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The South's cash-strapped health board is pushing aside concerns over finances to pursue a long-awaited upgrade of Queenstown's Lakes District Hospital.
The upgrade, costing "some millions", includes a CT scanner, Southern District Health Board deputy commissioner Richard Thomson confirms.
That puts to bed a long-running battle between community representatives and the board.
Queenstown health advocate Maria Cole says she's delighted, and supports any improvement to the town's health facilities and services.
But one long-time sore remains – whether the DHB should hand over the hospital to a community trust.
The board has embraced a Ministry of Health report, released yesterday, which recommends against the hospital's self-governance.
Cole still believes community governance is a viable option for Queenstown.
The hospital upgrade, to be staged over two years, is a huge turnaround in the hospital's fortunes.
In September 2014 the board said it could not afford an upgrade because of the planned $300 million rebuild of Dunedin Hospital.
But commissioners decided Queenstown's hospital needed a reconfigured emergency department, and ultrasound services.
Several wards, including the maternity ward, will be refurbished and a specialist audiovisual suite built, to allow telemedicine.
"It's absolutely necessary," Thomson says from Melbourne.
"There are some things that just have to be done and we just have to find a way.
Examples of the hospital's poor state are the fact the emergency department has no toilet and some ward doors are not wide enough to push beds through.
Thomson says details would become clearer when a building assessment had been done. It was likely the hospital's footprint would be extended to house the CT scanner.
Former Queenstown Lakes District councillor Kirsty Sharpe, who attended board "listening sessions" in Queenstown this year, calls the upgrade welcome news.
The prospect of a CT scanner is an acknowledgement the area is "accident prone", she says.
The news came too late for American Corey Docherty (23), who died after falling from the fire escape of a Queenstown backpackers in February 2015.
In February of this year, the ODT reported comments from Queenstown doctor Morne Pienaar, who told the coroner having a CT scanner at Lakes District Hospital would have made a "substantial and significant difference" to how Mr Docherty was treated.
The Ministry of Health report exploring the idea of a community trust owning and running the hospital says Queenstown seems suited to a private-public partnership and noted the board – which expects to post a $34.2 million deficit for the last financial year – would struggle, in the medium term, to pay for the hospital's redevelopment.
The board received the report, written by Sapere Research Group, a week ago.


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Your health is the most important thing that you can have, as health is frail and can damage pretty easily. People don't realize how important this is, until it is too late. It's always better to prevent than to treat, and to have few or no illnesses at all, you need to be very careful with your health.
This doesn't mean that you have to go to the doctors all the time when you have a headache, but you should be careful about what you eat, especially if you are more sedentary.
What you usually experience – like a headache or a stomachache is the result of something that you did or something that you have eaten. It's not enough to simply solve or eliminate the symptoms, but you have to go deeper and eliminate the source of the problem.
Here are some health tips that will help you all your life to live healthier and in a better shape.
Breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day, as this is what gives you energy and boosts your levels of wellness. Usually people have a coffee in the morning, or a tea, but the truth is that something to eat would be better. Don't underestimate the power of the breakfast for your health, and eat something light, especially if you drink coffee. A slice of bread, an egg and some cheese would be perfect to start your morning. Add a glass of natural juice made from fresh fruits, and your boost of energy is ready.
the most important meal of the day. In today's world, people seem to be set on 'fast forward' and they forget to eat, getting one or two meals instead of three. This is the cause of many health problems, and one of them is the obesity that appears due to fast food, different ingredients that are within the half-frozen food that they buy and so on. Don't just consider that you will have some time to eat later – make time for this. It is important to eat when you are hungry, no matter what time of the day it is – your body knows better than you when it needs energy support.
This is also very important, as the daily exercise will keep in you a great shape. Just few people are lucky enough to not need exercising, as they have a lean body and look great. However, they also need to stay in a good shape, and fitness is what is adequate for them. Don't just think that because you are slim, you don't need exercising. Sport and physical activity is not just for losing weight – it is also for keeping you active and in a better shape. The effort will make your blood run better, your heart beat faster and improve the pulse and also your muscles will be put to work, getting them used with constant physical activity.
If you have a real weight problem, take a course of action that will allow you to lose some of that extra weight. Keep a healthy diet and make daily exercises. It's important to get back to a lifestyle that offers you only benefits. One of the first steps that you have to take is go and talk to a nutritionist that will be able to guide you through the good and bad food that you can eat. Follow the needed steps and lose weight until you feel good with your own body.


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Десять литовских литов () ― денежная банкнота национальной валюты Литвы.

Купюра имеет размер 135х65 мм, как и все банкноты Литвы (за исключением 500 литов). На банкноте в десять литов изображён полёт самолёта «Литуаника» и лётчики Стяпонас Дарюс и Стасис Гиренас.

История
Банкнота выпускалась в разных сериях четыре раза (дважды в 1993 году, по одному разу в 1997 и 2001 годах).

С 2007 года банкнота в десять литов стала литовской банкнотой с наименьшим номиналом, поскольку банкноты в один, два и пять литов вышли из обихода.

Дизайн
Банкнота в десять литов имеет тёмно-синюю цветовую гамму.

На аверсе банкноты на левой стороне присутствует большое число 10 и надпись Lietuvos banko valdybos pirmininkas (Председатель Национального банка Литвы). На реверсе в правом верхнем углу изображён герб Литвы.

Элементы защиты
Список элементов защиты :
 Когда банкноты наклоняют к свету под острым углом, справа от портретов видна надпись 10 LTL.
 Число 10, напечатанное дважды на защитной нити, также становится заметным при наклоне банкноты под острым углом.
 Бумага банкноты не флуоресцирует под ультрафиолетовым светом.
 Водяной знак ― государственный герб Литвы ― виден, когда банкнота находится под сильным освещением.
 Защитная нить флуоресцирует под ультрафиолетовым светом в цветах радуги.
 Опознавательный знак для слепых ― приподнятый равнобедренный треугольник.
 Рельефная печать портретов и надписей обеспечивает различимость купюры на ощупь.
 Повторяющийся микротекст 10 LTL, напечатанный между портретами и по их краям.
 Микротексты Lituanica и NR 688 E на изображении самолёта.
 Контур цифры 10 на аверсе флуоресцирует под ультрафиолетовым светом в коричневом и жёлтом цветах.

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Банкноты Литвы

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LIMA — A Lima teenager was shot in the leg Monday afternoon and was treated for what police described as non-life threatening injuries.
According to a spokesman for the Lima Police Department, officers were dispatched at 3:38 p.m. Monday to the intersection of Faurot Avenue and South McDonel Street in response to the report of a shooting. They found Drentae Moore, 18, of Lima suffering from gunshot wounds to the leg. He was transported to Mercy Health-St. Rita's for treatment.
There is no suspect in custody at this time, police said Tuesday.


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Richard Hatch, the man who originated the role of Apollo on the 1978 version of Battlestar Galactica, has passed away at age 71. He joined the cast of the 2003 reboot as terrorist/political leader Tom Zarek.
He was no stranger to genre film (particularly the B-grade variety) and had appeared in the legally questionable Prelude to Axnar (and was set to appear in the full version, had that gone through).
In addition to acting, Hatch wrote a number of novels set in BSG universe. In 1999 he attempted his own reboot of the show that made him famous, producing a trailer for Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming.
He is survived by his son, Paul.
Holy Frak, Remastered Original BSG Looks Good!
It's just a demo reel, so don't go hunting on Amazon for a remastered edition just yet.
I have to say, I wasn't too sure about the remastering job they were doing to the original Star Trek, but after having watched a few episodes, I can honestly say they are an actual improvement (and not just a "Lucasing" of the old material).
I genuinely hope they go ahead with this since the old series relied heavily on recycled stock shots throughout its short run.
The penultimate release features Adama and company face-to-face with some toasters.
The final parts premier next week, December 7th.
Here we go again kids.
What say you? Getting better, getting worse?
Episodes one and two are here.
After being shelved for about a year, SyFy has decided to release what was the pilot as webisodes on Machinima.com, starting this Friday (though they don't seem to have the show listed yet). The following clip is sure to give Hard Sci-Fi purists an apoplectic fit.
Universal Pictures has confirmed reports that Bryan Singer will produce and direct another re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica.
Just what we needed. Really.


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The International Date Line Map You've Seen Is Wrong
Tim Montenyohl
Not long ago, our Director of GIS was working on a project in the Pacific when he started complaining about the geometric lines commonly used to divide up island nations. You've definitely seen them if you've ever looked at the Pacific, or called up an International Date Line map.
But where do those lines come from? Kevin wanted to know—and so did I.
Suspecting the lines may be sourced from time zones, I peeked at a time zone map and realized something: pretty much every existing map of the International Date Line is wrong.
To be clear, the International Date Line is made up, with no true established standard. It's still however standardized enough that Natural Earth has a shapefile of it, which seems to match every other version one can find. Existing maps of the International Date Line are accurate in terms of dividing land up into proper time zones, but it completely ignores maritime sovereignty.
From Wikipedia, so it must be true
Sovereignty is the driving force behind time zones, and therefore the International Date Line. If American Samoa decides it wants to switch from observing UTC–11 to observing UTC+13, that would redefine the International Date Line (it would also basically abolish a whole day for them). But American Samoa isn't going to specify a different time zone for their maritime space. (As a sovereign nation they could, but for what purpose?) When a nation adheres to a specific time zone, it's pretty safe to assume that it also applies to its maritime space. So I came up with a thought experiment: What if we redefined the International Date Line using maritime sovereignty?
Rethinking the Map
This wasn't as clear-cut as I thought it would be. There's a little problem with Kiribati. As a nation, it's clumped into three groups; Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Islands, and Line Islands. The Line Islands are basically a time zone enclave, being well within the Western hemisphere, but observing a very Easternly UTC+14. (Kiribati is actually the only country that observes the UTC+14 time zone.) It makes sense, however, that the island nation as a whole would want to be on the same day.
The existing International Date Line has a somewhat awkward bridge between the Phoenix Islands and the Line Islands. I redrew the Date Line using maritime boundaries and Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs), and maintained that awkward bridge.
The Date Line's awkward bridge, now with more detail!
I can't call this experiment over after drawing this sovereignty-based map. See those gray hairlines in the above image? Those are Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) submissions. These are created unilaterally, so it's questionable how much weight should be given to them. The problem with my new International Date Line is that the Awkward Bridge goes right across the ECS claim of Cook Islands, which is on the other side of the International Date Line from Kiribati. Alternatively, I can make an International Date Line map that recognizes ECS submissions, but that means redirecting the bridge.
Including ECS submissions, Awkward Bridge is… still awkward
This map gives full weight to countries' ECS submissions (remember, they're questionable). Regardless of validity, those submissions should probably be on the same side of the International Date Line as the submitting nation. So Awkward Bridge now reaches over Jarvis Island as opposed to running below it. But does Awkward Bridge even need to exist? If it didn't, the Line Islands would truly be a Date Line enclave, which I'd like to point out, is also an awkward situation.
"Existing" International Date Line vs. my 2 new versions
Where Is the Line, really?
I realized a fair amount from going through this exercise. While the Prime Meridian feels sacrosanct, the International Date Line isn't a meridian; it's pretty arbitrary. Present convention is to ignore maritime sovereignty, for the sake of clean, angular lines on a map. That's likely due to the fact that time zones, as a concept, pre-date the notion of maritime sovereignty as defined by UNCLOS. As lines change, maps need updating. Looks like time zones and the International Date Line need new maps.


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RMS Andes readying to set sail from Southampton in the late 1960s
After a long wait, here at last is the first of what will be regular newsletters, which we hope will keep you up to date with everything we at Snowbow and Maritime Memories are and plan to do.
Firstly, well the reason for all this new super service is that at long last we have a brand new website, and one that can take advantage of the latest technology to enable us to not only keep up with the times but also, if anything, be ahead of them. All things relevant to shipping will be our main point of interest. But for the first time I will also let you know about the other things we do such as making Children's TV programmes and documentaries such as "Scouts of the World". This is a major production filmed all over the world that tells the complete history of Scouting from Baden Powell's first camp, when he with 20 boys pitched their tents on Brownsea Island, right up to modern day. We'll also show you music programmes featuring major names from the 1950s/60s that we were involved with and books and records we are still making. So all in all there should be a lot to write about, things that we hope will be of interest to you and which may even bring back a few memories of those once wonderful days, at a time when the world was a much nicer and better place to live in. So, let's now try to bring you up to date with what we are doing ship-wise and what we have planned for the future.
Our Latest DVD – 'The Great Liners – Episode 43'
We have just completed the 43rd DVD in our video series of 'The Great Liners' so, if you haven't seen it yet, then do get a copy because it is full of such fantastic footage that has never been made public before.
The Great Liners – Episode 43, A Maritime Medley (Part 3)
It has taken a long time to make this programme, but when you see the content you won't be surprised. I guess when putting these together I put my old ship hat on and view what we do through that interest. We try hard to always come up with something that is not only totally original, but also to create a programme that will interest just about anyone, and one you will want to watch over and over again. That's more than you can say for the average TV programme today. God, they are often so poor aren't they, but this programme, which is 75 minutes long, has film that quite honestly made me so excited to restore and make available for you to enjoy.
Tower Bridge to Margate
The handsome "Royal Sovereign"
We start by joining General Steam's 'Royal Sovereign' at Tower Pier in the very early 1960s, for one of her wonderful Thames cruises. The voyage takes us out into the river as the mighty spans of Tower Bridge open wide to allows us beneath. We then steam down river past all those fascinating nooks and crannies and spooky little hidey-holes that back then lined every few yards of the river. As we go we pass ship after ship and sail past all the many docks that also lined the river, docks like St Katherine's, Surrey, Canada, Canary Wharf and the then great Royal Docks, which were the largest enclosed Docks in the world. We turn into the lock and then into the docks themselves, which are crammed full of so many fascinating ships of every shape and size, not like today's rather samey looking giant floating blocks of flats! No, we're talking about the age when ships were mostly of individual and original design and, dare I say, looked like real ships.
Pleasure boats taking sightseers around London's crowded Royal Docks in their heyday
We tour the docks taking a very close look at all the ships in there, before going back out into the river and continuing our journey downstream, on past the once mighty Ford factory at Dagenham and on to Tilbury, which is also crammed full of ships including those then so handsome P&O and Orient Liners. Our final destination is good old Margate, a favourite holiday resort back in those simple but so contented days when 'Kiss Me Quick' hats and candy floss was about all you needed for a great day out. Plus a cruise like this of course, navigating us through an armada of ships of every kind all the way from Tower Bridge to Margate. I wonder if kids today would be able to enjoy such a day out? They'd probably miss almost everything of interest as they bury their heads in their iPhones and tap, tap, tap away. Actually, we have started to get letters from young children who are taking a great interest in watching the 'Great Liner' programmes. They have written to say how much they wish they could have been alive in those wonderful days and to have been able to go away to sea and experience such freedom and unrivalled adventure and excitement.
British India's 'Uganda'
We leave the "Royal Sovereign" there and go back to the mid-1950s to join the beautiful British India ocean liner the 'Uganda' as she prepares to sail from Malta on another of her wonderful, queue and stress free Mediterranean cruises.
British India's 'Uganda' setting sail from Malta in the 1950s
I don't know if you're familiar with the 'Uganda', but she was just 14,430 gross tons and accommodated 167 1st Class and 133 Tourist passengers. Quite different from modern day ships with 6,000 plus! What a beautiful difference it made to be able to just meander along, taking our time as we sail to uncrowded places (The Uganda's passengers are generally the only tourists there) without a sign of a queue and, to just simply enjoy being on a real ship at sea. We travel the whole of this Med cruise aboard her, and it helped me to appreciate, even more, the wonderful days that all us seafarers used to enjoy in those 'Good Ole Days'. I won't write too much about this for it's something you really need to experience for yourselves. Something that this beautiful film we have used enables you to do.
Sailing of the "Queen Elizabeth from Ocean Terminal
At the end of the cruise we go back in time to the mid-1940s and with the help of more very rare film, which like all the other film used in the making of this unique programme, has never been made public before. We travel to the Ocean Terminal in Southampton, where we find the magnificent 'Queen Elizabeth' about to set sail on her first commercial voyage since the end of WW2, to New York . We then take a look at more rare film showing us the wartime service of the 'Elizabeth' and the 'Mary', and how they, in the words of Winston Churchill, took two years off the war. Incidentally, the war time footage shows the 'Queen Elizabeth' making her secret dash from the Clyde to New York. She had been scheduled to go to Southampton where preparation had been made for her to finish outfitting. However her orders were changed en-route, sending her at full speed to New York and taking along with her some very surprised John Brown shipyard workers, who weren't too well equipped for a transatlantic crossing!
RMS 'Queen Elizabeth' at speed on her WW2 maiden voyage to New York in 1940
This piece of film was given to us by the daughter of the then Chief Engineer of the 'Queen Elizabeth'; how great and exciting is that! Do you know, the 'Queen Elizabeth' hadn't even had any real trials at that point, so anything could have happened. As Hitler had ordered her and the Mary's sinking a top priority, she could now have easily been rusting away somewhere deep in the Atlantic Ocean with all hands aboard. However, she made it and, so great were her speeds, that the paint on her bow and sides was worn away. The whole Nation seemed to be cheering her as she spectacularly pulls away from the quayside to start that first commercial voyage and such an illustrious career. Now we travel forward in time to cross to New York in September 1967, where the magnificent 'Queen Mary' is readying herself to say her final farewell to the city that had become her second home. After she sails on her final voyage we are so fortunate to have been able to pick her up again as she arrives off the Solent and prepares to sail into Southampton to embrace the huge reception waiting for her from the thousands of sad yet somehow joyous well-wishers, who have come from across the nation to show their admiration.
RMS 'Queen Mary' arriving in Southampton for the last time.
Of all the film I've ever seen of the 'Queen Mary', and to be fair, there isn't too much around, the footage seen here has to be the very best. She looks absolutely magnificent as she makes her way through the gathering noise and proud sightseers. I could watch just this film alone over and over again. It makes me so proud to be British and reminds me of the thrill and excitement that filled my every feeling, so I'm so pleased that we have been able to bring this for you to enjoy. The crowds were both excited and sad as the wonderful 'Mary' made her way through the orchestra of sounds as she showed her magnificence and supremacy to all. Only too often when you manage to find actual film of such an important maritime occasion, it is spoilt by bad weather or the film is now so old and faded. But for this most important of arrivals this film is in absolutely wonderful condition and shot with so much care from an escorting sightseer's pleasure boat. This gives us the rare opportunity to see this great ship from sea level, giving us an unrivalled view of her splendour. I can say in all honesty that this must be the best film I have ever seen of the 'Queen Mary', and as you watch you can't help but get caught up in the celebratory atmosphere as we follow her in from the Channel all the way to the Ocean Terminal. For the life of me I sometimes have to shake my head in confused wonderment at just how we have managed to find and restore all this amazing film. This particular programme is far from over as we now return to the most handsome 'Queen Elizabeth'. It's December 1968 and she's setting sail on her penultimate cruise before her last and final Atlantic crossing.
RMS 'Queen Elizabeth' sailing on her penultimate cruise in Dec 1968
Crowds are lining the banks of the Solent to see the ship I personally feel was perhaps the most handsome of all time. We hear the sound of her whistles as the Southampton tugs manoeuvre her ready to face the open sea. Again the film has been shot from a sightseeing boat, allowing the film to capture her magnificence and grandeur in a way seldom if ever seen before. I will never forget those times when, as a young boy, I would be on the Waterloo to Bournemouth express, and as we slowed on the approach to Southampton, almost everyone would be up at the windows, eager to glimpse the great liners all proudly displaying their importance as they lined every quayside of that great port. And if ever the shout was heard, "Look, there's one of the Queens!". Well that would be sufficient to cause a mini stampede and, for young ship loving boys such as me, a smile and sense of pride almost a mile or more wide… I loved it! We end the Southampton story with film of the two Queen's young sister, the 'QE2'. We 'miraculously' see her launch and then leave Ocean Terminal on her maiden voyage to New York. I say miraculous because on that day the weather was absolutely foul, thereby killing all the carefully laid plans to capture this moment on film. But once again, those ordinary ship loving Brits are there, and if armed with a cine-camera then nothing could prevent them from capturing the majesty of the whole occasion. Once again, much of the film covering her as she leaves her berth and heads out into the Solent, has been filmed from a sightseeing boat. So, although duller than we would have liked, we must be grateful for small mercies that this moment was captured on film for us all to enjoy.
RMS 'Queen Elizabeth 2nd' sailing from Southampton for New York
You know, I really didn't mean to write so much in this newsletter. It's a bit like waiting for a bus in a way, for its been months since I've been able to do one and then four of them come along at the same time! Oh well, we're almost at the end of writing about the contents of episode 43. We move into the finishing straight by returning to New York in the 1950s. We join the Grace Line cargo passenger ship the 1946 built 'Santa Cecilia' on a voyage to Chile via the Panama Canal and all the way down the West Coast of South America .
Grace Lines 'Santa Cecilia' on her way to South America and Chile.
Grace Lines 'Santa Cecilia'! Again this is very rare film and not something we would expect to experience, but we have it and how enjoyable it is. It really is all back to basics and the real joy of being back at sea (for me at least). She was one of four sisters and only carried 52 passengers, yet all had their own luxury cabins with air-conditioning. Only the Americans could have done that. When I first went to see I had to either stick my head out the porthole or to sleep on the hatch covers at night to keep cool. Anyway, the film lets you just relax and capture the moment of a timeless voyage. No planes to rush to catch, no security to battle your way through and no one seems to be bothered about having to entertain their passengers (You know how it is aboard a modern day cruise ship, with the PA system blasting out around the clock, urging everyone to go to lectures, shows, rock climbing, ice skating, golfing or surfing etc.). No, on the old 'Santa Cecilia' those 52 passengers made their own entertainment. I know what I would prefer! It's another fascinating passage through the Panama Canal as always. No two transits are ever the same, but what helps to make this film so interesting to me is just seeing those South America ports, which in the main seem like a collection of old mud huts and little else. And oh! wait until to you witness how they got the passengers ashore! Hopefully you will get this DVD and see for yourself, but I'll tell you what, if any of our 'Elf and Safety' people watch it then get ready for a few severe coronaries. I doubt many, if any of you, have seen anything quite like this.
Grace/Delta Line's 'Santa Maria' at Buenos Aires 1980s
Halfway through this voyage we go to San Francisco in the early 1980's to join a much more modern ship, Delta Line's 11,221 gross tons 'Santa Maria'. She's the modern version of the 'Santa Cecilia', and we're joining her for another voyage to South America but this time on a cruise they promote as "The Circle of Dreams". A very apt title it is, as she will take us all the way around South America, starting off with a West to East passage through the Panama Canal in which our Captain gives us a running commentary on the running of the Canal. With just a 100 passengers, once again it's very much a 'being at sea' experience, with those lucky passengers making their own entertainment and, in turn, getting to know just what it's like to sail aboard a real working ship. Once through the canal we sail down the East Coast of South America, calling at ports such as Buenos Aires and on down to what for all, including me, was the highlight of the voyage… A transit of the often volatile Strait of Magellan. I wish I could have done this transit for real, but this is certainly a very good second best and, believe me, once again they have managed to capture the true awesome wonder of that strait. I'm so pleased that this film has allowed me to experience this transit, and enabled me to be able to imagine just what it must have been like for Magellan and his crew to have made that first transit back in the 1500s. At the end of the Strait we sail into the Pacific, and again, you can just imagine how Magellan and his crew must have felt when in their tiny little boat, they felt the freshness of the wide Pacific they had been searching for. The ship then takes us back up the West Coast of South America to San Francisco, where we position ourselves on her bridge for a fascinating entrance to that great harbour, passing beneath the great Gold Gate Bridge in swirling fog. All in all, yet another great experience and what better way to sign off one hell of a DVD. If anyone should wonder why we would use American ships in what is essentially a UK based production, well no doubt you will be pleased to learn that we get tremendous help from the States. They just love to see films of our merchant and Royal Navy, which we welcome warmly. So it's nice for us to show some of their ships whenever we can, which will make them love us Brits even more!
In the next newsletter I hope to be able to reveal the content of our next "Great Liners" DVD, which we will have ready nice and early for Christmas. These DVDs really do make the perfect gifts, and image having something really nice to watch over Christmas. That would make a nice change wouldn't it! I will also write about the our attempts to bring a classic ocean liner into the UK, to berth her as a reminder of our once great maritime industry and to use her as a hotel and entertainment centre. We could have achieved this, but you won't believe what we had to put up with from the various authorities and those supposedly in charge. You really won't believe what became the final straw. Forget the EU and the arguments about an Irish Customs Checkpoint, for all that is so silly and infantile. I will reveal something so much sillier that, after many years of detailed negotiations, the London authorities suddenly produced to destroy everything, well you really won't believe it. So hopefully there will be lots of interesting things in future newsletters. This one is already quite long, so I need to stop before I turn it into a large book. Before I take my leave, please let me express how grateful we (Wife Ulla and myself) are for all your support. For as most of you know, we receive no external funding at all, not even from our Heritage funds, whom we really thought and hoped would be overjoyed at all we have done over the past 23 years to ensure the history and stories of our once great shipping industry and Merchant and Royal Navies last forever. Yes, they turned us down for any funding, basically telling us that in their opinion "There was little interest in these subjects". So now, as we have done for 23 long years, we have to really struggle to fund all the work involved. Our only income is from the sale of our DVDs, without which, we would have no alternative but to cease, so in giving us your valuable support you are also playing your part in making sure we keep our maritime history alive. Oh, and I have to admit that doing this work is also so rewarding, for it would be difficult to think of any other way to be able to spread so much happiness around the world. Des Cox
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Creamy Curried Kumara & Coconut Soup by Pambrowne. A Thermomix ® recipe in the category Soups on www.recipecommunity.com.au, the Thermomix ® Community.
1. Put garlic and ginger into TM Bowl. Chop 2-3 secs on Speed 7. Scrape down the sides.
2. Add coconut oil and curry powder. Saute 3 mins, Varoma, Speed 1.
3. Add cubed kumara and chop 4 secs, Speed 7.
5. Add water and stock powder and cook 10 mins, 100°, Speed 1.
6. Add Coconut and or Rice Milk and puree 1 min, Speed 7.
7. Add coconut cream if using and combine 5 secs, Speed 4.
This soup has been a favourite with our family for years. I have adapted it from an Alison Holst cookbook for Vegan diet and Thermomix.


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8 July – 6 September 2015
Location: Sainsbury Wing Exhibition
Hear the painting. See the sound
'Soundscapes' has commissioned musicians and sound artists to select a painting from the collection and compose a new piece of music or sound art in response. Immersive and site-specific, the experience encourages visitors to 'hear' the paintings and 'see' the sound.
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The artists are:
Nico Muhly is a composer of chamber, orchestral, and sacred music, as well as opera and ballet. His work includes commissions from the Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera, New York City Ballet, St John's College, Cambridge, and Wigmore Hall. Muhly's chosen painting is The Wilton Diptych (about 1395–9).
Susan Philipsz OBE is a Turner Prize-winning sound artist. Known for her installations that explore the relationship between sound and architecture, she has been presented at institutions across the world from MoMA to the Sydney Biennale. Philipsz's chosen painting is Holbein's Ambassadors (1533).
Jamie xx is a DJ, music producer, and member of Mercury Prize-winning band, The xx. His producer credits include collaborations with Drake, Rihanna, and Alicia Keys as well as 'We're New Here', his reworking of Gil Scott-Heron's last studio album. Jamie's debut solo album 'In Colour' was released in June. Jamie's chosen painting is Van Rysselberghe's Coastal Scene (about 1892).
Gabriel Yared is an Oscar-winning film composer, whose work includes the scores for 'Betty Blue' (1986), 'The English Patient' (1996), 'The Talented Mr Ripley' (1999), and 'Cold Mountain' (2003). Yared's chosen painting is Cézanne's Bathers (about 1894–1905).
Chris Watson is one of the world's leading recorders of wildlife and natural phenomena. He won BAFTA Awards for David Attenborough's 'Life' and 'Frozen Planet' BBC series, and has worked on other major film, radio, and TV projects. Watson's chosen painting is Gallen-Kallela's Lake Keitele (1905).
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are internationally renowned installation and sound artists. Based in Grindrod, Canada, the duo incorporates audio tracks with installations to create three-dimensional spaces with sound. Cardiff and Miller's chosen painting is Antonello da Messina's Saint Jerome in his Study (about 1475).
'Soundscapes' is part of the 'National Gallery Inspires' programme of exhibitions. Drawn from the National Gallery collection, the exhibitions take a fresh view of National Gallery paintings. In this instance, we have merged paintings with commissioned music and sound art from a broad range of artists.
The National Gallery Development Committee: Tim and Caroline Clark, Sir Michael Hintze AM, James and Catarina Leigh-Pemberton, John and Caroline Nelson, Carolyn and Michael Portillo, June and Ian Powell, Tim and Judith Wise
Susan and John Singer
With additional support from Miss Dasha Shenkman OBE
Audio equipment generously provided by
With thanks to TiMax 3D Sound programming
Find out more about the musicians and sound artists
View the paintings featuring in the exhibition


Mattel offers virtually everything you could ask for in the way of gift ideas and bounty for yourself. Choose from dolls, action figures, vehicles, playsets, games, and more, and don't be surprised if someone you know also shops among the plethora of different Mattel items at Entertainment Earth!
Mattel, the largest toy company in the world, was founded in 1945. It produces a huge range of dolls, toys, games, and video games for boys and girls of all ages. In addition to the company's very-well-known lines like Barbie and Hot Wheels, Mattel also provides merchandise under license to some of the world's most famous properties. Many of the firm's products have become a part of our culture and one would be hard pressed to find any adult in this country who has not owned, played with, or at least touched one of Mattel's myriad of toys.
Cars models from the populair movies and these are made by Mattel.


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Q: Was Chernobyl Explosion a Small Nuclear Detonation? The Chernobyl reactor was designed to produce a maximum of 3.2 megawatts of power.  It is now estimated to have produced 3.2 gigawatts of power in the final second of its life.
The original hypothesis is that the the explosions at Chernobyl were either steam/steam or steam/hydrogen explosions.
A new hypothesis is that the first explosion was actually a small nuclear detonation of the runaway fissioning.  The total energy released in the first blast was 320 gigawatt thermal.
This new hypothesis is based on observations from witnesses who were nearby and saw the explosions.  The first explosion turned the air blue from fluorescence of excited oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the air.
Is there a way to determine how powerful the explosion was?   Also is it possible this was a quasi atomic explosion due to runaway fissioning?
The paper I am reading is linked below.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1384269

A: Nuclear reactors have too low uranium enrichment to be capable of nuclear explosion, not even a detonation(explosion with supersonic velocity of propagation).
But the thermal power of uncontrolled fission may lead to mechanical explosion by pressurised gas or water vapour, or there can occur secondary chemical explosion by ignition of developed and escaped hydrogen.
RBMK-1000 reactor, used in Chernobyl, had nominal power 1000 MW. There were/are in use also RBMK-1500 and some designs were projected up to 2400 MW.
Explosion can be defined as very fast energy release, with extremely high power and very short time duration, with sharp begin and end.
Detonation is explosion propagating in exploding material by speed exceeding speed of sound in material. Additionally, explosion is not matter of total released energy but matter of way how it is released.
Nuclear detonation of fissionable material requires for this material to sustain runaway chain reaction of fast (x MeV ) neutrons.
2-3% 235U, additionally with fission products absorbing neutrons, scattered in small pieces across the big volume, cannot nuclearly detonate.
If it could, the detonation would not be small, but huge, temperature would reach some 100 millions K instead of few thousands and all power plant and close neighborhood would evaporate.
TNT explosive energy ( about 10% of coal energy ) is approx 4.2 MJ / kg. 3.2 GW of thermal power is equivalent cca 760 kg TNT/s. Equivalent of 75 ton TNT is released during less than 2 minutes of nominal reactor function.
Overheating of pressured casserole, just little bigger and dramatic for lifes of too many people.
That means, if the power of energy being released is just in range of few multiples of nominal power, being increased gradually and continually, it can hardly be consider as a nuclear explosion.
OTOH, the sudden reactor break can be, but as a mechanical explosion, even if based on originally nuclear energy.

A: A nuclear reactor cannot explode like a nuclear weapon. For a thermal reactor -like Chernobyl- the neutron generation lifetime is too long. For a fast reactor (and a thermal reactor) there is no mechanism for creating and maintaining a super prompt critical assembly sufficiently long for significant release of energy from fission. You have to really work hard to assemble the correct material to create a nuclear weapon; you need to create a system that is super prompt critical using fast neutrons and remains so sufficiently long for the chain reaction to produce enough energy before pressure causes dis-assembly into a non-critical configuration.  By super prompt critical is meant super critical on the prompt neutrons alone without having to wait for the delayed neutrons to contribute.  See the Los Alamos Primer by Serber, available from Amazon: the early notes on the physics of a fission weapon from Los Alamos at the beginning of the Manhattan project.
The explosions at Chernobyl were a steam explosion, and a chemical explosion caused by oxygen reacting with aerosolized graphite.  (At Three Mile Island the explosion was from oxygen reacting with hydrogen released from oxidation of the over-heated zircalloy fuel cladding.)
For a nuclear reactor, the safety concern is the removal of decay heat from the radioactive decay of fission products after the fission process is terminated.  Decay heat is about 5% of full power at shutdown.
A major problem with the Chernobyl design is the core was over-moderated.  Specifically, the graphite was the moderator and the cooling water was not needed as a moderator and in fact acted as a neutron poison.   So when the cooling water was lost the reactor power increased: positive feedback.  The old N reactor in the US was a graphite moderated, water cooled reactor used to produce Pu for the weapons program, but was specifically designed to not have this problem.
Also, Chernobyl did not have a robust reactor containment system, it had a reactor confinement system.
As an aside, there is a difference between deflagration and detonation; the former involves subsonic propagation of energy and the latter shock wave propagation of energy.  The name explosion in general use can refer to either.

A: Nuclear explosions are characterized by prompt criticality.

In nuclear engineering, prompt criticality describes a nuclear fission event in which criticality (the threshold for an exponentially growing nuclear fission chain reaction) is achieved with prompt neutrons alone (neutrons that are released immediately in a fission reaction) and does not rely on delayed neutrons (neutrons released in the subsequent decay of fission fragments). As a result, prompt supercriticality causes a much more rapid growth in the rate of energy release than other forms of criticality. Nuclear weapons are based on prompt criticality, while most nuclear reactors rely on delayed neutrons to achieve criticality.

Accidental nuclear explosions are not a new thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1

On January 3, 1961, SL-1 was being prepared for restart after a shutdown of eleven days over the holidays. Maintenance procedures required that Rod 9 be manually withdrawn a few inches to reconnect it to its drive mechanism. At 9:01 pm, this rod was suddenly withdrawn too far, causing SL-1 to go prompt critical instantly. In four milliseconds, the heat generated by the resulting enormous power excursion caused fuel inside the core to melt and to explosively vaporize.

The paper you linked states:

This paper renders the following hypothesis. The first explosion consisted of thermal neutron mediated nuclear explosions in one or rather a few fuel channels, which caused a jet of debris that reached an altitude of some 2500 to 3000 m. The second explosion would then have been the steam explosion most experts believe was the first one.

The first explosion
The idea that Chernobyl involved a prompt criticality at some point was known long before that paper was published. For example, AS Dyatlov, Chernobyl engineer and witness, wrote in his 1991 memoir Chernobyl: How It Was (chapter 1)

At 01:23:47 the reactor was destroyed with an acceleration of power on prompt neutrons. This collapse was the worst possible catastrophe in an energy reactor. No one could comprehend it, no one was prepared for it, no technical measures for localization of the unit and station had been stipulated. Nor were there any organizational measures.

In a magazine article published that year, he makes it clear that this was the first explosion, consistent with your paper.

The main circulating pumps kept up a flow of coolant right up to 01:23:46, when due to a sharp power rise the flow rate through the running down main circulating pumps (loop 1) and then that through the other pumps dropped. The pressure in loop 1 went up. At 01:23:46 or 01:23:47 a large explosion was heard and, one or two seconds later, there was another one, which in my perception was even bigger. And then the silence fell.

IAEA INSAG-7 page 69

Owing to the design characteristics of the reactor, substantial damage to a few fuel assemblies (three or four fuel assemblies are enough) can, and in this case did, lead to the destruction of the reactor itself and the failure of it's emergency protection system. The rupture if the pipes of several fuel channels lead to an increase in pressure in the reactor space and partial detachment of the reactor support plate from the shroud and consequent jamming of the RCPS rods which by that time were only half way down.

Note: The "reactor space" mentioned above refers to the unpressurized space surrounding the fuel channels
That the above was indeed caused by prompt criticality is suggested by analysis results published in the report.

Testimony of reactor operator LF Toptunov

At the moment of the blast (or immediately afterwards) the control rods stopped moving...

From the above, a picture of the first, less dramatic explosion emerges of a localized prompt criticality causing a violent steam leak.
That the prompt criticality and steam leak were both part of the first explosion, rather than two separate explosions, is evidenced by eyewitness accounts and seismic data presented in your paper, both of which suggested a double blast as the first explosion.
The second explosion
This was the more destructive explosion. Ruling out steam, we have two possible mechanisms for the explosion: hydrogen and nuclear.
The core at this point still existed, but the water had already leaked away through the gap between the side walls and the dislodged reactor lid. The very large void effect of reactivity could them allow a second much larger prompt criticality event.
This is supported by the graph below, also taken from the IAEA report.

The threshold for prompt criticality is usually 0.7%, though April 26 1986 at Chernobyl 4 was 0.5%
Conclusion
The first explosion was probably a nuclear blast followed by a steam blast. The second explosion may have been a nuclear blast

A: No, it was an energy induced thermochemical explosion. The reactor ruptured first creating a mimic of an explosion. Then water and superheated hydrogen differed from superheated water detonated.

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VMworld 2012 Voting is Open!
Hey have you heard, VMworld 2012 voting is open?! Of course you have but this is my post like most other people's to shamelessly plug my sessions as well as a few from some other noteworthy folks out there. Below are the sessions that I am listed on either as the primary presenter, a co-presenter, or a moderator. Now I should mention I only actually submitted three of these myself, but I was asked by various people to participate in theirs. I have Highlighted the ones I personally submitted.
Myself, I find using the "Filter Options" you can see below is the easiest. It works best if you just want to hunt down keywords or even presenters you want to vote for. I recommend using this feature to quickly find, say my sessions, or others above I guess.
What no group vFit session where we do pushups every time you say a word beginning with v ?
I like that idea actually, but Wade Holmes and I are working on something for vFit, we just have not figured out what/where/when yet.


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Hello Fellow Delegates and Convention-goers!
It's CADEM weekend! If you've just met (or heard of) our campaign at the convention, welcome! As our last post suggests, most of the activity is on our Facebook and Twitter feeds, but this is a great place to reach us too. Thank you for your interest, support, and contributions! Definitely the contributions. 🙂
Why so quiet?
Ok, so it's been a while since we've updated the campaign page. That's not because we haven't had much going on. It's just that most of our activity has moved to our Facebook page, since it's much easier for all of you to interact with us there. We'll still be posting things here, but your best bet for up-to-date campaign info is to follow us on Facebook. Or Twitter. We can't forget the Twitter!
The Women's March – Coming Together for a Better, Safer, and More Equal Society
On January 20th, 2018, the second annual Women's March was held across the U.S. I was honored to have the opportunity to participate in the Modesto March, and the PKforDA team came out in force. It was an incredible experience!
Approximately 1,500 people participated in the March, with every age, race, gender, and even political persuation (not to mention several species!) represented. The sight of over a thousand marchers walking up to the rally in unison was deeply moving, something that I will never forget.
At the rally, I had the opportunity to speak to dozens of marchers about my campaign, and to listen to their requests, ideas, and concerns . With this much diversity of marchers, there was also a great deal of diversity of opinion! But one thing was consistent. The voters I spoke to agreed that we need a change at the District Attorney's office, and were generously willing to hear my message and vision. I was humbled by your stories, and will do my best to honor your faith and desire for change.
Events like the March make it clear. Our community may be facing many challenges, but we can overcome any of them if we are united and work together. That's what our campaign is about, after all. Making Stanislaus County safer, together.
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied (for Everyone)
Today's Modesto Bee leads with a powerful article on the incredible delays to justice in our county. Our county has an incredible backlog of criminal cases, with over 100 murder suspects sitting in jail awaiting trial, some for over ten years. Not only is this very expensive (we spend over $11,000 per day housing just these defendants), but the result is a delay in justice for everyone involved – not just the defendants, but also the victims' families, the law enforcement officers who investigated the case, and the community at large.
As the Bee notes, things weren't always this way. The incredible growth in our backlog correlates to two events – a change in the way that our court handles cases and the election of Birgit Fladager as our District Attorney. There are many arguments to be had about the best way for a court to handle cases, and there are other counties that made the same change but somehow see a similar increase in delays. But we have one thing that those counties don't – Birgit Fladager.
I am quoted throughout the article, and I stand by my statements, with one small clarification (see below). As I told the Bee, I believe that our delays are the result of poor policies and management at the District Attorneys office. Problems with evidence handling and discovery have allowed defense attorneys to ask for repeated continuances (a valid and popular defense strategy), with little to no push back from overworked Deputy District Attorneys (DDAs for short) whose case loads exceed those of comparable counties.
The result is an exodus of experienced DDAs – we replaced 17 out of 47 this past year alone, and less than 10 DDAs have been there for the duration of Birgit's tenure. This, in turn, leads to less experienced DDAs handling more difficult cases, which they need more time to prepare for, increasing their workload, and creating a vicious cycle that is playing out before us. At the end of the day, our county pays the price, both financially and through reduced safety, peace of mind, and access to justice.
Now is the time for change. If elected, I will work collaboratively with the courts, the law enforcement community, and the rest of the criminal justice system (yes, including the defense bar) to reduce this backlog and get us back to a system of justice that is fair, efficient, and effective. I will do this through a combination of technology (the proposed-and-allegedly-soon-to-be-implemented digital discovery system is a start, but not nearly enough), as well as modern metrics-based management of both cases and the dedicated and hard-working members of the District Attorney's office.
Stanislaus County deserves, and can have, a fair, efficient, and effective criminal justice system. All it needs is good leadership and capable management. Please help me bring that to our community, so that we can all make our county safer, together.
How can you help? I'm glad you asked! For starters, you can visit our contributions page and contribute financially to our campaign. Every bit helps – you would be amazed at how important your $20, $50, or $100 contribution can be. Next, we have great opportunities for volunteers to help us with our campaign. If you are excited about the opportunity to help make our county safer, please email us at volunteer@pkforda.com and we'll get you going! Finally, we need people to get the word out about what we're doing. You can do that by liking our Facebook page, sharing our post, or just talking to your friends, family, and colleagues about why you think I should be your next District Attorney. No matter how you help, thank you, and I look forward to serving you, and our entire county.
As for that clarification: There's a quote in the article that suggests that I or other attorneys might ask for delays relating to discovery when that discovery has already been handed over. I have not, and will never, do something along those lines, and have never seen another defense attorney do it either. I'm sure someone, somewhere, has tried it, but it's unethical, improper, and frankly dumb to do it. As attorneys, our credibility to the court is everything, and no attorney, no matter who they are or how zealously they represent their client can excuse misrepresenting the truth to the court. My quote was intended to highlight that the District Attorney's office has not been able to verify whether they have handed evidence over to the defense- I have had the same evidence given to me multiple times in a case, and have had DDAs ask me whether certain evidence had been given to me, because they didn't know.
Posted on September 16, 2017 December 16, 2017
The DA and ICE – Part 1 (A summary)
This week was filled with news about the relationship between the District Attorney's office (and law enforcement generally) and federal immigration agents.
First, on Wednesday, a man was arrested by ICE agents in the courthouse after they were tipped off to his presence by a Deputy District Attorney ("DDA" for short). The defendant had asked the court to have his DUI case dismissed because the DA's office hadn't pressed forward with it in over three years, and unfortunately common situation in our county. Looking at court records, I was surprised to find that there are over 2,500 DUI cases that have been open for over 2 years in our county, and that are potentially subject to being dismissed the same way!
By Friday, both Birgit and John issued statements supporting the current policy of having DDAs call ICE to check on people's immigration status while investigating cases, and expressed no concern about the implications of having people arrested in the courthouse, ahead of their hearings. I made my position clear – the District Attorney's office has to follow the law, and California law doesn't allow this sort of behavior. If Californians want their DA's to call ICE, they should talk to their legislators about changing the law. But the DA can't ignore the law that exists today.
Then, late on Friday, the legislature passed SB 54, a bill that significantly restricts law enforcement's ability to communicate and work with federal law enforcement agents. If Governor Brown signs the bill (as he is expected to do), all California law enforcement agencies, including the District Attorney's office, will face sharp restrictions on their ability to respond to ICE's questions, and will be effectively barred from checking the immigration status of nearly all suspects and defendants.
While there is certainly room for debate about whether the bill goes too far (as some people believe) or not far enough (as others argue), that is an argument for the legislature. A District Attorney's job is to enforce the law as it exists, with some discretion allowed as to where to focus limited resources. Over the coming days, I will be posting a series of posts that explain why I think the current policy embraced by Birgit and John is wrong, and what I would propose instead.
Posted on August 16, 2017 December 16, 2017
And Then There Were Three
The Bee wrote about John's entry to the race this afternoon:
You've already seen Patrick's statement on John's entry, (you can read it again here:), but we should point out what John and Birgit say about one another. John correctly points out that Birgit's leadership has led to dramatic turnover at the office, with one-third of the attorneys there having less than one year of experience.
Think about that. One in three D.A.'s trying cases in Stanislaus County have been an attorney for less than a year. Why? Because the turnover is so bad that the office can't keep people who have a chance of escaping to another county. Birgit claims this is entirely due to pay, but these D.A.'s aren't exactly fleeing to richer counties. The issue, as John (who has been training a lot of these younger lawyers, although he hasn't had any experience managing them) knows. The work environment is so toxic that attorneys will do anything to get out, including giving up on their dream of being a prosecutor. The end result is a less experienced, less capable prosecutorial team, which means less convictions and more criminals out on the street, with lots of wasted tax dollars along the way.
In attacking John, Birgit correctly points out that he has never been seen in a managerial role. Even though John is one of the longest-serving prosecutors in the office, he has never had the experience of managing a team, much less a department. John has definitely racked up some big wins in court, but he now wants to leave that experience behind, costing our county another strong litigator and putting someone without management experience in charge of one of our most important agencies. That didn't work out well when Birgit was elected, which led to our current problem. We shouldn't do it again.
Our District Attorney's office needs to change its internal culture, and to become a place that not only retains its attorney, but that gives them the tools to succeed in court. The agency needs a strong, proven leader who can build bridges, not the survivor of an internal civil war. As an outsider with proven management experience, Patrick can bridge both the internal divides that have led John to run against his once-favored boss, and the external breaks between the District Attorney's office and the rest of the criminal justice community. At the same time, Patrick can restore good financial management and bring much-needed transparency to the finances and operations of the office.
This is not a time for more of the same. It's time that we all joined in and made our county safer, together.
A New Contender
Today, John Mayne, a Deputy District Attorney who has served under Birgit Fladager for over a decade, announced that he is also running for District Attorney. Patrick issued the following statement in response: Continue reading "A New Contender"
Posted on May 22, 2017 December 16, 2017
Contributions are open!
We're happy to announce that our shiny new contributions page is live! The miracles of modern technology mean that you can participate in the campaign from the comfort of your home, without needing to write a check or go digging for a big fistful of dollars. Instead, you can just head over to our quick and easy online form, fill in a bit of information, and let our good friends at PayPal take care of the hassle, all from the comfort of your screen!
So what are you waiting for? Click on the "Contribute" link at the top of your screen or head directly over to pkforda.com/contribute, and show your support for Stanislaus County's next District Attorney!
Posted on April 15, 2017 December 16, 2017
Welcome, Bee Readers!
We're seeing a lot of new traffic to both this site and our Facebook page after Ken Carlson's great article announcing Patrick's candidacy. Welcome, everyone!
As you can see in the article, Ms. Fladager is not particularly happy to have a challenger, and claims that I don't know much about how her office runs. But she still manages to concede that her office has problems, and seems to agree that my proposed solutions are the right ones, claiming that the office is in the process of rolling out a digital system that allows electronic discovery to criminal defense attorneys.
As a local criminal defense attorney with many friends in the DA's office, I can say with confidence that her description of this system is… overstated, to say the least. I have never received a single piece of discovery electronically from a Stanislaus County DA, unless you count DVD copies of video recordings. There is no central system for attorneys on either side to electronically access the evidence in a case, and I have repeatedly had situations where the DA handling a case wasn't sure whether evidence had been given over or not. Even if Ms. Fladager's dream system is really being built, why did it take her eight years of "leadership" to recognize that there is a problem?
Anyone who is even vaguely familiar with the practice of criminal defense law in Stanislaus County has known for years that there are serious, endemic issues with efficiency and transparency in that office. It is time for someone to come in and fix these problems from the ground-up, someone who isn't tied to years of mismanagement and mistakes.
Note, also, Ms. Fladager's admission that her office has been losing attorneys left and right. Of course, she blames this on attorneys leaving for better paying jobs in bigger counties, but that's provably not true. Later in the campaign, we'll be providing verifiable data about where attorneys have gone after leaving our District Attorney's office, which should include income comparisons for those who remained in public service. Stay tuned for that!
In the meantime, welcome, and thank you for your interest in my campaign. We have a very long road ahead of us, and Patrick is looking forward to engaging personally with as many of you as possible. If you would like to have Patrick come to your church, social group, car club, quinceanera, or other group so that he can hear from directly you about what matters most to you and your loved ones in this race, please send him a message on our Facebook page, and we'll make it happen!
Patrick Got A Mention In Jeff Jardine's Column
Our first official recognition by the local media happened! Jeff Jardine's column on the outcome of the Frank Carson case had the following little blurb:
But losing such a case and costing the taxpayers millions of dollars certainly would be ammunition for someone to oppose Fladager is 2018, should she choose to seek a fourth term. Carson will be arraigned April 24 and could refuse to waive time, meaning the case could go to trial within 60 days and possibly be over in time to affect the outcome of an election.
One candidate, Modesto criminal defense attorney Patrick Kolasinski, filed March 31 to run for DA, citing the department's inefficient management along with the problems it has had with discovery – as has been a problem in the Carson case – and poor morale.
Politicians, including DAs, are elected officials who run on their records to get re-elected. The decisions they make today can be gold mines for their opponents tomorrow.
Well, at least the online version of the article had that quote. Jeff didn't know about the campaign when he wrote the original version, so those who read the hard copy of the paper missed out on the announcement. But Jeff was kind enough to correct the oversight when it was pointed out to him, so readers of the digital version got the full story!


A handful of Tweets and videos that appear to have been cited in the choice to remove Alex Jones from Facebook and YouTube vanished from Twitter. It seemed that this action was the answer of CNN piece which focused on the company's hypocrisy. Though some infowars tweets vanished.
But Twitter confirmed that it did not remove the tweets. Someone affiliated with Alex Jones and Infowars or with access to those accounts is behind the removal. The tweets in question spanned the Infowars brand, including accusations that Sandy Hook was staged by crisis actors, slurs against transgender people and a video asserting that Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg is a Nazi.
CNN linked some tweets in its piece. Now all those tweets are no longer available. It seems that Jones might be trying to walk a narrow line on the platform. He is keeping most of the Infowars content up even as users and reporters surface some of its most objectionable moments.
CNN called Twitter's bluff. The news site CNN found that the same content that got Jones and Infowars booted from other platforms were still live on Twitter. The account of each Infowars and Alex Jones remained online and tweeting.


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World Series of Fighting is back next week with a one-night, eight-man tournament. WSOF President Ray Sefo will join us to preview the tourney and talk about what 2016 holds for the WSOF.
Finally, it's all about the ladies this weekend at UFC 193. Bas and Kenny will preview Ronda Rousey vs. Holly Holm.
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When I was growing up, the choice of cruelty-free skincare products for men was, to say the least, limited. How times have changed. Global sales of vegan-friendly skincare are up 38 per cent, with more and more companies adapting formulas to cater to vegan customers. The number of products aimed specifically at men is increasing, too – partly because, according to the Vegan Society, 37 per cent of vegans in the UK are now male.
Luckily, thanks to mainstream brands like Bulldog, extending your animal- friendly bona fides to the bathroom is a cinch but even if you're not vegan, it's still worth investigating what's on offer.
a Leaping Bunny or Vegan Society logo is all it takes.
Big Green Tree's VirtusTM Beard Balm, for example, swaps beeswax for olive wax, which is just as good at conditioning, and there are plenty of synthetic shaving brushes which offer great results and often last much longer as they're easier to clean and don't suffer from bristle loss.
More of a minefield is finding companies which don't test on animals where local laws demand it, though crueltyfreekitty.com has a great list of ones that pass the remit if you fancy checking up on your favourite brands.
According to a recent BUPA Health Clinics study, many men first explore a vegan lifestyle in midlife, especially once they hit milestone 40th or 50th birthdays. The mainstream press painted this as a "midlife crisis" and if that's the case, I'm all for it. As much as anything because going vegan is better than squeezing yourself into nut-cracking skinny jeans and careering down the street on a skateboard pretending you're 18.


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Marie Anna Habsburská (23. prosince 1634, Vídeň – 16. května 1696, Madrid) byla rakouskou arcivévodkyní z Habsburské dynastie, která se sňatkem stala královnou španělskou, neapolskou a sicilskou. Po smrti manžela, krále Filipa IV., vládla jako regentka (1665–1675) za jejich malého syna Karla II.

Původ
Arcivévodkyně Marie Anna byla nejstarší dcerou Ferdinanda III. a jeho první manželky Marie Anny, oba rodiče náleželi k vládnoucímu domu Habsburků – otec pocházel z rakouské větve a matka ze španělské. Ferdinand III. se narodil z prvního manželství císaře Ferdinanda II. s Marií Annou Bavorskou. Matka Marie Anna byla dcerou španělského krále Filipa III. a jeho manželky Markéty Rakouské.

Otec se v roce 1637 stal císařem Svaté říše římské a králem českým, uherským a chorvatským.

Druhorozená Marie Anna měla čtyři mladší sourozence a staršího bratra, následníka trůnu Ferdinanda. Z mladších sourozenců se dospělosti dožil pouze Leopold, který se po smrti svého staršího bratra Ferdinanda, stal císařem a králem v dědičných habsburských zemích jako Leopold I., jehož první ženou se stala Mariina nejstarší dcera Markéta Tereza.

Dalšími Mariinými přeživšími sourozenci, z otcových následujících manželství, byli biskup Karel I. Josef, polská královna Eleonora Marie Josefa a vévodkyně Marie Anna Josefa.

Život
8. listopadu 1649 byla provdána za svého strýce Filipa. Filip IV. byl bratrem Mariiny matky a jeho první manželka Izabela Bourbonská zemřela roku 1644 a po smrti následníka trůnu Baltazara Karla neměli Habsburkové mužského následníka španělského trůnu.

Marie Anna dala život hned třem synům, v roce 1657 Filipovi, o rok později Tomášovi, oba chlapci však již v útlém věku zemřeli. V roce 1661 se narodil třetí syn Karel, poslední španělský král z rodu Habsburků, za něhož Marie po manželově smrti v roce 1665 vládla. Malý Karel se stal novým panovníkem španělské říše, ke které patřila i Neapol, Milán, Sardinie, Sicílie, Filipíny a rozsáhlá území v Americe. Marie Anna se snažila sblížit španělské Habsburky s Habsburky rakouskými a narušit tak dosavadní křehké spojenectví Španělska s Francií. V opozici se tak ocitli přívrženci španělsko-francouzské koalice, v jejichž čele stál nemanželský syn zemřelého Filipa IV. a bratr dospívajícího Karla, don Juan José de Austria. Ten se dostal roku 1677 k moci, plně mladičkého Karla II. ovládl a Marii Annu vyhnal do Toleda. Roku 1679 ale don Juan José de Austria náhle zemřel a Karlova matka se znovu dostala k moci.

Karel byl dvakrát ženat, ale ani v jednom manželství nezplodil potomka a kvůli jeho dlouhodobě špatnému zdravotnímu stavu byla již za jeho života těžce řešena otázka nástupnictví. Karlova druhá manželka Marie Anna Falcko-Neuburská prosazovala svého synovce Karla Habsburského, zatímco Karlova matka bojovala za syna své vnučky, malého Josefa Ferdinanda Bavorského. Matka nakonec zvítězila a Karel II. podepsal roku 1696 závěť ve prospěch Josefa Ferdinanda. Toho roku však Marie Anna Habsburská zemřela a v následujícím roce byl Karel svou manželkou donucen napsat dopis císaři, v němž ho ujistil, že následníkem bude arcivévoda Karel Habsburský. Krátce před Karlovou smrtí však primas Luís Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero krále přesvědčil, aby sepsal závěť ve prospěch francouzského kandidáta Filipa z Anjou. Žádná ze stran se nechtěla vzdát svých nároků, po smrti Karlově (1. listopadu 1700) tak vypukla válka o španělské dědictví.

Děti
 1. Markéta Tereza (12. 7. 1651 Madrid – 12. 3. 1673 Vídeň)
 ⚭ 1666 Leopold I. (9. 6. 1640 Vídeň – 5. 5. 1705), císař Svaté říše římské v letech 1658–1705 a král český a uherský v letech 1657–1705
 2. Marie (7. 12. 1655 Madrid – 21. 12. 1655 tamtéž)
 3. Filip Prospéro (28. 11. 1657 Madrid – 1. 11. 1661 tamtéž), kníže z Asturie
 4. Tomáš Karel (23. 12. 1658 Madrid – 22. 10. 1659 tamtéž)
 5. Karel (6. 11. 1661 Madrid – 1. 11. 1700 tamtéž), jako Karel II. král španělský, neapolský a sicilský od roku 1665 až do své smrti
 I. ⚭ 1679 Marie Louisa Orleánská (27. 3. 1662 Paříž – 12. 2. 1689 Madrid), rodem orleánská vévodkyně
 II. ⚭ 1690 Marie Anna Falcko-Neuburská (28. 10. 1667 Düsseldorf – 16. 7. 1740 Guadalajara)

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Habsburkové v 17. století
Španělské královny
Sicilské královny
Neapolské královny
Milánské vévodkyně
Regentky
Španělští regenti
Královny matky
Narození v roce 1634
Narození 23. prosince
Narození ve Vídni
Úmrtí v roce 1696
Úmrtí 16. května
Úmrtí v Madridu
Pohřbení v Escorialu
Ženy


My work as a choreographer and dancer is influenced by several aspects of my life. I have practiced T'ai chi Ch'uan for more than 25 years and much of my practice takes place in nature. I draw inspiration from the connections between body in movement, the seasons and our surroundings.
I have worked with Craniosacral therapy for several years, a form of treatment that, through touch and attention, communicates with the central nervous system and makes available memories and understandings stored in the many layers of the body.
I am the mother of a boy with autism. He does not speak and is an astute observer of body language, a clear reader of intention and mood, full of physical expression and surprising dances.
As a choreographer I seek the origin of movement, connecting to our power and energy without wearing out the body. I trust that a body letting itself be moved will find a path both expressive and sustainable. When we go deeply into our physical landscape, we touch on a common history carried by our bodies.
The relationship between the personal and the universal.
Each person's life seen as a journey, a river, where change is the only constant.
The availability of stories, dreams and memories within our bodies that can be communicated through movement.
The exploration of how the outside landscape resonates within our inner universe.
I seek an organic and poetic language, one that expands the moment and makes the invisible tangible.
2018 Ephemera, a dance between seasons.
2018 Summoned Silhouette, 60seconds dance. The shadows of the house come together to dance with their human companion.
2014 Trade Winds, based on a collaboration project with installation artist Jos Hadfield, performed at Bracknell Gallery in 2006.
2013 This is where you live, 5 short films, following one tree and one dancer through five seasons. Made from Tree Dwelling.
2016 Performed The purpose determines the structure with Eric Williams at Seminarium in Sandnes.
2016 Performed Long forgotten path with Eric Williams and Kouame Sereba at Maidans Lørenskog.
2015 Performed The purpose determines the structure with Eric Williams as part of the festival; Sånafest.
2014 Participated in Vides deja, a Dance in Nature festival in Latvia, showing dance films and creating Bound to this rolling earth, a site-specific piece in collaboration with Eric Williams.
2014 Created and performed: The purpose determines the structure, a movement and paint collaboration with Eric Williams. Performed as part of the stunt initiated and organized by Loan PT Hoang at Olaf Ryes Plass, Oslo.
2013 Performed in the collaborative stunt performance ; How do you want to be remembered when you are gone? Initiated and organized by Loan PT Hoang at Scenehuset, and Hausmania, Oslo.
2013 Performed in Freedom, equality, fraternity or death by Helle Siljeholm and Sara Christophersen in Barents Spektakkel, Kirkenes..
2008 Danced in Grefsen Church, a collaboration project with live music, lighting designers and singer; Ruth W. Meyer.
2007 Danced in Vannvev a piece choreographed by Hege Gabrielsen as part of the Oslo outdoor festival; Elvelangs.
1993 Co-created and danced in the collaboration project Fem favner with 4 other choreographers and dancers, performed at Månefisken, Oslo.
1992 Performed in Vestfold festspillene in as part of a live concert.
1991 Performed in Søyler-et syndrom by Bibbi Winberg performed at Black Box Theatre.
1987 Choreographed Nothing Lasts for Philip Johnston's solo programe, toured in Norway.
1985 Performed in Fleur D'afrique by Elsa Quale, a collaboration with the "Centre for African culture" in Oslo.
1984-92 Worked as dancer and choreographer in Collage Dance Company, Norway. Danced in 22 works by choreographers; Lise Nordal, Sølvi Edvardsen, Inger Buresund, Jorma Uotinen, Georgio Rossi, Mark Vanreunxt. Toured in Scandinavia, Finland, Holland, Belgium and Italy. Choreographed 8 works for the company.
Has been teaching T'ai Chi for 20 years, including classes for actors and dancers. Has since 1999 received "Guaranteed income for artists" from the Norwegian government.


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