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Statements on Auditing Procedure
No. 17
December 1942
Issued by the
Physical Inventories in Wartime
Committee on Auditing Procedure, American Institute of Accountants, 13 East 41st Street, New York 17, N. Y.
Copyright 1943 by American Institute of Accountants
AMONG the many problems arising out of the war which particu-
larly affect accounting is the one created by the failure of a
company to make a physical count of its inventory, either all at one time or on a staggered basis throughout the year. Many companies have omitted such physical inventories this year, either voluntarily or by direction of the government, in order not to interrupt neces-sary production of war materials.
The foregoing circumstances raise questions as to (1) what addi-tional or alternative auditing procedures can and should be under-taken to remedy the omission and (2) the effect on the independent accountant's short form of report. If the company does not under-take to make the customary physical count of goods in the inventory, the independent accountant obviously cannot make the usual observation or physical tests thereof in accordance with generally accepted auditing procedure.1 Under these circumstances, to what extent is he justified in relying on alternative procedures to satisfy himself as to the fairness of inventory amounts and what is the effect on the accountant's report? For example:
(a) Is it proper for the independent public accountant to render a report or opinion, with an exception as to the amount of the inventories?
(b) If the inventory is material, would such exception be sufficiently important to require a disclaimer as to the ability to express an opinion on the financial statements as a whole?
Since proper answers to the foregoing questions will depend upon the circumstances in each case, the committee does not here under-take to reach categorical conclusions thereon. It believes that the
1 Statements on Auditing Procedure No. 1, p. 6.


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Dir: Walter Hill. US. 2012. 92mins
Right from the tagline – "Revenge never gets old" – you know that veteran director Walter Hill's first feature since 2002's Undisputed is not going to be big on originality. But if buddy-movie Bullet To The Head rolls out just about every cliché in the book, at least it does so with a certain sass and panache. The film's tongue-in-cheek tone – embodied above all in some tasty one-liners – outsmarts its creaky plot and risible macho poses. And 66-year-old Sylvester Stallone finally fesses up to no longer being a spring chicken in a role that deliberately plays up his old-school credentials. His drawl gets slower and his moves stiffer with every film, but at least Bullet runs (indulgently, it must be said) with the senior-citizen premise.
Bullet To The Head is difficult not to like. It's as silly as the utterly choreographed final axe fight, and as enjoyable.
The Expendables made Stallone bankable once more, though there he was surrounded by a bunch of other retro action veterans. Sung Kang is likeable here as a Fed who teams reluctantly up with Sly's ageing hitman to hunt down a common enemy, but Bullet To The Head is essentially a Stallone-alone vehicle: and as such, will appeal to older audiences who like their shoot 'em up thrills mixed with some humour-tinged nostalgia for the good old days of the genre.
Set in a New Orleans that never feels much more than a theatrical backdrop, Bullet starts off as it means to go on - briskly, hoping we don't notice the cracks in the story. A paint-by-numbers intro forges an uneasy alliance between gun-for-hire Jimmy Bobo (Stallone) and Taylor Kwon (Kang), the Federal cop of Korean origins whose former partner Jimmy was paid to snuff out.
The baddies are a cartel of corrupt property developers led by Baptiste (Slater) and Morel (Akinnuoye-Agjabe), who employ hitman Keegan (Momoa) to do their dirty work – which includes rubbing out Jimmy's hitman partner. Taylor meanwhile is stitched up by his corrupt city-cop colleagues, who are in the pay of Morel and resentful of this cocky young Fed with his DC ways.
Once Jimmy and Taylor are buddied up like frosty lovers in the first act of a rom-com, we get some entertaining verbal sparring between Stallone's 'shoot first, talk later' former marine and Kang's upright young detective who can track suspects in seconds via his smartphone – a techno-gizmo that Jimmy scorns.
It's revealed that Stallone's muscular mercenary has a daughter – tattoo-artist Lisa (Shahi) – who serves first as a sparky source of tension between eligible Taylor and disapproving dad, then as a hostage pawn to lure the two to the disused power station (New Orleans' Entergy Plant) that provides the location for the final shootout. The fact that the same location served a similar purpose in Walter Hill's first feature, the Bronson-starring Hard Times (1975), makes up a little for the fact that we've seen shooter showdowns in the carcasses of industrial buildings a million times before.
Shot with Michael-Mannish urban noir atmosphere by cinematographer Lloyd Ahern, complete with flashgun cuts and desaturated colour flashbacks, Bullet to the Head presents a stylish enough package. But it's a style that feels more than a little derivative. Twangly guitar solos accompany aerial cityscape bridging sequences, Jimmy hides out in a shack in the bayou (though Hill thankfully spares us the crocodiles) and one key scene takes place at a – guess what? – Mardi Gras party.
In the film's oldies'-view world, nobody seems bothered that a flash drive which the villains are desperate to get back has no real value as a bargaining pawn, as it could have been copied a thousand times in the interim. And in a cinematic equivalent of those large-type books carried by certain libraries for the vision impaired, a key file of evidence comes with EVIDENCE printed in capitals on the cover, as an aid to the hard of understanding. But in the end, who cares? For all its preposterousness, Bullet To The Head is difficult not to like. It's as silly as the utterly choreographed final axe fight, and as enjoyable.
Production companies: Buena Vista International presents in conjunction with IM Global and in association with Dark Castle Entertainment, a Millar/Gough Ink/Emjag Production, an After Dark Films Production
International sales: IM Global, www.imglobalfilm.com
Producers: Alexandra Milchan, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Kevin King-Templeton
Executive producers: Stuart Ford, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Deepak Nayar, Steve Squillante, Joel Silver, Courtney Solomon, Allan Zeman, Steve Richards, Stuart Besser
Screenplay: Alessandro Camon, based on the graphic novel Du Plomb dans la Tete by Matz
Cinematography: Lloyd Ahern
Editor: Tim Alverson
Production designer: Toby Corbett
Music: Steve Mazzaro
Website: www.bullettotheheadmovie.com
Main cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Sarah Shahi, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christian Slater, John Seda, Weronika Rosati, Jason Momoa

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A former employee of Ensemble Studios has formed Windstorm Studios, already hard at work on "an online game unlike anything you've ever seen!"
Windstorm Studios' president and founder Dusty Monk saw an opportunity when Microsoft closed down his former employer, Ensemble Studios. An opportunity to create something new in the massively multiplayer online game he loves. The studio is currently contracting industry talent to work on a project shrouded in mystery, but incredibly appealing, even in textual teaser form.
Are you tired of online games filled with depressing predictions of post apocalyptic destruction? Are you weary of walking through grey streets beneath grey skies and killing grey zombies? Have you had your fill of dank cellars and dark caves? Well so have we! And we're ready to build a brighter world! A better online game - a game with the promise of of a hopeful future — cities of glass and steel, and most importantly, flying cars!
Wait, so not all futures have to be dark? What about the apocalypse? Aren't we supposed to have one? I could have sworn one was scheduled. It seems like Dusty here is talking about the sort of shining future city that writers used to dream about back in the 1950's. Towers of glass and steel, flying cars? I'm not exactly sure what Windstorm is selling, but I'm dangerously close to buying it, sight unseen.
You can find some more concept art floating about Windstorm's website. We'll be paying close attention as well.
Windstorm Studios - Tomorrow's Games Today [Official Site via IGN]


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President Obama took an important step this week when he signed an executive order providing relief to millions of struggling student loan borrowers and urged Congress to pass a student loan refinancing bill that is scheduled for a vote in the Senate on Wednesday. Both the executive order and the refinancing bill speak to a grave problem that has trapped recent college graduates and threatens the long-term health of the economy.
This problem has its roots in the financial crisis, which destroyed trillions of dollars in household savings and home equity that families might otherwise have used to pay for college. (Even before the recession, the state colleges, which educate about 70 percent of the nation's students, reacted to state budget cuts by raising tuition.) With no other choice, students and their families financed college by relying more heavily on student loans. According to the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, student debt has doubled since 2007 and now stands at about $1.2 trillion.
Stagnant wages and a tough job market have made it difficult for borrowers to repay these debts. According to federal statistics, for example, about seven million of the nation's 40 million student loan borrowers are in default. The people in this large and growing pariah class have difficulty getting jobs or credit, or renting apartments. But borrowers who narrowly earn enough to make loan payments are not much better off; they have to put off car purchases and bunk with their parents because they can't afford rents, and they can't even begin to think about saving for retirement.
As an official from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told a Senate hearing earlier this month, student debt is having a kind of "domino effect," damaging other areas of the economy. And unless federal policy makers intervene in a muscular way, this generation of student borrowers could become a long-term drag on the economy.
The executive order signed on Monday will help up to five million student loan borrowers. It will expand access to the federal government's Pay as You Earn program, which allows borrowers to arrange affordable payments and qualify for loan forgiveness. It requires the Department of Education to evaluate more stringently how well the companies that collect federal loans keep borrowers out of default. Most significantly, it requires the department to help people who have defaulted rehabilitate their records through a program allowing lower payments.
Homeowners, businesses and individuals can take advantage of low interest rates to refinance their debts. Student borrowers, however, have few such options. The Senate bill, known as the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, would create a fund — paid for by a new minimum tax on millionaires and billionaires — that would be used to help people with federal or private student loans refinance those loans at lower interest rates.
The bill might pass the Senate, but House Republicans will oppose any such tax. Still, by bringing the matter to a vote, Senate Democrats underscore the need to do something about dire indebtedness among recent graduates, and also give members of their party a potent issue on which to run in the midterm elections. Even if the refinancing bill were to become law, it would represent only part of the solution. To get a handle on this problem, Congress needs to reconfigure the student aid system to prevent the most vulnerable student borrowers from falling too deeply into debt in the first place.


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- Deutsche Bank Championship, Round One
Tiger tames TPC Boston with terrific 64
Tiger Woods grabbed control of the FedEx Cup play-offs by beginning the Deutsche Bank Championship with a brilliant seven-under 64 at TPC Boston.
Woods, a three-time winner on the PGA Tour this season, was projected to go top of the FedEx standings at the completion of his opening round.
As a result, he is also in pole position to land the $10m FedEx bonus, handed out after the last of the four play-off events, the Tour Championship, which ends late next month, shortly before the Ryder Cup begins.
TPC Boston is not renowned as one of the toughest tracks on tour - and it was brought to its knees by Woods, who was faultless with his irons, hitting green after green and giving himself multiple birdie chances.
He converted eight of them thanks to nerveless putting - not always the case for him in recent months - as he looked as impressive as he has all season.
Woods sit two shots behind first-round leader Seung-Yul Noh. Nine birdies highlighted the Korean's bogey-free round as he moved to nine-under, one stroke clear of Chris Kirk at the top of the leaderboard.
Although Woods' performance will have sent a shiver of fear down the spine of European Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal, there was better news for him elsewhere: Rory McIlrory shot an impressive 65, while Ian Poulter and Luke Donald both went well and sit at four-under, one ahead of Lee Westwood.
Graeme McDowell (three-over) and Justin Rose (four-over) were not so successful, however.


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About the Strategic Planning Process
There are many reasons that now is the right time to create a new JMU Strategic Plan.
- JMU's new president, Mr. Jonathan Alger, must be given the opportunity to develop and cast his vision, setting the best new course for JMU.
- The higher education marketplace is undergoing significant change. To be on the leading edge, the institution should take a fresh approach to planning and create a new strategic plan that anticipates change for the university's best success.
- The work of the 2006 Madison Commission is coming to its conclusion.
- The university is required by the Code of Virginia to maintain a continually-updated 6-year plan.
- Each division head expects the university to establish its strategic plan to guide them as they set the respective courses of their divisions.
A task force of key university leaders (and those with experience in the previous planning efforts) met in May 2012 and suggested the following parameters for any new strategic planning effort:
- Rather than a simple update of previous planning efforts, it should start fresh, with a very future-focused approach.
- It should reflect and result in alignment between the university's mission, vision, values, goals, and objectives.
- It should involve all major university stakeholders - faculty, staff, students, community leaders, and alumni.
- The resulting plan should be characterized by a sense of involvement in and ownership by faculty and staff.
- It should have complete and vocal support from the president, division heads, AVP's and deans.
- It should provide students an opportunity for involvement.
- It should be more focused on the breadth and quality of the work rather than speed.
- The resulting strategic plan should be a living, organic concept, the focus of continual updating, change, and adaptation. It should not be a static, "once-now-forever" approach.
- The resulting strategic plan should be communicated frequently and clearly, the subject of a running dialogue.
- The resulting strategic plan should be understood by applicable stakeholders.
How? and When?
The Strategic Planning Process, 2014-2020 proposal represents a suggested roadmap for creating the university's new strategic plan for 2014-2020. The Madison Future Commission (MFC) is the the primary vehicle for creating the new strategic plan under the guidance of a new University Planning Team (UPT).


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Palms - Wolf
Glasgow-based band Palms played at the launch of Covergirl's Paris Burns single release at Power Lunches a couple of weeks ago. My respect for them grew from hearing their first song, and thinking, "hmm, not bad", to being throughly obsessed with this song, Wolf, which they played at the end of their set.
There's a 50s garage/dark country element to the vocals which puts you in mind of bands like the Dum Dum Girls, but the bassline is more menacing, the tempo more languid, than that "girl group" style normally employs. I was also actually weirdly reminded of Sleater Kinney in parts, and the Cramps-esque howl at the end sealed the deal for me. I love this song.
Palms – Wolf
Posted 2994 days ago | By Melissa |
New video from Covergirl - Paris Burns
The new video from London-based queer/DIY post punk band Covergirl was launched earlier this month.
Comprised of members of Trash Kit , Peepholes, Wet Dog and Bloody Knees, Covergirl is like the culmination of a fiercely active and creatively important scene that exists on the strength of its bootstraps and passion in the less glitzy corners of east and south east London.
My first Covergirl experience (and generally the audience is led to believe it is always Covergirl's first experience too, as vocalist Andrew often begins with "this is our first ever show") was when they opened for Hunx and his Punx at Camp Basement on Old Street.
I got involved in a conversation with a well seasoned gig go-er who dismissed them outright due to the fact they were a so-called "super group". While it is true that more often than not I find I'm watching bands made up of combinations of the people in this, and a handful of other bands regularly playing the same venues/club nights, it has never struck me as stale or gimmicky. Instead, the impression is of a tight community of musicians and artists who have a range of ideas that need to be channelled through different guises, and while the connection is often clear (Rachel Aggs from Trash Kit brings a very-Trash Kit-esque quality to Covergirl when she sings), if anything it provides a depth to the scene as you witness these artists develop their ideas and build something good.
Covergirl is one of my favourite bands playing at the moment. Andrew's vocals have a desperate and dark edge, while their sound has a spacious-ness and coldness to it, the combination of which is like a melancholy disco, and "Paris Burns" is the best example of this.
So, here is the new Lessa Millet-directed video for Covergirl's single, Paris Burns. A single release party will be happening at Power Lunches, 28th October.
COVERGIRL – Paris Burns from Lessa Millet on Vimeo.
Posted 3018 days ago | By Melissa |
Ut w/ Trash Kit & Peepholes
Last Friday night @ the Lexington in London saw yet another memorable show organised by DIY promoters, Upset the Rhythm: After a 20 year hiatus, Ut, the legendary all-female band born out of the New York No Wave movement is performing live again.
Ut formed in '78, amid the creative chaos of broke, experimental, art school New York. Their contemporaries included Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, DNA, James Chance and the Contortions, and after a move to the UK in '81 they were often seen performing with bands such as the Fall and Birthday Party.
On Friday, Ut were fortunate to have London queer/indie heroes Peepholes and Trash Kit opening for them. Unluckily for me, I arrived too late to see Peepholes, but have no doubt they were as good as always.
This was apparently Trash Kit's second to last show, as Ros the bass player is going to France for a while. I discovered the details of their hiatus after reading the most recent issue ofShotgun Seamstress, an American zine about black punks, put out by Osa of the New Bloods. This latest (and last) issue was brought out specifically in time for this show, and features a satisfyingly long interview with Rachel Aggs & Ros Murray of Trash Kit. During their performance, Rachel mentioned the fact that the zine was the driving force behind Trash Kit forming, so it seemed particularly poignant that both creative ventures were about to go on hiatus.
Trash Kit played a tight show. Emotionally powerful as always, joyful & weird, their punk rock dissonance shifts abruptly to funk-based experimentalism and back, with vocals that, while almost impossible to make out, are heartfelt and warm, lacking the cold calculation of a lot of post-punk-style bands. Definitely children of the Raincoats but also their self described love of Afrobeat is very much in evidence. Rachel Aggs' songs are a queer mixed race girl's dream, writing about hair and its "politics", coming out, riding the bus and losing things. One of the songs has its backbone a Filipino drumming pattern. It'll be sad to not have this literally life-affirming band on the scene for a while, though according to their blog they are recording an album, which is good news.
Ut's performance began with Jacqui Ham rapping out some fairly grumpy requests to have the smoke machine turned off (the smoke machines are always a ridiculous feature of any gig), and she continued to portray this cantakerous figure throughout, but jesus christ she was an amazing musician! Ut's music is less alienating than most that came out of the No Wave movement, and heads more towards Sonic Youth-accessibility. Dark and tuneful, but with much guitar distortion, and anxious vocals that set you on edge, so accessible is perhaps a misleading discription, depending on your taste in ear shredding noise.
Jacqui and her band mates Nina Canal and Sally Young traded instruments and vocal duties throughout, which made for a dynamic show, reflecting the experimental roots of No Wave: the rejection of convention and static boredom.
My favourite Ut song, the Nina Canal-sung Dr No from the Steve Albini produced album Griller, I think was a rare time in which they mucked up somewhat, but apart from that hiccup their performance was noticeably tight and energetic for band that hasn't performed together for basically 21 years (I say basically, because apparently there was a secret gig that they played in London last year).
Not to drive a point home too hard, but I could have done without Jacqui Ham's meanness, at one point when they were switching instruments a fan yelled out the name of a song he wanted and he got the sharp rebuff, "you gotta wait, mate". We're here to see you, not annoy you, Jacqui.
The visual experience of seeing 3 "older" women ripping it up is not to be downplayed either, as we drown in a sea of mediocre male bands making comebacks, or doing the rounds to make some money. Ut looked as though they'd never stopped (and indeed all 3 do still make music in other bands), but also like they didn't really give a shit about impressing anyone with their old school kool cred. Wrapping the crowd in a wall of sound, they exuded a skill and confidence in their band that left me feeling mesmerised.
Ut – Swallow
Posted 3035 days ago | By Melissa |
Some thoughts about Simon Reynolds' "Retromania"
Last week I attempted to jumpstart my brain after yet another mind numbing day pushing paper around an office, and attended a talk at the ICA, "Over and Over and Over and Over", which was essentially a launch for the new book by Simon Reynolds, "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past".
The panel consisted of Reynolds; artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard; former member of Throbbing Gristle/current member of Chris and Cosey, Cosey Fanni Tutti; Professor of fashion history and theory, Caroline Evans, and was hosted by Rob Young, music writer.
I haven't read Reynolds' book yet, but from what I have gathered via the talk, and blurbs on his website, it seems his premise is that current music is obsessed with the past and wanting to replicate it, and is failing to offer anything new or original, and though the history of popular music harking back to bygone eras actually extends back a fair way, these days, the "past" seems so much more recent, folding back in on itself in closer and closer intervals.
He has written on his Retromania blog: "Is it a dearth of innovation that inspires the chronic nostalgia for the lost golden ages of rock's youth? Or have we become victims of our ever-expanding capacity to store, share and instantly access cultural data, a historically unprecedented phenomenon symbolized by the rise of the iPod and YouTube?".
I left the talk feeling irritated by the way Reynolds came across – he seemed to have a very whitebread way of thinking. He practically dismissed a member of the audience who mentioned grime as a challenge to his premise that there's nothing new, and when someone else suggested that maybe he's just not going to the right places to find new music, he seemed incredulous that there could be types of music not found on the internet that he wouldn't have access to.
Since the talk, I've read a few interviews with him, notably this one at the Quietus, and it seems that maybe he was just not making himself quite clear at the ICA – either that, or he's had a few epiphanies since last Thursday, because in this interview he does acknowledge other forms of music outside of the indie bubble as being innovative, and his focus seems to be less narrow.
One of the points that was brought up at the talk at the ICA but not very well explored, was made by fashion professor Caroline Evans. She seemed rather bemused by Simon Reynolds theory, and questioned his belief in time being so linear. Reynolds lamented that music should be much further ahead than it is, given that it's 2011. He contended that past genres had the power to shock, that new music used to be able to shake up the status quo in profound ways, but these days we seem to have slowed right down, content to repeat and regurgitate.
But as Evans pointed out, whose past is he talking about? Aren't different things happening for different groups of people at any one time? The idea that the past and future continues along one long line which can fold back directly upon itself smacks of only seeing the world through the eyepiece of the dominant culture, and it's a viewpoint that just doesn't make sense if you aren't Simon Reynolds (i.e if you're not a white, English, straight male music journalist – big assumption on my part regarding his identity obviously, but what I'm trying to say is that he has a certain viewpoint that seems to be reflected by the majority of music journalism at the moment, but does not necessarily resonate with everyone who reads this stuff).
Reynolds seemed fixated on the idea that everyone cares about a so-called "golden age of rock", that they all share the same feelings of nostalgia about it, but whose golden age is this? For a lot of people (I'm thinking of my own youth in the suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand, and the people I knew), the kind of music that Reynolds is referring to possibly was not an experience everyone had growing up, even in a collective cultural consciousness way, therefore hearing it, or utilizing it "again" in current music, (I'm thinking, for example, of hip hop sampling), doesn't actually create a sense of nostalgia at all. It's almost more like using "found sound".
This all may sound a bit po-mo-there-are-multiple-realities-and-lived experiences…But well, it's actually true, and it gets slightly tedious when the same kinds of people who espouse these kinds of theories based on their own lives, privileged as they are to be living the dream of being a "regular guy", are held up as the gurus. I wouldn't have minded so much if the others on the panel vehemently disagreed with him (Caroline Evans seemed to disagree, but she couldn't quite articulate why), or if people (i.e music media) would stop with the veneration of Simon Reynolds.
For example the audience tittered somewhat at Caroline Evans' frustrated outburst that she didn't "get it", referring to Reynolds premise that there was a crisis in music. But I agreed. One of the problems I had with the talk is that it began with this premise already decided upon, that what he said was true…there was a crisis in music. By the end of the talk I was of the opinion that even if there was a crisis in current popular music (whatever we have decided that term could mean), it's quite obvious that this crisis isn't occuring for everyone, but we are all expected to agree with Reynolds' theory.
Host Rob Young brought up one of the examples of meta-music which is apparently mentioned in "Retromania" – Kanye West's "Stronger", which samples Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", a song which in turn samples Edwin Birdsong's "Cola Bottle Baby". While the phenomena of this song could be viewed as some crraaazzy kind of layering, folding, retro-origami thing, I couldn't help but think, but hasn't hip hop sampled forever? It's not a new nostalgia trip that this genre is on, unless you see the whole genre as being stuck in this groove forever, but I'm pretty sure even Reynolds doesn't regard the birth of hip hop as something derivative. So whose crisis is this?
I'm not saying that Reynolds' theories don't make sense, they do, and is depressing to see old bands reform and millions of box sets come out in different kinds of packaging (and here I sit typing this wearing a Joy Division tshirt) but what I take umbrage to is the kind of universality that is being afforded this so called "crisis".
One member of the audience suggested that Reynolds was just feeling sore because his generation are no longer the economic power pushing the music industry along…suggesting he was maybe a bit past it, and should move over and make way for the kids.
Given that I do acknowledge that there is a bit of a retro approach going on in some areas of music today, I think it's important to point out that there are other positive reasons why this might be happening, that don't have anything to do with a lack of creativity, or even the financial imperative to shift units and therefore appeal to people's nostalgia. If you listen to a band like Trash Kit for example, you'll be able to hear a raft of queer/feminist post punk influences from the 70s and 80s. However, rather than making you yawn, Trash Kit (and other bands like them) inspire you to research this history which is less than obvious and yes, thanks to youtube etc it is now more accessible. This is not nostalgia, it's a friggen public service to the rest of us. This so-called timeline that Reynolds is saying can so easily drawn through current alternative/mainstream indie music is only just starting to be done with Trash Kit and their contemporaries and predecessors, and it's a privilege to be sick of this so called looking-back.
Reynolds does accede that there is good new music out there, (an idea that Cosey Fanny Tutti outright shat on, calling much current music a pointless assault, unlike Trobbing Gristle which she presumably considers assault with a point), and I do realise that he has stated he has no problem with music being influenced by and building on the past. But I was just struck at how many different angles this issue of so-called "retromania" can be looked at from, and feel annoyed that angles don't generally present for "good clear music journalism" and aren't presented as the norm. I think a comment that a woman in the audience made kind of sums up how I feel: at one point Reynolds' mused that perhaps he is asking too much, that perhaps music is music and if it ain't broke, why fix it, citing a comment someone he knew made about a chair being a chair, so why reinvent it…But the woman in the audience said that she knew someone who was growing a chair out of the ground, who grew their own clothes…The chair & the clothes still function the same, but it's the angle that you look at them from that makes the difference, the way in which you approach the idea.
Will there be a time when male music critics are no longer upheld as the last word on music criticism? No doubt. While you're holding your breath, check out my latest blog discovery Feminist Music Geek. Her most recent blog entry is a review of a new book Vinyl Deeps collecting writing by Ellen Willis, pop critic.
Trash Kit – Cadets
Posted 3148 days ago | By Melissa |
SCUMBAG @ the Bird's Nest Pub, Deptford
This Saturday will see rare performances by London bands, Homosexual Death Drive and Skinny Girl Diet, as well as a raft of queer DJs previously heard at the likes of club nights Closet Mixtape, Razzmatazz, Shake-O-Rama and Suck My Left One.
Homosexual Death Drive, who are Charlotte Cooper and Kay Hyatt, describe themselves as "no-fi amateurish haters", which suits the mission statement of SCUMBAG to a T. Their name came about when they were told of Lee Edelman's book, "No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive". It's a catchy name, alright.
Lee says: "queerness can never define an identity; it can only disturb one".
Homosexual Death Drive's performance is eagerly anticipated, after their last outing at the Rat Star in 2010, playing at Club Milk's final show, which you can read a review of here.
Skinny Girl Diet also played the Club Milk show (p.s I missed that show, so am going on rave reviews of both these bands from friends of mine who managed to attend). The band features Delilah Holliday on guitar, Ursula Holliday on drums & Amelia Cutler on bass. Their sound is dark and grungey with post punk vocal stlying. Everett True's written a review.
SCUMBAG the club night was originally conceived while me & my housemate, recently evicted from our old home, and feeling fairly broke and scummy, hot on the heels of a scabies outbreak and a mouse infestation, carried our roadside-find table from Brixton to our moldy new house in Peckham through the snow last winter (because we couldn't affort a taxi).
We felt like putting on a fun night to cheer ourselves up, but in the wake of recent evils inflicted by the government, we thought it'd also be a good opportunity for our community to share with each other stories & wisdom regarding how to survive in a hostile climate.
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In 2004, the Red Sox unveiled the Budweiser Right Field Roof Deck and dedicated a statue of legend Ted Williams outside nearby Gate B. The Red Sox started the 2004 season well but ran into a midseason funk. However, a raucous July 24 game against the Yankees and a bold four-team deal that traded Nomar Garciaparra to the Cubs seemed to light a fire under the team and they ran away with the Wild Card. After defeating the Angels in the ALDS, the Red Sox fell behind three games to none in the ALCS against the Yankees. In Game Four at Fenway Park, Boston started a comeback for the ages and won their next eight straight games to capture the franchise's first World Series title in 86 years. Fenway Park also hosted a party for the Democratic Governors Association during the Democratic National Convention in July and the Farrelly brothers filmed scenes for their movie "Fever Pitch" at the ballpark during the last two months of the regular season, before returning to film in October after rewriting their script due to the historic World Series Championship that few of their fellow Red Sox fans saw coming.
Record: 98-64, 2nd in American League East (Wild Card)
Manager: Terry J. Francona
Attendance: 2,837,304
Postseason: Won World Series
The Red Sox added Curt Schilling and Keith Foulke over the offseason and when the Yankees acquired Alex Rodriguez, the Boston/New York rivalry reached a new level. Spring training began with great anticipation but Nomar Garciaparra hit the disabled list with a right Achilles injury on March 31 and wouldn't play until June 9.
The Red Sox started the season well and led the division by 2½ games at the end of April. However, the team slumbered over the next two and a half months and played .500 baseball through most of July.
Needing some type of spark after the doldrums of the previous several weeks, a July 24 game between the Red Sox and Yankees provided a sudden catalyst for the team. Jason Varitek and Alex Rodriguez skirmished in the early going of this Saturday afternoon game and Bill Mueller hit a walk-off, three-run homer off Yankees' closer Mariano Rivera to further electrify the Fenway crowd.
Seven days later, in a trade-deadline deal, the Red Sox acquired Orlando Cabrera and Doug Mientkiewicz in a bold four-team swap that sent fan-favorite Nomar Garciaparra to the Cubs. In a separate trade, Dave Roberts was snagged from the Dodgers.
From August 16 to September 3 the Red Sox went 16-1 and ran away with the Wild Card to earn their second consecutive postseason appearance. Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz combined for 84 home runs and 269 RBIs, while Schilling earned 21 victories. He was one of five Boston pitchers with ten or more wins.
The Red Sox swept Anaheim in the ALDS and ended the series on an Ortiz walk-off home run at Fenway Park. Boston advanced to the ALCS for a rematch with the Yankees but dropped the first two games in New York. Compounding matters was an ankle injury suffered by Schilling in the ALDS. The Red Sox returned to Fenway Park and were blown out in Game Three 19-8. The odds seemed stacked against any type of Boston comeback.
The Yankees led Game Four by a run heading into the top of the ninth but Kevin Millar drew a walk off Mariano Rivera to start the inning and pinch runner Dave Roberts came in to take his place at first base. With the next batter, Bill Mueller, at the plate, Roberts stole second base with perhaps the most famous sprint in team history. Two pitches later, Mueller drove in Roberts with a game-tying single and David Ortiz hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 12th.
Rivera blew another save in Game Five and Ortiz was the hero again with a walk-off single in the bottom of the 14th inning. The ALCS returned to New York for Game Six, which the Red Sox won thanks to a gutsy effort by Curt Schilling, who pitched through his ankle injury. With momentum on their side the Red Sox closed out the historic comeback and sealed the pennant with a resounding 10-3 victory over New York in Game Seven.
The Red Sox moved on to the World Series to face the NL Champion Cardinals. Boston took the first two games at Fenway Park then headed to St. Louis where Pedro Martinez won Game Three. Derek Lowe took the ball in Game Four and threw seven scoreless innings after being staked to an early 3-0 lead. Foulke came on to record the final three outs, clinching Boston's first title in 86 years. After nearly nine decades of waiting it was time to celebrate and an estimated 3,000,000 people jammed the streets of Boston for the 2004 World Series Victory Parade to see the Duck Tour Boats carry the World Champions.
In 2004, the Red Sox created a new Fenway Park neighborhood, the Budweiser Right Field Roof Deck. Built on top of the original 1934 roof in right field, which was reinforced as part of the project, the new area featured home plate shaped tables, sitting four people each. Along with the 192 new seats, the additional space created room for 250 standing room patrons. New amenities included unique menu items, in-seat service, new restrooms and an open-air bar, which was made from parts of the bowling alley taken out of the basement of the Jeano Building. A new cargo-sized elevator was installed to access all levels of the ballpark in right field, and the Jimmy Fund sign, which had stood on the roof for decades, was taken down and replaced with an emblem on the Green Monster.
While the Jimmy Fund sign moved to the left field wall, a new symbol of the club's longtime affiliation with the non-profit organization was unveiled in the right-field area. On April 16, 2004, a statue of Ted Williams placing a hat on the head of a young Jimmy Fund patient was unveiled outside of Gate B.
In addition to constructing the Right Field Roof in 2004, the team followed the success of the Big Concourse and refurbished the Third Base Concourse with new restrooms, concessions and space. Abutting the concourse, the room formerly used as the Lansdowne Shop was renovated to create the Crown Royal Club (now the Absolut Club), a premium area to provide new amenities for Dugout Seat holders. Also, a few new Dugout Seat locations were created when new seating was constructed down the right-field line, altering Canvas Alley in the process.
Jimmy Buffett brought Margaritaville to Fenway Park with a couple of concerts in September 2004. The shows, which were part of Buffett's "License to Chill Tour," included several Buffett classics, in addition to renditions of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline." Earlier in the summer, Fenway Park opened it's gates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston, including for a 2,000 person party hosted by the Democratic Governors Association. During the final two months of the regular season, scenes from the Farrelly brothers movie "Fever Pitch" were filmed at Fenway Park during games, on non-game days and over multiple overnight shoots. The film crew returned in October after some of the movie's scenes were rewritten and filmed again at Fenway Park following the team's World Series victory in the fall.
Also of note in 2004 was the creation of Fenway Sports Group, a subsidiary of Red Sox ownership that would play an instrumental role in bringing future events to Fenway Park like the January 2010 college hockey doubleheader.
|2004 Non-Baseball Events At Fenway Park
|May 9
|Mother's Day Walk
|June 20
|Father's Day Walk
|June 27
|Red Sox Foundation's Picnic in the Park
|July 25-27
|Democratic National Convention Events
|Aug, Sep. & Oct.
|Filming of "Fever Pitch"
|Sept. 10-12
|Jimmy Buffett Concerts
|December 11
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What is strontium-89 injection?
STRONTIUM-89 (Metastron®) is a radioactive compound that treats pain caused by cancer that has spread to the bone. Strontium-89 concentrates in the area of bone metastasis or cancer. Generic strontium-89 injections are available.
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4.0 Lefty here. I'm always up for rallying or playing some sets. Reed Park most week nights works for me.
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hey one of my regulars moved outta town. i'm a 4.0 lefty, usually play stoner park in evening because they have good lights. never played 7th/wilshire at night but not opposed. hit me up if you're avail to play, i'm avail tonight as well.
great meeting you! My name is JP, I am from Argentina and currently traveling all over US for business so this is the only way I can find competitive people to play. I will be arrving to LA on June 30th till July 5 th and would like to play whenever you can. I am currently competing the clay season in Argentina and I believe it would be great to play har court. my level is about 4.5/5.0. when travelling to LA I usually play at the Tennis center on Westchester Tennis Courts since it is very close to my Hotel, but open to suggestions!
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Townhouses and brownstones dominate most of Chicago's Lincoln Park District, but there's one amazing residence that boldly broke tradition with a design that's so modern, contemporary, and visually striking that anyone who strolls by can't help but wonder what sorts of fantastic amenities stand behind the concrete facade of the sprawling 26,000-square-foot mansion. If smart home automation technologies happened to cross their minds as one of the fabulous features inside, they would be right on target.
Eye-Catching Effects from an iPad
From the second you swing open the massive front door and step into the foyer, it's obvious that the interior of this home is just as special as its exterior, which occupies land originally planned for eight townhomes. An iPad mounted flush into the wall is there to greet you, presenting a handful of options to set the lighting, shading, whole-house music, security, and heating and cooling systems, to your liking the a touch of just a few buttons—thanks to a Crestron home control app that was loaded onto the iPad from the home systems integrators at Sound Specialists, of Chicago.
Referred to as "scenes," these commands choreograph the settings of multiple systems to create a specific ambiance. Some scenes highlight niches where priceless artwork is displayed, others focus on the eye-catching architectural elements that pervade the residence, and then there are scenes that are more practical in nature–arranging the fabric shades and architectural lights in the kitchen for a family dinner or a casual movie night in the media room, for example. "Lighting design in this home was crucial," says Gideon Elfassy, president of Sound Specialists, whose team of home systems integrators designed, programmed, and installed the smart home systems that help bring out the beauty of the home, ensure optimal comfort and security, and create a serene environment where the homeowners and their two children truly escape from the hustle of the city.
Lights and Shades Set the Tone
The fact that the home was outfitted with more than 300 zones of lighting and 118 motorized window shades of all different sizes, shapes, and fabrics, necessitated a system that would enable the owners to easily operate every smart switch and every motorized rod, roller, and track from anywhere in the house. Without a system like the Lutron HomeWorks in charge, the homeowners would have easily spent 30 minutes arranging the lights and shades manually for bedtime, for example, as the home comprises three individual pavilions connected by glass loggias and four outdoor spaces. To minimize the footwork involved in prepping the house for certain activities, occasions, and daily routines, Sound Specialists installed sleek, modern, Lutron seeTouch keypads throughout the dwelling, which grant the owners a quick, easy way to control the lights and shades within a specific area.
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Of course, there are times, like when the family leaves the house, goes to bed, or entertains guests, that an issue of commands to lights and shades throughout the entire house—not just those within a specific room–is more helpful. For these global modes of control, they can go to one of several wall-mounted iPads and log onto the Crestron home control app. Displayed on the main menu of every iPad screen are options including, Home, Relax, Night, and Away, along with a description of functions performed by each of these commands. It was an extra touch added to the Crestron interface by Sound Specialists that fosters greater familiarity by the family of their home's amazing intelligence and capabilities.
The integrators created a couple of other ways for the homeowners interact with the lights and shades, as well as with a Crestron-powered, 28-zone whole-house music system, DMP security system, and 30-zone commercial-grade Mitsubishi heating and cooling system. They can go to a page that lists every room, select the room, then make adjustments to whichever system or device they want. Alternatively, they can pull up a map of the entire residence. At a glance they can see the status of every light and shade, as well as determine which zones of security are active, where music is currently playing, and the temperature of each room.
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Special areas of the house, like an indoor conservatory, receive special attention from the Crestron, Lutron, and other home technology systems. Sound Specialists programmed a lighting schedule to activate "grow lights" to promote healthy plant growth year round. A Lutron-controlled ceiling fan from Big Ass Fans, meanwhile, maintains proper air circulation. The Crestron and Lutron systems also pair up in the natatorium for a one-two punch of great lighting and music. Four moisture-resistant stainless steel speakers from James Loudspeaker deliver music to the space, while the lighting is on-point, whether the homeowners want a bright and festive environment or something softer and more subdued. And should the family wish to take advantage of a warm summer Chicago night, they can tap a button to activate a gas fire pit and direct music to the weather-hardy Jamo speakers in the back yard.
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Like most smart home systems, the technology incorporated into this stunning Chicago mansion has been designed for continual refinement. Sound Specialists will eventually integrate a Seidel intercom system with Crestron control platform so that the owners can converse with and see from any iPad visitors at the gate. It's just one more facet that will make this architectural showstopper all the more unique from its neighboring townhomes.


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Tory Belleci and Kari Byron from Mythbusters host this video of Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants showing off his legendary throwing arm by rocketing a baseball through various objects thrown up in the air!
Before you say it, yes, this clip is fake enough to have ended with a Powerade logo. What myth are they busting? Is "Matt Cain can't hit a watermelon with a fastball if somebody threw it in the air" a myth? Regardless, 'Evan Longoria Saves Reporter' set a dangerous precedent for what people on the Internet will accept as real, so until Prince Fielder shows up riding a minotaur or whatever, just roll with it.
The only really terrible part of the clip is Tory Belleci. He has clearly never watched baseball before. He intros Cain like he's in a local band ("We're here with Matt Cain, the pitcher for San Francisco Giants") and gets way, way too excited about everything. If Cain could hit a soda bottle, why are you losing your mind over him clipping a watermelon? Also, why do you make a weird blowjob face when you're impressed? There are children present. "This guy should host something on television" is the only myth I need to see busted.
I really want to see them do a video like this now with Justin Masterson, where a kid tosses a deep dish pizza into the air and gets drilled in the face by a 72 mph fastball.
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BRONC SWIMMERS - The Sheridan Bronc swimmers and divers open their season this weekend, tomorrow they compete at the Casper relays and Saturday at the Gillette pentathlon.
Head coach Brent Moore has 16 Broncs in the pool this season and says the numbers are up a bit and he's excited to see them compete this week.
They've been practicing for a week and a half and Moore says besides battling some illness they've put in the hard work to get them ready for tomorrow's meet.
SC BASKETBALL - The Sheridan college Generals are 12-3 overall as they head into their holiday break this week, we sat down with Head coach Steve Smiley to go over the first half of their season.
First, Smiley says at 12-3 the Generals had a pretty good two month run to open the season.
And he says the schedule was tough but padding the early part of the schedule would hurt the team in the long run.
BRONC WRESTLING - The Bronc wrestlers finished 2nd at the Powell invitational on the opening weekend of the season.
Head coach Tyson Shatto says it was great to get such a good result in the first live action of the season.
now seeing the broncs compete he says they can move ahead with more individual training.
BRONC / LADY BRONC BASKETBALL - The Bronc and Lady Bronc basketball teams swept games from Green River and Billings Skyview on he opening weekend of the season.
Lady Bronc Head coach Jessica Pickett says they had a great weekend.
And Pickett says no rest for the Lady Broncs as they get right back to work today.
The Broncs blasted Green River Friday and went up to Billings Saturday and picked a nice road win at Skyview high school.
SHERIDAN, WY—The Sheridan Hawks High School team earned their first two wins for the 2013-14 season at home besting the Rock Springs Miners 7 to 3 on Saturday afternoon and 11 to 3 on Sunday morning. Seven different players scored goals in the first game outshooting Rock Springs 43 to 29, with multiple players getting two points including Barak Broad, Logan Churchill, Jess Edens, Logan Garstad, and Thomas Moore.
Both Kaycee and Buffalo High School's winter sports teams were in action this weekend and are off to promising starts.
The Bison basketball team was at the East/West Classic hosted by Cody, and they went 1-2 during the weekend.
LARAMIE, Wyo. - Craig Bohl was introduced by University of Wyoming Athletics Director Tom Burman as the new head football coach of the Wyoming Cowboys on Sunday.
Bohl has been the head coach at North Dakota State since 2003, and has built a national power at NDSU. His teams have won back-to-back National Championships at the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level the past two seasons.
His team entered the 2013 FCS Playoffs as the No. 1 seed and is currently 12-0 entering the third round of the playoffs.
Sheridan 63 Green River 43
Tongue River 43 Shoshoni 32
Burns 55 Big Horn 43
Sheridan 66 Green River 25
Burns 46 Big Horn 42
Lusk 80 Big Horn 72
Shoshoni 67 Tongue River 57
Moorcroft 77 Normative Services 19
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Final score: Lady Broncs defeat Green River 66-43.
The Lady Broncs host Billings Skyview Saturday afternoon. The varsity teams will tip off at 1:00 instead of 4:30. Broadcast on 87.7 FM ESPN Radio
Frosh in small gym at 11:15
JV in main gym at 11:15
Wyoming Cowgirls play at 1:30pm Broadcast on 1410 KWYO
Wyoming Cowboys play at 6:45pm Broadcast on 1410 KWYO
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1965 Chevy Truck - Readers' Trucks
New Readers Rides
Editor's Note: Getting your truck into Readers' Trucks is a snap, of the camera, that is. All it takes is a stack of good-quality photos of your ride that are in focus and well lit. Due to the volume of mail we receive, we regret that we cannot return photographs. Send photos of your truck (no Polaroids or printouts) to: CCT, Readers' Trucks, 774 S. Placentia Ave., Placentia, CA 92870. It is important that you include a detailed description of the modifications you have made to your truck, including any interesting stories behind it.
A Labor Of Love Steve Burn's, of Monroe, North Carolina, and his '65 Chevy have quite a story, so we're just gonna get right to it. Here's Steve's story told by Joey Lee:
"In early '69, Steve Burns, a young father and junior high physical education teacher in south Mississippi found himself in need of dependable transportation. He found just what he was looking for in Ocean Springs: a '65 Chevy pickup from a Navy surplus auction. Steve immediately borrowed the $735 from the school's credit union to buy the truck, and since that day he has worked to customize the truck.
"During the early '70s the Stepside was used as a typical family vehicle, and he began his customizing as time and money would allow. Major modifications began in '76, but were abruptly halted when Steve's eight-year-old-son Clinton was diagnosed with leukemia. A year later Clinton lost his battle and Steve lost all interest in tricking out the truck.
"In '82 Steve decided it was time to get back to work and resurrect the project, only this time it would be a mission of love and remembrance. Steve's first step was to dismantle and sandblast the neglected body. Then he replaced the rear window with a Bow Tie bubble and began the tough project of fabricating a tilting front end. Steve swapped the front and rearend with underpinnings from a '78 Chevy and added Cragar S/S wheels. At this time he also lowered the truck. In '87, longtime friend Paul Venderly suggested something out of the ordinary: an aluminum 350 block with Corvette heads. With the engine complete Steve then began working on fabricating an aluminum dash and installing an aluminum tilt-steering column. In 2000 Steve added Vintage Air, rear fuel cell, power windows, and a JVC stereo. Then the interior was accented in Cardinal Red and black upholstery. Next, Steve built a rear roll pan, and added an aluminum radiator and shroud. He also stained the bed wood a lighter Victory Red and had the truck repainted Victory Red. 'On a teacher's salary, and due to some trying times, this has been a long, slow process, but it's been a labor of love,' Steve said."
Still Truckin'Sal Nicastro, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, has been involved in some form of cars all his life. He even served a five-year term as Joe Amato's bottom-end man on Joe's Top Fuel dragster. A few years back, Sal had a pretty horrendous accident in his Eliminator dragster. It cost him in a lot of ways, but still his fire and desire for custom cars and trucks hasn't diminished. Nowadays Sal rocks this '71 Chevy truck. But, instead of keeping it stock, the wheels of motion have delivered a pretty rad custom truck. For starters, the top of the '71 has been chopped and the taillights have been ditched for late-model Cadillac taillights. Up front, the stock grille has been swapped for a custom tube grille, while a flame job sets the entire truck off. Keep at it Sal.


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Date(s) - 19/09/2019
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Nature Conservation | Weekly Volunteering
Every Thursday 10am to 12noon we're going to be volunteering at Silverdale Country Park – doing our bit to 'Give' (Spirit) and 'Care' (Planet)!
We work under the guidance of the park ranger, doing activities like planting wildflower meadow, species diversity surveys, brash hedge laying, fence building and mending, and wildlife habitat building – plus generally helping to make the park safe and secure for the human's and nature. We're joined by the park's regular bunch of volunteers who share a wealth of knowledge of the Silverdale landscape and it's wildlife inhabitants – so it's a great place to share information and learn too. We don't profess to be nature experts, so we're learning all the time too.
Images showing collecting data on species diversity
Images showing wire fence building protecting Wildlife Conservation Areas
Images showing installation of 'rot boxes', providing dead wood habitats for insects
In order to participate you'll need to complete a volunteer application form provided by the Groundwork West Midlands Ranger and abide by the instructions and risk assessments provided. This activity is coordinated by the Park Ranger and comes under the park operators insurance.
More information about Silverdale Country Park can be found on a new website, which also includes informative videos and photos showing the mining history of the site.
Silverdale Country Park is operated and manged by partners Groundwork and The Land Trust.


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Ulaanbaatar.Mongolia.(2008).Portrait of a boy from the 13th district.He uses his dog to compete in illigal dogfights.
In Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia illigal dogfights take places regularly within underground societies. While they set their dogs life at risk, gambling occurs for a small amount of 50 US dollars per fight. When one of the dogs clearly have prevailed they separate them so that they may be used again. After the fight both dogs were highly injured and the owners used steroids as medication.


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jcstyle needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 96 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
We want a design that reflects we are stylish, up-to-date, trendy, classy and fun.
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Join our friendly group where, each week, we read and discuss a short story together, plus poems. You can join in with the discussions, or just sit back and relax. Includes free refreshments of tea/coffee and biscuits.
All our Shared Reading Groups use the same approach - typically the group will read together a short story and a poem during the session. Chatting is a big part of the group - with the emphasis being on "what it means to me",
but there is no pressure to join in. Groups are ideal for those with visual impairments, dyslexia or other difficulties with reading or concentration; but equally groups are also enjoyed by anyone who occasionally likes to take time
over their reading and to discuss it with others.
This event is free, no ticket required.
Every Friday from 10.30am
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Hey everyone, here's another animal tutorial for you all. This time I'll be showing you how to draw a monkey or leaf-monkey. Get your pencils, paper, and eraser ready!
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John Stobart B. 1929
It was as a young art student that John Stobart first experienced the work of John Constable and Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot. Constable's oil sketches told Stobart that he too could develop simplicity and clarity in his work. Corot's paintings of outdoor subjects and architecture inspired Stobart's art. In these paintings, Stobart also found a quality of light he had never before seen. The work of these artists deeply affected Stobart and prompted him to define his own artistic style.


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We won't be having a Monday Challenge today, but will start up again next week. I can't wait to show you the cute cards my DT has been working on for the next challenge!
My parents gave us a really nice ice cream machine for Christmas, so I thought it would be fun to make them a thank you card that went with their sweet gift!
I couldn't pick just one patterned paper, so I decided to make 4 thank you cards (you can never have enough thank you cards!) and then I will send them my favorite one.
All of the sentiments on these cards come from the Thank You stamp set. There are soooo many fun combinations in this set!
I tied the sentiment tag on with Olive jute string.
For the cones, I ran the light brown pieces through my cuttlebug and then inked them with brown ink.
I used my corner rounder on some of the sentiments to match the rounded lines of my shape cards.
I used brown ink on part of the sentiments and red (SEI) ink on others. I think it looks fun to mix and match!
For this card, I just stamped the sentiment right on the ice cream cone.
I wanted green for the strawberry top, so I cut the the 'chocolate syrup' layer a second time from green and then hand trimmed the top off.
I cut all of these at 5 inches from the Sweet Treats cartridge.
Have a very happy and safe New Years!!


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Although Visual Studio provides a visual class browser, it's absolutely unusable because it's only updated on a compiler run, doesn't show inheritance, and last but not least, shows all classes of the project in a single tree. Learn how to create five different styles of browsers: Outline, Hierarchy, Type, Method, and a Workspace/File Browser. (The article and source code were updated.)
Be Sweet, a Set of Visual Source Code Browsers
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Lawyer for Leesburg police officer charged with sex battery speaks out
FDLE launches investigation on Henri Larue
LEESBURG, Fla. – The lawyer for a Leesburg police officer accused of forcing a woman under arrest to commit a sexual act spoke out on Thursday saying the allegation is untrue.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested a Leesburg Police Officer on Wednesday on sexual battery charges after a three-month investigation.
Officer Henri Bart Larue posted his $100,000 bond after his first appearance, in which his wife and sister attended to support him.
"There have been apparently allegations, however, there are no facts in the file that we just looked at to support any of it, but we are going to file a motion to get those to see what the facts are," said Larue's attorney, Robbery Whittel.
Larue, 25, has been charged with sexual battery with a firearm after the investigation into the Oct. 3, 2012, incident. Larue stopped a 23-year-old woman for a broken tail light and found she had active suspensions, so he placed her under arrest and started to take her to the Lake County Jail, according to reports.
On the way to the jail, he allegedly stopped at an alley behind a shopping center, removed her handcuffs and forced her to perform a sex act, the report states.
Whittel said he believes the victim has an ulterior motive and says the victim has had several run-ins with the law.
"We're going to fight this case," Whittel said. "We're going to take it all the way to trial if we need to. He maintains his innocence, he is innocent and that's our position."
Leesburg police officials said the department is ashamed of the allegations.
"From the chief's office on down, like I said, we're just mortified about those allegations," said Captain Rob Hicks of the Leesburg Police Department. "Once we determined the nature of the allegation was criminal we immediately brought in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement."
The victim has hired Attorney Mark NeJame to represent her. NeJame held a news conference on Wednesday afternoon to discuss the charges his client filed.
"The car was stopped, (the victim's) door was opened, one of her handcuff was left on one wrist the other was released, and while the officer was armed with a gun strapped to his side, a uniform and badges, he beckoned her to commit a sex act on him," NeJame said.
Larue was employed with the department starting in March 2012 and was placed on paid administrative leave October 5, 2012, following the allegations. He is now on unpaid leave.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement conducted an investigation, along with the Leesburg Police Department. The department will determine if Larue will be taken off the force.
Larue will be back in front of a judge for a bond reduction hearing on Feb. 19.
Check back for more information on this developing story.
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YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. - Mother Nature was the only one who could slow down Alan Arnett on Saturday.
The Georgia Southwestern guard poured in 29 points and grabbed 16 rebounds for his first double-double of the season in leading the Hurricanes to a 94-82 win over Young Harris College.
Arnett was simply amazing as he connected on 8 of 14 shots, including 4 of 5 from beyond the arc, and made 9 of 10 from the free throw line. Not only did he grab a game-high 16 boards, but he also dished out five assists, blocked three shots and had three steals.
GSW has won two in-a-row and improves to 9-11 overall and 5-8 in the PBC. Young Harris drops to 14-5 and 9-3 in conference play. YHC entered the game atop the West Division of the Peach Belt Conference.
The Hurricanes snapped an eight-game home winning streak for Young Harris and handed the Mountain Lions their first home loss since the first game of the season. GSW also becomes the first Peach Belt Conference opponent to win a league game on the Mountain Lions' home floor.
Arnett and his teammates were left to enjoy the victory from a hotel in a nearby town as a snow storm made its way through the area. GSW hopes to return home on Sunday.
An upset victory looked like a fantasy early on as the Moutain Lions stormed to a 19-point advantage, 30-11, with 8:23 left in the first half.
GSW responeded quickly with a 10-3 run over the next two minutes to trim the deficit to eight. A Matt Shaw layup with 1:14 to go before the intermission had pulled Southwestern within three, 41-38, but Frank Adams scored for YHC on the final possession of the period to make the score 43-38 at halftime.
Milos Kleut gave GSW its first lead of the game, 47-46, with his jumper at the 17:44 mark.
YHC scored four unanswered points to move ahead for the final time, 50-47.
Daryl Davis scored six-straight points during GSW's ensuing 10-0 run to put the Hurricanes ahead for good. GSW led 59-50 with 13:50 to go.
Tyler Gunnett converted a 3-point play at the 12:19 mark to give GSW a 15-point advantage, 67-52. In the span of 16 minutes, GSW outscored YHC by 34 points (56-22).
An Arnett dunk with 1:33 to play put an exclamation point on the victory. The Hurricanes spent the rest of the game at the foul line and connected on 11 free throws before the final horn.
Davis had a stellar game for GSW as well, coming off the bench to pour in a career-high 23 points - behind 10 of 14 shooting - and grab eight rebounds. Jamon Hawkins chipped in 12 points. The 16 boards by Arnett was the most by a Hurricane player since Phillip Brown grabbed 19 rebounds on Dec. 14, 2011 at Clayton State.
YHC had five players score in double figures. Malcolm Jackson led the Mountain Lions with 19 points. Adams added 18.
The Hurricanes host Columbus State at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday in an important inner-division tilt that could decide who goes to the postseason tournament and who stays home.


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Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of free-ranging horses and burros on federal public lands in the western United States, concluding that constructive changes could be implemented. The Wild Horse and Burro Program has not used scientifically rigorous methods to estimate the population sizes of horses and burros, to model the effects of management actions on the animals, or to assess the availability and use of forage on rangelands. Evidence suggests that horse populations are growing by 15 to 20 percent each year, a level that is unsustainable for maintaining healthy horse populations as well as healthy ecosystems. Promising fertility-control methods are available to help limit this population growth, however. In addition, science-based methods exist for improving population estimates, predicting the effects of management practices in order to maintain genetically diverse, healthy populations, and estimating the productivity of rangelands. Greater transparency in how science-based methods are used to inform management decisions may help increase public confidence in the Wild Horse and Burro Program.
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This is something I've been looking into for a while.
We use sharepoint here as well as our own bespoke bit of software that lets you create and edit our own type of documents.
I've written a COM dll, which I've tested with the following code as a vbs script:
Dim obj
set obj = CreateObject("Ctest.SharePoint.OpenDocuments.1")
msgbox obj.EditDocument("c:\mytest.olf", "06FC39A0-2CAA-11D0-B6B7-004095131445")
That works a treat.
I've added our file extension to Sharepoint search/indexing.
If I edit DocIcon.xml with the line:
<Mapping Key="olf" Value="olf.png" EditText="My Application" OpenControl="Ctest.SharePoint.OpenDocuments.1"/>
I get the "The document could not be opened for editing. A Microsoft SharePoint Foundation compatible application could not be found to edit the document." error.
Any idea's on this as I'm not sure what else I can do!


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Sophomore • 2013
Hit and scored the only run on a solo homer in the season-opening 5-1 loss to Jacksonville and went 1 for 3 with two runs in a 7-6 win vs. Ball St. March 1 … Scored at least one run in a three game stretch against Delaware St., N.C. A&T, and Western Ill … Went 3 for 3 with a double and two RBI in a 3-2 loss to Long Beach State and went 1 for 4 with a homerun and two RBI in a 7-2 win against Miami (Ohio) March 16 … Went 2 for 3 with an RBI in a 2-1 loss to San Diego March 17 … Went 0 for 1 with two runs and 2 for 3 with a run and a double in a 11-1 and 2-1 doubleheader win against Rhode Island March 26 … Finished 3 for 4 with three RBI, a double, and a run in an 11-3 win over Princeton April 5 … Scored two runs and got one RBI in a 7-4 win over Yale and hit 2 for 3 with an RBI in a 4-2 victory over Yale April 13 … Scored four runs and had two RBI in a doubleheader 12-3 win and 5-3 victory over Yale April 14 … Knocked a double and a triple and drove in three runs in first game of doubleheader against Quinnipiac April 18.
Freshman •
Received All-Ivy League honorable mention honors ... Went 1 for 2 with three putouts in collegiate debut against Toledo March 2 … Was 1 for 2 with a sacrifice against Maine March 11 … Notched an RBI single at San Diego State March 15 … Recorded RBI in back-to-back games against Bryant (March 27) and Cornell (March 30) … Went 3 for 3 and drove in three runs in Game 2 against Penn April 7 … Launched a two-run home run in Game 1 against Rhode Island April 10 … Had a hit in all four games against Yale April 14-15 … Went 2 for 3 from the plate in series opener against Dartmouth April 28 ... Picked up a hit in loss to No. 16 Washington in NCAA Seattle Regional and singled and scored a run the following day in a win over Maryland ... Plated the winning run on a suicide squeeze in win over No. 23 Texas Tech in NCAA Seattle Regional
Before Harvard
A dual-sport athlete participating in softball from 2004-09 and volleyball from 2006-07 … Varsity softball captain from 2006-09 … All-County softball honors from 2007-09 … Named to the Adidas Futures Top 100 Recruitable Athletes in 2008.
AP Scholar in 2011 … 2010 Harvard Book Award recipient … Sophomore and junior class president … National Honor Society and Spanish National Honor Society member from 2009-11 … Key Club member 2007-08 … Starlight Children's Foundation Volunteer in 2010-11.


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The digital, virtual, computational, cognitive, economic, global, and cultural transformations to human subjectivity are revolutionary, and challenge us to rethink the nature of humanist thought and artistic meaning. Contemporary art is both revelatory and translational--it appropriates culture to re-position it, it filters the raw footage of contemporary life into sharp contrasts that impact our political, social, and cultural consciousness. The power of the new arts to move markets, create new paradigms for the production and organization of knowledge and information, and to synthesize our complex environment into new streams of thought is vital. This panel explores these issues in the context of Cornell university and its unique role in fostering a culture of innovation in the arts and through arts programming that challenges conventional notions of space, performance, and visuality.
Moderator: Milton S. F. Curry '88, Director, Cornell Council for the Arts; Associate Professor of Architecture
- Jumay R. Chu, Senior Lecturer in Dance, Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance
- Patrick Dougherty, Sculptor, North Carolina, CCA Cornell Public Visiting Installation Artist, 2006
- Terry D. Plater, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, The Graduate School; Chair, Ithaca Public Arts Commission


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Q: Can I run my waterfall and stream in my water garden throughout the Winter? – Carla of Pennsylvania
A: A majority of water garden owners will shut down their water gardens entirely during the Winter, but there are still quite a few that don't.
Have you ever seen a waterfall with a stream running during the Winter? Its amazing! Ice begins to build up on the falls and you'll see sections where the water
flows underneath the ice throughout the stream. It really is a beautiful scene.
Having said that, yes you can run the waterfall and stream throughout the Winter, but it depends on these couple factors:
Pump Size (Gallons Per Hour): Here is the major factor in whether or not you can continue to run your waterfall and stream throughout the Winter. Your GPH or gallons per hour must be greater than 2,000 as the water is coming down the waterfall and stream. If this flow is not obtained, then there is a greater possibility the water could freeze, causing ice dams in the stream and pushing the water over and out the side of the stream. If this happened, your water garden would be drained in no time.
Long Streams Beware: Even if you have 2,000 GPH of water coming down the stream, if the stream is quite long, longer than 10′ or 15′, then it may not be a good idea to run the system throughout the winter. In long streams, there is more opportunity for ice dams to be created and thus draining your water garden. If your stream is longer than 10′ to 15′ and you still want to try and run your system I would advise you to use a little bit more flow than 2,000 GPH and to watch it regularly to make sure these ice dams are not created.
I wish you all the opportunity to enjoy your water garden throughout the Winter. Again, it really is an amazing site.
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What's New
Milonguita Font by Sudtipos
Milonga is one of the most characteristic dances of Argentina and it is usually compared to Tango. Milonguita was designed so that readers can experience the passion and spontaneity of this dancing style through words. Users can play with the upwards and downwards patterns of the letters creating different images and textures and thus, making texts flow smoothly and naturally, just as a warm piece of Milonga would.
Milonguita comes in Opentype with plenty of built-in alternates and a simulated random code.
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Mosca is unbeaten on both the one- and three-meter boards this season (Kevin Burns).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's swimming and diving team remained unbeaten on the young season with a 192-108 win over Columbia Friday night in the team's home opener at Blodgett Pool.
The Crimson (3-0, 3-0 Ivy League) posted wins in 13 of the 16 events and for the second week in a row Mike Mosca swept the diving events while Chris Satterthwaite posted victories in both the 100 and 200 free. Chuck Katis also registered a pair of victories with wins in the 100 breast and 400 IM as Christian Carbone touched first in the 200 fly and 200 breast.
Mosca dominated the diving competition and easily won both the one- and three-meter events. The sophomore topped his score from last week on the three-meter with 338.55 points while his closest competition, Jason Collazo from Columbia, finished second with 305.03 points. Mosca also took first on the one-meter with 337.35 points, just shy of his season-high of 338.10 points, while senior Michael Stanton registered 313.36 points to take second.
Satterthwaite remained unbeaten in the 100 and 200 free but was challenged this week by teammates Griffin Schumacher and Greg Roop. Satterthwaite's time of 45.43 in the 100 was just faster than Schumacher's time of 45.54 while he just out-touched his senior co-captain in the 200 with a time of 1:40.72 compared to Roop's 1:40.84.
Katis registered his second straight win in the 100 breast and touched the wall in 55.25 with teammate Jason Ting taking second in 58.79. In the 400 IM, Katis outdueled Carbone with a 3:58.34 while the freshman finished second in 3:59.69.
Carbone remained unbeaten in the 200 fly with a winning time of 1:49.09, nearly one-second faster than Columbia's Kevin Quinn who finished second in 1:50.06. Carbone also cruised to victory in the 200 breast as his time of 2:03.81 put him more than three seconds ahead of Columbia's Eric Traub (2:07.21).
Harvard's other winners included Mike Gaudiani (1,650 free, 15:35.00), Schumacher (50 free, 20.61) and Steven Kekacs (500 free, 4:34.52). The 200 medley relay team of Jack Pretto, Katis, Oliver Lee and Schumacher also earned a victory in 1:30.81 while the 200 free relay team of Schumacher, Roop, Lee and Satterthwaite won in a time of 1:22.82.
Harvard returns to competition at the end of the month when it travels south for the Georgia Invitational Nov. 30 through Dec. 2.