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Tom Baxter is heading out on a 24-date UK tour in support of his first official release in a decade, the The Other Side of Blue – with Worthing among the dates.
Spokeswoman Verity Walker said: "It was in 2008 that Tom brought out the self-funded 'Skybound,' the follow-up to the 2004 debut 'Feather & Stone,' which first alerted the wider world to his singular talent for absolutely believable, emotionally immersive composition. Since then, he's released one fan-only album, travelled the world, been through plenty of soul-searching and emerged at the other end with what may well be his best-ever work.
"Baxter made his name with such heart-stopping originals as 'Better,' 'Almost There' and 'Day in Verona,' and his songs have been covered by much-loved entertainers from Dame Shirley Bassey all the way to Boyzone. He's admired by the likes of Tom Waits, Rufus Wainwright, Gary Barlow and actor David Schwimmer, and by a steadfast set of fans that waited patiently for the release of his latest album.
"'The Other Side of Blue' is Baxter's most searingly personal work to date, performed entirely solo and with gorgeous illustration on guitar and piano. It's a beautiful and elegant return to his very core as a songwriter and a human being.
"'The Other Side of Blue' is entirely free of "production camouflage", as he puts it, and is underpinned by 'The Ballad of Davey Graham', the song he was inspired to write after a request to play at the unveiling of a blue plaque for the great guitar pioneer of the title. In a moment of pure serendipity, Davey's partner had written to request Tom's contribution because Graham was not only an admirer of his, but she revealed that Baxter's music was the last that Davey had listened to. Not that of Paul Simon, Jimmy Page or any of the other superstars he had inspired, but Tom Baxter.


Community Affairs officer Corporal Catherine Payne reported to Historic City News that a man, stopped by deputies in the early morning hours yesterday for a minor traffic violation is in jail today in lieu of $175,000 bond and facing four felony charges along with five added misdemeanor charges.
When deputies pulled over 30-year-old Misael Adrian Pares Vargas on SR-207 just after midnight Friday morning, a responding K-9 unit, trained to locate narcotics, gave an alert signal to his deputy handler.
Deputies searched the vehicle and located less than 20 grams of cannabis, 50 grams of cocaine, various prescription narcotics, ammunition, a firearm, and a bulletproof vest.
Vargas provided officers with an address in North Miami Beach, however, according to the St Johns County Detention Facility records; he lists a post office box address in Atlantic Beach as his residence. It must get awfully cramped.
Charges against Vargas include trafficking in cocaine, commission of a first degree felony while in possession of a firearm, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of a bulletproof vest while committing certain criminal offenses, possession of less than 20 grams of cannabis and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription.


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Mic Daily: The worst moments from that "disgraceful" Trump-Putin summit and more
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6 notable moments from the "disgraceful" Trump-Putin summit
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin give a joint press conference Monday after their summit in Helsinki. Chris McGrath/Getty Images
President Donald Trump delivered on Monday what was quickly denounced as one of the most disgraceful performances ever by an American president after he sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies on the issue of Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election — a position that's adding fuel to speculation that the Kremlin has compromising information on Trump.
Federal judge deems separation of immigrant children from their parents unconstitutional
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A federal judge in Connecticut has ruled that the forced separation of two immigrant children from their parents is unconstitutional, and issued a preliminary injunction granting both children resources for coping with post traumatic stress disorder resulting from the U.S. government's policy.
The most cringeworthy — and snooze-worthy — moments from Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America?
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Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's new Showtime series Who is America?premiered to mix reviews Sunday. The new series has the Borat star up to his old tricks, dressing up in convincing costumes and duping unsuspecting Americans — some famous, some not — into interviews in which Cohen pushes the boundaries of etiquette, acceptability or even morality itself.
Latest indictment hits Russian acting as unregistered foreign agent
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Just a few hours after Trump took Putin's side and blamed special counsel Robert Mueller for poor relations between the U.S. and Russia, the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against yet another Russian national, charging her with "conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government."
In a new lawsuit, the creators of the S-Town podcast are being accused of exploiting John McLemore
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A new lawsuit alleges that the team behind the hit 2017 podcast S-Town exploited the show's subject, John B. McLemore, claiming the show revealed details of McLemore's private life without his consent. S-Town, produced by the makers of Serial and This American Life, was hosted by TAL producer Brian Reed.

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Research has found that UK businesses aren't ready for the Modern Slavery Act 2015 that came into force on 26 March 2015.
The Act aims to prevent the use of slave labour in the UK economy by encouraging businesses to take a greater interest in the practices of their suppliers, both in the UK and abroad.
Any business with a turnover of £36million or more, and that has a financial year starting on or after 1 April 2016, will have to make an annual "slavery and human trafficking statement". This statement will have to set out the steps the company has taken to ensure that its supply chains are free from slavery and human trafficking.
However, the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) has found that many UK businesses are unprepared for the upcoming reporting requirement. Their research has found that one in five UK supply chain managers is unaware of the new rules and 27 per cent don't understand what their business is required to do. Even more disturbing is that over half of UK businesses have said that they lack the skills to deal with modern slavery in their supply chains.
The other worry is that more than half of supply managers in the UK have admitted that they would not know what do to if they did detect slavery or human trafficking in their supply line.
The reporting part of the Act is for large business, as we said, with a turnover of £36million or more. However, it's important for any business to act ethically and make sure that they are doing all they can to stop slavery and human trafficking.
As a small business you will still have suppliers or may be a supplier in the chain yourself.
Have face to face meetings; don't just rely on phone and email conversations. Discuss the challenges faced, and ideally meet with other people in the supply chain or who deal with the same parties.
Stand behind or help create a supplier code of conduct for that supply chain. Include anti-slavery and anti-human trafficking clauses. Ensure that the contract includes appropriate rights of audit and inspection.
Ask your co-suppliers to confirm what they have in place to ensure that their supply chains are free of slavery and human trafficking. Engage in site visits if appropriate.
Make sure all staff have responsibility for procuring services are fully trained in recognising less than ethical standards.
You can also make simple enquiries to ensure that your suppliers are treating people fairly, paying employees minimum wage and having proper immigration clearance.
We know it can be hard to check these things but if big businesses aren't ready, how can small businesses make sure that they are?
If you need legal advice about the Modern Slavery Act, or you are concerned about how to check your suppliers and/or engage with your business customers legally, then get in touch with our expert business lawyers at Slater and Gordon.
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Q: R - Installation of shiny fails after upgrade to 4.0.2 I upgraded to R 4.0.2 today, and also updated my copy of RStudio. While I've been updating my packages I've found that shiny won't install. Whenever I try to install shiny I get the following message...
Error in as.list.environment(base::getNamespace("shiny"), all.names = TRUE) :
  lazy-load database 'H:/My Documents/R/win-library/4.0/shiny/R/shiny.rdb' is corrupt
Calls: <Anonymous> ... withCallingHandlers -> <Anonymous> -> <Anonymous> -> as.list.environment
Execution halted
*** arch - x64
Error in as.list.environment(base::getNamespace("shiny"), all.names = TRUE) :
  lazy-load database 'H:/My Documents/R/win-library/4.0/shiny/R/shiny.rdb' is corrupt
Calls: <Anonymous> ... withCallingHandlers -> <Anonymous> -> <Anonymous> -> as.list.environment
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed for 'i386', 'x64'
* removing 'H:/My Documents/R/win-library/4.0/shiny'
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package 'shiny' had non-zero exit status

I get this error regardless of whether I just type "install.packages('shiny')" and peace out or if I download the tar.gz and try to install from a local directory. The same error happens when I specify to download an older version of shiny, so I'm pretty sure it's not a problem with the file I'm trying to install. Restarting RStudio does nothing, which is the only advice I could find online for shiny installation problems.
Has anyone else had any problems with installing shiny since upgrading to the newest version of R? Any workarounds?

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This note is part of a series of invited contributions which will appear each season of the year. Their aim is to explore various issues of international tax law, from the perspective of public international law. Given the paucity of space, the overview of issues explored is brief, and the potential avenues for further research into them are merely suggested tentatively.
The legal status of the Commentaries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to the OECD Model Tax Convention have raised issues as to their nature and legal consequences, including under general international law. The literature has recently considered the potential roles of the OECD Commentaries in the interpretation of double taxation treaties (DTTs) (Broekhuijsen (2013) 9; Machado da Silva (2015) 573), and the application of DTTs which make reference (renvoi) to them (eg Protocol to Netherlands/Barbados DTT, discussed in Engelen (2008) 52 n 74; Colombia/France and Colombia/United Kingdom DTTs, discussed in Girón Uribe (2018) 118). While these issues seem merely academic, they often arise before courts, including, most recently, in C Danmark I v Skatteministeriet (cf, AG Opinion, C-119/16 (2018)).
The scholarly analyses of the nature of the OECD Commentaries often rely on conceptual frameworks distinguishing between 'binding' and 'non-binding', and the 'no man's land' in between (Blokker (2008) 20), political and legal commitments (Ward (2008) 79), and 'hard' and 'soft' law (eg Girón Uribe (2018)). The prevailing position among scholars and in judicial practice is that the OECD Model Tax Convention, and, a fortiori, the OECD Commentaries, are not legally binding per se (eg AG Opinion, C-119/16 (2018), para 50). Nevertheless, there are vexed aspects of the debate which remain unresolved (see contributions to Douma & Engelen (2008) and other literature surveyed), and yet the conceptual frameworks deployed to address them are still the same. The fact that no solution has been achieved calls into question the heuristic usefulness of those conceptual frameworks.
This Note proposes that the distinction between sources of law and sources of obligation, among others, may provide a more fruitful heuristic tool, as far as general international law aspects are concerned. This distinction has been tangentially mentioned in scholarship, but not fully explored (eg Blokker (2008) 27, referring to the notion of absence of 'a legal obligation' in this area).
Whether the OECD Commentaries may take the form of one of the recognized sources of law has been discussed, particularly with regard to custom (Blokker (2008) 25); and, in this particular respect, the conclusion tends to be that neither practice nor acceptance as law thereof have been established in relation to the use of OECD Commentaries by states (Blokker (2008) 25).
The debate over whether other 'sources of international law' may account for the legal consequences, if any, of the OECD Commentaries, best illustrates the greater explanatory power of the distinction between sources of law and sources of obligation over the hard/soft law dichotomy. In fact, the hard/soft law distinction has often proven to be a false dichotomy, since, '[w]here treaties are hard in terms of bindingness and soft […] in terms of meaning, the Commentaries are inversely proportional to these treaties in matters of interpretation.' (Pijl (2008) 102). Unsurprisingly, it has been noted that whether the OECD Commentaries are 'binding' has proven 'too broad a formulation of the problem to be meaningful' (Thirlway (2008) 32).
In particular, the debate over the place of acquiescence and estoppel is of relevance, both to scholarship and judicial practice (cf Judgment C-460 of 2010 – discussed in Girón Uribe (2018) 107-, concluding that the OECD Commentaries may not become binding by virtue of estoppel or acquiescence where the requirements for the operation of either are not met). In this vein, it has been claimed that the OECD Commentaries may become binding for OECD Member states whose DTT incorporate OECD Model Convention provisions: those legal consequences would extend to any such DTT by virtue of acquiescence or estoppel (Engelen (2008) 59, 71-72). This claim has been opposed with greater or lesser vigour. When plainly rebuked, it is argued that, given the clear non-binding character of the OECD Commentaries, acquiescence or estoppel are not relevant (Ward (2008) 74).
While the positions adopted in this particular debate might reflect divergent understandings of acquiescence and estoppel, it seems that progress is further hindered by a conflation of levels of analysis, namely of the general law-making level of sources of law and the specific obligation-making level of sources of obligation. For instance, it has been argued that '[a]lthough tax treaties give rise to international obligations, the OECD Commentaries do not', and, thus, a state's departure from the latter 'would not in and by itself be an internationally wrongful act' (Ward (2008) 84). And yet, an internationally wrongful act exists whenever an international obligation is breached, 'regardless of its origin or character' (Article 12, ARS (2001)). Indeed, the law of international responsibility is primarily concerned with international obligations, and not confined to those obligations flowing from sources of law (cf Commentary (3) to Article 12, ARS (2001) 55, noting that 'States may assume international obligations by a unilateral act', in addition to custom or treaty, and that '[t]he formula "regardless of its origin" refers to all possible sources of international obligations').
The use of the distinction between sources of law and sources of obligation may provide a more solid basis for the analysis and legal consequences of OECD Commentaries. It provides a criterion to identify the correct level of analysis, where sources of obligations are the unit of analysis. At this concrete level of analysis, the only legal significance of soft law instruments, what is often called their 'normative effect' (Pijl (2008) 136-137), finds a more proper explanation: that normative effect results from the process of determination of the content of an obligation, where the non-binding instrument is connected to a source of obligation (cf Commentary (9) to Article 2, ARS (2001) 36, noting that certain issues may concern 'content and interpretation of the primary obligation and cannot be determined in the abstract'). More importantly, where the nature and legal consequences of the OECD Commentaries is analysed, placing them at the level of sources of obligation allows for a more nuanced, and accurate, analysis: one in which, for instance, where acquiescence or estoppel are resorted to, emphasis is placed on the 'specific conduct' (Thirlway (2008) 39) in connection with the OECD Commentaries, instead of the ultimately empty notion of the OECD Commentaries as a non-binding instrument which may nevertheless become binding. The distinction may pave the way for progress in the enquiry into the nature of the OECD Commentaries.
ARS (2001), Draft articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, with commentaries, Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 2001, vol. II, Part Two
Douma & Engelen (2008), Sjoerd Douma and Frank Engelen (eds), The Legal Status of the OECD Commentaries (IBFD, 2008)
Blokker (2008), Skating on Thin Ice? On the Law of International Organizations and the Legal Nature of the Commentaries on the OECD Model Tax Convention, in Douma & Engelen (2008) 13
Engelen (2008), How 'Acquiescence' and 'Estoppel' Can Operate to the Effect that States Parties to A Tax Treaty Are Legally Bound to Interpret the Treaty in Accordance with the Commentaries on the OECD Model Tax Convention, in Douma & Engelen (2008) 51
Pijl (2008), Beyond Legal Bindingness, in Douma & Engelen (2008) 95
Thirlway (2008), The Role of the International Law Concepts of Acquiescence and Estoppel, in Douma & Engelen (2008) 29
Ward (2008), Is There An Obligation in International Law of OECD Member Countries to Follow the Commentaries on the Model?, in Douma & Engelen (2008) 73
Broekhuijsen (2013), Dirk Broekhuijsen, 'A Modern Understanding of Article 31(3)(c) of the Vienna Convention (1969): A New Haunt for the Commentaries to the OECD Model?' (2013) 67 Bulletin for International Taxation 9
Machado da Silva (2015), Paulo Antônio Machado da Silva filho, 'Crítica à Atual Jurisprudência do Superior Tribunal de Justiça a Respeito da Interpretação dos Tratados Tributários' (2015) 1(2) Revista de Direito Tributário e Financeiro 563
AG Opinion, C-119/16 (2018), Opinion of Advocate General Kokott, 1 March 2018, Case C-119/16, C Danmark I v Skatteministeriet
Girón Uribe (2018), Paula Andrea Girón Uribe, 'La conversión del soft law de la OCDE en hard law en Colombia, especial referencia a los Convenios para Evitar la Doble Imposición suscritos por Colombia con Francia y Reino Unido' (2018) 12 Revista de Derecho Fiscal 69
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Back to the Colonial Fort site. We're going to get all archaeological on this location. We're going to start doing some controlled digs to get the detectors down deep. Well some of us anyway. Others may end up rooting for truffles. We'll find buttons, knives, musket balls, fancy hinges, clay pipes, cuff links, and ornate decorative pieces.Oh and GOLD, it was so small I almost forgot about it, but it was there. Tell me this is not a colonial treasure horde.


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Abbotsbury
There are four RIGS sites at Abbotsbury:
Limekiln Crags
Linton Hill
Chester's Hill
Red Lane Quarry
The World Heritage team, led by Richard Edmonds, have been drawing up strategies for the conservation and interpretation of the geology of the Dorset coast, which is a World Heritage Site. The strategies will cover not only the immediate coast but also sites marginally inland, such as the Abbotsbury, Portesham and Poxwell sites. The team, in partnership with the Dorset's Important Geological Sites group, are intending to use Red Lane quarry as an example of the co-operation possible between landowners and conservationists in providing greater access to the countryside, and promoting geo-tourism. Visits by geological parties are best conducted in the spring and autumn, outside the summer high season.
Comparison of deposits at the junction of the Corallian and Kimmeridge Clay Formations.
Abbotsbury – from the Gardens to West Elworth – the iron ore overlays a soft sandstone, and is thought to be the result of a sand deposited very quickly where rapid burial of the sediment isolated it from the oxygenated seawater and produced reducing conditions. The iron in water running from the land therefore precipitated out, collecting round the sand grains.
Sandsfoot – fine clay with iron staining on nodules formed in a quiet lagoon, followed by light grey Kimmeridge Clay.
Ringstead – fine clay overlain by a limestone containing some corals. These must have grown in very shallow oxygenated water with plenty of sunlight. The limestone shows many features indicative of condensation, including an abundant and diverse fauna, evidence of boring, encrustation, and the formation of phosphate nodules and iron ooids. (Coe, 1995) The limestone is immediately followed by dark grey Kimmeridge Clay, full of oyster shells.
These different deposits at the same horizon only short distances apart illustrate the changing environments that existed millions of years ago.
The Corallian Formation below the Iron Ore consists of rhythmic cycles of clay, sand and limestone which reflect relative sea level rises and falls over several million years. The top of the Formination is considered to be the shallow end of the last of these sea level falls. Some of these sands and limestones can be seen south of the village, particularly on Chapel and Linton Hills. The village is built of the best limestone, taken from the medieval quarry at Chapel Coppice, and later quarries on Linton Hill.
The Iron Ore was deposited at a time of flooding as sea level rose over a shallow marine shelf. As the encroaching sea deepened, clay was deposited over the sand. This upper margin of the iron ore is not at present visible in Abbotsbury, though the deposit at Blind Lane S.S.S.I. may be nearer the top.
The Kimmeridge Clay above the Iron Ore is the result of a deep sea deposit where the sea floor was almost entirely without oxygen so that organic matter drifting down from the upper oxygenated water after death has not decomposed fully. The microscopic organic matter has collected together to form potential oil deposits.
This sequence of environments from fluctuating sea levels, through shallow sea, to a deep basin comparable with the Black Sea today, is the subject of intense study. Both oil exploration and the threat of global warming require understanding of the natural changes which have occurred in the past. The tiniest details are needed in order to judge the timing and therefore the speed of these changes. Recent oil exploration has led to understanding of the structural changes which governed the rise and fall of relative sea levels.
The Abbotsbury Fault, which crosses the hillside to the north of Red Lane may have been moving at the time of deposit of the iron ore. The fault movement which occurred at different times and places during the Jurassic was the result of the opening of the north Atlantic and the lateral movement of the Iberian peninsula. Although the iron ore is not specifically mentioned in a recent publication on petroleum geology of the Wessex Basin (Underhill, 1998) , the Abbotsbury Fault figures prominently in that study.
HISTORICAL RECORDS (held in the Dorset County Records Office).
D124 The Ilchester Archive. Box 287. Including map attached.
22.5.1872. Abstract of lease between Earl of Ilchester and Chas. Moore of city of Bath.
"All and sing. the veins beds and deposits of iron ore or ironstone within or lying beneath or under those several closes or parcels of land situate and being in the parish of Abbotsbury Co. Dorset parlarly mentioned and described in the schedule at the foot of the now abstr'g Indre and distinguished and delineated in the map or plan thereof annexed thereto. Together with full and free liberty with agents servants miners and workmen to enter such part of the lands as should for the time being be requisite not exceeding 5 acres at one time without license in writing of the Earl or his Agent for the purpose of searching for working obtaining and winning the said iron ore or ironstone therein before demised first giving notice and making compensation to tenants as therein ment'd.
With power to open shafts to erect sheds and machinery and take away the Iron Ore and Ironstone and make tramroads etc. over the lands described in the schedule and so far as the Earl could grant authority along over and across the inlet of the sea called the Fleet and thence along the Pebble Beach to Portland Harbour as in the now abstracted Indre mentioned. With others powers and subject to certain reservations. To hold from the 25th March 1872 for the term of 40 years thence next ensuing determinable nevless as thinar provided. Yielding and paying during the term a fixed and certain minimum rent of £500 as the rent of the Iron Ore under one acre payable half yearly from entry or if no entry previously from 25th Dec 1872 the 1st years rent to be payable in advance. And the further rent of £500 for every additional acre. And the rent of £5 for every acre of land used for depositing earth, heaps of ore etc."
Map shows lease of fields at West Elworth, south of main road and all fields around Abbotsbury itself down to Castle Gardens. Field numbers refer to estate map. Also proposed tramway through Elworth and down to beach through water meadows, just east of Wyke Wood. Schedule of land to be leased gives field numbers, names, sizes of holdings and names of tenants. Field 272 is north part of Red Quarry. (Indicates previous working.) There had been negotiations for the previous four years, including discussions on the use of the tramway by the Earl and his tenants.
Suggestion of bridge over Fleet. A leaflet is enclosed on a "Wire rope transport system".
Letter of 13th Jan 1871 states that best ore has only 30% iron, top part only 20 – 24%, and will be returned to the ground.
5th Nov 1874 Receipt for 2 years rent to Christmas 1874 under Abbotsbury Iron Lease – £1000.
Additions to lease: restore land every 6 months for agricultural use. A provision for allowing more acreage in next year if there is no ore in one year was objected to, with comment "It will be his own fault if he does not get the ore." Letter 5th August 1872 giving permission for transfer to George Eliot and Stephen Deed. Moore sold the lease to George Eliot 25.10.1872.
PUBLISHED REFERENCES CONCERNING EXPLOITATION OF THE IRON ORE .
References to the building of a railway to convey the ore to South Wales for processing can be found in the Dorset County Chronicle:-
3rd October 1872 (vol. 17 (115) 10). Bridport Railway Co. proposing to build a line for the iron ore recently proved at Abbotsbury.
10th October 1872 (vol. 17 (116) 3). Tramway between Abbotsbury and Upwey station on the Great Western Railway line, to convey iron ore to South Wales, proposed in opposition to Bridport Railway Co.
24th January 1878 (vol. 23 (390) 12). Abbotsbury Railway Co. seeking money from prospective shareholders in Dorchester. Discussion shows that exploitation of the ore was still only a proposition.
The OS map of 1888 shows a tramway built from the Upwey direction, including a branch from Portesham quarry, close to a working marked Shale Works.
The Victoria County History states that iron ore may have been quarried in the medieval period, but there is no documentary evidence.
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES.
BROOKFIELD ME 1971: An alternative to the 'clastic trap' interpretation of oolitic ironstone facies. Geological Magazine, 108, 137-43.
BROOKFIELD ME 1973: The palaeoenvironment of the Abbotsbury Ironstone (Upper Jurassic) of Dorset. Palaeontology, 16 (2), 261-74.
BROOKFIELD ME 1973b: The palaeoenvironments of the Upper Oxfordian-Lower Kimmeridgian (Jurassic) sediments in Dorset, England. PhD thesis, Reading University.
BROOKFIELD ME 1974: Palaeogeography of the Upper Oxfordian and Lower Kimmeridgian (Jurassic) in Britain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 14, 137-67.
BROOKFIELD ME 1978: The lithostratigraphy of the Upper Oxfordian and Lower Kimmeridgian beds of south Dorset, England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 89, 1-32.
BROOKFIELD ME 1978a: The use of coarse fraction analysis in palaeoenvironmental interpretation: Upper Oxfordian and Lower Kimmeridgian (Jurassic) sediments in Dorset, England. Sedimentary Geology, 20, (4), 249-80.
COE AL 1995: A comparison of the Oxfordian successions of Dorset, Oxfordshire, and Yorkshire. In Taylor PD, Field geology of the British Jurassic, Geological Society of London, 162.
GROVES TB 1887: The Abbotsbury iron deposits. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Field Club, 8, 64-6.
HALLAM A 1975: Jurassic Environments. Cambridge University Press.
HALLAM A 1984: Continental humid and arid zones during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 47, 195-223.
HALLAM A & BRADSHAW MJ 1979: Bituminous shales and oolitic ironstones as indicators of transgressions and regressions. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 136, 157-64.
KNOX RW0'B 1971: An alternative to the 'clastic trap' interpretation of oolitic ironstone facies. Geological Magazine, 108 (6), 544-5.
LAMPLUGH GW, WEDD CB & PRINGLE J 1920: Iron Ores: bedded ores of the Lias, Oolites and later formations. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Resources Report, 12, 222.
MOOREHEAD Dr. 1887: Abbotsbury Iron Ore. Proceedings of Dorset Natural History and ArchaeologicalField Club, 8, xliv.
OAKLEY KP 1943: Iron Age A pottery at Quarry Lodden & Maiden Castle. Possible use of haematite slip from Abbotsbury Iron Ore. In Wheeler R.E.M. Proceedings of Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 93, 138, 143 & 379-80.
SANDY MR 1985: Brachiopods from the Jurassic Abbotsbury Ironstone, Abbotsbury. Proceedings of Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 106, 171.
UNDERHILL JR 1998: Development, Evolution and Petroleum Geology of the Wessex Basin. Geological Society of London, Special Publication no. 133.
(Compiled by Jo Thomas, 5.7.1999. D.I.G.S.)
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The John W. Pope Foundation hosts Clemson's largest and most important lecture series. Held once per semester, each lecture is free and open to the public. Lectures in the past have focused on topics in political science and economics.
Past speakers include George F. Will, Alan Charles Kors, Tyler Cowen, Richard Epstein, Dave Rubin and Lawrence W. Reed.
The year 1968 included two major assassinations, violent protests in big cities, upheavals on college campuses, a riot at the Democratic National Convention, all the while an unpopular war was raging in Vietnam. In this tumultuous atmosphere the country saw clear divisions between liberal and conservative culture.
Fifty years later, Dr. James Piereson, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, reflects on this division to explain the unexpected outcome of our country's most recent presidential election. This event is free and open to the public.
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Free Speech panel with Dave Rubin, Jordan Peterson and Onkar Ghate. Free speech is under assault on America's college campuses. Increasingly, college campuses are being defined by censorship, indoctrination, political correctness, and violence.
Can anything be done to stop the assault on free speech?
Co-founder of The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Alan Charles Kors spoke about how universities once believed themselves to be sacred enclaves, where students and professors could debate the issues of the day and arrive at a better understanding of the human condition. Today, sadly, this ideal of the university is being quietly betrayed from within. Universities still set themselves apart from American society, but now they do so by enforcing their own politically correct worldview through censorship, double standards and a judicial system without due process. Faculty and students who threaten the prevailing norms may be forced to undergo "thought reform." In a surreptitious about-face, universities have become the enemy of a free society, and the time has come to hold these institutions to account.Click here for some photos from Professor Kors' visit to Clemson University.
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will is one of our most widely read political writers. His popular twice-weekly column for The Washington Post syndicate reaches nearly 475 newspapers throughout the United States and Europe. Mr. Will has provided the following description for his talk: "American political thought can be understood as an argument between two Princetonians—James Madison and Woodrow Wilson. Madison represents the natural rights, limited government tradition. Wilson represents the progressive rejection of that tradition, a rejection rooted in the idea of a 'living Constitution' that impose negligible inhibitions on government, and especially executive, power." Thank you to all our attendees for this event. We had about 700 people in the audience, who gave Mr. Will several standing ovations. Click here for some photos from Mr. Will's visit to Clemson University.
Steve Simpson of the Ayn Rand Institute and Neil Siegel of Duke University School of Law debate the constitutionality of perhaps the single most important and controversial law passed in the last 50 years, President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Bruce Yandle, Dean Emeritus of the Clemson College of Business, spoke about how policy analysts, academic and journalists lament the influence of money on politics. But in the political economy, politicians often carefully design regulations so that two very different interest groups will be satisfied: the "bootleggers" who seek to obtain private benefits from the regulation and the "Baptists" who seek to serve the public interest. This talk was based off Dr. Yandle's book titled, Bootleggers and Baptists in the Garden of Good and Evil: Explaining America's Regulatory Journey.
Professor Bruce Caldwell, one of the world's leading Hayek scholars and general editor of the Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, presented a lecture on the life and ideas of the Nobel Prize winning economist Friedrich Hayek.
Distinguished scholars Robert P. George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, and Ron Sider, Professor of Theology at the Palmer Theological Seminary, held a high-minded conversation on economics and religion.
Yaron Brook offers a strident defense of laissez-faire capitalism and the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Dr. Brook calls for a Free Market Revolution in the way people think about markets and about the central activity that defines market activity: the pursuit of profit. Brook argues that Rand's philosophy of rational self-interest holds the solution to America's political and economic ills, including the debt crisis, looming inflation, and the swelling entitlement state.
America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, median wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better. Certainly, the multi‐decade stagnation is not yet over. How will we get out of this mess?
As Tyler Cowen argues, our economy has enjoyed low‐hanging fruit since the seventeenth century: free land, immigrant labor, and powerful new technologies. But during the last forty years, the low‐hanging fruit started disappearing, and we started pretending it was still there. Cowen reveals the underlying causes of our past prosperity and how we will generate it again. This is a passionate call for a new respect of scientific innovations that benefit not only the powerful elites, but humanity as a whole.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, many optimists claimed that the world was now somehow "after socialism." There are reasons, however—structural, political, moral, and intellectual—why the collapse of Communism did not entail the end of socialism. This talk by Alan Kors will explain why there can be no "after socialism" until the West comes to ultimate terms with the catastrophic legacy of international communism.
Over the past few decades, college and graduate tuitions have climbed much faster than the rate of inflation and the growth of household income, with the difference being made up by debt taken on by students who assumed they'd have no trouble paying it off after graduation. Now students are graduating with big debts, but no jobs. This process can't go on forever. What happens when it stops?
Glenn Reynolds is the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee. The author most recently of An Army of Davids: How Markets And Technology Empower Ordinary People To Beat Big Media, Big Government, And Other Goliaths, Reynolds is also a Contributing Editor at Popular Mechanics, a columnist at the Washington Examiner, and the host of "InstaVision" on PJTV.
Virginia Postrel, author of The Future and Its Enemies and The Substance of Style, delivered the John W. Pope Foundation lecture on February 24th, 2010. The title of the lecture was "The Right Kind of Rules: What Washington Can Learn from Twitter."
John A. Allison, IV, chairman and former CEO of BB&T Corp., delivered the Fall 2009 John W. Pope Lecture.
Allison's lecture addressed the genesis and implementation of his BB&T Values program at the company. He will explore how today's confusion about values has led to poor leadership and how an integrated vision of values can help develop better leaders as well as serve as a practical means to achieve success and happiness.
World-renowned University of Chicago law professor, Richard A. Epstein, delivered the Spring 2008 lecture in the John W. Pope Lecture Series.


The Bowling Ball SPINNER Saga is Over!!
Thread: The Bowling Ball SPINNER Saga is Over!!
So, as some might know...I recently had a 6-month struggle with my ball spinner...I thought I'd summarize the struggle here as an FYI. Never know who might have a similar struggle.
So, in about 2016...one of our former, regular contributors closed his pro shop in Cali and gave me one of his bowling ball spinners. It is a Donkee 3/4hp 2-speed ball spinner. I got a LOT of use out of it from 2016-2017. I would try to keep the surface up every few nights of bowling. Since I was bowling 3-4 nights a week...I'd use it on each ball about once a week. It really helped to keep the bowling balls at a consistent surface. I didn't need to experiment much with different surfaces, but it was valuable regardless and saved me the $70-$140/week I'd have paid a pro shop to do the same thing.
1) Get a new motor and repair the ball spinner.
2) Buy a new ball spinner.
Option #2 was tempting since I'm not much of a mechanic...but the newer, affordable ball spinners are not as durable nor as useful as the Donkee 3/4hp 2-speed ball spinner. Most have only one speed and are primarily made of plastic. To get a spinner equal to or better than the Donkee spinner I have, would cost $225-$1000 for a professional model...not counting accessories.
First step was removing the motor. That wasn't easy because the nuts had become fused to a couple of the bolts.
Step 2 was getting a Dremel so I could cut the fused nuts off the bolts and remove the motor from the base.
Step 3 was to purchase a replacement motor. This wasn't easy because I couldn't find an exactly similar model motor to the one that was in the unit. I had to call the company (a company that no longer makes ball spinners) and try to figure out what motor to purchase. They put me in contact with Grainger where they had purchased their motors.
Step 4 was mounting the new motor. This also wasn't easy. The new motor didn't line up exactly with the base, so I needed to use the Dremel to widen the boles on the base. Also, the bolts that came with the motor were too short to mount to the base. I needed to get the company (Donkee/Sierra Products) to send me longer bolts. I looked everywhere for bolts the size I needed...but no store sold bolts with that small a diameter and that long of a length.
Once the new bolts arrived, I ended up breaking one of them because they wouldn't fit just right into the lock nuts. Sierra Products sent me another bolt and a couple nuts.
Once the motor was in place, I had no idea how to wire it. The old motor had this crazy wiring harness on it with wires going all over the place. The new motor didn't have wiring instructions...not anything I really understood. I had to have multiple conversations with a really great mechanic at Sierra Products...but one that English was not his first language.
Once I got the motor wired...I realized the cord to the unit had been damaged. Probably just from moving the heavy thing around. So, I had to buy some wire and fix the power cord.
It's working better than ever! The new motor seems to be a much higher quality than the previous one. I bit the bullet and bought the more expensive brand and I think it was the better choice.
Awesome. I know who to go to for info when the motor on my Donkee spinner craps the bed. LOL!!
As a slight update...the motor DID come with instructions...but I didn't find them until I was cleaning up the mess and was going to throw the box away.
Granted, the instructions didn't help much.


BARRY kicked off the new campaign last Saturday with a visit from the newly-promoted Wattstown club.
Barry took advantage of playing with the slope in the first half and began with plenty of enterprise.
Both backs and forwards were intent on giving the ball plenty of air, but this did not overawe the visitors whose defence held their own during the opening exchanges.
On the 10 minute mark, however, Barry went up a couple of gears, during which time there was some very good offensive tackling. This power play had its just reward with the visitors being forced to concede three penalties in quick succession. These were all coolly converted by Cummings to give the home team a 9 points buffer. This confident start was marred when Captain Jones conceded a penalty by interfering with the Wattstown scrum half who was intent on taking a "quick tap-and-go". The inevitable penalty was well struck to reduce the deficit to 6 points.
The next period saw the visitors coming into the game and only determined defence kept them at bay. Notable contributions were made by the tackling of Hadfield, Evans and Hunt.
On the stroke of half time Barry gained a foothold in visiting territory; from a well-orchestrated shove at the set piece, scrum-half Lee wriggled his way over at the foot of the posts. The conversion was a formality and gave a half way score line of 16-3pts in favour of Barry.
The atmosphere during the first half had lacked the usual expected banter and some of the vociferous activities on the touchline did the game of rugby no favours. To his credit the referee handled this problem with tact and the minimum of fuss.
Wattstown commenced the second session in a much more determined mood and were soon storming the Barry defence. Barry were strangely reluctant to release set piece ball and allow the half backs to clear their lines.
Another tactical gaffe of throwing to the very back of a defensive line-out was punished once the ball had been spilled. An alert Wattstown player pounced and scored a converted try at the posts.
The home side went on the attack and thanks to a long run by Hadfield, they were able to set up field position for a penalty score.
This was nullified by a penalty to the visitors when the Barry midfield were adjudged to have "crossed"on their own 22 line.
Barry continued to make elementary mistakes with poor defence against kicks out-of-hand and attempting risky passes to non-existent support players.
It was no surprise that Wattstown took full advantage of these unforced errors to go into the lead with another converted try.
They extended their lead with a further penalty on the stroke of normal time.
Barry shook themselves into action soon afterwards with a good try scored by Lee from close range. The conversion gave them a 3 points cushion.
The second half had lasted over 50 minutes when the last kick of the match saw the visitors fail with a reasonably simple penalty: this would have squared the match.
Barry: Ryan, Adams, Provis, Busitil, Williams, Cummings, Lee, Hunt, Evans, Hollister, King, Degaura, O'Sullivan, Hadfield, Jones. Subs.Gallivan, Walsh, Harrison, Parker.
* This Saturday Barry visit Pontyclun with the coach leaving the Reservoir Field at 12.30pm.


At the October meeting we were treated to Erv and Tom Hallums relate their story of the journey to Washington DC on an Honor Flight trip. Honor Flight is an organization dedicated to flying as many WWII veterans to the Capital to view the WWII Memorial. Tom, a Korean War vet, accompanied Bob Otto while Erv was accompanied by his son, a Vietnam vet. They were treated first class during the entire trip and, while just a two day visit, were guided to all the veterans' memorials, not just the WWII Memorial. A few interesting facts; the Memorial was built entirely from donations from the public. The Memorial is the only memorial between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. It wasn't built without controversy as a number of people did not want any memorial to be located in this area. Hopefully, we will be able to assist a couple of more members take the Honor Flight in the Future.
Email or call Rock Roth if you can visit a school . Rock.roth@frontier.com or 206-356-8869.
William is a twenty year veteran of the Navy, who retired in 2001 at the rank of Commander. He is a native of Chicago, and was a Naval Aviator. William attended the Ohio State University, receiving a B.S degree in Aeronautical Engineering. While attending the Naval War College, William earned a Master's Degree in National Security and International Affairs. During his career, William flew anti-submarine warfare missions and also served as an instructor pilot and test pilot. His overseas assignments included tours in Japan, Okinawa, Thailand, Diego Garcia, and the Philippines. Among his decorations, William was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal with 1OLC, Meritorious Service Medal with 1 OLC, Navy Achievement Medal with 3 OLC, and four Sea Service Deployment Ribbons. William is an Avionics Design Engineer at Boeing. He and his wife, Linda, are residents of Edmonds.
The first weekend in November (on the 4th and 5th) we will be having a Buddy Poppy campaign, I hope I can count on several of you to work a four hour shift at the Top Foods in Shoreline on either Friday or Saturday. It is always best to have 2 or more people working a shift together so you can give each other a "break" from the table once in a while. Sign-up sheets will be at the October meeting. It can be FUN, why don't you give it a try? Since the Senior Center will be closed on Veterans' Day (Friday, November 11), we will be meeting at the usual time at the American Legion Post on the corner of 6th and Dayton in Edmonds. The Post will be supplying our food that day. There is a small room available for us to have our meeting. Thank you members of the Post for thinking of us in your planning! The next District meeting will be November 12th, the day after our meeting. Remember to wear something PINK to this meeting! Our meeting in December will be on the 9th and the Christmas luncheon will be on either the 1st or 2nd Saturday of December.
Until next time, this is Valerie your Ladies Auxiliary President.
If you didn't see it, it's gone. However, I thought I would share with you a fascinating exhibit that came to town. I had a chance to run down to Boeing Field to the Museum of Flight on a recent Sunday afternoon. I had read an article that an exhibit about WWI was being held on the tarmac in front of the museum. Although small (held in a very large semi-truck that could be moved from location to location), the exhibit was excellent. Somehow in a very few words and pictures, the introductory film unraveled the tangle of politics and alliances that brought about the first world war and clearly explained how an assignation in a small country would lead to millions dying. While it exhibited the usual uniforms, etc. it concentrated on the small items that soldiers carried and also how the wounded were treated, as well as the dead. For instance, following the war, the government sent Gold Star mothers to Europe to visit their son's graves. WWI is becoming a forgotten war. It is a shame. What the soldiers had to endure and casualties that were incurred were horrific. An entire generation of young men died. While the US brought home a number of their KIA's (the Brits didn't), one of the cemeteries US soldiers are buried in is Flanders Field. A thought to remember when you are handing out Poppies in a few days.
While flying off the carrier, we use to 'kid' the other pilots asking if they did not return could we have their stereo set or something of similar importance. This comment was brought on by youth and the idea that each thought he was invincible. When someone did not return, we rationalized that person's death by saying to ourselves, "That could never happen to me. Old…… just screwed-up." However, with each passing year and the passing of close friends and family, each of us comes to the realization that we are human and that means there is no way out of this world except through death! Each of us, at his or her appointed time and place, will face death. I strongly believe, a living hope, that I and others who believe in Our Lord, will not face death alone; that there is everlasting life after 'crossing the bar'.
During the last couple of weeks, we lost two members of our Post – Charles Siljig, a Korean War Vet, and Kenneth Pearl, a Vietnam Vet. Our Post sent cards to the families of these our fellow Comrades in arms who have gone to be with their Lord.
I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though this body be destroyed, yet shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger.
We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord!
As members of VFW Post 8870, what each of us can do is to rededicate ourselves to our Nation – to our fellow veterans, our community, and especially our youth: the next generation – so each remembers that our government "of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. If those words sound familiar, they should. They are borrowed from President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Each of us should live everyday as if it were our last, doing good, and helping our fellow man. Because today just may be our last!
We lost some good members last month as our Chaplain pointed out in his column. It is always difficult to lose friends. About the same time, a young state politician died unexpectedly leaving behind a wife and two small children. From reading the article, he seemed like a nice guy and was an ethical and hardworking individual with a bright future. The governor declared that all the government flags be flown at half mast and asked that everyone fly their flags at half mast on that particular day. I have no problem with that request, but we had two members who served in two different conflicts, Korea and Vietnam, who passed and no flags will be flown at half mast in their memory nor would either I suspect, if they could speak for themselves, would want the flags lowered to half mast. Soldiers simply go about their duty protecting and defending America, and those that come home move on with life. But I notice that when I read the obits how many are shown wearing their uniforms from a past war; a last time to wear it in public. So Chuck and Ken didn't have a flag flown at half mast since neither was a politician, but we members of VFW draped our Charter in black and remembered them and their service to our country.
The 10th anniversary of 9/11 was remembered by our Post by distributing American Flags and commemorative Poppies (a black ribbon attached to the poppy) at the Edmonds Classic Auto Show. Unlike other Poppy distributions, we had no donation can as we simply wanted to remember the 2,977 victims of the terrorist attacks 10 years ago. As we all know, life continues on as demonstrated by the many hundreds or perhaps thousands who attended the car show. I am sure that everyone in attendance at the show realized the significance of the day, but our Post, in handing out the Poppies and flags, wanted to make sure they had something tangible to remember that we will never forget. Thanks to the Post members who volunteered their time on a hot Sunday day to help the Post out on this project. And particular thanks to Jr. Vice Ron Clyborne who happens to be the head of the Chamber of Commerce and secured a spot for us in the Chamber tent, which was located strategically at 5th and Main.


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Peel the onions and finely chop them. Wash the potatoes, peel. Cut in 1 cm thick cubes and sprinkle salt over them.
Heat the olive oil in the pan. Add the potato cubes so that the potatoes are just covered with oil and allow to cook over medium heat for 12-15 minutes. In a second pan, fry the onions for 10-15 minutes in olive oil until they are glazed and golden brown.
Place the eggs in a bowl, beat well with an egg whisk and salt a little. Lift the potatoes with a sieve from the olive oil and put into the bowl with the onions with the egg mass. Leave for 3-5 minutes. If you have some in your fridge: add some finely sliced Serrano ham to the mass.
Heat to high heat approx. 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil. Then place the tortilla mass in the pan and fry for 2 minutes. But caution: do not let the eggs coagulate! When the mass slowly browns, place a plate on the tortilla and turn the pan over. Then allow the tortilla to slide back into the pan and fry from the other side for another minute. The tortilla should be liquid inside.
Bread and salad go superbly with this.


TOFTOF is a direct geometry disc-chopper time-of-flight spectrometer located in the Neutron Guide Hall West. It offers an excellent signal-to-background ratio, high energy resolution and high neutron flux. Adaptable for a wide range of sample environments, TOFTOF is ideal for investigations of fundamental concepts and challenges in physics and materials science.
TOFTOF is suitable for both inelastic and quasi-elastic neutron scattering and the scientific questions addressed range from the dynamics in disordered materials in hard and soft condensed matter systems (such as polymer melts, glasses, molecular liquids, or liquid metal alloys), properties of new hydrogen storage materials to low-energy magnetic excitations in multiferroic compounds, and molecular magnets.
A cascade of seven fast rotating disc choppers which are housed in four chopper vessels is used to prepare a monochromatic pulsed beam which is focussed onto the sample by a converging supermirror section. The scattered neutrons are detected by 1000 3He detector tubes with a time resolution up to 50 ns. The detectors are mounted at a distance of 4 m and cover 12 m2 (or 0.75 sr). The high rotation speed of the chopper system (up to 22 000 rpm) together with a high neutron flux in the wavelength range of 1.4 -14 Å allows free tuning of the energy resolution between 3 meV and 2 µeV.
The 60 m primary neutron guide has an s-shape which efficiently suppresses fast neutron background. This enables the investigation of weak signals. The prototype of a new focussing neutron guide has been installed recently, as alternative option in the last section of the guide system. The existing linearly tapered neutron guide yields a beam spot size of 23 × 47 mm2. Using the focussing guide, an intensity gain up to a factor of 3 (wavelength dependent) is observed on a sample area of 10 × 10 mm2.
Figure 1: Elastic resolution as a function of the incident neutron wavelength for selected chopper rotational frequencies.
Figure 3: Incident differential white neutron flux at the sample position as measured by a calibrated beam monitor.


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Watch: Ty Dolla $ign Performs 'Paranoid' On 'The Tonight Show'
March 22, 2014 - 2:02 pm by Iyana Robertson TWITTER
Ty Dolla $ign made his network TV debut last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Taking the stage to perform his banger "Paranoid" from his Beach House EP, the Los Angeles singer/songwriter/producer was backed by The Roots for the appearance.
SEE ALSO: 7 Ty Dolla $ign Songs You Need To Hear
Ty Dolla $ign will also be heading on "The Beach House" tour next month. Check the dates here and watch his first televised performance above.
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Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters - What do Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters do?
A. Provide consultative services to translators, interpreters and technical writers preparing legal, scientific or other documents requiring specialized terminologies.
E. May train other interpreters.
F. Translators, terminologists and interpreters specialize in two languages, such as French and English, the official languages of Canada. They may also specialize in another language and one of the official languages. The main areas of specialization include administrative, literary, scientific and technical translation. Interpreters may specialize in court, parliamentary or conference interpretation.
A. Translate sign language to a spoken language and vice versa either simultaneously or consecutively.
C. Sign language interpreters work in French and Langue des signes québécoise (LSQ) or in English and American Sign Language (ASL).
F. May train and supervise other translators.
1. In general, to be a translator, terminologist or interpreter, you usually need a university degree with specialization in your related field such as translation, terminology or interpretation. You also need specialization in two languages, one of which should be an official language of Canada.
2. A university degree in a related field such as languages or linguistics plus courses in linguistic transfer and two years' experience as a translator or five years' experience as a translator may substitute for a specialized university degree.
3. To be a translator, terminologist or interpreter, you may need certification by dossier or exam from the Canadian Translators' and Interpreters' Council and membership in your provincial/territorial association. You usually need to be fluent in three languages to obtain work in an international context.
4. To be a sign language interpreter, you usually need a college training program or university certificate in sign language interpretation. You may also require a certification in LSQ or ASL and/or membership in a provincial/territorial association of sign language interpreters.
The average hourly wages for Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters is $21.34/HR, which is close to the average for occupations in the art, culture, recreation and sport sector and are below average for all professional occupations. These wages grew at an average rate from 2002 to 2004.
5% of Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters are unemployed. This rate is above the average for professionnal occupations.
2. Hourly wages ($21.34) are close to the average ($18.07), and the rate of wage growth is close to the average.
1. The employment growth rate will likely be average. However, the government should continue to require translation work.
The highest concentrations (per 10,000 people) of Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters are found in Quebec and Ontario while the lowest concentrations are in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland.
The unionization rate (46%) is close to the average (32%) for all occupations.
33% of Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters are employed only on a part-time basis. There were 12,700 workers employed in these occupations in 2004, a decrease of 9% since 1997.
Roughly 49% of Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters are self-employed. This is considered Above average for the industry as a whole.
71% of the individuals employed as Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters are women. Compared to other industries, this is Above average.


Hello hello! Long time no post. I've been thinking a lot about this space here, my blog, and what my plans are for it, and have many thoughts to share, but I'll save that for another day. Today I'm inspired to put blogging on the top of the to-do's because of my thoughts on creativity.
While thinking about blogging and dreams and time management and all-the-things, I realized that we all have some true constants in our lives, and one of mine absolutely is pursuit of creativity. It's a non negotiable. It doesn't matter if I'm sick or well, happy or depressed, busy or with time on my hands, creativity happens. I have to make stuff, it's one of the great loves of my life.
I love that. I am deliberate about it, and also choose creating by default - it's my favorite procrastination technique, it's the most effective place for me to problem solve, it's an excellent well filler - to name but a few.
while teaching a jewelry class at La Dolce Vita retreat, so we started brainstorming together. We went to Italy together just over a year ago when we co-taught making Travel Journals at Adventures in Italy retreat and had so much fun constructing the design and making pre-trip as well as enjoyed having similar designs while there.
I've found that making a travel journal doesn't just leave you with wonderful scrapbook and souvenir, but extends the trip before and after the actual travel. Ahhh! is exactly how I feel when I look at them...a little bit of heaven!
Amy had some leather she had found at the flea market, so we cut strips, talked about options, and began sewing. (I loved the bright neon orange thread she bought at Wallmart.) We had our basic plans down and I had to leave for my son's baseball game. Of course, I thought about it the entire game. Later that night I worked on it some more and came up with some fun alterations and additions. I finished it late last night after a week of off and on playing.
Before I attached the elastic that wraps around the book from back to front, I mistakenly punched a hole in the wrong place, so I added a little scrap of leather rectangle to cover it. I put a star eyelet in the center to receive the elastic cord for a more finished look. Problem solving- always a favorite part of making for me. Of course, I could have done a better job of sewing it on, but with my non industrial sewing machine and penchant for focusing on process over perfection, I'm just fine with it as is. I tend to embrace the unique aspect imperfections bring. ;) So much easier than ripping out and starting again!
I also added a little piece of stiffer leather with grommets (what's the difference between grommets and eyelets? One for paper, one for material? or??? I feel I should know this but I don't). I think I'll use some of Amy's tiny metal alpha stampers to write Italy on it.
I added pieces of leather to the left side before folding the base flap of leather down on top and bottom to create a pocket. The larger brown is to tuck papers in, sewn down on the side and bottom and on top of that brown piece is a red piece that is a pocket that just happens to perfectly fit the Pocket Palette I just bought. I also tried in vain to make my own monkey's knot bookmark and resorted to buying one from Handmademits on Etsy.
Now that I've broken it down and shared it here, I'm finding myself more fond of it. That usually happens after I let time pass from when I first complete something and do a quick evaluation of it. I'm super excited to test it out soon!
And just like that, I've gotten back up on the blogging horse. That's another true constant; this here blog is almost entirely about sharing my creative adventures, I can always start there when stuck since there are always more of those to share ;).
Much more to come on that too, I'm just getting started. I think I'll Periscope it soon to share what I've learned and hear from all you others that use those apps. (@pamgarrison_ over there) or link here.
Well, hello!! How are things out there?!?
I'm up in San Francisco filming another series for Creativebug (on doodling- how fun is that for a topic?!?) and thought I'd share a few shots from life on the road.
If you follow me on Instagram (which, to be honest, has taken over my blogging for quite a while now, more likely you check in there vs. here these days), you may have seen me working on the set backdrop which is made of three 4'x8' panels. I shipped them off last week and yesterday, after I asked if they arrived at the studio as expected, I got off the airplane to see this Instagram. I laughed out loud. It's Courtney Cerruti and Liana Allday (both Creativebug geniuses), after hanging the banner in the studio for my shoot this week.
The Creativebug studio is right in the middle of the city now, so tonight I was able to jump on the cable car and ride all the way up the hill until home.
A room with a view. In such a great city.
LOVE it !!! And I couldn't agree more!
We're so serious aren't we? About doodling, lol. Another great crew and three more days of filming to go.
Thinking of you, the blog readers, my oldest creative compatriots. I'm thankful you stop by, even though my blog has been more of a newsletter of late. I'm definitely grateful for you, the readers, the students, the artwork supporters. You motivate me to keep creating and sharing, whatever the platform.
We are here, Mary Ann, Carol and I, on our yearly art retreat to Palm Springs. It's our 4th. Something to look forward to all year. Last night we went to dinner and toasted 2 out of 3 birthdays, another year of life's ups and downs, hard work done, a shared love of art making and so much more.
I just loved this visual, had to grab a shot. I wish I'd had it for the holidays. It's perfect winter photo fare to me.
Breakfast today. Another yearly tradition.
We don't always see snow on the mountain tops, even in winter. It was pretty breathtaking.
And then we ventured to the Sunnyland gardens. Amazing!
Two of the Moss sisters. Don't let their sweet smiles fool you, these two are up to trouble in a heartbeat if it's an option!
The Sunnyland garden is truly stunning. Highly recommend a visit.
Driving home to our rental. I will always love these windmills.
I'll share some art making next post.
Ps from Pamela Garrison on Vimeo.
week 2 of Creative Sketchbooking is here!
creative sketchbooking on creativebug week 2 promo from Pamela Garrison on Vimeo.
Sheesh! Yesterday got away from me before I could mention that the 2nd part of my Creative Sketchbooking class on Creativebug went live yesterday!!! That means new exercises (see the video above for content), a whole new round of sharing all over, and a new contest by Creativebug for helping promote- one on facebook, one on instagram. Here are all the details on the contest.
You can get it on amazon or at Michael's crafts (be sure to use your coupon!) or any number of places including some local art stores. But any watercolor paper will do!
If you are in the class, a new feature started yesterday, at the very bottom of class chapters there is a discussion section where you can post comments or ask questions. There is one for the class viewed via the app, and one for the class viewed on the website (it took me a bit to figure that out!), so I'll be over there checking daily to see if there are any questions. I've fallen a bit behind on seeing everyone's work, and I'm looking forward to my son's lesson later today which will give me a pocket of time to look at the class gallery etc.
The comments and question area got me thinking, are there any questions you have about the behind the scenes of the class? Questions that aren't about class content, so better asked and answered here? I'm happy to share if able...so leave a comment here if you have a curiosity about something.
ack! I'm really not the best at keeping up with everything, especially communication. In all honesty, there is a significant time delay for everything after instagram, but I'm trying extra hard during this class time to be available and answer questions! Just wanted to let you know in case you have a pressing need ;) because we all know that art emergencies are a real thing!
Hope you're having a great week, xo!
Eventually I'll stop talking all Creative Sketchbooking class here, there, and everywhere...eventually ;). But not today! Today I have more to say.
If you are in the class, I wanted to make sure you know you can watch it by logging in via any internet browser on any computer or device, you don't have to download the app. I mention it because I know one friend was having problems downloading the app. If you are participating, please share what you are making, either on the classroom gallery section of Creativebug (be sure you put your name in the comments if you don't have a profile that uses your name, so that I can give you credit when I pin your work to my #CBsketchbooking pinboard.) If you are sharing on instagram, make sure you hashtag it #CBSketchbooking (be sure you have the ing!) And if you are sharing on a blog, your facebook, or anywhere else, feel free to leave a link in the comments here on the blog. I really want to see your work! I'm not sure I'm seeing everything that you all are sharing, but I'm trying to! The classroom gallery was losing some photos yesterday, but I think they've resolved that, so please give it another go if yours went missing. Today, there are a lot more photos appearing and it's exciting to see them pop up there and on instagram! I'm loving what everyone is up to and hearing about how it's fun to stretch and try new and different things!!! I'm also excited to see what everyone makes and how it might change over the week since the next lesson doesn't release until next Tuesday. Plenty of time to experiment!
Which is why I'm sharing these pages here today, different pages than were shown in class. The truth is, I rarely love what I make when teaching; my focus is truly on the doing and sharing the process, not the result, but often that leads to each technique being done a little bit faster and more disjointed, because it's about how to play and I'm trying to teach all the different aspects of the concept. Add verbalizing to the mix and it increases the odds for discombobulatin. I was a little bit disappointed to realize that I might feel the same about the samples I made while filming, until I reminded myself again, that that is the point I am trying to get across- no focus on result- so I'm demonstrating that too ! ;) When I sit down and enjoy the same process and techniques at a slower (non talking, non demonstrating) pace, I often end up in a little more finished, and often more pleasing place. Still organically, just a quieter, more natural manner of getting to the end. Which is why I think that the student work will change over this week too, as students keep playing and experimenting and are able to get comfortable with the techniques, they will free up in different ways and possibly even start incorporating into their own typical work a bit.
It's a little darker in the day now, but you get the idea, I like it both ways for different reasons.
Today, I used my non dominant hand and forced myself to go very slowly, because that speed is not my usual when creating. I think trying anything that's not one's usual is informative to your creativity.
I also slowed down the painting process, slow, meditative and enjoyable. Now I'm going to go back in and play with some pens on top...or not...I might wait or paint the whole background.
It's fun to lean into color exploration and the feel of the brush on the paper.
I've got a growing stack of sketchbooks, which I see as totally different than my art journals, (but of course, don't have to be). For me, the sketchbooks are used as more of a one technique focus per page, and are a little more organized thought process or experiment taken all the way to finished vs. my art journal pages, which often have a little of this and a little of that mixed with who knows what!
Hey there!!! The class is live!!!! You can see it here!
Wow, I actually have a class online, that's been a loooooong time coming. I really appreciate all those that have patiently waited!!! I know I've been painfully slow with the creation and release of the content in my brain into an online course format. There's more to come for sure, now that things are moving down the pipeline!
FYI, I misunderstood yesterday, and said that a credit card isn't needed to have the membership with free trial period. In actuality, to see the class you have to sign up for a membership (with a credit card) and the first two weeks of your membership are free, so you can cancel before the monthly $4.95 charges begin. There is going to be a contest along with the class, and 8 chances to win a free 3 month membership and that one is the free membership, no credit card required, no free trial period with membership. Sorry for the confusion!
Anyway...back to class!!! I am excited to present new content created with a specific desire to expand creativity and free up creative expression. These sketchbook exercises are guided in hopes that you'll find it easier to not think about result along the way and just play with pen and paint and paper alongside me!
Creativebug is running a month long contest to encourage participation and promotion of the class. 8 winners (4 from facebook promotion participants, 4 from IG promotion participants) will receive 3 month paid memberships and $25.00 Michael's Crafts gift cards, and one month long class participant that shares their work via Pinterest promotion will win a 1yr creativebug paid membership, a $50.00 Michael's gift card and a sketchbook from class where I've done original art made using class techniques inside, with plenty of white pages for you to work on as well!!! For all the contest details go here.
So looking forward to seeing who comes to class, please post your work in Creativebug classroom gallery and hashtag #CBSketchbooking when you share on social media so we can all find your work!
Hooray for creative friends, now let's go have some fun!!!
I mentioned before that I took very limited art supplies to our little Art Retreat #3 in Palm Springs. Just some art journals and sketchbooks. It felt good to limit my supplies and spend less time sorting through them to find want I wanted, and less time going from one idea to the other vs. just relaxing and really enjoying one. Okay, I consider art journaling and sketching to be different, so make that two.
We headed back to the house for fun, and making art was the main priority. All day long outside and all night inside.
I plucked ripe lemons from the tree and tried to paint/sketch them in a manner more similar to what I learned in the oil painting class by Leslie Duke I attended. I love to explore different methods.
Carol bought this sweet teacup and saucer at the antique store we popped into. You can see it in use at her home here. It was too beautiful to resist sketching.
How gorgeous is this new Antietam ink I bought? Dipped my brush right in it to paint with it, even though I bought it for my fountain pen.
A little doodly drawing using this Pilot Parallel pen and then watercoloring fill in.
These two. Excellent Art Retreat cohorts. Even cuter sisters.
It was a good trip, I highly recommend grabbing a small group and making time to create, I'm never sorry when I do!
And with that, my Palm Springs Art Retreat #3 recap concludes.


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Q: Upgrade got stuck. How can I fix this? Since other posts suggest this, I should mention that I cannot run dpkg --configure -a, even after killing the process.
In any case, the Distribution Upgrade window blacked out, and when I try to close it, I get the following message... after which I still can't close it.

Application ubuntu-release-upgrader is not responding
  You tried to close window "Distribution Upgrade" from application "ubuntu-release-upgrader" (Process Id: 2414) but the application is
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Do you want to terminate this application?
Warning: Terminating the application will close all of its child windows. Any unsaved data will be lost.

I tried killing the process from the command line kill -9 2414, I'm not sure it did.  Then I ran dpkg --configure -a and I got that it's been used by another process.
dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process

I've seen other posts where they just remove the look.  Is this safe to do?
How should I proceed to contain the damage?


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Aaron Castleberry reports:
The Gosnell School District is recovering from a ransomware attack on Sunday.
Superintendent Bornad Mace said ransomware software infiltrated the school's system Sunday morning.
Mace said the district's tech team, the Arkansas Division of Information Services, and the P12 Cyber Threat Response Team worked to clear and recover data on Tuesday.
Read more on KAIT8.
There is currently no notice on the school district's site.
Gosnell wasn't the only school district hit over the weekend. In Los Angeles, the Rialto Unified School District was also attacked.


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Stargate SG-1 star Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson) revealed to SCI FI Wire that he may have a role in the pilot of SCI FI Channel's upcoming new series Stargate Universe. (Possible spoilers ahead!)
In this earlier video interview, Michael Shanks talked about the evolution of Daniel Jackson.
"I talked to [executive producer] Brad Wright a couple of weeks ago, and he asked me if I'd be interested in doing a cameo in the Universe pilot, and I of course said I would be," Shanks said in an exclusive interview. "And there's a great deal of talk about [it]. ... They've got a script going and everything like that."
Shanks added that he hasn't put Dr. Jackson away completely yet. "There will be a Stargate SG-1 movie [for DVD], probably filmed around the same time the [Stargate] Atlantis movie is filmed this coming summer," he added. "So that's all going to be going on."
Shanks played Jackson on and off for a decade in Stargate SG-1, as well as on the spinoff series Stargate Atlantis and in the made-for-DVD movies The Ark of Truth and Continuum.
The next SG-1 movie, "as far as I know, is pretty Rick-heavy [as in Richard Dean Anderson], pretty O'Neill [Anderson]-heavy," Shanks said. "So I don't know much more than that, but I will most definitely be involved in it."
Since SG-1 ended in 2007, Shanks has been busy with guest appearances on TV shows, including USA Network's Burn Notice and the upcoming telemovies Living Out Loud and Desperate Escape (with Angel's Elisabeth Rohm).
Shanks explained that it's the ideal situation to be able to stay in the Stargate game without being tied to it as an everyday job. "It's great," he said. "After 10 years and getting not picked up or canceled or whatever you want to call it, it feels almost a little bit odd, because you're so used to the process. But going away from it, it's great to be able to explore other opportunities. When you're doing a show for nine months a year, you always want to shake it up and do other things, but you don't have the time. Now, it's the best of both worlds. We can get on with it and have other experiences and still revisit the franchise and the great family environment that we have with the cast and crew. 'The further adventures of ...' is a nice treat."
Edgier and younger in tone than the two previous series, Stargate Universe follows a band of soldiers, scientists and civilians who must fend for themselves as they are forced through a Stargate when their hidden base comes under attack. The desperate survivors emerge aboard an ancient ship, which is locked on an unknown course and unable to return to Earth.
The cast includes Robert Carlyle, Justin Louis, David Blue, Brian J. Smith and Jamil Walker Smith. Production will begin in Vancouver, Canada, in February with an eye toward a fall premiere.


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Ballistics Basics: Bullet Efficiency And Ballistic Coefficients
Ryan Cleckner
How aerodynamic a bullet is certainly has an appreciable effect on that bullet's speed on its way to the target.
The more efficient a bullet is, the better it will maintain its speed.
And this means it will also be less affected by external variables.
A bullet's ballistic coefficient is calculated by a model based off its density and shape.
A bullet's BC will differ depending on whether the G1 or G7 drag model is used.
We have discussed how gravity and wind are the two main variables that affect your bullet's path. The longer they have to act on your projectile, the more of an effect they'll have. For example, your bullet doesn't fall more at farther distances because of the distance (the bullet doesn't know how far it is traveling), but rather because it takes longer to reach a farther target, and therefore it has more time to fall due to gravity.
There are three variables that determine a bullet's speed on its way to the target:
The initial speed of the bullet
The efficiency of the bullet
External/environmental variables
We explored the first variable, the initial speed of the bullet, in the last column. Simply, the faster one starts out, the more remaining velocity it will have at the target. Although a faster bullet isn't necessarily more accurate, it's affected less by gravity and wind.
Time To Slow Down
All bullets start to slow down the moment they leave the barrel. This is because of drag caused by wind resistance. How much a bullet slows down depends on the density (thickness) of the air and the efficiency of the bullet.
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External/environmental variables, such as air pressure, temperature, altitude and humidity can change the density of the air. These variables, which we'll discuss in the next column, can change each time and location you shoot. Therefore, these variables are mostly a concern when you're trying to determine the change in your bullet's speed from the last time(s) you went shooting.
A more efficient bullet will maintain its speed better, and it's not affected as much by the environmental variables.
Think about it this way: An arrow is more aerodynamically efficient than a tennis ball. Both can be launched at the same speed, but an arrow will fly farther because it doesn't slow down as much due to wind resistance and therefore maintains its speed better. They are both going to fall at the same rate due to gravity, but the arrow will travel farther in the amount of time it takes both objects to fall.
If we change the density of what the two objects are traveling through, the less-efficient tennis ball will be affected by the change more. As an extreme example, let's use water because it is easy to picture how much denser it is than air. Both objects will slow down much faster in water, but the arrow won't slow down as much from its original speed in the air as will the tennis ball. Conversely, if we launched the two objects in a vacuum (no air resistance), then both would continue to fly at the same speed.
These hypothetical examples show us two things: 1) A more aerodynamically efficient bullet won't slow down as much on its way to the target, and 2) efficiency doesn't matter as much when the air density is low (thin air).
Bullet Efficiency
A bullet's efficiency is measured by its ballistic coefficient (BC). The higher the BC, the less drag on the bullet.
The BC of a bullet is a ratio calculated by a mathematical model based off of its density and its particular shape. The best styles for long-range shooting will have high density and aerodynamically efficient shapes. Bullets for hunting, however, might benefit from not having an aerodynamic shape. For example, a lead round-nosed bullet can sure pack a punch! It doesn't pass through the air, or the animal, easily.
A bullet's density is a ratio of a bullet's mass and its cross-sectional area. Simply, large and light bullets are less dense than small and heavy ones. For example, a ping-pong ball is less dense than a marble.
For BC calculations, the shape of a bullet is compared to pre-determined "drag models." The two most common drag models are G1 and G7. The G1 drag model is based off of a stereotypical spitzer bullet (pointed nose) with a flat base. The G7 drag model, which is gaining popularity, is based off of a more aerodynamically shaped options with a boat-tail base (it tapers back).
A particular bullet will have a different BC depending on whether the G1 or G7 drag model is used. This is because the value for the shape of the bullet is determined by how close its shape is to the drag model. A decent BC for a bullet based on the G1 drag model is in the 0.5-0.6 range, whereas the same bullet's BC based on the G7 drag model will be in the 0.2-0.3 range.
This difference in the two BCs for the same bullet is because an efficient bullet's performance will be much better than the G1 model and only slightly better than the G7 model. If a bowling ball was used for the drag model, the BC would be very high because the bullet would be much more efficient as it flew through the air.
Be careful here. Manufacturers might be tempted to advertise high BCs for their bullets, and the comparison to the drag model is more complicated than I made it out to be and actually changes with speed.
Does the actual BC matter? Absolutely not. Instead, the BC is best used as a comparative number between different bullets. Don't chase a particular BC. Instead, when you're making the decision on which one to use for the best long-range performance, choose the one that shoots well in your rifle first. If more than one bullet shoots equally well, then choose the one with the higher BC.
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the Fall 2017 issue of Gun Digest the Magazine.
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Do you care about being late or about the person's health?
Are you still bound by days and age old customs?
Does an innocent animal's colour and walking still bother you?
Do you still choose a belief or do you consider a simpler, probable possibility?
Are you still bound by blind belief and selfishness or are you emotionally still alive?
Do you still get nervous over age old sayings or do you think logically?
Ultimately, it's all about this one question.
You need to answer yourself and you will know whether you stand on the left or on the right.
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This gorgeous, restaurant-quality steak dish is sure to impress your guests. Serve this seared pepper steak with caramelized Brussels Sprouts and look like a pro!
Using a mortar and pestle, coarsely crush the peppercorns. Season both sides of the steaks generously with salt and sprinkle the coarsely crushed peppercorns over both sides of the steaks, patting to adhere.
Preheat a Curtis Stone 12-inch Frypan over high heat. Add the oil and swirl to coat the pan.
Add the steaks. Cook the steaks for about 4 minutes per side for medium-rare doneness.
Add the wine to the pan and simmer 30 seconds. Transfer the steaks to a cutting board and let rest. Continue simmering the wine until it is reduced to 1/4 cup, about 4 minutes.
In another Curtis Stone 12-inch Frypan, bring 1/2 cup of water to a boil over high heat. Add the sprouts, cover, and steam for about 3 minutes, or until bright green.
Add the butter and cook uncovered over medium-high heat, tossing occasionally, for about 5 minutes, or until the Brussels sprouts are golden brown. Season with salt.
Place the Brussels sprouts on plates. Slice the steaks across the grain and arrange the steak slices alongside the Brussels sprouts. Drizzle with the wine reduction and any accumulated juices from the steaks.
Special thanks to Curtis Stone and HSN for sharing this delicious steak dish.


While visiting the city of Coorg, it is hard to miss the famous locality of Basavana Halli Coorg. It is a beautiful area in Coorg, Coorg Cineplex and Little Tibet are some of the major landmarks associated with Basavana Halli Coorg.
. Some other popular localities near this place are Ponnampet and .
Due to its charming appeal, a high number of tourists visit Basavana Halli Coorg. And, this is the reason that the area is brimmed with top-notch hotels. Some of the premium 5-star hotels you will find in Basavana Halli Coorg are Taj Madikeri Resort & Spa, Coorg and The Tamara Coorg. If these seem too heavy for your pockets, then you may check out some of the popular 4-star hotels in the locality. These include Club Mahindra Madikeri, Coorg, Old Kent Estates, and Coorg Cliffs Resort.
The 4-star and 5-star hotels in Basavana Halli Coorg give you the taste of luxury. They are equipped with a lot of amenities to make your stay a comfortable one. Some of the amenities you will find in these hotels are Pool, Air Conditioning, and Room service.


Nothing really up on the boy front, staying in contact with Nashville from time to time. He's having career issues, which is unfortunate because...well I want everyone to succeed I guess.
I did volunteer to coordinate Fall Ball for the Hotlanta Softball League partially. The normal director had to leave town for work and I'm the volunteering sort so I stepped up to the plate. What is it with these damn queens and waiting until the last minute? It's like...TAKE THE F-ING TIME TO REGISTER EARLY! :) In their defense, the advertising of Fall Ball was less than ideal. Some guy got mad there weren't posters and the like and I wanted to shout at him, "Then get F-ING involved and help get this thing taken care of". I _SWEAR_ that chaps my arse when people complain and they don't get directly involved.
I had started the night off at Woofs and had a Makers on the rocks to hang with some softball buddies there and then we went to the Heretic and I had two more Makers on the rocks and that was IT. I had to get my friend LS to take me home. BUT at least I was responsible enough to know when I shouldn't drive. It was fun and a well needed release (not _that_ kind of release...but starting to feel the need for THAT too lately).
Which leads me to today where this guy cruised me SO hard in the sauna room, I swear I have bullet holes. :) He had a cute lil body, but it felt wierd because he just kept STARING and not saying "Hello" or "I want to blow you..." or WHATEVER LOL :) I may have to go back to the sauna room tonight because I did something to my left shoulder and it feels pinched :( That or I might drop into a tanning bed and get some heat there (and some needed tan time).


Xbox one console in perfect condition, treated very well by owner and has only been in use for approx 12 months.
Fully updated OS, Including controller, power cables, hdmi cable and Xbox headset.
Also includes 5 games: Call of Duty Black Ops 3, Dying Light The Following, Evolve, Dead Rising 3, Rugby World Cup 2015, as well as an unused download token for Alan Wake.


Terry Moore, President of the Omaha Federation of Labor, predicts that demand for construction workers will only increase in the near future.
Nebraska is fortunate to have such a good job market, much better than the U.S. as a whole which is suffering from an unemployment rate of 7.4% and an anemic growth rate of just 2% a year.
By far the best thing the government can do to help workers is to adopt policies which will speed up economic growth. This can be accomplished by giving entrepreneurs and investors greater incentives to take more risks. Lowering tax rates (offset by closing loopholes) and easing burdensome regulations are the tried and true methods of getting this done.
There are twenty million unemployed and underemployed Americans who would benefit from national leaders more attuned to their need for work.
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