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Britannia's Shark
Britannia's Reach
Britannia's Wolf
99th Anniversary of Death of Admiral Sir Nicholas Dawlish
Sunday 23rd April 2017
The audacious amphibious raid on Zeebrugge on St. George's Day 1918 saw the death of Sir Nicholas Dawlish in a manner he would have found wholly appropriate. Click on the "Dawlish" bar above to learn more.
"Britannia's Eventide" - free-to-download short story set in 1914
Monday 10th April 2017
Click on yellow text above to find out how to get this short-story that details a critical turning point in the life of Nicholas Dawlish.
5th Dawlish Chronicles Novel published!
Saturday 5th November 2016
"Britannia's Amazon", the fifth book in the Dawlish Chronicles series, is now available in paperback and in Kindle versions!
Conflict - 20th Century
The articles below relate to naval and other history in the 20th century. They are arranged in chronological order and will be added to regularly. Suggestions for other articles will be welcome - see the "Contact" bar above.
Coast Defence Ships - Big Bangs in Small Packets 1870-1951
For some eighty years from 1870 small, slow, powerfully armed and heavily armoured "Coast Defence" ships represented the backbone of many small navies, and even found limited use in much larger ones.
Click here to learn more about this now largely-forgotten type of warship…
The Wit and Wisdom of Admiral "Jacky" Fisher
Few men can have had a greater influence on naval warfare than Admiral John Fisher (1841 – 1920). This human whirlwind was responsible for building HMS Dreadnought, thereby "making every other battleship afloat obsolete overnight" and for reorganising the Royal Navy in the years before World War 1. Fisher's "Memories" is a book that resembles no other. It's vastly entertaining and can be best described as an eccentric "brain-dump", with reminiscences, statements of opinion, proverbs, trivialities, aphorisms, obsessions and much else all mixed up in no particular order.
Click here to get a taste of this unique work.
The Imperial German Navy - sketches of shipboard life 1902
Some time ago I stumbled on German publication of 1902 entitled "Germany's Honour on the World's Oceans" (Deutschlands Ehr im Weltenmeer) by a Vice-Admiral von Werner. The sub-title is "The development of the German Navy and sketches of life on board." The illustrations, not less than the text, are fascinating ...
Click here to see these unique illustrations...
The Anglo-German blockade of Venezuela 1902-03
What links unpaid international debts, a Latin-American despot described by the US Secretary of State as "a crazy brute", the newly created Imperial German Navy's lust for glory and a 17th Century Spanish fortification? The true story, largely forgotten today, is an unlikely one but it was to have a serious impact on US foreign policy up to our own time.
Click here to read how the Imperial German Navy went into action in the Caribbean..
Collision of HMS Hannibal and HMS Prince George 1903
For some five decades from 1866 naval architects were to be fixated on designing ram bows into warships of all sizes. The ram, as a design feature, was to prove more dangerous to friends than to enemies and occasioned several major disasters. There was however one serious ramming in which disaster did not follow, as a result of prompt and efficient damage control. This instance, which involved two British Pre-Dreadnoughts, offers interesting insights into the efficiency of the Royal Navy at the start of the 20th Century.
Click here to read about this dramatic incident
Kaiser Wilhelm II at Gibraltar 1904
The dramatic climax of a one-sided love affair – Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, in the uniform of an Admiral of the Royal Navy, hoists his flag on a British battleship at Gibraltar in 1904 and is spectacularly feted.
Click here to read about this ironic occasion…
The Varyag at Chemulpo - a "last stand" in 1904 and a surprising afterlife
A Russian cruiser that made a heroic "last stand" against the Japanese in 1904 was to survive into a quite amazing afterlife and to end up, after service in three navies, on the Scottish coast.
Click here to read this story of heroism and an unlikely fate
Built to be unlucky? The French battleship Suffren
The splendidly-expressive Yiddish word "schlemiel" describes a person who is invariably unlucky and whose endeavours are doomed to failure – "so inept even inanimate objects pick on them". In reading naval history one is often struck by the fact that certain ships also have exactly the same characteristic. One such was the French pre-dreadnought battleship Suffren.
Click here to read about the career of this consistently unlucky ship
The Iéna and Liberté Disasters, 1907 and 1911
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries all major navies, other than the German, lost many large ships not by enemy action but through magazine explosions of unstable ammunition. The French navy was especially unlucky – with two of its largest losses occurring in peacetime at the naval base of Toulon. Scandals – known as "affairs" – were one of the great institutions of the French Third Republic that lasted from 1870 to 1940 and the disasters at Toulon were to trigger a choice specimen, known to as "l'Affaire des Poudres".
Click here to read more about these disasters
A British cruiser 2000 miles up the Amazon: HMS Pelorus 1909
The greed and excesses of the "Fitzcarraldo" rubber-boom era on the Amazon, slavery and exploitation of helpless indigenous people, and Britain's laureate of Empire – all linked by a Royal Navy cruiser some 2000 miles from the sea.
Click here to read of HMS Peolous's epic voyage to the Peruvian headwaters of the Amazon in 1909
China's Zhongshan Gunboat – a splendid restoration
Initially called the Yongfen, the Zhongshan was one of two gunboats ordered from the Mitsubishi yard at Nagasaki by the Chinese Imperial Government in 1910. She was to serve on China's coasts and rivers through a period of considerable political turmoil, and she was to be closely identified with the founder of the Chinese Republic, Sun Yat Sen, in honour of whom she was later renamed. She was sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1937 and lay at the bottom of the Yangtze River until raised in 1997, and beautifully restored thereafter,
Click here to read the Zhongshan's story.
A sea battle you've never heard of: Elli 1912
... and it was in a war that's been largely forgotten. But the clash of the Greek and Ottoman Turkish navies at the Battle of Elli in 1912, and the savagery of the two Balkan Wars of 1912-13, were to give a foretaste of what was going to happen on a much larger scale a year later. A notable aspect of the battle is that it mixed outdated relics of the ironclad age with ultra-modern vessels, some of which were to go on to play active roles in both World Wars.
Click here to read about this little-known but fascinating battle
August 1914: Germany's doomed naval nomads
As World War 1 commenced a disaster was looming for the Imperial German Navy which had all the inevitability of a Greek tragedy. This was made unavoidable by deployment of vessels outside German waters without adequate logistic and maintenance support. These ships and their crews were to face a very bleak future…
First Blood 1914: HMS Amphion and SMS Königin Luise
Within 48 hours of Britain and Germany going to war on 4th August 1914, one British ship and one German ship had been destroyed by each other. The high casualties involved brought home to both nations the stark reality of how murderous war at sea would prove in the conflict now embarked upon.
Click here to read of this tragic opening of naval hostilities
A Vulture's Odyssey Under Two Flags, 1914 – 1918
In the two decades prior to World War 1 the most active service seen by the Imperial German Navy was by small ships in far-flung corners of the globe where Germany, a latecomer to the scramble for colonies, was constructing an overseas empire. One such ship was SMS Geier – the German word for Vulture – and her fate was to be one unguessed of at the start of her career.
Click here to read about this small ship that had a very active career
1914: Belgium's Dogs of War
This article may seem an unusual one to find on a mainly-nautical oriented website but as a life-long dog lover I find it appropriate to honour Man's Best Friends for rising heroically to a challenge a century ago. This article was written in August 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the opening of World War 1.
Click here to read about these splendid animals
The Battle of Antivari - a heroic last stand 1914
On 16 August 1914, at the opening of World War 1, the French Navy, with British support, advanced up the Adriatic in force, hoping to provoke a pitched battle with the Austro-Hungarian Navy. They were confronted by a single obsolete cruiser, the captain of which was prepared to go down fighting against impossible odds…
Click here to read about this heroic last-stand
A liner turned hunter: Prinz Eitel Friedrich 1914-15
A hastily-converted German liner was to prove an efficient commerce raider which evaded capture with skill and determination for seven months in World War 1. She was to inflict significant loss on enemy shipping at little cost and was to have a valuable afterlife in the naval and civilian service of her erstwhile enemies.
The loss of the armoured cruisers HMS Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue 1914
The offensive potential of submarines was seriously underestimated by the Royal Navy at the start of World War 1. It took the loss of five cruisers in the North Sea in the first two and a half months of the war – three of them within two hours – to ram home just how deadly this threat was.A sigle German submarine, U-9, sank four out of the five.
Click here to read about the exploits of Germany's U-9
The Battle of Coronel, November 1st 1914
The battle fought between British and German squadrons in stormy seas and fading light off the coast of Chile in November 1914 was to be the Royal Navy's first defeat at sea for a century. It resulted in the loss of over 1600 men and the circumstances that brought it about were dramatic in the extreme.
Click here to read about this brutal encounter
The loss of the Russian cruiser Pallada, October 1914
The armoured cruiser Pallada was torpedoed on 11th October 1914, thereby becoming the first Russian warship to be lost in World War1. Her short service life was however to have a massive impact on Britain's prosecution of the war at sea.
Click here to read about the Pallada and the consequences of her loss
Penang and the German Navy in Two World Wars
The port of Penang, off Malaya's west coast, was to be the unlikely scene of a very one-sided battle in 1914 in which a light cruiser of the Imperial German Navy was to take on a Russian counterpart. But that was not the end of Germany's involvement with this South-East Asian Port, for three decades later its navy was to back in force – this time in alliance with the Japanese.
Christmas Day 1914: The Cuxhaven Raid
The Royal Navy was already experimenting with aircraft carriers – albeit not in the configuration they are known in today – in the first months of World War 1. On Christmas Day 1914 three carriers were to launch aircraft against Zeppelin sheds at the German base of Cuxhaven. This was to be the first occasion in history of sea-borne aircraft attacking a land target.
Click here to read about this innovative and daring raid
1914: A cavalry warfare on the Eastern Front
I came across 1914/15 copies of a German illustrated magazine, detailing the progress of the war. They were published in parts soon after the events themselves. A notable aspect is the prominence given to cavalry operations and it is striking that in the illustrations (Many shown in the blog) the antiquated uniforms still in use many could easily be taken as referring to the Napoleonic or 1870 period ...
Click here to see these surprising illustrations.
One Submarine, Two Flags and Two Heroes
In December 1914 however, in one of the most daring exploits of the war, a dashing French Lieutenant with the unlikely name of Gabriel O'Byrne took his submarine, the Curie, into the heart of the Austro-Hungarian naval base at Pola. What was to follow was not only dramatic – and tragic – but was to be the prelude to a new career for the Curie under new management. She was to be commanded by one of the war's most notable U-Boat aces who to have an even more unlikely career still ahead of him.
Click here to read the remarkable story of the Curie/U-14
The Loss of HMS Viknor 13th January 1915
Few naval ships in the modern era have disappeared without trace with all hands. One such was however to be HMS Viknor, a converted passenger line used as an auxiliary cruiser. She was lost on or about January 13th 1915, at the cost of 291 lives.
Click here to read about this forgotten tragedy
The Sinking of HMS Goliath 13th May 1915
The world's battleships were made obsolete overnight in 1905 when the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought entered service. Henceforth these dinosaurs were to be known as "pre-dreadnoughts" and many of them were allocated to the ill-starred Gallipoli operation in 1915. There, they, and their crews, were to pay a high price. One such was HMS Goliath…
Click here to read about a brilliant attack and an appalling tragedy
The Painting Cannot Lie? The Sinking of the Linda Blanche, 30th January 1915
January 30th 2015 marked the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the humble 530 ton coaster Linda Blanche in the Irish Sea. Among the hundreds of merchant ships sunk by U-boat in the course of World War 1, there would seem to be nothing remarkable about this humble coastal trader but German propaganda was to transform the incident to show it on a heroic scale.
Why the lie?
Click here to read about the issues of image, reality and depections of heroism
Trawlers at War in the North Sea, May-June 1915
Accounts of the U-Boat war in 1914-18 tend often concentrate on the largest, and most spectacular, victims. The Imperial German Navy's U-boat arm also had a much humbler target in focus, Britain's North Sea fishing fleet. It was to suffer very heavy losses – as many as eleven trawlers in one day in May 1915. But the trawlers were not to go quietly and they were to fight back…
Click here to read of one such action…
Massacre at Sea: the Royal Edward and the UB-14, 1915
In both World Wars the greatest danger many troops faced, especially if they were in support or non-frontline roles, may well have been that of sinking of their transports. One such disaster occurred in August 1915. The enemy vessel responsible was small, underpowered and slightly armed but this was not on this occasion when she was she to wreak destruction wholly disproportionate to her size…
Click here to read about this forgotten disaster and the U-Boat responsible
The Loss of Hospital Ship Anglia, November 1915
All shipwrecks are terrible but an extra degree of horror is involved when the vessel in question is a hospital ship. The 100th anniversary of the sinking of one such ship, the HMHS Anglia, fell on 17th November 2015. Its loss is an inspiring story of tragedy and heroism by nurses and other medical staff, wounded men and ship's crews. The article includes some dramatic photographs taken at the scene and the story has a bizarre postscript.
The Loss of HMS Argyll and the Bell Rock Lighthouse, 1915
What links a medieval legend, a 19th Century poem, an epic of offshore engineering & the wreck of a British armoured cruiser in 1915?
The Two Tragedies of the SS Orteric 1911 & 1915
In December 1915 of the 6,535-ton cargo and passenger liner SS Orteric was torpedoed in the Eastern Mediterranean. Two seamen lost their lives – a tragedy for their direct families, but small by comparison with a much more dreadful and avoidable peacetime tragedy – if not to say scandal – in which the Orteric had been involved shortly after entering service four years previously. The victims were mainly children of poverty-stricken Portuguese and Spanish emigrants to Hawaii and the story still has the power to outrage.
Tragedies of the Christmas to New Year period at sea - 1915
For all that it should have been a season of goodwill, the Christmas to New Year period of 1915, from December 24th to 31st, saw horrific losses at sea that are today largely forgotten except by descendants of the victims.
Click here to read of the two largest of these tragedies.
The Convergence of the Twain: English Channel, June 1916
I have always admired – and been somewhat disturbed by – Thomas Hardy's poem "The Convergence of the Twain" in which he meditated on how the Titanic and the iceberg that was to sink her were brought separately into existence and how they met for one decisive moment only. I came to remember it very forcibly when I read of the collision in 1916 of a huge liner and a tiny destroyer, one designed for luxury, the other with crew accommodation so Spartan that they were compensated for it. This is the story of the SS France and the destroyer HMS Eden.
Click here to read of this incident
World War 1 in the North Sea: Sailing Craft versus the U-Boats
Though the "Age of Fighting Sail" ended around 1840 as regards major warships, small sailing craft were to play a very important role in World War 1 in Britain's battle against Germany's U-Boats. And some of the sailing craft were very small indeed and operating them demanded courage of the highest order…
Click here to read about these unlikely but very efficient warships…
French liners in WW1 – slaughter in the Mediterranean 1916
October 4th 2016 was the one-hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the SS Gallia, one of the worst maritime disasters of the First World War. What made it even more terrible was that this was one of four similar tragedies, each involving troopships, each involving appallingly heavy loss of life. It also underlines the fact that the closed waters of the Mediterranean became a happy hunting-ground for German and Austro-Hungarian U-boats in those years.
Click here to read of these forgotten disasters
The Salvage of UC-5, an epic of WW1
A German minelayer submarine that had a remarkable record of success against Allied shipping was stranded on a North-Sea sandbank in 1916. What was to follow was a 27-day British triumph of open-water salvage in a war zone, one which was made all the more nerve-racking by unexploded mines unreachable beneath the hull. And this was only the beginning of the strange odyssey that brought UC-5 to New York's Central Park.
Click here to read about this epic of salvage
The Mutiny on De Zeven Provincien - and its dramatic ending 1933
Though this event lies outside the period of the Dawlish Chronicles, it merits coverage here since it is little known of outside the Netherlands and because its significance goes far beyond its immediate circumstances. The mutiny was to be terminated in a most unexpected way, by the aggressive deployment of air power at sea for the first time since the Great War..
Click here to read about this dramatic episode...
Vintage Paddle Steamers on Germany's River Elbe - Today!
Holidays in Germany were very popular in Dawlish's lifetime and paddle steamers such as he might have travelled on still ply the beautiful River Elbe. Click below to see photographs of these ships and of a very surprising encounter on one by a Victorian officer only slightly Dawlish's senior...
Click here to see these wonderfully preserved steamers...


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Remembering Good Friends
The wagon full of dolls bumped behind me as I walked to my best friend, Susan's, house to spend the afternoon. Every day we could, we spent together.
The first time my daughter got a cold, I didn't know what to do. I called my friend, Jule, drove over with cold medicine and a measuring spoon. She stayed with me until Kim quit fussing and fell asleep.
I walked into my classroom and found it filled with blue and yellow balloons and streamers. A huge sign announced UCLA national basketball champions. My friend, Denise, got to school early to decorate my room and help me celebrate my team's victory.
Sitting across from me, my friend Cristina, grabbed my hands and prayed with me, her words a balm on my troubled heart.
Unsure how to proceed, I called my friend, Sylvia. She became a sounding board, helping me think and apply God's Word to a difficult situation.
I could fill page after page of stories about all of the times friends enriched my life. Friendship is one of the greatest gifts God blesses us with. Friends come in all shapes and sizes. No two look or act the same. Each plays a different role but without friends, life loses some of its flavor and joy. Friends refresh our soul.
Ways Our Friends Refresh Our Soul
- Laugh with us. We can enjoy life more when we celebrate together.
- Cry with us. They walk through the valleys, holding us up so we don't feel so lost or alone.
- Listen to us. They pay attention when we struggle and offer wisdom, sharing their own life stories to encourage and help point the way so we can persevere.
- Comfort us in times of pain and suffering. Friends know just what we need and offer a listening ear, a shoulder to cry on, a meal, words of encouragement.
- Pray for us and with us.
A Prayer for Our Friends
Paul, in his letter to the church in Ephesus, lifted his friends in prayer. I pray his prayer for each of my friends:
I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. (Ephesians 1: 16-19).
Who are you thankful for today? As you #chooseathankfulheart, which friends refresh your soul? I would love you to share their name and something about that friend for which you are thankful. And I will join you in lifting them in prayer.
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It's been a while since my last post! I've been REALLY busy getting an exciting nonprofit venture off the ground. This is a social enterprise called Project Feast that provides training and opportunities to refugees and immigrants in the food industry. It shouldn't be surprising that this startup too is all about food!
We've been very focused so far on working with Burmese cooks. This is a cuisine that Veena's Market customers are bound to love. Much like India, Burma has a lot of diversity in religion, ethnicity, and food. The Seattle area has become home for many people from the various communities of Burma with a lot of diversity in religion, language and cuisine. While the Burmese cuisine is influenced by that of its neighbors – India, China and Thailand – its flavors are unique, fresh and delicious.
I get many requests for cooking classes. I wanted to share a unique opportunity with Seattle area readers of this blog. Project Feast is offering a unique cooking class in partnership with Crooked Trails on March 16th. Come taste the flavors of Burma at a hands-on cooking class.
Our class will be taught by Annie P from the Karen community of Burma through a translator. We will be featuring a family style menu reminiscent of how most Burmese, and how Annie's family eat at home. There will be a mix of hot and cold, spicy and mild, dishes served with rice. We will make a flavorful curried chicken dish, a mix and match salad bar, rice, along with fresh herbs and raw vegetables on the side. In addition, we'll have sweet treats to munch on while cooking.
We will be doing a wine tasting with Masquerade Wines before we get started cooking. 10% of wine sales will benefit Crooked Trails.
Venue: Private residence in Magnolia (address will be sent upon payment)


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So apparently island life isn't all white sand, warm water, a balmy breeze to keep one cool, and a margarita at hand to keep one cooler.
I don't remember how I came across it, but I was reading a Discovery article about Amelia Earhart. It seems there's some evidence that she and her flying partner were stranded, and died, on the island of Nikumaroro. Parts of a female skeleton were discovered as well as some artifacts consistent with what would have been with them. The article goes on to say that the rest of the bones were most likely carried off by Coconut Crabs and that, most likely, their giant pincers took care of reducing them to skeletons in the first place. Yuk! So I Googled 'Coconut Crabs' and, (insert whatever expletives you like here - I wish I was the swearing type because the 'Queen's English' just isn't adequate sometimes), I actually recoiled and pushed the chair back from my desk.
And I thought it was just tarantulas and big cockroaches that were the one drawback of island life.
Apparently, they don't harm humans (yeah right) but use their giant pincers to crack open coconuts.
I wanted to shake up my life and go sailing (or learn on the job, so-to-speak) so headed to Florida to crew on a catamaran. This is about how it went or, rather, didn't - and my life since. Hopefully it will lead to a catamaran on the clear aqua blue waters of the Caribbean Sea, watching the sunset, a coconut rum and coke in hand. You must START AT THE BEGINNING of the blog, April 2009, to get the whole story...
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The Akiba Yavneh Academy project called for ANDRES to construct an entire campus, consisting of seven buildings totaling 113,000 square feet on 8.5 acres.
Akiba Yavneh Academy was established in 1993 and since then has maintained a prominent and distinguished role in the Dallas Jewish community. Yavneh has built up their reputation over time as a well-respected campus that provides children with the opportunity to not only develop individually but to build successful and bright futures for themselves.
Client: Akiba/Yavneh Academy
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Mozgov Makes Pistons Obey
: Written by Mike Kurylo : 01-31-2011 : 85 Comments
The Knicks trounced the Pistons last night 124-106, and undoubtedly the story of the night was Mozgov's outburst. Due to Shawne Williams' suspension and Wilson Chandler's injury, Mike D'Antoni looked further down his bench for production. Timofev Mozgov ended the night with 23 points on 15 shots and grabbed a team high 14 rebounds. Uncharacteristically, he had only 4 fouls and 2 turnovers in nearly 40 minutes. However I'm dubious that Mozgov's line shows marked improvement. The Russian made a handful of mistakes. Here are some of my notes on the game with regards to Mozgov: Looks tentative on the …continue reading


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Allow me to show you!!!
The way which I adore you!!!
Sometimes I think I must
Just let you be a horse
All I want is to be a rider
To be part of you
Afraid so afraid
To lose you
If someone looks at you
Turn into donkey
Pretend you are lame
Equus by nature
Timid creature
Ready to run away
Equus by nature
Timid creature
Cares nothing
For the plans they made
I will hide you
Will protect you
Won't let anyone
Take you away


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In any walk of life, probably, but certainly in photography, we find that people boil tasks down to a recipe whenever possible.
This leads to a syndrome in which a certain recipe is presented as the one true way to accomplish some goal. Lighting, post-processing, and so on, are subject to this. You have to use a such and such device, and put it here. You have to use a something or other layer. The photography industry exacerbates this by providing for every problem an object you can buy that is intended to solve that problem. People who purchase that object now have the recipe for solving that problem, and will cheerfully tell all comers that the way, the one true way, to solve that problem is with that widget. Buy it now!
There are two problems with this.
In the first place sometimes people aren't even really looking for the solution to a very specific problem. They just want some ideas for a similar effect, sometimes achievable with what they have on hand. They don't want to get to Bangor, they just want to know what are some interesting places they can go to in Maine on this bicycle they already own. Your specific instructions, involving buying a certain model of Mercedes-Benz automobile and a GPS, for getting to Bangor, are not very helpful.
In the second place, there is often a plethora of ways to solve the specific problem at hand. Even if I do actually want to get to Bangor, I probably don't need your Mercedes-Benz. A bus might get me there, too. Or it might get me to a place that's enough like Bangor not to matter.
There is more than one way to skin a cat. And, sometimes, people don't even want to skin the cat at all.


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125th Anniversary
'Burning Belief' By Anthony Clark A.R.C.A
27 February - 1 May
'Burning Belief' featured over 50 paintings, drawings and etchings by the renowned artist Anthony Clark. He has been holding both one-man shows and mixed exhibitions for the last forty years and his work is represented in numerous public and private collections including those of President Carter, Cardinal Hume and L.S. Lowry.
Anthony Clark works primarily in watercolour, integrating gouache and acrylic to achieve brilliant effects. The exhibition focused on work inspired by cathedrals in France and Italy. Every year he spends time in St Remy, in the 'footsteps of Van Gogh'.
In his travels he has produced work inspired by Spain, Malta, Crete, Morocco, Sri Lanka and Turkey.
Clark focuses on atmosphere, capturing 'belief' whilst juxtaposing this with a strong sense of space to create astonishing paintings. He says 'the free washes of colour and the tighter forms of the drawing produce tension that creates denser, more icon-like imagery'.
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Ten Commission staff work out of the central office in Watertown. Four full-time "circuit riders" and four part-time "associate circuit riders" work out of their homes throughout the region, under the direction of local councils of governments.
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Excellent bright-room picture contrast. 1080p component video input. No lag with console gaming input.
Image overscan with component video input. Coarse picture controls. Lacks backlight adjustment. Jaggies in both SD and HD video. Smearing apparent in HD video.
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A very bright picture makes this 47-inch LCD HDTV stand out on the crowded shelves at the electronics superstore, but the unit struggles with color and overall picture quality.
An HDTV's default picture settings almost never have anything to do with accurate and faithful image reproduction and typically have everything to do with grabbing a shopper's attention among the crowded shelves of an electronics superstore. Those default picture presets are useful for providing the brightest picture possible when room lighting is uncontrollable, but critical HDTV viewing in a darkened environment, where the eye is most sensitive, requires a custom configuration or a picture preset that delivers an image closest to what the director envisioned in the edit room. The 47-inch ViewSonic N4785p ($1,999 list) is a 1080p LCD HDTV that offers an uncontrollably bright picture and few ways to improve upon its unrealistic and often disappointing image quality.
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A relatively thin (1.75 inches) glossy black bezel surrounds the N4785p's anti-reflective screen. A fixed speaker bar along the set's bottom edge incorporates the two 15-watt stereo speakers, which deliver adequate response without any obvious distortions. The TV measures 32.6 by 44.8 by 11.6 inches (HWD) and weighs 75.8 pounds with its stand attached. Removing the stand reduces the panel height and depth to 30.4 and 4.9 inches, respectively.
The remote control is a basic baton-style design that lacks snappy response, but its occasional sluggishness wasn't a cause of any major frustrations. A natural grip landed my thumb on the volume and channel controls with the menu navigation controls located immediately beneath.
The primary selection of audio/video ports is located on the back of the set facing downward along the lower edge. HD-compatible ports on this panel include two HDMI and two component video inputs. A third HDMI port is front accessible on the left-hand side of the TV's frame. An RF input is available for TV/DTV tuning, and there's a VGA port for dedicated PC input.
As with many 1080p HDTVs, the N4785p's HDMI ports are compatible with 1080p60 (60-Hz) video signals; they also support 1080p24 (24-Hz) input from capable Blu-ray disc players. For devices such as the Xbox 360, which can output 1080p60 via component video, the set's component video ports are 1080p60-compatible as well. Oddly, the VGA port is compatible with PC resolutions up to 1,680 by 1,050 pixelsa 16:10 aspect ratio mapped (inaccurately) onto a 16:9 aspect ratio screen.
Overscanning occurs when an HDTV stretches the video picture beyond the edges of its screen, reducing detail and softening the overall picture. Testing the set's component video input, I measured 5 percent overscan with standard and high-definition sources. The HDMI input reduced overscan to about 2 percentan acceptable amount.
Perusing the TV's picture settings menu, I was disappointed by the lack of a backlight control, which is an ideal means of optimizing the overall brightness level of the picture for a given room's lighting conditions. All of the N4785p's picture presets produced a picture that's too bright for optimal dark-room viewing. Furthermore, the set provides no advanced picture-processing features such as video noise reduction or diagonal edge filteringgrainy movies looked too noisy, and curved or angled edges appeared jaggy. Also, the picture controls themselves exhibited a coarse granularity that made fine, precise adjustments impossible.
Color and luminance measurements revealed that none of the TV's picture presets could deliver a reasonably accurate HD video response. All of them exhibited a bluish grayscale (high-color temperature) that requires factory tweaks to the TV's color decoder to prevent flesh tones from appearing unnaturally cold and lifeless. A DIY calibrator determined that properly adjusting color and tint controls produces reds that appear purplish and yellows that exhibit too much red. Use of a color analyzer and the N4785p's custom (albeit basic) white balance control yielded a relatively flat and optimized response. But the shifted primary and secondary colors persisted, and, in the end, I found the default picture settings to be the least offensive option.
The lack of a backlight control effectively limited my screen contrast evaluation to performance in a bright room environmenta less challenging scenario, since LCDs are, as a rule, very bright. Using a 9-point sample, the N4785p's average contrast calculation was 1,775:1a new record among LCD HDTVs. This impressive-looking result is due primarily to the high light output (427 Cd/m2), and black-level measurement in this situation was also a relatively low (good) at 0.25 Cd/m2. For comparison, the slightly larger Westinghouse TX-52F480S had a similar black-level response, but its peak white measurement was 245 Cd/m2plenty bright, but still significantly less so than the N4785p. The set's dark screen uniformity was worse than that of most LCD TVs I've seen: Glare was visible in the corners of the screen as well as along the top edge. This artifact is all but imperceptible, however, or when the TV was displaying full-screen video or when the surroundings were well lit environment.
The N4785p's ability to make standard-definition video look decent on its HD screen was mediocre. The HQV Benchmark DVD's video deinterlacing tests, including the classic waving-flag scene, were chock-full of jagged-edge artifacts, and the TV's lack of effective video noise reduction left these artifacts untouched. My classic DVD video tests mirrored the HQV results.
Switching to HD video sources, the N4785p exhibited significant smearing with a challenging 1080i clip of a commercial aircraft rolling along a runway. Most of the passenger windows along the side of the plane were smeared into a solid line, and the trailing edges of the aircraft were also smeared. The jagged edges on the SD tests were apparent with 1080i material as well: Darth Vader's helmet, along with the arms of many droids in the HD broadcast of Star Wars: Episode IIIRevenge of the Sith, exhibited obvious jaggies. The N4785p's depiction of fine color gradients rarely introduced any signs of banding, but the TV did exaggerate even minor amounts of banding that were already present in the encoded HD video: The analyst's red leather chair in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a particularly heinous example. Also, in the HD version of 300, scenes containing lots of shadow detail were prone to excessive dithering and banding-like noise artifacts.
Considering the set's limited arsenal of processing features, I wasn't too surprised to find that the N4785p exhibited no sign of lag between the input on a gaming console's controller and its on-screen response. Also, since console games are a rather clean source of video (no grain or other noise artifacts) and color accuracy isn't as critical, the N4785p performed well in this role.
The N4785p's monthly power consumption cost calculation was $7.68, based on 8 hours of daily operation at $0.13 per kilowatt-hour (a local average). This is a relatively efficient result for a 47-inch LCD HDTV. By contrast, the LG 47LBX configured for maximum light output (similar to the N4785p's configuration), produced a monthly cost calculation of $9.33.
The ViewSonic N4785p is like an eye-grabbing electric sign that, due to its poor color and detail representation, is unsuitable for any form of critical video viewing. Also, considering its street price of about $1,500, the set isn't a great value compared with similar-size name-brand 1080p sets. If all you need is a bright HDTV for playing video games, the N4785p is worth considering. But if you appreciate an HDTV whose picture comes close to the director's vision, better picture quality can be had elsewhere for less.
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An overall failure towards Syria?
The admission that the much-trumpeted program of vetting and training "moderate" militias that were to battle both Assad and Da'esh (ISIS) has actually achieved nothing could be the last straw leading to a new strategic thinking towards the war-torn country. After more than four years of intense fighting that have ravaged one of the few countries in the Middle East that had managed to stay out of actual wars for many decades, there are very few signs that speak highly of Western policies and programs.
All of the main actors in the country seem to be not palatable to Western governments: the hollow shell of the former Syrian state retains control over diminishing key areas, while keeping operative a campaign of bombing civilians with unlawful weapons, and the Islamist militias that were cheered on at the beginning of the conflict have turned out to be a nightmare for many Syrians. Finally, the Kurdish forces that have enacted a self-defense policy based on ethnic solidarity are now being heavily hit by our Turkish ally, in a deafening silence, even in Iraqi Kurdistan. It is not the best time for being a Syrian, and the flood of people escaping the country and bordering Iraq is a clear sign of that.
Whereas the European strategy has long been to pretend that the matter does not simply exist, European governments have seemed to be shocked to discover that such policy carried sour consequences for them, as a stream of people came to knock on their doors, fleeing the chaos they refused to defuse, leaving the job to others. It turns out that inaction carries consequences in the same ways that action does.
It is not surprising that a panicking European Union turns once again to its majority partner for fixing the mess, and thus that the announcement that some negotiations with Iran and Russia could be possible for settling pending issues politically has been announced by Kerry while visiting his British counterpart.
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After the US military had to admit the size of the sheer failure of its vetting and training program, the spotlight is being once again set on the Secretary of State. Something similar happened with its Iranian counterpart, Foreign Minister Zarif. After the Islamic Republicâs elites have seemingly agreed that the inflammatory rhetoric is ill serving the countryâs interests abroad, star general of the external action Quds forces and his belligerent declarations are being subtly taken out from the media. This has given room to moderate Zarif, which has been capitalizing on the nuclear deal for sending signals of possible engagement on Syria. He has recently announced in an op-ed on a Lebanese newspaper that Iran is ready to engage with everyone who would listen in order to find a political resolution.
US negotiator have been extremely careful never to link expressly the nuclear negotiation with a broader settlement with Iran in the region. That would have been a red line for many of US allies, thus unnecessarily burdening an already complex process. Additionally, it was felt that stressing the possibility of including Iran in regional settlements would have bolstered the Iranian side for winning more concessions. As the matter appears now to be settled, and with the worsening of a humanitarian crisis that it is pressuring unwilling European allies into relaxing their border rules, even the most suspicious actors seem to have concluded that integrated diplomacy is the only way forward. "We need to get to the negotiation. That is what we're looking for and we hope Russia and Iran, and any other countries with influence, will help to bring about  that, because that's what is preventing this crisis from ending," declared Kerry at his meeting with Hammond.
Kerry has gained a personal weight in negotiating with Iran, thanks to the success of the nuclear accord in Lausanne, and could exploit such trust capital for reaching out to them. It rests to be seen if the Saudis and Turkey could let the process materialize, as all stakeholders are needed in the process for it to be meaningful.
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The European Union seem to be great absentee from this picture. As a bickering mélange unable to project serious policy abroad, it is showing once again the structural weakness of its Common Foreign and Security Policy. If the nuclear negotiations have shown that when member states donât consider a matter critical to them, they can actually agree to a common foreign policy that it is actually successful, the narrow interests of particular politicians and resistance to open the fortress built up in Europe have brought its foreign policy capacity to a grinding halt. That is both a great missed opportunity for becoming less junior in our relationship with the US concerning Middle East policy and a clear sign the foreign policy in Europe needs a major structural overhaul.
Rocked by unnecessary political crises and absurd showdowns at its frontiers, the European Union is demonstrating to be unable to help negotiate peace in Syria through a comprehensive approach, yet it laments that those fleeing the country have no business coming here.
Once again, its interests will be served only when and if other actors will choose to reach a conclusion. The Obama and Rouhani administrations seem to be gravitating towards it, and Russia could be a positive enabler if everybody could be ready to really concede something, as they did for the nuclear issue. It seems still a bit premature and fraught with huge risks, but it is nevertheless a trend worth noticing.
However, such grand negotiations for Syria can only happen when the major Sunni stakeholders in the region agree (or are made to agree) that Daâesh is a greater threat to them than any Iranian scheme or plot against them. The next months are going to be both dramatic and interesting on this regard.
This article has been published in Italian here
**Giuseppe Provenzano has an MA in International Relations of Asia and Africa and is currently an MA student of the School of Government at LUISS University. He is an expert in MENA affairs and "Shia Crescent" issues. Additionally, he manages a news page on Facebook, named Focus MiddleEast
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I'm really trying to post something here everyday, even if it's a small collection of photos. It looks like I lost most of my regular visitors during my November hiatus when I was actually out doing new and different things instead of sitting behind a computer. Ah, well...
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I know that when I started blogging, George Nemeth said that I would need to do it consistently or it would not be effective. Well, you cannot imagine how hard it has been not to have this blogging site. In fact, those of you who read www.brewedfreshdaily.com are probably well aware of my frustration because I have been commenting frequently and often on anything and everything. I actually was quite surprised at how I missed being able to post thoughts online.
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New Life-Saving Malaria Vaccine in the Works
Oct 29, 2013
London Evening Standard
Development for a new, heat-resistant malaria vaccine has begun. A partnership beteen GlaxoSmithKline adnd the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation worth $1.8 million is aimed at developing a malaria drug that does not require refrigeration.
There are roughly 660,000 malaria deaths a year--many victims are children in Sub-Saharan Africa where many are without access to vaccinations. A major issue in these areas is the heat, as many drugs are not heat-stable. Companies are now striving to break the "cold chain" to provide necessary vaccines across the world.


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- 1 tsp olive or coconut oil
- 3 green onions trimmed and cut into 1-inch slices
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 6 oz shiitake mushrooms tip of foot removed and sliced thinly
- 2 carrots scrubbed and cut thinly on the angle
- 1 red bell pepper seeded, cored, and cut into bite-sized strips
- 3 bunches baby bok choy cut into thin strips
- 3 TB wheat-free tamari sauce gluten-free soy sauce
- 1 TB rice vinegar
- Freshly grated ginger optional
- Red pepper flakes optional
- In a large skillet, heat oil and add onion. Sauté for a few minutes, and then add shiitake mushrooms, carrots and bell pepper. Stir-fry for 4-5 minutes, adding water to the pan by the tablespoon if the veggies start to stick.
- Next, add bok choy, garlic, tamari sauce and rice wine vinegar. Grate ginger over top if using. Toss to combine and continue tossing until bok choy has wilted and Turn off heat, sprinkle red pepper flakes over the veggies and serve over brown rice.
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Call for a Global Convention on Ethical AI
UNI Global Union calls for a global convention for ethical AI
The ethics of big data, of machine learning and artificial intelligence need to be discussed in a coordinated global consortium. To be legitimate and representative, the consortium should consist of academics, businesses, trade unions, consumers, governments and civil society organisations that together will create the global standards for the ethical use, development and deployment of artificial intelligence, algorithms and big data.
Isolated, disconnected initiatives, bold as they are, will not guarantee that AI and big data will put the interests of people and planet first.
Breaking the power of the Big 6
Furthermore, data, big data and the artificial intelligence and machine learning that comes out of that should be made a 'commons' , i.e. available for every citizen, organisation, business and government to tap in to, use and learn from. Currently, it's the Big Six (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and IBM) that predominantly own the data produced putting them into an untouchable class with undue political, scientific and economic monopoly and power.


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Burn ban removed in St. Joe County
Posted: Jul 25, 2012 10:09 AM EST | Updated: Nov 6, 2014 4:35 AM EST
ST. JOE COUNTY, Ind. -- Burn bans are over in several parts of Michiana, that includes St. Joseph County.
The ban has been in effect for about two months, but that doesn't mean just anyone can burn trash.
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I've extended the Optiboot bootloader to add support for interfacing to the bootloader over TCP/IP as well as through the serial port.
Result : Now the optiboot bootloader support W5100.
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The Racial Wealth Accumulation Gap and Why ACLU is Suing Morgan Stanley for Racial Discrimination
This month, the Urban Institute joined an emerging consensus of researchers and social scientists with a new report revealing, in the starkest terms, our nation's vast and widening racial gap in wealth creation. With this report, Less than Equal: Racial Disparities in Wealth Accumulation, the Urban Institute joins a growing body of research showing that in America today, wealth is not colorblind and that during the recession this gap has widened.
Sixty years after the social and legislative achievements of the Civil Rights movement, the amount of wealth the average American acquires remains powerfully influenced by the color of his or her skin. These inequalities set in early and perpetuate themselves over time. Families with little wealth to begin with have less to pass to their children though inheritance, college funding, or a down payment on a house. This creates a vicious cycle, as those children themselves enter adulthood without a starting boost to wealth accumulation of their own.
Measured across the economic cycle, wealth accumulation trends present a similarly disturbing picture: When times are good, whites do comparatively better than blacks and Latinos, and when times are bad whites feel the pain less. Most recently, while the housing collapse and Great Recession injured Americans of all stripes, Latino and black families saw the loss of 40 and 31 percent of their wealth, respectively, while white families escaped with an average wealth loss of only 11 percent. In a society largely premised on the colorblind ideal, our booms and busts remain anything but.
More than any other single factor, the racial wealth gap is driven by access to fair housing and homeownership. Generations of both official and de facto residential segregation have frozen non-white borrowers out of the home lending market, and thus out of the primary mechanism for wealth accumulation in America. Where mainstream lenders refused to go, predatory subprime lenders rushed in. Responding to Wall Street's requirements for increased volume and worse terms, subprime lenders targeted black and Latino communities for loans of the most toxic and predatory variety. Even controlling for income, employment, and education, black and Latino borrowers were far more likely than whites to receive subprime loans with destructive features. As a result, they were far more likely to lose their homes to foreclosure, and, because homeownership represents a comparatively greater share of black and Hispanic families' wealth, to feel that loss more deeply.
The landmark legislative achievements of the civil rights movement, Fair Housing Act, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, and others, represent our nation's determination to consign a racialized hierarchy of wealth and privilege to the past. As wrong doing by banks and lenders become ever more apparent, these same anti-discrimination laws are providing a vehicle for victims of the racial rescission to fight back.
One key battle is being fought in Detroit, in Adkins v. Morgan Stanley, where five African-American current and former homeowners have taken Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley to court for its role in foisting bad loans on black neighborhoods. Like African-American borrowers across the city, these five individuals received loans whose terms were worse in almost every possible way than those offered to similarly situated white borrowers. Although civil rights law clearly prohibits behavior of this kind, Morgan Stanley's myopic pursuit of profit led it to ram ever more toxic loans into minority communities, heedless of the costs. And those costs could not be more plain: Detroit neighborhoods transformed into ghost towns by mass-foreclosure, with the loss of decades of accumulated wealth by those least able to spare it. We at the ACLU, along with the National Consumer Law Center, and the law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, are proud of our role as counsel to these five brave individuals.
But while it's too late to prevent the last housing collapse, it is not too late to prevent the next one—or to hold civil rights violators accountable for their acts. Closing the racial wealth accumulation gap—the existence of which is so persuasively demonstrated by the Urban Institute and others—means ensuring access to housing and the housing market without discrimination of any kind. Indeed, our nation's civil rights laws exist for exactly this reason. By courageously taking this fight to Morgan Stanley, one of the world's most powerful financial institutions, the five Detroit plaintiffs are showing that no one enjoys impunity from the law. They also show that the core legislative achievements of the Civil Rights movement remain vital tools for ensuring social and economic justice for all Americans.
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It is every home buyers choice as to whether or not they sign the mortgage papers agreeing to the terms. If the terms are to stiff, wait, save more for the down payment, then start to house hunt. People agreed to bad terms and high rates just to get a home they knew they could not afford if the market shifted. Bank greed and people overextending themselves by living above their means is as much to blame for the housing collapse as anyone else.
Stop buying what your income won't cover, budget for your needs according to your income, not your wants, and you will find the wants take care of themselves. Individual greed as well as bankers greed created this mess.
People today are not happy pursuing and saving to achieve their dreams they want what they want, NOW, and to hell with the train wreck that type of thinking and spending leads to.
I'm piss ass broke and don't own a house, but I am damn happy and to me that is more important than a house. I have a "home" even if I do not own it and my life is a lot more comfortable and stress free than those that own a "house" and have no time to enjoy it due to the constant fear of losing it. Anyone can buy a house, it takes more than a house to create a home.
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Don't be so Negative
Just one more way in which some little detail is making our existence possible.
Yes, that's a negative 80 degrees Celsius. That's COLD. That's not "I'm a tough guy, I'll wear shorts just to bewilder people" weather. That's "I will not go outside until I'm wearing absolutely everything I own" weather.
In case you were unaware, Celsius is based on the boiling and melting points of water, so the boiling point is 100 degrees Celsius as is. Such is the power of hydrogen bonding!
A better explanation of hydrogen bonding than the brief one in the comic is that there are atoms that are more electronegative than others, meaning that they will pull electrons closer to themselves in molecules. Oxygen, for instance, is very electronegative, so, in water (H2O), it will pull the electrons away from the hydrogen atoms and closer to itself. This makes the oxygen slightly negatively charged and the hydrogen's somewhat positively charged, which gives the hydrogen atoms an attraction to the slightly negative oxygen atoms in other water molecules.


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In the build up to tomorrow's ten boat Medal Race Final, Sail.TV is showing the highlights of the racing and daily news round-ups of the previous day's racing at the ISAF World Sailing Games from 0800-1000 UTC, on Wednesday 17 through Friday 19 May 2006.
Coverage will be provided free and the Medal Race Finals will be commentated live on Saturday 20 May, with coverage commencing from 0855 UTC (1055 local time in Austria). Yachting pundit Magnus WHEATLEY will provide the live commentary. For those that miss the live streaming, footage will be available for viewers to watch on demand at www.Sail.tv
To view the news round up from 17 May, showing the action from the race course and interviews from the Hobie Tiger, 470 and Laser fleets, CLICK HERE.
Sail.TV is available free to anyone with a broadband internet connection and is aiming to offer a one-stop shop of sailing footage to the sport's community. Launched in January 2006, Sail.TV offers footage from the world's leading yachting events, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As well as continuous sailing programming, Sail.TV also provides on-demand footage of many worldwide sailing events.
The final races of the gold and silver fleets continue on Lake Neusiedl today, with the first starts at 1100 local time (0900 UTC). The top ten boats across each of the gold fleets will proceed to tomorrow's final Medal Race.
For all the news on the 2006 ISAF World Sailing Games CLICK HERE.


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Mariocraft AllStars Resource Pack 1.7.10
Now, using Mariocraft AllStars Resource Pack your world will be similar to the world in which the italian plumber Mario lives! Beautiful texture pack in the popular style of Super Mario Brothers.
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How to install Mariocraft AllStars
- 1) Download resource pack from the link below.
- 2) Launch Minecraft.
- 3) On the Main menu > click "Options".
- 4) On the Options menu > click "resource packs".
- 5) Move the .zip file you downloaded to the "resourcepacks" folder.
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Secrets of Entrepreneurs Under 40 Exposed!
Kobo ebook | May 15, 2015
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How to come up with your million-dollar business idea.
How to test the market and develop a killer strategic plan.
How to fund your company's start-up so you can launch with a bang.
Dozens of marketing ideas proven to work in any business.
How to attract exceptional team members and leverage your time.
What it takes to franchise your business or take your operation global.
How to use your business to give you the freedom to live your dreams.
JAMIE MCINTYRE (21st Century Academy)
Jamie became a self-made millionaire in his twenties after founding the 21st Century Group of Companies, including 21st Century Academy, an education organisation that provides a valuable and relevant modern-day education to Australians and New Zealanders.
AUDREY RODDA (Phonelink Communications)
After starting Phonelink Communications in her lounge room, Audrey has grown the business into a leading source of total communications services. Audrey is also very knowledgeable when it comes to referrals and has just started to franchise her business.
DARREN LOMMAN (Dreamfit)
While at university, Darren invested over 4,000 hours in designing and building a hand-controlled motorcycle that could be ridden by a person with paraplegia. Dreamfit was then born and Darren continues to make people's dreams come true through his passion and determination.
CHRIS RYAN AND ADAM ROCKETT (Strike Group)
Adam and Chris (owners of The Strike Group) have been finalists in the Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award, as well as keynote speakers at the Young Entrepreneurs Organisation, Australian Human Resource Institute and Wealth Creator's Advanced Entrepreneurs Course.
PHIL ANDERSON (Phil Anderson Management)
Claiming he would be a millionaire by the time he was 30, Phil has kept to his word. He has just opened his 20th Five Star Fitness Centre, and he is also diversifying into other markets and opportunities.
KATHERINE EDGAR (The Synergy Group)
In 1999, Katherine founded The Synergy Group, an international professional services firm that operates in 23 Asia-Pacific cities. The Group recently extended its reach to two emerging economic powerhouses, India and China.
While still at university, John met his business partner James Willson and founded the advertising and branding agency, CRE8IVE. In five years, CRE8IVE has grown from three to 28 staff and is now the largest independent agency in Canberra.
BEX GOLD (Cinderella Products)
Bex created Cinderella Products which has been revolutionising household cleaning since the beautifully fragranced, people-safe, planet-safe Cinderella range was launched in Coles supermarkets in 2006. With her products already in Australia and New Zealand, Bex has plans to take her business even further in the coming years.
PHIL JONES (Richmastery)
Phil, with his wife Corinna, operates an international group of companies, including Richmastery, New Zealand's largest real estate education business. They have featured in dozens of newspaper and magazine articles, as well as on television and radio.
EMMA BROWN (Business Chicks)
Emma is the chief chick of Business Chicks, a national community for businesswomen whose mission (apart from doing good in the world and connecting and empowering women) is to raise money for the children's charity, Kids Help Line.
DANIEL JOYCE (Red Room DVD)
Together with his business partner, Nic DiVenuto, Daniel raised $1 million in capital to open the first Red Room DVD store in Waterloo, Sydney, and quickly followed it up with a second store in Bondi Junction. There are currently eight Red Room DVD stores in Australia.
LISA MESSENGER (Messenger Marketing)
With a background in sponsorship, marketing and PR, Lisa is currently the managing director of Messenger Marketing and Messenger Publishing. She is also the author of two books, with a six-part series of books soon to be released.
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Angular 2 is a game changer in the field of web development and enables you to efficiently architect large-scale and maintainable software. It has everything from a powerful view engine to an exceptional data binding framework and a design that embraces modern web development. Bootstrap allows users to quickly get started developing professional-looking responsive web applications. With both joining forces, we burst into modern web development with the very best of development and design.
This course demonstrates how to write dynamic, feature-rich Angular 2 applications with Bootstrap's responsive layouts and end-to-end testing techniques. We will set up our development environment with Angular 2 and ES6 with TypeScript. In Angular 2, everything is a component using TypeScript annotations. This course takes a component-centric approach, using them as the main point of discussion to help you learn the core concepts in Angular 2. You'll also get to grips with Bootstrap to create and design web applications that are elegantly styled with a responsive user interface.
If you have been building applications with 1.x versions of Angular, this course will also lay down the migration steps required to port your application to the newer version without disrupting the functionalities. Throughout this course, you will learn about the advanced features of Angular 2 such as components, views, event handlers, directives, dependency injection, services, routing, and data binding using Bootstrap styling. Finally, we'll end the course by implementing all that you've learned using Angular 2 web components and BootstrapUI.
By the end of the course, you'll be ready to start building quick and efficient applications with a stunning interface that takes advantage of all the new features on offer from both Angular 2 and Bootstrap.


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Who wasn't that girl that, at 17, dreamt of a summer romance like Cecile from Bonjour Tristesse? He would be older and wiser, you would be in Breton stripes with freckles on your nose, and you'd roll around in the sand near a discarded dinghy.
And now, who isn't that girl who, at age 23, dreams of being a writer half as wry, half as frank and half as brilliant as Françoise Sagan? Who wrote Bonjour Tristesse in a flurry just after finishing school, who wrote more than 30 books, as well as plays and screenplays in her lifetime, who drove very fast cars and owned very fast horses and never apologised for anything.
She's one of France's great literary icons, but she is also an icon for women around the world for her intelligence, her confidence and her independence. In 1956, when she was interviewed by The Paris Review, the interview described her as 'shy, but casual and friendly, and her gamine face crinkles easily into an attractive, rather secret smile. She wore a simple black sweater and gray skirt; if she is a vain girl the only indication of it was her high-heeled shoes, which were of elegantly worked light gray leather.'
Sound dreamy? We think so. Read on for some of our favourite quotes from the original manic pixie dream girl…
On writing:
'I had read a lot of stories. It seemed to me impossible not to want to write one. Instead of leaving for Chile with a band of gangsters, one stays in Paris and writes a novel. That seems to me the great adventure.'
'For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.'
'Art must take reality by surprise.'
'The illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.'
'All my life I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest doesn't interest me.'
On life:
'Whisky, gambling and Ferraris: aren't they rather more amusing than knitting, housekeeping and one's savings? Anyway, I would have been the last person to have written convincingly about that.'
'I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.'
'I've learned to be alone and I've learned to love it. Being alone is a kind of self-consciousness, an awareness of something permanent, something that you can't talk about. It's almost biological.'
'I still prefer a life that has its ups and downs. A contented, uneventful life is no life at all as far as I'm concerned. I said I thought life was a sick joke. That doesn't mean I'm a pessimist. It may be sick, but it's still a joke; it's still funny. I've no illusions about the absurdity of life, but I'm still cheerful about it.'
'The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.'
'Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.'
On love:
'I kissed him passionately, I even wanted to bruise him so that he would not be able to forget me.'
'I always wanted to ask people: "Are you in love? What are you reading?"'
'Do not sleep alone. Live alone, if you must, yes, but never sleep alone.'
'There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.'
'For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.'
On travel:
'Travelling makes me blind, deaf and generally terrorised.'
'I don't know how to travel, I don't know how to look at things, I'll end up going back to the same little spot that no one likes over and over just because I can get warm there. When I think about that – that realisation of powerlessness, it breaks my heart. My lovely Parisian post with my little neighbourhood, and a few trips to the sea, or to Normandy in the summer, and trips to Switzerland in the winter – that's probably what my life will be like in the future.'
On style:
'A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.'
'At home that evening, Antoine, pencil in hand, indulged in optimistic financial calculations. He would, of course, take care of the rent, the telephone bill, the tiresome small expenses. Lucile's hundred thousand francs would pay for her dresses, carfare and lunches – there was a very good cafeteria… where he could have lunch with her… She wanted to tell him that a dress from Dior cost three hundred thousand francs, that she hated the bus – even if it was direct – and that the very word cafeteria made her want to run away.'
And this, which has to be reproduced in its entirety, including the question from the interviewer at The Paris Review. Françoise Sagan, all writers who have ever been asked a question like this salute you.
"Interviewer: 'To what extent do you recognise your limits and maintain a check on your ambitions?'
Sagan: 'Well that is a pretty disagreeable question, isn't it? I recognise limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Shakespeare. That's the best answer, I think. Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.'"
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The Restaurant Takeaway column is devoted to restaurant dishes you can make in your own kitchen, tested and tweaked for home cooks.
I've eaten my share of bacon-wrapped dates at cocktail parties and the like. Sometimes they are plain; sometimes they are filled with almonds or cheese. They are always tasty and never filling.
And this was exactly what I thought stuffed dates should be — until I had dinner at Avec in Chicago. There, I ate bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with spicy chorizo, surrounded by a silky tomato and piquillo pepper sauce.
This dish was not dainty hors d'oeuvres to be nibbled out of hand. It was a brawny appetizer that demanded a fork to scoop up the sausage emerging from the sweet dates. The flavors made perfect sense together; piquant, sweet, meaty, smoky and tangy notes in every bite, zinging over your tongue in different combinations and intensities. This is a dish that will never get dull.
My adaptation keeps the compelling flavors, but it scales down the dates so they are more compact. You could make them as an appetizer over sauce, as they do at Avec. But now the dates also work as hearty finger food. Serve with the sauce for dipping.


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Today I am 46 years old. Almost half a century. Not sure how I feel about it; but I seem to be feeling…..nothing. I wonder why women get all wrapped around the axle about it. I remember the day I realized everything in my cosmetic bag had transitioned from "acne controlling" to "wrinkle reducing". That was the most disconcerting part of the transition.
I'm still very much me-ish in my thoughts and actions. I'm not especially "different" from the me I've known. However, all of my friends are getting …….older…. Some of them have died. I spend some time remembering them.
In general, being chronically ill has taken a toll & I don't have the resiliency I expected to have. However, those are changes I've had to accept & coping hasn't been unbearable. All things considered–I'm happy, doing better than I expected & luckier than most. My life is good; full of interesting people and opportunities. Guess that means I'm on-board for whatever is ahead. Even if it sucks, it's an opportunity to understand and experience another aspect of life.


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Buttons to operate toilet door on board train today…
Just wondering… how do you know when it's locked?
Questions and observations from Nic Price. Curious about how things work and what it's like to use them.
Was this from within or without the toilet?
What looser testing was done on this product before testing I wonder?
Hi Paul, this was taken *inside* the train toilet. There was no "system feedback" to tell you the door was locked.