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Origins and Purpose
The design of France's first jet-powered aircraft, the Sud-Ouest SO-6000 Triton, was begun as early as 1943 by Lucien Servanty and his team, working secretly during the German occupation of France. On 15 December 1944, SNCASO was awarded contract 4478/44 for the construction of five prototypes and a static test airframe. Construction began at Sud Ouest's facilities at Suresnes in 1945. Despite the shortages of power and heating as well as the extremely harsh conditions immediately after the war, work on the Triton proceeded at the rate of 75 hours per week.
General description
A stocky aircraft seating a pilot and a flight engineer side by side, the Triton had little to distinguish it from any WW II aircraft except the lack of a propeller, and the jet exhaust at the aft end of the fuselage, just beneath the tail assembly. It was a cantilever monoplane characterized by an extremely-large oval-section fuselage and low-mounted trapezoidal straight wings with rounded tips, trim flaps along 57% of the trailing edge, Frise type ailerons, and a 6° dihedral. The first Triton had a "shark's mouth" type intake. Later prototypes had side intakes.
Construction, systems and equipment
An all-metal aircraft, the Triton's single-spar wings were built of a light alloy and were fabric-coated for a very smooth profile. The tailplane, also fabric-coated, used duralumin spars. The control surfaces were mechanically actuated by a MAP stick with grip, and pedals operated the rudder. There were no airbrakes on the first Triton, but these were added on latter prototypes.
The Triton's cockpit was quite roomy, and fitted with dual controls. It was equipped initially with Heinkel ejection seats for the pilot and the flight engineer. The cabin was heated, with a two-layer windshield, and the crew were provided with an oxygen supply. The instrument panel facing the pilot had standard displays which included a Machmeter and all the hydraulic, pneumatic and engine controls. The flight engineer's side featured all the test instruments and gauges.
Equipment carried onboard the Triton included a VHF radio SCR 552 and a radio compass, and a blind landing instrument. Electricity was provided by a 2,400 – 3000 watt generator and two batteries. The Triton was equipped with a DOP tricycle landing gear, hydraulically actuated and retractable into the wings. The nose wheel which was steerable and retracted backwards had an anti-shimmy device. The main gear had shock absorbers and a 5 m 16 cm stance.
Powerplant and fuel tankage
A variety of jet engines was used in the Triton program. The first Triton was slated to mount a Rateau SR-1A turbojet of approximately 1,400 kg thrust. This engine was excessively delayed and a Jumo 004 was eventually installed instead. Triton 02, which never flew, was also equipped with a Jumo 004. A Rolls Royce Derwent V was planned for Triton 3, but gave way before the first flight to the more-powerful Nene, rated at more than 2,100 kg of thrust. The Nene also powered Triton 04 and Triton 05.
The Triton's engine was fed from fuel tanks in the fuselage. These consisted of an insulated main tank (1,250 liters) in the upper center and an auxiliary tank (200 liters).
The jet engine, which had an electrical starter, was fixed at three attachment points in the fuselage.
Triton 01
Weight empty: 2,848 kg
Weight loaded: 3,790 kg
Construction of the first Triton was completed in March 1946. Then it was dismantled and trucked in June to the airfield of Orleans-Bricy in the suburbs of Paris for the forthcoming first flights.
Lucien Servanty had originally conceived the aircraft around a double-flux Rateau SR-1A turbojet of 1,4630 kg thrust, at the time under construction by engineer René Anxionnaz at the Rateau company. Unfortunately, this powerplant's development was excessively delayed, and Servanty agreed to use a Junkers Jumo 004B-2 turbojet, from a stock found at a BMW plant inside the French-occupied zone of Germany. Test pilot Daniel Rastel, who became the first French jet-pilot in 1942 on the British Gloster E-28/39 was chosen to fly the Triton, and accordingly made several familiarization sorties on a French-held Me 262.
A preliminary series of static runs of the Triton-fitted engine began on 19 July 1946. On 20 August, the first taxi run was undertaken with Rastel at the controls, and the aircraft achieved a speed of 150 kmph on the ground after a 1000 m run.
The aircraft was taxied again on 31 August, and in the following weeks. Nose wheel shimmy and other landing gear problems were reported along with engine over-heating and fuel leaks.
The first flight took place in the afternoon of 11 November 1946. With Daniel Rastel and observer Armand Raimbeau in the cockpit, the aircraft made a difficult take-off after a 1,700m run. Flying at 300 m altitude and with the landing gear still extended, the crew carefully circled the base, keeping their speed at 300 kmph. Rastel observed that the controls were very sensitive to touch, before landing the Triton precisely on the runway, at 250 kmph.
Climbing out from the aircraft, Rastel and Rimbeaud were loudly cheered by their colleagues. The Triton's first flight, however, did not indicate the end of the aircraft's development troubles. The second flight took place five and a half months later, on 29 April 1947 and was intended for general handling investigation and landing gear operation. Strong vibrations and stability deterioration forced the termination of the flight when the landing gear was retracted and flaps spuriously operated. These problems recurred during the third flight, on 22 May 1947 and lead to irreparable damage to the wing and lower aft fuselage. These were replaced by parts taken from the 02 which was struck off charge.
By the time the aircraft flew for the fourth time, on 10 August, modifications had more or less cured the instability problem, but engine overheating to 250° C, a few minutes after taking-off was becoming a serious problem. After the fifth flight, on 9 September, it was clear that the aircraft cannot be flown before solving the overheating problem. A new exhaust was installed, and it succeeded during ground tests in keeping the temperature at 130°.
Unfortunately, during the sixth flight, on 1 October, landing gear operation resulted again in serious instability problems and the aircraft had to be landed immediately, Rastel having nearly lost control of the aircraft.
None of the first six flights had lasted more than 12 minutes. Flight 7, on 5 October, was the first to last 15 minutes and it allowed the crew to pinpoint with accuracy the problem areas in the aircraft. As a result, a decision was taken to restrict flying to days when temperature was below 15° and to restrict speed to 500 kmph until the instability problem was completely solved. A new engine, more powerful than the Jumo 004 was required.
Unfortunately, the Triton's troubles were far from over. During the eighth flight, on 11 October 1947, an emergency landing had to be made after a series of engine blasts.
The ninth flight, on 5 November, turned out to be the last of the aircraft when it was discovered that the gas exhaust heat had melted the jet pipe. Lengthy modifications to make the aircraft flyable again were deemed too expensive and impractical, particularly in view of the Jumo 004's poor performance. Triton 01 had accumulated an hour and a half in the air during its nine flights.
Triton 02
Weight empty: 3,064 kg
Weight loaded: 3,850 kg
Triton 02 was used in static tests of the wing's rigidity in January 1947. The aircraft was not immediately scrapped after its wing was transplanted into the Triton 01. It acquired new wings and a Jumo 004, while waiting to receive a Rolls Royce Derwent V. During ground tests, this engine also performed erratically. Triton 02 was struck off charge and its Derwent was installed in the Triton 03.
Triton 03
Weight empty: 3,557 kg
Weight loaded: 4,484 kg
Last Triton to reach the flight line, the Triton 03 embodied some redesign of the forward fuselage, the cockpit windscreen being carried forward and the nose intake being deleted. Triton 03 had been slated originally to receive a Derwent engine. This was replaced by the more-powerful Nene 104 and the aircraft first flew, thus powered, on 4 April 1950, at Orleans-Bricy. The flight was troubled by buffeting, landing gear malfunction and a brisk stall tendency, and it only lasted 10 minutes.
The second flight took place on 3 May and incurred the same landing gear trouble. The aircraft possibly never flew again.
Triton 03 is the only surviving Triton and is preserved in the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace.
Triton 04
Weight empty: 3,197 kg
Triton 04 was the second aircraft to be completed. Weighing 3,850 kg, it was equipped with a Rolls-Royce Nene 101 turbojet rated at 2,183 kg and nose and lateral intakes and overall wing span was increased from 9.16 m to 9.96 m.. The aircraft first flew on 19 March 1948 at Orleans Bricy, with Rastel and Michel Retif at the controls. Made with the landing gear down, this first flight pointed out the advantages of the new engine. But the early flights also encountered frequent landing gear trouble. Particularly harrowing was the fourth flight on 26 March, when the right wheel collapsed on take-off but the sortie continued. Flights 5 and 6 were used for verification of the repaired landing gear. Flight 7, on 12 May, demonstrated the successful operation of the landing gear but almost came to grief when one of the cockpit's side doors opened in flight, causing the flight to be aborted.
After Rastel, SNCASO's Jacques Guignard took over the Triton flight operations following the traditional Me 262 familiarizations. He made his first Triton flight (Flight 9 of Triton 04) on 23 June 1948, and his second on the following day. During his third flight, on 25 June, a fabric-coated aileron tore away at 700 kmph but he managed to land safely.
CEV test pilot Captain Roger Receveau made his first flight on this aircraft in company of SNCASO engineer Pistrak on 26 July 1948, achieving 700 kmph. This was the aircraft's Flight 15 and it was followed by a series of modifications on the Triton 04, which included strengthening the doors and the improvement of air flow passage into the jet intakes.
Rastel flew the aircraft again in August. On 7 September, he made an emergency landing on a soft green field near the base after loss of pressure and engine flameout. The anomaly was traced to a pump leak which began just before landing. Damage was minor and the aircraft flew again on 12 October.
Landing gear trouble was encountered in flight in early November, nonetheless, on 10 November, the aircraft made its longest flight to date, lasting 30 minutes, weighing 4,000 kg on take-off and carrying a 950 liters fuel load. It was Triton 04's Flight 22.
By 2 December 1948, despite recurring problems with stability, the aircraft was achieving speeds in excess of 840 kmph. By year's end it had logged 25 flights.
Repairs and modifications of the side intakes and side doors grounded the aircraft until 12 January 1949 when it was flown to the CEV at Brétigny where flight tests would resume and would include stall investigations. By early spring the aircraft was exceeding 850 kmph regularly, and it made a 35 minute flight on 16 March. Eight days later, during an official demonstration with Rastel at the controls, the aircraft carried out an impressive series of maneuvers including tight turns and rolls.
Rastel and Pistrak took off again on the Triton 04 on 7 May 1949 for a speed record attempt over a 3 km circuit. Aeroclub observers on the ground put the maximum speed achieved at 897.898 kmph. Rastel insisted that they were mistaken but the officials maintained their verdict.
On 14 May Rastel flew the Triton 04 at the Paris Air Show in its first public demonstration. Shortly later it was taken in charge by the CEV whose pilot Captain Roger Receveau flew the prototype in stall and maneuverability tests in the following few months and in an official demonstration to a Yugoslav delegation. A new pilot, CEV Captain Jean Sarrail, achieved a speed of approximately 900 kmph on this aircraft around the end of the year, and by year's end 88 flights had been logged in more than 35 hours of flying time.
After four flights in January 1950, the aircraft was grounded for landing gear checks and general inspection. It flew again in March, bettering its own duration record with a flight of 40 minutes on 22 March. Flight 100 was made on 6 April, with Captain Sarrail at the controls, at an altitude of 2,000 m – 4,000 m.
The aircraft was used for familiarization flights by foreign pilots that spring then was flown in an airshow at the Orly airport in June.
One of the foreign pilots who flew the Triton 04 had been a Belgian and on 24 June, the Triton 04 was flown to Brussels where it was demonstrated to Belgian officials on 25 June then returned the next day to Brétigny.
The aircraft spent the following months in lay-up. It flew again on 10 October 1950 (Flight 127) with Lt Sarrail at the controls. On 3 November, the aircraft was taken to Orleans-Bricy on Flight 129 while airstrip expansion work was taking place at Brétigny. This was to be the aircraft's last flight. After landing, extensive engine and hydraulic system damages were discovered and these were enough to ground the aircraft permanently.
Triton 05
Weight empty: 3,437 kg
Weight loaded: 4,359 kg
This aircraft had been slated to mount a Derwent, but was fitted with a Nene 104. It was the first Triton to be equipped with an ejection seat (designed by Heinkel).
Equipped with lateral intakes aft of the cabin, this aircraft first flew on 23 May 1949, achieving a level run at 1,800 m and 420 kmph. During its Flight 8 on 21 July 1949, with Rastel and Pistrak in the cockpit, Rastel lost contact with the control tower in a low cloud base at 2,000-3,000 m during the return trip to Bricy. Disoriented and derailed because of strong winds, fuel ran out and Rastel initiated an emergency landing on a green field. Touchdown and initial roll proved successful, but the Triton crossed over a ditch at 50 kmph, lost its balance and tripped heavily on one side, sustaining damage which was uneconomical to repair. Triton 05 was written off after 2 hr 45 min of flying time.
There was a time when the French Air Force considered the acquisition of 50 Tritons, designated SO-6005, as trainers. Switzerland, Argentina and several nations evinced interest in purchasing for their flying schools these aircraft, which were never built, and which were designed with wing tip fuel tanks.
The Triton, understandably, was overtaken by aeronautical progress, and the project was officially terminated on 12 December 1950, the total cost being 470 million francs. However the Triton was a stepping stone in the road to greatness. Almost two decades after designing the Triton, Lucien Servanty began his drawings of the Concorde. The rest is history.
Known Triton pilots
André Rastel
Jacques Guignard
Roland Glavany
Armand Jacquet
Paul Boudier
Jean Sarrail
Roger Receveau
Charles Goujon
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This morning has been surprisingly nice.
Helping friends with their wedding planning business.
Covering chairs and realising I've been doing bows wrong all my life!
Coffee and chat.
Then to the launderette.
A broken machine resulting in meeting the owner and getting a refund.
And meeting 4 barge enthusiasts on a 3 and a half month trip!
Lunch and a cup of tea.
Leads me here.
The lovely Sunny Gu tweeted about me.
Which led to a few lovely followers who do fabulous work.
Thanks you. x x
The illustration below can be found at my Etsy shop! : )
Still find joy in this and this and this and this.
Friday, 29 July 2011
Red dots, stripes and yellow bit's with added flowers.
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The grand dining room at Naniboujou Lodge in Grand Marais / Photo by Spruce Creek Photography
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Three-dollar bills were printed by various states in the 1800s, but there has never been a U.S. three-dollar bill. There are U.S. one-dollar bills and U.S. two-dollar bills.
"Rufe Davis describes a certain ham: 'Phoney as a Three Dollar Bill!!!'" was cited in Hy Gardner's "Broadway Newsreel" column in the Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle on March 19, 1937. "Rare as a three-dollar bill" was cited in a 1942 newspaper and "queer as a three-dollar bill" in a 1943 newspaper. The expression "phon(e)y/queer/strange/rare as a three-dollar bill" means something unusual or fake.
"Queer/strange as a three-dollar bill" also referred to homosexuals by at least the 1960s.
Wikipedia: Fake denominations of United State currency
Although various US states printed $3 bills before the unification of the currency, no US$3 bills have ever been printed. However, various fake US$3 bills have been released over time, generally poking fun at politicians or celebrities such as Richard Nixon, Michael Jackson, George W. Bush, both Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama in reference to the idiomatic expression "queer as a three-dollar bill" or "phony as a three-dollar bill". In the 1960s, Mad printed a $3 bill that featured a portrait of Alfred E. Neuman and read: "This is not legal tender—nor will a tenderizer help it." Mad writer Frank Jacobs said that the magazine ran afoul of the US Secret Service because the $3 bill was accepted by change machines at casinos.
queer as a three-dollar bill
Obviously homosexual •Usu considered offensive
The Free Dictionary
*phony as a three-dollar billand *queer as a three-dollar bill
phony; bogus
Brooklyn Newsstand
19 March 1937, Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle, "Broadway Newsreel" by Hy Gardner, pg. 14, col. 7:
Rufe Davis describes a certain ham: "Phoney as a Three Dollar Bill!!!"
3 June 1942, Charleston (SC) Evening Post, "Today's Sport Parade" by Jack Guenther (U.P.), pg. 9, col. 3:
Today the player who has held his position with the same team for as long as three seasons is as rare as a three-dollar bill.
19 September 1942, New York (NY) Age, "Time Out" by Buster Miller, pg. 11, col. 1:
That Dan Burley-Wendell Smith feud is as phony as a three-dollar bill.
24 September 1943, Vernon (TX) Daily Record, "News of Class 44-C," pg. 7, col. 4:
"Three-dollar-Bill" Ferris never tells a man to shut his big fat trap—he phrases it this way, "Hush, now!! At ease, I say!!"—queer as a three-dollar bill.
6 October 1943, New York (NY) Times, "American Returns, Defies China Lure" by Brooks Atkinson, pg. 15, col. 3:
Transportation in China being as scarce as a three-dollar bill, the pressure to ride in these transports is tremendous ...
14 January 1945, Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR), "Weary-Go-Round" by Hardy "Spider" Rowland, pg. 11, col. 7:
However, if anyone wants to wager that at least one of the accounts wasn't wrong as a three dollar bill, please get in touch with me.
2 October 1945, Washington (DC) Post, "Planes Dropped Phony Money to Japs as War Ended," pg. 4, col. 7:
Stage money—as phony as a three dollar bill—was one of the psychological weapons used by the Allied forces in the closing days of the Japanese war.
12 December 1946, Chicago (IL) Daily News, "In the Wake of the News" by Arch Ward, sec. 4, pg. 59, col. 2:
Add Similes
As phony as a three dollar bill.
-- Frank D. Reid
8 September 1952, Boston (MA) Daily Globe, "The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk, pg. 12, col. 3:
"Hell, don't take anything Tom says too serious. Tom's queer as a three-dollar bill."
5 April 1953, Boston (MA) Sunday Advertiser, "Tommy COllins Puts i in Acton" by John Gillooly, pg. 29, col. 7:
"Some of these people, especially visiting reporters and photographers who don't know me, must think I'm queer as a three-dollar bill."
29 September 1957, Indianapolis (IN) Star, "Arkansas 1st Issued 'Confederate' Money" by Jim Buck, sec. 8, pg. 4, col. 4:
But strangely enough, the $3 bill which almost every state has printed, has never been approved by the Federal Government. Thus we find the expression, "strange as a three dollar bill."
26 September 1975, Courier-Post (Camden, NJ), "Life can be gay in the new Army" by Dennis M. Culnan, pg. 33, col. 3:
BOB SMILED to himself, mentally laughing about basic training. Here he was queer as a three dollar bill taking a shower with 60 other men...It's a homosexual's dream come true.
OCLC WorldCat record
Queer as a three dollar bill.
Author: Ken Wood, (Illustrator); Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Committee (San Francisco, Calif.),
Publisher: San Francisco : Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Committee, [1981] ©1981.
Edition/Format: Image : Picture : Artwork reproduction : English
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Bring him back dead
Author: Day Keene
Publisher: Blue Ash, Ohio : Prologue Books, ©1984.
Series: Prologue Crime.
Edition/Format: eBook : Document : Fiction : English
Database: WorldCat
He was as rare as a three-dollar bill ... an honest man in the town of French Bayou - that was crowding Phenix City out of corruption's first place.
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J-Z
By Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor
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three-dollar bill noun
a homosexual US
from the expression "as strange as a three-dollar bill"
The Guild Dictionary of Homosexual Terms, p. 44, 1965
Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 156, 1967
Urban Dictionary
queer as a three dollar bill
Older term that means extremely strange but is usually heard in reference to a gay person. There never was a three dollar bill...thus the rarity.
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EFLA appointed to National Symbols Project
The Government of Liberia through the Governance Commission has appointed the European Federation of Liberia Associations (EFLA) to the National Symbols Review Project.
A letter to the president of EFLA John Nimly Brownell stated that EFLA has been selected to appoint a representative that will serve as a member of the project's advisory board.
"We hope you will accept to collaborate with your fellow Liberians in this important national endeavor," noted April 14, 2014 letter signed by Dr. Amos Sawyer, Chairman of the Governance Commission.
The project was established to coordinate informed consultative process that will draw upon Liberia's energy and creativity to promote a national conversation on the official symbols of the Republic of Liberia.
It will solicit input from Liberians across ethnic, regional, religious, generational, gender and educational divides. This broad-based inclusive process is expected to yield timeless symbols reflecting Liberia's past, present, and future.
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Rug #1 was a fairly early purchase from Overstock.com, which we were really happy with, despite it being more of a maroon color instead of the brick red they said:
This one got a hole chewed/scratched through both the rug and rug pad about 2-3" in diameter. One option is to see if it could be repaired in some way, but I'm not holding my breath on that one.
Rug #2 was in the dining room, and isn't super noticeable, so we just put that one away for the time being.
Rug #3 I bought as a training rug. I thought it was going to be a flatweave rug, but again thanks to ordering off the internet (www.rugsusa.com), it ended up being a rag rug. It was working fairly well, in that if we were in the room, we could correct behavior and I was able to fix small issues with the rug, and it was going well, until I started getting sloppy and leaving him alone in the living room. A large hole later, it wasn't redeemable.
So we come to today. So far, what we're working with is pale aqua walls (which aren't there yet, and could change if needed), a tan velvet chesterfield sofa (which I would love to recover, but probably a bit pricey and it doesn't really need it right now), two dark green chairs (I've been meaning to recover these since I got them 7 or 8 years ago, and they could actually use it), and pale beige leather chair, which also could use a recovering, but we're holding off until Eddie is out of puppy-hood. So basically it's all just a bunch of colors that could change, which isn't super helpful. There is also a stained glass window by the stairs which is primarily burgundy, pale blue, and yellow.
I've picked out a few bright options, and now I just have to convince John that one of them will be good (for some reason, rugs are a super tough thing for us to agree on). I like rugs that incorporate a bunch of different colors, and all of these incorporate the colors throughout the first floor - aqua, yellow, orange-red (which is the accent color in the dining room).
This one is probably my favorite so far.
Too much orange?
This one feels a little cheaper to me, for some reason.
This one doesn't blend color-wise quite as well, but I really like the design.
Too much blue?
As a side note, all these rugs are from eSaleRugs.com, and they are having 50%-60% off as a pre-black Friday sale today! I have not ordered from them before, but I'm finding their free return policy quite attractive, as that's always been the tricky part of ordering rugs online, in that it's super expensive to ship them back if they don't quite work out.


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Where are we represented ?
Soroptimist International Belgium is represented at :
"Vrouwenraad" aims to be the driving force for the achievement of gender equality in Flanders, Belgium and internationally.
For this political, social and economic equality is necessary: both men and women must have equal power.
The Council of Francophone Women of Belgium (CFFB) is a pluralist non-profit organisation of continuing education that brings together and represents women and sixty women's groups, from all backgrounds, opinions, situations, religions or parties. It aims to promote their rights and social, cultural, political and economic respect of their autonomy. The CFFB collaborates with other associations and public and private institutions, at all political levels.


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April 13 @ 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Speaker: Andrew Anderson, MS
Presented from ECU
Broadcast Link: Seminar
Patient portals are not new to healthcare. Their inclusion in the Meaningful Use (MU) program has served to increase the number of providers offering them to their patients, however. There is still much to be learned about the best way to engage patients in the use of portals to improve patients' health and well-being while maximizing the resources offered by the provider. This seminar will explore the use of a patient portal, success metrics in efforts to engage patients, and the future of patient portals.
Speaker Bio
As the Director of Clinical Information Technology at East Carolina University Physicians (ECU-P), Andrew Anderson, MS oversees the day-to-day operations of the Office of Clinical Information Technology. The Office of Clinical IT provides oversight of information technology implementations such as the ECU Electronic Health Record (EHR) and quality initiatives, which include: Meaningful Use (MU), Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), and Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS). Mr. Anderson holds a Master of Engineering degree from North Carolina State University and a Master of Occupational Health and Safety degree from East Carolina University.


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Straight Option- What is it?
The option is a great way of selling and buying a real estate property. In this the seller sells the property to the buyer who in turn markets the property till he or she gets the property sold. The seller is then paid the price of the property by the buyer. The buyer here gets to have the profit that is the difference between hi buying and selling the property. The main advantage of this kind of agreement is that the seller is technically bonded by the option while the buyer is not but if the seller finds a buyer before the optionee does then the seller is released of any bindings there and then.
Advantages of using straight options
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Israel does not have a constitution. The declaration of independence (which has nice humanistic language) is not considered one of the basic laws of the state of Israel and is not considered binding. One cannot fail to notice the really problematic (& racist elements) in the basic laws and if one is a gentile citizen of the state cannot but feel their direct impact. This is in essence the real problem that Israelis (Christians, Muslims and Jews) have to contend with regardless of whether Palestinian refugees are allowed to return to their homes and lands or not.
Here is an excerpt from Israel's declaration of Independence (May 15, 1948):
"We declare that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948, the People's Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People's Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State, to be called 'Israel.'"
Needless to say,, no constitution was written. Reasons given have ranged from wars to the issue of religion and Halachik law. The Knesset own web site (http://www.knesset.gov.il/knesset/) states the following:
"Since the Constituent Assembly and the first Knesset were unable to put a constitution together, the Knesset started to legislate basic laws on various subjects. After all the basic laws will be enacted, they will constitute together, with an appropriate introduction and several general rulings, the constitution of the State of Israel. "
Many basic laws have been passed by the Knessset. The significance of these laws was lent credence in numerous Israeli supreme court decisions that upheld them when contradictions occurred with other laws or decreas by the state.
Basic Laws of the state of Israel can be found at http://www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00mz0 >From a Zionist perspective, the most important are The Law of Return (1950), Israel Nationality Law, and Israel Lands, in 1960. These are precisely the laws that are most problematical for democracy and human rights. Let us first quote teh laws verbatim and then provide some analysis.
Law of Return 5710-1950
Right of aliyah**
1. Every Jew has the right to come to this country as an oleh**. Oleh's visa
2. (a) Aliyah shall be by oleh's visa.
(b) An oleh's visa shall be granted to every Jew who has expressed his desire to settle in Israel, unless the Minister of Immigration is satisfied that the applicant
(1) is engaged in an activity directed against the Jewish people; or
(2) is likely to endanger public health or the security of the State.
Oleh's certificate
3. (a) A Jew who has come to Israel and subsequent to his arrival has expressed his desire to settle in Israel may, while still in Israel, receive an oleh's certificate.
(b) The restrictions specified in section 2(b) shall apply also to the grant of an oleh's certificate, but a person shall not be regarded as endangering public health on account of an illness contracted after his arrival in Israel. Residents and persons born in this country.
4. Every Jew who has immigrated into this country before the coming into force of this Law, and every Jew who was born in this country, whether before or after the coming into force of this Law, shall be deemed to be a person who has come to this country as an oleh under this Law. Implementation and regulations
5. The Minister of Immigration is charged with the implementation of this Law and may make regulations as to any matter relating to such implementation and also as to the grant of oleh's visas and oleh's certificates to minors up to the age of 18 years.
* Passed by the Knesset on the 20th Tammuz, 5710 (5th July, 1950) and published in Sefer Ha-Chukkim No. 51 of the 21st Tammuz, 5710 (5th July. 1950), p. 159; the Bill and an Explanatory Note were published in Hatza'ot Chok No. 48 of the 12th Tammuz, 5710 (27th June, 1950), p. 189.
** Translator's Note: Aliyah means immigration of Jews, and oleh (plural: olim) means a Jew immigrating, into Israel.
The Knesset introduced this clarification addendum titled "Waiver of Citizenship by Virtue of Return"
"A Foreign citizen who immigrates to Israel by virtue of the Law of Return but who does not wish to receive Israeli citizenship may waive such citizenship, but must perform an act in order to do so, and must give a written declaration to the Ministry of the Interior within three months of immigration / receipt of immigrant certificate, subject to such person's still being a foreign citizen on such date. Where no such waiver declaration is made, the immigrant remains a citizen for all intents and purposes. A waiver of immigration may be revocable .."
The significance of this is that you actually have to actively seek being considered a non-citizen if you are Jewish. For non-Jews, the opposite is true. This is further elaborated in the Israeli Nationality law (below). As yyou read this next law notice how crafty it is in excluding Palestinian refugees (this is very important).
BASIC LAW: Acquisition of Israeli Nationality*
[*Here and throught this English version of the law, this is intentionally translated wrong on the Israeli government sites. In Hebrew it is stated "Ezrahut" (Citizenship) Law and anot nationality see notes below on the use of nationality versus citizenship. There is no "nationality" status apart from "Jewish nationality" in Israeli law. That was affirmed in the High Court decision "Tamaris v. Ministry of Interior" (1971).]
Israel's Nationality Law relates to persons born in Israel or resident therein, as well as to those wishing to settle in the country, regardless of race, religion, creed, sex or political belief. Citizenship may be acquired by:
Acquisition of nationality* by birth is granted to:
1.Persons who were born in Israel to a mother or a father who are Israeli citizens.
2.Persons born outside Israel, if their father or mother holds Israeli citizenship, acquired either by birth in Israel, according to the Law of Return, by residence, or by naturalization.
3.Persons born after the death of one of their parents, if the late parent was an Israeli citizen by virtue of the conditions enumerated in 1. and 2. above at the time of death.
4.Persons born in Israel, who have never had any nationality and subject to limitations specified in the law, if they:
apply for it in the period between their 18th and 25th birthday and have been residents of Israel for five consecutive years, immediately preceding the day of the filing of their application.
Acquisition of Nationality according to the Law of Return
On the establishment of the State, its founders proclaimed "…the renewal of the Jewish State in the Land of Israel, which would open wide the gates of the homeland to every Jew…" In pursuance of this tenet, the State of Israel has absorbed survivors of the Holocaust, refugees from the countries in which they had resided, as well as many thousands of Jews who came to settle in Israel of their own volition.
The Law of Return (1950) grants every Jew, wherever he may be, the right to come to Israel as an oleh (a Jew immigrating to Israel) and become an Israeli citizen.
For the purposes of this Law, "Jew" means a person who was born of a Jewish mother, or has converted to Judaism and is not a member of another religion.
Israeli citizenship becomes effective on the day of arrival in the country or of receipt of an oleh's certificate, whichever is later. A person may declare, within three months, that he/she does not wish to become a citizen.
An oleh's certificate may be denied to persons who:
Since 1970, the right to immigrate under this law has been extended to include the child and the grandchild of a Jew, the spouse of a child of a Jew and the spouse of the grandchild of a Jew. The purpose of this amendment is to ensure the unity of families, where intermarriage had occurred; it does not apply to persons who had been Jews and had voluntarily changed their religion.
Acquisition of Nationality by Residence
Special provision is made in the Nationality Law for former citizens of British Mandatory Palestine. Those who remained in Israel from the establishment of the State in 1948 until the enactment of the Nationality Law of 1952, became Israeli citizens by residence or by return.
According to an amendment (1980), further possibilities to acquire citizenship by residence, were included in the law.
Acquisition of Nationality by Naturalization
Adults may acquire Israeli citizenship by naturalization at the discretion of the Minister of the Interior and subject to a number of requirements, such as:
1.they must have resided in Israel for three years out of the five years preceding the day of submission of the application.
2.they are entitled to reside in Israel permanently and have settled or intend to settle in Israel;
3.they have renounced their prior nationality, or have proved that they will cease to be foreign nationals upon becoming Israeli citizens.
The Minister of the Interior may exempt an applicant from some of these requirements.
BASIC Law- Israel Lands (1958)
Prohibition of transfer of ownership
1. The ownership of Israel lands, being the lands in Israel of the State, the Development Authority or the Keren Kayemet Le-Israel, shall not be transferred either by sale or in any other manner.
Permission by Law
2. Section 1 shall not apply to classes of lands and classes of transactions determined for that purpose by Law.
3. In this Law, "lands" means land, houses, buildings and anything permanently fixed to land.
The law of return clearly applies to Jews only. No gentiles have a right of return regardless of birth, ancestry or other factors. Persons who have a Jewish grandparent but does not identify with Zionist ideologies can also be excluded under the section which talks about a threat to the Jewish nation. Israel is the only country which makes its nationals any Jew regardless of where they live. They acquire automatic citizenship upon demand. They actually have to explicitly refuse such citizenship if they do not want it while residing in the state of Israel as "immigrants." The English versions posted on these governmental sites use nationality and citizenship interchangeably. However, the Hebrew versions being part of Am Yisrael the Jewish people (Jewish nation) and a citizen of the physical state of Israel are two different things.
One has to recall that the Zionist philosphy is built upon such concepts as Eretz Yisrael, "the promised land", " the land of Israel, being a "birthright" that was conferred upon Jews (it is no accident that the latest Zionist venture in America providing free trips to Israel for Jewish American kids is called "Birthright Israel"). The land belongs to the Jewish people and not the citizens of the state. This is the importance of the basic law prohibiting transfer of ownership of lands. The religious justification is that immediately after Abraham passed the test, as outlined in the Genesis passage known as the "Akida", the Binding of Isaac; after which God (Yahweh) changed Abram's name to Abraham and made "the promise" of giving the land to Abraham's descendents through Isaac as an "everlasting covenant". In the Hebrew Bible, the Tenach (Tenakh), God instructs Abram to "take your son Isaac, your only son (to where I tell you) for a burnt offering." I won't enter into a religious argument about Ishmael, conversions etc but the basic laws clearly take a stand on these issues since they do not give a right to a christian family to "return" even if their ancestors were original Hebrews. They do give a right to converts to Judaism to "return."
The crafters of these basic laws were also very clever and meticulous. For example, they had to find clever ways to prevent the refugees (70% of all Palestinians) from being citizens while allowing the small minority of Palestinians who remained (30% at incredible odds) to acquire Israeli citizenship. The citizenship law was very crafty on this. According to this basic law, you acquire Israeli citizenship by: Birth, The Law of Return, Residence, or Naturalization. For each of these categories, a Palestinain born in a village in teh Galilee and expelled in 1948 does not qualify because of the language used. Let us take the birth section for example. It states:
Acquisition of nationality (in Hebrew citizenship not nationality) by birth is granted to:
1. Persons who were born in Israel to a mother or a father who are Israeli citizens. [Refugee gentile does not qualify]
2. Persons born outside Israel, if their father or mother holds Israeli citizenship, acquired either by birth in Israel, according to the Law of Return, by residence, or by naturalization. [Refugee gentile does not qualify]
3. Persons born after the death of one of their parents, if the late parent was an Israeli citizen by virtue of the conditions enumerated in 1. and 2. above at the time of death. [Refugee gentile does not qualify]
4. Persons born in Israel, who have never had any nationality and subject to limitations specified in the law, if they: apply for it in the period between their 18th and 25th birthday and have been residents of Israel for five consecutive years, immediately preceding the day of the filing of their application. [Refugee gentile does not qualify]
Interestingly these racist laws were extended to even the minority Palestinians who managed at all odds to remain in the newly formed state of Israel (1/4th of the original Palestinian polulation). Absentee laws allowed the Israeli government to declare that non-Jews who had remained in Israel and become "equal" Israeli citizens to be declared absent in order that their property could be confiscated as "abandoned" property and turned over to the Jewish Agency for the exclusive use of Jews (in the law it does not use the word "Jews" but the words "those who benefit from eth law of return" which equals Jews if you read that law above). There have been, in fact, Palestinians who tried to lease their own land and were not allowed to because they were not Jews (see below).
Here is some of what Tom Segev wrote on thsi issue in his book. Emphasis and remarks in brackets are added by me: "the definition in the law was changed to embrace all who had abandoned their 'usual place of residence', even if they were still living in [and "equal" residents of] Israel…the law defined them as absentees, even if they had only left their homes for a few days and stayed with relatives in a nearby village or town, waiting for the fighting to end. Later they came to be referred to as 'present absentees'. The majority of them were not allowed to return to their homes. Those refugees who were permitted to return to Israel after the war were also formally absentees and their property was not restored to them." (1949: The First Israelis, p80)
On page 81, Segev wrotet: "The Minister of Justice expressed the view that an absentee remains an absentee forever, even when allowed back and so long as he is an absentee his property belongs to the Custodian [of Absentee property], regardless of when or how he acquired the property." This was specifically regarding a tiny number who had succeeded in purchasing property after they had been declared "absentees".
Also on page 81, Segev quotes Yohanan Bader, Herut MK: "According to this law, the Israeli army is full of absentees…Every man who went to war on or after November 29, that is to say, left his city – is an absentee, unless he has a certificate to prove that he is not an absentee." Somehow, though, Jews, no matter why, when or for how long they had left their "usual place of residence", universally escaped application of this law which was only applied to non-Jews. It is not unusual in Israel for laws which technically apply to all citizens to be applied, by a wink and a nod, selectively along lines of ethnicity and nationality.
Segev goes on on page 81: "The authority of the military governors was also utilized to expropriate lands [from "equal" non-Jewish Israeli citizens]. The military governor would issue an order to expel villagers from their homes, or forbid them entrance to their fields and thereby prevent them from cultivating them. Then the Minister of Agriculture would declare the lands to be uncultivated and use his authority to hand them over to others to cultivate [and these "others" were invariably Jews – quel coincidence!]. In this way Arab farmers lost their lands without actually losing title to them." This same device has been used extensively in the occupied territories to take land from Palestinians and givethem to Jews. In some cases the land has been mined in order to prevent the Palestinians from cultivating them for the period required by law in order to declare them uncultivated. In this latter case, of course, the action is clearly in violation of international law.
On page 82, Segev quotes M. Porath in a secret report to the Minister of Finance: "…the fact that we are holding the property of legal residents of the country, who otherwise enjoy all the normal rights of citizenship [that is nonsense – these "equal" citizens enjoyed few of the "normal rights of citizenship" accorded to Jews, and were in fact governed by a different set of laws, all of which was in direct contravention of the Israeli Declaration of Independence], is a source of great bitterness and constant agitation among the Arabs who are affected by it. Most of the complaints made by Arabs against our department are made by 'absentees' who see their property in the hands of others and can't bear it. These absentees try by every means to get their lands back, and offer to lease them even at exhorbitant rents. In accordance with the general rule originally established…our office does not lease the lands expropriated by the government to the present absentees [ie non-Jews], so as not to weaken our control over the properties…The number of 'present absentees' runs into the thousands, most of them owners of real estate [again, quel coincidence!]. There are already new people living on some of these properties [all of whom were Jews, of course]…Any attempt to return the properties to these absentees would, therefore, adversely affect thousands, or tens of thousands, of settlers…" Of course, it bothered most Israelis very little if at all that the presence of those "new people" living on those properties had "adversely affected" in excess of a million Palestinians.
Continuing on page 82, Segev wrote: "To relieve the resentment of the 'present absentees', the Custodian [of "Absentee" Property] proposed that their bank accounts be released to them [note that these "equal" non-Jewish Israeli citizens had also had their bank accounts siezed and they were only released to them in order to "relieve their resentment", not because it was wrong to sieze the bank accounts of non-Jewish "equal" citizens] , and that a way be found to compensate them for their properties….The government offered to compensate only a few if the property owners and its offers were hardly tempting. Only a few accepted them, and the compensation was generally viewed as unfair."
(Dr. Mazin B. Qumsiyeh is Chair of the Media Committee, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition)
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A.G.M. Lunch, Barnsgate Manor - April, 2018
The AGM took place at Barnsgate Manor on 19th April with 120 members in attendance.
We worked our way through the formal AGM meeting Agenda at a cracking pace. As usual our Treasurer, Nigel Field, provided an in-depth journey into the world of finance and this year he actually managed to refer to entries in the accounts!! Sue Russell shared with us the "Social Story of 2017". It bought back many happy memories of the events organised by her and her team and we had enjoyed so much last year.
The election of the Chairman and Management Committee for 2018/19 saw an across the board re-election of the 2017/18 team. On behalf of us all, I would thank our Members for their continued support and the trust you place in us to run your Club.
After 11 years of checking our books, Peter Hayes, our Accounts Examiner, decided to step down. I thanked him for his help over these years and, because he never wants to receive the customary "Thank You" gift, the Club presented his wife Anne with a bouquet of flowers – after all she did have to give up her kitchen table every year when it became the Examiners Workplace!! Our new Accounts Examiner will be David Comber, who had kindly agreed to take over and he was unanimously elected to this role.
With "the business" part of the event over we all enjoyed a very good lunch served by the friendly staff at Barnsgate. Good food – good company – and lovely sunny weather --- What more could you ask for! - Stephen Barnett
"Another good meeting and meal well done to you and your team." - Neal McNamara
"Another triumph of organisation and I thought Barnsgate really did us proud with the lunch today. My soup and Halibut were lovely and though I didn't choose the Pavlova -darn it! - that looked delicious too. They didn't last long on our table!" - Janet Russell


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These five important genera of swine ticks may be differentiated on the basis of several characteristics. Amblyomma and Dermacentor ticks have ornate (patterned) upper body surfaces, whereas Boophilus and Ixodes are plain brown in color. Rectangular divisions on the rear body edge are called festoons and are present only on Amblyomma and Dermacentor. Amblyomma ticks have tong, prominent mouth parts, easily distinguished from the short mouth parts of Dermacentor. Of these ticks, only Ixodes is eyeless.
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Geographical Distribution:
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Ayyar said that top telcos are looking to deploy NFV to become as agile as possible to counter the new 4G entrant Reliance Jio and over-the-top service providers with the launch of new products and services in faster manner.
"This is completely virgin territory and the opportunity is "very substantial because of all the ongoing activities in the sector," Ayyar, who got recently promoted to spearhead VMware's NFV activities in the telco domain, said.
The direct market potential for VMware just in terms of telco virtualization space will reach around $400 million in India by 2018-19. "Around 10% to 15% of spending on NFV technologies could be attributable to the Indian market by 2020," Ayyar said.
Reliance Jio, which kicked off its operations with data and voice services along with digital content and utility services, has changed the dynamics of the market and it has heightened levels of competition in India's telecom market, causing top telcos to make investments in new technologies such as NFV.
"Reliance Jio launch is causing everybody to come in and say how we are going to counter that or how are going to match up that. One answer to this is if you have a dynamic infrastructure where you can be much more efficient about your use of hardware and your use of capacity, then that helps you counter this thing much easier," Ayyar said.
The deployment curve for NFV in India is little bit behind compared to where the global curve is, the executive said, adding that Jio's launch will cause all of the telecom carriers to get faster on the roadmap.
"Interestingly the guys who are catching up are basically saying how we get there. It's a survival question… It is no longer choice for telcos to deploy this technology…I wouldn't be surprised if within a year from now there is a lot greater NFV based architecture deployment in India than what you see today," he further added.
"There are some conversations [with top telcos] which are in proofs of concept and they are very both service specific and circle specific… they are in initial stages of evaluation of this technology before they take it to a broader deployment," Ayyar said.
According to the executive, some telcos in India are running their Voice over LTE (VoLTE) infrastructure on top of VMware technologies. He however didn't name any telco customer.
VMware works with partners like Nokia, Ericsson and Cisco to serve telco customers in India. Ayyar said that the company also has "very good direct engagement with all of the carriers here."
"In India, telcos probably have datacenters that must easily have hundreds of servers and you're now talking about each one of those servers becoming virtual across all the telcos. So that's the opportunity that we see," he said.
With virtualized network architecture, a telco can launch a service in a couple of months, and can even become a market place of all services like video streaming, cloud services, security and firewall services. "A telco is probably going to have seven different services deployed and they may well have VMware deployed across like four of them," he added.


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At the beginning of every season, the first shots are often
urban shots. But, when one lives in…….. the woods, it takes creativity to GTS (Get
the shot). These past few days the CS films crew, including myself, has been
hitting some cool features in and around Bingdale NY. A little background on
Bingdale: Bloomingdale or bingdale has a population 20 of beer drinking, firefighting,
baseball loving hicks who live in the middle of nowhere. This is where the fun
begins. This session involved jibbing a chain link back stop with a little
sniper landing for some pretty scary transfers.
The second feature we hit was a
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text: Jason Aldean on His Life, Career, Music, and Hunting Hunting Online Staff - August 22, 2016 Jason Aldean's day job is pretty noisy.Aldean's life runs a mile a minute with screaming fans, his band, and everyone surrounding him — there's enough volume to make normal folks cover their ears.But Aldean loves it all, so it's not often he wants to turn it off.When he does, though, it's hunting that helps him find silence. There's no problem a treestand and some properly tuned archery equipment can't solve. Aldean is most known for his music and his ability to entertain just about anyone willing to buy a ticket, but nowadays those in the hunting world also know him as one of those crazy-ass Buck Commanders. You know, the guys who paint their faces, go on TV, and kill (lots) of big deer. On the heels of his becoming the face for Field & Stream stores, appearing in national commercials with his father, Barry, and helping to promote outdoor traditions, Petersen's Hunting sat down with Aldean to find out what's on the horizon, and why hunting helps drive his success on and off the stage.Petersen's Hunting: We'll start with a softball. How'd you get into hunting? Jason Aldean: Actually, my dad and my grandfather would come up to Georgia for about a week every Thanksgiving. When I was old enough to go along, they let me join in. Spending that time with them was just how I got started and why I loved it. Some years down the road my grandfather passed away, and I found myself hunting less. It just wasn't fun for me to go anymore. I didn't hunt for quite a while until I met some of the Buck Commander guys. With that crew I rediscovered how fun it was'¦being in deer camp, filming everything and just hanging out with a bunch of your buddies. I'd never really done it like that before. It sparked a whole new interest for me.PH: You get a chance to work with a lot of brands. What does it mean to you to go all in with Field & Stream stores and what they stand for? JA: The history they have is huge. Field & Stream has been around forever. They've built their brand around family and, with me having kids of my own, I want to get them involved. Field & Stream stores have great products and do a great job of capturing why we go outdoors and I'm looking forward to being a part of the team over there. PH: Do you have any good stories from your Buck Commander hunts, or the crew in general? JA: All of us on that show have different personalities, and bring different things to the table. We want it to be just like everyone else, you show up at hunting camp with your buddies and rag on each other and have fun. At the end of the day [in the Buck Commander crew] you love each other like brothers'¦but you do get pranks played all the time.You have to have your head on a swivel. There's been a lot of that stuff. This year we got Luke [Bryan], made him think the Game Warden had a little something for him. We look forward to those times all years. We only have a few weeks we are all together. It's full throttle the whole hunt.PH: Any good hunts coming up this fall? What's exciting for you?JA: I actually plan my touring and concerts a lot of times around hunting season. Fall is a great time for it, too. We've been traveling all year and playing shows, so it's nice to decompress a little bit, look back at the year and reflect a little bit. The lifestyle we have is so fast-paced, crazy and hectic, so when I have a chance to get in a treestand it helps keep me sane. The peace and quiet do a lot of good. And every time a big buck walks out I get a feeling of adrenaline, every time.PH: What's hunting mean to you? Is it just the peace it brings that gets you out there or is there more?JA: To me it's about the shared stories, the camaraderie you have with your friends and, obviously, everything we go out and shoot we bring back and it feeds the camp. It's just a cool vibe and something great for me to be around.PH: So we're going to hit you with some quick ones. Short answers, whatever comes to mind. PH: What is the most badass hunting gun (or caliber) ever made?JA: The gun that I used to kill my first deer. It was a side-by-side 16-gauge. It was an old gun that my dad had — it had a slug in it — I was sitting at the base of some tree and I shot a doe. I actually have that gun now, it's in the safe at home.PH: Coolest car ever made?JA: The Ford Raptor. Had that truck for a few years and actually sold it. Two or three weeks after I got rid of it I was kicking myself. Lucky enough for me Ford's coming out with a new Raptor this fall. I'm getting ready to trade 'er in for another one of those. That truck is mean. A lot of power.PH: Describe what the typical Jason Aldean fan looks like in 2016.JA: You look out at our crowd and you see a lot of different people. There's high school and college kids, both sexes, little kids and older folks, I really don't try to cater to one demographic or the other.They work hard during the week and come to out to party and have a good time.PH: What do you love most about the music you're making today?JA: With each record I try to keep it new and fresh, push new territories, never abandoning what got me here. I want to keep up with the times, but still make it mine.PH: What do you hate most about the music business?JA: I think it's the political side of it. Probably what everyone else hates about their job. As the artist, I just want to go out and cut my records. I want to entertain people. I really don't care about the political stuff that goes into it.PH: What does it mean to be a redneck?JA: To me that turn means blue collar people, every day people. You enjoy doing simple things in life — hunting, fishing, and hanging around with your friends drinking beer. That's how I grew up.


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Are you stressed out?
I know, I know – stupid question. Everyone's stressed out. It's just a condition of modern life. We all have pressure from work, family, finances, health concerns and a million other things. There aren't really many good options for escaping it.
The problem is being stressed out all the time can literally kill you or at least set in motion changes that can bring about a much earlier demise than would have otherwise been in your future. Health problems ranging from heart disease to diabetes to acne can be caused or exacerbated by being too stressed out, and if you're trying to lose weight the cortisol it floods your system with will make things exponentially more difficult for you. Being stressed is serious business.
So what can we do about it?
How to Fight and Relieve Stress
Everyone's a little bit different, so some things will work better for some while others may need to try a different approach. The important thing is to find what works best for you and then to make time to do it every single day. Remember, if something's important you should do it everyday. Relieving stress is extremely important, so don't neglect it.
Meditate – Meditation is number one on the list because it's probably the most obvious and yet the most potentially intimidating if you've never done it. The key is to not think of meditation as some mystical or spiritual thing, it's just exercise for your brain. Exercise that has been shown to reduce stress, improve clarity of thought and train your mind to focus more easily. Some studies have shown that meditation even helps your brain build more grey matter to help you deal with stressful situations on a day to day basis.
The easiest way to get started if you're a beginner to meditation is to just set aside five minutes to sit down and not think about anything. It's harder than it sounds, but once you can sit five minutes with no thoughts popping into your head, try for ten, then for fifteen and so on. Guess what? You're meditating!
Read – As little as six minutes of reading has been shown to cause significant reductions in saliva cortisol levels – that means a reduction in stress. The studies in question used fiction, so the jury's still out as to whether curling up with a technical manual is going to help you much.
I know my preference for de-stressing is a good work of fiction anyway. Few things offer the kind of imagination powered escapism that a good book has inside of it. Don't think you can half-ass it and de-stress with TV either, with the exception of comedy shows TV increased stress levels on average so ditch your TV.
Listen to Music – Music is extremely therapeutic. The trick is in finding the right kind of music for you. There have been studies on the calming effect of classical music, so if you're not sure you can always turn to that to unrustle your jimmies.
Now while I personally do enjoy classical music, I've found I de-stress equally well to all the 90s music I group on. Well, almost all of it anyway. The point is there are even some thrashing, screaming Finntroll songs that I've found I can sit down and close my eyes and listen to that calm me down – find what music works for you then spend a little bit of time each day or night listening to it. Really listen to it too, don't do anything else or try to multitask, just listen and relax.
Have Some Pet Time – Whether you're a dog person or a cat person, spending time with pets not only helps de-stress you but also helps lower your blood pressure. Spending some quality time just loving on your pet of choice is so effective they even use them in some nursing homes and hospitals to help improve the condition of residents and long term patients.
If you have your own pet, take some time each day to just sit and pet them or play with them. If you don't have any pets see if you can hang out with a friend or family member who does or volunteer every now and again at a rescue or animal shelter.
Scream Profanity – If a lot of your stress is manifesting itself as anger and tension, go scream some curse words at the top of your lungs until you feel better. Screaming is a really good way to vent and let off pent up frustrations, and the use of profanity actually helps us deal with physical pain better – so it stands to reason that it would help deal with stress as well. Aside from being cathartic, it's usually pretty fun.
On a side note, if you get hung up over the use of profanity, grow up and deal with it. They're just words. It's the intent that's important, and if your intent is to blow off steam and relax as opposed to intending to harm someone else then there's nothing that makes any of those words 'bad'.
Smile and Laugh – Even if you don't have anything to smile about, forcing yourself to think about something that makes you smile actually triggers a feedback loop that releases the feel good chemicals in your brain that cause you to smile. That means forcing yourself to smile can physically make you feel happier.
The same thing happens when we laugh. Every time we laugh our brains are triggered to release the chemical cocktail that makes us happy and want to laugh more. You can either force laughter by trying to think of something funny, or just go out and find something funny to watch or listen to. Spend 5 minutes every night watching something hilarious on YouTube or find a funny show you really love and save them for when you're particularly stressed. Laughter not only improves your mood, but it also lowers blood pressure – so you get a double benefit.
Go Play – Just because you're a grown up doesn't mean you have to act old. Playing is not only an inherent part of being human, it's an inherent part of being a mammal. Getting out and playing not only gives you something to focus on other than the reasons you're stressed out, it also gives you an outlet to work out some of your energy and get a little bit of exercise. It's also a social activity, and being around other people you're comfortable with is another good way to help lower stress. Make it an outdoor game and you even get the mood elevating effect of Vitamin D exposure.
Grab some friends, or your kids or even your dog and go find a game to play. It doesn't have to be anything complicated, it can be as structured as an organized game of football or as irreverent as a game of chase. The point is just to go have fun and forget about everything that's troubling you. Make it an actual physical game though, video games don't count.
Have Sex – If you're reading this, sorry Mom. The fact is though that sex is an excellent way to relive stress. I'm reasonably certain I don't have to explain in too great of detail why that's the case. It should be noted though that this tactic is one best taken when you're in a committed relationship as trying to use sex as a stress reliever outside of a committed relationship can increase the probability of creating situations which will lead to much more stress down the road.
Workout – A good workout acts as stress relief in many of the same ways good sex does – the physical exertion not only encourages your body to release all the pleasant chemicals and hormones that make you feel calm, serene and happy, it also allows you to physically vent any pent up frustration and anger that may be adding to your stress levels. Exercise pair extremely well with meditation as vigorous physical activity also leads to changes in your brain that improve your clarity of thought.
Really you should be on a structured fitness routine anyway, but if you aren't on one or are strapped for time you can always make good use of a quick 5 minute morning bodyweight circuit There is no such thing as being too busy to work out – you have time to exercise – you just have to make it.
Go for a Walk – Vitamin D is a natural mood elevator, and there are few better ways to get a little bit more Vitamin D than taking a nice relaxing stroll outside. Going for a nice walk is effective as a stress reliever for a variety of reasons, the physical activity encourages the release of pleasant brain chemicals, the exposure to sunlight provides an extra little does of Vitamin D and lastly a good long walk allows you time to reflect on the things that are stressing you and work through them.
Thoreau (who penned an entire essay entitled Walking) wrote, "I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least – and it is commonly more than that – sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements". It's that freedom from worldly engagements, the feeling of which I second, that provides so much needed relief from life's stresses.
Explore Nature – I'll resist the urge to follow one Thoreau quote with another, or perhaps one from Emerson, but both would tell you that it's extremely important for a person's well being to spend some quality time immersed in nature. I'll tell you the same thing – getting outside into the wilderness is a wonderfully calming experience and I think a lack of time truly enjoying nature leads to a great deal of the stress most people feel in their lives.
Take an afternoon and head out to a park or the nearest woods and go for a stroll. Sit by a stream and listen to the birds or climb a tree and just hang out up there for a while. If you want, combine your exposure to nature with some of the other stress relieving tactics – exercise outside, read a book in a tree, or meditate on a log. Just be careful about number 8, depending on where you are that might lead to embarrassment and a night in jail.
Call Home – I know, I know, you're a big boy or girl. You don't need your mommy. You might change your mind though once you see how much stress she can take off your shoulders. In a study on college aged girls researches found a ten minute call to their moms brought about a significant reduction in saliva cortisol. A quick call home to the folks may be just what you need to stop feeling like you're going to rip all the hair out of your head.
Of course, if you have a strained relationship with your parents this option may not be the best one for you. It goes without saying that you know your situation better than anyone, just don't dismiss it as an option because you feel embarrassed.
Eat a Small Piece of Dark Chocolate – A small piece. A small piece of dark chocolate can trigger all of the same good feelings as a round of hearty laughter or some good grins, as well as all the feel good chemicals that come along with it. Cocoa also has a positive effect on blood pressure and HDL levels, so there's an added bonus there. The important thing is to not go overboard. A small piece of dark chocolate is good for you, an entire bag of dark chocolate is not good for you. Especially if you use your stress to justify tearing through one each night. Keep it in moderation.
Vent to Someone – If screaming out profanity isn't really your thing, you can always verbally vent to someone else. Being able to just unload on someone who cares and is patient enough to listen not only helps by providing a comforting social experience where you bond even more closely with a friend or loved one, but also allows you to openly examine what's stressing you and get all of the internalized pressures off your chest.
Sharing your burdens with someone willing to help you with them is a huge relief, but make sure to actually vent to someone willing to share your burdens. It can be even more disheartening to open up to someone about how stressed out you are only to have them react dismissively or negatively. You know which people in your life you can open up to, so pick the right one.
Breathe – Breathing is an incredible physiological process. Deep calming breaths have a profound ability to calm the mind, slow down your heart rate and bring clarity of thought. It's why a focus on deep breathing is such a key element to many forms of meditation. You don't need to meditate to use breathing as a stress relief technique (although, seriously, you should try meditation), you just need to take a second to take a nice deep breath through your nose and out your mouth.
Focus on breathing from your diaphragm. That means when you take a nice deep breath instead of your shoulders coming up, your belly should push out and down. This allows you to get a much bigger, deeper breath which means more oxygen. More oxygen means a happier, calmer and more focused brain. That means less stress.
Get a Massage – Again, if I need to explain to you why this is a good option for how to de-stress, you are way too far gone for me to help. Go on out and treat yourself to a professional massage every now and then if you have to – some people swear by it. A better option in my opinion is to trade massages with your significant other. Not only are the massages a good way to relieve stress and increase intimacy, they tend to lead to another stress relief option I mentioned previously.
Make a List of Positives – Being able to take what's stressing you and get it out of your system, either verbally or through physical exertion, is a common thread running throughout many of these stress relieving tactics. That's because it works. Another equally good option is to sit down and make a physical list of all the good or positive things in your life.
There's something psychologically powerful about making physical lists. While you can certainly type it, I really do think getting a pen and paper and writing by hand is a much more powerful exercise. Take some time and do it mindfully, write down as many good things in your life as you possibly can. By the end I guarantee you'll feel a lot less stressed and a lot more grateful.
Smell Something Really Good – Out of all the senses, scent is the most strongly linked to memory and emotional response in our brains. You can use this to your advantage by finding a particular scent that reminds you of something you love, be it home, the smell of your favorite flower or a special fragrance your significant other wears, and exposing yourself to it when you really need to relax.
If you don't have any smells ingrained in your mind as particularly calming or pleasant you can make one. Pick a unique scent, lavender works well and so does incense as they're easily available and very unique. Once you have your scent every time you employ one of the other stress relieving techniques fill the room with it first. Before long just exposing yourself to the scent will trigger the same emotional response as the calming activities you normally do with it.
Visualize Something Happy and Calming – While visualizations aren't quite as powerful as scent for triggering an emotional or memory response, they're still pretty strong. It's why we employ visualizations to enhance our memories to encode a lot of new information very quickly.
In this case, we want to use our visualizations to recall a happy or serene moment rather than to encode new information with a memory hook. Sit somewhere comfortable, close your eyes, take a nice deep breath and picture your happy place. I know it sounds cliched and silly, but it really does work.
Stretch – Stretching is a good idea for a lot of reasons, but the one we're concerned about here is the relaxing effect it has. Most people already stretch instinctively when they're trying to relax. You can use the natural physiological response from stretching to lower your stress levels and increase your flexibility a little bit all at the same time.
While I'm of the opinion you should already have a good flexibility routine in place, you don't need one to use stretches to relax. Just set aside 5 to 10 minutes either right when you wake up, right after a workout (not before) or right before bed to do a couple easy stretches. If you want to get a little more advanced, try some nice slow yoga. (Though you should avoid hot yoga at all costs).
I'm certain there are lots more quick and effective ways to reduce stress, but these were the first ones to come to mind. If you can think of any others or have some that have worked particularly well for you in the past, share them in the comments! We're all stressed out and I guarantee they'll be appreciated.
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The Humble Bundle team are getting a little more experimental of late. Last week they introduced the first ever Humble Weekly Sale. Now, we've got a new Humble Mobile Bundle and a second Humble Weekly Sale kicking off on the same day. The mobile bundle will be available for the next 14 days and is exclusively for Android devices, where as the sale will last just a week.
Lets start with the Humble Mobile Bundle, which offers up between 4 and 6 games depending on how much you're willing to pay.
As usual, you can pay whatever you want and in return will get the following games:
- Contre Jour
- Anomaly Korea
- Plants vs. Zombies
- Bladeslinger
Included as part of the standard bundle alongside the games are the soundtracks for Anomaly Korea, Plants vs. Zombies, and Bladeslinger.
If you beat the average price, which currently sits at $5.42, you unlock two more games. I'd say it's definitely worth beating the average. The first of those locked games is Metal Slug 3, which continues to age well and looks great on any platform. You also unlock The Room, which is making its first appearance on Android as part of this bundle. There's also the added bonus of soundtracks for both games, taking the total up to 6 games and 5 soundtracks.
Another reason to beat the average price is we typically see more titles, soundtracks, or other content added to the bundle after the first week to help entice more sales, and you'll automatically get any that are added. It also means there's more money going to the developers and charities (the split being up to you), while you the gamer still get 6 games and a lot of music for a bargain basement price.
As for the Humble Weekly Sale, you can pay a minimum of $1 and in return get Darksiders and Red Faction: Armageddon for Windows through Steam. However, if you beat the average, which currently sits at $6.73, the Humble guys will throw in Darksiders II and Red Faction: Guerilla.