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How To Choose The Best Grow Tent
There are several important factors when deciding on a indoor grow tent. Indoor Grow tents can be a very big investment, but if done correctly the grow tent can provide the perfect climate for the plant.
Helpful tips and suggestions to choose your indoor grow tent:
Modifications to your Grow Tent
It seems as though each indoor grow tent needs to be modified. Whether it is limited space once you have the pots, grow lights, and fans/ventilation in the grow tent. I understand some growers are only limited to a small area in a closet or corner of the garage, but you need to consider the size of every other supply to fit your grow tent if it does not include the supplies. Adjusting where the vents are, or even creating new vents in areas that fit your housing, the vents are important for proper ventilation.
Know the Size of the Plant
Size of the tent you choose is one of the most important decisions you will make.
If you choose to big of a grow tent, you run the risk of paying more for your equipment and for the energy necessary to power your lights, fans and other supplies. If you choose to small of a tent, you risk creating a crowded and potentially unhealthy climate for your plants, or one that simply won't house mature plants.
Although indoor grow tents are available in a lot of different styles and sizes. The one thing they all have in common is their basic purpose—to contain and cultivate plants in a controlled climate based on your plant and the environment they grow best in.. You can find small tabletop sizes to indoor grow tents that fit into a walk-in closet or sliding-door closet.
Budgeting for a Grow Tent
A number of growers talk about dishing out more money for a Gorilla Grow Tent. The Gorilla Grow Tent brand is well known and has many success stories from other growers. The thing is, this doesn't mean it's necessarily the best grow tent for your operation because each indoor grow is unique to your situation.
Another very reputable indoor grow tent is the Apollo Horticulture Hydroponic Indoor Tent. It is known for both its budget price and reliable durability. A number of growers have said the Apollo Horticulture company makes a quality grow tent like other very expensive brands.
Need to know the size of the indoor grow space.
Don't buy a grow tent that does not fit! Size is important, but there are many different options for you. Most major grow tent brands offer tents in different sizes that should accommodate even very small growing spaces. Maximizing the size of your indoor grow while keeping space in mind can be a challenge. If you are measuring the size of your grow, keep in mind the length, width, height, and if you are near outlets.
Select your System
Your growing system will be important. Hydroponic systems can provide nutrients and water to more plants within a smaller space than soil-based systems. Plants don't have to compete for nutrients, so they can usually be positioned closer together. With adequate lighting and careful heat management and ventilation, a hydroponic set-up can up the number of plants the indoor grow tent can hold. Some systems you can choose from is, aeroponics, hydroponics, aquaponics.
Get a Grow Tent which is durable
When reviewing brands for durability and rip-resistant, keep in mind ripped grow tents are very common. It is hard to get around, but if this happens grab some either duct tape or electrical tape(depending on the fabric) can be fixed. It is always good to go for durability to prevent needing to do this.
Should I Get a Grow Tent Kit?
If you are a beginner grower or who has had a hard time growing a healthy plant, you might need to buy the right Grow Tent Kit.
Here is a list of highly rated grow tent kits based on budget. Many of the brands offer different sizes.
- TopoLite Grow Tent Complete Kit Hydroponics Indoor Growing System 24"x24"x48"/ 48″X48″x80″ Dark Room + LED300W/ LED600W Grow Light + Fabric Grow Bags Kit
Price is from $129.99-249.99
Grow tent sizes range from 24″ x 24″ x 48″ and 48″ x 48″ x 80″
Convenient: Quick tool-free installation and Heavy duty tubes allow to hanging heavy equipments
Durable: Heavy duty 600D lightproof oxford cloth and diameter 16MM white paint coated metal rods and Large heavy duty Zippers & Double Stitching for protection against light leaks
Light won't generate any ultra heat even works 18hrs a day, keep light has longer service life.
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- Oppolite LED Grow Light Tent Kit Hydroponic Growing System LED600W Grow Light&4″/6″Carbon Filter Combo&24″x24″x48″32″x32″x63″48″x24″x72″48″x48″x80″Grow Tent
Price is from $288.32 – $438.65
Grow Tent sizes 24″ x 24″ x 48″ – 60″ x 60″ x 80″ + 6″ combo.
LED600W Grow Light Kit: 13″ x 5″ x 21″, 600W, 200PCS x 3W LEDs, 3W high power Par Value ensured, high lumen, high brightness. 4 cooling fans, better heat dissipation than other 1 cooling fan grow light. even works 18hrs a day, keep light has longer service life.
Grow tent: 96% highly reflective waterproof diamond Mylar, heavy duty 600D lightproof oxford cloth, diameter16MM white paint coated metal rods and 16MM plastic corners ,
4″ fan&filter&ducting&combo: 10″H x 7″D, 1.5 inches Carbon Layer, fan: 120V60HZ; 101Watt; 0.86A; 2850RPM; 189CFM; 4″ Double layer duct φ4″ * 25FT
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- 2×4 Gorilla Grow Tent Kit T5 Combo Package
- Price of the indoor grow tent kit $849.00.
Size of the Gorilla Grow Tent is 2′ x 4′.
The perfect all-in-one grow package for the professional gardener.
Gorilla Grow Tents are height adjustable to increase your yields and plant sizes up to 200% We've custom built each package with high quality equipment and technical expertise for an extremely high-performing Grow System.
CLICK HERE to purchase the Gorilla Grow Tent Kit.
- Complete 4 x 4 Grow Tent Kit w/ 600W Sealed HPS HID, Electronic Ballast, Carbon Filter, Fan and more.
Price for this grow tent kit $1,097.99.
Grow tent size 4′ x 4′.
Make Sure To Purchase With Goldleaf Hydroponics To Insure You Get EXACTLY What You See Here and For Warranty Support Long After Purchase!!
Complete Grow Room Kit including 600W Ballast, HPS Bulb, Reflector and more
Includes Carbon Filter, Exhaust Fan, Timer, Hygrometer-Thermometer & Rope Rachets
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- Complete 5 x 5 Grow Tent Soil Kit w/ 100W Sealed HPS HID, Electronic Ballast, Carbon Filter, Fan and more
Price of the indoor grow tent kit is $1,399.00
Size of this grow tent is 5′ x 5′.
Make Sure To Purchase With Goldleaf Hydroponics To Insure You Get EXACTLY What You See Here and For Warranty Support Long After Purchase!!
Complete 5 x 5 Grow Tent Kit w/ 1000W Ballast, HPS Bulb, Reflector
Includes Carbon Filter, Exhaust Fan, Timer, Hygrometer-Thermometer & Rope Rachets
CLICK HERE to purchase this indoor grow tent kit.
- Mother Load: KIND LED Clone & Propagation Station Complete Grow Tent Kit w/ EZ-Clone and more
Price of this indoor grow tent kit $1,996.99.
Size of the grow tent 48″ x 36″ x 60″.
This is a DUAL COMPARTMENT grow tent. You can grow multiple types of plants at once.
Make Sure To Purchase With Goldleaf Hydroponics To Insure You Get EXACTLY What You See Here and For Warranty Support Long After Purchase!!
Complete Mother Room, Cloning & Propagation Grow Room Kit. Includes KIND LED L600 Veg fixture, EZ Clone 16 site.
Includes digital timer, 2 KIND LED 2′ VEG Macro Bar Lights, exhaust fan, Clonex rooting gel, 6″ clip fan and more.
CLICK HERE to purchase this indoor grow tent kit.
- SuperCloset LED 5×5 SuperRoom Grow Tent
Price of grow tent kit $3,098.95.
Size of this indoor grow tent 5′ x 5′.
SuperCloset's all-in-one, turn-key, hydroponic Best LED grow room tent package makes indoor gardening simple and fun! The SuperRoom 5′ x 5′ Best LED Grow Room Package is a professionally designed, fully automated LED grow room package that comes complete with the whole thing you wish to have for a smooth and easy growing experience. Grow like a professional!
CLICK HERE to purchase this indoor grow tent kit.
- For those of you considering large commercial use:</
10′ ' 10' Gorrila Grow Tent Kit – BLACK DOG PhytoMax-2 800
Price of indoor grow tent kit $11,799.95.
Size of grow tent 10′ x 10′.
The 10 x 10 Gorilla Grow Tent Kit LED Combo Package includes all the following:
Gorilla Grow Tent 10′ x 10′
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Oliver Stone predicts he'll have a hard time finding distribution for his latest documentary, South of the Border, a cinematic love letter to Venezuela's controversial president, Hugo Chávez.
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"What was it, if not genocide?... The Israelis were looking for an excuse to exterminate the Palestinians."
Like all armed conflicts, both Hamas and Israel's action leading up to and including the 22-day Gaza War last winter are open to criticism and honest discussion, but throwing a term such as genocide, especially in relation to the state of Israel, is just needless controversy-mongering.

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QUEENS PARK! Welcome to 106 Fifth Avenue in the heart of the beautiful Queen's Park. This stunning Queen Anne inspired 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom custom built home boasts many high end grand features that include a large wrap around front porch, superior craftsmanship and quality finishing on three levels. Enjoy cooking your family meals in the chef's gourmet kitchen with 2 fridges, gas stove, eating area, tons of counter & cupboard space, pantry area and featuring a large luxurious formal dining room that will impress even the most discerning of Buyers! Featuring gleaming oak hardwood flooring and a library with built in bookshelves. This beautiful home sitting on a large 8712sq/ft lot was constructed just 16 years ago and was designed and lovingly cared for by the current owners.


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Only Settlement of French Immigrants in New Zealand
Akaroa is a name with Maori roots and carries the meaning of "long harbour". While the Banks Peninsula was given by James Cook who honoured with his choice Joseph Banks the botanist on his ship Endeavour.
The harbour quality started the almost career to become one of French colonies.
The French whaler Captain Jean-Francois Langlois believed in 1838 this an ideal location to service whaling ships. At this time the Parisian street lamps were lit with whale oil. A good reason for about 60 French whaling ships to sail regularly the waters between Australia and New Zealand.
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The Pacific Ocean was yet to be acquainted for French colonization plans. With the North Island in the centre of British and Maori interests the South Island was propelled into the middle of French trading interests. Langlois put his idea straight into action and negotiated a trade with obviously different system of values with the local Maori chief. The agreement was to pay a part immediately and the rest at his return.
Back in France he arranged everything from governmental backup, installing a trading company, and gathering French settlers to inhabit this new colony.
In the end he arrived at his destination. The British already had signed the Treaty of Waitangi including the South Island and the Union Jack was introduced to proclaim British sovereignty.
After the arrival of the French emigrants Langlois managed with tactful diplomacy at least to secure the previously traded land around Bank Peninsula.
Traces of French settlements are still noticeable. The distinct French provincial village feel, street, and inhabitant names close the circle from presence to history.
Here you are invited to visit our resources about France where the local population originates from.
In a distance of 82 km from South Island's biggest city, Christchurch. Akaroa is a popular destination for day trips and bears the reputation of being well facilitated for extended stays.
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Today much of the waters around the peninsula are protected in a marine reserve to conserve the smallest of the dolphin species the Hector dolphins. This enables a noticeable eco-tourism industry to offer tours that include swimming with Hectors Dolphins .
Tours start from Christchurch, over a duration of 9 hours. Included is a tour through Akaroa with its whaling history and swimming with dolphins.
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LiveBlox has currently over 800 Blox and the list is growing everyday. The possibilities are endless with LiveBlox and the tutorials are just a few examples of what LiveBlox can do. If you have any questions, suggestions or you would like to see different tutorials please feel free to drop us a message.
LiveBlox walk-through
In this video Rob talks through how to use LiveBlox, including which controls to use and what the menus do.
The air drum kit
In this video we go through building the air drum kit. You will see how to build a button triggered from video, how to make the buttons show up on the video and how to build a GUI (graphical user interface) then export it and run it as an application.
Batch image resizing
LiveBlox can be used for batch image processing. In this video we show the process of building a pipeline to resize images to a fixed size and then build a user interface and export it as an application.
Smile detection
In this video Rob and Nik demonstrates a groundbreaking application built in LiveBlox that will make the world a happier place.
Motion sensitive security camera
People can spend a lot of time looking through CCTV footage to find the moment when something happens. In this video Rob talks through how to build an app in LiveBlox that only takes photos when people are there.
The meme maker
This Tutorial demonstrates how to build a Meme Maker App in only minutes using LiveBlox. This application we named 'the Meme Maker' and allows you to create Memes in just a few easy steps.
Timeline tutorial
With the 1.3 release, we have timeline support. In this tutorial, Rob goes through how to use the timeline in LiveBlox.
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"Looking for trouble? You've found it!"
By far the most aggressive bird in our garden is the blackbird (Turdus merula); they are real characters and make garden bird watching fun. We usually have about five of them but if the weather turns cold we can have nine or ten. They seem to spend most of the day trying to protect their food supply from the others. They must use enormous amounts of energy shadowing their opponent, staying between it and their food, having the occasional flutter at each other. They chase round and round the garden, under shrubs and out again, up in to the trees and down again, into the water dish and out again, all energy, all action packed.
Being ground feeders they eat almost anything thrown on the ground but prefer fruit to seed. We supply them with fruity nibbles which we buy from the RSPB shop and they have been a great success and, at first light every morning we have a queue outside waiting for them to be put out. To try and avoid arguments we have to scatter them round different parts of the garden.
As the days gradually lengthen they will spend the evening on television aerials singing enthusiastically and claiming their breeding territory.
Blackbirds are the fourth most common species in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, their numbers seem to be stable.
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2006 Ford Five Hundred
Introduced as an all-new nameplate for 2005, the Ford Five Hundred is the company's interpretation of the modern American sedan. Big and roomy inside, the Five Hundred features a tall roof that offers lots of headroom. The driver sits relatively high, gaining a commanding view of the road. The back seats are comfortable and quite roomy. And they fold down to increase cargo capacity.
Volvo assisted with engineering a body structure that benefits from the latest in safety technology. Ford acquired the Swedish automaker famous for its passenger-protecting innovations in 1999 and, when it came time to develop the Five Hundred, employed Volvo's best structural and safety engineers to work on the project.
The Ford Five Hundred is available with front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, the latter giving it more stable handling and better traction, particularly in inclement weather.
The V6 engine that comes on all models delivers responsive performance and good fuel economy. On front-wheel-drive models, the V6 is paired with a six-speed automatic transmission, which offers more responsive performance and better efficiency than a traditional four-speed automatic. All-wheel-drive models come with a continuously variable transmission, a design noted for its responsiveness and efficiency.
Model Lineup
Ford Five Hundred SE ($22,230); SE AWD ($24,080); SEL ($24,230); SEL AWD ($26,080); Limited ($26,380); Limited AWD ($28,230)
Walk AroundThe Ford 500 name goes way back. Ford first used it in numerical form for the 1957 Fairlane 500, the highest trim version of the car that helped Ford overtake Chevrolet in the sales race. When Ford launched a new flagship, the Galaxie, in 1959, it again used the 500 badge to indicate the most upscale version. When Ford brought back the Five Hundred (spelled out) as an all-new product for 2005, it was as a separate model and as the new flagship of its fleet of cars.
The Five Hundred is much bigger than the old Taurus. The Five Hundred is 3 inches longer, 1.5 inches wider, and 4 inches taller than the Taurus. It also rides on a wheelbase that is 4.5 inches longer, which not only gives the car its solid, luxury-car stance but enhances smooth ride quality.
The Five Hundred's basic structure benefits from Volvo's extensive safety research. The chief designer said it was a challenge to sculpt a Ford-styled body around a Volvo chassis, and added that designers used what he calls plainer surfaces with taut lines to give the car a modern look without losing its passenger-car proportions. The Five Hundred's rounded forms offer a more conservative alternative to the more upright, angular Chrysler 300.
The Five Hundred's face has large, jewel-styled and multi-bulb triangular headlight elements on either side of a wide, trapezoidal grille. Chrome accents the front bumper, rear bumper, doors and window frames. Large rear side windows give the Five Hundred more of a luxury car profile.
The tall trunk lid has a spoiler-like lip along its top trailing edge. The rear of the car features large, multi-element and triangular shaped tail lamps and dual, down turned exhaust tips.
The SE and SEL ride on seven-spoke aluminum wheels and Continental tires while the Limited gets distinctive eight-spoke 18-inch wheels and Pirelli tires.
InteriorThe Ford Five Hundred boasts a roomy cabin. In fact, it's roomier than the big Crown Victoria (108.3 cubic feet of passenger space vs. 106.4 for the Crown Vic), which is impressive given the Five Hundred is a foot shorter in overall length.
Rear-seat room is particularly impressive: In fact, there's more rear legroom (41.9 inches) than front legroom (41.2 inches). That rear-seat legroom is enhanced because the front seats are mounted above the rear floor, leaving room for your feet underneath.
We spent time in the driver's and front passenger's seats as well as the back seats and found all of them comfortable and supportive even after several hours in the car. All seats feature what Ford calls a command view of the road, with seat-bottom cushions that are some four inches higher than those of a typical mid-sized sedan. The front seats are mounted on a Volvo-devised cross-body beam that runs from the bottom of the B-pillar (the post between the front and rear doors) that adds strength to the car's shell and helps provide protection in the event of a side impact.
Each of the four doors has a beverage holder, and additional cup holders are located in the center console between the front seats with two more in the center console that folds down from the back of the back middle seat. The dashboard has a covered storage compartment in its top center section. The dashboard comes in silver or wood-grain trim with metal used for the door releases and around the base and top of the gear shift lever.
We found the switchgear well designed and easy to use. Audio controls are mounted at the top of the center stack with climate controls beneath.
The steeply raked windshield can reflect glare off the top of the dashboard, however, something we noticed with the tan-colored Pebble interior. (Shale and Black interiors are also available.) Also, a driver wearing sunglasses can have trouble reading the darkly colored gauges in the SE and SEL models. The Limited light-faced gauges are easier to read.
The Five Hundred has a big trunk (21.2 cubic feet) that can hold eight sets of golf clubs. The rear seatbacks fold forward to provide enlarged luggage space, and the front passenger's seat (on SEL and Limited versions) folds down to provide space for a 10-foot long ladder or other object to fit inside the Five Hundred with the trunk lid closed, a neat trick for a sedan.
Driving ImpressionsThe Ford Five Hundred accelerates with authority. Its 3.0-liter V6 engine delivers more than sufficient power for this big sedan, even when four adults are aboard. You can squeal the tires and race away from a stoplight. Or you can push down your right foot and the six-speed transmission on front-drive models quickly downshifts as the engine responds with the power you need for passing, or for accelerating onto a freeway.
The Five Hundred is very quiet when cruising along, and we never had to raise our voices to carry on a conversation with those sitting beside, behind or in front of us.
The Five Hundred's long wheelbase, independent front and rear suspension and stiff chassis work well together. Steering is nicely weighted and provides good feedback.
The disc brakes are impressively effective. The Five Hundred comes standard with anti-lock brakes (ABS) with electronic brake-force distribution (EBD), which optimizes front/rear brake bias to shorten stopping distances. Also helping to reduce stopping distances is the size of the brakes: 12.5-inch discs with double-piston calipers on the front wheels and 13.0-inch discs in the rear.
While many automakers still use four-speed automatic transmissions, front-wheel-drive versions of the Five Hundred benefit from a six-speed automatic, which provides smoother performance and better fuel efficiency. The Five Hundred, equipped with front-wheel drive and six-speed automatic, is rated 21/29 miles per gallon City/Highway by the EPA.
While we spent most our time in the front-wheel-drive version, we did take time to try an all-wheel-drive Five Hundred on a dirt hill in a rock quarry. While another all-wheel-drive vehicle spun its wheels and struggled mightily to climb the slippery hill, the all-wheel-drive Five Hundred sedan went right up and over. You may not need to tear through rock quarries, you may need to drive through snow, and the Five Hundred should handle winter travel well. All-wheel drive also helps in the rain, where it stabilizes the handling of the car.
AWD models come with a continuously variable transmission, or CVT, that provides seamless operation and 19/26 mpg. Ford used the efficient CVT to help overcome the usual mileage penalty paid by heavier, more complex all-wheel-drive systems.
The Ford Five Hundred delivers full-size interior space in a mid-size car. Back seat passengers won't be cramped and there's plenty of room for luggage. Its V6 engine delivers sufficient power and its transmissions help the engine perform well while achieving fuel-efficiency.
New Car Test Drive correspondent Larry Edsall is based in Arizona.


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text: Brian 157 Report post Posted January 13, 2010 The Reliability Database has not been added to in some time. I have added a few drives tonight to ensure all it working well, and it is. The nav item has been added back to the site and we're ready to start populating data again. It's nearly impossible to get all the drives inputted with a magic wand, but we'll get to work on it as best we can. To facilitate the process, please use this forum for suggesting new drives. Note - we are not adding drives that have been out of production over 3 years. To do this, start a new thread with the drive name and provide as much of the following detail as possible. The more you can help us with, the faster a drive will be added: Manufacturer: Family: Released: Notes: Model Name (product family): Model Number: Capacity: gigabytes URL: Interface: Spindle Speed: rotations per minute Seek: milliseconds Buffer: kilobytes Density: gigabytes per platter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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A taste of the Gambia and Senegal in one evening!
It was Saturday 21st September and I was at Hackney Attic. Another evening of African music during the London african Music Festival. This one was presented by Laura Mills.
I came to see Fofoula featuring members of Outhouse Ruhabi, the highly acclaimed Outhouse project with their own distinct sound. A creative vision that embraces each member's musical personality, combines and brings together a fresh and unique musical experience.
The core of the music is mainly from the Gambia. African praise songs fused with guitar, drums, bass, keyboard, saxophone and the African Sabar created and underpinned by electronic sound textures. These musicians knew their stuff.
The audience was a mix of all nations coming together in peace and harmony to enjoy the musical experience.
The support band, Minn Jiarabi fronted by the charismatic guitarist, singer/songwriter from Senegal Abdoulaye Samb, were quite impressive indeed. Their sound was a mix of the various Senegalese cultures including Fula and Mandika, accentuating the richness of Senegal's musical tradition. The music had a feel that was infectious. It set the mood for the rest of the evening.
Abdoulaye will be launching his new album next week (27th October) at Richmix on Bethnal Green Road.
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More journalism by Dr Sachs, banned from Google etc. by the US judges & gov't:
Detailed Biography of Dr Les Sachs - the banned story of how US-Bush judges threatened to murder Dr Sachs and forced him to become a political refugee
"Footsteps of Anne Frank": US writer of Jewish heritage forced to take political refuge in Europe
The article that changed the US Supreme Court, blocking J. Harvie Wilkinson III from becoming Chief Justice:
"Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, His Bribery Cover-Up for 4th Circuit Judges"
The "Complete Underground Guide and FAQ, to US Judicial and Legal Corruption" (free online book)
Dr Les Sachs
This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.
Yes, you are now reading a website illegally banned by US judges, as US judges now take direct political control of Google and the internet search engines, to cover up for crimes of the US gov't, and the crimes of US judges themselves.
Most journalism of Dr Sachs about US corruption, is now banned from Google and the search engines by illegal US 'court orders'. - Even sites linking to Dr Sachs are 'erased' from Google by these US 'orders', as US judges want you to read only lies and smears about Dr Sachs, while his journalism is suppressed and silenced. - See just below for: Correcting Internet Lies Told About Dr Les Sachs.
Correcting the internet lies told about Dr Les Sachs (Dr Leslie Sachs) and about the legal cases involving Patricia Cornwell -
A statement by Dr Les Sachs
(For recent journalism from Europe about Dr Les Sachs: (1) Official files proving US crimes against him (2) US Justice sources: US 'Trials' of Political Refugee in Europe Were Both Fraudulent (3) Two EU Writers Under Threat of Murder: Roberto Saviano and Dr Les Sachs (4) US Blocking Belgian Journalism Websites to Help Murder US Dissident in Brussels)
Many of the things, indeed most everything, that you read on the internet about me, and about the Patricia Cornwell legal cases in the US, are a lie and a fraud, and the lies and fraud will be brought out in the upcoming legal cases in Europe.
Thousands of pages of proof documents which show that what I have been saying is true, will be entered into the record in the European courts. Most of these documents are available to anyone.
As we get closer to the European court date, media companies have begun to pull back and withdraw some of the stories telling lies about me. But many of the lies still remain.
The US judges have illegally banned from Google and the search engines, nearly all of my own articles and journalism, but also most articles that link to me or which tell the truth about me. - The US government and judges, believe that my journalism is such a threat to them, that they need to take direct political control of Google and the search engines, to try and erase my writings, and to make it easier for me to be murdered.
It is because I am such an important dissident and critic of the US regime - because my writings have touched many thousands of families hurt by the US legal system - that the US judges and government, and the US-UK media companies, have joined to ban my words, and have joined in what European lawyers call the largest smear campaign of lies ever conducted against a political refugee.
That is why they have banned my journalism from the internet. Most of the articles and journalism they have banned, are not even about Patsy Cornwell - The journalism they have banned, is mostly about the corruption of US judges and lawyers and media companies.
Though the case was started, in order to silence and block me from writing journalism about the political financier Cornwell, about her crimes with the Bushes and her crimes with US judges.
Because I hold proof of serious crimes by US federal judges, US lawyers were afraid to help me. US lawyers are often disbarred if they dare to say a word to help a victim of the judges' hatred.
First, some true things about me, that most internet articles hide from you -
- The threats to jail and murder me by the US judges and government, forced me to be a political refugee from the US. I escaped to safety in Europe in 2004, and I am now an EU citizen.
- In the US, the judges banned my freedom of speech instantly, in a phone call from the federal judge, minutes after I received the legal papers. No trial, no hearing, no nothing, just an illegal deal arranged in advance by the corrupt Willcox & Savage firm, lawyers for Bush's friend Cornwell, in a deal with a judge appointed by Bush. - Apparently the only such case in US history, instant banning of journalism and freedom of speech, advance injunction without trial or hearing.
- They used the ban on my speaking, to threaten to torture me to death in a US jail cell, and to stage a brief Stalin-style 'legal proceeding', with me banned from denouncing it as a fraud.
- Friends of the US judge pretended to be my lawyers. While threatening to have me tortured and killed, these lawyers signing fake papers claiming I "agreed" to ban my freedom of speech for the rest of my life, plus "agreed" to spend the rest of my life paying money to the judge's friends. These friends of the judge, Thomas Roberts and Tim Schulte, also pretended to be part of a 'Freedom Works Foundation' not certified with the IRS and thus a felony criminal fraud. They even put this 'Foundation' fraud in writing and keep this fraud on the web.
- Patricia Cornwell is a friend of the Bush family for 25 years. When the first Bush was President, they made Cornwell into a 'famous author' as a way for media companies to funnel millions back to the Bush family.
- Cornwell has been a special 'friend of the judges' since 1998. Media companies at that time also agreed to begin to hide the real facts of Cornwell's life, and to join the US judges to help destroy anyone who writes truth about her.
- Cornwell threatened to destroy the books of a Jew, in writing, and then committed perjury about it. It is Cornwell's threats of book-burning against a Jew, that started the public controversy between myself and Cornwell.
- Cornwell publicly boasted in Vanity Fair magazine that she can get away with murdering people, and I am one of the people she has enjoyed threatening to murder.
- In 2007, after three years of my journalism about US court corruption, the same US judges who threatened to kill me and who forced me to become a refugee in Europe, these same judges held a new fake 'trial', in part to smear me with brand new lies claiming I was a 'stalker' of Bush's friend Cornwell, but mostly in order to issue illegal orders upon Google and the search engines, to ban most of my journalism from the internet, so people cannot find my writings.
- The majority of my writing banned from the internet, is not even about Cornwell, it is rather about the corrupt US legal system and judges. These banned writings have been important to tens of thousands of people. The US government seeks to have me silenced and murdered to prevent this journalism being more widely known.
Some big lies and hoaxes about me, that you find on the internet -
- The lie that the case is about 'plagiarism'
I never used this word in accusations about my writing and Cornwell's. The fake story about 'plagiarism' is a set of words shoved into my mouth, to distract from the facts about Cornwell's threats of book-burning a Jew's books, Cornwell then hiring people to extort me and threaten to kill me, and to illegally ban my journalism and freedom of speech. - The 'sticker on my book' discussed in news articles, spoke only of Cornwell's book-burning threats, not about 'plagiarism'.
- The lie that I am a 'stalker' or 'cyber-stalker' harassing Cornwell
From 2004-2007 I published three years of factual journalism about Cornwell and the US judges, proven by documents, and totally unchallenged by Cornwell's lawyers. - Then, Cornwell's new corrupt lawyers at Morris & Morris in Richmond, and their partner corrupt lawyers at WilmerHale in Boston, just invented fake 'stalker' stories out of thin air, and spread these false stories through media companies tied to Cornwell and the US government. Today, Cornwell's lawyers don't even deny the stalking charges are fake, because the 'stalking' stories Cornwell has invented are literally impossible - Cornwell says I have been sneaking back into the USA, somehow evading Homeland Security at the borders, just to 'stalk' her, and then I am able to sneak back to Europe, ha!
- The lie that I "agreed" to ban my own freedom of speech as a "settlement"
I have been an anti-corruption book author and journalist since the early 1980s. - The written order banning my freedom of speech for the rest of my life, is a clear fraud, only signed by the judge's friends, not by me. - I had no assets to lose by going to trial or appealing illegal orders. - No one in the Cornwell gang can explain why I had any reason to quickly "agree" to ban my own freedom of speech and journalism for the rest of my life, plus "agree" to have my publishing company and reputation destroyed, plus "agree" to spend the rest of my life paying several hundred thousand dollars to the judge's friends with their fake 'civil rights foundation' that doesn't exist. - These lawyers even joked, on the written court record, about threatening to murder me, and about conspiring with the federal judge to pose as my lawyer while they were really working for Cornwell. - Yes, ha, very funny. - The Cornwell group has also circulated fake 'apology letters' created by Cornwell's lawyers.
- The lie that my journalism is for 'marketing' my books, or that I am 'jealous' of Cornwell
This is more absurdity. The initial claim of Cornwell and that the judges is that there is nothing wrong with threatening to burn a Jew's books, and that I was only saying this to 'market' my own writing, thus I must be banned and suppressed. They claim that US judges can ban any independent journalism, merely by declaring that the journalist is 'marketing' and selling his writing. - They claim that I am only showing proof documents of how they illegally banned my journalism, of how they committed court fraud and threatened to murder me, of how they destroyed my publishing career, how they forced me to become a political refugee in Europe to save my life - just because I am engaged in 'marketing' or 'jealous'. Yeah, sure.
- The lie that Cornwell doesn't hate Jews
Documents and witnesses prove that Patricia Cornwell really does hate the people she describes as "dirty, filthy Jews". Cornwell grew up under the foster care supervision of Billy Graham, whose anti-Semitic hatred was recorded on the Watergate tapes. Like some Nazis, Cornwell likes using submissive Jews for business, or in her eroticism. Cornwell's gay marriage to a Jewish woman seems a political fake, taken under legal advice, to cover for crimes: Victims of Cornwell have had swastikas painted on houses, Cornwell's friends record her hatred of 'filthy Jews', and Cornwell did, in writing, threaten a book-burning of the books of a Jew, and then paid people to threaten murder to cover up for this.
Internet media sources are mostly tied to Cornwell -
Do note how many internet "sources" turn out to be Cornwell's own publishing companies or others with a vested interest in her crimes.
CNN is a branch of one of Cornwell's publishing companies, Time-Warner Books.
AP (Associated Press) is partly owned by Cornwell's publishing companies, and by parties named as co-defendants of Cornwell in past-crimes (Times-Dispatch Media General).
David Mehegan, Boston Globe (New York Times Company) sent me hate mail, does not deny taking a bribe from Cornwell's Boston lawyer Joan Lukey.
The UK Guardian is in joint financial projects with Cornwell's publishers at Pearson and elsewhere.
Media General - Times Dispatch editorial board had a personal meeting with Cornwell, agreeing to help her in any way whatsoever, due to the money she gives the Bushes.
US law prof. Roy Girasa, works for Cornwell's publisher Pearson, doesn't deny he took money to write lies for Cornwell.
Wikipedia and Answers-com are defendants in the European legal cases, facing possible closure, they have a vested interested in supporting the banning of my journalism and the threats to murder me, after they worked with Cornwell and the CIA to spread lies about me for several years. Wikipedia's UK spokesman David Gerard has sent me personal hate mail, telling me how he is working to destroy me.
Media companies that operate in the US fear revenge by US judges in future cases, if they expose crimes by the judges - media companies want favours from US judges, so they help the US judges to attack and smear critics of the courts.
The US federal judges, anxious to cover up for their court fraud crimes, as partners of Cornwell and Bush, of course wrote extensive public lies and smears about me as part of their illegal 'court orders', while banning my responses and my websites from Google and the search engines.
Patricia Cornwell has spread lies about me to readers of her books, encouraging them to spread smears about me on the internet, while her judge friends ban my replies from being visible on Google and the search engines.
And of course you have various other people who never contacted me, writing their own false material on the internet, based on lies originally written by the Cornwell team or the Cornwell judges, and spread through Cornwell's media connections above.
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Dr Les Sachs
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Les Sachs (Dr Leslie Sachs) -
The peaceful Dr Les Sachs is one of the most highly educated citizens from the United States. Dr Sachs holds full written proof of major crimes by the US government, and was forced to take political refuge in Western Europe because of terrorist acts against him by the Bush gang who rule the USA. (For a more detailed biography of Dr Sachs with more photos, click here.)
Dr Sachs, a product of European Christian, Jewish and native American heritages, graduated from Harvard University alongside today's top US leaders. He holds seven earned degrees from three universities, including a doctorate in historical studies. Dr Sachs' published books have sold in six figures, and he holds the Superior Performance Award from the US Department of Justice.
Dr Sachs is under direct threat of jail and murder by the US regime, and he is the victim of terrorist acts committed by the US in Europe. He is currently being targeted by US government terrorist activity in Belgium, as well as by a worldwide media slander campaign organised by the friends of President Bush, a campaign led by the fascist, racist author and Bush friend Patricia Cornwell.
|The friends
Bush are so afraid of the power of Dr Sachs' writings,
that they have spent nearly a million US dollars trying to destroy,
slander and murder him. US-tied media companies are supporting these
acts of terrorism and are
trying to smear and slander Dr Sachs, while the US high courts, copying
the style of Adolf Hitler, have held two fraudulent "legal proceedings"
to try and ban Dr Sachs' freedom to write and speak.
Nearly 18 months before it became world news and general fact, Dr Sachs' journalism exposed how Wikipedia and Answers-dot-com are tools of the CIA and of US-Israeli intelligence, part of the US attempt at worldwide control of the internet. Now, Dr Sachs' conclusions have become mainstream fact, backed by large-scale research on Wired News and elsewhere. - Dr Les Sachs is himself a victim of the US attempts at this Nazi-style control of the world media and the web.
The US regime has such violent hatred for Dr Sachs and his writing, that it has launched criminal campaigns against Europeans and all world citizens, to try and silence Dr Sachs' voice around the world. The US regime is desperately trying to cover up for its terrorist crimes that forced Dr Sachs to become a political refugee in Europe in the first place.
|Dr Les Sachs is related to
Jews who died in the Nazi Holocaust of the 1940s, a key factor in the
US and Patricia
Cornwell threats to murder and slander Dr Sachs, as they try and
suppress Dr Sachs' writings that expose their own Nazi-style behaviour.
Dr Sachs' own name and initial is found at the National Monument to the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium, in the Anderlecht neighbourhood of Brussels.
Recently the National Monument to the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium has been attacked - just like Dr Les Sachs himself has been attacked in Belgium, by the US-Bush-Patricia-Cornwell gang of criminals.
Among the Belgian Jews murdered by the Nazis, this name engraved into the wall at the National Monument to the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium -
"Sachs L":
the US in
violation of international laws and treaties, and also its own
propaganda, the US is
misusing its power over major internet companies, issuing
illegal "court orders" against Google and others, trying
to ban access to Dr Sachs' writings and to erase the facts about Dr
Sachs from the internet.
Meanwhile, the Bush-tied major media companies are supporting these US terrorist crimes by spreading lies about Dr Sachs and his writings, and ignoring the facts and the documents proving that the US regime is guilty of acts of major crime, court fraud and international terrorism. The Western media obscure how the US is banning and threatening to jail and murder a book author, who was perhaps the US' most highly educated citizen.
The US regime, Bush friend Patricia Cornwell, and Cornwell's publisher Pearson plc - Penguin Books, have mounted internet attacks slandering Dr Sachs for several years - but nonetheless, they have recently been able to bribe or induce Western media companies to slander Dr Sachs as somehow an "internet attacker" and "cyberstalker" of Bush's friend -- even though from the very beginning of Dr Sachs' publicity about Patricia Cornwell, Dr Sachs was only responding to threats he himself received from the Cornwell-Bush gang, including an early extortion letter Cornwell faxed to Dr Sachs.
The Western media companies, bigoted and biased as they are, regularly denounce actions by Muslim and other nations that affect "freedom of speech" - yet these same Western media companies reveal their hypocrisy as they join the attempts to silence, ban, slander and murder Dr Les Sachs, in revenge for Dr Sachs daring to write about the corruption and bribery of the US empire and Bush's friends. The Western corporate media laud the dissidents from non-Western countries, but slander and attack Dr Sachs because he exposes the deepest crimes of the US empire.
Dr Sachs is the son of a Polish-Jewish mother, and honours the memory of his Jewish relatives who died in the Holocaust under Adolf Hitler. Dr Sachs helped to teach a course at Harvard University about the moral implications of Hitler's Nazi crimes. It is precisely Dr Sachs' honouring the victims of fascist Adolf Hitler, that led Dr Sachs to criticise the Nazi-like behaviour of the friends of George Bush and the rulers of the United States.
Dr Sachs bumped into the terrorist power of the Bush gang, when he dared to challenge the Jew-hating activity of a wealthy racist friend of President George Bush -- the famous book author and proven perjuring criminal Patricia Cornwell. Patricia Cornwell is a money-whore through whom the media companies give millions of dollars of funding to the George Bush family and other US politicians, and Cornwell publicly boasts that she can murder people, thanks to her backing by the Bushes and the US regime.
The Bush gang and bribed US judges looked upon Dr Sachs, with his past record of successful journalism on corruption, as someone who might expose the truth about George Bush's friend Cornwell, and so they moved quickly to attack Dr Sachs, instantly banning his freedom of speech and threatening to torture him to death in US jails.
With racist US federal judges successfully intimidating US lawyers and organisations so they would not help Dr Sachs, the Bush-US regime forced Dr Sachs to escape to Europe just to be able to stay alive. Agents of the US-Bush regime and Bush's friend Cornwell, have continued criminal and terrorist attacks on Dr Sachs in Europe, mounting a major new campaign against Dr Sachs in 2007 after Dr Sachs' writings started to become very popular around the world.
Dr Sachs is a European citizen who lives in the capital of Europe, Brussels, Belgium, where, despite the threats of murder by the US regime, Dr Sachs continues to work for a more just and peaceful world, against the US terrorists. Upcoming legal actions in Europe will help to further expose the US terrorist crimes against Dr Sachs, and the Nazi-style attempt by the US and its allied media companies to control the world internet.
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(This is the third in a short series of posts taken from a hospital chapel message on Luke 17:11-19.)
We already talked about going away from people because of the skin disease. But there were different kinds. Some of them disappeared by themselves. Some of them destroyed the life of the person. So there was a process for deciding which kind this was.
The rule was that if evidence of disease disappeared, the person would go to the Jewish priest who would examine them and permit them back into community. Because the priest was responsible for the health – spiritual and physical – of the community.
These 10 men headed to town to find a priest. Which was an act of faith. Because you couldn't go to the priest if you were sick. There was no point. So they went. And as they went, they were cleansed.
Again, we don't know if it was sudden or slow. We don't know if all ten were healed at the same time and speed or if it happened randomly. But as they were obeying, as they were doing what Jesus said, they were cleansed.
One of them came back , calling out to God. "Thank you God." "Thank you Jesus."
Now, technically, he wouldn't have had the story of God exactly right. At least according to the people around Jesus. He was a Samaritan. His theology would have been fuzzy. But he praised God and he came back to Jesus and thanked him.
We don't know how many of the rest were what religious connection. The text doesn't tell us. We only know the identity of this one. And Jesus sends him on his way. Rise and go. Your faith has made you well. Back to his life. With an understanding that somehow, his faith was involved in his healing.
But which healing?
Remember I said that it wasn't just his faith that healed his body? Because all 10 men were healed. What if the healing that Jesus is talking about is more than just physical? What if the healing is about forgiveness, about relationship with God and others?
Think about these men a couple years later. Someone asks, "Tell me about your sickness."
-It just disappeared, one says.
-I followed the doctor's directions.
-we hollered at a guy, Jesus, who told us to go to the priest. He didn't touch us. He didn't do anything. Man, we were lucky.
And then. That tenth man.
For the rest of his life, when he told the story, he said, "Thank God, Jesus healed me."
And on his death bed, because physical healing doesn't last forever, that man would have said, "I'm so glad I talked to Jesus that day."


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Only 26 years old, Mr. ONeill was hand-picked to serve as the focal point of an elaborate sting operation and assigned to FBI Headquarters to serve as Hansens subordinate. Preceding Hanssens arrest, Mr. ONeill worked with the spy within the information assurance division that protected all classified FBI intelligence. He gained Hanssens trust and used that relationship to slowly draw the traitor out of deep cover. Engaged in a lethal game of spy-versus-spy, he found himself fighting to bring down Hanssen before the treacherous double agent could destroy him, his family and the nation they are both sworn to serve.
Throughout his 25-year career with the Bureau, Hanssen spent the last 22 years of his service selling thousands of pages of valuable classified documents to Russia during the Cold Warand subsequently to the former Soviet Union. His betrayal included identification of KGB agents who were spying on behalf of America, as well as the United States template for relocation of the president in the event of a catastrophic attack.
Eric ONeill began his career in the FBI as a graduate of the FBIs Intelligence Program. He spent the first five years of his career as a Special Surveillance Group field operative tasked to surveil and monitor foreign, national, and domestic terrorists and spies. He transitioned from field operative to direct undercover work focusing on Hanssen. Although his prior training had focused on ghosting targets from the shadows, he engaged his target in conversation in order to elicit information needed to catch Hanssen in the act of espionage. The singular nature of the assignment, one with little backup or support, required Mr. ONeill to draw from deep reserves of courage and confidence within himself to battle Hanssens mind games and aggressive probing and learn to stop reacting to Hanssen and begin acting.
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Aside from visiting Mars, space nerds would love to see a permanent habitat on the moon. Consider me skeptical. But what happens if you get to the moon and someone inevitably needs medical attention? Well, in 1992 this NASA-commissioned illustration from Pat Rawlings sought to illustrate how that might work.
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Lunar pioneers will encounter hazards and crises requiring new emergency procedures. Here, an antenna installer fell over a 90-foot escarpment and fractured his right femur. Responding to this situation on a "medivac" hopper, two other lunar base crew members employ a portable CAT-scan device, a holographic display, and helmet-mounted heads-up displays to determine the severity of the injury. After an inflatable Thompson splint is placed on his leg, the semiconscious technician is transported back to the base strapped onto the side of the hopper.
We've seen plenty of emergency medical scenarios in sci-fi over the years (one of my favorites is from the much-maligned Prometheus), but first we need a reason to go back to the moon. And as I've explained many times before, the United States hasn't quite found a reason just yet.


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|Bugsy - 1999-2012
Bugsy is at the Rainbow Bridge
Bugsy (1999-2012) passed away the morning of March 3, 2012 from pulmonary distress and pneumonia. He died peacefully in his human mother's arms. He brought so much joy to his rescue family for the 3 years he lived with us. He is survived by fur brother Cooper, Mom Carolyn, Dad Mark, Grandma Sonia, Grandpa Tom, and Auntie Heather, as well as many many friends. We miss him terribly.
Bugsy the Laid Back Pug is homeBugsy said a quick good bye to his foster brother Stu, a little shake to his foster family, then it was out the door with Carolyn and Mark to head off to his new, forever home.
Bugsy had 4 teeth removed on January 8th and after his antibiotics is feeling much better. His patchy fur is filling in well too. A formerly bald underside is now covered in soft fur and is offered up for belly-rubs every morning.
He would do best with a quiet family who is willing to give the little bit of extra care that is required. He gets a weekly bath, nose-fold cleaning every other day, and medication and supplements with each meal. He would do better in a house without a lot of stairs. He is quite happy to bounce up and down our steep and slippery stairs, but seems oblivious to the danger of tumbling down.
Bugsy boy is a man of simple needs. He is an easy going, well-trained boy who only wants your company and affection (and sometimes your dinner) but needs to remain on a strictly grain free diet . He looks forward to nuzzling up to you on the sofa, joining you on short walks and snoring happily at the end of the bed.
Foster Bro Stu is going to miss his big, gentle buddy.
Foster Update - Dec 30
Foster Update - Dec 30The good news is Bugsy enjoyed the holidays laying by the fire, and taking walks in the woods. Looking again at his records I noticed that his first vet visit is dated December of 1998. So...our nine year old is actually 10.
He continues to do well with his skin allergies. The blackness on his belly has all but disappeared and the redness is gone. The weekly baths seem to keep him quite comfortable, and he enjoys them. His new family should continue to do this. A loose fitting T-shirt worn occasionally seems to feel good and keep his skin from getting irritated.
He is looking quite handsome with his new "supermodel" physique. Bugsy has gone from a whopping 30lbs in October to 27lbs at last weigh in and now a trim 25lbs.
He went to the vet today to have his thyroid levels tested once more and to investigate a swelling I noticed last night. It is a swollen gland in his neck which we think is related to an infection running from the sinuses to an upper incisor. His dental surgery is scheduled for January the 8th, and after he has recovered we will begin looking at applications. He is a beautiful boy with the most easy going sweet personality and we will surely miss him.
Foster Update - Dec 1Bugsy is delightful. When he is very happy he wiggles and barks and all four legs lift off the floor, but is for the most part very quiet and distinguished. He is not a clingy shadow but likes to be close by. He's very affectionate and demands a good spot on the sofa, and likes to curl up behind your knees or at your feet in bed. He doesn't like to be carried around...which is a good thing..he's too heavy for me. but loves to snuggle right up and nibble on your ear when you let him on your lap. He loves to lean his chin on things (as you can see in the photo) the footstool is his favorite spot. A couple of toys stacked up will also do the trick....
Bugsy (aka Mr. Big) is feeling great. The switch to grain free food and the addition of omega 3's to his diet has made a remarkable difference. His energy levels have improved, he's not tired after his walks now. He quite enjoys the routine, and I think I can almost see a waist!
I will weigh him again soon but I am almost certain he has lost some weight. His thyroid levels will also need to be monitored. He is quite happy to nap most of the day and has no issue with being left alone. He has a large crate which he likes, but is just as happy to sleep on the floor or a bed it seems. He is no longer itchy when brushed or petted, but still has "moth eaten" fur patches that should improve over time. He loves his bath and is sits patiently while you wash and dry him. such a good boy.
Bugsy should be ready for his forever home after our vet gives him the all clear on weight loss and his thyroid levels.
Foster Update - Nov 22Bugsy has come through his first week and his surgeries day with flying colours. He had dental cleaning, the growth removed from his eye and was neutered. Next is to work on his skin itchys, which is improving already and to get a bit of weight off this sturdy boy. Bugsy is hypothyroid and gets a pill with each meal. He has been very easy to medicate, I just add it to his food.
I really can't say enough about this sweet man. He's such an agreeable old chap and will make someone very happy.
Anyone who comes to the house is greeted with a stuffed toy and a bum wiggle. He is impeccably clean in the housetraining dept. and is very polite about letting me know it's time to go out. (I hope this rubs off on my two..) Bugsy would enjoy the company of another older dog, or as an only dog.
Introduction - Nov 16Bugsy is a beautiful nine year old intact male who was surrender by his owners because they are moving out of the country. He is very friendly cheerful and affectionate. He is getting along just fine with the resident pugs. He does have health issues (obesity and allergies)that we are certain can be corrected with proper diet. He was good as gold getting his nails clipped (thanks blanche)and taking his pill with his new food.
He will see our vet next week to have a growth removed from his right eyelid, neutering and a look at his teeth.


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Bedfordshire Whisky Festival returns to Leighton Buzzard Railway
7 April 2019
The 2019 Bedfordshire Whisky Festival will take place at the Leighton Buzzard Railway on Father's Day Sunday 16th June.
Following the success of the inaugural event last year, the 2019 edition will be bigger in every way. There will be more masterclasses with more tickets available, a greater selection whiskies and other spirits, and a larger range of entry options.
Taking place from 10.30am until 4pm in the engine shed at Page's Park, entry will be free for advanced ticket holders, and just £2 on the day. Festival glasses are also available at a 40% discount to those who pre-book their tickets online before Sunday 19th May.
There will be five masterclasses, each on a different theme. Limited to 20 spaces, these intimate half-hour tastings will be held by whisky writer Billy Abbott, encompassing breakfast whiskies, a beginners' guide, fruity liqueurs, world whisky and something special to finish the day.
Around 60 whiskies, spirits and premixed cocktails will be available, with prices starting at just £1 per taste. Soft drinks will be on hand for designated drivers, and accompanied children, as well as a hot food stand.
Locomotives not being used in service on the day will be available to view, as well as the railway's popular guided Engine Shed Show.
For those who wish to take a break from the drams, an enhanced train service will be in operation from Page's Park Station, departing hourly between 10.30am and 3.30pm. In addition, subject to availability, footplate rides will be offered to visitors to Page's Park Station using 1912-built steam locomotive, PC Allen.
Festival organiser Rocky Lancer said "I'm delighted that the Leighton Buzzard Railway have agreed to host the Bedfordshire Whisky Festival again in 2019. With all the profits being donated to the railway, I'm looking forward to many customers enjoying the day and supporting a good cause at the same time."
Full details on the festival, as well as fee-free booking for the event and masterclasses can be found here.
Extension Update
27 June 2018
Leighton Buzzard Railway Father's Day Whisky Festival – last orders for pre-sales
7 May 2018
The Leighton Buzzard Railway celebrating another first with the hosting of a whisky and spirits festival on Father's Day, Sunday 17 June between 1100 and 1600. Entry is free with a train ticket, and hourly trains will leave Page's Park to the festival from 1030 to 1430, returning from 1225 to 1625.
Around 50 whiskies and 20 mixed spirits from around the world will be available, including rare releases such as legendary single-cask releases from historic bottler Berry Bros. & Rudd, holder of two royal warrants, and rare spirits from the 1980s. Organic soft drinks from Karma Cola, pre-bottled cocktails and a hot-food stand will also be present on the day.
The festival will be run by an experienced team of knowledgeable and enthusiastic industry staff, who will be on hand to help answer questions. In addition, hourly masterclasses will be hosted in our museum. All prices include tasting at least three whiskies and a festival tumbler to keep. Tickets for the tastings with glasses will only be available until 20 May and you can also add a gift box for an extra £3. The masterclasses are:
• Breakfast (lighter and sweeter) whiskies, 11.15-11.45, £12
• 1970s and 1980s Scotch, 12.15-12.45, £25
• Long-lost whiskies of the world, 13.15-13.45, £15
• One distillery (Glen Moray), three styles, 14.15-14.45, £12
• Peated whiskies, 15.15-15.45, £12
In addition, pre-orders for festival tumblers will be available online until 20 May priced at only £7.50 unboxed or £10.50 with a gift box. On the day, a limited number of unboxed tumblers will be available for £10, with no gift box option.
The Leighton Buzzard Railway is always keen to support the local community, and the team from Stanbridge-produced Willow Tree Gin will be on hand to sample their gin. When asked to take part, owner Mary Vincent said: 'It sounds like a great day out. We would love to be involved.'
For those visiting Page's Park, footplate rides will be available subject to availability on Chaloner, a fortnight before the 1877-built steam loco celebrates the 50th anniversary of hauling passenger trains at the railway.
Festival organiser Rocky Lancer said: 'We're always looking for new and exciting events to offer to our customers, and working in the spirits industry, a whisky festival was a natural choice for Father's Day. Following the discovery of a local gin producer, we added spirits and soft drinks to the line-up to appeal to the whole family – there are lots of mothers who like whisky, too, and plenty of father's who don't.'
Click here for further details, including online booking.
A bumper Christmas at the Leighton Buzzard Railway
29 December 2017
Volunteers are celebrating a bumper Christmas at the Leighton Buzzard Railway.
Over five thousand passengers enjoyed the Santa Specials, the highest number since 2006.
As well as being able to offer a new station for visitors to enjoy, the numbers were boosted by the new "Santa After Dark" services offering Santa and entertainment on the train which were fully sold out with over 400 passengers.
Traffic Manager Nick Burton commented 'We are delighted. On 23 December we carried 845 passengers over the 12 trains, including four 'Santa After Dark' services, a record number of passengers in one day. The total has also been achieved in spite of losing a day's services on 10 December due to the snow. The Santa After Dark' service proved to be a real hit. The new service, which operated on just a few days to test public interest, has proved exceptionally popular and we will need to provide more trains in 2018'.
Passengers have also praised the all-volunteer service. One review on Trip Advisor commented:
"Great value for money, children and adults enjoyed the train ride. All staff/volunteers were so helpful and friendly. Gifts the children were given exceeded expectation and I loved the personal touch of the printed carrier bags and Christmas card. Would definitely recommend."
And the organiser of a birthday party for 22 on a very crowded 'Santa After Dark' train summed it up:
"Thank you so much, the Santa train was so much fun and we all had a brilliant time. Now my younger one wants a train birthday party (in September!)! We really appreciate you putting on the extra 1900 train and the birthday girl was so thrilled, what a great birthday surprise! Merry Christmas!"
Sponsor Aldi supplied the Railway with mince pies and were rewarded with a 'Mince Pie' special.
Summarising the Santa result, Chairman Terry Bendall expressed his thanks to everyone who came along to enjoy the fun, passengers and volunteers alike. 'We still have much to do. There is always room for improvement but the numbers suggest we are heading in the right direction. At the end of the day what we can do depends on how many volunteers we have and we would be delighted to see some new faces. Our Volunteering Day on Sunday March 18th with special discount fares of £4 for adults and £2 for children is a great way to find out how you can help – hope to see you there!'
Sunday 10 December: Service Update
10 December 2017
Trains have now been CANCELLED due to the snow – the first time the weather has stopped our trains in 50 years!
Please note all our communication channels are very busy today, but we will be contacting all pre-booked customers during the coming few days to advise of rebooking options, so please bear with us.
If you are out and about today, please travel safely.
Leighton Buzzard Railway
2018 Special Events timetable released
12 November 2017
The events calendar for 2018 has now been released. We'll have some exciting new events including a whisky festival, alongside our annual staples such as the Ale Trail, Sand & Motorcycles and Vintage Vehicles Rally.
Our timetable for the first half of 2018 is now also published. Tickets for 2018 will be on sale from January.
Leighton Buzzard Railway joins easyfundraising.org.uk
28 October 2017
If you shop online regularly, you can now donate money to us at the same time – at no extra cost to you! Simply head via the easyfundraising website, sign up and select Leighton Buzzard Railway as your chosen cause, click on the link to one of more than 3,000 retailers and shop as normal. The affiliate commission earned by the site is then sent to us as a donation. Why not join today and help the railway for free? If you're eligible for Gift Aid, we'll get an extra 25%, too!
Christmas Santa Specials – tickets on sale now!
10 September 2017
Tickets for our Santa Specials are now on sale. New for this year is our Santa After Dark experience.
Leighton Buzzard receives Transport Trust 'Red Wheel' Award
28 August 2017
The Leighton Buzzard Railway received yet another award on Thursday 24th August when President of the Transport Trust (and Railway President) Sir William McAlpine unveiled a 'Red Wheel' plaque at the Railway's Stonehenge Works site. The Trust is Britain's only charity dedicated to the preservation of all modes of transport and its infrastructure.
The Trust presents the 'Red Wheel' plaques to draw attention to sites of significant transport heritage interest. In the case of the Leighton Buzzard Railway, built in 1919 using ex-WW1 materials to carry sand, the award highlights the line as 'a rare survivor from the era of railways used as internal transport within British industry'. The plaque is mounted on the former stables block at Stonehenge Works, which is now used as a workshop.
Transport Trust officers and members joined Society Vice-Presidents, officers and members on the 12.20 hrs service train to Stonehenge Works, complete with 'Red Wheel Rambler' headboard, where the award was unveiled. The train was appropriately hauled by locomotive 'P.C.Allen' named after the late industrialist and noted railway author Sir Peter Allen who was the first President of the Transport Trust. The locomotive had been given to Sir Peter on his retirement by the Solvay works in Spain where it had spent its working life. Sir Peter later presented it to the Railway for restoration, after residing in his garden for many years!
The award follows receipt by the Railway of the recent 'Queens Award for Voluntary Service' and the Heritage Railway Association's premier accolade, the Peter Manisty award earlier this year.
We need your help!
21 June 2017
In our 50th year, we've launched an appeal to extend our line back to its original terminus, and need to raise £40,000 by the end of September to secure track components and to start preparatory works. Please see our special page for full details.
Third year in a row
20 June 2017
We're delighted to announce we've been award TripAdvisor's Certificate of Excellence for a third year in a row. We coudn't have done this without your support (and your reviews), so thank you very much. Want to leave us a review? Find out how on our customer reviews page.
We have an app!
10 June 2017
The railway is now part of the Heritage Railway Association's Heritage Railway Trails app. Find out all about it, including download instructions on the our app page.
Leighton Buzzard Railway wins Queen's Award for Voluntary Service
2 June 2017
Volunteers at the Leighton Buzzard Railway are celebrating the award of the prestigious Queen's Award for Voluntary Service. The award is the equivalent to the Queen's Award for Export Achievement, Queen's Award for Technology or, for an individual, the MBE.
The award, following a nomination by past Mayor of Leighton Buzzard Councillor Amanda Dodwell, comes as the Society prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary later this year and follows hard on the heels of the Railway receiving the Heritage Railway Association's Premier Award in February.
The award citation was made for 'Fifty years of conserving England's industrial railway heritage, in Bedfordshire'.
The Leighton Buzzard Railway is run, managed and operated entirely by volunteers drawn from all walks of life and from across the community. 'We are thrilled, honoured but above all humbled to have received this award' said Chairman Terry Bendall. 'Our team today still includes a number of members who helped to get us off the ground back in 1967, truly they have given a lifetime of commitment. And we are proud to have an active number of junior volunteers, eager to learn from them, thereby ensuring the survival of the traditional skills and trades upon which our future as a heritage railway depends'.
The award was notified to the Railway following a visit to the Railway by a Committee of Deputies to the Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, Helen Nellis, late last year. The awards are announced on the 2nd June each year, the anniversary of Her Majesty's accession to the throne.
The Lord Lieutenant will formally present the award to the Railway on Friday 28th July.
Road numbering changes
4 May 2017
The Dunstable northern bypass has now opened. The road from the new junction 11A of the M1 to the roundabout of the A5 and A505 has been designated as the A5. As a result, the former A5 from this point to Dunstable is now the A505, and from Dunstable to junction 9 of the M1 has been de-trunked to the A5183. In addition the A4146 between Leighton Buzzard and Hemel Hempstead has been reclassified as the B440. Our find us page has been changed to reflect the new road numbers, and will show both old and new numbers to allow time for road signs and satnav systems to be updated.
Function Room for hire
8 April 2017
The railway now has a room for hire. Please click here for details.
Busy start to new season!
19 March 2017
Despite a strong, chilly wind, the first day of the 2017 season got off to a spectacular start on 19 March. Originally planned as a one-train day, online bookings kept on coming in, and a second train was quickly crewed up.
This was also failing to meet demand, so the final throw of the dice - an extra coach and locomotive on the second set - just about allowed us to provide the train ride our customers were expecting, with a minimum of waiting. Almost every seat on every train was sold, underlining the importance of booking online in advance.
The attraction was, of course, the big fare price cuts for one day only, designed to give people a taster of what we do, and to attract those interested in membership of our Society, and volunteering to help keep the line alive.
That too was successful.
Top Award For 'Outstanding Contribution To Railway Preservation'
19 February 2017
Volunteers at the Leighton Buzzard Railway are delighted by the news that their hard work has been recognised by the Heritage Railway Association's highest national award, named after the late Peter Manisty, one of railway preservation's pioneers.
The award plaque was presented formally at the HRA's Annual General Meeting dinner, by Sir Peter Hendy, Chairman of Network Rail (above right). It was received on behalf of the Society by the Chairman, Terry Bendall.
The award recognises the LBR's "Outstanding Contribution to Railway Preservation" during 2016. Previous holders include the National Railway Museum for its "Mallard 75" event in 2014, and London Transport Museum's 2013 event celebrating the 150th anniversary of the opening of the world's first underground railway.
The judges were particularly impressed by the Society's determination to press on and build a new station at Page's Park, despite being disappointed by the outcome of grant applications. Apart from a Section 106 payment from neighbouring housing developments, most of the funding in fact came from the Society's membership, a remarkable achievement.
Link road construction progress
12 February 2017
If you come to Leighton Buzzard from Junction 12 of the M1, you will have seen work in progress on the course of the extension to the A505, from the new Junction 11A of the M1, north of Dunstable.
When finished in June, it will give our visitors direct access from the M1 to the A505/A4146 Leighton Buzzard southern bypass. This will reduce travel times, particularly for those coming from the London area. We look forward to its completion.
TripAdvisor certificate awarded--again!
15 January 2017
In 2016, for the second year running, the Leighton Buzzard Railway was awarded a Certificate of Excellence by the TripAdvisor tourism planning website, for the high standard of the reviews it has received.
More than three-quarters of the reviewers have rated us 'Excellent' or 'Very Good', and we have used both positive and negative feedback as a prompt to take action on any aspects of our customer experience over which we have any influence.
New postcode for Page's Park
1 January 2017
The postcode for Page's Park - our main station and registered office - has recently been changed to LU7 4TG. This will come as a great relief to satnav users, who have been known to get lost in a nearby industrial estate!


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Valentines Outfit: Baby Love Headband and Onesie DIY2.06.2014
For those who do not know, our family celebrated the cutest (I know I'm biased, but seriously she is the cutest) little girl in October. And it was even more exciting because we had had three boys first. So she is definitely a dream come true! Because she is potentially our only chica, I have been going a little crazy on the girly stuff. I have gotten really good at making baby bracelets and flower clips. And I love dressing her in frills and pink. I hope I'm not making any of you gag. So here's a little cuteness I whipped up for her Valentines day putfit!
- Tule
- Onesie
- Needle
- Thread
- Scissors
- Cut the tule into 1/2 in. squares.
- Thread your needle and make sure to start from inside the onsie so your know does not show.
- As you begin fold the tule square into fourths and thread the needle through the corner with no openings.
- Each time you thread through the onsie attach one square of tule in a heart shape.
- Iron if needed.
- Ruler
- 1/4 yard of fabric
- Scissors
- Elastic material/ ribbon 6-7 in
- Thread
- Needle
(The measurements for this are set for size 3 month-12 month.)
- Cut the fabric into two strips. The headband should measure 4 in X 10 in. The tie or smaller piece should measure 2 in X 4 in.
- Fold the two pieces of fabric in half long ways inside out. Iron to get rid of wrinkles.
- Sew a seam up the open side on both pieces. Turn the pieces right side out. By doing this you should not see the seam.
- Fold in the ends of both pieces of fabric.
- Fold the headband onto itself and wrap the smaller tie piece around the headband. You will want the folded side of the headband to appear on the front so there is a cute crease.
- Sew the smaller tie piece together in the back to hide the seam.
- Slide the elastic piece into the folded ends of the headband at least 1/2 in. As you sew make sure to catch the elastic piece tightly. Repeat for the other side connecting the elastic piece.
- Iron if needed.


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Mechanics of Materials
The group is concerned with the development of methods to calculate the strength of materials. To accomplish our goals, we work with experimental techniques, numerical methods (FEM) and theories for damage and fracture mechanics. Today, our work is focused on the strength of composite materials and adhesive joints. Increasing demands on lower emissions and decreased fuel consumption provide a strong driving force for changing from traditional engineering materials to light weight materials. Often these materials cannot be joined by welding. Adhesive joining provides an interesting technique that facilitates joining of different materials. Composite materials provide excellent strength and stiffness to weight ratios. They are often used in high demanding environments where the safety of the structure is essential. Within this field we develop methods to improve the predictability of strength properties.
Fracture is studied using the cohesive zone model. The ambition is to develop methods usable for large complex structures. To achieve our goal, we are also studying fracture at small scales considering the microstructure of materials. Current applications are delamination and compressive failure of carbon fibre composites, fatigue and fracure of adhesively joined structures, and strength of discreate joints. Properties of smart textiles are studied in a recently started project with the University of Borås. Cutting technology is also studied.
Most projects involves colaboration with Swedish industry.
At the moment we are not engaging new PhD-students.
Current projects
MIxade Materrial för lättare Produkter (MIMAP) (2015-2017) is a VINNOVA financed project in LIGHTer's "Strategiska innovationsprogrammet för lättvikt". The aim is to decrease the weight with at least 20 % through the development of product development methods for mixed materials. Industrial members: Volvo Cars, Husqvarna, Gestamp HardTech and SSAB; Institutes: Swerea SICOMP (project leader) and KIMAB. Project member Professor Ulf Stigh.
Knowledge-driven decision support via optimization (2015-2019) is an INFINIT (KK-Miljö) supported SIDUS-project. Project member Dr Tobias Andersson.
Lightweight joints (2013-16) is a Volvo Preferred Academic Partner project aiming at lightweight joining solutions for industrial applications. Project leader is Professor Svante Alfredsson.
PLUGG (2013-2016) is an FFI-financed project under the leading of Swerea IVF. It aims at developing a joining methodology for joining lightweight materials such as composites in the car industry. Industrial partners are Volvo Car Company, Gestamp Hardtech, Stanley Black & Decker. Local project leader is Dr Tobias Andersson.
- Ulf Stigh
- Professor Mechanics of Materials
- School of Engineering Science
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- Phone: 0500-448508
Members of the research group
Ulf Stigh, Professor
Svante Alfredsson, Associate professor
Tobias Andersson, Senior lecturer
Karl Mauritsson, Senior lecturer
Waseem Tahir, Senior lecturer
Daniel Svensson, Senior lecturer
Anders Biel, Senior lecturer
Rosana Moriana Torró, Senior lecturer
Stefan Zomborcsevics, Lecturer
Kaveh Amouzgar, PhD student


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Industry & Online Programmes
Industry & Online Programmes (I&OP)
As a measure of a proactive strategic approach, NID has set up the Industry & online Programmes department (I&OP), which regularly conducts design sensitisation and awareness workshops, seminars, and activities that provides competitive advantage through design. Through these programmes, NID shares the vast knowledge and skills of various faculties with professionals, practitioners, teachers from various industries, organisations, and institutions; and welcomes all those who wish to be associated with design.
NID is well known for its innovative pedagogy and unique teaching methods. NID has now also adapted to asynchronous teaching trends to introduce an online design education programme to keep pace with the changing ways in the field of education in a digitally and technologically enabled world in order to create learning opportunities for those who are otherwise unable to participate in full time training modules.
Apart from the above, during summer vacations, the I&OP department also conducts special programmes for school children and teachers to sensitise them towards design.
Throughout the year, the special workshops are organised for design professionals on specific topics either planned by faculty members or demanded by the client. Till date, through the department, NID has conducted many workshops and programmes that have successfully spread design awareness to various sectors in India and abroad.
Through Industry & Online Programmes, the institute welcomes all those who want to be associated with the field of design and NID's contribution to the same.
Registration Fees:
Rs. 15,000 + GST for 3-day workshop
Rs. 25,000 + GST for 5-day workshop
For Registration visit I&OP Workshop Website


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Challenges remain for open source systems management
The addition of an open systems management application to the current mix of proprietary offerings is a strong start in a new direction for open source software, but some analysts still see a long, challenging road ahead.
When Qlusters Inc. opened the code of its systems management platform to SourceForge.net on Monday, buzz started building around the fact that the move was a new avenue for open source software (OSS).
However, as the excitement subsided, some analysts said that in the bigger picture, this untried design would now have to go head-to-head with the proprietary players that have dominated the space for decades.
"What we are really talking about here is a $10 billion to $13 billion management market," said Stephen Elliot, research manager for Framingham, Mass.-based research firm IDC. "That's a lot of legacy software and a lot of people who have taken the time to learn these tools."
Elliot said the open source community model has the potential to offer a competitive advantage to any company that uses it to develop software, but it is not a guarantee that projects will succeed.
"People make a lot of noise about the open community model and shared code, but that is based on the assumption that developers care about [the project] and that there is something in it for them versus what they are already doing today," said Elliot.
Uphill battle
Any open source systems management model will be up against entrenched proprietary alternatives like IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator and complex mixed environment data centers, but executives from the five-year-old Qlusters were undeterred.
Qlusters chief technology officer William Hurley and vice president of marketing Fred Gallagher said the automation features of openQRM were exactly what systems administrators needed to save time and money when the number of servers became too high to handle efficiently.
Many of Qlusters existing customers already have systems administrators stretched thin, Gallagher said. The number of servers an administrator can handle is typically 20, and many customers often had 200 servers or more.
"Qlusters' approach differs from vendors that lock customers into proprietary products and expensive, time-consuming deployments," Gallagher said. "Data centers can now stop paying the proprietary tax of closed source systems management."
Plug it in, plug it in
Hurley said the benefits of having a centralized interface within an open source systems management platform are that administrators would have a new level of flexibility and could integrate applications and plug-ins with the data center without displacing anything.
"A good example is Nagios, [which] is one of the first plug-ins for openQRM," Hurley said. "While the [openQRM] product offers its own monitoring, a lot of people already use Nagios and we don't want to interfere with their business.
"If we provide a new server, we can just let Nagios know the details and monitor without interruption," Hurley added.
OpenQRM can be extended via plug-ins to other systems-management software as well, including virtualization software vendor VMware Inc. Gallagher said that one of Qluster's main reasons for taking its entire software platform open source was to encourage third parties to contribute plugs-ins.
Do your homework
Stacey Quandt, research director of security solutions and services for Boston-based Aberdeen Group, advised that organizations considering an open source systems management alternative should first determine if there is a plug-in for the application they plan to support.
"If a plug-in must be built for a custom application, carefully consider the costs in time and resources and allocate budget to development, testing, implementation and ongoing maintenance," she said.
Until this week, openQRM had been released under a "soft release" and no user references were available from Qlusters. Recent SourceForge.net rankings, however, showed that more than 420 downloads of the openQRM software had occurred to date.