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Partners: C G Fry and Sons, Chickerell Town Council, West Dorset District Council, Dorset County Council
Artists: London Fieldworks (Jo Joelson and Bruce Gilchrist)
A new open space as part of a housing development on the edge of Chickerell, a Dorset village, has been an opportunity for artist and design input that supports both a better understanding of the heritage of the site and the creation of an intergenerational public space.
Intergenerational space is open space that provides support for children, adults and encourages socialisation, i.e. space that is youth-friendly, elder-friendly, and supports relationship formation between the two. Today's youth have little access to nurturing environments that contribute to creative invention, joyful interaction, self-discovery, exposure to nature and cultural exchange. The separation of children from the adult realms of work and leisure prevents individuals of different ages from sharing time, space, and experience. Research has shown that the tradition of separate play spaces even in residential areas has not been successful and that these play areas are often underused or misused. In contrast, an intentional strategy to develop engaging open spaces that support intergenerational congregation and interaction, especially if supplemented with programs and policies that facilitate intergenerational interaction, can yield profound results in terms of providing more social support in people's lives, strengthening a shared sense of community and promoting a sense of collective memory and history. For more information see Reclaiming Open Space for the Young: An Intergenerational Perspective On Design by Jawaid and Matthew (2004) .
New housing proposed for Putton Lane, Chickerell has provided an ideal location to explore this issue in a living, working rural location. The village itself is not dominated by one socio-economic or age group which can be typical of many other coastal Dorset villages. It is largely a "blue collar" village consisting of an interesting mix of the indigenous population and migrants from (mainly) Weymouth and who still work in Weymouth. It is also a mix of ages with many younger families whose children attend the local Primary School (which is heavily over-subscribed) and Budmouth College as well as older retired residents.
The site for the art project is a large green area (in excess of two acres) between the proposed development and existing housing on Putton Lane. This green is protected due to its archaeological significance being the site of the old medieval village of Putton and an associated "hollow way. Based on this heritage the commissioned artists London Fieldworks have developed proposals for a mediaeval timber house frame that goes beyond standard interpretation and a didactic approach, and emerges from the ground as a collective memory of communities past. It will link contemporary residents to their future, the youth of the community. Neither heritage feature nor functional youth shelter this visually permeable structure nevertheless offers the potential of a safe meeting point for both old and young. London Fieldworks have also contributed the site's ecological future, by proposing the creation of a historical wildflower meadow, delivered through the Management Plan for the landscaping of the area.
This project is a good example of an enlightened developer, C G Fry, taking the imitative in the development of a creative vision for the area, working in partnership with the Town Council to bring together a future community from the housing estate with existing groups. The project has been enthusiastically supported by local schools and youth groups and has been adopted by the Town Council. The housing scheme is currently awaiting planning permission and due for commencement in 2012.
For a presentation by Jo Joelson on the project see Wide Open Space conference page


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First ever Ruddick/Wood block-party!
Sunday, May 24, 4-8pm
What better way to kick off the summer season than with a celebration? We are partnering with Yamhill Community Action Partnership (YCAP) and some of our friends around Yamhill County to host a non-perishable food drive and community block party.
With Memorial Day weekend marking the start to the high season of the Northern Willamette Valley, we have invited some of their favorite valley vendors to throw a kick-off block party in downtown Newberg, Sunday, May 24. Edwards Street between 1st and 2nd streets outside the Tavern will be closed for the day, with entrance reserved for attendees of the Block Party. Festivities start at 4pm and go until 8pm.
The event will feature food from Ruddick/Wood alongside some of our favorite local food purveyors and craft brewers; live music; and a kid's activity area. We are also partnering with the Yamhill Community Action Partnership to host the event as a non-perishable food drive benefiting the Yamhill County food bank, which distributes over 1million pounds of food to the community annually through 13 local food pantries.
Food vendors have been chosen for their shared commitment to highlighting the best products the valley has to offer, and it will show in their chosen street-food dish. We are running the grill, and will be joined by the crew from Let um Eat out of Salem, and Renaissance Catering from Newberg with their wood fired oven. Also expect scoops of ice cream provided by Storr's Smokehouse. All food will be priced under $8.
For wine-lovers that have been sipping wine all weekend, nothing tastes better than a cold beer. Deception Brewing of Dundee, Long Brewing of Newberg, and Fire Mountain Brew House of Carlton will be pouring $4 beers throughout the day. Anyone wanting to drink wine or try a cocktail can head inside the Tavern where the full bar can be enjoyed.
Admission to the party will be $10 or 4 non-perishable food items, with children 12 and under getting in free of charge. Food and beverage will be priced fairly, with all offerings under $8. Tickets for the event can be purchased ahead of time on Eventbrite or by stopping by the restaurant.

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Bylakuppe is popularly known as Tibetian Town in India. It is the location of Lugsum Samduplin (in 1961) and Dickyi Larsoe (in 1969), two adjacent Tibetian Refugees Settlements. These settlements are established on the land that was provided by the Government to accommodate the Tibetian refugees who wanted to resettle in India after 1959. Bylakuppe is a large Tibetian settlement near to Kushalnagar in Kodagu District. Bylakuppe is situated just 90 kms away from the Royal City-Mysore.
Bylakuppe has number of monasteries, nunneries, agricultural settlements and temples in major Buddhist traditions. It has many Buddhist advanced universities namely Serajey, Seramay, Nalanda etc. The buildings here are remarkably different in their shapes and looks. Bylakuppe being a small town has a lodges and hotels, police stations, commercial banks, telephone exchange, post-offices. Transportation facilities like bus-stands, auto-rickshaws and taxis.
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MPs defy ministers and back ban on wild circus animals
MPs have defied the government and backed a ban on wild animals being used in circuses in England after a heated debate in Parliament.
Tory MP Mark Pritchard's motion was approved without a formal vote.
Earlier, he said he was "threatened" by No 10 and told the prime minister would look upon it "dimly" if he pressed ahead with the debate in the Commons.
Ministers said they would listen to MPs' views but that a ban was not "an immediate possibility".
The motion is not binding on the government but will increase pressure on ministers to act over the issue.
Downing Street said the government would "recognise the will of the House".
'Not kowtowed'
At the start of the debate, Mr Pritchard used the first few minutes of his speech to draw attention to what he said had been the government's "mysterious" behaviour over the issue.
He said he had initially been offered a "pretty trivial job" if he agreed either to drop the Commons motion calling for a ban, to amend it or not to press for a vote.
Then, on the eve of the debate, he said he had been contacted by No 10 directly.
"I was offered incentive and reward on Monday and then it was ratcheted up until last night when I was threatened," he said.
"I had a call from the prime minister's office directly. I was told unless I withdraw this motion that the prime minister himself would look upon it very dimly indeed."
Mr Pritchard said he had not "picked a fight" with the government over the issue but "had a message" for Mr Cameron and Conservative whips - who enforce party discipline in the Commons.
"I may just be a little council house lad from a very poor background but that background gives me a backbone, it gives me a thick skin," he said.
"And I am not going to be kowtowed by the whips or even the prime minister of my country on an issue that I feel passionately about, that I have conviction about."
The public wanted their MPs to show "a bit of spine" and he would "not be bullied", he added.
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Only a handful of circuses in England keep wild animals which includes any non-domestic species, such as tigers, zebras and camels.
The RSPCA estimates 46 such animals are currently used in circus performance in the UK.
Mr Pritchard said this was cruel and outdated - comparing it to outlawed practices such as dog-fighting and badger-baiting - and insisted that the UK should "lead not lag the world" in animal welfare.
He argued there was overwhelming public support for a ban and more than 200 MPs supported the move.
The government's preferred option is to introduce a licensing scheme and a tougher inspection regime for circus animals under the existing Animal Welfare Act.
Such an approach is currently the subject of consultation and has been welcomed by the circus industry which says cases of mistreatment are very rare.
But Lib Dem Bob Russell said circuses featuring wild animals were "barbaric and had no place in civilised society in the 21st Century".
The Conservatives had initially intended to "whip" their MPs to vote against Mr Pritchard's motion but ultimately allowed them a "free vote" on the issue.
Tory MP Zac Goldsmith welcomed the change of heart, saying a whipped vote would have "made a mockery of the relationship between Parliament and government".
Comedian Ricky Gervais and actor Brian Blessed are among celebrities who wrote an open letter recently to Mr Cameron calling on the government to bring in a ban.
The government has argued that it would be unworkable to do this until the outcome of a legal challenge to a similar ban in Austria was known.
'Legal issues'
Environment Minister Jim Paice said the government was "determined to stamp out" cruelty in circuses but there was a "serious risk" of a legal challenge to any UK ban an the "quickest way to reduce and hopefully eliminate cruelty to wild animals would be a robust licensing system".
Shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh said the government's handling of the issue had been "confused".
"It is extraordinary that David Cameron used such bully-boy tactics to threaten his own MPs and tried to impose a three-line whip on the vote," she said. "We look forward to a ban being implemented in the next 12 months."
A spokeswoman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said: "The government will listen to the view of the House and is sympathetic to the motion for a ban.
"We will continue to look carefully at how this could be introduced, but there are unavoidable legal difficulties that we cannot ignore."
The RSPCA said the vote was a "massive step forward" for animal welfare and it "looked forward" to the ban becoming a reality.
"We hope that this vote is the start of a new era for the tigers, lions and other magnificent animals forced to endure circus life, whose welfare needs have been ignored for far too long," the charity's Dr Ros Clubb said.
Jan Creamer, chief executive of Animal Defenders International, said: "The public demands a ban, animal welfare groups demand a ban and now politicians have made it abundantly clear that they demand a ban."
Speaking on BBC One's Question Time, Transport Minister Norman Baker said: "It's not simply the performing humiliation of the animals, it's also the fact you can't keep animals of that nature sensibly when you're a travelling circus.
"I'm delighted it's got all-party support and hope we can go forward as soon as possible with legislation."


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Tuesday, Aug 7, 2018, 6:08 pm
DC Transit Wanted to Give Special Transport for White Supremacists. This Union Said Hell No.
The Washington, D.C. metro system ditched a potential plan to provide separate trains for white nationalists attending a "Unite the Right" rally in Lafayette Square after its largest union refused to participate. That rally is scheduled for August 12 and is organized by the same racist group behind last summer's Charlottesville protest, an event where dozens were injured and Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal, was killed after purposely being run over by a car.
The Metro's alleged plans were exposed by Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 (ATU 689) after sources informed the union that an idea was being floated to provide three private rail cars and a police escort to the white nationalists. "More than 80 percent of Local 689's membership is people of color, the very people that the Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalist groups have killed, harassed and violated," said union president Jackie Jeter in an August 3 statement. "The union has declared that it will not play a role in their special accommodation."
Jeter also pointed out that the union had gladly provided transportation to other political events in Washington, D.C., like the Women's March and the March for Life, but viewed the "Unite the Right" rally as a distinct case. "We draw the line at giving special accommodation to hate groups and hate speech," reads the statement.
In response to the union's declaration, Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans put out his own statement, insisting that the plans weren't official. "As we do for all events of this nature, Metro is working collaboratively with law enforcement to ensure safe travel for our customers and employees," said Evans. "While details of the plan are security sensitive at this stage, I can tell you that it has *not* been finalized."
But just one day later, on August 4, Evans said the plan was dead and pushed back against the implication that the Metro had ever contemplated protecting racists. "Metro will not be providing a special train or special car for anyone next Sunday," Evans said, adding: "We're not trying to give anyone special treatment. We're just trying to avoid scuffles and things of that nature."
The controversy comes at a critical time for the labor movement. This year has seen successful rank-and-file-led teacher strikes throughout some of the red states that delivered the White House to Trump, while the AFL-CIO has come out in support of some of the president's trade policies. Asked recently if the AFL-CIO would consider endorsing Trump in 2020, the federation's president Richard Trumka didn't rule the possibility out. "We will consider every candidate," he said.
A spokesperson for ATU 689 told In These Times that the union was not making any further comment beyond its August 3rd statement, but admitted that they viewed the Metro's decision as a victory.
A number of counter-protests are planned for August 12 in Washington, D.C. to confront the white supremacists, including a large demonstration in Freedom Plaza which is just a few blocks from Lafayette Square. "All of their rallies are resistance to our progress. They are not simply debates," Black Lives Matter organizer Makia Green told USA Today. "White supremacist rallies have left a trail of blood in D.C."
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My vegetable garden in July
Since my last garden update in June a lot has happened in my garden. I have enjoyed fresh strawberries, zucchini, cucumbers, romano beans and baby lettuce every day, and lots of wonderful figs. We have a small patch of strawberries that provide us with the best fruit all summer long; we manage to pick a basket every other day!
Look how wonderful they are below, fully ripe and sweet and juicy. Note the shape and size carefully so that you can buy strawberries that look just like them at a farmers' market. Whatever you do, don't buy those giant, perfectly shaped strawberries.
July is also the month when we start harvesting and preserving some of the garden bounty.
We picked our sweet Italian red onions (cipolle di Tropea) and as you see from the picture below we braid them and hang them from my apple tree, which is how we always kept onions in Calabria. This way, they stay in the shade and don't sprout. Not that I have to worry about their sprouting--they don't last past the summer months, because they make for great eating.
My 14-year-old son harvested his potato patch and was very proud of the results; from just a few cuttings he managed to pick 15 pounds. He has just planted another crop, this time of Yukon gold, to see if he can produce two crops in one year. I will let you know how his experiment turns out.
We also harvested my oregano patch. Right after it is in full flower we cut it down to the base.
We tie the long stems in bunches with kitchen string and hang the bunches upside down to let it dry in a shady spot in the garden. This is the oregano that I'll use for the rest of the year for dishes that require it dried. But I always keep a small patch of fresh oregano in the yard; luckily here in California I am able to have fresh herbs all year round.
I also harvested lots of basil and made my first batch of pesto. I freeze it and put it away for the winter months.
The tomatoes are growing up their trellis. They are almost at the top of the poles and all the branches are loaded with tomatoes. In about a month I will have the juiciest, sweetest tomatoes.
The Italian eggplants are just starting now...
...as well as the sweet Italian peppers.
For the next update I will have a garden full of eggplants, tomatoes, romano beans, and hot and sweet peppers. August and September are the best time of year, loaded as they are with all my favorite vegetables.


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Glow-in-the Dark Halloween 8K Fun Run
5 PEAKS Ladies of the Trails
What: A fun night time trail run through the trails at Capilano. Headlamps. Glowsticks. Costumes. After hours exclusive shopping with 10-15% clothing and shoes at Salomon West Van! Prizes!! Warm Blueberry Pie from Bremner's! Gingerale & Root Beer from Cariboo Brewing! Treats!
Who: The 5Peaks Ladies of the Trails are hosting this event, it's open to anyone and everyone who's wanting to embrace their scary side in the woods! For this event, men are welcome as well!!! We just ask that they embrace their inner lady to join the group! Yep, we're asking that the guys come dressed in drag! And from the response we've gotten, you guys are just looking for an excuse to wear a skirt, so why not?!
How much: $10 cash.
When: Friday October 25th. The run will start at 7:30pm, and the store will be staying open until 10pm for us.
Prizing: We've got tons of prizing and swag from our sponsors, there will be costume contests, and a grand prize raffle, with all participants in the draw for a 2 person cooking class, with wine pairings, at the Wellbrook Winery on Monday Nov 4th. Over $120 value for this prize!
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text: Separation explores the expansion of time within an image as light in transition. The camera is fixed, though the 'image' of color channels is intentionally out of phase. Each image is assembled from filtered red, green, and blue exposures taken at time intervals ranging from a few minutes to a few months. This transit of light continuously modifies the perceptual world and these works study the incremental but constant motion of time, light, and color.


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I am conditioning and I am a large part of who you are, you don't know who you are because I am such a big part of you. From the time you were brought into this world I started working through your parents, your teachers, your friends and even your colleagues
I, on the other hand, am authenticity! I am who you really are. I am big too and started out really big but I started to diminish as conditioning pushed it's way into the mix. Conditioning shows up everywhere.
I taught you at a very young age that there is an acceptable way to present yourself to the world. Judgment is rampant no matter who you show up as, but if you show up as authenticity, you will not be accepted. With a strong need for acceptance you conform to who I think you should be, you become trapped inside the body and mind of the person you look into the mirror and see everyday.
I am on the inside, the small voice, the tiny whisper that asks you to listen. The whisper that asks you to feel the feelings in your body, hear the messages in your heart. I show you that acceptance comes from within, acceptance of the whole self, with love, compassion, friendship and loyalty. I teach you to become your own best friend. I accept you.
Everything feels hard – unnatural like there is something festering beneath the surface just begging for a little piece of acknowledgement – attention. It comes in the form of a voice, words in your head, a feeling in your body, it is something outside the realm of what I have taught you, its ethereal, divine, impalpable, like a fairy that has flown in for the moment to tell you a secret that only you can hear but I am boldly sitting on the other shoulder "shoulding" you into what you ought to be doing, striving for society's condition of success that other stuff is only in fairy tales! Get a grip.
Everything feels right – natural. I am creativity. I am the kind, gentle, compassionate, self-loving voice, the one who wants you to succeed according to your own values, your own integrity, your own health, your own knowing. This is how you came into the world before conditioning got ahold of you.
I am the sliver festering, bubbling to the surface. I come in the form of a voice, words in your head, a feeling in your body. I am outside of the realm of what conditioning has taught you; I am ethereal, I am divine, I am impalpable, I am like a fairy that has flown in for the moment to tell you a secret that only you can hear. I see you. I hear you. I feel you. I am your soul. I am your voice. I am who you are.
I wear many masks, I come in a variety of shapes and sizes, I encourage you to keep your costume on and never take it off.
I encourage you to take off the masks and look into the mirror, really look into the mirror into your own eyes and acknowledge yourself with a smile, at first. I encourage you to wear masks that make you feel comfortable, I ask that you know your values, integrity and worth.
I help you to believe that this voice, these words, this feeling in your body is nothing and I encourage you to numb it out, chase it away because there is nothing really there. I help you to believe that you might be a little crazy, a little "off" buying into such nonsense. I am the voice of reason after all.
I become louder when you listen. I am balance.
I encourage you to find happiness in materialistic possessions and beam with pride when you have it all!
I ask you not to pay attention to the void that still bleeds inside of you.
I ask that you let go of materialism; I take comfort in gratitude and appreciation. I encourage you to find meaningful connections with people, deep connections that fill your soul.
I ask you to gain approval from the outside world. I get amused watching you chase your tail.
I encourage approval from the inside out.
I encourage you to have the right friends, I encourage you to keep these relationships on a surface level, keep the masks firmly in place, don't let anyone see what you have hiding inside. It's a death sentence.
In loving yourself first you will gain the capacity to love another. I allow you to sit in whatever has arrived, fear, love, anger, and happiness and mentor you to understand that we are a guesthouse. We are human beings and in this being human many visitors will come and go, I encourage opening the doors and inviting them it, sitting with them and having tea. Politely walking them to the door and inviting in the next visitor.
I allow for the natural change of the universal flow to progress through you and acknowledge its existence without shame but instead with love and compassion.
I ensure that judgment of self and others is a vital part of your existence.
I keep you in a place that bleeds fear and oppression.
I hold you prisoner from your soul and strive to keep your EGO alive and running the show at every possible turn
I encourage a constant look at the workings of your own EGO and ask that curiosity replace fear in the excavation.
I keep you off balance and unsteady. I keep you addicted to the high of my deep condition of success.
I can only ask that you trust, have faith and believe.
I want to you conform and be one of society whether it fits or not. One size fits all.
I am here to keep you real.
I am here to cause confusion and doubt, to allow you to believe that there is only one way, to conform.
I am here to guide the whispers of your soul, to allow you to believe that there are many ways; each one unique like a snowflake.
I am conditioning. I am your trusted friend with all of the answers. I am the master of deception.
I am authenticity.
I am open, real, filled with passion, energy and creativity. I am that little voice inside of you, the one you don't listen too. I am the swirling in your solar plexus and the pain in your body – begging you to listen.
I am the one who is with you always!
I am you.


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Why would they do that just when Comet ISON is approaching?
A two-mile array used to create part of the en:Air Force Space Surveillance System, aka Space Fence, with similar areas located throughout the southern United States. (Photo: Wikimedia commons)
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It seems that the United States has taken steps to drastically step back its space program, even after a record year in 2012 of meteors and meteorites recovered. In September of 2012, the world was also introduced to "the comet of the century", known now as Comet C/2012 S1; or ISON.[4]
There are many beliefs and speculations involving Comet ISON, and many scientists and star-gazers believe it will be the "comet of the century". ISON will reach its perihelion (closest approach to the sun) on November 28, 2013, so have your turkey and the sky walking spectacular! Recently, many have been asking questions about ISON and previous meteorites that have crashed into earth as previously reported by Intellihub.com Journalist Avalon in an article he authored entitled, Meteor Sightings in the 1000′s across the U.S.. As of yet, NASA and NOAA have yet to publish any reports of what could be causing the recent influx of objects.[5]
The manner in which the United States is slaughtering our space program and shutting down programs like the Space Fence due to budget cuts and sequester is not only incompetent, but endangering U.S. Citizens. The space fence acts as an early warning system for any possible collisions, like the 2009, collision of an U.S. Iridium communications satellite with a Russian Cosmos 2251 communications satellite.
With the recent increase in meteor sightings, and explosions from fireballs filling the skies, we now also have to worry about space junk that otherwise would be detected, falling down on us.
[1] 2012 was a banner year for meteorite recovery - Lunar and Planetary Institute
[2] 2012 the year of meteorite falls - LunarMeteoriteHunters.blogspot.com
[3] Air force shuts down 'space fence' surveillance system - RT.co
[4] C/2012 S1 - Wikipedia
[5] Meteor sightings in the thousands across the U.S. - Intellihub.com
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Heads Up: The U.S. Air Force already shut down its space surveillance system that tracks satellites and other orbiting objects by October 1 due to budget constraints caused by automatic federal budget cuts known as the sequestration. SPACE FENCE DISCONTINUED: The US Air Force Space Surveillance Radar or "Space Fence" has stopped transmitting. "It appears they pulled the plug at 00:00 UT (6 am Local MDT) on September 1st," reports engineer Stan Nelson, who has been monitoring the radar using an antenna in Roswell, New Mexico. The shutdown is a result of sequester budget cuts by the US Congress. The radar's final echoes came from a Russian satellite and a sporadic meteor. The Air Force Space Surveillance System, colloquially known as the Space Fence, is a multistatic radar system that detects orbital objects passing over America. It is a component of the US space surveillance network, and is claimed to be able to detect objects as small as 10 cm (four inches) at heights up to 30,000 km (15,000 nautical miles.) The surveillance system got the nickname "Space Fence" because it transmits a "fence" of radar energy vertically into space that can detect any object or debris that crosses it without being cued to do so.
(Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force will shut down its space surveillance system that tracks satellites and other orbiting objects by October 1 due to budget constraints caused by automatic federal budget cuts known as the sequestration, it announced Monday.
Deactivating the system by October 1 would save the Air Force Space Command $14 million annually starting in fiscal year 2014.
The surveillance system got the nickname "Space Fence" because it transmits a "fence" of radar energy vertically into space that can detect any object or debris that crosses it without being cued to do so.
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The 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), presented by Prime Minister David Cameron to the British Parliament on Monday, signifies a welcome return to strategic maritime thought by the government of the United Kingdom. The new strategic document seeks to align ends, ways, and means while also considering risks identified in the National Security Risk assessment. It charts a clear course to develop credible carrier strike capability, improve anti-submarine warfare capability, and continue to provide a credible nuclear deterrent. Although it has some shortfalls, this shift signals the United Kingdom's intent to reclaim a position of global naval leadership and will undoubtedly present new opportunities for enhanced U.S.-U.K. bilateral cooperation.
The Royal Navy has been in steady decline since the start of the decade, shrinking from a force of 89 ships in 2000 to 65 ships today. The Royal Navy's fleet currently consists of only 19 destroyers and frigates with no operational aircraft carrier, in comparison to a fleet of three aircraft carriers and 33 destroyers and frigates in 2000. This descent was perpetuated in part by the 2010 SDSR, which drove substantial cuts to defense spending. The 2010 document abruptly directed retirement of the Harrier short takeoff/landing squadrons and announced the government's intent to operate only one of two aircraft carriers being built. At that time, a conscious decision was made to sacrifice carrier strike capability as an offset for land-based requirements in Afghanistan. Additionally, the 2010 SDSR ordered cancellation of the Nimrod MRA4 maritime patrol aircraft program, a Royal Air Force program critical for maritime security and necessary for maintaining an effective anti-submarine warfare capability.
The strongest signal of the U.K. government's intent to reemerge as a global maritime power was communicated in the decision to establish continuous carrier strike capability by operating two aircraft carriers. These ships and embarked aircraft will be able to deliver hard power through traditional carrier strike and maneuver missions, provide support for amphibious operations, improve conventional deterrence and soft power capability, and serve as highly effective tools of diplomacy and deterrence. The formation of an additional F-35B squadron is a tangible move to ensure tactical combat aircraft are available by the early 2020s, when both carriers will be ready for operations. Critics may contend that the procurement timeline is too slow to meet the carriers' full operating capacity of approximately 36 embarked aircraft per ship, but the significance of this accelerated investment should not be underestimated, especially given that the 2015 SDSR also reaffirms the United Kingdom's intent to purchase 138 aircraft over the life of the program. The Royal Navy will still be forced to navigate manning challenges proactively, as the 2015 SDSR only calls for an increase of 400 navy personnel – far short of the 2,500 personnel requested by Royal Navy leadership. Lastly, it is worth noting that the SDSR places conspicuous emphasis on U.S.-U.K. interoperability through regular planning and training, with a stated goal of achieving the ability "to fly aircraft from each other's ships." This statement is particularly important because it opens the door to operate U.S. Marine F-35Bs from U.K. aircraft carriers, a development which would represent a quantum leap in interoperability and cooperation. Such integration would not be unprecedented; in 2007, a squadron of Marine AV-8B Harriers embarked HMS Illustrious during a joint training exercise. Although an operational deployment would require extensive planning and preparation, leadership on both sides of the Atlantic should consider the benefits and drawbacks of embarking Marine aircraft to build allied strike capacity on U.K. carriers.
The decision to purchase nine P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft could not be any more timely, as a U.K. newspaper this week reported that French Atlantique 2 maritime patrol planes and Canadian aircraft are searching for a Russian submarine presumed to be operating in the vicinity of Scotland. The British Armed Forces lost their ability to search effectively for submarines in sovereign waters when the government decided to scrap organic maritime patrol capability in 2010, relying instead on allied aircraft to fill the gap. The Cameron government recognizes that effective anti-submarine warfare capability is absolutely necessary to protect the United Kingdom's ballistic missile submarine deterrent, ensure defense of Britain's newly procured aircraft carriers, and contribute to maritime security. The P-8As will reintroduce organic U.K. maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, Targeting and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) capability, provide additional search and rescue coverage, and facilitate enhanced maritime patrol coordination with the United States and other allies. Royal Air Force crews have been honing their anti-submarine warfare skills in U.S. P-8 aircraft for the past few years as part of a program called "Operation Seedcorn," an investment that will support restoration of these capabilities in minimal time by reducing initial aircrew training requirements.
The United Kingdom's renewed commitment to maintaining an effective anti-submarine warfare capability is further demonstrated by its decision to begin replacing the Type 23 frigate with eight Type 26 Global Combat Ships. Although this decision represents a reduction from the previous plan to buy 13 ships, Royal Navy ship end strength will grow in the long term as the United Kingdom builds smaller "general purpose frigates" with greater potential for export demand. A less expensive and lighter variant of the Type 26 could fill such a role, or the government could move to build a new ship altogether. This investment, coupled with the announcement to purchase two offshore patrol vessels and the development of a national shipbuilding strategy in 2016, demonstrates the government's vision to maintain and grow the industrial base.


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Today's Pickup: FourKites launches ELD certification program
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FourKites has launched its own ELD certification program that operates on an open architecture platform to help shippers and 3PLs to assist carriers in choosing ELD solutions that offer visibility into location data.
The company that carriers that choose a closed architecture ELD solution may struggle to meet shipper and 3PL visibility requirements. The FourKites platform and APIs were specifically designed for ELD integrations, providing superior ETA accuracy and reliability, it added.
"Our customers are constantly seeking to enhance the productivity of their partner carriers. A broad, open and flexible ELD partner network is crucial to making that happen," said Craig Fiander, senior vice president, Global Business Development for FourKites. "This innovative program will help guide our customers to recommend the ELD and telematics providers that allow carriers to easily access and share the location data. Ultimately, this enhances their end customer satisfaction and appointment compliance."
FourKites provides real-time supply chain visibility and predictive analytics platforms for all modes of freight transport.
The company believes that carriers running a FourKites-certified ELD can reduce dwell times and detention costs and provide dynamic real-time ETAs.
FourKites will certify ELD providers based on four categories:
- Data quality – provides secure and continuously updated real-time flow of, at a minimum, location information
- Data accessibility – enables customers to access high-quality data without paying add-on integration, support or other fees
- Operational integrity – values integrity in practices around customer data
- Customer value – prioritizes customer success and works collaboratively to help customers achieve maximum value
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Third-quarter shipments in the 3PL sector rose 10.9% to 1, 428,332 for a value of $2.6B, also up 10.9%, TIA said.
"If it benefits my business and helps me be safer, I'll buy it. Give us the choice. At some point, I could see looking into it if it benefits me, but right now, it doesn't because the hours-of-service regulations are the biggest problem."
– Marty DiGiacomo, owner-operator of True Blue Transportation, on ELDs during a House committee hearing
In other news:
U.S. revises GDP upward
The Congressional Budget Office has revised third-quarter GDP upward to 3.3% growth, indicating more business investment in equipment and software. (Wall Street Journal)
Brokers report 10% rise in 3Q shipments
The Transportation Intermediaries Association said that 3PLs saw a 10.9% increase in total shipments in the third quarter to $2.6B. (Supply Chain 247)
Mercedes-Benz completes drone delivery test
Mercedes-Benz said it has completed 50 deliveries via drone in Switzerland, with the drones delivering the products from a warehouse to vans for final last-mile delivery. (Bloomberg)
Truckers deliver complaints to Congress
A group of small business truckers delivered a handful of complaints about ELDs, hours of service and other industry issues during a House Committee on Small Business hearing. (Truckers News)
Daimler anticipating more cabovers in Mexico
Daimler executives in Mexico believe the cabover is set to make a big impact in that nation and they are responding with new models. (CCJ)
Final Thoughts
The upward revision of GDP growth to 3.3% in the third quarter by the Congressional Budget Office yesterday is a further indication of how good the second half of 2017 has been to the industry. It continues a trend of positive economic news, although some are suggesting growth may remain, but it will slow from its current frantic pace next year.
Hammer down everyone!
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August 7, 1961 - November 12, 2015
Donald R. White
Dearly beloved son of Mary Ann "Chippy" Kaczynski (nee Nero) (Raymond) and Richard (Carol) (nee Paratore); Loving brother of Richard (Valerie), Patricia Gillen (James), Michael (Terri), Scott (Mala); Dear nephew, uncle and cousin to many.
Service: Tuesday November 17 at 7:30 p.m. at McMahon-Coyne-Vitantonio Funeral Home 6330 Center St. Mentor, OH. The family will receive friends on Tuesday from 5:00 p.m. - until time of the service


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Part 3 of a 3-part series on craft beer packaging.
For those with an eye on the bottom line, sleeve-label cans are about inventory flexibility, adaptability and cost savings.
For Sun King Brewery in Indianapolis, Ind., they're about all that and being who they want to be–with a passion.
Co-owner Clay Robinson says the adaptability of sleeve-label packaging allows their craft brewery to work with smaller production runs, make more innovative use of graphics and packaging, and allow the company's artists to "play a little more" at making distinctive labeling that attracts the customer's eye.
Besides making it easier to create a distinctive Sun King presence on store shelves, it also allowed the brewery to partner with the hometown basketball team, the Indiana Pacers, to create a limited-run brand called "Tip-Off Ale" with which to mark the start of the 2015 NBA basketball season. The German-style "Altbier" debuted on tap and in cans at the Pacers' first home game of the 2015 season and was available until supplies ran out at all events at the Fieldhouse in which the Pacers play, according to BrewBound.com.
Working with Century Label, Sun King was able to quickly develop and roll out a "new product that was completely unique," according to co-owner Clay Robinson. As a result, the start of the basketball season had a unique craft brew to go with it.
The Pacers partnership isn't the only way Sun King uses its labels to stay unique, though. According to Robinson, the company's artists and designers work across many genres of art to create brand labels unique to each Sun King brand while maintaining the overall Sun King identity, so that when the consumer "sees something that is Sun King, it immediately (stands) out."
Meanwhile, the flexibility afforded by sleeve-labeling allows the brewery to quickly experiment with new ideas in brewing and, just as importantly, utilize the shape, shine and shelf appeal of the prime label to draw the consumer to those brands.
As co-owner Dave Colt says, that lets the brewery "be whoever we wanted to be, produce what we want to produce–passionately."


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Features Overview
Screenflex has been in business for 25 years so our designers and engineers understand quality. The materials are tested to the highest standards to produce durable, long-lasting, rolling room dividers.
Screenflex room dividers come with self-leveling casters. Self-leveling casters conform to the dips and rises in a floor's surface, enabling the divider unit to glide effortlessly over uneven surfaces.
Room dividers experience the most stress where the outermost panels connect to the end frames. Screenflex has designed extra strength and stability into the dividers to keep them strong and stable for years.
Reducing noise is one of the primary motivations people have when purchasing dividers. You can expect to block up to 65% of the sound depending on the height and configuration of the dividers.
Screenflex understand the importance of peace of mind and realise that once you have set up your screen you need to know that it will actually stay. Which is why the locking corner casters allow each divider to be positioned securely in place with a pedal-activated brake.
Our freestanding room dividers feature position-control hinges (PCHs) on the top of each hinge. When the divider is opened, the soft click of the PCHs means that each panel is being secured in a fixed position to keep the divider from shifting. PCHs work automatically, applying just the right amount of position-holding tension on each hinge.
The storage latch automatically engages when the room divider is fully closed keeping the panels securely in place when moving folding room dividers from place to place. To open the divider, simply release the locking lever and walk the divider open into position.
These tackable panels are like a bulletin board where you can pin, staple or tack directly onto the panels. Screenflex partitions are constructed using 3/4 inch panels made out of closed cell honeycomb core paired with a fibreglass facing and covered with stitch bond polyester fabric.


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How To Pick The Right Countertop For Your Kitchens/
The kitchen is the hub of activity in your home, so the materials you select for this space require careful consideration. Most families cook, eat, socialize, and entertain in the kitchen, so it is an ideal opportunity to showcase your home style. Kitchens are also one of the more heavily trafficked areas in the home, and must be designed to withstand a lot of wear and tear.
Kitchen countertops are no exception! The countertop covers a large surface area that typically includes areas for food preparation, dining, and more. It must last many years, all while withstanding a constant onslaught of grease, liquids, food, sharp and heavy objects, and heat.
This may sound like a tall order but there are many countertop materials and styles in a wide range of budget options. How do you select the perfect countertop for your kitchen remodeling project?
Here is our handy guide to get you started.
What do I need?
Countertops significantly affect the style of your room, but do not select this product based on looks alone. Assess your lifestyle and requirements over the anticipated lifespan of the kitchen renovation. Remodeling after your kids left for college may lead to different options than if you have young children. For example, some materials, while beautiful, are harder to maintain or more prone to stains.
Do you cook or bake often? Do you entertain frequently? Everyone's family and home is different. Consider your requirements carefully and research the materials available. Working with an experienced kitchen design expert will help you better understand the ideal product choices to meet your family's specific needs.
What do I like?
With so many materials, patterns, textures, and colors available, the choices can be overwhelming. You can also change the look by varying thickness and edge, or add waterfall ends like the design below left. Select a material designed to blend in with the style and colors of your kitchen cabinets, or opt for a material that stands out in a contrasting color, like the design below right. Consider your home style and color scheme and how the countertop can help you achieve the look you want.
How much can I spend?
The countertop is one of the more expensive kitchen product choices, depending on the surface area and material you select. Understand your available budget when reviewing countertop options. You may fall in love with the most expensive material, but discover it is too expensive. Find a suitable alternative that meets most of your requirements, or fund the more expensive countertop but forego something else to stay within budget. Thankfully there are many options available that offer durability and a range of styles, so you will find one that works for you!
Which material is best for me?
There are more countertop materials than ever before, each with their own pros and cons. Some are more durable, easier to clean and maintain, more eco-friendly, or more heat-resistant. Natural materials come with their own individual color and pattern variations, while others are man-made to give a particular color or appearance.
Here are some of the options available:
Granite: one of the most popular choices, available in a range of shades, unique in appearance.
Other natural stone, such as marble or soapstone: offers a distinct look but requires more careful maintenance than granite. Marble is ideal for pastry so if you are an avid baker consider including marble even in one section as a baking station.
Engineered stone: made primarily of quartz, in a wider range of colors, very durable and easy to maintain.
Solid surface: a seamless look but can be prone to scratches.
Concrete: increasingly popular and available in a range of finishes and colors.
Wood: easy to clean but prone to water damage. Ideal for a section of countertop for chopping food.
Laminate: more affordable and available in a range of colors and designs, but very sensitive to heat.
So much more: recycled materials, stainless steel, glass, tile, and more!
Whatever your requirements, style, and budget, there is a countertop material (or possibly more than one if you want to mix and match) to meet your needs. Our kitchen design gallery offers some excellent examples, or contact us to discuss the best countertop option for your kitchen renovation.


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I've been including a certificate chain in a separate portion of the XML document (not within KeyInfo). I've also been placing a X509IssuerSerial in KeyInfo to allow my application to find the appropriate certificate chain in the document. It would be as convenient for me to simply include an XML ID inside KeyInfo that points to the first certificate in the chain. Is there any way to express a KeyInfo item as a simple XML ID? Possibly using RetrievalMethod or something else? --Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Joseph M. Reagle Jr. [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 2:53 PM To: Brian LaMacchia Cc: 'email@example.com'; Gregor Karlinger; Barb Fox; XML Subject: RE: AW: Errors and Questions At 13:58 7/28/2000 -0700, Brian LaMacchia wrote: >The fact that we are continuing to have problems settling on a schema for >X509Data this late in the game causes me to reconsider including X509Data in >the core DSIG specification. I think that is an interesting proposal. As a point of history, I believe we introduced these as place-holders and examples such that readers could see how to use KeyInfo for things beyond RSA and DSA. But as time went on and people used those examples we refined what we had. However, we are approaching a point that is out of scope. >XMLDSIG and I fear it will hold up progression of the standard. If other >folks agree we should discuss this in Pittsburgh next week. I'll include it in my list of issues to discuss on Thursday. _________________________________________________________ Joseph Reagle Jr. W3C Policy Analyst mailto:email@example.com IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/Received on Monday, 31 July 2000 16:31:57 UTC
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EEO - Discrimination: New Jersey
Federal law and guidance on this subject should be reviewed together with this section.
Authors: James Anelli, Robert Pettigrew, LeClairRyan
- The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD or LAD) prohibits discrimination against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, affectional or sexual orientation, sex, gender identity or expression, disability or liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States. See Unlawful Discriminatory Practices.
- The LAD also prohibits discrimination against any employee or job applicant on the basis of genetic information or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, or because of the refusal to submit to a genetic test or make available the results of a genetic test to an employer. See Unlawful Discriminatory Practices.
- Individuals are liable for aiding and abetting conduct that is in violation of the LAD. +N.J. Stat. § 10:5-12(e). See Coverage.
- Remedies under the LAD can include reinstatement, compensatory damages, punitive damages, legal fees and other legal and equitable relief. See Administrative Remedies.
- New Jersey has a robust equal pay law. See Equal Pay.
- Aside from the LAD, other New Jersey state laws cover genetic information, substantive due process or equal protection rights, jury service, smokers, volunteer emergency responders, political activities, public works contracts, public educational institutions, unemployment status and domestic violence. See Other Laws.


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Although I have only recently begun creating ceramic art in the past 4 years, I have long since had a love affair with clay. I remember as a youngin' living in the mountains of West Virginia, sitting by the creek, scooping up mounds of mud in my pie pan and shaping it high until it fell back to the earth. What a luscious feeling it was; the grit, the consistency, the earthiness of it all. Even now, every time I open up a new bag of clay, I stick my head way inside and breathe deeply the smell of it......and realize that what I am smelling is not just the dirt and earth but the possibilities of what it will become.
All of us have an opportunity, every day, to move into our next greater self. We have the endless ability to create something new and beautiful to share with the world. The longer I am in this body, the more I realize that the power to radiate life has been within me all along. Through all of my trials, struggles and challenges, the constant thread was me. I get to choose every day how I see my world and the world around me.
Just as it is with clay, it is in the world. To let go of control enough to allow life to happen and still be present to the possibilities. The choices we all have to create a life we dream of, a life we, as our higher selves deserve to step into. That's a life well lived.


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Emily Stolfo
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Emily is an Engineer / Evangelist with the 10gen MongoDB Ruby driver team and an adjunct faculty at Columbia University. Before joining 10gen, Emily worked as a Ruby on Rails developer at a NYC startup but her history with Rails goes back to a research project at Paris' Louvre Museum. In addition to enjoying programming and art, Emily likes to travel and run when not teaching Rails in her free time.
Open Source Bridge 2013 Birds of a Feather
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* MongoDB Users (Confirmed)
Informal meetup for MongoDB users. MongoDB is a leading open-source NoSQL database, developed by 10gen. Join two programmers from 10gen to ask questions and share ideas.
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Open Source Bridge 2013
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* Hacking the academic experience
When I was asked to teach Ruby on Rails at Columbia University I observed that a significant number of the skills required to become a successful professional in the industry are acquired on the job and aren't being taught in school.
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* Pure object orientation from the backend to frontend with Rails and MongoDB
As the nature of building software evolves to favor agile development, the infrastructure programmers rely on must also change. This presentation will walk through the advantages of a document database using a Rails app backed by MongoDB as an example.
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I originally ran this post a few months ago. I thought I'd repost it for those if you considering a smartphone for a holiday gift!
So after spending some quality time with my friend Paul Anater in Miami this past week, I have become inspired to expand what I write about on this blog. I usually like to stick to strictly Sketchup topics. I am a bit of a geek sometimes, and I'd like to share some experiences I have had switching smartphones.
I remember when the iPhone first came out in 2007. I watched in envy as everyone was able to switch over to get what at the time was, the most advanced smartphone out there.
I jumped on the iPhone bandwagon on the day the iPhone 3G was released. That was a great year to be an iPhone owner. There were 10,000 ways to waste time on the app store, and limited 3G coverage. The best part was, this was before AT&T was REALLY bad....
For two years I used my wonderful white iPhone. I loved it. It did everything I wanted it to. When the 3GS came out, I didn't even really want to upgrade. The 3GS was quite a bit faster, and I did feel myself wanting for a little more speed on my phone, but my 3G still ran great, and I never ended up trading up to the 3GS.
Then something happened, Apple released the new iPhone 4. At the same time, they also released a huge software update, iPhone software 4.0 for all models except the original iPhone. Apple has a nice habit of upgrading software on old devices, even as they release new hardware. This is nice for current owners as they usually add some nice new features, and performance enhancements. I think this is a really good move on Apple's part, it makes current customers happy, which generates good PR, and drives sales for new hardware.
I have been through three major software revisions with my iPhone. Each time there is a major release, there is a slew of new features, and a few bugs. Apple usually quickly fixes the bugs, so I always have felt really comfortable upgrading the day these new updates come out.
I upgraded to 4.0 the day it came out, and things were not as they usually are. The software took forever to install on my 3G, and once it did, I immediately noticed a major performance hit. Instead of feeling like I had all my apps, and the internet at my finger tips, it felt like I had to reach through a bowl of Jello-O to get to any of them. Once I got them they were, sticky, and hard to handle. I think that Apple put out a piece of software that was not well tested on the old iPhone.....
Check out my friend Paul Anater's blog post on the subject. There's a great video embedded in that post as well. If you're a current 3G owner, you will be able to relate.
I have a theory that this has something to do with their business model, but we'll keep theory and conjecture for another article.
My resolution was to switch phones, and carriers. I was sick of getting dropped calls, and slow internet connectivity on my iPhone. That software update did me in. I walked into my local Verizon store and picked myself up a Droid Incredible. I was a sucker for the original Droid ads. As a geek, they really got me interested... This was the first commercial.
Now, this commercial is a little dated already, as the new iPhone CAN do all of these things... But there is so much more to Android then just side by side comparions of features.
Lets break the two platforms down. You've got Apple, they want everything to be perfect. They control the entire process, from the hardware, to the software. I'll bet they'd even love to control the cell towers if they could afford to. You can't do anything on your iPhone unless Steve says that you can. Things are magical and perfect in iPhone land.
Then there is Google Android. Its open, customizable, and available to anyone who's got a piece of hardware that they want to put it on. This has its upsides, and downsides. The upsides are that you can do ANYTHING you want on Android. If you want to run 60 apps at the same time and drain you battery, go crazy. If you want to have a different music player then the stock one, just go ahead and download one. If you want to have apps that have full access to the phone, you can get them. A great example of allowing devolopers access to the entire phone system is that you can create apps that work great with other apps. For example, just about any piece of media on the phone can be shared. If you have your favorite Twitter app on your phone and you want to post a photo, that app comes right up in the list of ways you can share a piece of media. No longer to you have to launch the app, create the tweet, go to your camera roll, and search for the picture.
Perhaps you aren't happy with the dialer pad on the phone, simply download another one! Smartphones are more and more becoming portals to the internet, and less and less about phones. I think the internet should be open and free, and I also think that the device that you use to access it should be the same. Remember how angry we all got when Microsoft blocked Netscape back in the day? Its funny how we now tolerate that sort of Draconian control from Apple, just because they are "Hip" and "Cool".
Now for the really good stuff: The speed of the Droid Incredible. Between Verizon's speedy 3G network, and the Incredibles hi octane processor, this phone can go faster then you can think. The internet operates at nearly broadband speeds. You can even load Flash on it! Then there is Google's system wide voice search. Want to find something, anything on your phone or the internet? Simply tap one button, and just ask it!
You can ask Droid anything. Things like "Call Paul Anater" or "Navigate to Orlando Florida" will do exactly what you expect them to. The voice recognition is uncannily good.
If you are thinking of making the switch, you should. I use this phone more then I ever used my iPhone. Now have at the disposal of my thumbs the ultimate connection to the world. Its brilliantly fast, and rather then get in my way, it gets out of the way and just gets things done. Droid definitely Does.
As an aside, I was able to take my now deactivated iPhone 3G and downgrade it to the old 3.13 software. Its not as easy as upgrading, and you do have to wipe your phone and manually put everything back on it, but it does work perfectly now!


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If you like the colors yellow, orange, and brown, then you're going to flip for Marvel's forthcoming EDEN'S TRAIL. It's the yellowest/orangest/brownest comic I've ever read.
If you haven't seen the solicitations information for it yet, EDEN'S TRAIL is a new six issue Marvel mini-series from Steve Uy and Chuck Austen. It's done in the Marvelscope format, and tells the story of -- well, I don't know who, exactly. We'll get to that in just a bit.
It's a western/science fiction mix that have many already making comparisons to the TRIGUN anime. Although I've only ever seen one episode of that show, I'd have to say that the resemblances are merely superficial. The cover shows a guy with a long jacket and a gun. Big whoop.
There's also been some talk about how the book is stealing from MERIDIAN, based on its original PREVIEWS write-up. I can tell you right now that the first issue has absolutely no resemblance to the CrossGen series.
The book is beautiful. I have full color printouts of the first issue from Marvel to base this review on. Even as a copy of the comic that was just printed out from the computer at Marvel, it's a beautiful looking book. UDON have outdone themselves in color-keying this issue, giving everything a cohesive look with their usual soft coloring style. They've also done nice work on the forthcoming XIN book from Harris Comics, but that's a review for another column.
Whoops. I've just been informed that Steve Uy colored the book himself. UDON had nothing to do with it, as a quick look at the credits on the dotcomics version of the comic would show. My apologies to Uy. UDON still did a great job on XIN, though. ;-)
Steve Uy's art is everything you could ask for in the book. In addition to telling the story easily and using clear and consistent character designs, Uy uses the format of the book to his best advantage. There are no dull panel layouts in this book. It's not a simple two-tier layout, but does move to that where it works. Uy smartly chooses panel widths to guide the eye through the reading process, which is a tricky thing to do with a landscape-formatted book such as this. It's also necessary to keeping the reader clued in. Take a look at what Butch Guice does on RUSE, for example. The panels that just make it past the fold between the pages is what is used to guide the eye across the pages and then down them. On the other hand, Michael Avon Oeming's POWERS layouts (or are they Bendis'?), are a bit more tricky. I'm not always sure whether I'm reading a two page or single page layout until it's too late. Uy makes sure the gutters alternate to bring the eye in the right direction at all times.
I'd love to scan in some of the pages from the book to show you here, but I'm afraid any scanning job I do at 72 dpi won't bring out the full beauty of the book. Most of the book is available from Marvel's dotcomics program, though. It stops short of the entire issue by only a small number of pages. It's also a bit of a pain to read on-line. The long and tall panels mean that the Flash player has to pan up and across certain panels. The reading experience is far from ideal for this dotcomic, but it'll give you an idea of what to expect.
If you don't have Flash availability, or just don't want to wait for the download on your dial-up connection, then trust me when I tell you that EDEN'S TRAIL is the best looking comic book that Marvel is putting out this fall. It's a great example of the modern comics creation process, where artist and colorist work in perfect synergy.
The biggest question about the book remains the story. The first issue is a tense barroom standoff with an explosive ending. It's a nice piece of action storytelling. My problem is that I don't know who the lead character is. There are at least a half-dozen characters named in the book, and any of four of them might be the lead characters. As it stands, perspectives shift so often in the book that I'm not sure if the star of the book is the barkeeper, the sharpshooter, the sheriff, or the over-the-top one-dimensional bad guy. I'm hoping that gets cleared up in the next issue.
The first issue is due out in November, and was solicited in last month's edition of PREVIEWS. Ask your retailer to order it today. You have a couple of weeks before their orders are due for EDEN'S TRAIL #1.
There's another issue at work here, beyond just the comic. It's the marketing of the comic. Marvel advance solicited the book, meaning that the first issue showed up in two consecutive PREVIEWS catalogs. Then, most of the first issue was given away for free on Marvel's web site to give people a taste of what the book is about. Even after that, readers still have two weeks to let their retailer know what they think of the book. This kind of openness and public information campaign is the kind of thing that will promote good word of mouth and increase sales for quality books such as this. It's fair to the fans and the retailers, both, who have a better idea of what they're getting into before the series debut is even ordered.
Let's use this as an example to reward Marvel for its marketing strategy, as well.
DC's editors have officially killed the letters column.
Eleven years ago, I began letterhacking. It was a great way to vent my opinions on the various comics I was reading at the time. In lieu of the internet, writing letters was the way to do it. Plus, the egoboost from seeing your name in print is intoxicating, although it wears off more quickly than you might imagine.
Nevertheless, ten years ago there were letters columns. Real letters columns. DC had two page columns at the time printed in a decent font: black lettering on a plain white background. It looked like a newspaper and had an air of credibility to it. The editors answered the letters personally and took interest in what the writers had to say. You had interesting columns that developed over time to reflect individual personalities. Remember the columns for JLI/JLA, or SUICIDE SQUAD, or even STAR TREK? Involved editors, interested writers, great letters columns.
Over the past decade, DC has slowly sucked the life out of their letters columns. By sheer laziness, their editorial staff has doomed the art of the letters column. Gone are the editors who printed critical letters and responded to them in print. Gone are the editors who took the time to put together two page columns. Gone are the editors who gave a damn about the letters columns.
The last excuse I want to hear is that it's a time drain and that editors are too busy today. It's never been easier. Most letterhacking is done via e-mail. The editors -- or their assistants -- no longer need to engage in the tedious process of retyping snail mail into a format suitable for print, with the potential for typos that went with it. All they have to do is pick a few good letters, compose a few good responses, and they're done. How much time should that take?
Answer: Not nearly as much time as the editors of ten years ago spent. The work is minimal and the reward is high.
Instead, it's gotten to the point where editors just patrol the DC Universe message boards for comments and reprint them in the letters column, complete with asinine-sounding AOL handles. Gone is the sense of community, replaced with a contest on the internet message board.
A chicken-and-egg argument might be made here. I've heard from more than one editor who has complained about the lack of intelligent letters being written for their letters columns. Quite honestly, I'm certain it's one of the reasons for my own letterhacking success. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king and all that. On the flip side, one has to wonder how much excitement it generates for a literate letterhack to write in to a column filled with barely-cogent chicken scratch. Like attracts like, and it's one of the reasons for the successes of the letters columns of a decade or more ago.
There's an argument floating around that says the internet has taken the place of the letters column. It ignores one important point: Not everyone is on the internet. In a day and age when it seems like the number of blogs and message boards equals the readership of certain titles (think SUPERBOY or MIDNIGHT MASS here), it's an easy assumption to make. You'd be surprised how many people aren't actively participating on the on-line comics movement. There are even people -- professionals, included -- who choose not to have internet access, or even a computer. To say that letters columns are an anachronism is to spit in the faces of those who don't spend their spare time surfing the web.
Marvel may very well adopt this as their official policy next. It wouldn't surprise me. The loss won't be quite as great, though, because Marvel has never had great across-the-board letters columns. While there have been a few scattered highlights, they've traditionally been banal, particularly in the last 6 or 8 years. They very rarely made two page columns, and those seem to have been done to give creative teams on X-Books a one page break on their deadlines. Slowly, though, Marvel has eliminated the letters columns from many of its titles. They haven't made an official statement on this yet, but don't be surprised to see them cop to it in a future phone conference.
To see what letters columns are all about, you have to go to the independent section of your comic book shelf. Brian Bendis has a silly and mostly inane letters column in POWERS, but it's entertaining. (I wish he'd stop cheating and reprinting on-line news stories, though. After all, isn't that useless in a day and age when letters columns are unnecessary since everyone has internet access?) Erik Larsen has been running long rambling letters columns since the very first issues of THE SAVAGE DRAGON. When he didn't have letters yet on the first issue, he wrote a text page. Remember the days when editors would write a page or two of text for the first couple of issues of a series? Today's editors don't seem too anxious to do that. Slap another useless house ad into the back of the book, instead. Give us the same stock image of the same overhyped piece of crap that's being released next.
I understand Dave Sim is back to doing letters columns in CEREBUS again. His columns throughout much of the past 20 years are models upon which the rest of the industry should base their own. The CEREBUS letters columns did in their day what the Warren Ellis Forum did in its own. It was a strong sense of community and activism for Getting Things Done.
Now DC has done away with theirs. Truth be told, I'm not all that upset. If anything, it's a mercy killing. Put the things out of their misery. It's obvious that very few people over there have cared in recent years. There might very well be higher orders from up the food chain at DC to not give a damn. That wouldn't surprise me, either. I'll be very interested in seeing what the replacement informational page looks like. Will it be like DC's last attempt to make their editors look like stars, in lieu of any star creators? Will it be rehashed material from PREVIEWS? Will there be anything interesting in there? Will the pages have any character, like you used to see with the "Meanwhile…" pages?
I'm not very hopeful.
In fact, what would be the point in reprinting promotional material that would most likely be easily found on the 'net, through DC's web site or any of a dozen comic book news sites? Aren't all of DC's readers already on the web? Isn't that one of the reasons that letters columns are dead?
It's a shame.
A couple of people have asked how this would affect me. To tell you the truth, it won't. I'm semi-retired from letterhacking at the moment. I don't think I've written more than a dozen letters of comment all year, and most of those went to THE SAVAGE DRAGON, which I don't even write to every month anymore. After a decade of doing it, I could use the break. Like I said at the top, I can work all of that critical stuff out of my system through this column.
I have to wonder, though, if part of my antipathy towards letters columns right now doesn't come from the way they've been so badly mishandled in the past few years. There are so very few exciting ones that I don't want to bother with most of them anymore.
Perhaps this will just be a phase. Maybe this will join the chorus of "noble" failures in an attempt to be more modern, such as Marvel's mixed-case lettering. Change for change's sake can't win in the end, can it?
We'll see.
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We were hired by Digital Kitchen and Wizards of the Coast to create a new sound logo for Dungeons and Dragons. Since D&D is a storytelling game we started the process by basing sounds on story elements you might find in a campaign. For instance creatures, combat, and spell casting. From there we created new directions and eventually landed on the official selection that is somewhat of a combination of the previous concepts. This is a demo showing some of the work created.


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Jeremy Cousins QC specialises in substantial commercial, commercial chancery (including trusts), banking and professional negligence disputes.
In 2018 he led Peter Dodge from Chambers Dreamvar v Mishcon de Reya in the Court of Appeal. This case, and P&P Properties v Mary Monson Solicitors, heard at the same time, as well as establishing a vendor's solicitor's liability to a purchaser as trustee of purchase monies, lay down clear guidelines as to the interpretation of the Code for Completion by Post, and the scope for claims for breach of warranty of authority.
In 2014 he was in the leading banking and solicitors' breach of trust case of AIB v Redler in the Supreme Court, and he appeared for the claimants in the major case of Rosserlane v Credit Suisse (concerning the sale of an interest in an oil field in Azerbaijan). At the same time, he was also involved in the claim made by a group of shareholders against Lloyds Banking Group and some of its former directors in relation to the HBOS acquisition in 2009.
In yet another leading banking dispute, in 2015 Jeremy Cousins QC prepared submissions for various bondholders resisting Lloyds Banking Group's attempt in BNY Mellon Corporate Trustee Services v LBG Capital No 1 and another to bring about an early redemption of part of a multi-billion pound bond issue by affiliates of Lloyds Banking Group in 2009. He was also consulted in 2018 in connection with the very contentious attempt by Aviva to redeem a series of high coupon bonds, which was ultimately resolved without litigation, as was widely reported in the financial press. He has published several articles on the issue of liability in respect of bond issues, and on disputed redemptions.
Jeremy has consistently been recognised over many years by Chambers UK and Legal 500 for his expertise, skill as an advocate, and user friendly qualities. He is listed as a leading silk for commercial litigation, commercial chancery, professional negligence and banking & finance.
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Corporate Development
Development Comes Before Communication
There is a wide range of views concerning the strategic development process. Some see this process as being purely creative, almost organic, with little or no scope for analysis at any stage in an organization's development. Others develop business plans that are so formal that the objective is really about monitoring the strategic plan rather than examining the practical issues surrounding corporate development.
In organizations that consistently meet their goals, effective strategic decision making involves a degree of creativity that is supported by a structured approach. The strategic development process tends to follow a series of rudiments that need to be in good working order for the public relations process to be most successful. These elements include the following:
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There are both hard and soft models of corporate development, and we can support you with either. The secret to our success has been helping clients develop strategies that are realistic and easy to implement.
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"Improving Order and Fulfillment Operations: Purchase Order Management"
The growth of global supply chain has put constraints on companies who source goods from factories and suppliers overseas. Where it used to be easy enough to keep tabs on domestic acquisitions and the occasional import, managing procurement across the miles has become increasingly onerous for organizations whose supply chains extend across borders, oceans and continents. As a result, they are looking at ways to make their Purchase Order Management processes more predictable and efficient.


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Bhasker V. Kode
Co-Founder & CTO of hover.in
Bhasker V Kode, is a developer/technopreneur who co-founded hover.in, a startup based out of Pune, India as its CTO. Prior to this, he was working with TutorVista - the online tutoring startup, in developing its chat, whiteboard and other products when he first introduced to ejabberd and the world of erlang by a colleague. These days he spends his time on the LYME stack (linux/yaws/mnesia/erlang), spear-heading the Returnable Project - the web delivery mashup framework, authoring the Reusable javascript library, part of the team at TechEnclave.com, and talking about random web-scale hacks. His blog "Bosky says" has been active since 2003 where he writes on startups & the web, and enjoys writing on all things erly & distributed on hover.in's developer blog.
Bhasker V. Kode is Giving the Following Talks
Erlang at hover.in
From our experiences at 'hover.in' I'd like to present how we first chose erlang late 2007, and got about using it as our bridge across our multi-node cluster. In particular the architectural decisions that went into making our distributed python crawler backend running off mnesia with its sharding & fragmentation strategies for tables that span several millions of rows, load-balancing to our 3-node yaws web servers, tweaks to serve more requests, trade-offs in efficiency vs cost, experiments in DHT's, our cache worker implementations & messaging queues, cron's & dispatching jobs while throwing light on design choices that can fit in distributed and heterogeneous environments. We have also recently built and intend to opensource our own in-memory cache workers, persistent stats & logging system, and in the process of now deploying an A/B testing framework, that we'd love to talk about. The talk will also bring in some interesting metaphors from bacteria and its group dynamics, as well as the human brain in handling concurrency & memory.


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Last week, the Government of El Salvador extended its agreement with the United States to allow U.S. anti-narcotics aircraft to operate out of the Salvadoran Air Force base at Comalapa for five more years. Since March 2000, the United States has used the Comalapa Air Force base as a Forward Operating Location (FOL) – the same arrangement as the Manta Air Base in Ecuador, which U.S. personnel will be vacating by November – to "allow interdiction aircraft to be forward deployed closer to drug routes in the region," according to the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador. The original agreement was set to expire in 2010.
The timing of the renewed agreement coincides with the approaching end of President Tony Saca's term on May 31. Saca, from the center-right ARENA party, is an ardent supporter of U.S.-Salvadoran military collaboration.
Just like how every presidency term ends, even every system has a deadline, a limiting time, after which it ceases to exist. We are here to talk about the most important part of our daily lives, the reason for too many things, in fact, the reason for us to join the wagon of work; that's money, aka Finances!
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However, in June of last year, President-elect Mauricio Funes, from the left-of-center FMLN opposition party, announced that he would guarantee the continuation of the Comalapa Forward Operating Location, contradicting the FMLN's traditional stance against the FOL residing on Salvadoran territory.
Despite Funes' previous announcement, the U.S. government likely hoped to extend the agreement before his inauguration just in case his position changes once he and the FMLN assume power in June. Though Funes has pledged to work closely with the United States, his political party began life as an insurgency that, during the 1980s, the U.S. government spent hundreds of millions of dollars arming the Salvadoran military in an effort to defeat. If relations should sour and Funes's position on the Comalapa facility should change, U.S. officials no doubt calculated, they would be left with only one formal Forward Operating Location, in the Netherland Antilles, after Manta closes. Colombia has, however, agreed to accommodate the U.S. planes and crews that will be vacating Manta.


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The private equity firm HgCapital has held final closes on its eighth flagship buyout fund and a new technology vehicle - raising more than £3 billion combined after hitting the upper limits on both.
The firm collected £2.5 billion for its main HgCapital 8 fund and £575 million for the Mercury fund - which invests in the technology, media and telecommunications sector - according to a statement.
FN's sister publication Private Equity News reported in December that HgCapital had held a £2 billion close on the buyout fund, with a final close slated for this month.
HgCapital said in the statement that both funds were "significantly oversubscribed".
The fundraisings follow a busy 2016 for the firm in which it completed 10 new investments, seven realisations and three refinancings. These deals represented a total investment of around £950 million and returns of approximately £1 billion to investors.


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INDIA'S Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) has approved a raft of fee hikes impacting both airlines and passengers at Mumbai and Kolkata's international airports, a move akin to shooting itself in the foot say trade players.
At Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, fees will rise 154 per cent across the board. Domestic airlines can expect to pay 40 per cent more while international carriers will have to shell out 120 per cent more.
Passengers are not spared. Since February 1, passengers have to factor in the new user development fees in addition to a current airport development fee. Passengers on international flights now have to pay Rs692 (US$13) on top of an airport development fee of Rs600. Those on domestic flights will have to fork out an additional Rs346, on top of a Rs100 airport development fee.
Slight relief will come between April 1 this year and March 31, 2014 when the new user development fees are reduced to Rs274 on domestic tickets and Rs548 on international tickets.
Meanwhile, AERA has also approved a hike in user development fees at Kolkata's Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport. With effect from February 16, domestic and international fliers will pay Rs400 and Rs1,000 respectively. This fee will creep up to Rs424 and Rs1,060 from April 1, 2014 and again to Rs449 and Rs1,124 a year later.
AERA based its revised tariffs on air traffic projections for the next four years. It expects a 10 per cent annual growth at the Kolkata airport until 2015/2016.
Industry players were dismayed by the news.
"We are concerned that Indian airports are emerging as the most expensive in the world. How will it be possible for airlines to create hubs here?" said Tom Wright, chairman, British business group, Cathay Pacific Airways.
Rajendra Churiwala, director - eastern region, IATA Agents Association of India, observed: "The pressure on travel consultants is immense as clients demand cheaper airfares…Such high increases (in airport fees) will be counter productive."
Delhi International Airport raised charges by 346 per cent in 4Q2012, only to have the Indian government order a return to previous rates on January 1, following an outcry from the both passengers and aviation players.


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USN-389-1: GnuPG vulnerability
29 November 2006
gnupg vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 6.10
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- Ubuntu 5.10
Software Description
A buffer overflow was discovered in GnuPG. By tricking a user into running gpg interactively on a specially crafted message, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. This vulnerability is not exposed when running gpg in batch mode.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 6.10
- gnupg - 1.4.3-2ubuntu3.1
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- gnupg - 126.96.36.199-1ubuntu2.3
- Ubuntu 5.10
- gnupg - 1.4.1-1ubuntu1.5
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.


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Stopping Car Repossession
What is Automobile Repossession?
Georgia law on motor vehicle repossession states that when a car, truck, SUV, or other automobile is leased or financed, the lessor or creditor retains the right – called a "security interest" – to repossess it if the buyer fails to make payments in a timely fashion. Repossession is permitted as soon as you default on your auto loan or lease, and can take place without court order or prior notice.
How Do I Avoid Repossession?
The good thing is that there are multiple options available to you if there is a car in your household under the threat of repossession. Filing for bankruptcy is one option. Keeping the automobile ultimately depends on a few factors, but the majority of people that file for bankruptcy are able to keep their car. Bankruptcy will create an automatic stay, which means that no one can repossess your automobile. Under a Chapter 7 filing, the motor vehicle "exemption" will largely decide if you will be allowed to keep your car or not. Another way is to file is under Chapter 13, which may allow you to repay your automobile debt in a more affordable manner. In some cases, your attorney can lower the amount that is required to pay to the current market value, which will lower your interest rate.
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