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"A lot of the service industry left New Orleans to work in cities like New York, Chicago and San Francisco," says Chris McMillian, a founding member of the Museum of the American Cocktail, in regards to the effects of Hurricane Katrina. "After Katrina, they came back, so now we've got some extremely talented bartenders — people who have worked at places like Milk & Honey and Pegu Club. New Orleans is quickly evolving into a dynamic cocktail scene." Here's a look at the new and notable:
New Orleans native Neal Bodenheimer worked in New York City under the tutelage of mixologists such as Eben Klemm and Junior Merino, but when Katrina hit, he felt the need to return home. After working at some of New Orleans' swanky bars, Bodenheimer opened Cure. Some of the most talented bartenders in town, including Ricky Gomez, Danny Valdez, Maksim Pazuniak, Kirk Estopinal and Bodenheimer himself, tend bar at Cure, where they serve classic and signature creations like the summery Bootsy Collins, which involves El Jimador Blanco Tequila, fresh lime juice, agave nectar, rhubarb bitters and soda water.
Bar Tonique is another recent arrival in the New Orleans nightlife scene. As the name implies, homemade tonics are the specialty at this stylish spot on the outer edges of the French Quarter. Almost everything is fashioned in-house, including the maraschino cherries, and the cocktails are made with attention to detail by esteemed bartenders such as Matthew Palumbo.
Culinary cocktails and local ingredients are the thing at Cochon, where Audrey Rodriguez nicks ingredients from chef Donald Link's kitchen to make creations like the seasonal Eat A Peach, made with Old New Orleans Cajun Spiced Rum, Ruston peaches, cayenne pepper and fresh squeezed orange juice. And at the fairly new Patois uptown, bartender Rebecca Tarpy offers twists on the classics and makes her own apertif with a concoction of fruits, herbs and botanicals steeped in vodka, sugar and white wine.
Classic cocktails are front and center at the Sazerac Bar, situated in the newly reopened Roosevelt Hotel. With roots that stretch back to the late 1800s, the hotel went through a series of name changes until it was forced to close its doors during Katrina in 2005. The hotel reopens to the public on July 1, just in time for Tales of the Cocktail, when the expectations for an exquisitely made Sazerac and Ramos Gin Fizz will be high.
After years behind the bar at the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans, McMillian is now at the new Bar UnCommon in the Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel. The bar doesn't host much of a cocktail menu because McMillian can make you any classic potable of your pleasing — and if you aren't sure what your tipple is, he'll be happy to guide you in the right direction. NCB


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Whether you are a supervisor or an employee, you will have different ideas about what percentage of the day should be spent completely focused on projects and tasks. Employees may think they are entitled to a little more leisure time in their workday, while bosses may want workers glued to their chairs and working away as much as possible.
Regardless of the situation, it is easy to get caught up with distractions at the office. Your co-workers may be taking a 20-minute Starbucks break, or you might become completely engrossed in the day's Wall Street Journal, shaving away precious work time. Whether it is due to social media sites, personal emails or phone calls, turning off or tuning out all the noise is easier said than done.
So how (and when) do you say it is time to to stop messing around and get serious at work?
Constantly losing focus at the office not only damages your credibility and quality of work, it adds to the long list of tasks your supervisors and colleagues already have.
An important part of most work environments is surviving well in a team and being a contributing member. If you constantly miss deadlines and turn in projects of low quality, your team will end up having to pick up the slack and consequently will ruin your relationship with them. If you are given the responsibility of taking the lead on the new client presentation and you find yourself not being able to complete small tasks such as compiling the research in an adequate amount of time, you know you have a problem.
Let your coworkers help you prioritize. By sharing your goals with your team, you'll know what you need to focus on in order to help other members of your team complete their projects. Be able to answer the questions: What is important to my team members? What do they need from me? Is there anything you need to complete that may be holding another colleague up?
Staying focused means more than simply finishing a project. It means finishing a task within a reasonable timeframe to allow for more work to be accomplished. Figuring out a way to monitor how long a project takes you can be a much-needed eye-opener in terms of efficiency. Sharing your goals and projects with co-workers is also important because it allows them to suggest ideas on the process of completing a project and its quality.
Breaking up large projects into small manageable tasks is a great way to get a large amount of work done during the day. If your task is to come up with a marketing plan for a client, break your tasks up into smaller goals — such as completing client research, reviewing previous examples and creating an outline. Being able to check off smaller tasks that lead to a larger project and goal will keep employees stay on focused and on track.
Every worker is different, and planning ahead with goals is key to having a productive day at work. Even if you do not plan your breaks by the minute, having an idea of the goals you want to will keep you on track during your day. Your bosses may give you deadlines which can easily be met, but it is up to to use as little time as possible to complete a project to the best of your ability. Efficiency is often assessed your supervisor, and it is up to an employee to manage his or her time in order to be considered valuable part of the team and company.
What are some things you do to turn of all the distractions at work?
Morgan Norman is the Founder and CEO of WorkSimple, a Social Goal management program, and is passionate about building the first performance management designed for all employees. Connect with him and WorkSimple on Facebook and Twitter.
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This traditional combination whirlpool/air bath fits most homes. The tubs rectangular shape allows it to be incorporated into a shower design. 9 water jets provide an aggressive hydrotherapy body massage with three stacked water jets to massage the back and spine. 18 air jets located in the floor provide a non-aggressive air massage. The C7242GW has a center-side drain. On combination baths all the water jets are fully directional and the jet's scalloped face can be rotated allowing the bather to increase or decrease the water flow and pressure from each jet. A three speed control (high-medium-low) is standard on all combo baths giving the bather complete control of the water flow and pressure from all the water jets simultaneously.
For your comfort all back and neck jets are recessed in all Watertech whirlpools and combination bathtubs. The water lines on combo baths are rigid PVC, U.L. certified for 100% drainage assuring a clean and sanitary massage experience each and every time the bath is used. A free pulsating jet is provided with each combo bath and can be easily interchanged with any water jet in a matter of seconds. The pulsating jet is a feature usually found only in hot tubs and spas.
The measurements are 72" in length and 42 " in width. The C7242GW combo bath, a combination air bath and whirlpool bath, has 18 watertight air injectors with 126 air ports and 9 water jets. Each injector has an internal check valve that insures water never enters any part of the air system (blower, air lines, or air manifold etc). We recommend anyone buying an air bath or combination air/whirlpool bath review and understand the differences between Watertech's injector baths and other air baths that are manufactured by eliminating air injectors and simply drilling holes through the bottom of the tub into an unserviceable air channel under the tub. All combo baths have a blower powered air system and pump powered water system that can be operated independent of each other or used at the same time. The bather gets to select from three massages – air, water or combination of air and water. Additional information can be found on our website or in our product catalogue. All Watertech combination baths are equipped with injectors (air jets) in the floor and hydrotherapy water jets in the walls of the bathtub, two entirely different massages that can be used separately or together.
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Specification Sheets
- Size: 72" x 42"
- Pump Size: 7 amp Lifetime Warranty
- Blower Size: 8 Amp, Variable Speed, 300 Watt Heated Blower
- Purge Cycle: Activates twenty minutes after bath is switched off. Dries lines, manifold and injectors
- Electronic Controls
- Air Injectors: 126 air ports from 18 injectors
- Hydrotherapy Spa Jets: 9
- Injectors have integral watertight check valves
- Manifold System: Manifold contains check valve protection. Water never enters any part of the air system. Tub shown with optional polished brass injectors.
- Min/Max gallons vary, depending on bather size
- Includes on/off air switch
- Includes 3 speed pressure controller (A $75 value)
- All water lines are plumbed completely with rigid schedule 40 PVC pipe (no flex hose)
- Shipping Weight: 162 lbs (price does not include shipping)
- Tub shown with optional polished brass trim
At WaterTech Whirlpools we ship our quality tubs across the United States using only the top freight lines to ensure your whirlpool tub gets to you on time and in the same condition as when it left our factory floor.
The following are normal shipping times; please call for current shipping rates (subject to change). Please note that shipping is NOT included in the price of each tub. Regular delivery time is 3 weeks from the date we receive your order.
Our Quick Ship option allows your tub to leave our factory floor within 5 business days from the date we receive your order. Please call 1-800-289-8827 for our Quick Ship service.
Precautions & Installation Tips
- Do not lift or carry the whirlpool tub by the supply or return pipes - they could break or spring leaks.
- You must install a mortar bed beneath your tub to meet code and warranty requirements.
- An access opening large enough to service your pump must be installed to meet code requirements.
- Do not frame your whirlpool tub enclosure until you have your tub on the job site.
- Carpenters, plumbers, and tile installers should verify all dimensions to ensure that the tub enclosure is properly sized for your whirlpool tub.
- Detailed installation instructions are available on the installation page of this site.
- Re-test your whirlpool tub for leaks or construction damage before you enclose your tub.
Reliable trucking (freight) companies have been selected by WaterTech Whirlpools to deliver each new Whirlpool Bath. WaterTech Whirlpools packages each bath individually to ensure safe delivery to each customer. The freight carrier will notify customer and schedule a delivery time after the bath leaves our manufacturing facility. Call WaterTech Whirlpools if you have any questions (i.e. price, product, technical, shipping etc.) Phone 1-800-289-8827, Fax: 423-926-6438 email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
INSPECTION AND CLAIMS PROCEDURE: Follow the steps below to eliminate any questions about who is responsible for visible or concealed damage that may have occurred in shipping. Examine the shipping box for signs of damage or mishandling, i.e. staples pulled loose, flaps unglued, punches to the box, severe indentations, or crushed corners. If the box is damaged, the delivery person and receiving person / Consignee must note the damage to the box on delivery paperwork before opening the box. Open the box and inspect the tub for damage. If damage is found, call WaterTech Whirlpools at 1-800-289-8827 before accepting tub. Minor defects such as scuffs, scratches, etc… can be easily taken care of by one of our service people. All issues need to be resolved before signing delivery paperwork.
CONCEALED DAMAGE: WaterTech Whirlpools allows the consignee / owner no more than 48 hours from time of receipt to inspect and report any concealed damage (i.e. leaks, broken pipes, etc…) or shortages of merchandise ordered (i.e. heater, drain, jet trim, etc…). Report concealed damage and shortage to Americas Best Whirlpools 1-800-289-8827.
PRE-TEST YOUR TUB: You must pretest your tub for leaks within 48 hours of receipt. WaterTech Whirlpools tubs go through rigorous testing for plumbing leaks and proper operation prior to shipping, but as a secondary precaution, the tub must be re-tested for leaks and proper operation within the allotted 48 hours and before installation. Test your tub in a location that will not be damaged by spilled water such as a basement, driveway, or a garage. Pre-testing your tub allows you to find any plumbing connections that might have worked loose during shipping.
HOW TO PRE-TEST YOUR TUB: Place your tub on a firm flat surface, make sure top of tub is level in all directions. Tape over the drain. Fill with water to 1 or 2 inches above the highest jet. Plug the motor into a GFCI protected outlet, and with the pump running, check all pipes and fittings for moisture. If no leaks are found, remove tape over drain and check for proper drainage. If all is correct, you may continue the Installation process.


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One Norwegian supermarket may have gotten a little too haunted by Halloween holiday spirit.
Shoppers were shocked when they saw what looked like severed human limbs on display next to cuts of chicken and steak in the meat section of Norway's Europris market.
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The supermarket chain put out the fake, bloodied hands and feet as part of Halloween decor according to the International Business Times. All products were shrink-wrapped to resemble typical meat packaging and had fake nutritional information.
But customer outrage has forced a removal of the products from the shelves and Europris has released an apology to customers who were angered by the "Chop Shop" offering.
"Our intention was obviously not to upset our customers," Purchasing Manager Knut Spaeren told Norway's NRK. "Now we are withdrawing the few products that people have complained about, including the severed hands."
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You know the one thing I would like to know? Why in the world does my blog attract so many idiots? I get some of the stupidest people commenting on this blog that sometimes it occurs to me that the reason racism is so rampant albeit slightly undercover is that so many people are just plain stupid. That's right I said it, people are stupid, at least the retarded brained racists I get commenting on here.
I have recently been so tired that I don't even bother to reply nor post the idiocy. But this person just really sticks in my craw. For one this person used the one line that forces me to delete your comment faster than a Republican Senator can engage in some sordid homosexual escapade. And that happens to be "you won't post my comments because you are a coward" and "get some balls."
Has it ever occurred to these people that more than "MEN" have blogs? Sometimes I feel like saying I would borrow yours, oops I made a funny since they don't have any either. Anyhow, this person is commenting on one of my old posts "White Entertainment Channels." He starts off by asking that someone get me a pacifier because I am a whiner. Hey, alls good with that, everyone is entitled to their opinion.
So on we go down the raggedy trail of idiocy. Next they want to assure me and others that they don't like to split the races. But somehow they have no problem spewing a bunch of propagandized garbage right of the bat with "There is a reason prisons are filled with more blacks." Really what reason would that be? Last time I read the DOJ site they talked about the racism which permeates the system and how it was hard if not impossible to ensure fairness. I guess this person doesn't read anything beyond racists are us.
But of course it doesn't stop there it goes on to some really thought provoking statements such as "How many billionaires or millionaires are black compared to white? Think bill gates inherited his stake or worked in a garage? How about Steve Jobs?Frankly, every time I see a black host spilling his pop culture ebonix I change the channel. Jail isn't cool and neither is slapping a "hoe". Thank god you don't have more channels since blacks already ruined radio."
He wants to talk about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, yet what happened to the Vanderbilt's, Hiltons and all the other white people who did nothing to get the money they have? What about the fact that white people in general are collecting on all the unpaid slave labor that helped to build this country into what we have to this day? I guess that doesn't count.
He sees all the "Ebonics" (yes this is how it is REALLY spelled) and "slapping a hoe" crap and wants to attribute this to blacks in general as if we are the ones in control of the broadcasting of television and radio. Has it ever occurred to this nut that you have a bunch of white people who run these institutions
who decide that this is what they want to portray as being "black culture." What would be his excuse if black people ran the broadcasting and the only thing of white people that was aired was Fran Dresher and any other white trashy person you can think of?
Would he think that this WAS his culture or would he know and understand that this is just the stereotype that the black CEO's and people in general want or need to see of white people in order to further their agenda? I suppose that there are people are stupid enough to think that just because you see or hear a black acting like a jerk on television or radio that this is reality for ALL blacks. And then run around and justify their ignorance by pointing out the stereotypes and not the plethora of people who are NOT like that.
But I guess we all can see that he IS one of those stupid individuals. You see I didn't assume ALL white people were stupid just because this nut is. Any who here is a bit more of his stupidity at its worst. "Want a pure black channel with black producers? Go find one. There is a reason it doesn't succeed. Now go complain more about how your great grandfather was a slave and you feel his lashings."
For one thing there has NEVER been a black owned, run and operated channel so how can it have not succeeded? Just plain stupid! Not to mention this prick would like for black people to have to go out and FIND things that pertain to us. No we can't be represented like white people. Nope we need to go out and find ours, where who cares, as long as we don't bother good white people like him with our need for equality.
Then of course lets justify our racist statements with my wife, uncle's first cousin or best friend is a minority so what and how I say it is truly OK. "For the record my wife is colombian and when we picked out neighborhood her reqs where "no blacks". Racist? Not if you have facts, figures and statistics to back it up." So he has a racist Columbian wife and exactly what does that prove? Besides the fact that he and his Columbian wife are racists.
And if he wants facts, figures and statistics to back up anything he is saying he will be looking a long, long time. Since the facts, figures and statistics show that white people commit far more crime than any other race. But, let him continue to believe that living next to black people will somehow open him and his idiot wife up to crime. I bet that they have been the victims of crime and the perpetrators were white. But that has no bearing on his lunacy.
In fact it wouldn't matter if a white man put a gun to his head right outside his house in his lily white neighborhood, save for his racist Columbian wife, and took all his money. He would still say he was safer in his white neighborhood. The only time I have really suffered from crime has been while living in an all white neighborhood in a vast majority white city.
But, he wants me to believe that I am better off with those criminals than I would be with the minority criminals. I hate to ruin anyone's day, but criminals are everywhere in every color, race, religion or creed. And I am sure I can find a ton of people who believe that by just being Columbian makes you a criminal.
Of course he now has a plethora of minority, namely black, friends. "I have a lot of friends who (since you like segragating) are black. Fine upstanding ones. The ones who are trash are just like anyone else, even white trash. Get some balls and make your
mark in the world." And I guess he feels they are special because they are what he refers to as "fine upstanding ones," as if this is somehow outside of the norm. You see my friend this is the epitome of racism, stereotypes and bigotry. And you try and call someone else a racist. Isn't that the jackass calling the titmouse stupid?
So you hit us with all of your racism then have the nerve to try and justify it with your racist wife, a bunch of stereotypes that are backed with no facts whatsoever and then have the nerve to throw your obviously stupid black friends in our faces. Yes they are stupid to befriend a bigot like you. And hopefully they and others will learn a serious lesson from reading the idiocy that you try and put out here as if you have some awesome insight into the race debate that no one else has ever thought of.
Well let me give you a slap of reality. You are NOT saying anything new, the things you do say are racist and your bigoted behavior is what is causing the racial strife that we have in this world. So why don't you and your racist wife get a clue and stop using those so called black friends, if they exist, as some sort of brownie point in order for you to continue to lambast people with the sickness that is your racism. One more tip, learn to type, speak and read the English language. After all it IS the language of YOUR forefathers.


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The Rebuild by the Colossus Rebuild Project, Leader Anthony E Sale Hon FBCS, has taken 10 years and has involved over 6,000 man-days of volunteer effort. At a conservative daily rate of £200 this gives a value of £1.2 Million for the Colossus Mk 2 Rebuild.
The Rebuild is now working and can demonstrate most of the code breaking work against the German Lorenz cipher in WW II.
The Rebuild stands in its historically correct place, the room in H Block, in Bletchley Park, where Colossus No. 9 stood in WW II.
The Rebuild by the Colossus Rebuild Project, Leader Anthony E Sale Hon FBCS, has taken 10 years and has involved over 6,000 man-days of volunteer effort. At a conservative daily rate of £200 this gives a value of £1.2 Million for the Colossus Mk 2 Rebuild.
The Rebuild is now working and can demonstrate most of the code breaking work against the German Lorenz cipher in WW II.
The Rebuild stands in its historically correct place, the room in H Block, in Bletchley Park, where Colossus No. 9 stood in WW II.
The Colossus Rebuild Project in detail
By Anthony E Sale, Hon. FBCS
1993, Sources, Detective Work and Feasibility
In 1993 I gathered together all the information available. This consisted of eight wartime photographs taken of Colossus in 1945 plus some fragments of circuit diagrams which some engineers had kept quite illegally, as engineers nearly always do.
The original drawings of the mechanical assemblies had been deliberately burnt in 1960. The first stage was to produce accurate drawings of the frames. The project began to acquire a more public face. The Bletchley Park Trust, which had been established in 1992, obtained permission to set up and open to visitors an Exhibition of wartime code breaking in the CAA assembly hall in A Block in Bletchley Park. Part of this Exhibition was about the German Lorenz cipher machine and the role of Colossus in breaking the Lorenz ciphers. The exhibition opened in February 1994.
The ambition to rebuild a working Colossus to as authentic a standard as available information and analysis permitted was publicly stated.
The visit to Dr Allen Coombs
In June 1994, Harry Fensom, one of the original Colossus engineers, and I visited Dr Allen Coombs in Plymouth. Coombs had engineered the Mk 2 Colossus from Tommy Flower's Mk 1. Just before we left he gave me all his wartime notes, including some circuit diagrams of Colossus. This was a marvelous gift and really made the rebuild possible.
The site for the Rebuild
One room in H Block, where Colossus 9 had stood during the war, was allocated by the Bletchley Park Trust to the rebuild of Colossus. We would rebuild Colossus in its historic environment.
Getting Under Way
The Colossus Rebuild Project's bank account was opened on 6th July 1994 with startup money from my wife and myself.
Before we could make serious progress we needed the frames that supported the machine. I located, in Bletchley a supplier of steel, Charles Head (Blacksmiths) Ltd. They were very keen to help with such a prestigious project and have, over the years, supplied me with large amounts of cut steel at very reasonable prices.
The Royal inauguration of the Rebuild Project
On 18th July 1994 HRH The Duke of Kent formally opened the Bletchley Park Museums and inaugurated the Colossus Rebuild Project. At this stage there was just a heap of steel on the floor of the room in H Block.
Christmas 1994, the bedstead built
The steel frames for the bedstead, the paper tape reader, were built and the illuminating lamp and lenses were installed together with the amplifier chassis, the mask and the photo cells and electrical signals emerged from the amplifiers for the first time. This was late 1994.
I then built the amplifier chassis and by Christmas 1994 we had a working bedstead and thoughts could turn to the other racks.
Sourcing components
Colossus was originally built at the Post Office Research Laboratories in North London and used a large number of standard issue components. Luckily a large number of old Post Office telephone exchanges were being decommissioned and changed to digital. We were able, through Gerald Palmer, to collect large amounts of equipment which
otherwise would just have gone for scrap.
The next problem was obtaining the large number of valves required. Mainly Mullard EF36 pentodes but also 6J5 triodes, 6V6 and 807 tetrodes and the GT1C thyratrons. I had myself acquired some of these over the years but not enough for a complete Colossus. I started going round various vintage radio dealers and found that the valves did exist, but at a price, which meant I would have to get some serious sponsorship. This came, but, inevitably, only later.
Gathering a Team and Next Steps
In early 1995 I was joined, full time, by Cliff Horrocks who had recently retired from the Diplomatic Wireless Service at Hanslope Park. Cliff eventually became the Manager of the Colossus rebuild Project, and looked after the documentation and the tasking of the many volunteers who offered help. Another retired engineer, Paul Bruton joined us part time and with John Pether, who had a large workshop, coming in at weekends, we now had the nucleus of a team.
We decided to attack bits 4 and 5 of the 5 bit cipher text characters. These bits were enciphered on the Lorenz machine using mechanical wheels known as K4 and K5. These wheels had the shortest lengths of 26 and 23 bits, thus requiring the minimum number of thyratrons and valve bases in the vacuum tube rings used in Colossus to simulate them. These rings were also known as K4 and K5. Finally, we would need a master control panel to hold everything together. Later we would need the whole typewriter logic so that we could print out results.
With the optical reader, the bedstead, and the power supplies, operational it now became clear that the Master Control panel was crucial to further progress. It was this panel which held the tubes and circuitry for handling the two timing cycles used in Colossus. The sprocket hole cycle and the tape join cycle.
So I built a panel to test these ideas and verify our understanding. I installed it above the jack field panel on the front rack. Eventually it worked.
Meanwhile we had constructed the massive W rack which went in the centre of the back racks of Colossus so now I had to consider the thyratron rings which went on the W rack.
So I wired up two thyratron ring panels and two ring controller panels and eventually got them working together with the uniselectors which selected the start thyratron to be set before the ring started precessing round and the patch panels used to select the bits to make up a wheel pattern. So now we had K4 and K5 ring pattern streams coming from the W rack.
Figuring Out the Physical Layout
Next we needed the two staticisor panels for the K streams. We found the circuits for these and I wired up two panels and put them on the front rack under the staticisors for the Z streams.
We were now fairly confident that we were going to be able to make the circuits work. So far, for testing and verification, we had just stuck panels any old where on the single front rack built so far, but before duplicating the panels we had to consider where the panels would have gone in the original.
We had identified the R rack as holding all the staticisor panels so now moved the first test panels from the J rack onto it. Also on these panels were the one bit stores which enabled the delta to be produced. When these were working and installed on the R rack we had DeltaZ4 and DeltaZ5 the first components of the double delta algorithm soon followed by DeltaK4 and DeltaK5.
Meanwhile Cliff Horrocks had located the circuits of the XOR logic gates and had laid out and built the logic panel containing 5 gates. This went onto the top of J rack and when we connected in the Delta Z and Delta K signals from the R rack we had the result of DeltaZ4 XOR DeltaK4 XOR Delta Z5 XOR K5 which is the double delta calculation needed to be counted.
The decade counter panels were moved from the back of the J rack onto the C rack together with the metal box to hold the set total switches and a counter control panel also installed. When the counter control panel was wired we could connect across the output from the XOR logic panel and start counting results.
Printout and Display
With the signal processing circuits shaping up we now had to tackle the apparatus for count printout and display. I knew that originally an IBM electric typewriter had been used as the printer. I could not find one of these but did find a pair of Flexowriters from the 1950s.
John Pether had installed a large lamp panel on the S rack used on Colossus to display counter outputs and ring start positions, together with the master switch panel used by the Colossus operator to initiate runs and the uniselectors used for setting ring start positions.
I connected rows of lamps on John's lamp panel to the latching relays and we had a lamp display. Not in the original format but at least giving a display of the counts.
So by early 1996 we had a basic Colossus working, only on two tracks, but it could show Lorenz wheel setting on a real cipher text.
Making it Look Right
We now concentrated on making Colossus look like the period photographs. John Pether made the large switch panel on the K rack, I cut and fitted the sloping plug panel in front of it. Charles Head (Blacksmiths) made up the tubular stand for the typewriter, we added the relay boxes on the S rack and Colossus began at last to look like the photographs.
By now we had achieved considerable media coverage, on TV, Radio and in Newspapers and Magazines. I was asked to give the Royal Institution Friday evening lecture on 23rd February 1996. My wife and I dined with Sir Peter Day, President of the Royal Institution and HRH the Duke of Kent. before the
Publicity attracted our first sponsorship --, from Mr Frank Morrell, an ex Post Office engineer and designer of the first decoding machine for the Lorenz cipher, and parts of Heath Robinson. At Easter 1996 David Stanley joined the team and what he had learnt in his Post Office apprenticeship helped us to lay out and wire racks to exacting Post Office standards.
A Royal switch-on
At this stage we decided that we had enough of the basic machine working to have a large re-union of the wartime people involved, and to ask HRH the Duke of Kent to come back and formally switch on Colossus as it then stood, on 6th June 1996, the anniversary of D Day. On his arrival the Duke first went into the Colossus Rebuild room to formally switch on Colossus in the presence of Tommy Flowers, the Colossus team and some of the original engineers. After the Duke had left, the guests went over to H Block and filed through the Colossus room to see Colossus working and talk to Tommy Flowers.
As a result of all this publicity I was invited to give a lecture on Colossus at the Institute of Electrical Engineers in London. This in turn resulted in more sponsorship money, this time from Mr Keith Thrower and from "The Mrs L D Rope Third Charitable Settlement" via Crispin Rope.
Going for a Mk 2.
We now made the decision to go for a Mk 2 Colossus. This, with 2,500 tubes, was far more powerful than the Mk 1, the prototype and there were ten Mk 2s in Bletchley Park by the end of the War and it was a Mk 2 that stood in the room in H Block where we were rebuilding Colossus.
But in order to decide what we had to build, we needed more information about how Colossus was used to break the Lorenz codes, and this came from America.
In 1995 the American National Security Agency (NSA) had been forced, by application of the Freedom of Information Act, to put 5,000 World War II documents into the US National Archive (NARA). I eventually obtained a listing of these and was amazed to see a whole series of documents relating to Colossus and the breaking of the German Lorenz cipher. One of the most important documents ones was written by Albert Small, an American seconded to Bletchley Park who worked with Colossus The title of the paper was "The Cryptographic Attack on Fish". In late 1996 I obtained a copy of this and other related documents. This material was enormously important. Unlike the very sparse UK documents here was a complete and detailed account of how Colossus was used to break the Lorenz cipher
We now needed more sponsorship and Quantel Ltd. came to our rescue. They gave us the funds to buy enough GT1C Thyratrons to make up all the rings. Luckily various dealers had kept these from just after the War.
So now Cliff laid out the ring controller plates and the thyratron plates and various volunteers wired them up.
Now I turned to the paper tape reader and got that working on all five tracks, but not very reliably. So by 1999 we had repeated the 1996 results but with signals now correctly routed through the switches on the J rack.
2000 and the big K rack switch panel.
This was the major, and very obvious, difference between a Mk 1 and a Mk 2. It was a vast improvement over the complex jack plugging needed to configure an algorithm on the J rack jack plug socket panel on the Mk 1.
After a lot of detective work we managed to identify the chassis plates needed for the logic behind the switches on the K2 panel. Cliff laid these out and more volunteers assembled them at home.
Then came a setback to the Rebuild Project. In September 2000 I was banned from Bletchley Park by the Bletchley Park Trust. I no longer had access to the Colossus Rebuild so I met regularly with the team in the Enigma tavern in Bletchley. During this enforced absence, which lasted for 18 months, I made a wrong decision as to which logic plates were associated with which sets of switches on the K2 switch panel. David Stanley wired up the whole of the back of the K2 panel, based on this decision, and connected up the logic chassis plates.
David also wired up the counter rack and the set total switches.
Back on the job, March 2002, and a disaster!
In March 2002, under strong external pressure, the Bletchley Park Trust allowed me back in two days a week to continue working on Colossus.
I had, during my enforced absence, built in my garage a replica of Heath Robinson, the precursor of Colossus. This required two paper tape readers and I had built two amplifier chassis for the photo cell outputs. These worked much better than the amplifier chassis on Colossus, so the first thing I did was to install a Heath Robinson chassis on Colossus. This immediately improved the Colossus paper tape signals and Cliff then rewired the original Colossus chassis to the Heath Robinson specs.
So now with good reliable paper tape signals we could start commissioning the K2 switch panel. Disaster struck. It became obvious that in my enforced absence we had allocated the wrong logic panels to the groups of switches on the K2 panel.
After a lot of discussion David Stanley said that the only way to get out of this was to re-wire the whole of the back of the K2 switch panel and he said that he would do just that. It took him nearly six months!
2002, getting the K wheels working, K2 switch panel back!
Bob Alexander had divided up the thyratron panels into rings of the size required for the various wheel lengths on the Lorenz machine so I now started to commission the thyratron rings. This was an extremely difficult task. To get a ring working both the ring controller chassis panel and the ring panels had to be coaxed into operation. K4 and K5 were working, now K1, K2 and K3 had to be tackled.
We needed to connect the thyratron rings to the patch panels used to set the ring patterns and make up the complex wiring looms from the patch panels to the pointer uniselectors and up to the top tag blocks on the W rack ready to go over to the ring start jack panel on the S rack.
David finished his massive task of rewiring the K2 switch panel and with due ceremony we re-installed it on Colossus. After correctly connecting up the relevant logic panels the K2 switch panel began to work, much relief all round. So now we had signals coming onto the "Q" bus on the K2 rack, 5 wide from the paper tape reader plus rings K4 and K5.
At this stage Charles Coultas had joined us and we commissioned the delay or "remembering" circuits. This part of Colossus provided the 5 fold increase in processing speed which was such an impressive part of the Mk 1 to Mk 2 upgrade. This gave us the "R" signals on the K2 switch panel.
Bob Alexander and Peter Merriman designed the system for setting and incrementing the ring pointer uniselectors on the W rack and the chaser uniselectors on the S rack. Rob Dickson designed the typewriter drive logic but was taken ill before he could complete it. Phil Hayes took up Rob's design and implemented it on the S rack.
All Ks working, 2003.
By early 2003 I had beaten all five K rings into submission and we could now begin some real testing of the Colossus Mk 2.
We re-installed the original tape amplifier chassis which Cliff Horrocks had rewired and at last got good reliable signals from all 5 data tracks and good start/stop signals at the beginning and end of the cipher text on the tape.
I had, in the meantime, upgraded Virtual Colossus on my web site to a Mk 2 complete with all 12 rings and patch panels. This, together with the Walter Fried weekly reports that I found in the American National Archives, enabled me to work out what algorithms we needed to break the K wheel settings on a real cipher text. So now we could try setting up these algorithms on the Colossus Rebuild. At first results were not very good. We just could not get reliable and consistent counts. But gradually by changing valves and getting rid of dry joints and bad connections it began to settle down.
Meanwhile David was installing the massive inter-rack wiring between the W and S racks and making up and installing the looms for the chaser uniselectors. It was these uniselectors which "followed" the ring pointer uniselectors on the W rack and drove the ring position lamps on the lamp panel.
John Whetter joined us, helping to wire up the pattern patch panels.
By December 2003 we were getting reliable counts on the (1+2)= . algorithm for setting K1 and K2, the 4=5 given 1=2 algorithm for setting K4 and K5 and the slash (/) count for setting K3. This was on a cipher text of a re-encipher German decrypt using the K2 one back limitation and BREAM patterns from the Walter Fried reports.
The wheel start positions were set by using a croc clip lead feeding the strike pulse onto the ring pattern patch panel. The pointer uniselectors were not yet working.
The home run to 1st June 2004!
At a team meeting in January 2004 we decided to go all out for a working Colossus Mk 2 on 1st June 2004, the 60th anniversary of the first running of a Colossus Mk 2 in Bletchley Park in 1944.
The critical path was the inter-rack and chaser wiring looms to implement wheel starts from the wheel start position jack field on the front of the S rack. We decided to do just the K wheels and we thought that this was achievable.
Phil Hayes thought that he could get some if not all, of the typewriter driver system working. At least giving wheel positions and counts. So we all set to.
The result was that on Thursday 20th May I filmed Colossus Mk 2 setting all five K wheels on the BREAM cipher text and after editing, this video was shown to 120 people at our commemoration event at the Science Museum in London on 1st June 2004. This was a marvelous occasion with over 30 of the original wartime people there, WRNS, maintenance men and Knockholt interceptors.
What next?
We now have to get the automatic stepping of the pointer uniselectors working and get the set totals and the typewriter output correct.
Then we need to demonstrate the speed up obtained by using the "remembering" circuits. We think that about 4 months is required in which to evaluate, video and document the Colossus Mk 2 breaking wartime Lorenz cipher texts.
The Colossus Mk 2 rebuild
The rebuild can be seen, in H Block in Bletchley Park, in the original room where Colossus No. 9 stood in World War II. It is a marvelous tribute to Tommy Flowers, Allen Coombs and all the engineers at Dollis Hill and a great tribute to Bill Tutte, Max Newman, Ralph Tester and all the code breakers involved at Bletchley Park... ...not forgetting all the WRNS who operated and supported Colossus and the radio interceptors at Knockholt without whom there would have been no messages to break.
Lastly I would like to thank my wife Margaret for agreeing to the use of our own money to start up the project and for her continuing support and encouragement.
The financial sponsors:
A E & M D Sale
Mr Frank Morrell
The Mrs L D Rope Third Charitable Settlement
Mr Keith Thrower OBE
Quantel Ltd
The Computer Conservation Society
A E & M D Sale
Mr Frank Morrell
The Mrs L D Rope Third Charitable Settlement
Mr Keith Thrower OBE
Quantel Ltd
The Computer Conservation Society
Contributions by special low prices:
Charles Head (Blacksmiths)
Billington Exports Ltd
Claude Lyons Ltd
Charles Head (Blacksmiths)
Billington Exports Ltd
Claude Lyons Ltd
The Colossus Mk 2 Team
Manager, Cliff Horrocks,
Bob Alexander
Charles Coultas
Phil Hayes
Peter Merriman
John Pether
David Stanley
John Whetter
Rob Dickson (Deceased)
Manager, Cliff Horrocks,
Bob Alexander
Charles Coultas
Phil Hayes
Peter Merriman
John Pether
David Stanley
John Whetter
Rob Dickson (Deceased)
Thanks also to:
The Bletchley Park Trust which has allowed free use of the room in H Block where Colossus has been rebuilt.
The many hundreds of individuals who have searched their garages and lofts and sent valves for Colossus.
The Bletchley Park Trust which has allowed free use of the room in H Block where Colossus has been rebuilt.
The many hundreds of individuals who have searched their garages and lofts and sent valves for Colossus.
1. Randell, B.: 'The Colossus', University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Technical Report Ser. 90, June 1976
2. Good, I. J.: 'Early Work on Computers at Bletchley', Annals of the History of Computing, Vol 1 (1979). p. 38
3. Flowers, T. H.: 'The design of Colossus', Annals of the History of Computing, 1983, 5, (3), p. 239
4. Good, I. J.: 'Enigma and Fish' in Hinsley, F. H., and Stripp, A. (Eds.): 'Code breakers' (OXford University Press 1993) p. 149
5. Sale, A. E.: 'Colossus 1943-1996' M & M Baldwin, (1998), 3rd imp 2004
Archive material
The American National Archive (NARA), College Campus, Washington DC.


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A mound of plastic bottles collected after just four-weeks of the Recyclemania competition sits within an enclosure on the Athens campus. Ohio University won the competition against colleges in the Mid-American Conference, and claimed 21st place in the ov
Photographer: Samantha Owens
Apr 28, 2014
By Gretchen Gregory and Andrew Ladd
Ohio University has won the RecycleMania competition against colleges in the Mid-American Conference, and claimed 21st place in the overall national competition, which pitted 431 colleges and universities against each other this year.
"These are very stellar results and I'm very impressed by all the efforts the faculty, staff and students put into Recyclemania this year," said OHIO Recycling and Refuse Manager Andrew Ladd. "The results definitely show everybody's positive efforts."
OHIO surpassed its goal of diverting more than three quarters of a million pounds from the landfill during the eight-week competition and recycled a total of 514,803 pounds of standard recyclables such as paper, plastic aluminum and glass. This represents a 21 percent increase over last year. OHIO also composted 203,424 pounds of compostable plates and food and 41,160 pounds of electronics, totaling more than 759,000 pounds of materials in just eight weeks.
OHIO won seven of nine categories in the MAC, including the three primary categories of Grand Champion, Per Capita Classic and Gorilla Prize.
"It is a privilege to be part of a community such as OHIO University that takes our commitment to recycling and sustainability so seriously," Ladd said. "OHIO has set a goal to reach an 80 percent recycling rate by 2016 and as this year's RecycleMania results show, we are well on our way to achieving our goal."
With the help of millions of students across the nation, RecycleMania participants in every state and several provinces in Canada collectively recycled and composted 89.1 million pounds of recyclables and organic materials, preventing the release of 126,597 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2E) into the atmosphere, which is equivalent to preventing annual emissions from 24,823 cars.


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Already I wonder why Al Nour Party reject Mohamed ElBaradei and Ziad Bahaa El Din as prime ministers Egyptian Social Democratic Party. The Salafists were requesting a non partisan figure. I do not understand the Shift in their opinion.
|PM Beblawi
A quick look to the bio of the 1936 born liberal economist will make you wonder why Egypt did not hire him earlier as PM. Well from what the former minister in Essam Sharaf's cabinet after 25 January revolution refused all the offers from Mubarak and his regime. It is worth to mention that the Freedom and Justice Party website is using an op-ed for him where he said that he would vote for Gamal Mubarak to prove that he is bad. Ironically and sadly enough no one bothered to read his 2010 Op-ed where he actually slammed Gamal Mubarak reaching to the conclusion that he would not vote for him.
Of course it is worth to mention that the MB leading figures including the former president himself had similar quotes praising Mubarak, his son and the NDP icons in the media.
Appointing El Beblawi was not the only thing Adly Mansour did today, aside from meetings with revolutionary youth political figures to discuss the Constitutional declaration , he appointed Mohamed ElBaradei his vice President for foreign affairs and democratic transition.
Mahmoud Badr of Tamaroud revealed that El Bob does not want to be a PM and preferred an economist to be the PM of Egypt now where as he would responsible for the political transition file.
Anyhow there is a new saga facing El Beblawi or rather Mansour to form a technocrat cabinet in Egypt.Mansour already got more powers than El Beblawi according to the new Constitutional declaration.
That Constitutional declaration has been rejected by several political groups like the NSF and Tamaroud. Supposedly it will be amended this week. We will see.
Now trivia time
The majority of Egyptians on Facebook got nothing to speak about except the old age of our new PM. There are jokes that the first thing Dr. El Beblawi will do in the cabinet is to revise the 1936 treat and that former PM Ganzoury considers him a reckless young. Another joke that is taking the social media by storm "The youth of 1919 revolution have got their chance in rule"
On the other hand some Egyptians , few began to discuss the man's economic polices and thoughts. The Leftists consider him a neoliberal who will not have the social justice goal of the revolution in front of his eyes. Well I am afraid he has to put it in front of his eyes because if no social justice polices are adopted sooner we will have hunger revolution.


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Following an explosion of interest in asynchronous programming techniques, the emergence of languages and frameworks to match, and the growth of "push" as a design element contributing to a UX users now expect on both web and mobile, we find renewed focus on the design and implementation of asynchronous systems and data processing layers. Such systems lie at the heart of many modern messaging, analytics, and web services.
However, engineers and dev/ops face many challenges in implementing and supporting such infrastructure, from conceiving an architecture, selecting platforms, ensuring application availability + performance, and pushing the heavy lifting out-of-band. While these challenges are difficult, an emphasis on systemic thought is critical, requiring of one the capacity to reason about the distributed but deterministic behavior of client- and server-side interaction at every level of the stack. Distributed asynchronous systems are beautiful in motion, but only cool-headed systemic reasoning can save you in a tailspin.
This proposal is language-agnostic, focusing instead upon concepts and strategies applicable to many programming languages with specific examples in static languages like Java/Scala, conventional dynamic languages such as Python/Ruby, and emerging platforms such as Node.js.
Primary components include:
1) Architectural considerations for designing a real-time distributed edge tier supporting one to one million clients per server.
2) Strategies for building a distributed worker / processing tier to support real-time, potentially streaming communication with clients connected to edge nodes on the network.
3) A litany of unwelcome surprises, challenges, and failure modes common in such distributed systems, along with strategies to identify and mitigate them.
1 Designing a real-time distributed edge tier –
2010's engineering community saw a flood of debates regarding the merits, complexity, and scalability of evented, threaded, and corountine-oriented architectures. These concurrent IO strategies are best framed in terms of benefits and tradeoffs, including factors such as ease of implementation, language preference, debuggability / testability, and multicore scalability. This proposal includes a survey of these options along with their strengths and implicit tradeoffs, concluding that simple evented/coroutine-oriented systems may offer easier implementation, but that a hybrid threaded/evented design will generally offer better performance and can take advantage of manycore systems.
2 Strategies for building a distributed worker / processing tier –
Regardless of the implementation chosen for an edge server, the parlance of "never blocking" in an IO loop to guarantee an open channel of client communication tends to necessitate a separate processing tier as a baseline. When fast-moving data streams are involved, CPU-intensive processing, or simply for the sake of separating concerns, pushing the processing of this information back to a distributed worker tier enables teams to scale processing, messaging, and analytics tiers independently from edge nodes. This proposal discusses two approaches – a map/reduce strategy for processing very large jobs requiring extensive compute power and memory, and a distributed worker strategy for small but latency-sensitive tasks with an open-source reference implementation called "Octobot" <http://octobot.taco.cat>.
3 Surprises, Failures, and Figuring it Out –
Distributed asynchronous systems differ from serial, central systems in that it can be tremendously difficult to reason about and account for a variety of error states that can occur. Put another way, there are few tasks more sweat-inducing than identifying the cause of a cascading failure in a production system pushing 10+ megabits of logs per second as pagers buzz off the table. Here, anecdotes of several failures in fast-moving production systems provide a jumping-off point for a discussion best practices. These include spec'ing out the behavior of clients explicitly in documentation and in code as a state machine; applying thorough instrumentation to all server systems and queues (both explicit and in-app); applying monitoring wherever possible; sampling/profiling systems at runtime to identify variance in advance; relentless analysis and graphing of logs and historical performance data to identify trends/bugs and provide for capacity planning; and considering the implications of 2x, 10x, and 100x growth in clients / events processed.
Wrapping Up –
Asynchronous distributed systems lie at the heart of many modern messaging, analytics, and web architectures. While driving these real-time services can be difficult, they can offer unmatched availability and scalability (both vertical and horizontal) when built well. However, sustained systemic reasoning is critical to their design, implementation, and management. Though many emerging languages and frameworks ease the implementation of specific components, planning, foresight, and monitoring are essential to proper operation. Following many bruises and a lot of hard work, we've found that the strategies described above have enabled us to create a robust, scalable, resilient distributed infrastructure.
Scott Andreas is an Engineer at Boundary, Inc. hell-bent on quality, efficiency, and performance in highly-concurrent network programming and asynchronous distributed systems.
With a background in Java, Scala, and Ruby and new production deployments in Erlang, his current work involves designing, implementing, and deploying event processing systems with a team of engineers to create a real-time distributed network analytics platform. Previously at Urban Airship, Andreas worked with a team to design and implement a scalable mobile messaging platform backed by a clustered service designed to serve millions of concurrent clients on a handful of commodity servers.
Red-lining services under development, measuring results, and quantifying improvements in terms of infrastructure cost and business value is a favorite past-time.
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Great talk, tons of useful information both at a theoretical and practical level.


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Schedule and Location
Daily, 7:00 a.m. - sunset
Conifer Collection
The Vanishing Acts exhibit is located in the Conifer Collection, just a short stroll off the Conifer Walk.
Come learn about the gifts that the world's endangered trees give us—and how you can join the Arboretum in saving them. An award-winning outdoor exhibit shows that trees that we know and love are endangered in the wild. By protecting them, we help ourselves and the entire planet.
Just a few examples of the trees you'll learn about at Vanishing Acts:
- Wild Apple. Apple pie. An apple for the teacher. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. The apple's delicious sweetness anchors our American traditions. The world's last remaining wild apple trees are being cut down to make room for houses.
- Fraser Fir. At Christmas time, many enjoy Fraser fir's soft, fragrant foliage and perfect shape. A non-native insect has killed up to 95 percent of wild Fraser firs growing in the Appalachians.
- Pacific Yew. Many cancer survivors and their families can thank the Pacific yew tree for a cancer-fighting compound discovered in its bark. Wild Pacific yews are recovering from overharvesting after the discovery.
Vanishing Acts was developed by The Morton Arboretum and is exhibited on site and also toured nationally. This exhibit was organized and circulated by The Morton Arboretum, in partnership with the Global Trees Campaign, and made possible by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Fees and Admission
Included in Arboretum admission


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I am in Council property (ran by Metropolitan) and they're hitting us with the council tax reduction of 15%.
I sent my council a letter rebutting the charge, way back in July. I kept calling them to see how far it'd got. It was only very recently when I last called, a woman told me that they can't process it because I didn't SIGN IT.
She said that for them to process it, I'd have to sign it, so she posted it back to me to sign & return. I signed it and sent it back (under protest).
I say 'under protest' as I thought we didnt HAVE TO sign anything.
They have been comunicating with me for ages so they KNOW who I am.
Also, I thought FMOTL protocol was to NOT sign & print? (That is reserved for CONTRACTS)
She also said that I need to take the issue up wqith Metropolitan as it was THEM who decided it was a 2 bed property and nothing to do with the council.


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EMERSON, N.J. -- Two graduating seniors from Emerson Junior-Senior High School received scholarships Thursday in the name of a popular school athlete who died in 2000.
Brian McCormick and Devin Riker received their scholarships from members of the Eric Ayala Memorial Foundation Committee during a senior awards ceremony.
"It was no easy decision," committee member Wendy Woods Inserra told Daily Voice. "There were more than 30 incredible applicants interviewed, and all of them were so impressive."
Eric Ayala was a three-sport Emerson High School athlete who died on May 8, 2000 at the age of 23, six years after he was graduated from Emerson Junior-Senior High School -- and only four months after he was diagnosed with acute lymphatic leukemia.
Created by his friends, brother, teacher and wrestling coach, the Eric Ayala Memorial Foundation has distributed more than $100,000 in donations.
In this way, organizers say, they "convey Eric's message of making the most of every day and always looking to help others."
Last month, the foundation for the very first time also awarded a scholarship to a Park Ridge High School senior, Josh Lewis.SEE: Park Ridge HS Senior Gets Scholarship From Eric Ayala Foundation
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Forensic Linguistics is the study of the language of law and legal process. It also includes the language of 911 calls, the police and the courtroom, and the language that is used in trials as evidence.
LanguageAndLaw.org describes Forensic Linguistics as the methodology that solves crimes. It comprises many areas that relate to crime, both solving crime and absolving people wrongly accused of committing crimes. Some of these areas include:
- Voice identification (also called forensic phonetics)
- Author identification (analysis of the personal writing style; also called forensic stylistics)
- Discourse analysis (analysis of the structure of spoken or written utterance)
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- Dialectology
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The last day of the Jakarta Fashion Week 2013 commences with full energy as young indie designers stormed the runaway during the Cleo Fashion Award show. This is annual show part of the JFW as editors of the Indonesian edition of Cleo magazine selected the coolest young labels for the year. This year's selection included Eridani, Fre J, Identite, Milcah, More and More, Oline Workshop, Sikra Mahto, Sisca Tjong and Soepshop.
Designer Sebastian Gunawan will return to the JFW runaway once again as he will present his Sebastian's label which has been endorsed as the highlight of the charity show held by the Indonesian Heart Foundation.
The night will end as up and coming young designer Didiet Maulana, a favorite of Jakarta's young jet setters, will close this year's Jakarta Fashion Week.
For more information on Jakarta Fashion Week 2013, please visit www.jakartafashionweek.co.id
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A fourth biker was arraigned Sunday and faces the most serious charges yet in a motorcycle gang assault on a New York City driver, NBC News reports.
Reginald Chance, 37, allegedly smashed the front window of Alexian Lien's Range Rover with his helmet during the Sept. 29 incident, which was partly caught on a video posted to YouTube, moments before Lien was forced to stop, pulled from his car, and beaten in front of his wife and child.
Chance, who faces gang assault and criminal possession of a weapon, among other charges, was with a group of bikers who swarmed around Lien's car on the West Side Highway after he clipped one of their own, who had slowed down in front of him. Lien sped off, knocking into and seriously injuring another biker, but was overtaken by members of the biker gang, who slashed his tires, smashed his windows, and beat him. Chance's lawyers said his client did not assault Lien.
"My client obviously overreacted in smashing the window, but beyond that he was not a participant in any assault on the victim," the lawyer said, according to NBC.
Police are still looking for two other bikers connected to the attack, investigators said.
[NBC News]


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Underground group 7 little words
Are you having trouble with the answer to "Underground group" clue of "7 little words" game? Don't worry. We have found the answers all 7 clues of today's puzzles.
A lot of people play 7 little words. Especially those who like crossword puzzles but do not have a lot of time to spare. Finding the answers to 7 puzzles is not so time consuming. So I guess you could consider "7 little words" a mini crossword game.
Back to the answers.
Underground group
Answer: Subculture
Now there is nothing left but to form the word Subculture from the pool of letters.
More puzzles on February 11 2019 7 little words.
- Place to launch an attack
- Leather seat on a horse
- Two-faced individual
- Consider anew 7 Little Words
- In a friendly manner
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Crusoe appears to be healing well, he is now able to put weight on his injured leg, however he is proving to be a difficult patient, he is an intrepid, adventurous terrier without an off button, trying to get him to take it easy and be tranquil is quite a feat. We have a lot of stairs in the house and he is most indignant at having to be carried up and down, we have taken this measure as now he can put all four paws down, he is attempting to run up and down them, he is not supposed to run for eight weeks. The promise of rehabilitative swimming in the local lake after his stitches come out next week, cannot come soon enough for Crusoe, last night he gnawed his dressing off and was attempting to remove his own stitches. Several hilarious and unsuccessful attempts at tying a t shirt over his rear end, to cover what was left of his bandage, only resulted in Crusoe looking like the dog version of Sabu.
Sabu in 'The Thief of Baghdad'
We carted him off to the vets once again first thing this morning, for a new dressing and a plastic collar which prevents him from nibbling his bandages off and trying to remove his stitches, Crusoe is not impressed.
Get this contraption off me!
I can't get through the railings, no hope of escape now!
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Virtual Tour South Africa is a Company that create 360 Photo scenes in to a virtual tour of the red desert that is situated on the south coast of kwazulu natal port edward.360 photography done by J Victor our virtual tour photographer.
Margate is one of South Africa's most popular beach holday destinations. It's humid, island style climate attracts holiday makers all year around.


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Choose Hotels near Golden Gate University near San Jose, CA. Hotels are displayed with assumed distince to desired location. This guide will help to find accomadations to fit any budget near Golden Gate University.


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Jackson Rathbone and his band 100 Monkeys lost good a friend named Spencer Bell suddenly to Adrenal Cancer in 2006. Spencer was very close with the band and also a musician himself. The 100 monkeys created a memorial to their lost friend on the band website through the Spencer Bell Legacy Project.
Now, in a collaborative effort to raise awareness for Adrenal Cancer, 100 Monkeys along with The Stevedores, Tin Tin Can, and Drew and the Medicinal Pen, will travel to Texas in April (no official date set) for the Spencer Bell Legacy concert. 100 Monkeys will also be playing a tribute to Spencer by performing a few of the songs he wrote.
FYI a side note: Nothing makes me happier than humbled people.


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drive (one) to despair
To cause one to experience sadness, hopelessness, and/or frustration. I'm not surprised that his wife's death has driven him to despair—grief has that effect on people. Try not to let this rejection drive you to despair.
drive someone to despair
Fig. to depress someone; to frustrate someone. Sometimes raising an infant drives me to despair! The recent problems drove her to despair.


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You've been charged with a mission: protect the daisies and strawberries from those nasty, toothy carnivores. You must hit them in the head and clear them out of the magical garden as fast and furiously as you can. Tapping the screen with your finger, you rid the world of four of those beasties right away but watch out; you don't want to hurt one of those happy, dancing daisies!
As you play Beware of the Bad Seed, it will probably remind you of that arcade room classic, Whack a Mole. That's because this is a revamped version but with a highly addictive 3D plant twist.
You'll never have to worry about getting bored with Beware of the Bad Seed, there's variety packed into every download. With three game modes, two display modes and three types of villainous daisy killers, you'll never tire of saving those sweet little daisies. Oh yes, there's a strawberry that needs saving, too. See, variety and surprise is waiting for you here. You just never know what's going to pop up where.
The graphics are awesome, too. You'll be playing in incredible 3D clarity that makes those smiling flowers and the bad plants' menacing mouths seem all the more real.
Beware of the Bad Seed is easy to play. You only need you Mac, your finger and your track pad or mouse to smack the bad guys and perform your garden rescue. No extra equipment is required to irradiate the nasty carnivores and work your way to scoring on the leaderboard.
Features you get in Beware of the Bad Seed:
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• Game center integration (requires OSX Mountain Lion).
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• One cute daisy and one tasty strawberry.
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Can Occupational Predation Buy Labour Quiescence? The Case of the Public Sector in Zimbabwe
Occupational crimes and industrial conflict remain one of the most complex challenges confronting both industrial relations scholars and practitioners. Buoyed by postmodern thinking the paper examines the extent to which the dynamics and patterns of occupational predation is wickedly traded-off for labour quiescence. It focuses specifically on a selected Zimbabwean public sector organisation that is responsible for the administration and monitoring of revenue collection for the State. The paper advances that although some organisational settings are more structurally 'criminogenic' and providing more opportunities for occupational crimes than others, this one is a 'wicked' case in which occupational crimes have been institutionalized and systemically transformed into a form of calculative or 'fractional' collective bargaining. Both primary and secondary data is collected from two of the organisation's largest stations using a qualitative research approach and analysed by a combination of thematic and domain data analysis techniques. Twenty participants from each station were selected by both simple stratified and purposive availability sampling designs. It is observed that occupational crimes in this organisation have taken a predatory character and invariably acting as a buffer inventory that insulates the organisation against unfavourable macro-economic environment. While alternative conventional theories of worker mobilization or resistance would have viewed this situation as a sufficient condition and opportunity for employees to engage in collective action, evidence suggests otherwise. The paper concludes that predation in the public sector levels the ground in the management of industrial conflict as it is traded-off for industrial peace or labour quiescence.
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Richard Branson has bought Pluto and intends to have it reinstated as a planet.
Sir Richard Branson is setting his sights on the final frontier in his latest business venture announced today.
In a universal first Sir Richard has revealed that he has bought the former planet of Pluto for an undisclosed sum.
As a firm supporter of small businesses Sir Richard is hoping to set an example for struggling entrepreneurs facing setbacks by having Pluto reinstated as an official planet, after its declassification by the International Astronomical Union in 1996.
Already at the forefront of space travel with Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard is having a special deep space vehicle built that will help bulk up Pluto to its required planetary mass.
Sir Richard Branson said: "Virgin has expanded into many territories over the years, but we have never had our own planet before. This could pave the way for a new age in space tourism."
Virgin rocket scientist Professor Chelovek Protaprilia added: "The vehicle has a special harness to collect asteroids and space debris, which it will drag into Plutos gravitational field, increasing the planets mass."
The mission, which is due for launch on April 1 2012, is due to take five years and, if successful, will lead to the first ever part human-created planet.


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Thanks for contacting me. Would love to play! I tore my quad tendon a few weeks ago and need to stay off it for awhile longer, but message me your number so I can call/text you when it's healed.
Also, I usually play in a group of 4 or so to make things more social and play doubles. How do you feel about that? Some people like to just play one-on-one, so I was just wondering.
Anyhow, hope you're doing great and thanks for the invite. Looking forward to playing with you when my knee is better!
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Too bad the waves following this one suck. Nobody wants prequel **** on vintage cards.
I don't recall Leia being that dirty in the movie, ever, but I guess it's possible.
I think most street dates like these are for the retailers sake. Makes Target and Wal Mart have to wait until the same time so one doesn't get a jump on the other store.
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Boston officials say Tsarnaev brothers planned more mayhem but were acting alone
WASHINGTON — Boston officials said today the Tsarnaev brothers were prepared to launch more violent attacks before their odyssey of terror was disrupted last week — given the large quantity of explosives and ammunition they possessed — but that all evidence thus far indicates they were acting alone and were not part of a broader conspiracy.
"All of the information I have is they acted alone, these two individuals, the brothers,'' Mayor Thomas M. Menino said on ABC's "This Week.''
"The older brother's dead now. We have the second one … in very serious condition,'' he said. In an apparent reference to his medical condition, he added, "We don't know if we'll ever be able to question the individual.''
Menino's comment only fueled more questions about the medical condition of the younger suspect, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who is listed as as serious but stable at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with undisclosed injuries.
On Saturday, Governor Deval Patrick said the young man was not able to be interviewed. Speaking on "This Week'' today, Senator Dan Coats of Indiana, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Committee, said, "The information we have is that there was a shot to the throat, and it's questionable when and whether he'll be able to talk again. Doesn't mean he can't communicate. But right now I think he's in a condition where they can't get any information from him at all.''
Menino and other top Massachusetts officials fanned out across the Sunday talk shows to discuss the aftermath of Monday's Boston Marathon bombings, the worst terrorist attack in the United States since 2001, and where the investigation may go from here.
Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said he believes Dzhokhar and his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in an exchange of gunfire early Friday morning in Watertown with police, were armed for another rampage following the Monday bombing attacks.
"They had IEDS,'' Davis said on CBS News's "Face the Nation,'' referring to improvised explosive devices. "They had homemade hand grenades that they were throwing at the officers. The scene was littered with unexploded improvised explosive devices that we had to point out to the arriving officers,'' including one in the abandoned SUV the brothers had allegedly stolen.
Davis said today that federal authorities are trying to trace the origin of the firearms and explosive devices employed by the two suspects. "We hope to try to find out exactly where they obtained'' the arsenal, he said.
Asked about any further threat to the public, Governor Deval Patrick, also appearing on "Face the Nation,'' said "all of law enforcement feels it is over. … You can feel the relief here at home.''
On NBC's "Meet the Press,'' Patrick said surveillance video showed Dzhokhar Tsarnaev dropping a backpack and walking away before the second bomb exploded.
''It does seem to be pretty clear that this suspect took the backpack off, put it down, did not react when the first explosion went off and then moved away from the backpack in time for the second explosion,'' Patrick said. ''It's pretty clear about his involvement and pretty chilling, frankly.''
Many questions still remain in the investigation, including whether the FBI paid sufficient attention to Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 after the agency was alerted by Russian authorities that he might have been under the sway of militant Islamic radicals.
"He was on the radar, then he got off the radar,'' said Representative Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and a Republican of Texas.
McCaul said 26-year-old Tamerlan's six-month trip last year to Russia, where officials have speculated he may have been trained or influenced by terrorist groups in the restive provinces of Dagestan or neighboring Chechnya, looms very large in the ongoing probe.
"That six and half months becomes exceedingly important,'' he said. "I would assume the Russians have some intelligence on this individual.''
Others werecritical of the FBI's handling of the case, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican of South carolina, who said he believes the FBI may have "dropped the ball.''
"Once you're brought to attention by a foreign government, I think you should have a red flag put then, to be taken off later,'' Graham said on CNN. "The ball was dropped in one of two ways — the FBI missed a lot of things, [or] there's one potential answer [that] our laws do not allow to follow up in a sound solid way. There was a lot to be learned from this guy. He was on websites talking about killing Americans. He went overseas … he was clearly talking about radical ideas. He was visiting radical areas.''
"The fact that we could not track him has to be fixed,'' Graham added. "It's people like this that you don't want to let out of your sight, and this was a mistake. I don't know if our laws are insufficient or the FBI failed, but we're at war with radical Islamists and we need to up our game.''
Menino said it has become clear that the older brother, Tamerlan, was the more influential, describing him the "leader'' and the 19-year-old Dzhokhar as a "follower.''
"His [older] brother read those magazines that are published on how to create bombs…,'' Menino said.
Menino defended the decision to ask Boston residents to remain in their homes and not venture onto streets on Friday, because of the potential threat of more violence and the ongoing manhunt for Dzhokhar.
"I had information that there was other things going on during the [time the] decision that was made,'' he said. "At that time, we found a pipe bomb in another location in our city of Boston, another individual was taken into custody in another location.'' He did not elaborate on the discovery of the other pipe bomb.
Patrick said separately on NBC's "Meet the Press'' that he didn't know when the younger Tsarnaev might be able to speak to authorities, but that investigators were ready to question him as soon as he could be interviewed.
"There are lots of questions about how and why,'' Patrick added on CBS.
Whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will face the death penalty if convicted was another topic discussed Sunday. Senator William "Mo'' Cowan, appearing on CNN's State of the Union, and Patrick said they would leave that decision to the Department of Justice.
Menino was asked if he would favor prosecution of Tsarnaev in federal court and whether he expected Tsarnaev to face the death penalty.
"I hope that the U.S. attorney, Carmen Ortiz, takes him on the federal side and throws the book at him,'' Menino said.
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I have been working with my newly rejuvenated Roland S-50 sampler lately and thought I would create an article here about things I've encountered while sampling. These may or may not be tips or techniques of a special nature, but they may help those in trying to figure out a good workflow when using the Roland S-50 Sampler. I'll start by writing some random thoughts about my experiences thus far with Sampling on the S-50. Please comment if you have any tips or experiences of your own that may be of use for either practice or in thought.
Lately, I have been skipping the WAV import using the computer directly to the Roland S-50. I find this to be time consuming and there doesn't seem to be any software that works all that great. What works for me is to use one of my old Roland SP-808 samplers to store "one shot" sounds of various analog synths. For example, I have one 100MB Zip disk divided in banks with MOOG sounds. Each bank is title something like A-B-F#-G# where each letter represents a row of SP-808 pads with MOOG one shot key samples. This helps me to set the correct root key on the S-50. I then run the SP-808 out to the input of the S-50 and record direct. You could use virtually any sampler, but I have found my trusty old SP-808 to work well. Of course I have to use the WAV converter for the SP-808 to initially store samples, but then I can really fast play a pad and record onto the S-50. Note I don't wish to tether a computer to the S-50 at this time.
Another thing I do a lot is record with 15kHz instead of 30. Beside getting more sampling time, I find the sound difference to be minimal quite frankly. This allows me to record lots of samples into the S-50 no problem. Of course I can use 30kHz or vary the sample lengths but I have found lowering the frequency to be very helpful. Also, since I mainly record one shots I don't have to worry about looping or recording longer samples that much.
I usually set the gain and rec level as high as possible. When I dedicate my SP-808 to the S-50 I can keep all the volume settings the same which allows me to keep the samples similar in volume. I then just pop out the zip disk run to the computer and load more samples for recording if need be. I also find I like to record and create construction kits on the S-50. Thus I may have a series of zip disks categorized by drums, basses, guitars, synths, etc and then record the instruments I want to use for a particular construction kit or song. Basically I prefer S-50 disks to contain construction kits and my SP-808 zip disks to contain specific instruments. I find it takes me about 30 minutes to fully sample a new construction kit for creating a new song. I then save that kit onto a floppy disk for later use if needed.
I have found setting loop points on the S-50 to be rather difficult. I do find the auto loop function can work pretty well at times, but it's often time consuming to bang out perfect loops so I mainly use the S-50 for one shots and then use the envelopes for tweaking. I first figure out whether a song instrument will require a long decay or not and then sample accordingly. If my Moog sound will be short and staccato like then I'll sample 0.4 or 0.8 (x2 @15) and then just play my bass line. If I require a long decay I'll simply record at .8 or 1.6 (x2 @15 ) instead of looping the sound. I have found that looping the end of a sound can also lower the tone or quality of the main sample for some reason. Thus if I don't tamper with the sample and just play it, the sound is awesome. I do like to layer or use envelopes which works very well.
Sometimes I get the message "Not Execute" which took me a while to figure out that I was either missing a parameter under record or had an incorrect value. I found my sampling time was most often written incorrectly. If you get this error it simply means "carefully" check your entered values and correct the one that is not right.
All in all, I find sampling directly to the Roland S-50 to be rather painless and quite fun. If you sample to create a song construction kit then likely you'll be able to enjoy the S-50 right away after you finished sampling your initial samples for the song. You can then quickly create your patches and then use Director-S to record the song. Then save the song and sound kit onto an S-50 disk and you can later use it for other songs. As mentioned I also find using an external sampler for storing samples to be very useful. You can then just hit record on the S-50 and press a pad on your external sampler with tons of samples available at your fingertips. On the computer I find myself "thinking" in terms of construction kits rather than filling up an S-50 disk with MOOG bass samples. It then becomes a fun and a rewarding challenge to use that sample construction kit to create a song.
I remember back in the day people having contests where a each person would have a floppy with the same construction kit on it. They then had a month to create a song and then everyone would vote on the song they liked. That used to be really fun because it put the song writing back into music rather than nowadays where people seem to want massive sample collections. The Roland S-50 is limited by today's standard samplers, but I personally find these limitations inspire me more to create and play songs. The Roland S-50 "can" have plenty of polyphony and memory if you accept the limitations and just get down to writing a song with what you have. The old cliche "Simple is Best" can be true sometimes.
Soon I'll be creating some videos based on constructions kits that I sampled for the S-50 and how I use these to create fun songs or sketchpad ideas. The Roland S-50 sounds fantastic and is really fun to play. I also find that any sound I sample into the Roland S-50, I can easily convert to any other format such as the S-550, S-330, W-30, or S-760. That's not always the case the other way around.
Stay tuned for more thoughts and updates as I dive deeper into the Roland S-50.


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Flames take first game with Grizzlies 5-1
November 30, 2012 | Rochester Hills, Mich.
A pair of back-to back Flames goals in the second period secured a lead that proved too far for the Grizzlies to reach in the first of the teams' two-game series Friday night at Onyx Ice Arena in Rochester Hills, Mich.
Oakland, last year's ACHA National Championship runner-up and ranked No. 10 going into Friday's game, traded shots with Liberty (No. 12) for much of the first period, before the scoring started with Matt Sherry's shot from the point deflecting off Luke Baumgarten's back to earn Baumgarten the Flames goal with 5:56 to go.
Liberty's Rick Turner later took the feed from Andrew McCombe and one-timed it home on the powerplay to put the Flames up by two. With .9 seconds left in the period, Oakland's Anthony Colizza scored to put the Grizz on the board. The shots in the period were 15-5 in favor of Liberty.
The Flames came out strong in the second, with Turner earning his second goal of the game off a 2-on-1 rush with Baumgarten with 12:27 to go. Then 25 seconds later, Bram Erickson energized an already pumped-up Flames bench with another goal, widening the lead at 4-1. Liberty again took the shots in the period, 15 to 10.
The Grizzlies would not see the net for the rest of the game, allowing a shot from B.J. Pirus from the far side of the blue line late in the third to bring the final score to 5-1.
Goaltender Blair Bennett made 16 stops in the third period and had 36 for the game.
The Flames took three of four from the Grizzlies last season, but hope to end their three-game Michigan road trip with a sweep of Oakland Saturday night in Game 2. Liberty beat Davenport University Thursday night 5-3 in Grand Rapids.
With another win Saturday night, the Flames position themselves for a likely spot in the top 10 in ACHA rankings.
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Oh thank god more Stormlight fans. I can't wait for November to get here.
Also, that reminds me: Sanderson's new Mistborn novels (starting with Alloy of Law) are more early-modern fantasy. Less military-oriented (more like Victorian era detective novels) but with the same sort of tone. Probably not surprising given that McClellan was one of Sanderson's students. Bands of Mourning was some of Sanderson's best worldbuilding with regards to the magic system he created. As I was reading it, I couldn't help thinking "now you're just showing off". After carefully establishing all the magical laws of his world, he exploits every loophole and twists them around in ways that don't even seem possible, but make perfect sense within the firm rules he established.