Punk Rock
The Screamers
May 5, 2019 Jason Davis	Leave a comment
Gary Panter. SHRIEKING HEAD. The Screamers' logo, original drawing c. 1975.
The Screamers were an American electropunk group founded in 1975. They were among the first wave of the L.A. punk rock scene. The Los Angeles Times applied the label "techno-punk" to the band in 1978. In the documentary Punk: Attitude (2005), the Dead Kennedys cite the Screamers as a key influence on their group and as one of the great unrecorded groups in rock history. (further reading…)
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The Germs
March 10, 2019 Jason Davis	Leave a comment
The Germs were an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, originally active from 1976 to 1980. The band's main early lineup consisted of singer Darby Crash, guitarist Pat Smear, bassist Lorna Doom, and drummer Don Bolles. They released only one album, 1979's (GI), produced by Joan Jett, and were featured the following year in Penelope Spheeris' documentary film The Decline of Western Civilization, which chronicled the Los Angeles punk movement.
The Germs disbanded following Crash's suicide on December 7, 1980. Their music was influential to many later punk rock acts. Smear went on to achieve greater fame performing with Nirvana and Foo Fighters. (further reading…)
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What Records?
January 30, 2019 Jason Davis	Leave a comment
Started in 1977 with a shoestring budget, Chris Ashford's one man record company documented the early punk scene in Los Angeles.
Chris Ashford may not be a household name, but over 40 years ago, he released a single by his teenage friends, The Germs. That single, Forming / Sex Boy, is now widely recognized as the first Los Angeles DIY punk release. Shortly after, Ashford was approached by The Dils' manager to put out a single for them. This was issued as What 02, The Dils' I Hate the Rich. At the time, Ashford was frequenting The Masque in Hollywood, and from there recorded The Controllers, The Skulls, and the Eyes. In 1982, the What Records? name was sold, around the same time Ashford began releasing surf rock and taking his music business in a different direction. (further reading…)
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The Plugz
Considered to be the first Latino punk bank, The Plugz (also known as "Los Plugz") came together in 1977 in Southern California. The Plugz were part of the family of bands that was influenced by the Germs and played at legendary clubs like Madame Wong's and the Masque. They are generally acknowledged as being the first D.I.Y. punk band in L.A., having started their own PLUGZ RECORDS and later Fatima Records. (further reading…)
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The Alley Cats
The Alley Cats were a Los Angeles-based punk rock trio featuring Dianne Chai (bass and vocals), Randy Stodola (guitar and vocals), and drummer John McCarthy. They were part of the first-wave L.A. punk rock scene. X's John Doe described the band as having "made some of the toughest, most nihilistic music on the scene." (further reading…)
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The Cheifs
November 18, 2018 Jason Davis	Leave a comment
In November of 1979, Bob Glassley and a few friends piled into his car for a road trip down the West Coast. It was a retired police cruiser from the Dorris California Police Department, an all-white Plymouth with a souped-up engine. At the time, Glassley sang for a young punk band from Portland called the Rubbers. They were on a mission that day, to make some alliances in the Los Angeles music scene, and to line up some shows for a touring caravan of Portland bands. "We set out for L.A., and the motor blew somewhere outside of Stockton," Glassley says. "When we got back on the road we found out it was the day they were taping the Hollywood Christmas parade. All of the freeway exits were closed, so we just kept driving around the city, looking for an off-ramp."
Eventually they made it into the city and crashed at the Holly-West in Hollywood. The space was a former MGM studio and office building on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western, housing everything from a porno studio and a church led by a gay preacher to rehearsal spaces where musicians lived, practiced and spent most of their time hanging out.
One day, Glassley was listening to a group making noise in a nearby room when a young man with bright blue hair — George Walker — poked his head around the doorway and asked if anyone played bass. "I said I did, although that was a serious stretch," Glassley says. "I owned a cheap bass back in Portland, so I felt qualified."
Walker was a gay black man in the late '70s L.A. punk scene at a time when there were few out gay or black punk musicians.
The two became friends, and after sticking around and playing music for a few days, Glassley was invited to join the group and play bass alongside Walker on guitar with singer Jerry Koskie and drummer Kenneth "Rabit" Bragger. Soon they would come to be known as Cheifs. (further reading…)
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Punk Rock in Los Angeles
September 19, 2018 Jason Davis
Starting in 1976, following recent releases of recordings by punk bands such as the Ramones, a number of punk bands formed in the Los Angeles and Orange County area. Among these bands were the Flesh Eaters, the Weirdos, the Germs, the Controllers, the Deadbeats, the Skulls, the Angry Samoans, Agent Orange, the Dils, Black Randy and the Metrosquad, Catholic Discipline, the Go-Go's, the Alley Cats, Kommunity FK, the Screamers, the Dickies, X, the Zeros, the Bags, the Plugz, the Consumers, and their successors, 45 Grave.
The Weirdos are an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. They formed in 1975 and broke up in 1981, were occasionally active in the 1980s, and recorded new material in the 1990s. Critic Mark Deming calls them "quite simply, one of the best and brightest American bands of punk's first wave."
The band was formed in 1975 by singer John Denney and his guitarist brother Dix, initially using the band names the Barbies and the Luxurious Adults. The Weirdos were originally a 1950s-inspired hard rock and roll band that, like the Ramones in New York City, predated the UK punk scene. While initially trying to distance themselves from the genre name "punk" that was created in New York, ultimately the band, in the words of John Denney, "just kinda became more like this punk ROCK N ROLL type thing and we kinda went with it because the fans wanted it. They wore us down and we just said 'OK, fine! We're punk rock, similar to the Ramones. Whatever you say.'" (further reading…)
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7" vinyl, Misfits
July 24, 2018 Jason Davis
The first time it occurred to me there was such a thing as limited pressings of vinyl was in high school at a small record shop on Hollywood Boulevard: hanging on the wall was the Fiend Club version of the Misfits Evilive 7″ record. This one was numbered, stamped, and signed by Glenn Danzig. My friend Dan looked at me and said I'd never see one again, so I spent everything I had on it…
Misfits – Evilive
Label: Plan 9
Catalog Number: PL1019
Release Date: Dec 1982
A1 20 Eyes
A2 Night Of The Living Dead
A3 Astro Zombies
A4 Horror Business
B1 London Dungeon
B2 All Hell Breaks Loose
B3 We Are 138*
*Guest Vocals and Growls by "Henry-Heckuva Guy-Rollins"
'Fiend Club' edition of 800 hand-numbered copies with yellow center labels and insert sheet.
Tracks A1 to B1 recorded live at The Ritz in New York, NY on December 17, 1981.
Tracks B2 and B3 recorded live at On Broadway in San Francisco, CA November 20, 1981.
Henry Rollins of Black Flag was in the crowd for this performance and joined The Misfits on stage for track B3.
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The Misfits – Fiend Club [I.F.M., 1988] — alte
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MISFITS – Ghouls Gold E.P. [Los Angeles: Brainea
Hilary Laddin - The Sell (What Records?, 1980)
VKTMS - Midget E.P. (Emergency Room Records, 1979;
Plugz – Move (Blammo, 2001) — unofficial reiss
Screamers – Magazine Love / Cholo Jump (Meeuw Mu
Tools – #3 E.P. (Berkeley: Subterranean Records,
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The Noise – Noise / Agony (San Francisco: Broken
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Politics Reflections
What if, like teachers, MPs had performance related pay?
By @TLPMrsF June 16, 2015 June 14, 2018
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From the 1st of September 2013, schools have been able to link teachers' pay to performance – the idea being that this allows them to pay good teachers more. The DfE advised that schools should consider a range of factors when assessing teachers' performance including their impact on pupil progress; professional development and their wider contribution to the work of the school.
This requirement of schools to revise their pay and appraisal policies followed the publication, in May 2012, of the Education Select Committee's report entitled, 'Great Teachers: attracting, training and retaining the best'. In the report, the committee asserted that:
'There are, currently, huge differences in teacher performance in the UK; no longer should the weakest teachers be able to hide behind a rigid and unfair pay structure. We believe that performance management systems should support and reward the strongest teachers, as well as make no excuses (or, worse, incentives to remain) for the weaker. Given the profound positive and negative impacts which teachers have on pupil performance, as demonstrated earlier in the report, we are concerned that the pay system continues to reward low-performers at the same levels as their more successful peers.'
There is no such Select Committee to publish reports on the way in which MPs should be paid. For centuries MPs controlled their own pay which, for perhaps obvious reasons, they 'held down'. However, to make up for their basic annual salary they allowed their allowances and expenses (less visible to voters) to increase. This culminated in the 2009 expenses scandal which saw revelations of ludicrous 'expenses' including the infamous £1,645 duck house claimed by Sir Peter Viggers MP.
In answer to the public outcry at MPs claiming for such things as porn films (Jacqui Smith), installation of lightbulbs (David Willetts) and toilet seat repairs (John Prescott), the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority was created. With its power to set MPs pay, the IPSA was established to make decisions on the basis of evidence. The authority found measures to illustrate how MPs' pay had fallen behind its historic level. For example, from 1911-1980, an MP's salary was worth on average 3.16 times the national average wage. It is now 2.67 times the average wage (£79,193 would bring it back to the historical ratio).
Following a two year pay freeze and subsequently a 1 per cent increase in 2013-14 and the same again in 2014-15, an MP is currently paid £67,060. Having considered all the evidence, the IPSA judged that a salary of £74,000 a year (an increase of 10%) was appropriate for MPs and proposed that this should be a one-off adjustment, 'designed to restore MPSs' pay to an appropriate and professional level'. In future years, MPs' pay should keep pace with national average earnings. At the beginning of this month the IPSA launched its final consultation on the 10 per cent pay rise asking: Is there new and compelling evidence that might lead us to amend our determination?
I don't have any new and compelling evidence that MPs should not be given their pay increase (though it seems a little galling that this is being consulted on during a time when there's still a public sector pay freeze). I do, however, have one suggestion – why don't we introduce performance related pay for MPs? After all, the Education Select Committee which suggested the measure for teachers was made up of a selection of cross party MPs. If they thought it an appropriate measure for us why not roll it out for them?
Performance Related Pay for MPs
Let me start by quoting from my report on MPs' pay entitled, 'Great MPs: attracting, training and retaining the best'.
'There are, currently, huge differences in MP performance in the UK; no longer should the weakest MPs be able to hide behind a rigid and unfair pay structure. I believe that performance management systems should support and reward the strongest MPs, as well as make no excuses (or, worse, incentives to remain) for the weaker. Given the profound positive and negative impacts which MPs have on the lives of their constituents (and, more widely, the country) I am concerned that the pay system continues to reward low-performers at the same levels as their more successful peers.'
Compelling, right?
I think we can accept that an MP can have a 'profound' impact on the lives of their constituents and, by voting on issues in parliament, the general public. Why, then, is it acceptable for failing MPs to be remunerated in exactly the same way as MPs who are doing a good job? Of course if we were going to go down this road it'd have to be clear how we judged what we mean by a 'Good' or even 'Outstanding' MP.
How could we judge the performance of MPs?
It's a slippery fish this judging performance business but if we're going to introduce performance related pay for MPs somebody's got to put together a measure, scale or criteria.
A good place to start might be the proportion of votes an MP turns up to. How many times have they spoken in debates or received answers to written questions? How often do they hold surgeries for their constituents? What do their constituents have to say about them? What impact is their voting, letter writing and surgery holding having on those people that gave them their seat in the House of Commons? Are they making their constituency or this country a demonstrably better place? How can we tell? Where's the evidence?
Ofstip
Might it be worth considering setting up a watchdog to routinely inspect the 650 constituencies and use data to assess the impact of our MPs? Ofstip has a certain ring to it (The Office for Standards in Parliament). We could use Ofsted's foci and adapt them:
'Achievement of pupils constituents'
This would not only cover the achievement of school pupils but also adult literacy rates; the number of people in full-time employment; the relative success of people from disadvantaged backgrounds and so on. It could even encompass sporting achievement – how many Olympiads in your constituency?
'Quality of teaching MPing'
This could be measured by observations of surgeries – are they meeting the needs of their constituents? Are they differentiating the way in which they engage with the people who come to see them? An inspector might also drop in on a session in Parliament to check the MP is there, how vocal they are or maybe if they're managing to stay awake (ahem Stephen Pound). It might also be worth inspectors checking the feedback the MP is giving to the people they serve and if they're engaging in a dialogue that has real impact.
'Behaviour and safety'
How well behaved are the constituents? What's the crime rate? Is it dropping? How is anti-social behaviour being tackled? If an Inspector walks around will they spot any litter, graffiti or poor behaviour? Is that penis daubed on the railway bridge indicative of a wider issue?
I'm not saying that MPs have an easy job but then nor do we teachers. I don't disagree that failing teachers and schools (and, for that matter, MPs) need to be held to account but I think there should be more room for trusting and empowering professionals to do a good job – it's what the vast majority are trying to do.
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This script allows the GM to dynamically create radioactive areas in their
maps. Characters that have Geiger counters will be alerted how many rads
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## To create a radioactive source object:
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2) Set that token's 'radioactive' status marker to on.
3) Set its aura1 radius to the distance at which characters will start
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4) Set the bar1 value to amount of rads/s characters will take at the edge
of its aura.
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New TNT show, 'Men of a Certain Age,' has Syracuse University roots
Updated Jan 05, 2019; Posted Dec 07, 2009
By William LaRue, National Desk
Courtesy of TNT"Men of a Certain Age" stars (from left) Andre Braugher, Ray Romano and Scott Bakula. It premiers tonight on cable network TNT and was co-created by Mike Royce, a 1982 Jamesville-DeWitt High School graduate and former writer on "Everybody Loves Raymond," which Romano starred in.
For viewers tuning in to TNT's new comedy-drama series "Men of a Certain Age," co-created by former "Everybody Loves Raymond" star Ray Romano, it might seem like everybody loves the Orange.
Joe, the slightly neurotic party-store owner played by Romano, wears a T-shirt with "Syracuse" in big letters across the front during a carpool scene in the first episode, which premieres at 10 p.m. today.
Syracuse University banners hang from office walls at Joe's Los Angeles store. At the home of his middle-age pal, auto salesman Owen, there's an inflatable The Hulk figure wearing a Syracuse University jersey. The TV set nearby is playing an SU basketball game.
No one mentions SU by name in the pilot or in any of four other episodes made available for review by TNT. But clues are everywhere.
Another of Joe's friends, struggling actor Terry, reminisces about a bar with a name familiar to generations of SU students: "You remember back in college," Terry says, "when Owen got his (behind) kicked by that high school junior that snuck into Hungry Charley's?"
Romano, 51, in a phone interview from L.A. last week, says he's somewhat familiar with Syracuse because, when he was a kid in Queens, his family used to travel here during the summer to visit relatives.
But the idea to make the three main characters buddies who attended SU in the late 1970s came from series co-creator Mike Royce, 45, a 1982 Jamesville-DeWitt High School graduate and a former "Raymond" writer.
"We wanted them to have a really close experience together someplace different from L.A., back in a place we knew," says Royce, who joined Romano in the phone interview. ''Men of a Certain Age" offers characters and situations rarely given thoughtful treatment on television — middle-age men coping with aches and pains of growing older, job stresses, family problems and other ups and downs common to those in their late 40s.
Joe, a father of two teens, is living alone in a hotel room while going through a recent marital separation. He once had dreams of being a professional golfer, but he's now spending his days running his party store — and running up gambling debts.
Terry (played by Scott Bakula, the former star of "Quantum Leap") is a laid-back, athletic single guy who makes a living as a temp worker because he's having a hard time finding acting jobs. His character suffers from a Peter Pan complex, drawing ribbing from the guys because he dates much younger women.
Then there's Owen (Andre Braugher, who won an Emmy for his role on "Homicide: Life on the Street"), an overstressed, overweight husband with sleep apnea and a diabetic condition. He struggles to win any kind of praise from his demanding father, who owns the car dealership where Owen works.
While "Men of a Certain Age" is nothing like the farcical comedy of "Everybody Loves Raymond," the TNT series also isn't as melancholy as it might first appear from the pilot, Royce said. "Men" blends serious story lines with a dash of one-liners and light banter, and even a bit of slapstick.
In one scene, after his father complains he's not selling enough cars, Owen hip-checks a younger salesman into a potted tree while racing out the showroom door to greet potential customers.
Royce points out that "Men," by its second episode, settles into entertaining stories about middle age and the three longtime friends helping each other through the journey.
"We quickly establish that what the show's basically about is hope and getting through maybe what's a difficult sort of era in your life, but there's a lot of funny (stuff) that happens, too," he says.
Romano, Royce and the five other writers on the series often latch onto dialogue and plots inspired by events in their own lives or those of friends and family, just as writers did on CBS sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond."
In the first episode of "Men of a Certain Age," Joe remarks that he's noticed that the man he sees in his mirror isn't completely recognizable. "I know I'm standing there. I see myself. ... You recognize yourself. But there's a little bit of you, you don't," he says.
That observation is drawn nearly word for word from a conversation Romano had with Royce, who had immediately suggested they "put that down" in writing.
Although he's happily married and doesn't have a gambling problem, Romano says, he can identify with Joe's interests in betting, about his worries about growing older and about wanting to know if there's time for any new accomplishments.
He says he began worrying about the next act in his life soon after "Raymond" ended its nine-year run in 2005.
"You know, I'm not talking for Mike, but everybody thinks, 'Oh, you've had a successful show. You're all financially set. How can you identify with these fellows?' It's all relative. I'd had those feelings," Romano says. "And that whole looking-in-the-mirror thing, for example. I've been through that."
On the phone with Romano and Royce, it's clear their own relationship has elements of the close friendship and give-and-take banter of Joe, Terry and Owen.
When Royce mentions that he's hoping the series gets around to explicitly mentioning SU and exploring the college past of the three men, Romano pipes up: "Oh, I'm against it."
Royce jokes that he knows why Romano says that: "It's just a threat (to Romano) of having to go to Syracuse in winter,"
Romano and Royce have been friends since the late 1980s when they were standup comics performing at clubs in New York City. The two often got together then to talk about comedy, and they discovered over time what Romano describes as similar "sensibilities in writing."
When Romano was working on his 1998 autobiographical book, "Everything and a Kite," he hired Royce to help write it. Royce moved to L.A. a year later to join the writing staff of "Raymond."
After the show ended, Romano and Royce continued to work together, mulling over numerous ideas for projects, including a movie, until they became excited about the stories they could tell in a TV drama about men in mid-life crisis.
A show like this also made sense because it meant a payoff for all that time he and Royce chat about their own middle-age lives, Romano says.
"We kind of bonded over just the fact we were kind of going through a little bit of what these guys are going through — that point in our lives. That's when we decided, 'Let's make money on it,'" Romano says.
What: "Men of a Certain Age," a comedic drama about three men confronting the perils of middle age in Los Angeles.
Where: Cable network TNT.
When: 10 p.m. Mondays, beginning today.
Courtesy of TNT
"MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE"stars (from left) Andre Braugher, Ray Romano and Scott Bakula. It premiers tonight on cable network TNT and was co-created by Mike Royce, a 1982 Jamesville-DeWitt High School graduate and former writer on "Everybody Loves Raymond," which Romano starred in.
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