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Sept 10-13
FIA Euro Finals
Santa Pod Raceway
Sept 12-13
Beaulieu Int'l Autojumble
National Motor Museum
Sept 18-20
Goodwood Revival Meeting
Goodwood circuit
Sept 18-20
Hot Rod Drags
Shakespeare County Raceway
October 16-18
Nov 13-15
NEC Int'l Classic Car Show
Graham Jones, journalist, PR professional, business partner, regular contributor to DRCReview and long time friend, passed away on Friday September 9 after a battle with cancer.
Two new books recently dropped through our letterbox which will no doubt appeal to auto enthusiasts looking to treat themselves this Christmas.
Anyone with an interest in anything American automotive might have thought they had died and gone to heaven over the extended weekend of July 23/25 with major automotive happenings taking place in two relatively close parts of the country.
Theres nothing like the debut of a new hot rod to get tongues wagging and the imagination fired up at the start of the show season. Its fair to say Gary Chesters fresh out, 32 five-window coupe, with its pure hot rod flames expertly executed by Neil Melliard, did just that at the recent Watford Rods show held at Croxley Green, Rickmansworth.
When Les Howlett spied The "Brookville Dynaliner", the nostalgic, lakes-style 32 coupe built for Dynamat in 2005 to promote the companys sound-proofing materials, he was hooked.
Hot rodding is alive and well in Pakistan. Take a look at these amazing renderings from 25 year old Ammar Abbas and you can clearly see hes been bitten by the bug.
It seems ages ago now that the NSRA Supernationals took place at Old Warden in Bedfordshire. Much has already been written about the event, so we thought wed take a different approach now the dust has settled and see what the organisers had to say about it.
Following on from 2008s successful inaugural Florida affair at Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala, organisers of Billetproof tongue-in-cheek billed as the worlds least important car shows
This years 18th California Hot Rod Reunion , a living, breathing, nostalgic drag racing dream, will take place at Famoso Raceway near Bakersfield, California over the weekend of October 16-18.
I've managed to tick off quite a few items on my motorsports bucket list: The Goodwood Festival of Speed, Le Mans, Bonneville, the British Grand Prix and now sleeping on the lake bed at El Mirage.
I spent a day at the 2009 Sacramento Autorama on Feb 7th. The show, now in its 59th year, and one less than the Grand National Roadster Show held in Los Angeles.
I've lost count of how many Breakfast Runs we've organised to date, but for the first one of 2009 we decided to move the event to later in the calendar since last year's Easter BBR
Beaulieus MotorMart Autojumble (the little sister to the big International Autojumble held in September) has been running for 16 years and appears to have attracted a very strong European influence both in the number of traders and show visitors.
Upwards of 200 hot rods, custom and American classics braved an unpredictable May Bank Holiday Monday weather forecast for the privilege of parking their wheels on the Croxley Guild of Sports Club turf.
With over 70 cars to his name, John D'Agostino is one of the most prolific and creative customiser's on America's West coast. We knew John was visiting the UK for a short time recently and we were fortunate enough to have been able to track him down to an address in London where we were able to rattle off a few questions about his remarkable career. Read our report to find out what hehad to say.
Surrey Street Rodders have hit upon a successful formula for Wheels Day, traditionally held on Easter Friday, which seems to be more and more successful each year.
Tramping through the dirt on a cold winters day is an unglamorous way to kick-off the 2009 hot rodding season, but the NSRA swap meet, which opened its doors at Arena Essex in March,
Adrian Smith of Buckland Automotive Engineering is now racking up the miles in his one-off, recently completed 30/31 Ford Model A pick-up which has been built
Santa Barbara in California is probably best known for its inviting beaches lapped by the Pacific Ocean, but its also the birthplace of Chip Foose and continues to be the home of Sam Foose, Chips father.
Its probably true to say that the greater majority of regular visitors to DRCReview.com own a camera of some sort and are quite happy and comfortable snapping away behind the viewfinder.
As readers may have gathered from the news section, we feel honoured and delighted to be able to bring you the step-by-step rebuild of Bob Keiths 1965 AA/GD Courtesy Chevrolet dragster,
You really would have to have had your head in the sand for the last few years not to be aware of the Hot Rod Hayride.
Its been exactly a year since we last reported on the activity taking place at the Home Grown Hot Rods workshops in Southend. Its always a busy place, and as might be expected,
Adrian Smith founded Buckland Automotive in 2005, with the vision of producing hand-crafted and original hot rods. Adrian says he was building cars back when he was a teenager,
The Grand National Roadster Show 2009, which took place in January, marked the 60th anniversary of the event, and it was quite possibly the biggest GNRS ever
Think of all of the influential hot rods that have appeared over the years, and a fair number fall into the 33/34 Coupe category.
It may have been cold and inhospitable throughout December, but for many hot rodders in cosy garages, it was a time to use the holiday period to work on their projects.
Launched in America during December 1927, on the back of one of the biggest advertising campaigns the world had ever seen, the Ford Model A was an outstanding automotive success, with more than five million built by the time production ceased.
In June of this year we heard about Neil O'Shea and his one-off roadster project he is building in his purpose-built garage in Lincolnshire.
Its difficult to see where the National Custom & Sports Car Show, which took place last month at Doncaster race course on October 18/19, and which coincided with the Custom & Sports Bike Show
The first week in November was not only election time in the US, it was also time for the annual SEMA Show in Las Vegasmore commonly known as "Lost Wages".
The annual three-day funfest known as the California Hot Rod Reunion, presented by Automobile Club of Southern California, returns to Auto Club Famoso (just outside Bakersfield) for the 17th time, October 10-12.
The wait to get in a run may have been lengthy, but the number of competitors who attended the recent Hot Rod Drags at Shakespeare County Raceway spoke for itself, as many have-a-go hot rodders queued for hours
Last month you may recall we took a look at Gary Chesters in-progress 32 five window coupe, which is being expertly pieced together by Wayne Streams in Reading.
Whats new in the SCTA exhibit at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum?
There is a time in the lives of most people when events unfold that provide a glimpse of the future. In the case of born-to-be-a-hot-rodder, Tony Osborne, that moment took place at a time long ago, in a place far away . . . er, well,
Mid Surrey Roadsters members Steven and Dee Young organised a family-themed hot rod event last weekend, the Banyard Backyard Run, set in the grounds of a private home nestled in the rolling Surrey Hills. In fact, the idea for the get-together originated with hosts,
They said Lord March, proprietor of Goodwood, was there. I didn't see him.
I did see the King of Bonneville, though, riding his tricycle. He had a nice crown.
Tea-bag is the nickname adopted by Gary Chester for his in-progress, steel 32 five-window coupe, imported from New York State back in 2006 - youll see why it came by that moniker if you read on.
Some may say being on assignment for six weeks in the US of A would be great fun, but sitting in a hotel room for weeks on end is not. However, it does have some advantages - or should I say opportunities?
SuperNationals Sunday this year certainly turned out to be a surreal day, from the moment I parked up in the grounds at Old Warden and was approached by a pleasant guy from Manchester, who wanted to know if I would consider selling the Model A,
According to the BBC Weather Centre, temperatures edged up to 31C in parts of the country last weekend - hot by anyones standards. Hot was also the only way to describe many of the new cars making their public debuts at the NSRA Supernationals at Old Warden this year, notably the Willys
Once again, the throb of American V8 engines was at the very heart of this years Goodwood Festival of Speed. The keenly anticipated historic dragster line-up - 10 front-engined and one rear-engined - were positioned in two
Over Fathers Day weekend, the 6th annual Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion returned to its spiritual home at Beech Bend Raceway, Bowling Green, Ky. and what a time we had.
I am always full of admiration for people who are both self-taught and mechanically minded. Its not that Im averse to tackling the odd mechanical job or a bit of body and paint work, but the thought of building
After 20 years of racing and preparing Cobras in the UK and overseas, seasoned competitor, Bill Shepherd, recently decided on a change of direction.
To stay or not to stay? That seemed to be a consistently hot topic of conversation at Billing Aquadrome last weekend during the course of the annual Fun Run.
Calling in for a sneak preview of John Martinezs in-progress 49 Chevy truck sort of knocks you back - literally. If Johns friendly, giant-sized Labradoodles a cross between a Labrador and full-size poodle dont knock you off your feet, then the amount of work John has already put into this truck certainly will.
As usual, theres a lot of hot rodding activity going on in garages around the country right now. Although we cant hope to bring you details of everything thats being pieced together behind closed doors, we can at least provide a
Leif Tufvesson is no stranger to the world of hot rodding. His Company, Caresto, turned out some very stylish, minimalist modern hot rods using Volvo

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I wanted to bring up the ZeroByteTypeBug flag in ScaLAPACK as I do not see any mention of it in the documentation. Although this may technically be an issue with BLACS instead of ScaLAPACK...
I just set up (compiled) ScaLAPACK version 2.0.2 on a machine with OpenMPI. While trying to test the solver PSSYEVR to obtain all eigenvalues and eigenvectors, I discovered that some messages are packed with MPI_Pack in the method BI_Pack that are zero bytes. This caused a segmentation fault. Looking through the source code (for example, BI_GetMpiGeType.c), I found some comments about mpich having difficulty with zero byte messages. There is a work around already in place, but it requires setting the compile flag ZeroByteTypeBug. Setting this fixed the segmentation faults and the PSSYEVR solver seems to be working properly.
If anyone else has problems with this, I just changed in SLmake.inc the line
CDEFS = -DAdd_
CDEFS = -DAdd_ -D ZeroByteTypeBug
and ran "make clean" followed by "make all" for the ScaLAPACK code. You will probably want to recompile your program as well.
Anyway, I do not see anything in the ScaLAPACK documentation about this flag. Perhaps it is there and I just missed it. If it is not there, adding something about the ZeroByteTypeBug flag could really save time for some people


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Washington Support Organizations
4Culture (Formerly Cultural Development Authority (CDA) of King County)
Charlie Rathbun, Arts Program
101 Prefontaine Place South
Seattle, WA 98104
Individual & organizational grants; Programs for Arts, Heritage, Public Art and Education. Directory of artists & space study on artists' needs.
Access Arts Line
1211 E John Street, Apt A
Seattle, WA 98102
Access Arts Line is a project of Arts & Visually Impaired Audiences; support from United Blind of Seattle King County chapter of the Washington Council for the Blind. Audio-Description Service is sponsored by the Allied Arts Foundation and Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences. Audio-Description Service receives grants from: King County Arts Commission, Seattle Arts Commission, City of Seattle.
Allied Arts Foundation
Allied Arts Foundation
3518 Fremont Ave N #521
Seattle, WA 98103-8814
Non-profit Grants - individual artists and organizations.
Gives money for the Arts, Architecture, Historical Preservation, and Urban Environment efforts in the Greater Seattle area
Grants & event planning. Allied Arts spearheaded the effort to create the Seattle Arts Commission and the country's first "One Percent for Art" program, which requires that a percentage of all government construction project budgets be devoted to arts purchases. 1952 -- . Offer umbrella sponship to arts organizations.
Art Access
Publisher: Cultural Guide
Founded 1982 published ten times annually. Distributed free to hotels, galleries, theatres, restaurants, museums, bookstores, etc. from Portland to Seattle.
Deadlines 10th of the month.
Art/Not Terminal Gallery
2045 Westlake Ave
Seattle, WA 98121
Art gallery with performance space.
Co-op schedules small rehearsal and performance stage with resilient floor in back of gallery.
Artist Trust
Margit Rankin, Executive Director
1835 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
Arts Agency
Provides grants to individuals: Fellowships ($5,000 awards to artists) GAPs - Grants for Artist Projects (up to $1,000 for projects generated by artists). GAP provides support to develop new ideas and directions or to complete projects which have partial or no funding. May also include travel and research. Awards are made by an inter-disciplinary selection committee. Access to Affordable Health Care.
Arts Northwest
Karen Hanan, Executive Director
P.O. Box 1354
Port Angeles, WA 98362
Arts Northwest is a membership organization of performing artists, performing arts managers, presenters of the performing arts and local arts councils in the Northwestern United States and Western Canada.
Holds annual booking conference, Arts Northwest.
Mission: Maintain a communications network among presenters of performing arts events throughout the Northwest region of the United States and Canada.
ArtsEd Washington
158 Thomas Street, Suite 16
Seattle, WA 98109
fax: 206-441-3042
ArtsEd Washington works to ensure that all students in Washington state have access to a complete education that includes the arts. We believe that the only equitable way to reach every child is to teach the arts at school, during school hours.
Mari Horita, President and CEO
10 Harrison Street, Suite 200
PO Box 19780
Seattle, WA 98109-6780
Network - Business funding for the arts
Founded: 1969; former name: Corporate Council for the Arts: CCA. Distributes grants to individuals and theatre companies, which have been in existence longer than three years. Assists businesses by working as the middle-man between the businesses and the arts community. ArtsFund interviews & screens grants. Provides a means for individuals to support non-profit arts organizations in the Puget Sound region. Gifts can be made independently or through a workplace giving drive.
Over 300 listings featuring artists in all performing arts disciplines; comprehensive listing of artists available for touring. artists such as tour availability, fees, shows offered (community, school, corporate etc), photos. Artists are interested in touring in BC, Alberta, Yukon, Alaska, Washington, Idaho and Oregon.
Audio-Description Service
Incorporated in 1999 as a project of Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences, and is made possible in part by the SAC, KCAC, WSAC, NEA and the Jack Straw Foundation.
AVIA: Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences
Jesse Minkert, Executive Director
400 Harvard Ave. E. #202
Seattle, Washington 98102-4951
telephone (voice): 206-323-7190
Access Arts Line
(voicemail messages): 206-528-2085
Non-profit organization
Access Arts Line is a recorded voicemail service providing information on access for blind and visually impaired people to the arts in the Seattle area. The Access Arts Line is a project of Arts & Visually Impaired Audiences; The Access Arts Line is supported by the King County Arts Commission and Sound Telecom. The Audio-Description Service provides live descriptions of scheduled performances of plays in Seattle theaters. Audio description is a project of Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences. Audio-Description Service receives grants from: King County Arts Commission, Seattle Arts Commission, City of Seattle, the Washington State Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Blind Youth Audio Project
Seattle, WA
Non-profit organization
AVIA collaborates with Jack Straw Productions so visually impaired teenagers work with producers and audio engineers at Jack Straw's audio production facility.
Blue Scooter Productions
Marketing Communications/ Storytelling in Multiple Media
Bill Murray, Writer-Director-Producer
Broadway Across America
2033 6th Ave
Suite 995
Seattle, WA 98121
Road shows
Allows searching by city and show title of shows touring as part of the SFX Theatrical Group, Inc. the largest network of venues in the country - Seattle includes Paramount and Moore. Short list of cities with job openings
CAFN: Cultural Arts Foundation Northwest
P.O. Box 291
Poulsbo, WA 98370
Volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to furthering arts in Kitsap County.
Publishes Arts Journal, which includes information on Classes & Workshops. Quarerly Reference Guide listing special events and opportunities for contests, exhibitions, and jobs.
Center for Movement Arts and Therapy
Stace Goodrich & Margaret Sutro, Directors
418 N35th St
Seattle, WA 98103-8607
Business - Health
Psychotherapists dealing with Physician or self-referral.
The Center School
Judy Peterson, Principal
Seattle Center
Seattle, WA
6-12 arts, science and media emphasis. Collaborate with: Pacific Science Center, Intiman, PNB, Experience Music Project & KCTS
Creative Talent Development
Barbara Rey
PO Box 482
Bellevue, WA 98009-0482
Workshops, Agent, publishes talent resource guide
Cultural Ecologies
Contact: Nancy Lynn Newman
PO Box 3097
Port Angeles, Wa 98362
Board development, strategic planning, leadership, community outreach
Dan Morris
Seattle, WA
Photographer of headshots and posters
Dramatists & Actors Meeting Now: DAMN
505 Belmont Ave
Seattle, WA 98102-
EARS, Inc. (Educational Arts Resource Services), Inc.
1100 Dexter Ave N
Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98109
Business - Publisher and Workshops
Promote and support art groups, teachers, and students of art by providing a variety of services and products that connect these groups with artists and their skills and knowledge.
605 Woodland Sq. Loop SE
Olympia, WA 98507-9046
America's Job Bank is a partnership between the US Department of Labor and the state operated public Employment Service. The America's Job Bank computerized network links state Employment Service offices to provide job seekers with the largest pool of active job opportunities available anywhere and nationwide exposure for their resumes. For employers it provides rapid, national exposure for job
Whidbey Island
PO Box 1231
Freeland, WA 98249-9911
telephone: 360-321-4786
216 1st Ave S. Suite 251
Seattle, WA 98104
telephone: 206-325-6773
Writers' retreat stay from one week to two months. Founded by Nancy Skinner Nordquist. Writers invited. 2.5 : 1 ration staff to writers. Six individual cabins and shared dining.
I.A.T.S.E. District One International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Pictures Technicians, Artists, & Allied Crafts; Studio Mechanics of the Pacific Northwest
2800 First Avenue, Suite 231
Seattle, WA, 98121
telephone: 206-441-1515
fax: 206-448-5325
2800 1st Ave, Rm 228
Seattle, WA 98121
Phone: 206-448-0668
Serves Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Western Montana -- movies and commercials. Benefits: safe working conditions, health coverage and retirement to members.
J9 Casting
Janine Grant
Seattle, WA
Jack Straw Productions Audio
Joan Rabinowitz, Executive Director
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105-6999
Founded in 1962. Audio production and training center dedicated to the creation, production, and presentation of all forms of audio art. Commissions independent artists in all disciplines to create sound and audio productions; provides education programs for youth and adults. Sponsors annual artist residencies. 16-track facility with full range of studio recording services for artists of all types.
MEDIA INC's Media Index Publishing Inc.
1201 1st Avenue S. #309
PO Box 24365
Seattle, WA 98124-0365
Publishes Northwest Production Index, Media Inc. Magazine, and other indexes
Network and organizer for Northwest Film Industry. Publishes a variety of directories including: Media/Northwest Film, Video and Audio Production Index.
Northwest Screenwriters Guild
4616 25th Ave. NE - PMB #439
Seattle, WA 98105 Kim Cunningham, President
The Northwest Screenwriters Guild is a non-profit screenwriting organization
dedicated to helping screenwriters in the Northwest further their craft and careers. Maintains Resources for Screenwriters
Washington State Arts Alliance
1204 Minor Ave
Seattle, WA 98101
Mark Gerth, Executive Director
The members of the Washington State Arts Alliance are artists, arts organizations, business people, arts educators, policy makers, parents, and people from all walks of life who are committed to keeping the arts strong and at the center of community life across Washington State.


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Affix is a simple but powerful library. In this pack you will find 100 sounds in 29 files aimed to enhance and enrich Cinematic Impacts in your project thanks to a nice selection of movements, braams and tense and big Impact Elements.
With these Production Elements you can add deep, energy and power to your Impacts and are great for create a more dramatic and intense feeling in trailers, movies, games and music.
Also, you can use the sounds in Affix to enrich atmospheres, drones and create movements.
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"Affright" is a collection of 208 sounds (Wav, 24 Bit / 48 kHz) aimed to induce tension, fear and urgency in horror productions.
You will find looped percussive elements (clocks, metals, hits, alarms, musical elements and more at 75 bpm), designed rhythmic elements (75 bpm) and fx (atmospheric elements, reverses, noises, risers, drops).
If you are a musician who wants to define the building blocks of an intense horror track or maybe you are a sound designer who needs to create a musical moment in a scene from a sound design perspective, this library can help you to achieve those things.
Metals, vinyl noises, voices, ukuleles, flutes, guitars and clocks were used to create this intense pack of 164 loops and 44 Fx.
Check the main demo!! It was created very quickly using only the sounds of the pack with NO ADDED EFFECTS, only mixing the levels of the sounds and shows you the intensity of what you can create with this library!!
African Cloud Forest is a collection of immersive ambiences recorded in Ethiopia's high-altitude montane rainforests. These recordings will transport you to the heart of remote cloud forests, teeming with wildlife and free from man-made noise.
African Jungle is a huge collection of unique ambiences recorded in Central Africa's Congo Basin rainforests. To my knowledge, these are the first surround field recordings made in this area. Last year I spent a whole month off the grid, listening to and recording a variety of habitats at all times of day and night, at the height of the rainy season when birds are most vocal. It took me many days of travel to get to these places, from using trains, boats, cars and planes to hiking on foot in the jungle.
African Rainforest is an expansive collection of recordings made in the various types of rainforest that lie on the Ugandan side of the Albertine Rift, ranging from high-altitude afromontane to tropical lowland jungles.
From the spooky croaking choruses of black and white colobus monkeys to barking baboons, hooting DeBrazza's monkeys, moaning Mona monkeys, screaming chimpanzees, warbling mangabey and the otherworldly twang of the blue monkey, these forests are packed to the brim with primates calling from the canopy. Yet beyond all the monkey exuberance, these recordings are characterised by tranquility and spaciousness, where slow lazy bird calls are interspersed by gently fluttering insect choruses and pinging tree frogs.
Available in stereo and surround and covering all times of day, African Rainforest not only features lengthy ambient recordings but also includes a number of close-up vocalisations of two kinds of great ape: chimpanzee and mountain gorilla, recorded on location in their natural habitat.
• 5.5 hours of lush ambiences in surround & stereo
• 10 primate species
• 50+ birds
• Numerous frogs and mammals
• Bonus recordings of close up chimp & gorilla vocalisations
African Wild West is a collection of lush and immersive ambiences recorded in Senegal over the course of a 3-week trip in 2017. The library consists of 70 recordings totaling more than 6 hours, available both as stereo and surround. The recordings have been captured with a Sennheiser Double Mid-Side rig both at all times of day and night in the following locations:
African Wildlife is an utterly unique collection of pristine wildlife and nature sounds, recorded in the wilderness of Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia over a period of 4 months, 2015. It comes in four categories, covering Mammals, Birds, Ambience and Insects recordings.
It features animals such as elephant, baboon, jackal, lion, rhino, buffalo, hippo, impala, zebra, bat and hyena, as well as insects and 45 species of birds. 50 minutes of ambience recordings are also included.
The diversity of African wildlife sounds is widely reflected in this library, with the material including but not limited to screaming, barking, growling, roaring, breathing, grunting, feeding, hooting, warbling, screeching, farting, guffawing, whooping, gurgling, rutting, yapping, snorting, tweeting, trumpeting, chattering and squeaking.
Extensive metadata including detailed information on location, species, habitat, behaviour and usage is included, formatted for Soundminer. Metadata sheets in .xls and .csv formats are also provided.
Recording equipment: Sennheiser MKH8040-ST (ORTF) / Sony D100 / Telinga MK2 / Sound Devices USBPre2 / Tascam DR-680
Ambiences of Markets, Skylines, a Café etc. from Agadir, Morocco, by award winning Sound Recordist and Sound Editor Rob Bourke, edited and mastered by Sound Designer Ian Macbeth.
The Agusta A109 sound fx library features 243 clips in 12.22 gigabytes from an Italian
military helicopter. This collection includes recordings from 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206C Turboshaft engines with 418 kW (561 hp) each, recorded during a military exercise.
A total of 22 exterior perspectives capture the sound of this helicopter in 14 takes.
Microphones arranged at the front, side, and behind record idling, departing, and
arriving. A range of low to high turbine and rotor RPMs are captured in stationary idles.
Each sound is embedded with Soundminer metadata. The collection is also bundled
with Reaper and Pro Tools sessions that arrange each take for easy editing and mixing.
This collection of Air Conditioners, Vents, and Ducts gives a collection of understated airs and room tones appropriate for most every day situations.
Recording of an Air Creation Tanarg 912 S Motor Glider Trike with a Rotax 4 cylinder engine while flying and stationary on the ground.
The French Air Creation Tanarg 912 S Motor Glider Trike sound collection includes 258 sound clips in 17.55 gigabytes of audio. It features the sound of a Rotax 4 cylinder engine while flying and stationary on the ground.
The bundle includes 10 synchronized takes of onboard and exterior perspectives. The 13 onboard perspectives feature recordings of the prop, exhaust, engine, and cockpit while taking off, flying, landing and performing stationary RPMs, idles, and revs. The 10 exterior perspectives also mirror the stationary ultralight recordings, as well as providing flyovers, fly bys, landing, and take offs. There are also performed effects of cockpit instruments.
The package includes Pro Tools and Reaper mixing sessions, custom mixes of the onboard perspectives, full professional metadata in 18+ fields, and metadata keyword import files for 7 languages.
Need the ambience of airports, security areas or on-board a commercial airliner during an international flight?
This library delivers: Getting you 4 hours of crowds and atmospheres recorded at 10 different international airports – and on-board multiple airliners with different seat perspectives in-flight, landing, taxi and crew announcements included.
As part of travelling around recording sound, you tend to spend many hours in airports.
This collection of high-quality ambient sounds were recorded in 18 countries.
Expect to hear small, medium and large interior crowds, loudspeaker announcements in all kinds of languages, internal passenger vehicles speeding by, the many beeps and musical tones of airport security clearance, and a whole lot of accents.
Recorded in both domestic and international airports in Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Ireland, Portugal, New Zealand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cuba, Australia, Montenegro, Russia, Finland, Switzerland, France and Morocco.
All tracks were recorded in high definition by Evan Buist, sound engineer and field recordist (National Geographic, DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures).
Airports From The Archive features recordings made in and around airports in the UK, Europe and the USA.
It comes with 42 files in 24bit / 48kHz, many long atmospheres with and without announcements and including four recordings that have the hard-to-find Solari Departure Board sounds included. All files are Soundminer Metadata embedded.
All in all, you get more than three hours of great, authentic airport sounds in this library.
Over 400 focused sound design accents of airy swooshes, subtle swipes, thin whooshes, and breathy fly-ins.
This collection features:
The Avtomat Kalashnikova needs no introduction, so let us at Flysound instead draw your attention to the intricate treatment we gave this iconic assault rifle at the outdoor range, and also back at the studio for handling foley.
Our all-angle library includes the recording of distant shots on Neumann U87s in quadro formation. Our mic-ing and capturing process has been varied enough to give you all the sound versatility you'll need for a fully dynamic project. An official Russian military shooter handled the weapon – standard issue AK-74M, and manipulated it for us to record all the relevant sounds manifested by its celebrated engineering design.
Also included are several pre-designed mixed sounds for quick-use without additional mixing needed. We offer this comprehensive library of fire, single-round and automatic, and all the accompanying handling factors that you will need when it comes time in your project for the ting to go skrrrrra!
This sound effect library delivers a comprehensive collection of designed alarm sounds covering all types of alarm: small and large, high tech and vintage sounding, distorted and clean, complex and simple, fast and slow, continuous sirens, harsh buzzers and subtle beeps.
The sounds can be used for a wide range of alart and alarm sounds, including: car alarms, smoke detectors, timers and clocks, air raid sirens, medical equipment, police and emergency sirens, fire alarms, home security devices, digital watches, gadgets and communication devices.
With A Sound Effect, Asbjoern has created a web site where our international community can browse, learn, and share the vast fruits of our labors. Together we are accelerating the very real potential power of sound design as a recognized art form.
A Sound Effect is an excellent resource for us to keep our animated films sounding unique and exciting.
A Sound Effect is a great asset to have discovered.
We found the site very easy to navigate, purchasing and downloads were effortless and the effects themselves are awesome! Asbjoern has done us all a great service.
We'll definitely be back!
There are many great independent sound effect libraries available these days. The main problem with having so many, is keeping track of them!
A Sound Effect is a great hub, and is one of the first places I visit to look for sounds by category or genre. I started coming here to see if I could find libraries that I knew I had heard, but forgot WHERE I had heard them.
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A Sound Effect is a wonderful resource for indie sound effects libraries. On top of that, it has some of the finest sound design, film and game audio interviews!
I often need very specific types of sounds so I've become a big supporter of independent recorders.
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A Sound Effect is a well curated boutique sound effects shop and a great place to find industry interviews and learning resources.


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At King George Square in Brisbane, Queensland, Blizzard Entertainment developers will be on hand to celebrate the midnight launch of the game with players and sign newly released copies. Lines begin forming the evening of July 26, and the game goes on sale at midnight on July 27. Quantities are limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, so be sure to arrive early!
In addition to the game itself, there will be special prize giveaways, Cosplay, Trivia, Unit "Sound-a-like"contest and more. So don't miss out on the excitement -- head over to King George Square in Brisbane from 9:30pm of the 26th and be among the first to celebrate the arrival of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty with Blizzard Entertainment and EB Games. In the words of Tychus Findlay, "Hell, it's about time...."


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When did I become a Taxi Driver?
I hope I never stop loving my car because I really am spending more and more time in it. Along with the other hats I wear during the day my "taxi driver" hat is being worn a lot! It appears that each year my kids grow older we find additional things that require me to take them here, there and everywhere. I swear that my seat never gets cold because as soon as I get home I am right back out the door to go somewhere else. My kids are only involved in a few school activities, clubs and our church youth group. I don't know how other parents do it whose kids are involved in many other outside activities.
I really think that car manufacturers could make a mint on the "taxi driver mom's" if they included a kitchen and laundry room so that we could get more chores done while on the road and waiting in the car rider lines! Technology supplied us with all kinds of entertainment in our cars from radio, navigation systems and DVD systems so why not a microwave and washer? You are probably now thinking that they do make that. They are called motor homes. Believe me I have thought about it!
With gas prices rising it is a fear of mine on how these increasing trips everywhere will play out. I go through almost a whole tank of gas a week and I basically only travel within a 5 mile radius from my home during that week. We certainly want to encourage our children to participate in a variety of activities but I do worry how families can continue to afford all these trips with higher gas prices.
On the flip side I do love the time I can spend talking with my kids and connecting with them. We enjoy singing songs and talking about the day. My car has become the place to catch up with them even more than the dinner table anymore!
How many hours a day do you spend driving your kids?


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I'm looking for any network layers that are available to add to my game, either free or with fair pricing for indie games.
By network layers I mean some sort of library which I can interface with, that I will be able to send messages to and receive messages from, and it will handle all the low-level information by itself.
I'm especially looking for:
- High quality libraries that understand and deal with complex things such as network congestion.
- Scalable libraries, that will allow me to have a lot of players playing together.
- Preferably a peer-to-peer solution, and not a server based one.
- Preferably a library that has binding for high-level languages (such as Java or C#).
An example of what I'm looking for is Grapple, but I know there are other libraries available.


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Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor, Climate Change Minister James Shaw and visiting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte co-hosted a business roundtable in Auckland this morning focused on work
Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor says a slew of new research projects will boost New Zealand's world-leading efforts to help farmers understand and mitigate the effects of climate change.
The Government has welcomed Danone's announcement today of a $40 million investment into making its Balclutha milk powder plant carbon neutral.
The Government has reached an historic consensus with farming leaders to implement farm-level pricing of climate change emissions from the agriculture sector by 2025; signalling a strong commitment from the Government and farming leadership to cooperate in order to tackle climate change, announced the Minister for Climate Change, James Shaw.
The Wellbeing Budget provides opportunities to grow and modernise New Zealand's economy while ensuring a just transition to a low emissions future. We need to preserve and enhance our environment, as part of the foundation for our long-term wellbeing.
New survey research, released today, shows farmers are focused on sustainability and the impacts of climate change more than ever.
Changes to the Terms of Reference for the Interim Climate Change Committee will better prepare the Government to initiate meaningful change to key legislation, addressing the implications of our changing climate.
The latest winners of a New Zealand and CCAFS-funded international PhD scholarship have been announced following a three-fold increase in applications.
The Ministers of Agriculture and Climate Change welcome the report of the Biological Emissions Reference Group (BERG), which has been released today.
A helping hand for busy farmers is at the heart of a new service launched today to spread skills and knowledge across the primary sector, say Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor and Climate Change Minister James Shaw.
Budget 2018 invests in projects to build sustainability, productivity and resilience across the primary sector as the Government works alongside farmers and rural communities to provide leadership on some of New Zealand's most pressing issues, say Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor and Climate Change Minister James Shaw.
Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor and Climate Change Minister James Shaw are pleased to announce the first successful candidates of a New Zealand-funded international doctorate scholarship programme for budding agriculture scientists.


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American Buttercream Frosting {Recipe}
Often the most beloved element of a cupcake is the frosting. A good frosting can elevate a simple cupcake to a delicious, rich dessert. Classic American buttercream is surprisingly easy to make, and can be adjusted to your personal preferences using added flavorings, and adjusting the ratio of the ingredients. American buttercream is simply a combination of butter, powdered sugar, vanilla (or other flavoring), and usually a bit of milk or cream- that's pretty much it! The frosting I love to use the most often is my Cream Cheese Frosting, which is simply a variation on American Buttercream, with some cream cheese added. Free free to play with this recipe and adjust it to your palate. This is a very sweet, classic frosting that pairs well with most any flavor of cupcake.
American Buttercream Frosting
1 cup (2 sticks) Challenge butter (salted, or unsalted)
1/4 teaspoon salt (if using unsalted butter)
4 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (best quality available)
2-3 tablespoons heavy cream, half and half or milk.
*Optional- As mentioned above, I like a cream cheese version of this frosting best. The cream cheese adds to the creamy texture, and cuts down on the sweetness just a bit. If desired, for a very light cream cheese flavor add 1/2 block (4 oz). cream cheese, leaving the other ingredients (as listed above) the same. For a more traditional cream cheese flavor, reduce the butter to 1/2 cup, and add 1 block (8 oz.) of cream cheese. If using a full block of cream cheese, you can reduce the cream or milk to 1 tablespoon total.
Flavoring options– An almost unlimited number of flavoring options can be added in addition to, or instead of the vanilla. Orange and/or lemon zest, citrus extracts, mint extract, coconut extract or the seeds of a vanilla bean are all wonderful options. In most cases I'll still add 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla, then 1/2 teaspoon of the other flavoring. For zest, add about 1 teaspoon fresh zest. For chocolate buttercream, add 1/2 cup (good quality) unsweetened cocoa powder.
* In the bowl of an electric mixer, fitted with the whisk attachment, beat butter (on medium speed) until completely smooth (30 seconds to a minute). (If you are adding cream cheese, add it now, then beat until smooth)
* Add salt (if needed).
* One cup at time, add 2 cups of powdered sugar, beating after each addition.
* Add vanilla, or other flavorings and beat to combine.
* Add about 1 tablespoon of cream, and continue beating.
* Add the remaining 2 cups powdered sugar, one at a time.
* Add an additional 1-2 tablespoons cream until desired consistency is reached. If you want to pipe the frosting on cupcakes, the frosting should be nice and thick. Continue to beat another minute or so. The frosting should now be smooth and fluffy.
* If your frosting is not smooth, it is likely because the butter was not fully smooth before adding the other ingredients.
* If your frosting will not hold up when piped on cupcakes, your frosting has too much liquid or is too warm. Put entire bowl of frosting in the fridge for 15-20 minutes and it will stiffen up. If it is still too thin, then add 1/4 to 1/2 cup powdered sugar, beat well.
Recipe Source- American buttercream first appeared in cookbooks in the early 1900's (here's a little buttercream history) Countless sources since then have included very similar versions, always using some combination of butter (or shortening), powdered sugar, milk and flavoring. The recipe above is simply the proportions I like to use.
Try this classic frosting on top of my favorite Vanilla Cupcakes or Chocolate Cupcakes.
Happy frosting!


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Davidson Wildcats meet & greet tickets:
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NAACP President Ben Jealous to step down this year
Jealous helped grow civil rights organization tremendously in 5 years
The NAACP's board is forming a search committee to find the next president and CEO for the nation's largest civil rights organization, its chairwoman said Monday.
Chairwoman Roslyn Brock said during a conference call that she expects the change in leadership to be an orderly transition. Outgoing NAACP President Benjamin Jealous also used the call to elaborate on his desire to spend time with his children, a reason he cited in his announcement the previous day. His departure is effective Dec. 31.
Brock said the board is disappointed Jealous is leaving after five years during which he was credited with boosting the organization's finances and increasing stability. Still, she said staff members left energized after a meeting with Jealous on Monday.
"The NAACP is alive, and it's well," Brock said. "We have a strategic plan in place that will guide our work for the next 50 years."
Jealous said during the call that he signed a new contract last year that was negotiated to keep him at the NAACP for a maximum of three more years. He said there was a clause allowing him to leave sooner because he was wrestling with the need to spend more time with his family.
He said he'd promised his daughter several years ago that he needed five years to do important work at the NAACP before he could return home and be fully engaged with the family. His daughter, now 7, reminded him each year of his promise.
"It just became clear during the month of August that I needed to go ahead and keep my promise to my daughter," he said.
Jealous said that donations increased from $23 million in 2007 -- the year before he was hired -- to $46 million in 2012. The group also said its donors have increased from 16,000 people giving each year to more than 132,000 under his leadership.
Jealous said the improvements in the organization's finances made him feel comfortable that he'd kept his promise to the board that he'd be a successful leader.
Next, the 40-year-old Jealous said he wants to teach at a university and start a political action committee focused on promoting black and Latino candidates, along with progressives of all races.
News of his departure has been met with a mixture of sadness and appreciation from other civil rights leaders who admired how he helped the organization. Jealous was the group's youngest-ever leader when he was hired as its president at age 35 in 2008.
In the year before Jealous arrived, the NAACP cut its national staff by a third because of what a spokesman described at the time as several years of falling fundraising revenues. Also that year, former NAACP President Bruce Gordon abruptly resigned after clashes with the group's 64-member board.
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil rights leader and former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said Jealous brought an intellectual quality and a level of integrity that won respect.
"I'm sorry to see him resign, although I understand he has other plans. But, I think he was just getting into his stride," Lowery said Sunday evening. "I think he brought a luster to the office that was quiet and dignified and effective, and I wish him well in his new work."
The Rev. Al Sharpton said he felt "mixed emotions" about Jealous' announcement, which included sadness because Jealous had led the organization so well.
"Not only was he able to revive the NAACP and raise its budget to higher heights, he joined us in the streets in real civil rights activity on the ground," Sharpton said in a written statement. "From the 'suites to the streets,' he will be missed as head of the NAACP, but I am sure he will not leave us in his contribution to the struggle."
Jealous began his career as a community organizer in Harlem with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He was suspended from Columbia University in New York City after organizing student protests and went on to work as a reporter for the Jackson Advocate newspaper in Mississippi.
Jealous has led the NAACP to advocate against "stop-and-frisk" police tactics and stand-your-ground laws following the death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. He has also fought to abolish the death penalty at the state level, in Maryland, New Mexico, Illinois and Connecticut.
During Jealous's tenure, the NAACP also has embraced gay rights in a historic vote to endorse same-sex marriage in May 2012. "Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law," the group said, citing the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.


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Holy Loch
The Holy Loch is a sea loch which lies two miles north of Dunoon on the Cowal peninsula. Approximately one mile across, the loch extends inland for between two and three miles the west, depending on the tide. The entrance lies on the west coast of the Firth of Clyde, marked by Strone Point to the north, and Hunter's Quay to the south.
Origin of the name
The name of the Holy Loch has a number of stories related to its creation, ranging from pre-Christian tales of Sun or Sun-god worship in the area (which has a number standing stones), through Saint Mungo (also known as St Kentigern, patron saint and founder of Glasgow) in the 6th century and the story of a ship being lost in the loch while carry soil from the holy land to be laid under Glasgow Cathedral (Saint Mungo was buried on the site in AD 612), to Saint Munn in the 10th century, who landed there from Ireland. While these stories are often found expanded in greater detail, all are vague and none can be related to documented records which can be cited as reference sources, and are mentioned here for that reason, as there seems to no verifiable history of the name.
Lazaretto Point
Lazaretto Point lies on the southwest shore of the Holy Loch, and lies between Ardnadam to the west, and Sandbank to the east. Directly opposite Lazaretto Point, on the northeast shore of the loch, is Graham's Point, once connected by a small ferry which sailed between the two points.
Lazaretto Point Quarantine Station
Lazaretto Point was the site of a quarantine station, built in 1807 the station was installed to prevent the importation of disease along with the bales of cotton arriving by boat. The station was demolished in 1840.
Described by the Concise Oxford Dictionary as a word of Italian origin, lazaretto is defined as "a hospital (chiefly in foreign countries) for diseased poor, esp. lepers; building or ship for performing quarantine in; after part of ship's hold used for stores."
The name Lazaretto is probably derived from the parable of Lazarus, the sore-covered leper who became the patron saint of leprosy, being a combination of his name and Santa Maria di Nazareth, the church on the Venetian island where the first quarantine station was opened. During the Black Death of the 14th century, Venice established the first formal system of quarantine, requiring ships to lay at anchor for 40 days before landing. The World Health Organisation (WHO) traces the beginnings of quarantine to the 14th century: "A period of 40 days or 'quarantenaria' became established later as the usual period of isolation for sea-borne travellers and goods suspected of harbouring infectious diseases. From this the word 'quarantine' was derived.". Although there do not appear to be any other instances of Lazaretto being used in the UK, the name can be found on a number of similar locations around the world.
Lazaretto Point War Memorial
A large war memorial in the form of a round tower is sited on Lazaretto Point. Built during the 1920s, in remembrance of those who fell in World War I, the names of those who have fallen in subsequent conflicts have since been added, together with those lost in incidents in the Holy Loch. The monument has become a focal point for American personnel who served at the US Submarine Base which was located there for 31 years, until 1992.
The memorial sits on a relatively exposed point of land, which is subject to sea erosion, meaning that the monument is in danger of being lost if the site is note maintained. In 2005, refurbishment works were carried out at a cost believed to be approaching �40,000. The Holy Loch American Veterans Association collected �300 towards the work, which was presented to the Sandbank Community Development Trust, to be used as part-payment of the �500 restoration cost associated with the lamp mounted on the stone pillar west of the main monument.
US submarine refit facility Site One
Site One was a US submarine refit facility which was located on the southern shore of the Holy Loch for 31 years.
In autumn 1959, the US Government had to provide forward servicing facilities for the first SSBN squadron to be based in the UK, and studies were carried out to determine the most suitable location for such a refit facility, leading to the final selection of the Holy Loch in July 1960. The area offered deep, sheltered access, and had already seen service during World War II, as a Royal Navy submarine base. Following an approach to the British government, requesting permission to establish a refit site in the United Kingdom for Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarines, an agreement was negotiated which permitted the US to use the Holy Loch, on the Firth of Clyde, for the anchorage of a submarine tender, a large dry dock, and other supporting craft.
Submarine Squadron 14, referred to as SUBRON-14, was assigned to the Holy Loch. Unlike a more conventional squadron, a submarine squadron commander and his staff always remain in home port, and are responsible only for the training, equipping and administering of the ships under its umbrella.
- March 3, 1961, SUBRON-14 (Submarine Squadron 14) arrived on the Holy Loch, with the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS 19). FBM Refit Site One became active as Commodore Ward embarked.
- March 6, 1961, USS Patrick Henry (SSBN 599) arrived, and Proteus commenced the first Site One refit.
- January 1963, the Proteus was relieved by the USS Hunley (AS 31).
- August 1966, the Hunley was relieved by the USS Simon Lake (AS 33).
- May 1970, the Simon Lake was relieved the USS Canopus (AS 34).
- November 1975, the Canopus was relieved by the USS Holland (AS 32).
- January 1982, the Holland was relieved by Hunley (for a 2nd tour).
- June 1987, the Hunley was relieved by the Simon Lake (for a second tour) which served until March 1992.
On June 1, 1961, the four sections making up the floating dry dock USS Los Alamos (AFDB 7) were towed into the Holy Loch. A crew of 500 men from Mobile Construction Battalion 4, the Seabees, spent the next five months to assembling the vessel, which became fully operational in November 1961. This marked the beginning over 30 years of almost continuous service on the waters of the Clyde, during which the Los Alamos completed over 2,800 submarine docking operations. The floating dock could handle up to five submarines, with four being moored alongside while one was raised within the dock itself.
Los Alamos' service was not continuous, and in 1969 she left the Holy for almost a year when she was towed the Scott Lithgow yard at Port Glasgow to allow essential maintenance and overhaul work to be carried out.
The number of submarines supported by SUBRON-14 varied over the years, however an indication of the scale of the operation can be seen in the number of patrols carried out. On April 2, 1987, the USS Mariano G Vallejo (SSBN 658), completed the 2,500th Ballistic Missile Deterrent Patrol to be carried out by the submarine fleet.
SUBRON-14 expanded rapidly as the personnel gained experience and the number of supported submarines grew, but there would never a base at Holy Loch; instead, the US Navy facilities were integrated with the local community, with Sandbank and Dunoon providing shore facilities. In May 1962, the US Navy arranged for the old Ardnadam Hotel to be converted into an enlisted mens' club, commissary and exchange. All personnel lived ashore, residing in rooms or homes rented from members of the local community. American children received their education in primary schools in Dunoon, Kirn, Sandbank and St Munn�s, then in Dunoon Grammar School when they were older. Americans became active participants in many community related events.
As tensions eased over the years, and the Cold War eventually came to an end with the demise of the Soviet Union, the closure of the base became inevitable, with the announcement being made February 6, 1991. In March 1992, the last US Navy ship, the submarine tender USS Simon Lake, sailed out of the Holy Loch, ending thirty one years of American presence in the area.
1968 Queen Mother visit vetoed
In January 2014, declassified state documents opened and placed in the National Archives at Kew, revealed that the MoD had supported proposals which could have seen a royal visit take place at the American base:
THE Queen Mother was banned from visiting an American nuclear base in Scotland, newly released files have revealed.
Plans were drawn up for the Royal matriarch to inspect the US nuclear fleet at the Holy Loch in Argyll at the height of the Cold War.
The Ministry of Defence hoped the high-profile visit would act as a demonstration of British gratitude for American military support and shore up the special relationship between the two countries.
However, the UK�s most senior diplomat cancelled the proposed tour amid fears that it could lead to the Queen Mother being targeted by anti-Vietnam war protesters.
Previously classified state documents, which have now been opened and placed in the National Archives at Kew, show the MoD was keen for America�s Scottish-based arsenal to get royal approval.
A letter sent by Sir Michael Cary, a senior civil servant at the MoD, to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 31 January 1968 states: �A short while ago Maurice Foley, the Navy�s under secretary of state, accompanied the commander in chief of the US Navy in Europe on a brief visit to Holy Loch and spent a few hours aboard the USS Simon Lake.
�His enthusiastic reception left him strongly of the opinion that we should seize every opportunity to show our appreciation of the massive United States effort in this part of the deterrent field.
�It has occurred to us, therefore, that it might be possible to include a visit to the Simon Lake in the course of the Queen Mother�s forthcoming visit to Faslane in May. I am taking this opportunity of writing to you before we make any approach to the Palace.�
However, Sir Paul Gore-Booth, the head of the diplomatic service, rejected the proposal, fearing that it could generate enormous controversy and potentially put the Queen Mother at risk.
He wrote back, stating: �The present time, with the Vietnam controversy heightened by the current Vietcong offensive and a consequent increase in criticism in Britain of American policies, hardly seems propitious for advising the Queen Mother to make a gesture of this kind.
�It is accepted policy that members of the Royal Family should never be involved in controversial political matters and a visit to the USS Simon Lake would, at best, involve the Queen Mother in public controversy, while, at worst, there might well be embarrassing incidents.
�In either event any benefit to Anglo-American relations would be largely lost.�
A final missive sent on 22 February 1968 confirms that the MoD was forced to make a humiliating U-turn on the proposed royal visit
50 year anniversary
As noted above, the first US ship arrived in the Holy Loch on March 3, 1961, making 2011 the 50th anniversary of the event, and the event was marked by an article in the Dunoonn Observer online.[2]
Notable is the mention of the arrival of the depot ship USS Proteus, which had been converted to be the first Polaris submarine tender during 1959-61, and had required the insertion of a 44-foot section amidships, where the missiles would be serviced. The US Navy had originally planned for Proteus to arrive on March 4. However, the British authorities pointed out that this was a Saturday, and the ship's arrival at the weekend would allow a large number of protesters and demonstrators to travel to Dunoon, and persuaded the Americans to bring the arrival forward by one day, to Friday, March 3.
Contributed by a resident of the time:
Many readers will be familiar with the American Nuclear Submarine Base that existed here for just over 30 years. The USS Proteus arrived in 1961, to howls of protest from the CND movement. Over the years floating docks and support vessels were added. In 1992, the USS Simon Lake sailed down and out of the Firth of Clyde - the occupation was over.
In 1961, Dunoon found itself suddenly transformed from a slightly rundown seaside resort to a garrison town. In the early days the Yanks brought their Chevies and Caddies with them. Most of them had crumpled righthand front fenders (wings), the roads here were narrow, often single carriageway, and in an emergency the Americans pulled to the right with the inevitable consequence. Crews being sent here were given a handbook containing such gems as "Do not take your guns with you, the Brits do not like guns and you will need a licence for them".
At one point, Dunoon was named as the town with the most taxis per head of population. Pubs and clubs prospered, but what of the rest of the town?
The Americans brought their own services. Their bank stood on what is now the Co-op car park. What is now Walkers DIY/Garden Centre/Cafe was the PX Stores, which sold everything American, including petrol (or as they would have it "Ethyl" and "Super Ethyl"). Their financial impact on the town was not as great as many people thought.
What may have been forgotten is that the area went through similar periods before. At beginning of the 20th century the Loch was home to some sections of the Reserve Fleet. In April 1907, The Argyllshire Standard reported that the Third Class Battleship HMS Conqueror (the seventh of that name) was sold for scrap to TW Ward of Sheffield for �16,800, and the First Class Cruiser HMS Undaunted was sold to Harris Bros of Bristol for �14,400. A third ship, the First Class Battleship Sans Pareil (the third of that name) was also sold to TW Ward, for �26,600. The first two were moored in the Holy Loch, with the the third lying in the Kyles of Bute, near Rothesay. In August 1907, the same paper reported that the battleship HMS Hero was towed from the Loch by another battleship, HMS Hindustan, and taken to Portsmouth, there to be sunk and used as an underwater target for submarine torpedo practice.
During World War II the Holy Loch was used temporarily as a British submarine base. Initially HMS Titania was the depot ship alongside which the submarines moored and at the end of 1941 she was replaced by HMS Forth. In order to retain her status as a seagoing ship, she is said to have gone to sea for a couple of days a year, which entitled her crew to purchase duty-free cigarettes. She was joined by HMS Alrhada, then by HMS Wolfe, both of which were old passenger ships used to provide additional accommodation.
Although the precise location is unconfirmed, the area is believed to have had its own degaussing station, which closed in 1945, leaving 20 redundant locals.
In 1942, a permanent base was established in Rothesay Bay, which remained until 1957. Rumours circulated that the Depot Ship had to be moved because she was moored on top of a mountain of discarded beer cans! But this is probably untrue.
Also in 1942, a new unit, the Royal Marine Boom Patrol Detachment, sought volunteers for a hazardous mission. The selected men were trained on HMS Forth and in the surrounding area. They were training for Operation Frankton: a World War II British Combined Operations raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour, France, in December 1942, carried out by twelve men using two-man Cockle MK II canoes. A fictionalised version of the operation was later told in the 1955 film The Cockleshell Heroes, with Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley and Jos� Ferrer.
The 1943 film We Dive at Dawn, starring John Mills, was filmed in the area, including scenes shot at a number of sites including HMS Forth and and Ardnadam Pier.
The 1945 film Perfect Strangers, starring Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr and Glynis Jones, also filmed around the area of the loch.
The 1982 film Who Dares Wins (motto of the Special Air Service [SAS]), starring Lewis Collins, features the Holy Loch as the intended target of a militant anti-nuclear group which takes over the residence of the American ambassador. They demand that a nuclear weapon be fired at the submarine base on the Holy Loch, or they will kill all the hostages and themselves. The plot was largely based on the Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980, in which the SAS stormed the building to rescue the hostages being held there.
2017 Helensburgh set to benefit from Faslane expansion
February 2017 saw the announcement of confirmed plans to expand the submarine base at Faslane, HMNB Clyde, which is hard not see as mirroring the effects seen previously at Dunoon:
NEW housing, more community facilities and better transport links are key to making sure Helensburgh is ready for a major increase in the area's Royal Navy population.
The forthcoming expansion in the number of people based at Faslane and Coulport, as HM Naval Base Clyde becomes home to the Navy's entire submarine fleet, is expected to see millions of pounds of investment in Helensburgh and its surrounding communities.
The expansion plans led to the signing this week of a formal agreement which will see the Ministry of Defence, Argyll and Bute Council and other local organisations work together to prepare both navy personnel and the wider community for a major change to life in the area.
More facilities are to be provided in the area for community use � including a �2 million refurbishment of the Drumfork Centre in Churchill Square, due to be completed by 2018 � while the MoD's longer-term wish list includes hopes for a new railway station at Shandon for those working at Faslane.
The MoD is also rethinking its plan to build a new all-weather sports facility at Ardenconnel in Rhu, and is instead looking at other sites in the wider area.
On housing, the MoD and the council have already begun to work with the private and social housing sectors to �develop options for choice in the housing market�.
And in education, a 'service pupil adviser' has started work with Argyll and Bute Council, funded by the MoD's education support fund, to provide advice for children of forces personnel in the area.
Depot Ships, USS Hunley, Floating Dock, and Polaris Submarines photographed in 1965.
1 ⇑ Queen Mother kept from US nuclear base in Scotland - The Scotsman Retrieved 16/03/2014.
2 ⇑ 50 years since US Navy arrival Retrieved March 05, 2011.
3 ⇑ Helensburgh set to swell under wave of �1.3bn Navy expansion - Helensburgh Advertiser) Retrieved 8 March 2017.
External links
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- Holy Loch history and photographs
- The British government and the American Polaris base in the Clyde, Journal for Maritime Reserch, 2001
- The history of Site One
- The history of SubRon 14
- History of SUBRON-14
- Naval Base closure, 1992 archive The Scotsman (dead link)
- Department of Defence Legacy Cold War Project
- USS Daniel Boone SSBN-629 Refit 39, Holy Loch, Scotland, December 1978- January 1979
- Operation Frankton
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Insignia in Smithtown s a big, glittery place for excellent steaks and sharp sushi. The expensive, Vegas-style restaurant is sufficiently over-the-top for your own little Oscar party.
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There's something to be said for arriving fashionably late to the party. The musical equivalent of this would be to jump into a developed genre well into its time in the public eye and proceed both to put the trendhoppers to shame, and to give the frontrunners a mighty scare. Trivium's Roadrunner debut does just that. If you've read any of my recent concert reviews, you've heard me rave about these young Floridians. They seemed destined to be "the next big thing", but for once, a worthy act is getting that acclaim.
Trivium play modern American metal, in the vein of Shadows Fall and God Forbid's Gone Forever album, with an accessible bent. At the heart of their sound is a blazing thrash attack spearheaded by wunderkind guitarist/vocalist Matt Heafy. He just turned 19, but he shreds like a grizzly veteran. Between Heafy and Corey Beaulieu, the listener is spoiled by a wealth of vicious riffs and slick solos. The precise drumwork of Travis Smith only helps the band. Oh, and why not sugarcoat the album in perfect production, courtesy of Capharnaum mastermind, Jason Suecof?
An acoustic and piano intro is appropriate music to settle in and buckle up to, although as needless as most intros are. Then they quite naturally launch into a forceful track ("Rain"), just as they did on 2003's very decent releaseEmber to Inferno. The next track is when they hit their full stride. Arch Enemy is certainly an influence here, with some Amott-style riffing and wah-soloing (more so on other songs than this one). As is also par for their course, Heafy unveils his clean singing voice for the chorus. The cleans might seem just a little too smooth for some to take, in contrast to his usual lung-emptying shouts. "Drowned and Torn Asunder" just plain kills me with its catchy lyrics and superb guitarwork. "Dying in Your Arms" is such a blatant radio song, but even here the song drills its way into my head, despite the cheese. This is certainly due to the fact that these guys are great songwriters, especially at such a young age, none older than 22. "Departure" may never be as popular as the current single, "Like Light to the Flies", but I appreciate the more adventurous tack they take, with repeated rises and falls in intensity.
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DePaul's Doug Bruno has been chosen as an assistant coach of the 2012 U.S. women's Olympic basketball team, the Tribune has learned.
The official announcement will be made Friday.
Bruno will be one of three assistants to Connecticut's Geno Auriemma. The others are Marynell Meadors, who took the Atlana Dream to the WNBA finals the past two seasons, and Jennifer Gillom, fired last season as head coach of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks and hired Tuesday as an assistant with the Washington Mystics.
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Bruno, who was not available for comment prior to the announcement, is in his 26th season at DePaul.
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Lumber and Log Imports to China Slowed in Early 2014 But Picked Up in the 2Q to Reach Close to Record Highs
Wood buyers in China were more active in the late spring after a slowdown during the winter months. This resulted in increased importation of logs and lumber during the 2Q, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. The biggest gains were in lumber from Russia and softwood logs from New Zealand.
Seattle, WA, August 18, 2014 --(
)-- A slowdown in the Chinese economy impacted the construction sector in early 2014 resulting in a decline in lumber import volumes by 16% in the 1Q/14 as compared to the previous quarter. The biggest drop was in Canadian lumber shipments, which fell to their lowest levels in two years, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ). The reduced activities in the building sector during the winter months also impacted log import volumes to China, but it was more of a break in the upward trend rather than a decline, with the 1Q/14 imports being about the same as in the 4Q/13.
Later in the spring the economy picked up steam and the GDP rose by 2.0% in the 2Q, up from 1.4% in the 1Q/14. The annual growth rate is now on target to reach close to 7.5%, which would be slightly lower than in 2013 but still considerable growth compared to most other major economies around the world. Most of the positive news in the 2Q came from the industry and retail sectors, while the real-estate market continued to be weak with housing sales being more than nine percent lower the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2013.
Despite the reduction in house sales, China increased the importation of both lumber and logs in the 2Q with lumber volumes climbing 19% from the 1Q/14. Russia, which currently supplies about 40% of softwood lumber to the Chinese market, increased shipments by as much as 32% from the first to second quarter this year. The second largest lumber supplier Canada, only shipped two percent more volume quarter-over-quarter, as reported in the WRQ (
). Although Canada and Russia are by far the largest suppliers of lumber to China, other countries are expanding their sales to this growing market. The biggest gains have been in shipments from Chile and Europe.
Log importation reached an all-time high in the 2Q/14 with New Zealand, the number one supplier, increasing volumes by 15% from the previous quarter. Shipments from the US and Canada were also higher, while log supply from Australia and Russia fell about five percent in the 2Q. Much uncertainty hovers over how the Chinese economy will do for the rest of the year but it is not likely that we will see the same bump in wood imports in the third quarter as was the seen in the second quarter. Rather, the short-term forecast is for a flat line, or even decline in log and lumber volumes landed at Chinese ports in the 3Q/14.
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Wood buyers in China were more active in the late spring after a slowdown during the winter months. This resulted in increased importation of logs and lumber during the 2Q, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.
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