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Travis Pike has a new album out, Outside the Box, and talks to Harvey Kubernik
HK: What was your initial approach when you first started thinking about doing this album?
TP: We didn't begin with an album in mind. Adam was interested in three long-form pieces from the 70's and 80's that I'd never quite completed, "Andalusian Bride Suite," "Otherworld March," and "Witch," so we recorded them.
HK: And what made you title it, "Outside the Box?"
TP: Originally, I planned to call it "Odds and Endings," to tie in with my book, "Odd Tales and Wonders 1964-1974 A Decade of Performance," the idea being that with this album, all the songs from my back catalog would finally be recorded, and I had successfully reached the "ending." But "ending" sounded like forever, and to finish the album, I'd just written and recorded several new songs. My "ending" resulted in a new beginning. It wasn't until this year, as we were finishing up the recordings, that I decided to change the album title to "Outside the Box," and for three good reasons. One, I'm not dead yet, so I'm still outside that box. Two, all my old songs are now "out of the box," recorded and available to the public. And three, all my life I'd been told that I didn't fit into a pre-defined marketing niche, a popular genre that the major labels would know how to market. As far as the recording industry is concerned, I've always been "Outside the Box." Admittedly, marketing me is a nightmare. For one thing, I'm 71- years-old – not exactly in the demographic that the music industry caters to, but I'm not licked yet. I had an itch to find a niche, and now I've found it. I'm a singer-songwriter, a niche that may still be "outside the box," but a niche I'm proud to own.
HK: You had just released a retrospective series of albums from your archives. Did you feel you had to do something in 2015 and early 2016 as a balancing act?
TP: Not really. I still had a few exotic pieces in my back catalog that Adam and I thought deserved to be brought into the world, and three years of recording had inspired me to write a few new songs. By the time we finished laying down the "Andalusian Bride Suite" and "Otherworld March," I realized I was only a few songs short of a new album, so I went to work adapting and updating a few old songs and wrote a few completely new ones.
HK: I want to talk about them, the three songs that triggered this new album. In the "Andalusian Bride" you talk about setting yourself free, but it's a song about marriage and commitment, isn't it?
TP: The bride's rite of passage is symbolic of every woman's coming of age. A girl, reared in a walled garden from which even the clouds are banished, cannot remain a child forever. She must, one day, go beyond the wall, out into the wild and wondrous world beyond. Her bid for freedom comes as no surprise. There has always been a gate in the garden, a gate through which she is expected to pass. The Child must become The Mother.
This is not to say that she must literally marry or become a mother, but that she must set out on her own path to fulfillment, wherever that may take her. Her leave-taking is bittersweet. She feels it most deeply when she leaves her childhood companion behind. Unlike the gods and goddesses who nurtured her, not understanding why she leaves, the unicorn stands alone in the garden, crying. When a girl crosses that threshold to adulthood, horns and trumpets should proclaim it. She has become mistress of her own destiny. I set the piece in Southern Spain. Andalusia displays an historical heritage practically unequaled in the West.
Known to Phoenicians and Ancient Greeks, its own historical records begin with Carthaginian colonization, and continue with conquest by Rome, the Vandals, the Visigoths, and the Moors, who held it from the early 8 th century until the Spanish Reconquista in 1492. Mythological references were introduced by each successive wave of conquerors.
Sonically, Andalusian Bride is built on a foundation of North-African walking drum and strummed Spanish guitar, bringing in other instruments and tonalities reflective of Andalusia's many cultural associations.
HK: Tell me about the "Otherworld March."
TP: That's easy. It has had many names over the years, and it only became the "Otherworld March" last year, when we began recording it. My symphonic poem period was pretty much concurrent with my rock opera period, so I originally composed and orchestrated it in 1974. Fortunately, I'd kept the notation all these years, in the hope that one day I would hear it performed, and now, thanks to Adam, I have.
HK: What inspired it? Does it have something to do with your time in the military?
TP: No. It's a quick-time march, I wrote when I was still contemplating a return to live performance. I suppose it's an "otherworldly" ballet piece. I intended it to be a choreographed showpiece with red follow spots tracking sexy dancers, writhing and swirling across a fog-bound stage. I planned to have pyrotechnic explosions chase the dancers from the stage and finally, out of all the smoke and fog, I would appear. I had considered adding a cannonade, but in the end, I decided the repeated diabolis in musica sufficed.
HK: I'd like to have seen that.
TP: I'd like to have done it.
HK: That brings us to "Witch." "Witch" is pretty dark for you, isn't it? How did that develop? And why did you take the spoken parts of the Inquisitors and bring in three female vocalists to sing the song? Who are they and what do they represent?
TP: That's a lot of questions, to have all rolled into one, but all right. I wrote "Changeling," my original occult rock musical, in 1974. A deeply researched work, I had spent most of a year studying medieval witch trials, and composed "Witch" for that work. "Changeling" evolved into "Morningstone," and the song was cut when it no longer served the story line.
The horrors of the Central European war between Catholics and Protestants (1618-1638), in which Biblical passages were quoted to sanctify witch-burnings, is condemned by modern Christianity. Sadly, the religious schism between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims has given rise to modern-day terrorists who cite verses from the Quran to support their atrocities, making "Witch" relevant again, as a warning against the potential horror inherent in extremist theocracies. As for the three ladies who sing the song, in ages past they would be readily understood to represent the Furies, female spirits of justice and vengeance for crimes against nature. And as for the Inquisitor, who, better than I, to dramatically render his justifications and sentences?
HK: I don't get many answers like that from the celebrities I normally interview. Will there be a quiz?
TP: I thought I was the one taking the quiz.
HK: Well, as far as I'm concerned, you passed. But I want you to talk about bringing in David Pinto to play the Baroque keyboard parts for "Witch." You've worked with him for years.
TP: David's been a friend since 1973 or so, and we first worked together on, of all things, "Witch." He is an extraordinary talent, and all of his performances for "Witch" have been extraordinary. It was only natural that for this recording, that I should go back to the master who had played the keyboard parts so well before. And if I may, I'd like to take this opportunity to say that David, in addition to his many credits as musician, educational specialist, and developer of award-winning music software for the blind, is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Academy of Music for the Blind, an exceptionally worthy non-profit organization I am personally proud to support.
HK: Okay, only two more questions. Tell me about "Star Maker." When you started singing and recording, it was still a two-track analog world. In this song, you contrast the old music business paradigm with an uncertain new reality, less dependent on radio play and record stores than on the internet. Are you annoyed, amused or unconcerned about today's music climate and the routes to retail exposure and sales?
TP: I'm perplexed. I know the old school ways, where radio play resulted in record sales, but I am not convinced I know how to market music in this brave new world. I don't even know if it's possible for an old retread like me to get any traction in this youth-driven market, promoted through social media and delivered via the internet.
HK: And one more. I have to ask you about "Lovely Girl I Married." Did this tune first begin the day you met your wife, Judy? Or did it stem from a more recent situation where you reflected on this still very strong relationship you have with her?
TP: The song does harken back to the first day I met her, but I wrote and recorded the song last year (2015), and it is meant to be a sincere and deep-rooted consideration of all she means to me, and the enduring happiness and comfort of the life we've shared.
HK: Did you have any hesitation in spilling out your feelings to her? It's not a graphic composition, but what is it like, writing this sort of song, when you live with the person it is about?
TP: Judy is both my best friend and my forever bride. I love her, and tell her so at least once a day, so saying it in a song is not at all awkward. It's about us. And she loves it!
HK: I guess that says it all. In closing, I want to add that it's interesting watching the Pike brothers collaborate together in the studio. They have a unique musical bond. There is a 21-year age difference between Travis and his youngest brother, Adam, but watching them record, it doesn't seem that a fifth of a century divides them. This new album, "Outside the Box," featuring several new songs, is not only their most eclectic album to date, it's one of their best.


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The question is often raised as to why a company should reorganize themselves around value streams. In this short series of blogs I want to show some good reasons why a value stream organization makes sense.
Your Lean Strategy Is Achieved Through Value Streams.
Every company has it's own strategy and way to address their markets. This is true of lean companies too. But there is a fundamental strategy underlying the lean transformation of a company. Many people think that lean is about cutting costs. Others think lean is just about eliminating the 7 wastes. Both of these things are true, but there is a deeper issue going on when you embark on making your organizing lean. And this is greatly enhanced when you have a value stream organization.
Lean is About Growing Your Business.
The primary lean approach is to grow the company sales, profits, and cash flow without spending any more money. How does this work? Through increasing customer value and eliminating waste. There are many issues related to lean. There are many lean tools. There are more than 4,000 books about lean and how to do it. But when you boil it down, lean thinking is designed to increase customer value and eliminate waste.
What do you get when you increase customer value and eliminate waste? You get a lot more sales because you are creating more value and satisfaction for your customers. What do you get when you eliminate waste from your processes? Available capacity. You may get some cost savings, but mostly you eliminate waste and create newly available capacity. People's time. Machine time. Space in your facility. Companies that are serious about lean routinely increase their capacity by 10-20% per year without additional spending.
If you have a lot more sales and freed-up capacity then every dollar of sales become bottom-line profit, once the material costs are taken off. This flies in the face of people who are looking at "margins" on products. If you free up capacity, the cost of making a product is free.
A further outcome of lean improvement in a manufacturing company is the elimination of large amounts inventory. When you reduce your inventory, you free up cash. Lean creates the "perfect storm"; higher demand by increasing value, available capacity by eliminating waste, and the cash to invest in growth.
A Value Stream Organization Builds Growth.
When you have a team of people working in a value stream, and where the responsibility for the sales, production, and profitability of a family of products lies with one person – the value stream manager; then you have a recipe for lean growth. The value stream manager & his/her team have a clear mandate and the authority to make their value stream a "lean machine" creating growth & prosperity.

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CDR ROGER G. LERSETH, USN (Ret.)
Richard "Beak" Stratton Eulogy for Roger Lerseth on May 4, 2004
Roger Lerseth - Gone West
Dr. Lerseth always seemed to approach his time as part of the Fourth Allied
POW Wing with deference, opining that he was the "new kid" - a "short
timer". All this despite the fact that he was a proven warrior of some 96
combat missions, holder of the Distinguished Flying cross, and one who
repeatedly went in harm's way to create conditions that would ensure our
release and peace with honor.
Well let us put that shibboleth to rest today by stealing from William
Shakespeare's King Henry V.
Interestingly enough, one of Henry's generals was named Westmoreland. So
with that tenuous connection, let us transmute the Bard and St. Crispin's
Day for our own purposes, taking the scene just before the definitive
battle against the French hoards and transferring the site to Vietnam.
"O that we now had here but one ten thousand of those men in the States
that do no work to day!
" Who is that who wishes so? My General Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are marked to die, it will be our country's loss; and if to live, the
fewer men, the greater share of honor. It is God's will! I pray thee, wish
not one man more. By the good Lord, I am not in this for money, nor care I
who inherits my wealth; it bothers me not if my gear goes into the lucky
bag; such outward things dwell not in my desires.
"But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
"No, faith, my cousin, wish not a man from America. God's peace! I would
not lose so great an honor as one man more methinks would take a share from
me for the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
"Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no
stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And
crowns for convoy put into his purse; We would not die in that man's
company that fears his fellowship to die with us.
"This decade is called the Vietnam War, this battle the battle of Hanoi. He
that outlives this decade, and comes safe home, will stand a tip-toe when
this day is named, and rouse himself at the names of Hanoi, Son Tay, Khe
Sanh, TeT, the Easter Offensive.
"He that shall survive this decade, and see old age, will yearly on the
vigil, feast his neighbors, and say 'To-morrow is Freedom Day.' Then will
he strip his sleeve and show his scars, and say 'These wounds I had in
Hanoi.' Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he will remember, with
advantages, what feats he did that decade.
"Then shall our names, familiar in his mouth as household words- Risner and
Kassler, Stockdale and McCain, Alvarez and McDaniel, Swindle and Fredricks,
Rowe and Purcell, Galanti and Lerseth - be in their flowing cups freshly
"This story shall the good man teach his son; and TeT shall never go by,
from this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he this decade that sheds
his blood with us shall be our brother; however long his stay, one day
shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in America who stayed-a-bed shall
think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap
when anyone speaks that fought with us in Vietnam upon that decade."
So speaks King Henry for all of us.
Dr. Lerseth indeed was a member of this band of brothers, we happy few. He
will be remembered with pride by all those who went downtown, saw the
elephant and returned with honor.
Roger shares with Saint Paul the epitaph the Saint proclaimed for himself
in his letter to Timothy:
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the
faith." To this the brotherhood of River Rats and NamPows add: "He
returned with honor."
God Bless you Peach; we shared a fine man. May God bless us all. God Bless
King Henry V: IV, iii
2Tim 4,7
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Dear Daughters of St. Philip Neri,
The Sacrifice of the Altar must be the center of your lives and the place where you unite yourselves to the Lord as an immolation of love; uniting yourselves in this character as victim. The way you do this is by yielding yourselves to "the entire accomplishment of the divine good pleasure." Offer yourselves with the same dispositions that animated the Sacred Heart upon the Cross - intense love of others, the desire for the salvation of souls and full abandonment to all that is willed from on high. You must be victims in the Victim, lambs in the Lamb of Sacrifice.
We must be united to Christ in His immolation and offer ourselves with Him; then lie takes us with Him, He immolates us with Him, He bears us before His Father, in odorem suavitatis. It is ourselves we must offer with Jesus Christ. If the faithful share, through baptism, in the priesthood of Christ, it is, says St. Peter, that they may "offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ": Sacerdotium sanctum, offerre spirituales hostias acceptabiles Deo per Jesum Christum. This is so true that in more than one prayer following the offering about to be made to God, the Church, while awaiting the moment of the consecration, lays stress on this union of our sacrifice with that of her Bridegroom. "Vouchsafe, O Lord," she says, "to sanctify these gifts, and receiving the oblation of this spiritual victim, make us an eternal sacrifice to Thyself": Propitius, Domine, quaesumus, haec dona sanctifica, et hostiae spiritualis oblatione suscepta, NOSMETIPSOS tibi perfice munus aeternum.
But in order for us to be thus accepted by God, the offering of ourselves must be united to the offering Christ made of Himself upon the Cross and renews upon the altar. Our Lord substituted "Himself for us in His immolation, He took the place of us all, and that is why when He died we, in principle, died with Him: Si unus pro omnibus mortuus est, ergo omnes mortui sunt. For this mystical death to take place effectually in each one of us, we must unite ourselves to His sacrifice on the altar. And how are we to unite ourselves to Christ Jesus in this character of victim? By yielding ourselves, like Him, to the entire accomplishment of the divine good pleasure.
It is for God to fully dispose of the victim offered to Him; we must be in this essential attitude of giving all to God, of making our acts of self-renunciation and mortification, of accepting the sufferings and trials of each day for love of Him, so that we may be able to say, like Jesus Christ at the moment of His Passion: Ut cognoscat mundus quia diligo Patrem, sic facio. That is to offer ourselves with Jesus. Let us offer the Divine Son to His Eternal Father and offer ourselves with this "holy Host" in the same dispositions that animated the Sacred Heart of Christ upon the Cross: intense
love of His Father and of our brethren, ardent desire for the salvation of souls, and full abandonment to all that is willed from on high, above all, if it contains what is painful and vexatious for our nature. When we do this, we offer God the most acceptable homage He can receive from us.
"It is then only," as St. Gregory so well says, "that Christ is our Victim, when we offer ourselves, in order to share, by our generosity and sacrifice, in His life of immolation": Tunc ergo vere pro nobis hostia erit Deo, cum nos ipsos hostiam fecerimus.
Blessed Columba Marmion


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Poolbeg Chimneys – apron
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by Fergus O'Neill
"You have the coal but we have the power.
2 colour print of the chimneys that are the very symbol of Dublin town.
All the townlands are printed at the bottom from Artane to Whitehall and everywhere in between."
2 Colour screen printed apron on 100% natural heavy cotton drill.
850mm x 600mm.
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"Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked..."
Adapted from Psalm 1:1
"The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delighteth in his way."
Psalm 37: 23
"Call upon Me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee and thee shall glorify Me."
Psalm 50:15
"Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing."
Psalm 100:1,2
"Have mercy on me, O God, in your kindness; In the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. Thoroughly wash me of my guilt, and of my sin cleanse me... A clean heart create for me, O God, And a steadfast spirit renew within me."
Psalms 51: 3,4,12
"This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."
Psalm 118:24
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from Him.
Psalm 62:5
It is better to put trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
Psalm 118:8


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This project is a great one for you to do with your kids. It's inexpensive and really easy. You need some scrapbook paper and some notebooks. I will be sharing this idea on fox 9 this Saturday morning at 8:15! If you are in the twin cities, I hope you will tune in!
My girls and I have been making these for years. I guess it is a back to school tradition around here.
Start cutting up your scrapbook paper. Glue the pieces on your notebook as you go. It helps to have a papercutter so your lines are straight.
I like to make these for myself too. I am a list person. I like to make lists and promptly forget about them.
Keep cutting and gluing until your notebooks are all covered. you might want to add some stickers or flower embellishments.
Happy crafting!


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"I've never seen them like this before," said Zac Shepherd who's visiting San Diego with his family from Arizona.
For many people who only see San Diego's beaches during the summer months, these are the biggest waves they've seen.
A large south swell created by a storm in the south pacific has brought overhead weekend waves. Lifeguard Lieutenant Nick Lerma said some parts of La Jolla had waves with fifteen foot faces.
While the county does see larger surf than this during the winter months, the summer crowds and less experienced swimmers are making this particular swell a little more labor intensive for lifeguards. Lerma said lifeguards had close to 150 rescues on Friday, and expected more Saturday.
One of the areas causing the most problems was the crystal pier. That section of beach was closed to swimmers after several were swept up in north to south currents and taken under the pier.
"Often times people will be 100 yards away from the pier. They think they're okay, but in about a minute, they're going through the pier," explained Lerma. "We've had massive crowds go through the pier, which has resulted in rescues, and that's a dangerous rescue for swimmers and lifeguards."
Newport Beach was the site of a sad reminder of how dangerous the surf can be. 50-year-old Monte Kevin Valantin of Lawndale was killed Friday while body surfing the Wedge. The popular spot for body surfers and body boarders is known for steep, and dangerous waves that break away from a rock jetty. Hundreds of spectators were on the beach watching when lifeguards say a large set came in slamming Valantin into the rocks. There were reports of 20 foot waves at the wedge on Friday.
The surf is expected to decrease for the second half of the weekend.


text: We're heading back to the old normal. The Fed is raising interest rates as the economy approaches full employment and inflation picks up. iStockphoto By James K. Glassman, Contributing Columnist From Kiplinger's Personal Finance, June 2017 Come June, it will be eight years since the end of the longest and deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Yet we are still feeling its effects. There remains, for example, a shortage of what John Maynard Keynes called animal spirits—the risk-taking that greases an economy's gears. Business start-ups are still down by one-fourth from their 2006 peak. Growth has not recovered to anything close to traditional levels. In the seven full years since the recession ended, gross domestic product has increased by an average of just 2.1% annually, about one-third less than the post–World War II norm.See Also: Kiplinger's Economic Outlooks In 2009, Mohamed El-Erian, then the CEO of bond powerhouse Pimco, popularized the term new normal to describe what he predicted would be a "world of muted growth" and subdued inflation, one in which the banking system would be "a shadow of its former self." He got that right. What he got wrong was his prediction that this condition would last only three to five years. That said, the new normal hasn't been all that miserable. To mitigate the dangers of a rickety banking system, reluctant businesses and unenthusiastic consumers, the Federal Reserve adopted an unprecedentedly easy monetary policy. Fed actions, combined with the usual cost-cutting activities of businesses after recessions, led to rising profits that ignited one of the longest bull markets in history. Despite muted economic growth, the Dow Jones industrial average soared from 6547 at the stock market's bottom to 20,663 today (all prices and returns are as of March 31). Mixed impact. Now, we're headed back to the old normal. For the economy, it will be better. For investors, it could be worse. But don't despair. You can still thrive. Advertisement The reason for the return to the old normal is simple: The Fed is starting to raise rates because, as chairman Janet Yellen put it, the economy is approaching "our objectives," meaning full employment (essentially, something close to the current 4.7% unemployment rate) and annual inflation of about 2%. During the financial crisis, the Fed dropped its primary short-term interest rate from 5.25% to 0.25% and kept it there for seven years. At the end of 2015, the Fed raised the rate by one-fourth of a percentage point, and it has since hiked it twice more. The rate is now about 1%, and the Fed has indicated that more increases are coming. The Fed has also ended its "quantitative easing" program, during which it bought trillions of dollars' worth of bonds to bring down long-term rates. Thanks to these extraordinary actions, says Yellen, the economy appears ready to grow at a more normal pace without the Fed having to keep "pressing on the gas pedal." The old normal means that economic expansions alternate with contractions. At the start of an expansion, interest rates are low (though not at rock bottom). Businesses and consumers borrow, invest and buy. As activity increases, the Fed grows worried about the economy overheating and inflation accelerating, so it hikes rates—often sharply. These higher rates deter borrowing, investing and buying, and growth declines. A bear market materializes, often signaling a recession. The Fed cuts rates, and we begin the cycle again. If we are indeed back to the old normal, we are just beginning the upward part of the cycle. We can expect to see economic growth and inflation increase, and, at some point, the Fed will raise rates dramatically. Just before the 2001 recession, the Fed boosted its key short-term rate to 6.5%; before the 1990 recession, it hiked it to nearly 10%. Advertisement Investors need to readapt themselves to the old normal. Start by examining your portfolio. If you have invested in stocks in recent years, you have probably done well. Imagine you started 2011 with $100,000 in Vanguard 500 Index Admiral (symbol VFIAX) which tracks Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, and $50,000 in Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Admiral (VFIUX), which holds medium-maturity U.S. government bonds. Assuming that you invested in a tax-deferred account, today you would have $214,200 in the stock fund and $59,340 in the bond fund. Your original allocation of 67% in stocks and 33% in bonds would now be 78% in stocks and 22% in bonds. To return to the original mix, you'd need to sell some of the stock fund and move the proceeds to the bond fund, or make new investments only in the bond fund. Your objective is to get back to a reasonable old-normal allocation. See Also: 29 Ways to Earn 1% - 10% on Your Money in 2017 Also, in a time of rising rates, be sure to ladder your bonds so that they mature in sequence, year after year. That way, if rates rise, you can invest the proceeds from lower-yielding bonds as they mature into new, higher-yielding bonds. Or, for better diversification, you can purchase a series of funds whose portfolios are composed of bonds that mature in a single year, such as Guggenheim BulletShares 2022 Corporate Bond ETF (BSCM, $21). The exchange-traded fund yields 2.9% and charges annual fees of 0.24%. Versions that mature in 2023, 2024 and so on are available. Assume also that the old rules apply for stock investing: Diversify and hold for the long haul. I have a penchant for shares that have lagged the market. A good example is the Dow itself, which over the past five years has trailed the S&P by an average of one percentage point per year. You can buy the 30-stock Dow portfolio through SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA, $206), which charges just 0.17% per year. I expect that as real recovery finally comes to the U.S., it will come as well to Europe, which has also lagged. Consider France. It is home to some excellent companies, including drugmaker Sanofi (SNY, $45); LVMH MoËt Hennessy–Louis Vuitton (LVMUY, $44), the world's premier luxury-goods firm; and energy giant Total (TOT, $50). You'll find all of these stocks in iShares MSCI France (EWQ, $27), which has returned an anemic 6.7% annualized over the past five years. Advertisement Speaking of energy, I expect that sector to come back. A barrel of oil at $50 is just not normal. A good way to buy oil and gas is through Vanguard Energy (VGENX), a mutual fund managed by real people (not algorithms) that has outpaced the average fund in its category in six of the past seven calendar years (including so far in 2017). Among its top holdings are Schlumberger (SLB, $78), the services company, whose shares are down by one-third from their five-year high, and such integrated energy companies as Chevron (CVX, $107), which sports an attractive dividend yield of 4.0%. Finally, we have financial-services companies. Banks benefit from rising rates because, typically, the spreads widen between the short-term rates at which banks borrow and the long-term rates at which they lend. Insurance companies win, too, because they can invest the premiums they collect in bonds with higher yields. Some financials have performed well lately, notably the large banks, such as JPMorgan Chase (JPM, $88), that I recommended in my October 2016 column. The best strategy is to own a broad portfolio such as Fidelity Select Financial Services (FIDSX), a mutual fund that owns regional banks such as Huntington Bancshares (HBAN, $13), based in Columbus, Ohio; insurers such as Travelers (TRV, $121); and big banks such as Bank of America (BAC, $24). (For an ETF that taps into this sector, see This Financial Fund Is Heating Up. I'll end with a key lesson from old-normal history: Unlike what occurred during the new normal, stocks will eventually fall. That's when you'll face your toughest task. You will have to stick with your stocks until the cycle starts moving up again. It always does. Advertisement James K. Glassman, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author, most recently, of Safety Net: The Strategy for De-Risking Your Investments in a Time of Turbulence. He owns none of the stocks mentioned. See Also: The 4 Best Stock Funds for the Next Bear Market


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News Releases
Browse through a comprehensive list of all USGS national and state news items.
U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Department of Energy Release Online Public Dataset and Viewer of U.S. Wind Turbine Locations and Characteristics
Today, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the American Wind Energy Association, released the United States Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) and the USWTDB Viewer to access this new public dataset.
Real-time water-quality, streamflow and water height information for Lake Houston and the surrounding San Jacinto watershed are now available from a new web application from the U.S. Geological Survey, done in cooperation with the City of Houston.
Media and the public are invited to attend a free meeting about South Dakota water issues on Thursday, April 19, in Rapid City, South Dakota.
U.S. Geological Survey scientists and partners have created an onsite, time-saving technique for building inspectors to ascertain whether vermiculite insulation contains amphibole asbestos. The findings are featured in the April 2 edition of American Mineralogist.
Bear Lake will house water quality and weather monitoring equipment that will provide near real-time information to the public and water managers beginning in early April and continuing through 2022.
Honolulu, Hawaii – Control efforts such as the removal of shipwrecks and application of chlorine may help mitigate the damaging effects of corallimorph, which is a type of invasive anemone, on valuable coral reefs in the Central Pacific Ocean, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study.
In a newly published study, U.S. Geological Survey scientists and their partners calculate possible alert times that earthquake early warning systems can provide people at different levels of ground motion from light to very strong shaking.
During the week of March 26, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey will begin four days of mapping selected beaches and the adjacent seafloor in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Results will be compared to surveys from last fall to highlight changes due to winter waves, and to sediment inputs from area streams.
Environmental DNA picks up traces of the elusive mammals' saliva, skin, waste, or exhaled breaths.
Data Will Provide a "Snapshot" of the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer
Media Advisory: Low-flying Helicopter to Survey Groundwater near Grand Canyon West and Peach Springs, Arizona
Note to Editors: In the public interest, and in accordance with FAA regulations, the USGS is announcing this low-level airborne project. Your assistance in informing the local communities is appreciated.
USGS field crews are deploying storm-tide and wave sensors today from Maine to Delaware to track and study a Nor'easter forecasted to begin tomorrow.


text: TECH 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1' Remains No. 1 on DVD, Blu-ray Charts 3:11 PM PDT 5/4/2011 by T.K. Arnold FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Courtesy of Warner Brothers "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" Oscar-winning film "The King's Speech" finished second on both lists. There's no trouble with Harry. Warner Home Video's release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I, the seventh installment in the franchise, remained the country's top-selling disc for the third consecutive week. The film boosted overall consumer spending on DVDs and Blu-ray Discs by the double and giving the home entertainment business some very good news in the wake of a very weak first quarter that spawned negative "disc is dead" headlines all over the country. Anchor Bay Entertainment's Oscar-winning The King's Speech, this year's best picture, remained in high demand its second week in stores, finishing at No. 2 for the week ending May 1 on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart and Nielsen's dedicated Blu-ray Disc chart. Blu-ray Disc sales were relatively weak, however; Deathly Hallows outsold The King's Speech by nearly a 3-1 margin. Overall, consumers bought 65% as many copies as they did of Deathly Hallows during the week. In its fourth week in stores, Walt Disney Studios' Tron: Legacy zoomed back up to No. 4 on the national sales chart from No. 10 the week before, finishing right behind another Disney release, Tangled, which slipped to No. 3 its fifth week out after holding the No. 2 slot the previous week. On Home Media Magazine's weekly rental chart, 20th Century Fox's Black Swan was an easy No. 1, having just come off its 28-day holdback from Netflix and Redbox. With no mail or kiosk availability, the title had labored near the bottom of the rental chart; last week, for example, it was No. 44. Black Swan bumped The King's Speech to No. 2, while two other films that had shot into the top 5 the previous week due to the expiration of their respective 28-day holdbacks, Universal Studios' Skyline and Warner's Yogi Bear, remained in high rental demand, finishing the week at No. 3 and No. 4, respectively. Sony Pictures' The Tourist, only held back from Netflix, also remained at No. 5 for the second consecutive week now that it, too, is available by mail. Deathly Hallows is not yet available at Netflix or Redbox. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME T.K. Arnold firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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GPOP Bi-monthly Report to GPPA • 05.20.18
Green Party of Philadelphia (GPOP) Bimonthly Update to the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA),
March 14, 2018
Since January 21, 2018, the Green Party of Philadelphia (GPOP) has held two membership meetings.
At the General Membership Meeting on 1/25, GPOP took nominations for its 2018 City Committee. The 12 members also created an ad hoc committee to work with the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) on the Poor People's March (aka "March 4 Our Lives") to be held in June. https://www.gpop.org/news/?p=2475
At the General Membership Meeting on 2/22, 19 GPOP members elected a new City Committee. A description of the 2018 GPOP City Committee may be found here. https://www.gpop.org/news/?p=2478
GPOP held a Winter Party for Members at PhillyCAM on 1/27.
GPOP posted one News Release since the last Bimonthly Update. It was entitled, "Green Party Supports Student Walkout and Calls for Action on Gun Control." https://www.gpop.org/news/?p=2484
Here are the events planned or endorsed by GPOP.
March 29, General Membership Meeting, 7:00 pm at Shissler Recreation Center; and http://www.phila.gov/findrec/RecCenterDetails.aspx?ID=831
March 31, Close the Drone War Command Center, Easter Saturday Rally called by Brandywine Peace Community and endorsed by GPOP, noon, Air Force Guard Station, Route 611/Easton & County Line Roads, Horsham, PA. http://www.brandywinepeace.com/event/demonstrations-in-horsham-resume-end-endless-war-close-drone-war-command-center-in-horsham-declare-peace/
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Ric Flair recently spoke with Mike Mooneyham of The Charleston Post & Courier. Flair noted that he's down to 228 pounds and is in the best shape he's been in since his TNA run.
The article confirms a recent report that Flair is scheduled to wrestle for a Japanese promotion in September. Flair also talked about wanting to manage Dolph Ziggler when he returns to WWE soon. Flair commented on Ziggler:
"I think he's awesome. He'd be a great guy to manage. He looks like a million bucks. He just can't find his gimmick. He needs to work on his entrance. I could help him with that."
Flair also talked about his daughter, NXT Women's Champion Charlotte:
"She will be the greatest Flair of all time. Her credentials speak for themselves," says Flair. "I'd put her resume up against anybody. She's Rey Mysterio but bigger. She is going to be the greatest female wrestler and the most famous diva in the history of the WWE."
May 30, 2014
Ric Flair Wrestling for Japanese Promotion, Flair Talks About Dolph Ziggler, Charlotte, His Health
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Tired of Sticking Doors?
When a door starts sticking, our mind automatically jumps to conclusions. We will blame the moisture in air, the child that hangs on every door knob going in and out, and the fact that the door might have aged since we last closed it. Ha! Though all of these could be a possibility, look around your house for possible cracks in the walls, ceilings, and tiles in the bathroom. Make sure to check around the door frame, as well, for cracks. Sticky doors are actually signs that the foundation has shifted and the cracks around the house will confirm the foundation indeed has issues. Sticky doors have a tendency to be mostly from foundational issues, though moisture can also play a part. The good news is, it can be repaired!
What causes these foundations issues?
The expanding or unstable soil around your basement walls can create added pressure, making the walls and foundation lean or become unstable.
What is a good solution, to fix the foundation and the cracks in the wall?
There are many different "solutions," from helical anchor installation to wall crack injections. Helical anchors can reinforce these walls and help keep your foundation stable. Wall crack injections help with the humidity in your home, keeping out unwanted moisture. Various other services such as underpinning, which levels your foundation and keeps it stable, can correct the foundation problems that caused your sticking doors and windows.
The fact is, you don't have to be tired or have doors that stick! CPS Foundation Repair wants to educate residents on the possible Kansas City foundation problems and make sure that you know what to look for and how to deal with the problem. Let all Kansas City foundation problems be our problem. We know that if people don't understand the issues they are dealing with and try to fix the door themselves, they can shave off the door and then still have the same continual problem. We know our business and we do it well! Bring your Kansas City Foundation problems to us!


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British anthropologist Robin Dunbar theorized that there's a limit to the amount of relationships a person can maintain—roughly 150. Although the exact number is widely debated, the theory stands. Some people have embraced this concept on social media platforms by self-imposing friend limits.
Dunbar's Number
noun : a theoretical limit to the number of people with whom any individual is able to sustain a stable or meaningful social relationship—considered to be roughly 150
Dunbar's theory is rooted in neurology: "This limit is a direct function of relative neocortex size, and that this in turn limits group size … the limit imposed by neocortical processing capacity is simply on the number of individuals with whom a stable inter-personal relationship can be maintained."
What If You Followed This Philosophy On Social Media?
One of my favorite minds in the social media marketing industry does exactly that. Adam Kmiec introduced the concept to me a year ago, and I've been fascinated with it ever since. Technology has evolved rapidly over the past 100 years, but biologically we progress much slower. We are sometimes inhibited by these physical and neurological limitations.
When did you officially decide to follow Dunbar's number?
I started this about 3 years ago. I realized that if Facebook was about friends and about connecting with people who matter the most, it made no sense to accept every request. As Facebook changed the algorithm for what shows up in your feed, this became a great validation of the concept. My feed, including the sponsored stuff, was cleaner and more useful and interesting.
Had you already accumulated a number of Facebook friends past the number, requiring you to downsize? If so, how did you go about that process?
From time to time I exceed 150, then I make cuts. My formula is simple: if we haven't talked, texted, instant messaged, exchanged a tweet, interacted on Facebook, etc. in 30 days, we're clearly not close enough. So it's simple, if we don't connect in some way, shape, or form over 30 days, I drop people.
On Twitter, you follow over 1,500 people—does Dunbar's number not apply there?
For awhile I kept my Twitter list to 400. Anything more and it was tough to keep up. That's when Twitter first started. Today, I find following more people to be a good thing. For starters, I learned I don't need to read everything. Additionally, the majority of people share the same stuff. How many people retweet Mashable? I'm actually more likely not to miss something by following more people. I don't think Dunbar's number applies to Twitter, because by design Twitter is about connecting with people you don't know. Though, I imagine, if you could run an analysis on the people you engage with the most on Twitter, it'd be less than 150.
How many people would you estimate you've hidden from the news feed, as opposed to unfriending? With a small friend list, I would assume you'd keep people you want to see in the feed.
I've only hidden / unsubscribed from one person. He's a hardcore Republican. I'm not. His status updates during the political season junked up my feed.
The Future of Social Media
Social media serves an interesting purpose. On one hand, it offers the ability to stay in close proximity with your core social group, ultimately enhancing your relationships with these people. However, social media also offers an opportunity to expand your relationships and forge new relationships with people you've never met. Facebook seems to keep current social circles close, while Twitter tilts towards connecting with new people.
It will be interesting to see what unfolds between the two popular platforms; however, a new platform could emerge. Google+ definitely makes an attempt with their well built Circles, but it's stuck somewhere in between.
Time will tell.


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Course for the advanced. How do you start a literature search, where can you search and how do you process your literature in your thesis. Not all databases mentioned are accessible to students of Leiden University and in Leiden we use different terms: e-Library can be found in the Catalogue, the VU-Link button is called Get-it@Leiden, VU Net ID is called ULCN account
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Author Sergio De La Pava holds reading, signing at Wittliff Collections
Posted by Jayme Blaschke
University News Service
January 15, 2014
Sergio De La Pava
Acclaimed author Sergio De La Pava will visit Texas State University for a book reading and signing at the Wittliff Collections Jan 30 at 3:30 p.m. and at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center in Kyle Jan. 31 at 7:30 p.m.
The events are free and open to the public.
In 2008, Sergio De La Pava self-published his 700-page-debut novel A Naked Singularity to little fanfare, until an intrepid reviewer at The Quarterly Conversation snagged a copy and lit up the blogosphere with chatter that the book was "one of the best—and most original—novels of the decade." Republished in 2012 by the University of Chicago Press, the sprawling, obsessive opus—a potboiler for literary introverts interested in whittling away at the inheritances of Dostoevsky, Melville, and Woolf—has since been profiled by the Millions, the Chicago Tribune and the Wall Street Journal. It was a finalist for the Believer magazine 2013 Book Award. His second novel, Personae, will be published later this year.
The event at is part of the Lindsey Literary Series and is sponsored by the Department of English at Texas State University, the Burdine Johnson Foundation and the Wittliff Collections.
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TV Ratings Report: Abby's Farewell Lifts NCISPaul Dailly at .
Pauley Perrette's exit from NCIS gave the series its best ratings since September's season premiere.
It secured 14.8 million viewers and a 1.6 rating among adults 18-49.
The improved lead-in support allowed Bull (11.8 million/1.3 rating) to build to match season highs.
Meanwhile, NCIS: New Orleans (8.1 million/0.8 rating) ticked down.
Fox: Lethal Weapon (3.1 million/0.8 rating) was on par with its season average, while New Girl (1.5 million/0.5 rating) was steady.
ABC: Roseanne (10.2 million/2.6 rating), The Middle (5.9 million/1.5 rating) and black-ish (4.4 million/1.2 rating) were steady, while Splitting Up Together (3.5 million/1.0 rating) and For The People (2.1 million/0.5 rating) inched down.
The CW: The Flash (1.7 million/0.7 rating) and The 100 (1.1 million/0.4 rating) were each up a tenth.
NBC: The Voice (7.2 million/1.2 rating), Rise (3.8 million/0.7 rating) and Chicago Med (5.8 million/1.0 rating) were both steady.
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Wake up call in the fight against pollution
Despite efforts by the European Parliament and European Commission to put in place ambitious national caps on emissions to slash air pollution, individual member states have have agreed for a weak emissions control deal. Passionate about cleaning up the air, Catherine Bearder MEP writes why we shouldn't miss another historic opportunity to save thousands of lives each year and costs to our health services
Air pollution causes ten times more deaths each year than traffic accidents. Yet we are still not doing enough to tackle this invisible killer. Air pollution is a national health crisis that has been ignored for far too long.
This year the European Parliament approved strict new national limits on major pollutants to be met by 2030. These limits are expected to halve the number of premature deaths caused by air pollution each year, estimated at 400,000 in the EU and 50,000 alone in the UK.
The European Parliament voted, both in committee and the full Parliament to include ammonia and methane as pollutants; for binding interim targets for 2025 to ensure EU countries are on track to meet their 2030 goals; for 2030 targets to be in line with the European Commission's original proposal; and to exclude mercury, which comes largely from coal-powered plants. I welcomed all of this as a lead Liberal negotiator on the National Emissions Ceiling legislation, but one of my disappointments was that our call for more ambitious 2030 targets were not adopted.
During the negotiations with the European Commission, the governments in the European Council and the Parliament, the MEPs were under huge pressure from the farming sector and some of the national governments, including the UK, who pushed to exclude agricultural emissions and to water down the overall targets. In fact, in an earlier vote in the European Parliament Environment Committee, the Conservative MEPs voted against the proposals. That is why I felt it was so important that we didn't miss an historic opportunity to put in place strong air pollution limits that will save thousands of lives each year and costs to our health services, and this is a position that the Liberal Democrats have always fought hard on.
After the Dieselgate scandal, when we were all trying to sort out what had gone wrong and how we could make sure that this deception could not be repeated, I was furious. And I am still furious when I think of the UK Government voting in favour of watering down new tests to tackle pollution from diesel cars. The Tories once again didn't act in our country's best interests.
By voting to weaken diesel emission limits, the Conservative government gave into the money-fuelled motoring lobby, put thousands more British lives at risk and added extra burdens on our own beleaguered NHS.
I am passionate about cleaning up our air. I thought the Volkswagen scandal would be a wake-up call in the fight against diesel pollution and that the government would stop turning a blind eye to this invisible killer, but evidently not. I have seen the impact of air pollution first hand and I know it will take yet more lives the longer we allow it to persist. There is no reason the public should have to wait another 5 years for cleaner air and there is no reason that justifies another life lost to illnesses caused by air pollution such as lung cancer.
But what happens next in the wake of the outcome of the European Referendum on 23rd June? I will continue to lead and work hard, irrespective of external events, to keep the issue of air pollution on the agenda. We can only tackle problems like this by working together across borders. Almost half of deadly particulate pollution in the UK comes from overseas. That is why strong EU laws are needed to ensure every sector and country plays its part in improving air quality. Without these in place soon, we will not be able to include these standards in the TTIP negotiations either. The UK government must commit to meeting the 2030 targets no matter what happens in the coming years. Brexit cannot be used as an excuse to water down environmental laws and become the dirty man of Europe again.
If we are to determinately strive to improve air quality, we must also look at the impact it has on member states' health costs. Taking as much action as we can now will surely pay for itself in the long-term.
I have lead on improving European legislation on air quality through the National Emissions Ceiling but when the NHS is under threat from an ever-increasing desire from this Tory government to privatise it, I find myself again being alarmed at government's announcement to expand HeathrowAirport.
There is very little desire among the people who actually live in the South East for airport expansion at either Gatwick or Heathrow. The impact on pollution would be severe and will mean London continues to breach vital European air quality standards without forgetting the impact extra road traffic expansion also brings. There is no way to describe it but as a betrayal of people.
The turbulence in the Conservative Party is nothing compared to the anger felt by those they have betrayed by giving up their commitment to the environment. Theresa May used to make this case, now she has ripped those words down from her website and scrubbed them from history.


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Grecotel Cape Sounio Activities
Surrender to the diverse yet discreet holiday activities at Sounio. From active to passive, land to sea, morning till night, there's something to suit everyone. Your biggest decision of the holiday may be whether to relax by the pools or sea…
Perfect holiday means spending the day by the beach, splashing around with your loved ones in crystal clear waters, sipping cocktails at the beach bar and feeling the rythm of the Greek summer as you dance barefoot on the sand under the moonlight. Join the fun, live the life!
2 secluded crescent beaches with sand / shingle. The gently shelving sandy seabed makes these bays safe for children & adults. Umbrellas, showers, sun beds with padded mattresses, beach towels, changing cabins and toilets are available to all guests.
Free of charge
Sunbeds umbrellas, beach towels, showers free of charge. Beach service (extra charge).
All day - drinks & snack service around the pool.
1 Seawater pool: (200 m²) surrounded by fragrant gardens, lawns, tall palm trees and sunbathing patios with views of the famous Poseidon's Temple
Situated within the main swimming pool.
Children's pool
A fresh water children's pool is found next to the main swimming pool. Maximum depth 70cm.
Indoor Pool
Heated deep hydro-tonic 'Aqua Elixir' pool (approx. 50 sq m) Surrounded by octagonal glass walls and is hand-laid with aquamarine mosaics that reflect the shades of the landscape beyond.
Full-Moon Party
The Full Moon at Sounio is a celebrated event in Greece. Poseidon's Temple is floodlit and the summer moon appears to dance overhead. Join the Full Moon party on the Cape Sounio beach for a really memorable holiday evening.
The Cape Sounio exclusive resort near Athens can arrange private yacht cruises to nearby islets and coves. Experience the magic of a Sounio sunset with a champagne cruise around the foot of the Temple of Poseidon to the soft strains of classical music. Or celebrate a special event with a moonlit, evening cruise. THE OLYMPIC MARINA: The Olympic Marina lies within 9km of the Resort. It is one of the largest marinas in Attica with a range of boats for hire to cruise to the nearby islands.
*Upon request
Beach Barbeque
For shopaholics or simply a holiday memento to remind you of your stay at the luxury hotel near Athens there are a multitude of local stores in Lavrio, the up-market boutiques in Glyfada or the extensive range of malls and shopping centres in Athens.
National Park Trekking
The Grecotel Cape Sounio is surrounded by the Sounio National Park, revered for its scenic beauty and rich geological history. Walking routes are available on request.
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The discount is valid for advance purchase bookings.
The Glyfada Golf Club
Summer holiday golfers will not miss the chance to visit the 18-hole Glydada (Athens) Golf Club is just 40 mins. from the hotel.
Facilities & Services:
• Golf Lessons • Clubhouse
• Buggies • Clubs • Bar & Restaurant
The Cape Sounio luxury hotel near Athens has three tennis courts, two with floodlights. Equipment is available for hire. Tennis coaching is available on request.
5x5 Football Pitch with Astroturf grass is located near the tennis courts for guests wishing to arrange their own game or take part in the tournaments organized by the entertainment team.
Get fit, have fun under the sun by joining the regular volleyball tournaments on the beach.
Diving - PADI diving centre
Underwater diving near Sounio can be arranged at the Aqua Divers Club, a PADI-certified diving centre at Anavissos, 15 km away from Cape Sounio. For more information please contact the reception.
Entertainment Programme
Daytime activities include water gym, beach-volleyball, mini-soccer, yoga, pilates, mountain bike, morning gym, power walk, gym training, cardio gym. In the evening, relax in the lounges and restaurants and listen to professional external entertainment shows, live music.
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Ichiura Housing & Planning Associates is a planning and design organization specializing in housing that was originally founded in 1952 as Ichiura Architectural Design Office by Ken Ichiura (1904-1981).
Over the past 64 years since, our core business has been the resolution of housing-related issues, with a focus on public projects, through the planning and design of apartment complexes, the development of new housing technology, support for the planning and revitalization of housing estates and "new towns," support for urban development in built-up areas, support for the formulation of local government housing policies, and support for the creation of housing/construction-related systems. This stems from our conviction that high-quality housing and living environments are the very foundations of society, and that such foundations are needed for building truly affluent lifestyles. This idea is both a defining feature of the approach we take to business and our goal.
Given the social trends of a shrinking population, a declining birthrate and an aging population as well as the switchover to a low-carbon society, Japan is now entering an age of full-scale urban renaissance and stock renewal. Since the beginning of the 1990s we have focused on this theme in our research and practical applications for the public and private sector.
The catastrophic Great East Japan Earthquake and the recent Kumamoto Earthquake reminded us of the importance of measures for disaster preparedness/prevention and housing and living environments. Firmly believing that safety and security are an essential foundation for housing and Human Settlements, we are promoting urban development in built-up areas, measures for the housing stock, drawing up plans for apartment complex and "new town" revitalization, drafting renewal plans for houses and residential complexes, and undertaking and supporting PPP/PFI project developments and other various projects that contribute to society renovations of private apartment complexes, utilizing our expertise accumulated over years and hand-in-hand with local communities.
Our company has also been constantly involved in overseas housing projects in China, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia and elsewhere since the 1970s. By leveraging the planning and design techniques we have acquired over the years, we have been helping to create housing and living environments reflective of local characteristics of specific cities overseas, while making efforts to disseminate these techniques.
Our business operations are divided among four divisions responsible for Architectural Design, Technology Research & Development, Research & Planning (Town Planning & Design, Political System Research), and Project Promotion. We have offices in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka as well as a liaison office in Shanghai in China that together employ about 70 technical staff.
These divisions and offices flexibly coordinate and collaborate among themselves as well as with specialists and researchers from related fields, and they endeavor at all times to generate the optimal outcomes in meeting the needs of customers and society.
In undertaking our duties as specialist consultants in the housing sector, all of us at Ichiura Housing & Planning Associates are committed to a basic philosophy of helping to improve human housing and create new value in living environments.
Your continued guidance and support in future would be greatly appreciated.
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1 dead, 2 seriously injured in Lake Washington boat crash
A woman was killed and two others were seriously injured in a late-night collision between a sailboat and a power boat on Lake Washington. Seattle police say the operators of both boats are under investigation for boating under the influence.
"Alcohol is believed to be involved," Seattle police spokesman Drew Fowler told a news conference.
The force of the Wednesday night collision left a debris field about a half mile from shore off Seattle's Leschi neighborhood, he said. Investigators will try to reconstruct what happened.
Three of the seven people on the 21-foot sailboat were thrown in the water, Seattle Fire Department spokesman Kyle Moore said. They included a woman in her mid-20s who died, as well as a man in his 40s and a woman in her 30s. The injured man and woman were reported in serious but stable condition at Harborview Medical Center.
Four people were on the 25-foot power boat, Moore said. One woman suffered minor injuries but declined treatment at the scene.
No names were immediately released.
The crash was reported about 10:30 p.m. Both boats are damaged but afloat.
Neighbor Betsy Hale was on her roof when she heard the crash.
"We were asleep on our roof, and we heard a loud bang and we heard people crying for help, and then many, many sirens," she said.
In addition to the fire department, multiple Seattle Police Department harbor units were called to the scene to help with the rescue efforts.
Hale said during this time of year it's not uncommon to hear boats on the water late at night, but the noises she heard Wednesday night were unusual.
"This was loud, and something was clearly not right," she said.


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|Tetra-ethyl lead
tetraethyllead, tetraethylplumbane
other names
TEL; lead tetraethyl; tetra-ethyl lead
|CAS number
|RTECS number
|Molecular formula
|Molar mass
|323.44 g/mol
|colorless, viscous liquid
|1.653 g/cm3 (20 °C)
|Melting point
|Boiling point
84–85 °C@15 mm Hg
|Solubility in water
|slightly soluble in ethanol;
soluble in benzene, petroleum ether, toluene, gasoline [1]
|Refractive index (nD)
|Molecular shape
|Dipole moment
|Flash point
|Related compounds
|Other anions
|Other cations
|Tetramethylsilane; tetramethyltin
|Related compounds
|Lead(II) chloride; decaphenylplumbocene
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Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
|Infobox references
Tetra-ethyl lead, abbreviated TEL, is an organometallic compound with the formula (CH3CH2)4Pb. Once a common antiknock additive in gasoline (petrol), TEL usage was largely discontinued because of the toxicity of lead and its deleterious effect on catalytic converters. It is still used as an additive in aviation fuel for piston engine-powered aircraft.
TEL is produced by reacting chloroethane with a sodium–lead alloy.[2]
Despite decades of research, no reactions were found to improve upon this rather difficult process that involves metallic sodium—a process with lithium was developed, but never put into practice. A related compound, tetramethyl lead, was commercially produced by a different electrolytic reaction. The product, TEL, is a viscous colorless liquid. Because TEL is charge neutral and contains an exterior of alkyl groups, it is highly lipophilic and soluble in petrol (gasoline).
A noteworthy feature of TEL is the weakness of its four C–Pb bonds. At the temperatures found in internal combustion engines (CH3CH2)4Pb decomposes completely into lead and lead oxides and combustible, short-lived ethyl radicals. Lead and lead oxide scavenge radical intermediates in combustion reactions. This prevents ignition of unburnt fuel during the engine's exhaust stroke.[2] Lead itself is the reactive antiknock agent, and TEL serves as a gasoline-soluble lead carrier.[2] When (CH3CH2)4Pb burns, it produces not only carbon dioxide and water, but also lead:
This lead can oxidize further to give species such as lead(II) oxide:
The Pb and PbO would quickly accumulate and destroy an engine. For this reason, the lead scavengers 1,2-dibromoethane and 1,2-dichloroethane are used in conjunction with TEL—these agents form volatile lead(II) bromide and lead(II) chloride, respectively, which are flushed from the engine and into the air.
TEL was supplied for mixing with raw gasoline in the form of ethyl fluid, which was TEL blended together with the lead scavengers 1,2-dibromoethane and 1,2-dichloroethane. Ethyl fluid also contained a reddish dye to distinguish treated from untreated gasoline and discourage the use of leaded gasoline for other purposes such as cleaning.
Ethyl fluid was added to gasoline at rate of 1:1260, usually at the refinery.[citation needed] Because of the widespread use and toxic nature of ethyl fluid, the Ethyl Corporation developed an expertise in its safe handling. In the 1920s, before safety procedures were yet developed, some 17 workers for the Ethyl Corporation and Standard Oil died from the effects of exposure to lead.
The formula for ethyl fluid is:
Dibromoethane and dichloroethane act in a synergistic manner, where a particular mixing ratio provides the best lead scavenging ability.[2]
Tetraethyl lead was once used extensively as a gasoline additive for its ability to increase the fuel's octane rating. A high enough octane rating is required to prevent premature detonations known as engine knocking ("knock" or "ping").[2] Antiknock agents allow the use of higher compression ratios for greater efficiency[3] and peak power. The use of TEL in gasoline was started in the U.S., while in Europe, alcohol was initially used. The advantages of leaded gasoline from its higher energy content and storage quality eventually led to a universal switch to leaded fuel. One of the greatest advantages of TEL over other antiknock agents or the use of high octane blend stocks is the very low concentrations needed. Typical formulations called for 1 part of prepared TEL to 1260 parts untreated gasoline. Competing antiknock agents must be used in higher amounts, often diluting the energy content of the gasoline.
When used as an antiknock agent, alcohol will cause fuel to absorb moisture from the air. Over time fuel humidity can rise leading to rusting and corrosion in the fuel line. Whereas TEL is highly soluble in gasoline, ethanol is poorly soluble and that solubility decreases as fuel humidity increases. Over time, droplets and pools of water can form in the fuel system creating a risk for fuel line icing. High fuel humidity can also raise issues of biological contamination, as certain bacteria can grow on the surface of the water/gasoline interface thus forming bacterial mats in the fuel system. TEL's biocidal properties helped prevent fuel contamination and degradation from bacterial growth.
In most Western countries this additive went out of use in the late 20th century because of the concerns over pollution of air and soil (e.g., the areas around roads) and the accumulative neurotoxicity of lead. The use of TEL as a fuel additive spoils catalytic converters, which became mandatory to meet emissions regulations from the 1970s on in the West. The need for TEL was lessened by several advances in automotive engineering and petroleum chemistry. Lower oil prices promoted the development of low compression engines that were not as sensitive to gasoline quality. Other antiknock additives of various toxicities (MMT, MTBE, ETBE) and safer methods for making higher octane blending stocks (reformate, iso-octane) reduced the need for TEL.
As of 2007, unleaded automotive gasoline is available throughout the world, and the only countries in which leaded gasoline is extensively used are Yemen, Afghanistan and North Korea. Leaded gasoline is still available in parts of Northwest Africa, Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Iraq, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.[4]
TEL remains an ingredient of high-octane racing fuels,[citation needed] and of 100 octane aviation fuel, as an economically favorable replacement for it in the aviation industry has not yet been found.[citation needed] The current formulation of 100LL (low lead) aviation gasoline contains much less lead than in previous fuels.[citation needed]
Many vehicles produced before TEL's phase-out required modification to run successfully on unleaded gasoline. These modifications fell into two categories: those required for physical compatibility with unleaded fuel, and those performed to compensate for the relatively low octane of early unleaded fuels. Physical compatibility is addressed by the installation of hardened exhaust valves and seats. Compatibility with reduced octane was addressed by reducing compression, generally by installing thicker cylinder head gaskets and/or rebuilding the engine with compression-reducing pistons. However, the appearance on the market of high-octane unleaded gasolines has reduced or eliminated the need to alter engines' compression ratios.
Contact with concentrated TEL leads to the familiar symptoms of acute lead poisoning.
Lead pollution from engine exhaust is dispersed into the air and into the vicinity of roads and easily inhaled. Lead is a toxic metal that accumulates and has subtle and insidious neurotoxic effects especially at low exposure levels, such as low IQ and antisocial behavior. It has particularly harmful effects on children. These concerns eventually led to the ban on TEL in automobile gasoline in many countries. For the entire U.S. population, during and after the TEL phaseout, the mean blood lead level dropped from 13 μg/dL in 1976 to only 3 μg/dL in 1991.[5] The U.S. Centers for Disease Control considered blood lead levels "elevated" when they were above 10 μg/dL. Lead exposure affects the intelligence quotient (IQ) such that a blood lead level of 30 μg/dL is associated with a 6.9-point reduction of IQ, with most reduction (3.9 points) occurring below 10 μg/dL.[6]
Also in the U.S., a statistically significant correlation has been found between the use of TEL and violent crime: taking into account a 22-year time lag, the violent crime curve virtually tracks the lead exposure curve.[5] After the ban on TEL, blood lead levels in U.S. children dramatically decreased.[5]
Even though leaded gasoline is largely gone in North America, it has left high concentrations of lead in the soil adjacent to all roads that were constructed prior to its phaseout. Children are particularly at risk if they consume this, as in cases of pica.
Tetraethyl lead was first discovered by a German chemist in 1854, but remained commercially unused for many years.[7] In 1921, TEL was found to be an effective antiknock agent by Thomas Midgley, working under Charles Kettering at General Motors Research.[8] General Motors patented the use of TEL as a knocking agent and called it "Ethyl" in its marketing materials, thereby avoiding the negative connotation of the word "lead".[7] In 1924, Standard Oil of New Jersey (ESSO/EXXON) and General Motors created the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation to produce and market TEL.
The toxicity of concentrated TEL was recognized early; many TEL researchers and workers, including Midgley, became victims of lead poisoning, and dozens died.[9] In 1925, the sales of TEL were suspended for one year to conduct a hazard assessment.[2][7] The cases of fatal lead poisoning and serious symptoms of lead toxicity were, however, assumed to be restricted to TEL manufacture and handling. The low concentrations present in gasoline and exhaust were not perceived as immediately dangerous. A U.S. Surgeon General committee issued a report in 1926 that concluded there was no real evidence that the sale of TEL was hazardous to human health but urged further study.[7]
In the late 1920s, Dr. Robert Kehoe of the University of Cincinnati was the Ethyl Corporation's chief medical consultant. In 1928, Dr. Kehoe expressed the opinion that there was no basis for concluding that leaded fuels posed any health threat.[7] He convinced the Surgeon General that the dose–response relationship of lead was that of no effect below a certain threshold.[10] As the head of Kettering Laboratories for many years, Kehoe would become a chief promoter of the safety of TEL, an influence that did not begin to wane until about the early 1960s. But by the 1970s, the general opinion of the safety of TEL would change, and by 1976 the U.S. government would begin to require the phaseout of this product.
As early as the late 1940s and early 1950s, Clair Patterson accidentally discovered the pollution caused by TEL in the environment while determining the age of the earth. As he attempted to measure lead content of very old rocks, and the time it took uranium to decay into lead, the readings were made inaccurate by lead in the environment that contaminated his samples. He was then forced to work in a clean room to keep his samples uncontaminated by environmental pollution of lead. After coming up with a fairly accurate estimate of the age of the earth, he turned to investigating the lead contamination problem by examining ice cores from countries such as Greenland. He realized that the lead contamination in the environment dated from about the time that TEL became widely used as a fuel additive in gasoline. Being aware of the health dangers posed by lead and suspicious of the pollution caused by TEL, he became one of the earliest and most effective opponents of its use.[11]
In the U.S. in 1972, the EPA launched an initiative to phase out leaded gasoline, Ethyl Corp's response to which was to sue the EPA. The EPA won the case, so the TEL phaseout began in 1976 and was completed by 1986. A 1994 study indicated that the concentration of lead in the blood of the U.S. population had dropped 78% from 1976 to 1991.[12]
By the year 2000, the TEL industry had moved the major portion of their sales to developing countries and lobbied governments to delay phasing out of the additive.[7] Leaded gasoline was withdrawn entirely from the European Union market on 1 January 2000, although it had been banned much earlier in most member states. It was only recently phased out in China (around 2001).[citation needed] In the United Kingdom a small amount of leaded gasoline ("four star petrol") is still permitted to be manufactured and sold,[13] albeit with a higher rate of fuel duty. In Australia, owners of old cars that run on leaded petrol can buy leaded additives and mix them with octane 98 fuel (premium unleaded).
Antiknock agents are grouped into "high-percentage" additives, such as alcohol, and "low-percentage" additives based on heavy elements. Since the main problem with TEL is its lead content, many alternative additives that contain less poisonous metals have been examined. A manganese-carrying additive, methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl (MMT or methylcymantrene), is used as an antiknock agent in Canada[citation needed], but its use as a fuel additive had been banned in the U.S. until 1995. Ferrocene, an organometallic compound of iron, has also been reported as an effective antiknock agent.
Lead replacement additives were scientifically tested, and some were approved by the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs, at the UK's Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA) in 1999.[14]
High-percentage additives are organic compounds that do not contain metals, but they require much higher blending ratios, such as 20–30% for benzene and ethanol. It had also been established by 1921 that ethanol was an effective antiknock agent, but TEL was introduced for mainly commercial reasons to replace it.[7] Oxygenates, mainly methanol-derived MTBE and ethanol-derived ETBE, have largely substituted the need for TEL. MTBE has environmental risks of its own and there are also bans on its use. ETBE, on the other hand, requires more expensive ethanol as a starting material.
Improvements of the gasoline itself decrease the need for separate antiknock agents. Synthetic iso-octane and alkylate are examples of such blending stocks. Benzene and other high-octane aromatics can be also blended to raise the octane number, but they are disfavored today because of toxicity and carcinogenity.


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The Golden Gate Bridge (Highway 101 North) links San Francisco with Marin County. Before its completion in 1937, the bridge was considered unbuildable because of foggy weather, 60-mile-per-hour winds and strong ocean currents sweeping through a deep rugged canyon below.
At a cost of $35 million, the 1.2-mile bridge took more then four years to build. Eleven men lost their lives during construction.
Often shrouded in thick fog, the bridge sways 27 feet to withstand winds of up to 100 miles per hour. The color of the bridge, known as International Orange, was chosen because it blends well with the bridge's natural surroundings. The two great cables contain enough strands of steel wire (80,000 miles)to encircle the equator three times. The concrete poured into its piers and anchorages would pave a five-foot wide sidewalk from New York to San Francisco.
Pedestrians and bicyclists are allowed across the bridge on pathways with sweeping views of the City, Alcatraz,and Marin Headlands. The bridge toll for vehicles is $6.00 collected electronically at the toll plaza when entering San Francisco (no cash payment) Electronic options include Fast Track and pay-by-plate (toll invoice). A toll invoice is mailed to the registered owner of the vehicle.
Vantage points from the San Francisco side include the Tool Plaza and Visitors Center (before crossing the bridge), and at Fort Point (under the bridge). The first exit on the Marin side of the bridge, Vista Point, provides outstanding views of the San Francisco skyline.
The best way to see the bridge is to walk across it which takes about an hour round trip. When walking the bridge dress warmly whatever time of year. Free parking is available on the north side at Vista Point, paid parking is available on the south side at the Visitor Center near the toll booths.
A postcard-perfect panorama can also be seen from the Marin Headlands (the last exit in Marin County). For more information go online: www.baycityguide.com/golden_gate_bridge


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This past Tuesday was another of my "Theme Tuesday" Shows and proved a bit of a stumper for many listeners, so congratulations go to both NotHere and moocowtracy [as there were no winners from the DJs], who correctly identified that all the songs played were contained in the original version of The Axis of Awesome's Four Chords! Extra Kudos goes to NotHere for guessing it within the first block!
They both win the "KUDOS TO YOU" Award and a block of ten songs to be played on my next Tuesday show, so make sure you tune in to hear what they have chosen!
Listen out for my next "Theme Tuesday" Show, which will now be in the New Year and get ten songs of your choice played live on air!


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Shakhtar in Austria: Relay race and Brazilians
The Pitmen started the morning of June 24 with working out in the gym again. Just like a day earlier, Carlo Nicolini held a fitness training with the players, with the team taking to the pitch immediately after that. On the training camp's third day, Mircea Lucescu offered the players a special training: traditional running work quickly changed for exercise routine with game elements.
The players divided into two groups and had a relay race. Seemingly funny exercises were actually aimed at improving agility. The competitive touch added the atmosphere of ease and good humour to the training process.
Meanwhile, more Shakhtar players have arrived! Towards the midday, Alex Teixeira, Dentinho, Ismaily, Marlos and Wellington Nem rejoined the team. The rest of the Brazilians will join in later.
Another training session has been scheduled for tonight. Stay tuned for updates.
FC Shakhtar


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Between 1981 and 1984, Slocum operated Britten Norman Islanders, Cessna 402s, and Tri-Islanders across Florida, with routes extending to the Bahamas, as well as to Savannah and Atlanta, GA, and Hilton Head Island, SC. Slocum also operated as Air Florida Commuter for a short period.
Britten Norman BN-2 Islander N67HA in the blue and green of Air Florida.
Britten Norman BN-2 Islander N67HA in the blue and green of Air Florida.
Slocum certainly maintained one of the most unusual route systems in Florida, especially considering the small size of their aircraft. The flight time on the nonstop Miami - Savannah route was 2 hours and 20 minutes, quite a haul in an unpressurized commuter aircraft about the size of a station wagon.


text: The Young Adult Dinner Talks are designed as a way to keep Young Adults communicating socially; stay connected spiritually, and provides an opportunity to share our Faith and our life experiences amongst our peers. In order to provide a response to everyday dilemmas that Young Adults face and to build upon a sense of community within the Young Adult here at Corpus Christi Parish, it is imperative that we are able to describe our emotions, express our feelings, and be supportive to one another while being able to be "accepted", as we also practice the art of "accepting" one another! This will be an on-going building project that forces each of us to deepen our Faith as we continue on this journey as a Family. Please send topics or themes that might be of interest to you, or, if you would like to lead a Young Adult Dinner Talk, let us know! All Young Adults ages 18-39, married, single, single with children, or in College are invited. Please be on the lookout for invites and more information about the upcoming Dinner Talks here on our Web page. For more information or questions, please contact Curtis Simpson Jr., Young Adult Minister, at 313.272.0990, or e mail at: email@example.com, or on Facebook at "Corpus Christi Young Adult Ministry".


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Assembly Committee help to plan the Friday Celebration Assembly with Mrs Kennedy-Weeks.
Each week we meet to write 'some thoughts' to share at the end of the Assembly. We set up the School Hall ready for the Assembly and tidy up afterwards. We read out the children's names when it is their birthday and give them a birthday sticker. We give out the Star of the Week badges and the certificate for the Class with the Best Attendance Award.
We all really like being on the Assembly Committee, we think it is the best job in the School!


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YES - as the headline suggests - there are virtually unknown fishing hotspots near you worth seeking out, as our blogger Colin Mitchell explains.
MANY anglers are always searching for new places to fish.
Some are happy to keep on going back to the same water or even the same swim but others look for pastures new. I'm one of those who always likes to try a big mix of venues and admit to sometimes getting bored of going back to the same places.
A big moan is that there are no new places to go fishing. Wrong!
Over the past three years I have had the time to look for new venues, often close to home, and have surprised myself by what I have found.
Now some of them have been day ticket or club lakes I have either not bothered trying in the past and others have been venues I have finally got round to visiting. But there are others that I've discovered by quite simply getting a large scale OS Map and then investing a bit of time on the Internet.
I have lived in the same are for around 30 years and know it quite well but I have actually found two new tiny streams that hold fish and four small ponds within ten miles of home that also offer a day's sport.
The tributaries have not been fished – or at least they don't look like they have. I've not caught much but just the thrill of a few fish from a totally unknown water makes up for that.
The first fish was a rogue trout, which did get me thinking. But then I had roach and dace and I have also seen chub which I have yet to catch.
Lakes I've never seen before
Of the four lakes, I discovered that two belong to a tiny club, which did take some tracking down. They are hardly fished but they do hold some decent specimens – as I discovered during a quiet walk around one of them before the weather turned cold.
There were fish swirling and a few bubbles from bottom feeders which got me ready to fork out my small annual payment for 2017.
The other two ponds were on farmer's land. I just went and asked if they held fish and if anyone every fished them. The answer was yes to the fish, no to anglers going there. Oh… and a yes that I can go there and have a go for anything that swims providing I am careful, report back and don't go too often. One farmer is about to get a nice bottle of Scotch for Christmas…
So the doubters out there are probably saying something like 'oh, but I have looked and there are no places near me like that.'
Well some of my angling friends said the same to me when I started looking for hidden venues. They still didn't believe me when I said I had found some of the waters – one we had actually driven past on a number of occasions without even realising it was hidden behind trees!
Now one of my angling mates can't wait to get on the bank to try out these new venues…
Don't expect big fish or a lot of fish. But like my small stream captures they will be part of a new and, to me, exciting angling adventure.