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cottonmouth, also called a water moccasin, is a
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Colombo, Sri Lanka, 16 Oct 2010 – Linde AG today announced an offer to acquire all the shares in privately-held Ceylon Oxygen Limited in Sri Lanka, and the acceptance of the offer by the major shareholder, Europium Limited (a member of the private equity group, Actis), in respect of 95.4 percent of the shares in Ceylon Oxygen. The offer, which has become unconditional, will close on 12 November 2010, after which Linde intends to acquire the outstanding minority shares held by shareholders who have not accepted the offer under relevant Sri Lankan legislation to give it 100 percent ownership of Ceylon Oxygen.
Established in 1936, Ceylon Oxygen Limited is headquartered in Colombo, and is the leading medical and industrial gases player in Sri Lanka. It is the only company that owns and operates an air separation plant in the country.
"The Linde Group is a global leader in gases and engineering, and Asia is a key growth market for the Group. The investment in Ceylon Oxygen will expand Linde's footprint in emerging markets in Asia, and provides the opportunity for us to tap into and participate in the long-term growth prospects in Sri Lanka. Working with Ceylon Oxygen's experienced management team, we intend to build on and strengthen the company's solid market position," said Mr Sanjiv Lamba, Regional Business Unit Head for Linde South & East Asia.
Mr Niran Pieris, Chief Executive Officer of Ceylon Oxygen Limited, said, "We are very proud of our association with Actis – especially for their belief in our management team and their commitment to the long-term growth of Ceylon Oxygen. Today is the start of an exciting future for Ceylon Oxygen. As a member of The Linde Group, we will be able to leverage on Linde's innovations built over 130 years, technological expertise and strong market position in South & East Asia to accelerate our expansion plans and serve an even wider set of customers."
Ceylon Oxygen Limited employs approximately 160 staff and has two manufacturing sites in Sapugaskande and Colombo, as well as four depots in Galle, Ratnapura, Kurunegala and Anuradhapura. It produces liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen at its Sapugaskande air separation unit, and its facility in Colombo houses a liquid carbon dioxide plant, a dry ice plant, a dissolved acetylene plant and a nitrous oxide plant.
About Ceylon Oxygen Limited
Ceylon Oxygen Limited was incorporated in 1936 in Sri Lanka. Since its inception, Ceylon Oxygen Limited has been in the forefront of providing medical and industrial gases in the country. It offers an extensive product range that includes oxygen, dissolved acetylene, nitrogen, dry air, compressed air, breathing air, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, dry ice and other gas mixtures which are manufactured at its own plant. It has an international standard laboratory which enables its specialists to test the purity of its gases, and ensure consistency in quality, quantity and reliability.
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Take any pair of two digit numbers x=ab and y=cd where, without loss of generality, ab > cd . Form two 4 digit numbers r=abcd and s=cdab and calculate: {r^2 - s^2} /{x^2 - y^2}.
Find the largest integer which divides every member of the
following sequence: 1^5-1, 2^5-2, 3^5-3, ... n^5-n.
The triangle OMN has vertices on the axes with whole number co-ordinates. How many points with whole number coordinates are there on the hypotenuse MN?


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ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 34 Plenary in Brasilia
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Celebrate your special day with a birthday party full of wonder and discovery at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History!
Your Birthday Party package includes:
* All-day admission to the Museum's Permanent Exhibit Galleries for up to 20 individuals (Additional admission tickets may be purchased for $10 on the day of the party. The party studio can accommodate up to 40 individuals).
* Use of one of the Innovation Studios as your private party room for 1.5 hours
* Your very own party coordinator
* Hands-on educational experience during your party
* A Museum gift and T-shirt for the birthday child
*Note: Birthday Party packages are designed for chilren turning 3 to 12.
Choose one of the following educational activities to add an exciting, hands-on element to your special day (included in party package with no additional charge)
Dino Discovery: Guests learn how fossils form while "excavating" their own dinosaur or making their very own fossil to take home. (All Ages)
Kitchen chemistry: Guests will learn the basics of chemistry while making their very own slimy, bouncy, or gooey creation. (All Ages)
Party Animals: No celebration would be complete without the museum's furriest, scaliest, and most interesting creatures! (All Ages)
Scribble Bots: Guests build motorized machines that move in chaotic ways, leaving interesting artistic patterns in their wake. (Best for ages 6 and up)
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Non-Members: $370
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To become a Museum member and receive these, and other fantastic benefits, visit our Membership page.
Payment Option 1: Pay 50 percent non-refundable deposit at time of reservation. Your credit card will be charged the remaining balance 10 days before your party.
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- Birthday Parties are not available during the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo (January 13-February 4, 2016)
- Due to the nature of our collections and exhibit components the Museum does have some guidelines for use of the birthday party space. Candles, votives and hurricane lamps (open flames) are not allowed in the Museum. Gasoline, propane or electric heaters, grills or similar devices are prohibited. All freestanding and/or table decorations must be fireproof, pass Museum standards for safety and be appropriate for the Museum setting, a space for children and families. The Museum does not allow confetti, birdseed, or glitter. Decorations may not be taped or tacked to any wall surfaces, exhibits, ceilings, glass, cabinets or equipment.
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Apple Turns to the Larry King of Sweatshop Scandals
By Josh Eidelson
In These Times
February 27, 2012
Apple's chosen monitor has long been criticized by anti-
sweatshop activists.
Wracked by weeks of bad press over the conditions under
which its products are made, this month Apple called in the
Fair Labor Association. "We believe that workers everywhere
have the right to a safe and fair work environment," said
Apple CEO Tim Cook in a February 13 release, "which is why
we've asked the FLA to independently assess the performance
of our largest suppliers."
Cook promised inspections "unprecedented in the electronics
industry, both in size and scope." Two days later, FLA
President Auren van Heerden told Reuters that so far he had
found the FoxConn facilities-where workers had recently
threatened mass suicide -"first class; the physical
conditions are way, way above average of the norm."
Perhaps this should not have been a surprise. Corporations
turn to the FLA during scandals for the same reasons
celebrities turn to Larry King: it's high- profile, it's
establishment-approved, and it won't press as hard as the
A history of compliance
The FLA was formed in 1999 with funding and backing from the
Clinton administration, following years of prominent anti-
sweatshop activism in the United States. It came three years
after Kathy Lee Gifford's well- televised tears over alleged
abuses in factories producing her clothing label. The FLA's
Apple investigation represents its first foray into the tech
industry. From the beginning, the FLA has described its
approach as about bringing stakeholders into the process.
Along with universities and nonprofits, several members of
its board are apparel corporations. Companies play a major
role in investigating themselves, and evaluating each
others' compliance.
An FLA spokesperson declined to comment. But in an
interview with the New York Times, its Executive Director
Jorge Perez- Lopez said the organization has successfully
reduced child labor in China and Latin America and
discrimination against pregnant workers in Latin America.
Van Heerden defended the FLA system to Reuters as "very
tough. It involves unannounced visits, complete access,
public reporting."
Charles Kernaghan, whose meetings with Honduran children
making Gifford-branded clothing helped make their conditions
an international story, takes a different view. "The FLA
has maybe 10% credibility," says Kernaghan, who directs the
Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights. "We've never
seen anything from them that we would consider to be more
than 50% or 30% accurate."
Kernaghan traces the impetus for the FLA to the mid-90's,
when his organization (then called the National Labor
Committee), after a lengthy stuggle, convinced a Vice-
President of Gap to allow a Jesuit-led team of independent
monitors into a factory in El Salvador. "You had people
that were not corruptible," says Kernaghan, "that were not
in the pocket of the companies, and they began to monitor
the factories, and they found every single violation we had
found." Kernaghan says management has told him that after
Gap let the Jesuits in, all of its competitors began calling
and saying, "Are you out of your mind?"
Kernaghan says that victory created a market for less
aggressive alternatives that corporations could bring in
instead. "They got dollar bills in their eyes.." says
Kernaghan. "It was one phony group after another." He
cites the Harvest Ridge factory in Bangladesh, where the
IGLHR filmed a 11 year-old worker worker describing 14-hour
days working for 6.5 cents an hour without being allowed to
sit down. "If she fell behind her production goal, the
manager would slap her very hard." When Kernaghan testified
about these abuses in Congress, management cited the FLA's
finding that the factory was fully cimpliant.
Having "realized that the corporations and the FLA had
hijacked monitoring," Kernaghan says the IGLHR has shifted
its demands to disclosure of factory locations and federal
legislation. "You had to get around the FLA, because
they're useless."
The FLA's most vocal critic has been United Students Against
Sweatshops, whose activism also helped spark the FLA's
creation. USAS supported the formation of an alternative
organization, the Workers Rights Consortium, whose board is
composed of student activists, university administrators,
and representatives of labor and nonprofits.
The FLA's "purpose from the beginning, from our view, was to
serve primarily as a cover-up for corporations and a smoke
screen." says Yale Law student Mary Yanik, a member of USAS'
Coordinating Committee and of the WRC's Board. "It's never
been a strong worker advocate, and it's been very
detrimental to the anti-sweatshop movement." (Yanik made
clear she was not speaking on behalf of the WRC)
USAS has long criticized the FLA on several counts:
Companies' suppliers are monitored by contracted
investigators who the FLA hires with funds from
participating companies. These firms are supplemented by
management staff monitoring their own factories. The FLA's
super-majority requirement gives its corporate members more
than enough votes to block any action proposed by the
universities or non-profits on its board. Not disclosing the
specific factories that were inspected makes it harder for
current or former workers, activists, or other monitors to
contradict the FLA's findings. Following UNITE's (full
disclosure: a predecessor union to my former employer UNITE
HERE) 2003 resignation in protest, there are no unions on
the FLA's board. Conducting interviews on company property
makes it less likely workers will voice criticisms.
"If you're speaking to the workers when the manager at over
there, and the workers see you to be really buddy- buddy
with their supervisors, it's unlikely the workers are going
to trust you," says Yanik. And companies that do wrong
often get away with it.
In 2008, USAS slammed the FLA for welcoming underwear-
manufacturer Hanes on board as its latest "Corporate
Member." The year before, activists had alleged retaliation
when Hanes, which directly employs factory workers, fired
over 30 from a Dominican Republic factory where workers were
organizing. USAS charged that the FLA granted Hanes its new
status, which came with donations to the FLA, without
concessions on that campaign, or consultations with any of
the workers or activists involved.
In recent years, some universities that affiliated with the
FLA for accreditation of their apparel, including the
University of Miami and Santa Clara University, have left
the organization.
'Fox guarding the henhouse' at FoxConn?
The FLA's handling of FoxConn Technology Group has so far
done little to assuage critics' concerns. FoxConn employs
over a million factory workers producing products for
companies like Microsoft, Dell, and Apple. FoxConn drew
international attention in 2010, after dozens of employees
committed suicide. That attention returned when workers
threatened additional suicides this year. The 2010 suicides
drew promises of reform-and the installation of nets.
This month FLA President Van Heerden told Reuters he was
surprised by "how tranquil it is compared with a garment
factory. So the problems are not the intensity and burnout
and pressure-cooker environment you have in a garment
factory.It's more a function of monotony, of boredom, of
alienation perhaps."
But as Michelle Chen, R.M. Arrieta, and Mike Elk have
reported for In These Times, workers and other monitors have
told a very different story.
In a May 2011 report, Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars
Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) documented extreme
overtime, poverty wages, wage theft, and "military
"Some of my roommates weep in the dormitory," Foxconn worker
Chen Liming told SACOM. "I want to cry as well but my tears
have not come out." A January New York Times article
described what happened when Apple decided the soon-to-be-
released iPhone 5 needed different screens: "A foreman
immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company's
dormitories.Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of
tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started
a 12-hour shift." (As I've reported for In These Times,
working for Apple in its U.S. retail stores is no workers'
paradise either.)
"I'm amazed that the FLA would give one of the most
notoriously abusive factories in the world a clean bill of
health-based, it appears, on nothing more than a guided tour
provided by the owner," WRC Executive Director Scott Nova
told the New York Times February 16. "If the FLA wants to
convince people that it can somehow conduct an impartial
investigation of Apple, despite being funded by Apple, this
is not a good way to start."
Five days later, the FLA issued an updated statement saying
that "This thorough investigation continues to progress in
the same way as each of the FLA's other assessments and
investigations have - fairly, thoughly and independently."
The statement said that the investigation would include both
on-site and off-site interviews.
USAS International Campaigns Coordinator Teresa Cheng says
using offsite interviews is "an aberration for the FLA," and
that she has "no doubt that their decision to even do off-
site interviews would be because of public pressure and
critique." But she says such interviews are unlikely to
result in a more critical report. In some cases, charges
Cheng, the FLA has "contracted staff who've made conclusions
indicting companies, and implicating companies in conduct as
extreme as giving death threats to union leaders.and the FLA
has even overridden the conclusions of its own
The FLA's limits as a force for "Fair Labor" aren't just
about low standards-they're about workers' power to judge
their own labor conditions. This is an issue that the anti-
sweatshop movement long wrestled with, and it's why USAS
avoids calling for boycotts without the support of a
factory's own workers.
While the FLA may claim credit for publicizing particularly
egregious conditions, Yanik says its can't change the
industry because it doesn't meaningfully support workers'
right to organize. She cites the case of the Jerzees de
Honduras factory. "The FLA discouraged the workers that were
trying to form a union from lodging a complaint." After
workers were fired for organizing, charges Yanik, FLA
monitors "said everything was fine.a few months later the
FLA had to go back and retract its entire report."
"The only way to really address these problems is to empower
workers." says Yanik. "Workers in these factories are
always going to be the best enforcers. The FLA has never
taken that view."
"If workers have rights, and they can exercise those
rights," says Kernaghan, " they will be in...a hundred
thousand times better position than to have the FLA fly in
once in a while and talk to workers who are terrified to
talk to them. They should get out of the way."
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bodidley wrote:I think that the reasons people see the struggle in World War II as just and the struggles in Iraq and Afghanistan as unjust are social rather than logical. People are far removed from the horrors of World War II and so it's easy to ignore our own atrocities during the war. The campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan were conducted with remarkable discipline against enemies equally as repugnant as the Nazis, but they threatened people's enjoyment of their apathy.
This is exactly wrong.
Our enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan were not equally repugnant with the Nazis. For the most part, Saddam Hussein fulfilled a distinct and valuable purpose in the Middle East - he retained the balance of power between the Shia and the Sunni in the region, and kept the religious tensions within his country to a minimum. He might have used morally repugnant methods in doing so, but he did not pose an existential threat to any of his immediate neighbours - not even Kuwait, by the end.
Our current method of fighting wars - that is, by professional standing armies and career generals - actually makes apathy more, rather than less likely. In certain parts of the country it is very rare for people to know anyone personally who has to go off and fight and put his life at risk. On the other hand, the draft was there during WWII. Read Col. Andrew Bacevich's book The Limits of Power to get a better understanding of the dynamics between military and civilian then and now. He served in the US Army, and also had a son who served and died in Iraq.
Thirdly, you count Abu Ghraib as 'remarkable discipline'? Or Fallujah? Or the use of depleted uranium and Willie Pete? I suggest you get your priorities straight.


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With the exception of Robert Moog and Leon Theremin, perhaps, many of the names associated with the innovation and development of electronic music have slipped into obscurity. Sad too is the collective anonymity celebrating the memory of the early composers and performers for the electronic medium. Invoke the names Ussachevsky and Leuning and one is apt to not a knowing smile, but a glower of fathomless perplexity. Except for the notable, ardent few admirers, these names have all but faded from view: too bad, for their contribution to twentieth century music is incalculable; too bad for us, who listen oblivious to music unaware of the contributions of these and others, whose work made so much that is commonplace today possible.
Except for National Public Radio's (NPR) Echoes, a program that airs electronic music nightly, there are few occasions for new electronic music listeners to give an ear to the compositions wrought on such instruments. Part of this is due, sadly, to the widely scorned image of such contraptions, which have been variously described as buzzing, cacaphonous sounding devices, capable only of producing eerie sound effects and perhaps a few intelligible notes. The other side to this despondent coin is found in the ubiquity of such instruments–synthesized keyboards mostly–which have become such a vital voice that they have all but disappeared altogether.
People who listen and have listened to electronic music will reject the first assertion without hesitation. They will gladly tell you that, even within the past forty-odd years, electronic instruments have become much more refined and are capable of presenting a multitude of sounds, or voices, of great, affective beauty. While many compositions written for such instruments truly is of an ethereal and other worldly quality, many other works are quite familiar in their tone; quite terrrestrial, indeed.
Consider, for example, the oeuvre of Wendy (Walter) Carlos. In 1968, Carlos released the seminal album, Switched on Bach, an homage to the great composer performed on Robert Moog's synthesizer. The music was quite unlike anything many listeners had ever heard before, performed as it was on an electronic behemoth whose presence was anything but familiar. But listen to it again! Despite the strange, electronic emanations produced by the instrument, there is an unmistakable sense that in spite of that, the instruments for which Old Bach had written are pretty admirably presented. Consider again that that work came out in 1968….Well, you get the idea.  Among admirers of early electronic music, Switched on Bach is a favorite, and for good reason. Considering the impact the work had on introducing Robert Moog's device and its encouragement of further development of the instrument, Switched on Bach is a classic in every sense of the term.
Forty one years past 1968, and the design and craftsmanship of synthesizers has resulted in folks getting a lot more out of the instrument than people like Carlos and Moog were, doubtless, able to presage. In Germany, Edgar Froese and his freunden were hard at work, experimenting with pre-recorded tapes and playing strange and wonderful music to back it up. Their group, Tangerine Dream, was eventually signed on to Richard Branson's fledgling Virgin Records label, and the album Phaedra handily climbed the billboard charts with nearly the same brisk vitality of Branson's other star artist, Great Britain's Michael Oldfield's Tubular Bells. With encouragement from the success of Phaedra and its follow-up album, Rubicon, it wasn't long before Tangerine Dream was approached to compose music for film. It was William Friedkin, of Exorcist fame, who approached the Berliners, and they produced an album, Sorcerer, in splendid style. Since then, Tangerine Dream has shown little sign of slowing down. Although many personnel have joined and left the band, they have produced a staggering number of albums. As their sound has evolved, so has their contribution to electronic music, and Froese and his mates have consulted with many electronic instrument makers, like Roland, in the development of many of the instruments that are used today.
Another German composer who should be noted is Klaus Schulze, a former Tangerine Dream member who went solo shortly after his departure from the group. Schulze's works are amazingly erudite and fertile numbers of great atmosphere and presence. Many works incorporates traditional instruments that are woven within the music in seamless and intricate tapestry. Listen to the album, Trancefer, to get the idea. Another Tangerine Émigré is Chritopher Franke, who left Froese after contributing much to TD's signature eeriness, including work on the soundtrack to the Michael Mann movie, Thief and the Star Tek spin-off, Babylon 5. Other members like Johannes Schmoelling and Peter Bauman and the drummer Klaus Krieger all contributed their hand to this amazing and prolific Krautrock band.
In many ways, the British championed electronic music, and happily brought the enormous bundles of wires and plugs to the stage. Names like Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, Richard Wright and dozens others wowed audiences who were more than happy to light up and trip out to the music these wizards produced. Emerson's virtuoso performances with Emerson Lake and Palmer floored fans with his dept prowess in performances of moog-drenched renditions of Copeland, Mussorgsky and others. Wright, on the other hand showed that keyboard synthesizers were not only of interest to psychedlic  music fans–of which he was more than happy to oblige–but fans who were interested in something more contemporary. Wright's super-sonic finger work on albums like Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here are truly terriffic performances that are ardently listened to today. Meanwhile, on the other side of the spectrum were glam artists, like David Bowie and Brain Eno, who were producing soundscapes of their own chord. Their compositions opened many doors of possibility and showcased the synthesizer as a truly, ambient instrument that could handily stand on its own feet. Eno's work with Roxy Music, Bowie, Robert Fripp and his solo career have all added amazing color to the British kaleidoscope. Still, in other milieus, Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra dazzled erstwhile classical music listeners to their own form of pop music. Paying due respect to the masters, the ELO appealed to thousands of adoring fans with hits like Mr. Blue Sky, Living Thing and the album Eldorado.
Special note should go to the works of Michael Oldfield, who at about nineteen years old produced the monster album, Tubular Bells, whose (in)famous leitmotif was famously adopted by the producers of the movie, The Exorcist. Oldfield was well known even before that album, having been snapped up by Soft Machine's Keven Ayers, who liked Oldfield's bass picking. Since Tubular Bells, Oldfield has produced around 25 or so albums and soundtracks, nearly one a year since 1973, producing beautifully rendered vistas of sound in doing so. Oldfield plays many instruments, and his albums are testament not only to his ability as a composer, but as a rare performer whose sensitivity and canny knowing references have been widely noted by many smart people, including Arthur Clarke, whose Songs of Distant Earth was adapted by Oldfield in an album of the same name.
On the other side of the world, the Japanese artist Isao Tomita took to the synthesizer and created an album that showed listeners that electronic versions of classical were still relevant and quite commercially viable. His first album, Snowflakes Are Dancing, is an incredibly trippy but musical exploration of the works of Debussy. Since that album, dozens of others have emerged from Tomita's murky collective, Plasma Music, including homage to Holst, Groffe, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Mussorgsky.
In France, the synthesizer entranced the artist Jean Michel Jarre, son of world-famous film composer, Maurice. After studies at the Lycee, Jean Michel was soon creating his own music after being encouraged to produce sounds from a variety of electronic sources. His albums Oxygene and Equinoxe are still favorites of many adoring fans. Another French composer of no little note was Jean Luc Ponty, a violinist of amazing ability and proficiency. His jazzy performances on albums like Enigmatic Ocean have caught the ear of many keen-eared admirers, like Elton John, who used him in one or two albums of their own.
In Italy, electronic music composition was championed by groups like Milan's Premiata Forneria Marconi, whose progressive contributions were proof positive that their competitors, such as England's King Crimson were not the kings of the mountain. Albums such as The World Became the World are still terriffic and awful–true musts for any fan of the genre.  To many people, associations of Italian electronic music conjure the likes of Georgio Moroder, whose driving beat and erotically pulsing throbs were the darlings of the disco era. Moroder's artistic sensibility is quite formidiable, however; his musical versatility noted by Paul Schraeder, who employed Moroder to score his 1982 hit movie, Cat People. Other works in Midnight Express and Scarface are noteworthy scores that belie the talent that was scarcely noted on the dance floor, where Donna Summer reigned supreme.
In Greece, the creation of electronic music was of keen interest to the piano prodigy who soon would simply be known by the name, Vangelis. Vangelis, a keen pianist of rare and brilliant artistry, soon went solo after embarking in his career with the band, Aphrodite's Child. Best known for his soundtracks to films like Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, Vangelis' music has been widely heard on numerous television advertisements and on Public Television, where a portion of his album Heaven and Hell (which featured Yes' Jon Anderson) was used as the theme to Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
In America, the use of synthesized and electronic music was widely used and the patheon of innovators and inventers is encyclopedic. Mention has already been made of Wendy (Walter) Carlos for her variations on Bach. No less important was Carlos' work on film, with musical contributions made to movies like Tron, Clockwork Orange and, of course, The Shining. Carlos' has produced many albums and has been instrumental in developing many of the technologies used in modern day instruments. Her album, Beauty In the Beast shows the artist's study of intonation and form, which is displayed in an blindingly lurid collection of pieces inspired, in part, by Balinese music.
Another early American electronic music pioneer is Laurie Anderson, who has explored the medium extensively, and has produced many fine albums, including Big Science, Mister Heartbreak and Life on a String. Anderson's craftsmanship has an ethereal, ambient sound that is visceral and vibrant, nevertheless. Even today, after many albums, she continues to evoke images that are astonishingly fresh and virile.
Another American pioneer is Larry Fast, also known as Synergy, is another pioneer of American electronic music, whose works were noted by Rick Wakeman, who took him on to assist with their album, Tales from Topographic Oceans. Fast has also worked extensively with Peter Gabriel and the popular American rock group, Foreigner, producing a sound that was, and is, quite appealing to many adoring thousands.
In a sense, electronic music is the red-haired step child of music proper, the very antithesis, in many music lovers' minds of what constitutes music. But what is music, if not a pleasing presentation of sound to evoke mood? Even before the strange and ethereal sounds of the Theremin, the thought that electricity could be harnessed to produce mellifluous tones was seen nearly as anathema to those who thought that only strings, wind and percussion were capable of presenting anything earworthy. Other pioneers like Mager, whose Spherophone (AKA Electrophone) introduced the music early, but their contributions are scarcely remembered.
Today, the electronic message is a forceful, but anonymous presence that reminds us that the quest for sound and innovation is a continuing journey that has as much appeal today as it did when things Electronic Music-wise took off. Today, groups like Air and Stereolab continue to pay homage to their progenitors, but they are rare exceptions to the crowd of musicians who scarcely know anything of their origins….
In these paragraphs, only a cursory introduction to the masters of the form is presented; there is so much more to listen to and explore that this poor tribute is but a meagre beginning. For those of you thirsting for the real thing, you must seek them out, now, for yourself!
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Sometimes I just feel the need to eat vegetables. Maybe it's my body trying to tell me something. I don't understand people who dislike ALL vegetables. How does one function without? Anyway, I had a cabbage in my refrigerator and decided on making a stir fried dish I frequently made when I moved out on my own and didn't really know how to cook.
It's a very easy dish, with pretty much just two ingredients: cabbage and soy sauce. I like it pretty salty so I add a lot of soy sauce. I know cabbage (and its small relative, Brussel sprouts) is not a very popular vegetable. I don't really understand. I like both the taste and texture of cabbage.
Stir Fried Cabbage
You could add some onion to this dish but I like it just this way. I used a Savoy cabbage, but any cabbage will do.
* oil
* cabbage, sliced thinly (about ¼" thick)
* soy sauce
Heat up oil in a pan.
Add cabbage slices.
Add soy sauce to taste and mix well.
Cook until the cabbage is cooked through.
Sliced cabbage and some soy sauce (the more the better for me!).
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Stanley Mruk is another child of Margaretha Plenzler and Michael Mruk. He was their second child, first son. See previous posts regarding Margaretha and Michael here and here.
While researching the offspring of Margaretha and Michael, I had come across some of their immigration data. Stanley had immigrated with his parents to the US via the ship, Rhaetia of the Hamburg Passenger lines that departed from Hamburg on May 28, 1884. This manifest lists these children for Margaretha and Michael upon departing Hamburg in May 1884:
- Tekla (b. 1873)
- Stanislaus (Stanley) (b. 1876)
- Kazmierez (b.1877)
- Marianna (Mary) (b. abt. 1879 per the manifest)
- Kath.a (possibly Katharina) (b abt. 1880 per the manifest)
I have not yet found a record for a Kazmierez born about 1877 (although they did have a child named Kazmierez, see below) or a child with a name similar to Katha/Katharina. So this data is rather confusing. It's quite possible that Michael and Margaretha lost children between the period of their arrival in1884 and the 1900 census or there are two adult children about the time of the 1900 census that had been married and were living elsewhere. More research on this is needed–are there two more children to be discovered of the marriage between Michael Mruk and Margaretha Plenzler?
Stanley was born about 1876 in Wiorek, Poznan, Poland, and emigrated here with his parents about 1884 per the 1900 census. He married Victoria Andrejewski in June 1903 per a marriage record from St. Anthony's parish. The record for this marriage is sparse, just a notation that the marriage occurred. Stanley and Victoria were residing at 1236 Nebraska at the time of the 1910 census. The 1920 census and 1930 census lists the family at 1275 Vance St.
Stanley and Victoria had eight children that I could locate:
- Martha b. 1904, d. 1905 (baptismal record here from St. Anthony's Parish, death record here from St. Anthony's, burial record here from Calvary Cemetery)
- Felix b. 1905, m. Julie Swickheimer 1 October 1925 in Michigan, d. 1971 (baptismal record here from St. Anthony's Parish, Toledo Blade obituary dated 10 August 1971 here)
- Veronica b. 1908, d. 1995 (married a Christel, but have no records for Veronica yet)
- Joseph, b. 1910, d. 1988 (Toledo Blade obituary dated 25 September 1988 located here)
- Mary b. 1912, d. 1996 (married a Palicki but have no records for Mary yet)
- Kazmierez, b. 1915, d. 1917 (Ohio Death certificate here)
- Agnes, b. 1918, d. 1996 (married a Nadolny, but have no records for Agnes yet)
- Frank, b. 1921, d. 1927 (Ohio Death certificate here)
Victoria died 30 January 1939 per her Ohio Death Certificate. Her death record through St. Anthony's parish is located here and transcribed below:
Date of Death and Burial: Jan. 30th, Feb. 3rd
Name of Person Interred: Victoria Mruk
Place of Birth: Poland
Age: 55
Priest: F.S. Legowski
Cemetery: Calvary
Victoria was buried in Calvary Cemetery. Transcription of the burial record is below:
No. 39180
Name Wikotrya Mruk
Residence 1275 Vance
Age 55
Cause of Death Heart disease
Date of Interment Feb. 3
Grave 1120
Range or Lot 6
Section 40
Undertaker Sujkowski & Son
Stanley died 3 May 1945 and his Ohio Death certificate is located here. He was buried through Nativity Parish. The burial record through the church is transcribed below:
Name of Deceased: Mruk Sta.
Age: 69
Date of Death: 5-4
Place and Date of Burial: 5-7
Stanley's obituary was published in the Toledo Blade on 4 May 1945. I've transcribed the obituary below as best as possible (bad photocopy):
Stanley Mruk died yesterday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Agnes Nadolny of 1010 Indiana Ave. after an illness of several weeks. He was 69. Mr. Mruk came here from Poland 62 years ago.
Also surviving are sons, Felix, and Pvt. Joseph, with the army in France, daughters Mrs. Veronica Chr??? and Mrs. Mar? P???, bothers, Casper and Marin and J???, sisters Mrs. Proxida Gurzynski and Mrs. Ste??? Staniszewski and four grandchildren.
Services will be at 8:30 a.m. Monday in the Steve Gasiorowski Funeral Home and at 9 a.m. in Nativity Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.
Stanley was interred in Calvary Cemetery. The burial record is transcribed below.
No. 45226
Name Stanley Mruk
Residence Toledo
Age 69
Cause of Death Cancer
Date of Interment May 7
Grave 446
Range or Lot 10
Section 41
Undertaker S. G. Gasiorowski


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Record surge in bond yields as Italian debt crisis passes point of no return
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Veteran investor Jim Rogers warned this morning that there is a "100% chance" the world is facing a financial crisis worse than 2008, as Italy was plunged into chaos on the back of soaring bond yields which now make the country's huge debt unsustainable, mandating yet another EU bailout.
"We're certainly going to have more crises coming out of Europe and America; the world is in trouble. The world has been spending staggering amounts of money that it doesn't have for a few decades now, and it's all coming home to roost," Rogers, CEO and chairman Rogers Holdings told CNBC.
Rogers said the only solution was to allow countries to go bankrupt and start again, arguing that the continuing cycle of debt would only exacerbate the problem in the long term.
"Last time, America quadrupled its debt. The system is much more extended now, and America cannot quadruple its debt again. Greece cannot double its debt again. The next time around is going to be much worse," Rogers said, adding that the chance of the Eurozone crisis causing another global financial meltdown was "100 per cent" and that the fallout would be worse than the 2008 collapse.
Rogers' warning came as Italy was plunged into crisis and bond yields surged to unsustainable levels despite Prime Minister Berlusconi's promise to resign, a move that was seen as a stabilizing factor.
"The situation in Italy has grown increasingly precarious with the yield on bonds passing the level which suggests the nation will need to be bailed out. At 10.50am the yield on the 10-year benchmark stood at 7.419%, a massive 0.7% jump on the day," reports City Wire.
Bond yields are the return which the government offers investors who buy debt in the form of bonds. The yield is surging because investors globally are dumping Italian bonds, forcing the government to crank the interest rate higher and higher in order to attract buyers.
This record high in bond yields now means that Italy's debt is unsustainable without the aid of yet another EU bailout, which will come with strings attached in the form of austerity measures that are almost guaranteed to provoke unrest on a similar scale to what we've already witnessed in Greece.
"Right now Italy has a debt to GDP ratio of 118 percent. If they keep expanding that debt it is going to result in a financial nightmare, but if they try to implement strict austerity measures it is also going to result in a financial nightmare. They are damned if they do and they are damned if they don't," explains Economic Collapse Blog.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.
SOURCE ARTICLE LINK: http://www.prisonplanet.com/rogers-100-chance-of-crisis-worse-than-2008-italy-implodes.html


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Regarding API documentation...can anyone share how to get to it?
Where is it located? In the IDE Help section I can get to a documentation folder in which the Tao of Ecere pdf is located in, as well as a couple of other documents - which I suspect is what I'm looking for.
However what do I use to open those documents?


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What is the REACH Program?
In Africa, AIDS infection remains at plague levels – a health crisis on an unprecedented scale for modern times. Currently, Africa has 22.5 million HIV-infected people, an astounding 60 percent of global HIV cases. An estimated 2 million more people are being infected each year.1
A widespread lack of infrastructure basics and the prevalence of other infectious diseases have made it difficult to stem the epidemic. According to researchers, 90 percent of Africa's AIDS victims risk early death because they lack access to appropriate healthcare.
Siemens' response to the crisis:
- Cooperation with funding agencies and local partners
- Access to cost-effective healthcare
- Viral load and drug resistance testing
The REACH Program consists of:
- Flexible platforms
- Flexible reagent pricing with cost-effective, total solutions
- Operator training, on-site and off-site
- Leaders in HIV research and development
- Key partnerships with leading NGOs and public and private laboratories
REACH – Resources Embracing Africa with Care and Hope
1 UNAIDS(2007). AIDS epidemic update. UNAIDS report. Accessed 18 June 2008 at


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So, I did two cards for this fun little challenge. The first one was inspired by Dawn McVey's "I ♥ Paper Crafting". More fun rainbow stamping...you know I love that! I am not sure why the stamping looks crooked in the photo...it isn't in real life. Hmmm...oh well! It is still cute! This guy also fits a Moxie Fab "Olympics of Stamping" contest category as well...so I am submitting it for that too!
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To bolster the title range of Blu-ray 3D, and give more reason for consumers to adopt the format, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has spent a considerable amount of time and money in converting the Alex Proyas-directed movie I, Robot into 3D. And purely for a home release.
It will hit the UK on 22 October, and Fox invited Pocket-lint to visit its studios in Century City, Los Angeles, to see some of the footage, find out how the 2D to 3D conversion was performed and to play around with some of the props from the original film.
We'll be revealing all on the movie and the conversion soon, but in the meantime we thought we'd share with you how it felt actually handling and standing with genuine props from I, Robot - including a full-size US Robotics NS-5 robot.
For those who have yet to see the film - which Fox believes could be more than a few of you - the 3D release may be the first time you encounter it, so we'll not give too much away. Needless to say, there are plenty of robots and the NS-5 series appears throughout.
One of them, Sonny, is the main star of the movie, alongside Will Smith, and although the full-size NS-5 we encountered is the same shape and height, it was used mainly in background scenes and, because of the red light in its chest, clearly wasn't a stand-in for the lead robot itself.
The red light is the only interactive part of the model. It doesn't move and has only the one operable wire emanating from the rear, with a switch to turn the bulb on and off.
What we were massively surprised about, however, was how tall the robot stands. Without a measuring tape to hand, we'd have to take a guess that it's 6ft 3ins/6ft 4 from floor to the tip of its head. Will Smith is 6ft 1.5ins, so it would be taller than him.
It's also made of incredibly solid and well-constructed parts. You'd expect some corners to be cut for a background prop - spray-painted plastic rather than actual metal sections - but the materials used give the impression that this unit could be built for real one day.
The intricate detail, such as the small parts in the head cavity, is highly impressive too. And it's worth pointing out that the face recognition software on a smartphone's camera actually identified the NS-5 as a genuine subject. Indeed, it's a little bit unnerving the way the eyes stare at you.
It's an incredible piece that's now stored in the Fox Archives on the studio lot.
Also displayed purely for our visit were several other props from the film, including the police badge used by Will Smith as Detective Del Spooner. We also got to hold and wave around one of the guns from the movie which, while made of rubber, feels incredibly solid and remarkably heavy. The realistic weight would have made it easier to act with.
The smaller items may not have been quite as impressive as the full-size USR NS-5 robot, but they're just as detailed.
I, Robot 3D will be out on 22 October in both a Blu-ray 3D edition and Limited Edition featuring a life-size replica of Sonny's head.


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Story highlights
- Israel Keyes admitted to eight killings
- Blood-soaked note was found in Keyes' cell after his suicide
- Police have described Keyes as a murder addict
They are some of the last thoughts of a serial killer, found on blood-soaked, handwritten and often poetic notes in his Alaska jail cell after he took his own life.
"Speak soft in your ear so you know that it's true. You may have been free, you loved living your lie, fate had its own scheme, crushed like a bug you still die," Israel Keyes wrote.
Keyes killed himself in December. He was in custody in the killing of barista Samantha Koenig, 18, whom he abducted from a coffee stand in Anchorage, Alaska, last February. Koenig was one of at least eight people Keyes admitted to killing, but he may have taken other lives, police have said.
Keyes' notes were released by the FBI on Wednesday after they were cleaned up at the bureau's lab in Quantico, Virginia. They were found under his body, written in a combination of pencil and ink on a yellow legal pad, the FBI said in a statement.
The bureau said the notes don't confirm any of his killings, add any new victims to his grisly toll, or offer any other clues that might help their investigation. It said an analysis showed no hidden messages or code in the four pages.
But a read of them does give a glimpse into Keyes' mind, apparently describing how it felt to take a life and the disdain in which he held much of American society.
"I looked in your eyes, they were so dark, warm and trusting as though you had not a worry or care. The more guiless (sp) the gaze the better potential to fill up those pools with your fear," Keyes wrote at one point.
"Your wet lips were a promise of a secret unspoke. Nervous laugh it burst like a pulse of blood from your throat. There will be no more laughter here," he wrote later.
"Forget the lady called luck. She does not abide near me for her powers don't extend to those who are deceased," Keyes also wrote.
Shortly after the killer's suicide in December, Anchorage police Detective Monique Doll described Keyes as a murder addict, saying police interviews with him showed he got "an immense amount of enjoyment" from killing.
"Israel Keyes never expressed in any way, shape or form that he was ashamed of or regretted his actions," Doll said in December. "He knew what he was and he was fine with it."
While he held no remorse, his writing indicates that he didn't think people in general cared for each other at all.
"Soon now, you'll join those ranks of dead, or you're ashes the wind will soon blow. Family and friends will shed a few tears, pretend it's off to heaven you go. But the reality is you were just bones and meat, and with your brain died also your soul," Keyes wrote.
Keyes criticizes U.S. society elsewhere in the four pages.
"Consume what you don't need, stars you idolize, pursue what you admit is a dream, then it's American die," he wrote.
And he appears to rip the American worker.
"Punch in the clock and sit on your ass, playing stupid ass games on your phone. Paper on your wall says you got smarts, but you still crawl like the vermin you are once your precious power grids blown," Keyes wrote.
On the last page of the note, Keyes may be referring to his impending suicide or to another of his victims, but his words are disturbing.
"Okay, all is over, words are flaccid and weak. Back it with action or it all comes off as cheap. Watch close while I work now, feel the electric of my touch, open my trembling flower, or your petals I'll crush."


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Giacomo Spigler
Interested in Computational Neuroscience and Computer Vision stuff. Website CV
Daniel Krieg
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Germany Working in Computational Neuroscience on self-organization and recurrent networks. Interested in Computer Vision and robotics. Email: krieg <at> fias.uni-frankfurt.de
Serena Ivaldi
Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Italian Institute of Technology. Email: serena.ivaldi <at> iit.it
Erick Robert Swere
Cognitive Robotics Research Centre, Department of Computing - Newport Business School. Email: erick.swere <at> newport.ac.uk
Bruno Nery
ISLab - Intelligent Systems Lab (ISR/IST, TULisbon) I'm interested in Cognitive Science and Robotics. My goal at the VVV'10 Summer School is to implement a proof-of-concept for an online event segmentation (and adaptive strong adaptation) framework (for more details click here). The result should be the iCub following a ball (on a series of inclined planes, maybe on a pendulum) with its head - do any of you guys have a colored ball? Email: bnery <at> isr.ist.utl.pt Homepage
Alexis Maldonado
I love robots, and during my PhD I have worked together with different ones: started with medium-sized league RoboCup robots, then a big B21 robot with two industry 6-DOF arms (Powercubes from Amtec), and finally have the pleasure of working with the iCub and our self-made platform with Kuka LWR-4 arms and 4-Fingered hands from the DLR: TUM-Rosie in action I have concentrated in arm/hand movements for grasping. Lately working on grasping unmodeled objects, using a Mesa SR4k time of flight camera, and finger torque sensors to adjust the grasp. This is a video that we submitted to IROS2010 together with a paper: [link to youtube] Comparison of two approaches for grasp pose selection: kinematic mesh planner vs statistical [link to youtube] Want to see what our robot 'sees' when he grasps? [link to youtube] For the summer school, I am interested two-handed manipulation with the iCub. One idea for the demo is to build stacks of Lego pieces. Please let me know if you would like to do something in this direction (Manipulation, reaching, tool use). maldonad_(at)_cs.tum.edu Introduction (pdf file) work-homepage
Federico Ruiz Ugalde
Let's do some lego building!! A Costa Rican in germany working with robot manipulation. Mechanical models of objects. Prediction of robot actions on objects. In last summer school we manage to put two lego pieces together teleoperated. In prior summers schools we implemented a potencial field base end-effector arm movement system. It can avoid obstacles and follow goal points and orientations. I'm pretty sure this will be a Summer School as "Tuanis!" as the last three. email: ruizf<AT>in.tum.de pdf file for instant messaging: memeruiz<at>gmail.com homepage
Cem Karaoguz
Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab), Bielefeld University Honda Research Institute Europe Email: ckaraogu <at> cor-lab.uni-bielefeld.de Main research interests: Active vision, active perception, system-wide learning
Onofrio Gigliotta
Insitute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies CNR, Rome Intrested in embodied cognition and evolutionary robotics. Email: onofrio.gigliotta <at> istc.cnr.it
Paolo Tommasino
I'm studying BioEngineering in Rome. Interested in Rehabilitation Robotics, Sensory motor coordination and Force/Impedance control. firstname.lastname@example.com
Björn Browatzki
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany Currently at Italian Institute of Technology working on multimodal object recognition. Interested in Computer Vision and Robotics Email: bjoern.browatzki<at>tuebingen.mpg.de
Salomon Ramirez-Contla
University of Plymouth, Devon, UK salomon.ramirez-contla plymouth.ac.uk I am interested in developing a peripersonal space representation for humanoid robots. iCub will use this representation in object manipulation and avoidance of obstacles within the volume around it that is reachable with its arms. I am using a bottom-up approach working with computer vision as well. I am from Mexico and look forward to make of this a great summer school.
Francesco Nori
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department my web page
Francesca Stramandinoli
I'm working at the University of Plymouth as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher in the European project RobotDoC, that focuses on the development of cognitive processes in robotic platforms. My research topic is about the grounding of language in humanoid robots, with particular attention to abstract words. Email: francesca.stramandinoli <at> plymouth.ac.uk
Chris Larcombe
I am currently in the first year of my PhD, working at Plymouth University (on the ITALK project). I have a background in Computer Science (B.Sc., Exeter, UK) and Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems (M.Sc., Sussex, UK). The latter was primarily focused on 'intelligence' in animals and machines from a dynamical systems perspective.
Right now I'm researching the issue of scalability in 'teleonomic' (apparently purposeful) adaptive systems, in particular how dynamical systems can learn in real-time, with the help of an 'intelligent other' (tutor), to synthesise and recombine action primitives in complex ways, in order to solve multiple tasks in complex environments. On a more practical level I am teaching the iCub to solve two object manipulation problems: stacking and sorting three coloured cubes. I'm interested in applying and further developing cybernetics and neocybernetics work, in particular the research of cyberneticist W. Ross Ashby.
As for the summer school, i'd love to have a go with the force control (torque sensors) as I think this is rather useful, and it would be great to play around with some computer vision techniques.
Perhaps these two (+ something else?) could be integrated to solve a task that requires selection of different learned postures (specified by force control) in different environments (determined through computer vision); e.g., reaching towards a coloured object in three or four different positions? Email: christopher.larcombe <at> plymouth.ac.uk
Jesus Conesa
CAR-CSIC, Madrid, Spain Working on decision making intelligent systems applied to neutralize intrusion attacks in buildings like airports, or government infrastructures. I'm interested on applying decision making intelligent systems for robots used in agriculture tasks Email: jconesa<at>iai.csic.es
I am working at TeleRobotic and Applications Department, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) I am working on advanced reasoning system in dynamic environment. It's always been my dream to apply my new algorithm on iCub. I have a background in artificial intelligence Email: mandana.hamidi<at>iit.it
Naveen Kuppuswamy
During working hours, I pretend to study adaptive sensori-motor control on various kinds of bio-inspired robots, at the Artificial Intelligence lab, University of Zurich. More info coming here when I stop drooling at the landscape to hopefully figure out what I could attempt to work on \ṃ̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣/ Homepage : http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/naveenoid/ Email : naveenoid<at>ifi.uzh.ch
Juan G Victores
I'm working on the low-level software stuff of assistive robots @ RoboticsLab @ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid


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Way back when I set out on my mission to take Wild Brown Trout from waters within the M25 (the orbital ring road that incircles London) I hooked up with [sporadic] blogger and Fly Guy, Jeremiah Quinn who had offered to act as my guide. He oversaw my first clumsy efforts to flick-a-fly as we explored the Darenth a river in Kent once fished by Charles Dickens. You can read all about it here.
Jeremiah is very well traveled and deeply committed to no-money-down fishing in rivers and streams, disdaining 'stockies' from the pay-to-play reservoirs as tame fish for the uncommitted. Often this means arduous travel by planes, trains, and public transport. He uses Greys Missionary rods to avoid that horrible moment when you're waiting to see if the ramp-monkeys have bent your rod tube into a U shape. As something of a wanderer myself I've always bought take-down or travel rods for spinning and beachcasting so I needed little convincing.
Everyone I asked said a six weight was the all-rounder for fresh water, I've got the 5/6 weight. You can fish a fly rod one up or one down so it's biggish for the chalksteams of the Darenth and Wandle, and smallish for the Thames. The rod of a suburban fly fisher. The rod of mountain stream bushwhacker.
You can spend all kinds of money on fly rods, but frankly there are limits. Sad kit-tart though I am, I'm just not in the market for an £800 rod. But my £25 rod sucked; if I'd given it a flick before writing this post it would still be vibrating now. Happily fly rods are both deeply subjective and subject to the whims of fashion. So there's often the chance to buy rods from people who've changed their minds about last weeks must-have. When a
- 8.25 feet long; handy when trying to get between the trees linning a chalk stream
- Slower than the fast 'technical' rods, faster than the sloppy slow ones, it's made a HOOJ difference to my casting.
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For nearly a month, Dwayne Harty never saw a jet contrail tapering overhead in the sky as he traversed the wilderness of Canada. If that seems unusual, what he did encounter was even more remarkable: five notoriously reclusive wolverines, a dozen grizzly bears, caribou, and bighorn sheep streaming through preternatural gaps in glacier-coated mountains.
Whenever wolves howled, which at the far northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains was a daily occurrence, he could feel the pounding heart of his packhorse beneath him.
Like other famous wildlife painters before him, Mr. Harty sought out a frontier untrammeled by civilization. What he brought back from his multiyear sojourns are stunning chronicles on canvas of solitude-seeking animals – "indicator species" whose well-being can telegraph environmental conditions to monitoring scientists and society at large.
"This incredible assemblage of wildlife art," says conservationist-turned-art curator Harvey Locke, "is like having a three-way mirror positioned in front of one of the wildest terrestrial corridors on Earth. And, lo and behold, it happens to be situated in the backyard of America and Canada."
This summer in Jackson Hole, Wyo., a novel art exhibition of contemporary and historical paintings has drawn big crowds. Its purpose is to call attention to the furry and feathered inhabitants of the continent's longest contiguous "eco-region," which transcends the borders of two countries.
"Yellowstone to Yukon: Journey of Wildlife and Art" ends its run in August at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. It has won praise for showing how fine art can illuminate issues of science and conservation in ways words alone cannot.
The perspectives wildlife art provides Mr. Locke suggests, is threefold. It enables viewers to ponder the last gasp of the Western frontier conveyed through the brush strokes of 19th-century painters and gain a clear-eyed picture on challenges likely to threaten wildlife survival, and most important, it stirs viewers to reflect on the value of nature.
That the show is running at the height of the summer tourist season, with millions of vacationers en route to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, is no coincidence.
"More than ever in an age of climate change and expanding footprints of human development, it's important to understand why healthy environments matter," Locke says.
The ambitious assemblage of paintings and sculpture features works by prominent American and Canadian nature artists who, over two centuries, were drawn to the spine of the Rockies. There they followed the winding Yellowstone to Yukon corridor stretching 2,000 miles from sand dunes and treeless sagebrush in Wyoming's Red Desert to the moose-trodden muskeg and Dall sheep crags of the high Arctic in the Northwest Territories.
Artist Harty, best known as a mural painter in his native Canada, was handed an artistic assignment that is exceedingly uncommon in the modern world. By being a modern "expedition painter," he now shares company with some of the greatest artistic visionaries who ever ventured West – people such as George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, and Albert Bierstadt, who have works in the world's finest museums.
A perfect illustration of the vital role painters have played in safeguarding the Wild West was Thomas Moran. In 1871, he accompanied scientists who were surveying a strange wonderland. A year later, his re-creations on canvas of canyons, cascading waterfalls, and ocher rock helped persuade Congress to set aside Yellowstone as the world's first national park.
Harty's contemporary renderings of the same expansive vistas provide viewers of "Yellowstone to Yukon" a visual link in understanding the evolution of North America's western ecology.
"Dwayne was selected for this modern mission because we knew his work would serve as a perfect complement to the historic paintings that are in the exhibition," says Locke.
Harty painted wolves on Ted Turner's Flying D Ranch in Montana, bison in Yellowstone, and mountain goats in Canada's remote Nahanni National Park in the Northwest Territories. He even featured the lowly pika, the alpine-dwelling rodent whose habitat is threatened by warming temperatures.
One paragon who served as a pathfinder for Harty was Carl Rungius (1869-1959), widely considered the greatest painter of North American mammals. He began his career out west in the Wind River Mountains in the 1890s at the southern extension of the Yellowstone to Yukon corridor and then, for the remainder of his life, devoted himself to portraying wildlife in the Canadian Rockies.
"It felt like I was going back in time, finding the old trails of Rungius," Harty says. "It was both humbling and daunting. I think what surprised me most is how wild the country still is."
Nearly two decades ago, Locke, who hails from the Canadian province of Alberta, helped found the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative aimed at rallying people from all walks of life to safeguard the region's biological diversity.
The value of art – particularly wildlife art – is that it inspires and unites people through a shared love of natural beauty and wonder, in contrast to a divisive political environment arguing scientific findings. This kind of visual representation can have a much more powerful impact when development threatens to disturb the landscape. For example, a North American version of the great migration undertaken by wildebeests across the Serengeti in Africa occurs with the migrating pronghorn antelope that make their home seasonally in Grand Teton National Park.
If a viewer encounters pronghorns first through art, and then learns how the migration route is imperiled by development, it could trigger a passionate engagement in helping to preserve it.
"Artists often see things first and present them in ways that can lead society to an awakening," Locke says. "Rungius intuitively figured out the binding natural architecture of Yellowstone to Yukon, and he visually charted it long before science did. Science can speak to our mind. Art talks to our heart."
The eminent Canadian wildlife artist Robert Bateman, who made a pilgrimage to Wyoming from Vancouver in late July, proudly offered a tour of the exhibition to his grown children and grandchildren.
Known throughout the world, Mr. Bateman found his "Rocky Wilderness Cougar" (1980) hanging next to Bierstadt's iconic "Elk Grazing in the Wind River Country" (1861) and Charles M. Russell's famous depiction of a grizzly feasting on prey, "To the Victor Belong the Spoils" (1901).
What the exhibition confirms with an exclamation point, says James McNutt, director of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, is the acceptance of wildlife art. It is timely, topical, and appealing to those searching for ways to show their stewardship of a rapidly changing world.
For a long time, such subject matter has been dismissed as "prosaic" and appealing only to hunters and anglers. The diverse crowds at the National Museum of Wildlife Art suggest otherwise.
In a lengthy recent essay on WildlifeArtJournal.com, Bateman marshaled a fierce defense in the growing interest in animals as subject matter. "As long as nature is here, nature art will be here to stay," he wrote. "Let's hope that the same can be said about nature itself."
There is more to come for "Yellowstone to Yukon" after it closes in Jackson Hole. Next summer, it opens at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff National Park. According to Dale Eisler, a consul general for the Canadian government stationed in Denver, it's an event Canadians are eagerly awaiting.
"I have no doubt that, one day, Dwayne Harty's paintings themselves will be regarded as historic treasures just as these other works have proved to be over time," Locke says. "In 2061, 50 years from now, they'll provide a baseline for the environment we have today."


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The Pick of the Day either needs it all or looks perfect as is, depending on your point of view
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The Pick of the Day is a highly desirable early flat-floor model of the iconic British sports car in need of restoration
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Introduced in 1961 at the Geneva Motor Show as the successor to the XK series, the Jaguar E-type, also known as the XK-E, was sleek and resembled the famous D-type race car.
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Happy Memorial Day! Due to the holiday, I'm going to keep this recap of the Married to Medicine reunion short and sweet.
Andy Cohen welcomes Kari Wells, Toya Bush-Harris, Dr. Simone Whitmore, Dr. Jackie Walters, Quad Webb-Lunceford, and Mariah Huq to the stage. Then, in order to annoy viewers as soon as possible, he asks Mariah, the show's queen bee, creator, and executive producer, to introduce the cast.
The "fierce, fabulous, and fun-loving" Quad is Mariah's best friend. She's basically the queen bee in training and some call her Mariah's puppet. Mariah refers to Dr. Jackie as Dr. Gandhi, adding that she's always prim, proper, and lady-like. Dr. Simone's less than glowing review goes something like, she's always in your face with a vodka in her hand. How insulting. This is going to be a very long hour.


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This summer will be the 150 year anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, one of the deadliest periods of the Civil War. The three days saw record causalities and is also considered one of the turning points of the war. Instead of breaking out a dusty nonfiction tome, consider The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. This fiction book does a good job at adequately describing the events that did occur, but shines at getting into the heads of the major players. We meet Lee, Longstreet and Chamberlain and start to understand their thoughts, positions, opinions and fears as they prepare and head into battle. This is well researched, and really readable. The maps give you a good visual perspective as well.
One of the things I love most about history is not only learning the outcomes and the details of the events that took place, but investigating the other possibilities, thinking about the what-ifs, and figuring out the decisions that went into what really happened.
If you are less interested in battle details, and lean more towards stories that show the impact of war on the general population there are some great Civil War options as well. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier is one of the most well-known. Critics call it slow moving, and I admit that there isn't a lot of action but the three stories of Inman, Ada and Ruby and their journeys -- both internal and physical are really moving. The storytelling is lyrical and the book has a really rich sense of place. Lesser well known is a great novel, The Widow of the South, based on a true story of the Battle of Franklin outside Nashville, Tennessee. Carrie McGavlock is already mourning three small children when the Confederate Army takes over her house and uses it as a hospital for one of the bloodiest battle of the whole war. Carrie's determination make up the most interesting aspect of this book, and this is done quite well. With multiple points of view, the reader becomes invested in several stories of pain and hardship, but also survival.
Do you have a favorite Civil War novel? Gone With the Wind? Gods and Generals by Michael Shaara's son Jeff? The school classic The Red Badge of Courage?


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The eagle offers Hope, Vision, Strength, Power, Freedom, Inspiration & Magnificence. When it rains, most birds head for shelter. The eagle is the only bird that in order to avoid the rain, flies above the clouds. An eagle can identify a rabbit moving almost […]
What is the fastest way to feel good and turn your life around?
Give…..and give with kindness and love.
Doing good deeds, thinking good thoughts and having good feelings create good belief systems.
It also feels so good. Helping other people is an amazing way to create good for yourself in so many ways.
When you do something good for someone else, you take your focus off yourself.
This is one of the best ways to cure any type of negativity, worry, anxiety or fear.
You can't think or be fearful about yourself when you are focused and present helping someone else.
The mind is a terrible thing to waste and too much time and energy is wasted by people thinking, especially about negative things. 95% of all negative thoughts never happen. What would happen if you stopped worrying and being negative? Doing something positive like helping someone else is a great remedy.
Can you imagine what the world would be like if every person did something nice for another person every day? People can be so consumed with selfishness and trying to take care of themselves. One of the wonderful benefits of helping others is that you feel great and also create a lot of good for yourself in the process.
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life………
that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
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Just smiling at someone, a kind word, or opening the door for another, or letting someone in front of you while driving can change a person's day. It is incredible what a random act of kindness can do, not just for the person receiving but for the person giving too. How about it?
Take a chance and see what happens by making eye contact with a stranger and smiling.
Start looking at how you can help others every day and watch your life expand with joy and fulfillment.
We can change the world……
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🙂 Lee
The MEGA Coach


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Marky - Sheila (I Want Her)
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