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Analysis of Radar and Air-Visual UFO Observations
on 24 October 1968 at Minot AFB,
North Dakota, USA
Appendix 1
Timing of the B-52 Approach Trajectory and Setting of the Radarscope Clock
The documentation features three time sources, which can be compared to the calculated times of our reconstruction of the trajectory of the B-52. The time entries in the Transcription of Recorded Conversations (Transcript) were encoded relative to the communications according to the RAPCON approach controller's clock at Minot AFB. The B-52 radar operator and the B-52 pilot manually set the time of the onboard clocks during the preflight checklist, including the radarscope clock. To be precise, the radarscope "clock" is actually a watch, manufactured by Bulova, which is wound and set prior to each mission.[20]
- Let us call ( COM ) the Transcript TIME, which corresponds to GMT.
- Let us call ( RAD ) the TIME indicated by the B-52 radarscope clock, which should also be synchronized to GMT (a hypothesis we want to verify).
- Let us call (PIL) the TIME indicated by the pilot chronometer, which should correspond to (RAD).
According to the Transcript, the B-52 passed over the TACAN WT fix (initial approach fix) and departed FL 200 at 8:54:00 (COM).[21] At this time, the B-52 was located 35 nm from the Deering TACAN at azimuth 306° true. According to our calculations, the distance traveled by the B-52 to the position where photo 783 was taken is 16.2 nm and would have required 0:03:53 minutes at a speed of 250 kts. Although it is unlikely that the speed of the aircraft remained constant during this period, this time would not vary considerably. We can deduce that the (COM) time at photo 783 is: 8:54:00 (COM) + 0:03:53 = 8:57:53.
In order to determine the elapsed time to the position of the B-52 at photo 783, we have shown that the distance (Dis783) the B-52 traveled away from the WT fix along the trajectory would be equal to 13.7 nm. At a speed of 250 kts, this would have required 03:17 minutes. It is unlikely that the speed of the aircraft remained constant during this period, but the time would not vary too considerably. Therefore, we can deduce that the exact time of photo 783 would be: 8:54:00 + 0:03:17 = 8:57:17 (COM).
Following is the resolved position of the B-52 along the descent trajectory, at the precise time indicated by the clock in the last radarscope (photo783):
- Indication of the radarscope clock in photo 783 = 9:06:51 ( RAD).
- Ground altitude of the B-52 during photo 783 = 6205 feet (35).
- MSL altitude of the B-52 during photo 783 = 7928 feet.
- Deering TACAN position of the B-52 at photo 783 = 18.8 nm / 306° true.
If we compare this to the precise time of the radarscope clock in photo 783, we find a significant discrepancy. This difference is equal to 9:06:51 (RAD) - 8:57:53 = 00:08:58, or 9 minutes. This discrepancy has been established from information in the documents, which suggest that the radarscope clock (RAD) was not set to the same time as the approach controller's clock (COM); the pilot's chronometer (PIL) should show a similar discrepancy.
There are additional indications in the documents that are consistent with our reconstruction of the B-52 trajectory. At about 08:58 (COM), the radio transmission from the B-52 is interrupted in mid-sentence, which is equivalent to the calculated (COM) time of photo 783 at 8:57:53.[22] Thus, it is apparent that the B-52 loss of radio transmission and the sequence of radar photographs occurred concomitantly.
These speculations are confirmed further when we consider that the approach controller contacts the tower controller, while the communications with the B-52 are interrupted, effectively locating the B-52 along its trajectory at a specific time: "09:00 ct to tw: Tower this is on JAG 31, disregard, he is about 24 miles out… ."[23] According to our calculations, at the beginning of the loss of communications (probably photo 771), the aircraft was exactly 21.37 nm (or 24.6 statute miles) from the Deering TACAN.
According to the Transcript, at 09:01 (COM), communications were very weak on 271.3 Mhz, and at 09:02 the communications are restored.[24] If we ignore the range of the effect of the B-52 radio transmission loss as a result of the close proximity of the UFO, we note that it is precisely during the beginning of the series of radarscope photos that radio communications failed. VHF communications were restored one or two minutes after the UFO departed from the radarscope.
Let us examine now the trajectory of the B-52 following photo 783, taken at 8:57:53. At the calculated (COM) time of photo 783 the B-52 is 18.8 nm from the Deering TACAN. The B-52 continues the descent, executes a "missed approach" to the runway, and at 9:06 (COM) announces "31 going around," which means that the B-52 left the axis of the runway at 110 degrees and turned left onto the traffic pattern to execute the GCA low approach requested at the beginning of the descent.[25]
According to the approach plates, from time 8:57:53 on photo 783 until 09:06 (COM) the B-52 traveled 18.8 + 2.9 = 21.7 nm, which would require 7 minutes, if photo 783 were taken at 08:58. This corresponds to an average speed of 186 kts, a speed that was confirmed by Col. Werlich in the documents and which is correct for the final approach and traffic pattern speed.[26] The position of the B-52 at 09:06 (COM) is consistent with the speed and distance traveled by the B-52 from its location at photo 783, and further confirms the position of the B-52 at the instant of photo 783. This position is also consistent with our reconstruction of the trajectory of the B-52, and the time entries in the Transcript of Recorded Conversations.
At 09:09 (COM), the copilot of the B-52 pilot reports: "Steady 335 3200," indicating that he is stabilized in horizontal flight on the magnetic heading 335 degrees at an altitude of 3200 feet MSL (1500 feet above the ground).[27] This was the standard procedure to follow in 1968 at Minot AFB. The course leads the B-52 to move away from the runway, after a left turn of 335 - 110 = 225°.
Towards 09:10 (COM), the tower orders the B-52 to take the new magnetic course 290 degrees and to maintain altitude at 3200 feet MSL.[28] The B-52 is now turning onto the "downwind" leg in the traffic pattern, parallel to the runway.
Around 09:14 (COM), the controller orders magnetic course 200 degrees, altitude 3200 feet MSL.[29] This vectors the B-52 to the "base leg" of the circuit, which is perpendicular to the axis of the runway.
At 09:15 (COM), the tower orders magnetic course 140 degrees, altitude 3200 feet MSL.[30] The B-52 has therefore turned left by 200 - 140 = 60 degrees. This is referred to as an approach with final dogleg, which brings the aircraft to 30 degrees from the axis of the runway in order to safely avoid excessive course changes at low speed. The B-52 is then vectored to the final approach at 110 degrees, which centers the B-52 on the axis of the runway. At 9:17 the B-52 reaches the final approach fix at a distance of 6.3 nm from the Deering TACAN, to begin its final descent to the runway.[31]
Let us sum up the displacements of the B-52 since FL 200 from the WT fix where it began its descent at 08:54 (COM) until 09:17 (COM).
- Initial descent from 35 to 21.37 nm from the Deering TACAN.
- The series of 14 radar photographs locating the B-52 at 18.8 nm.
- An uninterrupted descent to the Final Approach.
- A missed approach to the runway is accomplished.
- At 09:06 (COM) the B-52 initiates the standard traffic pattern, which will bring it in Final Approach at 09:17 (COM), which is 5.4 nm from the threshold of the runway, or 6.3 nm from the Deering TACAN.
This is consistent with standard procedures and corresponds to the speed of a B-52 on approach to landing at Minot AFB. The (COM) time references are fairly coherent with the B-52 trajectory throughout the first circuit around the traffic pattern. Events during the second and final circuit become more interesting.
Timing of the B-52 Trajectory Until Terminal Landing
It takes 11 minutes for the B-52 to go around at 09:06 (COM) and to arrive at the position of the Final Approach Fix (FAF) beacon at 09:17 (COM). Additional time is required for the final approach and landing. On the approach plates, the length of the final approach and landing segment is 7.6 nm, which means that the B-52 took an additional 2 or 3 minutes at its approach speed to land. The total is 11 + 2 to 3 = 13 to 14 minutes. Therefore, we know the flight times of the various legs of the standard traffic pattern. Let us begin at the time when the B-52 was at the FAF for the first time.
- (ac = B-52 [JAG 31]; ct = controller). All times are from (COM) clock
- 09:04+ ct Cleared for low approach …
- 09:06ac 31 going around
- 09:09ac Steady 335 3200 (crosswind leg)
- 09:10? ct JAG31 turn left heading 290, maintain 3200 downwind leg
- 09:13+ ct JAG31 turn left heading 200, maintain 3200 base leg
- 09:15ct JAG31 turn left heading 140, maintain 3200 dogleg to final
- 09:16ct JAG31 turn left heading 110, maintain 3200
- 09:17ac Final approach.
Consequently, the approximate time durations are:
- Crosswind leg heading 335° = 1 minute
- Downwind leg heading 290° = 3 minutes
- Base leg heading 200° = 1 minute
- Dogleg heading 140° = 2 minute
- Final Approach heading 110° before Final Approach Fix = 1 minute
- FAF to terminal landing = about 3 minutes.
Therefore, the total time is 13 minutes after the previous passage of the FAF, and 11 minutes after overtaking of the runway. However, at 09:21(COM), 4 minutes after the FAF the B-52 calls the controller requesting: "I'd like to get a vector around for an IFR, surveillance approach."[32] The pilot asks for vectors to be followed for an Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) surveillance approach, which means that the B-52 can go down to minimums, while the heading corrections are issued by the ground controller.
The B-52 pilot also adds that he wants to terminally land at 09:40 (PIL). If we add 11 minutes to 09:21 (COM), we get 09:32 (COM), which leaves a margin of eight minutes for enlarging the traffic pattern in order to fly over the UFO, if we subtract 09:32 (COM) from 09:40 (PIL?) (assuming that these two clocks are synchronous), this eight minute difference therefore seems consistent.
In the Transcript there are no specific time indications between 09:21 (COM) and 09:28 (COM), specifying the final landing of the B-52. Indeed, the B-52 could not have been on final approach at 09:28 (COM) because the successive headings were exactly the same as the ones during the previous traffic pattern, which assumes the same geometry for the final pattern. We know that the normal traffic pattern could not be completed in less than 11 minutes; therefore, the B-52 could not be on final approach at 09:28 (COM). At the very least, this suggests that the final times of the transcription of radio communications are distorted.
The pilot stated, "Like to touch down at [09:]40 past," and the controller responded "Roger you want a full stop at [09:]40," which are dissimilar requests since touch down refers to the wheels on the runway, while full stop is terminal with engines shut down. If we examine the satellite image of Minot AFB, we see that the end of the runway is less than a mile from the B-52 parking area. Conceivably, 2 or 3 minutes separate the two procedures. The successive traffic pattern circuits appear to be the same, with the exception of a couple points:
- Pilot's request for an IFR, surveillance approach
- The downwind leg is completely omitted (290° at 3200 feet)
- The pre-final dogleg branch is a course heading of 115° rather than 110°.
Additionally, the controller validates the pilot's request, "This will be a vector to the surveillance final approach," adding, "Lost communications remain the same. Do you wish any portion repeated?"[33] The controller seems to be taking precautionary measures in order to avoid another loss of radio communications. Although B-52 crewmembers recalled the order to overfly the UFO, this specific request is not included in the transcript. It seems to be implied by the request, "JAG 31 (garbled) requests that somebody from your aircraft stop in at baseops after you land."[34]
The Transcript contains various lacunae, yet the accurate time references are missing for at least 7 minutes. I therefore undertook a reconstruction of the trajectory of the B-52 during this special pattern by going backwards and forward from the times we know precisely. An important indicator in the Transcript is evident in the fact that the arrival at the Final Approach Fix is not made according to the heading of the axis of the runway, but on a course of 115 degrees, thereby shortening the distance to the runway.
We know that professional military pilots work with great accuracy, particularly near a base that has numerous heavy bomber movements. Because of their large, long-range design, these bombers are especially difficult to navigate when approaching the runway at night and during instrument approaches. Therefore, it seems to me that the controller intended to satisfy the request of the pilot by stating, "Roger you want a full stop at 40" (COM). The B-52 had to be at the FAF (at the beginning of final approach) at 09:34 (COM), in order that the touchdown occurs at 09:38 ± 1 minute (COM).
We know that the B-52 exceeded the end of the runway at 09:21 (COM), and the complete time duration of this special circuit had to be equal to 09:34 - 09:21 = 13 minutes. This is two minutes more time than the previous normal pattern (11 minutes). In fact, it is enough to slightly lengthen the downwind leg by 1 minute to get this result (1 minute going out + 1 minute for return = the two minutes of difference from the previous pattern). On the basis of the indicated headings, we can now put this unknown traffic pattern into equations. Following, I shall reconstruct a pattern from the indicated courses in which the complete duration is 13 minutes at the speed of 180 kts. Let us call:
- L1 the length of the leg on the course 335° (Crosswind leg)
- L2 the length of the leg on the course 290° (Downwind leg)
- L3 the length of the leg on the course 200° (Base leg)
- L4 the length of the leg on the course 140° (Dogleg)
- L5 the length of the leg on the course 115° (Final Approach).
There are five turns (made with the standard rate of 180° per minute), the durations of which we will call:
- T1 = duration of the first turn, begun at 09: 21 (COM) from the runway heading (110°) to course 335°, which is the beginning of L1. This is a turn of 225° that lasts 1 minute and 15 seconds.
- T2 = duration of the second turn from course 335° to course 290°, which is the beginning of L2. It is a turn of 45° that lasts 15 seconds.
- T3 = duration of the third turn from course 290° to course 200°, which is the beginning of L3. It is a turn of 90° that lasts 30 seconds.
- T4 = duration of the fourth turn from course 200° to course 140°, which is the beginning of L4. It is a turn of 60° that lasts 20 seconds.
- T5 = duration of the fifth turn from course 140° to course 115°, which is the beginning of L5. This is a turn of 25° that lasts 8 seconds.
Total time of turns = 148 seconds (2 minutes and 28 seconds). It took 10 minutes and 32 seconds to go through the straight leg, which corresponds to 31.6 nm at a speed of 180 kts. Therefore,
- The sum of the length L1 + L2 + L3 + L4 + L5 = 31.6 nm.
In addition, the geometry of the complete trajectory imposes a closed circuit, establishing narrow relations between the lengths of the various branches. We know that the distance between the end of L5 (the end of the runway) and the beginning of turn T1 is 3.6 nm. As a result, according to the trigonometry of the pattern:
L1 + L2 + L3 + L4 + L5 = 31.6 nm
We have only three equations with five unknown variables, and therefore several possible solutions. According to the accounts provided by both pilots, the B-52 overflew the UFO during the 90-degree left turn from the downwind leg to the base leg. Consequently, there must be a non-null base leg (L3). We could extend progressively the length of the pattern by augmenting the length of L2 by only 1 nm per step or less. This task should be done on the airport map to verify that the pattern is correctly closed. However, on the map provided by Col Werlich to Blue Book, there is a rectangle drawn near N-7, in the middle of which is written: "Probable area of aircrew ground sighting." We may want to determine if the previous relations between distances L1 to L5, with the times indicated in the Transcript, are compatible with a position of the UFO on or near the ground in the middle of the rectangle. The answer is yes, placing the center of the turn in the middle of the rectangle!
This circuit is:
- Compatible with the indicated hours in the Transcript (COM).
- Compatible with the full stop of the B-52 at 9:40 (COM).
- Compatible with the traffic pattern procedure (successive courses) such as it appears twice in the Transcript.
- Compatible with the position of the radar photographs.
The dimensions of this pattern are:
- L1 = 9.31 nm
- L2 = 11.17 nm
- L3 = 2.23 nm
- L4 = 12.29 nm
- L5 = 3.08 nm to the runway threshold; 5.21 nm to the runway end.
The position of the UFO in the center of the rectangle is located 16 nm from the Deering TACAN, on the true azimuth 334° (321° magnetic). This rectangle appears on a map overlay prepared by Col Werlich in 1968, which also includes the trajectory of the B-52 during its descent from the TACAN WT fix to the runway.
The following map (Figure 8) includes only the two points representing the places where the UFO was reported to have landed (points marked "FROM GRID REF," (AA-43) and "16 nm TACAN 320° approx. landing site").[35] I added the rectangle by determining its coordinates from Werlich's overlay map. Note that the B-52 circuit passes exactly by the center of this rectangle.
The approximate landing site 16 nm, 320° TACAN and the center of the rectangle (16 nm 334° TRUE) are both 16 nm from the TACAN transmitter. But the point at 320° is located outside the B-52 pattern, which would be incompatible with several facts, particularly the existence of a base leg. What is curious is that both points are on two azimuths whose difference is 14 degrees, which is practically the local magnetic declination in 1968 (13°). It is possible that whoever drew this map confused magnetic with true courses, since TACAN always points out magnetic courses.
Supplementing the Chronological Facts
On the basis of our previous considerations regarding the B-52 trajectory, we can reconstruct the final chronology during which no specific times are indicated in the transcript with the (COM) times:
- 08:58 — B-52 radar photo 783 (B-52 speed = 250 kts. then is reduced to 180 and 150 kts during approach). B-52 radar clock = 09:06:51.
- 09:04 — Outer Marker and beginning of L5.
- 09:17 — End of first pattern at the outer marker. "Final approach" announced.
- 09:19 — End of runway overflown.
- 09:21 — Beginning of L1.
- 09:24 — Beginning of L2. (09:33 on pilot clock). The pilots observe the UFO ahead of the B-52 at 11.2 nm.
- 09:26 — Beginning of turn towards base leg around the UFO (09:35 on pilot clock). Loss of VHF communications.
- 09:27 — Beginning of L3 (base leg)
- 09:28 — Beginning of L4. VHF communications restored.
- 09:32 — Beginning of L5 (final approach).
- 09:35 — Touchdown of the B-52. (09:44 on pilot clock).
- 09:40 — B-52 full-stop and parked.
Major Partin, the pilot of the B-52, reported that he overflew the UFO at 9:35 (PIL), after having viewed the object for five minutes during the course of the downwind leg. He added that the time indications were "fairly certain" since they were acquired "by clock," which would imply the onboard pilot chronometer (PIL).[36] The duration of the 11.17 nm flight along L2 at 180 kts corresponds exactly to 3.72 minutes. If we add the duration of the turns, the pilot should have seen the UFO for approximately five minutes.However, if we examine the difference of time: 09:35 (PIL) to 09:26 (COM), we receive a time difference of 9 minutes, which is the same and also ahead in time when compared to our reconstruction of the missing times in the Transcript. It is also obvious that the crew coordinated their chronometers to the GMT hour during the preflight planning. In these conditions, it would be normal to find this difference of the time (PIL) of the UFO overflight indicated by the Major Partin. The hour onboard the B-52, including the radar clock (RAD) and the pilot chronometer (PIL), were both definitely early (by 9 minutes) as compared to the hour of the Transcript (COM), which was in principle recorded with the radio communications.


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- 4 Ferapontovo — a village between Vologda and Kirillov, home to a monastery with XV century wall paintings included into UNESCO World Heritage list.
- 5 Kirillov — a small town around the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery
- 6 Veliky Ustyug — a large medieval town with stunning cathedrals
- 7 Vytegra — a small town in the west of the region with a real diesel submarine fully converted into museum.
- 8 Totma — a small town on Suhona river with many museums in a picturesque place
Other destinations[edit]
- 1 Darwin Nature Reserve
- 2 Russian North National Park (Russky Sever)
Vologda Oblast is spread out, but offers some pretty magnificent sights for the visitor. Sights you won't want to miss include the capital city of Vologda, the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, Russian North National Park, and of course, the Ferapontov Convent.
Get in[edit]
The daily overnight train from Moscow takes 8 hours to get to Vologda and an additional 3 hours to get to Cherepovets. The overnight train from Saint Petersburg to Vologda leaves Ladozhsky Train Station at around 20:00 and arrives 12.5 hours later, around 08:30.
Get around[edit]
Vologda's butter is reportedly Russia's best.
Stay safe[edit]
Go next[edit]
Trains head north from Vologda to Arkhangelsk and southeast to Kostroma.


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I was ready for a fresh stylish kitchen, it took me a little while to decide what I wanted to do but when I decided I was so excited and went right to work.
I already had this kitchen table that I was in love with but wanted to switch up the color. If you are looking for a new kitchen table look at a thrift store! There are always so many tables that are extremely sturdy for under $30. I would say it would only take a couple times going until your found one for you. With a little sanding and painting you will have one that looks like you got it form Pottery Barn but instead you have the exact color you wanted and you have extra money to put somewhere else.
We sanded down all the chairs and table and then primed and painted. I used a colored glaze that I painted on and then rubbed off to give it the distressed look. Allthingsthrifty has a fantastic tutorial on how to do this. I topped it with a nice glaze to give it durability and a finish.
I got this great vanity mirror from the thrift store. When I saw it I was super excited. I just primed, sanded and then painted. I finished it off with a glaze as well. It was just an afternoon project and it only costed me 6$. I love being thrifty!
The stencil I got at allthingsthrify as well. She has a how to make your own stencil as well as this design. I liked the idea of doing the whole wall but once I got the stripe on I thought it looked just perfect. This was really fun project!
I also got my chandelier at a thrift store. I am amazed at how many there are at any given day. I picked this fellow up for just $6 and painted it.
My kitchen has a really fun fresh look to it that creates just the atmosphere I was going for.


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There are two events that consistently disappointed me when I was in my 20s: Halloween and New Year's Eve.
After a massive buildup between friends and community, the evening would invariably fizzle because Halloween is primarily for kids, and New Year's Eve is primarily for drinking alone and asking your cats if they'll eat you after you die.
The Great American Eclipse was hyped beyond anything I've seen in this area, and it didn't just deliver, it smashed my expectations in every way possible. Think about that– an event that lasted (the good part, anyway) less than three minutes has now become one of the most impactful memories of my life. We had 2:36 of totality here in Portland, TN, and it was–
— unearthly? That comes close.
The air began to still after the first nibble from the moonshadow, descending from the upper right corner of the sun's scorching globe. It was brutally hot here, but in minutes, the day began to grow softer. The light was undefined, and more so with each passing moment. Outside, trees looked dimmed, their shadows crisp and odd. The first insects began to trill, their confusion a verbal accent to the lowered light. Frogs croaked. Birds that usually sang went quiet, and night birds perked up, early to the party.
Shadows and light took on the crescents of the eclipse. Things began to slow down. Looking up through eclipse glasses, the sun was still a defiantly blinding wedge, but shrinking with each moment we stood out in the swelter of August. There wasn't a puff of wind; even the breeze was stopping to watch the spectacle.
And then the most incredible thing happened. Every nerve in my body began to hum as I watched the sun– one second a blazing, punishing wedge of heat– be consumed by the moonshadow, eroding like a fading smile. My family was with me, all eyes upward and transfixed with the kind of wonder that only the heavens and babies can produce. The air grew still and time stopped. The diamond ring formed, a lurid gem of white-hot light that flew outward from the darkened sun, a final cheer before the curious dusk went to black.
Going, going–
— gone. We whooped. In the distance, kids shouting, and their parents, too. Unalloyed joy at this confluence of shadow and light. The corona glowing in space, laid bare for us to see if only for a moment.
And what a moment. It was perfect, archaic, primal, elegant– in that brief, dim triumph all of the myths were believable and all the legends true. I stared up in disbelief and the visceral knowing of what hung there in the blackness. A memory from somewhen else tickled at my consciousness like curious minnows on the legs of a wading child. Every part of my sight was locked on that gloriously lurid otherness that replaced what I knew to be the fountain of life on this planet. The shadow sat smugly over the sun, whose rays speared into the darkness of space on a scale that made me feel lucky and small whether I wished to or not.
Every second of totality was perfect, except for the ticking clock that brought the diamond blazing to life on the opposite side. The ring grew, shadows faded. The otherness drained away even as my smile remained. We hugged, unsure what to do with our wiggling hands, at a loss for purpose in the memory of something so grand, but so brief.
The heat returned, followed by a storm of chatter and some internal reflection. It's just science, right?
All of the legends were true, and they will be as long as I remember that moment of half-night, and how it made me feel.


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If you've been keeping up with my latest ramblings, then you know that I wasn't the biggest fan of Interstellar, despite my feverish love of Nolan's past work. And I've never considered much about the underlying themes or connections between his movies. Until now.
No, this isn't like a "shared universe" theory. No one has time for that. This is something better.
Akshay Seth | The Michigan Daily
And I realized something. The film's final act, like its labyrinthine middle, rushed start or organ-blasting score, isn't meant to inspire. Because this film is a farce. It is Nolan's letter to Flora, his daughter. Stretched to the grandest scales, this movie is his most withering self-critique. Here's why.
I think Akshay's on to something. And after reading through his admittedly long arguments, I'm a believer.
If anyone's capable of doing something like this across multiple movies over 16 years, it's Christopher Nolan.


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Makati, Manila (PRWEB) September 29, 2016 -- Today, Red Herring announced its Top 100 Asia award winners in recognition of the leading private companies from the region, celebrating these startups' innovations and technologies across their respective industries.
Red Herring Top 100 Asia enlists outstanding entrepreneurs and promising companies. It selects the award winners from approximately 2000 privately financed companies each year in the Asia. Since 1996, Red Herring has kept tabs on these up-and-comers. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Google, Facebook, Kakao, Alibaba, Twitter, Rakuten, Salesforce.com, Xiaomi and YouTube would change the way we live and work.
"In 2016, selecting the top achievers was difficult as always," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. "The variety, depth, disruption and traction we saw from the early stage companies to those with significant scale made 2016 a great vintage to judge. The Asia winners are representative of the amazing ecosystem that never ceases to astound, with new and experienced entrepreneurs continuing to push the barriers of innovation. As one of the winners, Floship , an e-commerce fulfillment provider, should be proud of its accomplishment."
Red Herring's editorial staff evaluated companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technological innovation and intellectual property, DNA of the founders, business model, customer footprint and market penetration. This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the "buzz" and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in Asia.
Floship is a JV backed I.T. driven e-commerce logistics company based in Hong Kong. Taking advantage of online crossborder trading, global efulfillment and worldwide crowdfunding shipping for Indiegogo and Kickstarter campaigns are Floship's focus.
Red Herring is a global media company, which unites the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums, including print, online and exclusive events worldwide. Red Herring provides an insider's view and access to the global innovation economy, identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs.
Chris Moore, Floship, http://www.floship.com, +852 64675060, [email protected]
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Computers Are People, Too is a 1982 documentary by Disney aimed at preparing the viewer for a world in which man and machine will peacefully coexist. Actress Elaine Joyce hosts the earnest look into the future.
Computers, they're everywhere. There's no escaping them, no matter who you are!
The video was rescued from VHS obscurity by LurkingGrue.
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In that town called San Diego when the workers try to talk,
The cops will smash them with a sap and tell them "take a walk",
They throw them in a bull pen and they feed them rotten beans,
And they call that "law and order" in that city, so it seems.
From the July 11, 1912 edition of the IWW's Little Red Songbook,
the first stanza of "We're Bound For San Diego"
It's really hard to believe that San Diego has the largest amount of "troublemakers" in the U.S. but last Friday, over 250 activists and union leaders gathered at the city's first Labor Notes Troublemakers School to discuss "Labor and Community in Times of Crisis." This was fifty more than attended the "school" in New York last year in April and dwarfed the March, 2010 gathering in Boston with 90 attendees.
With troublemaking schools still to be held in places like Madison (April 1st) and Chicago (mid-May), organizers say the recent vicious attacks on public employee unions, particularly in the mid-west, has awaken many complacent union members that their middle-class way of life is threatened by right-wing politicians and their corporate masters. From shop stewards to the Secretary-Treasurer of the San Diego-Imperial County Labor Council, Lorena Gonzales, union officials made up about fifty percent of the participants, with about a third being members of the American Federation of Teachers.
The nine hour conference held at San Diego City College attracted many students as well leaders of the city's social justice organizations. Under the auspices of the nation's foremost radical labor publication, Labor Notes, participants came for many reasons. Some, out of solidarity with public employees under the gun in Wisconsin, others to participate in the various break-out sessions on particular aspects of activism.
As in typical progressive conferences, the smorgasbord of issues seemed overwhelming, pushing participants toward unique, specific issues with which one can relate on a personal level: support for maquiladora workers, women in the workplace, labor and the environment, fighting Wal-Mart, social justice from people of faith, education reform, student activism, the California budget crisis, immigrant labor concerns, and so on and so forth, all important issues; yet, somehow almost too fashionable, too introverted, too many comfort zones of activism complete with plenty of statistics , personal stories and informational data, but, rarely, it appears at such gatherings does this idiosyncratic process seem very transformational – much less movement building.
It was as if the unions which were participating were beginning a few baby steps toward a broader "labor movement" in San Diego which is materializing in states where public employee unions are under attack.
Sadly, however, the power liberals had the morning and a few rank and file workers, with their rebelliousness and boldness, were relegated to late afternoon when most of the weary participants had gone home. Union officials with good salaries, professors, white-collar social justice activists who brilliantly articulate the problems, catalogue the needs, intellectually particularize the issues and usually base their actions on intention rather than outcome; yet, vary rarely do they outline, or even suggest, a confrontational path. From their particulars of reform actions, there is no path to a general shutdown strategy. They controlled the parameters of discussion and, thus, what little was debated about what exists today or alternative unionism.
In fact, after nine hours and tens of thousands of words, when the very last speaker, Doug Moore, of the United Domestic Workers of America, suggested a "general strike" in San Diego there was no applause or mummer of agreement among the thirty or so bleary-eyed remainees. It was as if those of us still there realized that there was no real labor movement, just an illusion of what should be. The fact that the Secretary-Treasurer of the county AFL-CIO Labor Council or any other union official didn't have the inclination to sit and listen to the afternoon panel of young, committed rank and file union members who spoke of their skirmishes with management and union bosses alike in their struggle against the corporate state and its economic tyranny, was the real tragedy of this conference. It shows a movement used and betrayed by power liberals, well-paid reformers and faint-hearted unions officials who are afraid to state a simple moral imperative – such as "anyone who works should be guaranteed a living wage"- and, then, commit themselves to whatever it takes to produce that outcome.
These union bosses, religious menders with their bandages for gapping economic wounds, professors of conscience and remorseful professionals work from the specific to the general. Small projects, secondary struggles, lesser campaigns toward small groups of workers because the general strike, an all-purpose confrontation, an expansive coalition, a proliferating physical attack on inequality and injustice, would cost most of them their position in the hierarchy as well as those at the top. Egypt is a general strike, Madison is a specific work stoppage – in spite of how much emboldened liberals want to portray it. If black, single mothers on welfare to work programs had taken the capital building, how long would they have been able to stay? Probably till the first pizza arrived and well before the sleeping bags were carried in. If teenage Latino and Latina youth who work at McDonalds or other low-wage service factories had camped out in Madison, how many of the public employee unions would have joined them?
Young Rank and File Union Members Challenge Systems of Power
The message lost to the 220 participants who didn't attend the panel of inspiring young rank and file workers, was that power and injustice can be challenged, not just talked-about. The go-homes, "I've had my say, done my panel", political actors, who seemed uninterested in the future of their own supposed movement and those activists savvy enough to know that whenever there are young activists around they will be challenged, forced to re-think their complicity in the corporate state and its war economy also left early. And so too did those activists who hang on celebrity, on hierarchy, on the words of "experts," to articulate the timid parameters of the discussion and never ever give young people the space to even consider rising up and fighting back as hundreds of thousands of youth throughout North Africa and in the Middle-East are doing at this very moment.
A panel of America's finest youth, union members who not only work to democratize and build social equality within their unions but see their local struggles, both personal and organizational, as part of the larger struggle for a labor movement in this county, a movement which in turn will fight for a larger economic justice movement, as Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned, which could possibly bring down the corporate state – its inequality, its wage oppression, its wealth based politics, declining living conditions, shrinking educational opportunities and its obscene wars.
As with most lefty gatherings, the labor conference seemed to lack praxis – a merging of theory and action. There were lots of specific verbal exchange but no scheme of action, lots of individual theories and opinions but no attempt at consensus, no hint of conscientization, no effort to discuss or think about us as individuals, alone and angry, yet integrated in spatial or temporal history, in a system, a corporate state of privilege and exploitation – which can be, indeed, be brought down, as we see in Egypt and other nations.
It was a shame that the labor leaders, the local power liberals and social do-gooders did not attend the rank and file gathering, tacked on at the end of the day. These young people are our true guardians of a worthy future. They know full-well if you don't fight injustice and oppression on an individual level, upfront and personal, as they say, in your workplace or your neighborhood, from the bottom-up, inside out, nothing will ever change.
Having a job is not enough for Tony Perez and David Guiterrez of the Teamsters Union, Local 542; they not only fight for justice at their UPS workplace, forming a fellow employee group called "Workers Collective for Change," which struggles with the increasing demands of management for more productivity as they lay off more and more workers, but also formed "Teamsters for Democracy," which tries to tear down the exploitive hierarchies not only within their own International Union but also in the broader corrupt political system.
Also speaking at the rank and file forum was Jeff Graves, a union steward of the Services Employees International Union (SEIU), who said that the right-wing attacks on public employee unions was "a battle against all workers." However, with that golden honesty which is inherent in youth, he chided his own union and others for not getting out and educating others what a union is all about. "One great union is the only way to go," he said, "it's the only way we are going to be able to fight the bosses and win." He suggested we move away from the notion of "trade unions" and build worker organizations which included the skilled and un-skilled.
Another participant on the panel was Michael Anderson, a member of the Communications Workers of America, which has been locked in a bitter struggle with San Diego's Channel Ten and its management's vicious campaign to break the union, and, thus, be able to cut wages and drop benefits for most employees. He spoke about the illegal tactics used by the corporate brass, which included mandatory union busting meetings of employees and spying on the personal lives of workers, compiling a "list of fear" which targets those in most economic need, even listing an employee with an ill child and another who is Gay. He then spoke about the in-your face, actually the in-your-camera-lens, operation which puts the truth on Channel 10's own video at live events with well placed signs, which the National Labors Relations Board said was a reasonable tactic and a component of free speech.
Those of us who live in San Diego will soon see labor unions under the gun as well. As the local ideologue Carl DeMaio, who once worked for Newt Gingrich and several right-wing think tanks, finance's a ballot initiative to fracture public employee unions. Also, the city council's cowardly repeal of the Wal-Mart accountability ordinance has left the local grocery workers, represented by the UFCW, in a precarious position as they begin contract negotiations with the major grocery chains. The increasing incursion of the predatory, low-wage Wal-Mart ogre was what led to the 2003 bitter strike which saw 70,000 walked or were locked -out in over 900 stores. San Diego has 14,000 unionized members of the UFCW.
Several old-timers, organizers from the days of union strength, spoke about the need to "retake the labor movement," asking "does the leadership reflect the membership?" Fred Collins said, "our unions are weak because we allowed it to happen." He urged everyone to join a labor teach-in scheduled for May 1st. Meanwhile, Gregg Robinson, a member of the American Federation of Teachers, reminded everyone that government in its taxation policy must help the unions create a more equitable society. He pointed out that the San Diego Equality Alliance recently released data which showed that if 13 hedge fund CEO's who each make over $1 billion yearly in salary – not including their assets – were taxed at the same rate as a firefighter, we could fund 13,000 additional teachers for our children.
Renters Union Calls for Living Wage for All Who Work
To our members in the Renters Union, collective bargaining is something you do at a swap meet. Even though 80 % of them work, most at two jobs and even among the 15 percent on social security, a third have part-time service work; only one of us belongs to a union (and that's me – the National Writers Union, which doesn't even have a local in San Diego). Several times among members, I have heard disparaging remarks about the demonstrations in Madison; a kind of resentment, not so much that those professionals and public service workers in the capitol rotunda are over-paid or a part of the reason for the financial crisis, but, rather, that they have the ability to really fight back about their situation.
Debbie Grey, spoke up at our Saturday meeting, saying "the middle-class is perhaps, for the first time, beginning to experience the exploitation and abuse which the working poor have experienced for over 30 years, since Reagan's revolution for the rich." She speculated that while they have the will and means to fight back, only time will tell if they have waited to long – while the corporate state has consolidated its power. "You see, when push comes to shove, they will back down," another member said, talking about how the occupiers simply moved out the capitol building after they ordered to do so. Another commented that the state legislators were "meek and quiet" when one of their own was attacked by police while on his way to his office.
Almost a quarter of a million families in San Diego County, 30% of our local population, cannot afford a decent life, the Center for Policy Initiatives (CPI) reported in its "Making Ends Meet" report in 2010. Of those living below the poverty standard, 88.7% of non-retired households have at least one person in the family who works, over half of them at full-time jobs. The CPI study reports that $15.38 an hour is the minimum wage necessary for 2 adults, an infant and preschooler to meet a basic self-sufficiency in the San Diego region, factoring in the cost of housing, transportation, child care, health care, and other basic family needs. A single parent with a preschooler needs a minimum wage of $21.77 to live outside of poverty.
The Renters Union asks why collective bargaining is limited to trade and public unions. Why not real collectiveness to bargain (demand, really) a living wage for every person who works in the city of San Diego. While only the federal and state governments have the statutory power to force an employer to pay a minimum wage, we can, as a city, try to simply make a living wage a condition of obtaining a business license, which is not a right but a privilege given by the community – like a driver's license or fishing permit. Or we can demand our state legislators from the community put forth a bill which gives local jurisdictions the ability to set minimum wages based on their unique circumstances – such as San Diego's highest cost of living to wage ratio in the nation or its second highest housing market in the state. Or the unions can finance a state initiative for local commissions to set living wages.
Most every speaker during the day-long conference, from the area's top labor leader, Secretary-Treasurer Lorena Gonzales, to Rabbi Laurie Coskey, of the Inter-Faith Committee on Worker Justice, to Fred Glass, communications director for the California Federation of Teachers, alluded to the need for a living wage but not one person, not one organization or union, made the slightest suggestion about how we begin to get there. It was like declaring a destination without a map; telling folks that we all agree that as human beings we need to use the bathroom in a safe, secure place and bathrooms are available – but not revealing to anyone where they are at or how to get there.
Recently, calling the Wisconsin governor's assault on public workers "a war," Jean Ross, a nurse in Madison, told Laura Flanders on her television program "they are trying to ruin unions so there will be no voice for the middle-class." Meanwhile, Michael Moore, on the same program agreed, called the Wisconsin attack and the subsequent 15 day occupation of the capitol building, merely a skirmish in a "30 year war, begun by Ronald Regan to destroy unions." He suggested that rather than unions drawing inward, running for cover in a desperate, self-centered effort to protect only their own salaries and benefits, when Regan opened fire on the air traffic controllers in 1981, "every union, every working person….should have shut the country down."
In San Diego, the labor fight goes far further back as Jim Miller, a member of the American Federation of Teachers and author of the San Diego labor struggle book Flash: A Novel, told the gathering about one of the longest and bloodiest campaigns against labor rights in the nation's history. In 1912 the San Diego City Council passed an ordinance aimed at organizers for the Industrial Workers of the World (wobblies) which prohibited public speaking within a 49 square block area of downtown San Diego. Over 5,000 people protested, 46 were arrested and the city council then allowed police to arrest (and often beat) any organizer or free speech advocate they came across within the city limits. Faced with overcrowded jails, the city's oligarchy led by John D. Spreckels, financed vigilante groups who kidnapped and brutally beat wobbly union organizers and eventually broke the union in San Diego.
In other countries, particularly in Latin America, unions are a vital part of the infrastructure of change and democratic mechanisms; yet, they too suffer from the world financial meltdown and the squeezing of multi-national corporations for every greater sacrifice on the part of workers. In response to this economic crisis, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) has announced a "collaborative project" to build hemispheric solidarity and integration ("Nuestra America") of all employees, whether union members or not. Organizers from several nations will be touring the United States all month, visiting 10 cities – including San Diego on March 24 & 25. Sponsored by Union del Barrio (email@example.com), the two day worker's unity conference will highlight not only worker rights but how healthcare, education and food security are all part of the quality of life issues unions should be addressing. The all-day Troublemakers School, under the banner "putting the movement back in the labor movement," was a beginning for San Diego; now, let's all roll up our sleeves and get out and cause some real trouble about low wages and high prices in the corporate state.


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pcfe.net is the private web presence of Patrick C. F. Ernzer
If you need to send me physical mail, please do a whois lookup on the domain and send to the address you get. Yes, it is a private registration, so your mail will be forwarded to my home address by my registrar. This is to cut down snail mail spam and to keep my home address private but still allow any really important paperwork to reach me.
For all things work related, this is not the domain you want, contact me at my employer's.


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Russia Has Nothing To Do With Cyberattack, Says Putin
Russia had nothing to do with a massive global cyberattack, President Vladimir Putin said Monday, calling for urgent consultations on countering the hackers.
Hundreds of thousands of computers in more than 150 countries have been hit by the ransomware attack, which has been described as the largest-ever of its kind.
The attack began Friday and struck banks, hospitals and government agencies among a variety of other targets, exploiting known vulnerabilities in older Microsoft computer operating systems.
"As for the source of these threats, Microsoft's leadership stated this directly, they said the source of the virus was the special services of the United States," Putin said.
Putin was referring to a weekend blog post by Microsoft president Brad Smith stating that the US National Security Agency had developed the code being used in the attack.
"This completely doesn't concern Russia," Putin added on the sidelines of an international summit in Beijing.
The US has accused Russia in the past of mounting several cyberattacks.
In March the Justice Department indicted two officials of Russia's Federal Security Service and two criminal hackers whom they allegedly hired to steal data from some 500 million Yahoo user accounts.
The fast-spreading malware called "WannaCry," is the first ever detected to combine both a worm — which enables it to burrow into an entire network from a single infected computer — and ransomware, demanding $300 (275 euros) in the virtual currency Bitcoin to unlock systems.
While there was "no significant damage" to Russian institutions such as banks and hospitals, Putin said the incident was "worrisome" and warranted immediate talks "on a serious political level".
"There is nothing good in this and calls for concern," he said.
"A protection system from these manifestations needs to be worked out."


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Television Station Information
Programming: PBS
City: Bowling Green, OH
Owner: Bowling Green State University
Web Site: http://www.wbgu.org/
Station Info: Digital Educational Full-Power - 137 kW
Market: Toledo
WBGU is a television station in Bowling Green, OH that serves the Toledo television market. The station runs programming from the PBS network. WBGU is a digital educational full-power television station that operates with 137 kilowatts of power and is owned by Bowling Green State University.
Detailed Engineering Information / WBGU FCC Applications


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Transfers and Transport
Zakopane is ideally positioned as it's only 100km from Krakow airport which generally takes 1.5 to 2 hours by car depending on traffic and weather conditions.
If you need a transfer service between Krakow and Zakopane then look no further. Taxi transfers can be arranged from Krakow airport through Zibi, a friendly, reliable English speaking driver who has a 7 seater minibus and expert knowledge of the area. He can be contacted on 0048-501-305-914 or visit www.transfers-krakow.com.
It is also possible to hire a car at Krakow airport from a wide selection of leading car rental companies.
Alternately there is a good and regular bus service from Krakow to the centre of Zakopane.
In and Around Zakopane
For those of you that can't or don't want to drive, there is a bus stop directly outside the chalet with a regular bus service to and from the town centre. Alternatively, there's a great taxi service in and around Zakopane.


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Hot on the heels of the news that Facebook has bought WhatsApp for a staggering $19 billion, I thought I'd share these tweets.
They are doing the rounds across most of the tech press, but having just spoken to someone in my network who didn't get the IC job they just went for, it seems a timely reminder that when the going gets tough, you need to keep on going.
The tweets on this page were sent by Brian Acton @brianacton, who alongside partner Jan Koum, is now the billionaire co-founder of WhatsApp. Back in 2009 Brian applied for but didn't secure jobs at both Twitter and Facebook.
Here we are, four and a half years later and he's just sold his company for $16 billion in cash and stock, plus another $3 billion in restricted stock.
For me, what strikes me about Brian's tweets is that he was still positive, he clearly wasn't burning any bridges and remained upbeat.
So if at first you don't succeed, don't give up! Everyone loves a good comeback story, and this for me is a great example. Well done Brian.
I wonder how they communicated the news internally to their 55 employees? Hmm, would love to know if anyone can share!
What do employees think about working at WhatsApp? See their reviews via Glassdoor here.
What's WhatsApp?
According to their website: "WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia and yes, those phones can all message each other! Because WhatsApp Messenger uses the same internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with your friends. In addition to basic messaging WhatsApp users can create groups, send each other unlimited images, video and audio media messages."
I use WhatsApp daily to communicate in my group of eight girlfriends, we send images, videos and have private group conversations and is the main way we keep in touch daily. I also use it to share information with my fellow @theICcrowd co-founders Jenni Wheller and Dana Leeson.
Do you use it? Will you investigate WhatsApp now?
Writing on the WhatsApp blog, Jan states:
"On a personal note, Brian and I couldn't be more proud to be part of a small team of people who, in just under five years, built a communication service that now supports over 450 million monthly active users worldwide and over 320 million daily active users. They have helped re-define and revolutionise communication for the 21st century, and we couldn't be more grateful.
"Our team has always believed that neither cost and distance should ever prevent people from connecting with their friends and loved ones, and won't rest until everyone, everywhere is empowered with that opportunity. We want to thank all of our users and everybody in our lives for making this next chapter possible, and for joining us as we continue on this very special journey."
Here are Brian's tweets:
Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life's next adventure.
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) August 3, 2009
Got denied by Twitter HQ. That's ok. Would have been a long commute.
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) May 23, 2009
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News Corp confirms former Woolworths marketer as new CMO
The well-known marketing executive lands his new role after a swift departure from the supermarket giant
News Corp Australia's managing director of metro and regional publishing Damian Eales announced the appointment of former Woolworths and Coles marketing executive Tony Phillips as the company's new chief marketing officer.
Last year, Phillips announced his resignation from his position as Woolworths' first CMO just one year into the role. The decision came weeks after Woolworths suffered a social media backlash for its Anzac Day campaign, which was subsequently withdrawn.
Turning over a new leaf, Phillips will soon report to News Corp's managing director of metropolitan and regional newspapers and will be responsible for News Corp Australia's national marketing initiatives. He will work on the development and launch of new products and brands and will also work closely with the company's business units to drive audience and advertising revenues.
With over 18 years' industry experience, Phillips began his career at Melbourne-based production company, JC Williamson Productions, run by iconic entertainment businessman, Kenn Brodziak, known for bringing the Beatles to Australia in 1964. Phillips started as an office boy before being made manager of the show, They Are Playing Our Song, in Sydney at age 21.
Phillips spent eight years with JC including six years as a tour manager, and managed Peter Allen's 1980s Australian tour, before taking on various advertising and marketing roles at George Patterson, Grey Advertising, Clemenger Direct and AdTown.
Prior joining Woolworths in 2014, Phillips was the general manager of marketing and communications for Coles. He spent seven years at Coles overseeing key marketing and advertising campaigns while building a strong media strategy with MasterChef, My Kitchen Rules, and renegotiating the supermarket's deal with the AFL and the Olympics.
"I'm delighted that Tony has agreed to join us. He has extensive experience at the highest levels both as a CMO and agency head," Eales said. "Tony joins us at an exciting time - total paid audience revenue is growing, digital subscription levels continue to increase strongly and we are connecting with our audiences in more innovative and engaging ways than ever before."
Phillips said he's always understood and valued the ROI that news media delivers and the emotional connection these outstanding brand properties have with their audiences.
"I'm thrilled to be joining the team at News," he said. "The reach and engagement that News' brands have cannot be matched, so to be given the opportunity to work with them is a really exciting prospect. Damian has given me some insight into the great projects coming up, so I can't wait to get started."
He is set to commence his new role with News Corp on 20 June.
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Gas fittings -- available here -- are always needed as we repair and install various barbecues and gas appliances in custom outdoor kitchens. This adaptor is usually useful for barbecues in south America and the Carribean Islands because the rules in the US that added all the LP cylinder safety features has not been strictly enforrced elsewhere. However, as people change to new regulators the new regulators have standardized the thick-thread QCC connection and it becomes necessary to either change the LP tank or adapt the fitting on the valve.
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Gas fitting adapter for residential propane cylinders. Adaptor threads into (POL) inside reverse thread of LP tank cylinder to convert the tank to QCC fitting. If you have a tank with only inner threads to connect regulator this adapter will allow you to use newer regulator with large handwheel.
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Propane Tank Connect
Propane cylinders available for residential use today are manufactured with safety features mandated by federal laws to keep propane use safe. Since these rules went into affect the connection on propane cylinders has mostly standardized to the QCC connection that has thick threads on the outside of the LP tank valve. Newer regulators that used to have several different types of connections almost all have QCC handwheels on them now to fit to these thick external threads on the newer tanks.
Adding this adapter allows a new style regulator with this handwheel to attcah to an older LP tank. However, many old tanks do not have the safety features built into the valve.
QCC Handwheel
This QCC handwheel has become the standard for regulators but in some places the LP tanks do not have the external thick threads that fit this handwheel. For the older style of LP tanks that use the inner threads on the propane tank this conversion will thread into the LP tanks inner threads leaving the thick QCC threads sticking out.
The adaptor comes with the black plastic break-away tool attached so it can be threaded into the reverse threads of the propane cylinder valve. As we tighten the adapter into the propane tank the plastic grip will unscrew from the inner threads of the adaptor. Once installed the LP tank can now be used either either the newer QCC handwheel or the inner thread POL attachment.
As shown in thiss drawing from the user manual the adapter screws into the inside thread of the new liquid propane cylinder in order to change the fitting style to fit the new kind of handwheel on the hose and regulator on most barbecues.
Gas fitting adapter for residential propane cylinders. Adaptor threads into (POL) inside reverse thread of LP tank cylinder to convert the tank to QCC fitting. If you have a tank with only inner threads to connect regulator this adapter will allow you to use newer regulator with large handwheel
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This is the male quick connect adapter that works with the older LP tanks that used pneumatic connections on the regulator.
Many older grills used a pneumatic fitting like an air hose. This is normally called a quick-connect because the hose connection pops on and off by sliding back the connection sleeve. This connection also threads into the inner threads of the propane tank but the quick connect female side is left sticking out so the tank can be used as a quick connect even with the safety features.


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Adopted children should remain close to birth families, study suggests
Joe Lepper
Friday, March 2, 2018
Adoption law should be overhauled to ensure children can retain close contact with their birth families, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has said following the findings of an academic study.
A review into the role of social workers in adoptions, commissioned by BASW, criticised the current practice of denying children close contact with their birth families.
The review, carried out by academics at the University of Huddersfield and Royal Holloway University of London, said that severing ties with birth families can have a detrimental effect on children's emotional wellbeing and can lead to identity issues.
"Adopted children denied contact can experience serious identity issues and when they are free to seek out their birth families at age 18, adoptive parents can be ill-prepared for the emotional consequences," states the review.
On the back of the findings BASW is calling for a rethink of adoption law to consider a more open approach to contact between children and birth families.
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The organisation has also questioned whether keeping adopted children apart from their birth families is practical given widespread internet access.
In its response to the review, BASW states that it will, "call for a review of adoption law in all countries of the UK into whether the assumptions about severance of connection to families of origin is ethical".
BASW said it wants national and local politicians to evaluate the effectiveness of current adoption policies, "with a consideration of whether and in what circumstances a more open approach to maintaining kinship links should be promoted in legislation and policy".
However, Brid Featherstone, professor of social work at the University of Huddersfield, who led the review, suggested that instead of legislative change a cultural shift among social workers is needed.
"You should start from the assumption that direct contact with birth parents ought to be considered," she said.
"Usually, adopted children go searching when they get to 18 and it can store up trouble if they haven't had previous contact, enabling them to see their birth parents for good or ill.
"They can stop having fantasies about these wonderful parents that they were stolen away from, or equally that they were absolutely terrible people. It's about their identities. Adopted people told us that identity is a lifelong issue for them. Where do I come from? Who do I belong to?"


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People expect a little bit of style from their washrooms. They want gleaming tiles, sparkling urinals and the kind of lighting usually reserved for plush Hollywood movies.
What they don't expect is a place that's grimier than the London Underground circa-1942. But in a large majority of cases, these hygiene carbuncles are exactly what they get. It's the reason why sites exist which review public washrooms, and why we try our hardest to provide the best in washroom services.
As we illustrated with our previous blog on hand dryers, we stock the finest in washroom appliances. And we understand that there are hygiene hot spots that will make your client decide whether they're in hygiene heaven or hell.
With that in mind, we've come up with a few unhygienic situations and found a few of our products could help solve them.
Poor hand hygiene facilities
The sink is the endpoint of the customer cycle when it comes to washrooms, the logical conclusion to your visit – and it'll be a less than satisfactory end if your sink and drying facilities are subpar.
The solution: Even if your sink is a little dirty (after all, it only takes one filthy customer to ruin a sink directly after a cleaning check), an electric hand dryer or hand towel dispenser will leave customers satisfied that germs have been removed from their hands.
An unfortunate smell
Foul smells are inevitable in even a low-traffic bathroom, and they'll be the first thing that hits a customer when they enter your washroom. In some cases, they might put a person off entirely.
What's more, smells can carry airborne bacteria, meaning a pong could be loaded with the potential for illness.
The solution: To ensure that your washroom smells the way it should, we'd recommend our air fresheners and purifiers. These will remove any germs from the air in your facilities and ensure a hygiene haven.
Unsightly sinks
There are few excuses for sinks covered in mildew or other dirt, especially if your washrooms are inspected thoroughly. But sometimes all sinks will be dirtier than we'd like, and some could be harbouring many invisible germs.
The solution: Provide customers with our UltraProtect Surface Wipes, which are designed to kill 99.9 per cent of germs on all surfaces. This'll ensure it's gleaming, even when your cleaners are elsewhere.
These are only a few suggestions. To find more of these perfect washroom solutions, check out the rest of our site.


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Degrees & Radian
We define an angle as the union of two non-collinear rays that have a common starting point. The two rays are referred to as the arms of the angle and the common starting point is called its vertex.
We can interpret an angle by rotating a ray from one position to another. When we use this interpretation of an angle, the ray to begin with is called the initial side, and the final position of ray is called the terminal sideasshown in the figure.
If we rotate the ray in anti-clockwise direction, the angle formed in this way is termed as positive angle. The angle formed by clockwise rotation of ray is termed as negative angle.
Angles are commonly measured in two methods: Degrees & Radians.We discuss both these methods one-by-one.
Measure an Angle in Sexagecimal System (Degree, Minute, Second)
In this method, we measure an angle in terms of degrees, minutes and seconds. We divide the circumference of a circle into 360 equal arcs. The angle subtended at the centre of the circle by one arc is called one degree and is denoted be `1^\circ`(The small circle is a symbol for degree). Similarly 1' denotes a minute and 1'' denotes a second in sexagecimal system of angle measurement.
The following equations show the relationships of degree, minute and second with each other.
1 minute = 60 seconds (60'')
1 degree = 60 minutes (60')
One complete revolution = `360^\circ`
We present a few examples for conversion of an angle given in Sexagecimal form into decimal form and vice versa.
Example 1:
Convert `45^\circ`30' into decimal degrees.
Solution: `45^\circ`30' = `45^\circ`+`(( 30 )/60)`= `45^\circ` + `0.5^\circ` = `45.5^\circ`
Since, (` 1/60` degree = 1 minute )
Example 2:
Convert `18.50^\circ` to Sexagecimal form.
Solution: `18.50^\circ` =`18^\circ` + `0.50^\circ`= `18^\circ`+ (0.50 x 60)' = `18^\circ` 30'
Since, ( 1 degree = 60 minutes )
Example 3:
Convert `55.36^\circ` to Sexagecimal form.
Solution: `55.36^\circ` =`55^\circ`+ `0.36^\circ`
= `55^\circ`+ (0.36 x 60)' = `55^\circ`+ 21.6'
= `55^\circ`+ 21' + (0.6 x 60)'' = `55^\circ`+ 21' + 36''
= `55^\circ`21' 36''
Measure an Angle in Circular System (Radians)
''A radian is the measure of an angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc whose length is equal to the radius of that circle.''
The angle m`\angle`XOY in the figure is one radian since the length of the arc XY is equal to the radius of the circle.
=> m`\angle`XOY = 1 radian
Note: The length ''l'' of an arc that subtends an angle `\theta` at the center of a circle of radius r is given by
l = r`\theta`
i.e. Arc length is angle times radius of the circle. (Here `\theta` is in radians, not in degrees)
Relationship Between Radians and Degrees
We know that for a circle of radius r, the circumference C of the circle is given by C=2`\pi`r.
Since, l(Arc length) = r`\theta` ............. (i)
Also l =2`\pi`r for a complete Circle of radius r ........... (ii)
=> 2`\pi`r = r`\theta`
=> `\theta` = 2`\pi`r / r = 2`\pi` radians
We know that for a complete revolution, the angle measure in degrees is `360^\circ`
=> 2`\pi` radians = `360^\circ`
=> `\pi` radians = `180^\circ`
=> 1 radian = `180^\circ`/ `\pi` = `57.296^\circ`
1 radian =`57.296^\circ`
Also `1^\circ` = `\pi` / 180 radians = 0.0175 radians
1 degree =0.0175 rad
Example 4:
Convert `30^\circ` into radian measure of angles.
Solution: We know that `1^\circ`= `\pi / 180` radians
=> `30^\circ`= 30 x`\pi/180 radians `
=> `30^\circ`= `(\pi)/6 radians `
Example 5:
Express `120^\circ`25' into radian measure of angle.
Solution: `120^\circ`25' = `(120+ ( 25 )/60)^\circ `
Since, `( 1/60 degree = 1 text(minute) )`
= `(120 + 0.4167)^\circ`
= `120.4167^\circ`
= (120.4167) x `\pi/180` radians
= 2.102 radians
Example 6:
Express `(2\pi)/3 `radians into degree measure of angle.
Solution:We know that 1 radian = `180^\circ/ \pi`
=> `(2\pi)/3 `radian = `(2\pi)/3` x `(180^\circ)/\pi`
=> `(2\pi)/3 `radian = `120^\circ`
Example 7:
Express 4.7 radians into degree measure of angle.
Solution: We know that 1 radian = `180^\circ/\pi` = `57.296^\circ`
=> 4.7radians = (4.7)(`57.296^\circ`)
=> 4.7radians = `269.2912^\circ`
Example 8:
Locate the following angles on a coordinate system:
- `- 135^\circ`
- `45^\circ`
- `\pi` radians
- `(\pi )/6` radians
Example 9:
Locate the commonly used angles on a unit circle both in degrees and radians.


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KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Feb 2009: The inquest into the death of local actress K Sujatha has been fixed for three days beginning 16 March.
Magistrate Mohd Fauzi Che Abu who would act as the coroner set the date here today after Deputy Public Prosecutor Geethan Ram Vincent said he would call seven to eight witnesses.
Among them was physician Dr S P Sakthiveloo from Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital in Klang who had treated Sujatha at the hospital, he said.
Sujatha died at the hospital on 25 June 2007, four days after her admission after allegedly drinking weed killer.
Police initially clasified the case as suicide but requested the inquest after suspecting foul play in her death following several police reports lodged by Kapar member of parliament (MP) S Manikavasagam.
Lawyer Datuk K Kumaraendran who acted for Sujatha's family, when asked whether MIC president Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu's son, Vell Paari, would be called as a witness in the inquest, said the prosecution had indicated he might be.
Sujatha had served as personal secretary to Vell Paari when he was Maika Holdings managing director. — Bernama