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by Anna Von Reitz
April 7, 2016
Big Lake, Alaska
John Forbes Kerry
Secretary of State
2201 "C" Street NW
Washington, WA 20520
Ban Ki-Moon
UN Secretary General
1st Avenue and 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
Dear Sirs:
As I have already brought to your attention millions of Americans have been defrauded and have suffered mischaracterization of their political status.
I am a living woman whose nativity came on June 6, 1956 on the land of the organic wisconsin state. These are Matters of Fact.
The governmental services corporation doing business as the United States of America, Inc. and its franchise known as the State of Wisconsin were in Chapter 11 Reorganization at the time. These are also Matters of Fact.
According to the sworn and recorded affidavit of my Mother the only Party having first-hand knowledge of the facts, unidentified people came to her immediately after 36 hours of labor and employed semantic deceit and confusion to misrepresent registration of a commercial vessel as recording of a physical birth and to misrepresent the Federal United States as the Continental United States and thereby secured her signature on a misrepresented and undisclosed contract naming the State of Wisconsin franchise of a self-interested private, mostly foreign-owned governmental services corporation being operated by the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico as the usufruct of my estate and giving them the right to copyright my given name.
The false usufructs immediately abused this role and created a foreign situs trust using my given name: Anna Maria Riezinger. They also named this foreign situs trust as a surety for their own corporate bankruptcy.
Thus in one criminal malicious act of fraud they kidnapped me from the land of my birth and into the foreign international jurisdiction of the sea—an act of press-ganging and inland piracy and unlawful conversion of political status, -- created a corporate persona to control and seize upon to benefit themselves, and they arbitrarily defined this corporate "person" as a "citizen" as defined by the 14th Amendment of their own corporate Charter known as The Constitution of the United States of America. They also further "bifurcated title" to "me" and created a Federal Municipal CITIZEN –a Cestui Que Vie Trust created, owned and operated by the District of Columbia Municipal Corporation: ANNA MARIA RIEZINGER for the purpose of claiming my assets both public and private for the benefit of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) operating as an agency of the UN Corporation and making my ESTATE liable for payment of whatever charges the perpetrators of this monstrous scheme might address to me as the presumed "co-trustee" of the "PCT"--- Public Charitable Trust created "in my name" by these criminals.
The Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico, the Bankruptcy Trustee named by the Federal Reserve, the World Bank, and the IBRD –all Secondary Creditors of the failed governmental services corporation dba the United States of America, Inc.-- finally settled the bankruptcy in November of 1999 conveniently without telling the Priority Creditors who are all the American people like me who have been railroaded and defrauded and mischaracterized as Federal United States "citizens" and Municipal CITIZENS of various stripe and who have been attacked as innocent babes in their cradles to pay debts they never owed and to live under conditions of peonage in an assumed slave status that was never theirs.
Now the same old perpetrators are trying for another round of fraud upon the American People. The International Monetary Fund dba IMF has bankrupted its own governmental services corporation doing business as the UNITED STATES and taken all its supposed "franchises" including ANNA MARIA RIEZINGER into bankruptcy with it. They have also created a brand new public transmitting utility for themselves called "Anna M. Riezinger". They've even come up with new names based on my actual name and copyrighted those, too--- names like "Anna M. Riezinger-von Reitz".
The point is--- it is all massive institutionalized fraud and you boys are responsible for ending it.
I am enclosing copies of two documents with this letter fully demonstrating the still-ongoing fraud being perpetuated. These are "Passport" documents supposedly issued under the authority of the United States Department of State that came in envelopes with the following return addresses:
U.S. Government Official Mail
300 5th Avenue, Suite 600
Seattle, WA 98104
As you will see – although my photograph appears, these documents were not issued to me. They were issued to "commercial vessels" owned and operated by the FEDERAL RESERVE that has been organized under United Nations City-State Municipal Law and their doing business name UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (INC.).
My handwritten notes appear on the color copies of these documents, explaining why they are fraudulent in nature, and are the result of malicious monopoly inducement on the part of the FEDERAL RESERVE dba UNITED STATES OF AMERICA which is not acting honestly, honorably, nor in compliance with any contract I am party to and which is seeking to secure my assumption and agreement with regard to their deliberate and self-interested mischaracterization of me and my status under conditions of non-disclosure and abundant semantic deceit.
My experience is the same as that of 360 million other Americans. The rats have a monopoly on the issuance of American Passports, so they are utilizing this as a coercive means to force people to agree to enslavement as chattel collateral benefiting their corporations---- resulting in peonage, enslavement, kidnapping, unlawful conversion, identity theft, false claims in commerce, and the list goes on.
Please note that none of these bogus documents mischaracterizing me as a "person" have been signed or accepted and that the duty to issue a correct passport to me, my husband James Clinton Belcher, and my son Eric Jon Belcher remains as one of the "essential governmental services" required under international law and at Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 of The Constitution for the United States of America, of which we are all beneficiaries.
The "Federal Reserve" and its member banks have done nothing but function in collusion with the "International Monetary Fund" as crime syndicates on our shores and have worked a complex and institutionalized racketeering and enslavement fraud scheme on our soil.
Both these organizations--- as demonstrated by the material evidence presented with this letter and public records--- deserve to be summarily liquidated and the continuance of the associated malicious frauds carried on by their various storefronts including the "USA" and "FBI" and "BLM" and their Bankruptcy Trustees who are also colluding in self-interested fraud against the American People indicates that all these associated organizations need to be liquidated and/or placed under completely new and contractually compliant management as well.
When my son came to this Earth I was accosted while still in a delirium of pain and told that I "had to" sign the paperwork that the minions of these corporations shoved in front of me ---or my baby would be kept by the hospital and not allowed to go home in my custody. I was literally threatened and coerced by the physical theft of my newborn into signing these fraudulent "agreements" at a time when I couldn't even read them.
At the time, such forceful duress over what was also at the same time misrepresented as an innocent recording of an event made no sense, but you can now appreciate that these kidnappers were intent on selling my son into slavery for their own benefit, seeking to seize upon and register the name I gave him, and to name their corporation as his usufruct.
It is only a question of how much more property must be destroyed and how many more lives must be lost to bring this depravity to a permanent stop.
No more vile and dishonorable crime can be imagined than that full grown men and women working in behalf of these banks and their storefront governmental services corporations have preyed upon innocent babies and women just out of childbirth. Now that the stinking pile of dog dung has been presented to you for direct examination, perhaps you feel the same way?
And now, how many times do we have to say, "NO, I do NOT consent." before someone gets off their rump and honors all the verbiage contained in the United Nations Charter?
How many times do innocent Americans have to suffer enslavement and kidnapping and armed extortion under color of law before you, Secretary Kerry, cut through the self-serving lies and issue correct passports for State Nationals?
I am also including a scanned copy of the authenticated "Birth Certificate" issued by Secretary Kerry's Office for ANNA MARIA RIEZINGER. You will note that the DEPARTMENT OF STATE is the Guarantor owing "full faith and credit" and that the DEPARTMENT OF STATE is part of the bankrupt UNITED STATES, INC.
Let me inform both of you that I am not and never was the equivalent of any bogus Cestui Que Vie Trust established "for me" by the UNITED STATES, INC. and am not the equivalent of any public transmitting utility established "for me" by THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC., either. Neither is my husband and neither is my son. We are Wisconsinites, Washingtonians, and Alaskans respectively and you had better believe it.
You had both better deal with this criminality or you will most certainly be blamed for it and considered criminals along with the long-dead perpetrators of this fraud.
anna maria riezinger, non-negotiable autograph, all rights reserved
for Anna Maria Riezinger, c/o Post Office Box 520994, Big Lake, Alaska Rural Route 99652
See this article and over 100 others on Anna's website here:www.annavonreitz.com
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For the 155th consecutive year, the fun fair of Liege is held on the Boulevard d'Avroy from last Saturday to the 11 November, you can't miss it !
In search of thrills, rifle shooting, ball games or just want to taste the fair specialities? With its 175 attractions, there is something for everyone ! If you are still thinking about coming, you can use the opportunity of the 2 "reduced fares" days, the 30 October and 11 November. Only one watchword : don't leave without your lacquemants, small flat wafers coated with a special syrup. They have been nationally recognised as typical product of Liège fun fair !

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The London property market
"We have been incredibly busy throughout the summer with both our sales and letting teams breaking records and achieving great results for our clients," says Andy Shepherd, Dexters Chief Executive. "We currently have over 80,000 buyers and tenants looking with us for their next London home."
Sales market update
"Recent research shows the number of sales agreed in London has increased by more than 5% compared to a year ago, this proves what we already know: now is a great time to sell," says Andy. "This news isn't surprising to us, as we know many people are 'BOBs' (Bored of Brexit) and are requesting our assistance to simply 'GOWI' (Get on with it)!"
"We expect property prices will increase a further 50% over the next 10 years as pent up demand from the growing population continues to outstrip the supply of housing. London's shortage of homes has long been an area of focus, yet the London Plan's yearly target of 65,000 new builds is not being met. The capital's population is estimated to be almost 9 million people by the end of this year and with just over 3.5 million dwellings currently available, demand will only continue to increase and prices will naturally follow suit."
"The Dexters website is appealing to more and more home movers and now receives over 250,000 visits every month," says Andy. "Interestingly though, only three out of every 20 viewings we arrange come from the property portals, the vast majority are generated by our local experts who get on the phone and talk to our buyers, encouraging them to view."
"You may have seen that sales transaction times across the industry have slowed due to the lending and conveyancing processes. At Dexters, we ensure we are offering professional guidance throughout the sale which includes the introduction of our recommended financial services experts and specialist conveyancing solicitors," says Andy. "We have found those who instruct solicitors and seek financial advice early on will speed up the transaction and we calculate that a sale agreed through us is two to three times more likely to go through."
If you are considering selling your property or would like an update on your local market, we would be delighted to assist. Please click the link to make contact with your local Dexters office.
Lettings market update
"London's Landlords remain fully engaged in the market and are staying invested in the capital," says Alex Harrington, Dexters Group Lettings Managing Director. "We are averaging 5% more rent than last year and over the past 12 months less than 1% of our Landlords have sold their property asset. In fact, more than 10,000 Landlords have already come to us this year for expert opinion and professional advice. These clients are conscious that with more than 160 pieces of legislation relating to the lettings market they can leave the smooth running of their rental to us. As managing agent, we will take on all responsibilities and provide detailed advice and guidance. Our dedicated Property Managers are always within 15 minutes of properties in their portfolio. Well run properties encourage tenants to stay longer and we are seeing more three year terms being agreed, which is great for our Landlords, many of whom have a long term horizon."
"Our expanding Short Lets team, based in Mayfair, handle the letting of properties that are available for just six weeks to six months and provide a higher return to our Landlords," says Alex. "This means we are able to offer specialist assistance to tenants who need more flexibility such as those relocating from abroad before they buy or professionals who are only in London for a limited time. Our International Relocation and Corporate Lettings team handle more than 200 such enquiries a week."
"We have seen a significant increase in lettings transaction numbers year on year and now have a total of 27,000 Landlords who put their trust in us," explains Alex. "This is attributable to the dedication of our local offices who work tirelessly to find the very best tenant, keeping void periods and arrears to an absolute minimum – only 1% of Dexters Landlords experience rent arrears against a national average of 36% according to the National Landlords Association."
If you are considering letting your property or would like an update on your local market, we would be delighted to assist. Please click the link to make contact with your local Dexters office.
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Welcome to divided by, our website explaining the division of two numbers x and y, mainly integers.
Table of Contents
The division of any two numbers is commonly denoted as x / y; x is the dividend or numerator, and y ≠ 0 is the divisor or denominator.
The division symbol is usually a slash, as in our example, yet, the horizontal bar (–) and the obelus (÷), among others, can also be used to denote a division.
If both, x and y belong to ℤ, (in other words, either number is an integer also known as whole number), then the result q = x / y is a rational number, which is either terminating (has a finite number of decimal places), or is non-terminating and repeating.
If the division of x by y is non-terminating and non-repeating, then it can be concluded that q is an irrational number.
Let's have a look at these examples:
- Supposed x = 3 and y = 4 we get q = 0.75, a rational number which is terminating.
- With x = 3 and y = 7 we obtain q = 0.42857142857142857142857142…, a rational number which is non-terminating and has the repeating pattern 428571, called repetend or reptend. Better than using an ellipsis is denoting the result with a vinculum, 0.428571, or using parenthesis such as our calculator which you can find further below.
- Assumed x = π, and y = 2, we get 1.57079632679489661923132169…, an irrational number (representing half the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter).
Dividing Whole NumbersDividing whole numbers is what this site is mainly about. The basic operation tells us how many times the number x is contained within the number y.
Using a sheet of paper in combination with pen or pencil, x by y can be calculated using the short division method if the divisor is simple, else the long division algorithm has to be applied.
It gets a bit tricky for those rational number which have a repetend, but our calculator below can handle this nicely for you.
Just enter the denominator and the nominator in their designated fields, our tool then does the calculation for you on the fly.
To start over, overwrite your input or hit reset.
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Division SymbolHere we shows you five ways to write a divided by sign, in the order of prevalence:
- x / y – slash notation
– fraction bar notation
- x ÷ y – obelus notation
- x : y – colon notation
- x ̸ y – solidus notation
How to type the division symbol?
TTo type the divide by symbol ÷ on a keyboard, hold down the Alt key and insert the sequence 0247 on the numeric keypad, then release the key.
Is a negative divided by a negative a positive?
Yes, a negative number divided by a negative number is a positive number.
What is the long division symbol called?
The long division symbol is known as division bracket or tableau. It separates the divisor from the dividend by a right parenthesis ) or vertical bar |, and the dividend from the quotient by a vinculum.
How to type the division symbol on Mac?
To type the divide by symbol ÷ on a Mac, press Option + / at the same time.
Is a negative divided by a positive a positive?
No, a negative number divided by a positive number makes a negative number.
How to type the division symbol on Chromebook?
To type the divide by symbol ÷ on a Chromebook: CTRL + SHIFT + U + 00F7.
What is the symbol for division in Excel?
To divide in Excel you'll need to make use of the slash symbol (/) in your formula.
How to type the division symbol on laptop?
To insert a division symbol on a laptop, press the ALT key and type 0247 at the same time. Then release the ALT key.
What is the symbol for divided by on a keyboard?
In Windows, the ÷ sign is produced by Alt + 0247 on the number pad; in macOS, by Option + /.
How do you type a division sign?
Copy the ÷ from here and paste it where you need it.
What is the symbol for division?
The division sign (÷) consists of a short horizontal line with a dot above and another dot below; it's sometimes called obelus.
How to type the division symbol on Mac?
On Mac, press Option + / keys, or switch the language input to Unicode Hex Input and type Option + 00F7.
Does a negative divided by a negative equal a positive?
Indeed, a negative divided by a negative does produce a positive number.
Is a positive divided by a negative a positive?
No, a positive number divided by a negative number is a negative number.
How to write out division?
There are five ways to write a division: 1)
with a fraction bar, 2) x / y with a slash, 3) x ̸ y with a solidus, 4) x ÷ y with an obelus, 5) x : y with a colon.
Is a negative number divided by a negative number positive?
Yes, a negative number divided by a negative number is a positive number.
How to write out a division problem?
You can write a division problem as
, x / y, x ̸ y , x ÷ y, or x : y.
What does ÷ mean?
The ÷ represents the division operation in mathematics.
Why is a negative divided by a negative a positive?
Because each negative sign means changing directions on the number line, a negative number divided by a negative number equals a positive number.
Is a positive divided by a positive a positive?
Yes, a positive number divided by a positive number is a positive number.
Dividing FractionsThe mathematical operation of dividing fractions is equivalent to multiplying the first fraction with the inverse of the second fraction (different from zero). We assume u,v,q,r ∈ ℤ:
So, u/v ÷ q/r = u/v * r/q = ur/vq, which equals x/y, for a certain pair (x,y) ∈ ℤ. If only one of the two, either the dividend or the divisor, is a quotient, divide the other number by 1 to have two fractions.
This essentially means that dividing fractions can be seen as the same thing as dividing whole numbers. For converting a fraction to decimal visit this site and check out its unique calculator.
Read on to learn what the division by zero means, followed by the summary of our article.
Divided by 0The division by 0 is not defined for any x, including 0 divided by 0! The web is full of discussions regarding the division by 0, yet, fact is that divided by zero does not exist.
However, it is interesting what happens for q = x / y when y is approaching, but not reaching, 0. For any x ≠ 0 ∈ ℤ the value "explodes"; in mathematical terms is ±∞.
We recommend to you using our search for in the sidebar to find the result of many divisions we have already carried out. Just insert x divided by y with your specific values, and hit the go button.
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10 Sep Smoke affects wine quality
Posted at 18:44h in News
The smokey atmosphere created by the huge wildfires that have swept through bushland in California has become a problem for the state's winemakers even though many of their vinyards have escaped direct damage from the blazes.
According to the California Association of Winegrape Growers most vintners err on the side of caution and consign grapes that might be affected by smoke to their rubbish bins.
However, in a court case in Brooklyn one vintner has sued a wine distributer for US$400,000 for rejecting 4,841 case of its wine because it claimed it was suffering from 'smoke taint'.


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LFP Farmers Market Sunday 10am to 3pm at Town Center
Saturday, September 26, 2015
|Bear's Breath HOT ketchup
Photo by Jerry Pickard
The Lake Forest Park Farmers Market will be in full swing Sunday at Town Center, with rows of booths set up between the main roadway and City Hall full of things to eat and buy.
|Josh Pankanin represents Aldrich Farms
with an array of products
Photo by Jerry Pickard
The Market has flowers, fresh produce, ready to eat food - and buskers to entertain you while you shop. There are a lot of new vendors this year, with gluten free products, hot sauces and other condiments, cookies, jelly, honey, and even hand-made furniture!
|Sometimes there are musicians at each end of the market
Photo by Jerry Pickard
All the produce is from farms that are either certified organic or in the multi-year process toward becoming certified.
The market is open on Sundays from 10am to 3pm at Lake Forest Park Town Center, intersection of Ballinger Way and Bothell Way.


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Classmates help each other prepare for their next English language test...
More than 30 years ago, The Buggles had a hit with the classic Video Killed the Radio Star - a song with a nostalgic theme which expresses the time of change as television began to supercede radio as the main medium for creating musician stardom. Interestingly enough, Video Killed the Radio Star was also the very first music video to be broadcast on MTV when it first went to air in the United States in 1981.
I think it would be pretty fair to say video has become fairly ubiquitous through Internet applications, and in terms of online and computer-based language learning applications, there is veritable plethora of video-based programs and services that can be accessed and utilised with relative ease.
There is, to some degree, an assumption that online learning is all about connecting real people and - with video applications like Skype, Tokbox and Eyejot (not to mention the video messaging function now usually inbuilt into applications like Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, etc.) - teachers and students would relish the chance to have technology resurrect the sort of visual face-to-face interaction they get in physical classroom environments.
I run a thriving online business helping students to prepare for English tests like TOEFL (and in particular the speaking and writing sections of such tests), and I recently did an informal survey with my online students to get a feel for their preferences when it came to audio-only or video based interaction (with me as the teacher and also with each other).
The results of that survey were rather surprising - but then again, perhaps not. 95% of my students preferred audio-only communication and test item practice with their teacher and with each other.
As in, no video, thank you very much. Headset and mic only, if you please...
Delving into their rationales, some of the reasons made a lot of sense. Using just microphones and speakers, there is no need to worry about one's appearance - or the appearance of one's physical location. For a lot of people, there is a feeling that there is still some semblance of privacy to the communication, a sort of holding back on full disclosure which feels appropriate considering interaction is taking place between people who have never actually met in the physical face-to-face world.
Personally, I can relate to those rationales. While I generally much prefer to see my online students face to face through any of the very accessible video chat platforms out there, I have to confess that one of the things I love about teaching online using audio only is that I can teach in my pyjamas (or what passes for pyjamas in the Raven household - and no, we won't go there).
But by far the most influential factor, according to my online students, is the fact that the tests they are preparing for involve listening that is completely audio-based. They need to improve their ability to handle spoken English that is delivered to them through a headset only, so it only makes sense to them to have their practice and instruction delivered to them in the same format.
Aside from the fact that this is a pretty good example of test washback at it most (and somewhat dismaying) extreme, it does raise the question:
When are English language tests (and those delivered through computer and Internet-based programs in particular) going to start featuring videos of speakers and conversations instead of the incredibly one-dimensional and situationally limited format of audio-only scripts?
In short, when will video kill the Buggles' radio star within the paradigm of English language testing?
I ask this question not simply because I believe the technology is now there and accessible enough for us to make this happen without too many complications. I ask the question because, essentially, the audio-only format of pretty much all English listening activities (and particularly those on high stakes international English tests) is one of the most serious breaches of validity I can imagine when it comes to giving learners exposure to language and also testing their real ability to comprehend it.
You see, the current common method of delivering spoken English to students assumes that they are going to have to either shut their eyes or turn away and imagine they are looking at the stark walls of a classroom (or else a computer monitor) while the spoken delivery takes place, and based on that, we are going to somehow get an accurate picture of their listening ability. Another alternative is to assume ELLs are going to be dedicating all of their spoken English skills to telephone conversations.
Yet another (albeit far-fetched) theory could be that English language tests may be trying to bequeathe advantages to visually impaired people within the language learning population. Then again, bearing in mind that English testing organisations are not exactly renowned for their charitable goals or processes, I daresay this is an unintended consequence.
All of this AUDIO-ONLY English delivery might go some way towards explaining the confused glazed (and often panic-stricken) look a lot of English students exhibit for the first couple of weeks they spend in English language speaking contexts. Not only do they have trouble focusing on what they are hearing on account of an unexpected barrage of visual distractions, they may be grappling with the no-doubt difficult task of superimposing a vision of a classroom or a computer screen over the current scene in front of them in order to help them focus on what they are hearing. If you see their hands twitching, it may be because they want to pick up a phone.
Non-verbal aspects of communication (including paralanguage) are completely thrown out the window in audio-only applications of spoken language. Anyone who has spent any amount of time in a foreign language context with pretty much any level of proficiency will tell you that the non-verbal aspects of spoken interaction are potential life-savers when it comes to understanding what is being said to or around you.
Hey, it helped my wife and I when we first met! Without the simple charms of non-verbal language and paralanguage, I might go so far as to say there would be no well-decorated Raven's Nest from which to send this post, and no gorgeous little fledglings trying to interrupt me while I type it...
Currently, the non-verbal and situational aspects of communication are seriously (VERY seriously) lacking in both coursework and formal English language tests. I do personally think it comprises a serious threat to the validity of a lot of our teaching, and most of our testing (when it comes to listening and speaking skills). While video is now becoming more common in many classroom contexts - not to mention much more accessible through Internet applications - it is still mysteriously absent in all the formal English language tests I've heard of.
In fact, rather than using an Internet-based running system to help improve this aspect of its listening tasks, ETS has gone even further into the relative blindness of an audio-only paradigm. The speaking section it introduced into its new iBT TOEFL format requires students to record their responses directly into their computers. Not only do the students speak to a text-filled computer monitor (rather than to any remote semblance of an actual human being), those aspects of non-verbal communication that might genuinely benefit their spoken communication (and which would definitely come into play in the real world) are utterly excluded.
In this respect, I still think that IELTS and its face-to-face interview format for speaking is communicatively miles ahead of its TOEFL counterpart - not just in terms of validity and accuracy, but also basic fairness.
So come on testing organisations... The time of the radio star in your tests should well and truly be over by now, and its high time video got its chance to kill him off. We may be 30 years behind MTV, but it's never too late to do the right thing.
Of course, video instead of audio in testing may well mean I have to change out of my Raven household pyjamas and put on something more decent (as well as move the plate with half-eaten baked beans on toast out of the camera shot) while teaching online. But hey, it's a sacrifice I can live with - especially if my students get a chance to express themselves more naturally and efficiently.
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Most of the pieces are blocked from the webcam's view by trees...only last week did the pile spread enough to be seen.
Thanks, Paula
Paula Werne
Holiday World
thrillerman1 said: Have any pieces of the turkey tilt arrived yet?
It's supposed to all arrive in early December ... first one of the cars will be on display at IAAPA.
Thanks, Paula
Paula Werne
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We had the great privilege of speaking with one of San Francisco's most famous drag queens, Miss Pollo Del Mar. We asked her for 20 minutes and took three times that. We'd like to apologize, but speaking with her was so much fun any apology would just come off as fake. We had so much to talk about that we need to break up the interview into a few parts.
Our first segment will help you get to know Pollo Del Mar a little better. She's a drag queen who has been doing drag since 2006. She carefully calculates all her career moves, has taken the time to get to know her fans, her audience and craft.
We thought it especially cute to hear about her drag family.
DQG: Do you have a drag family, drag mother, drag daughter(s)?
PDM: Oh yes, I am part of a House called the House of Glitter and my drag mother is Landa Lakes. We have a humongous family, we have a huge drag family. And surprisingly tight nit despite how huge we are. In fact every week on Mondays we gather for a public dinner together. Not everyone can attend every week, you know it's a rotating cast. We love it. It's a great opportunity for us to spend time together outside of performing together and all of those wonderful things that we always do. I have tons and tons of kids and staying very true to my white trash roots, I have tons and tons of children and don't know who any of the fathers are.
We were very surprised that the House of Glitter was so close, we can't even say we have weekly meals with our real family members. What a great sense of family in the drag world.
We asked her who she admired most or looked up to. She couldn't put her finger on one in particular but she does want to have similar success to Heklinaand Peaches Christ. Heklina is a San Francisco based queen who runs a show called "Trannyshack" which stars queens of all forms. Peaches Christ is also a San Francisco based queen whose events are held in the Castro Theatre and include Apollonia coming in July.
She also recognizes the legendary Lady Bunny (which drag queen couldn't) and Jimmy James an "iconic 80's and 90's Marilyn Monroe impersonator" who made Pollo feel like "a little gay kid who was living in a surreal dream," when she had dinner with the two of them. But she is also inspired by the queens who are fresh on the scene and hungry to make a name for themselves.
When we agreed with her that her empire was coming soon she had the following to say:
"Well it's really weird as an entertainer, and a performer or personality to look back on nearly 10 years of your career and to think about each step of the way you don't really think about how's it's going to build up to be a body of work. But when I look back at what has happened for me and all these amazing experiences that I've been able to have as a result of performing and doing drag and being in the public eye, it blows me away. Ideally someday somebody will look at what I've done and be like, "that was a cool performer, she was a cool queen."
Pollo Del Mar is definitely a cool queen. We had so much fun and we're so happy to tell everyone, there's more of this interview to come, so stay tuned. Also, she's kind of a control freak, so we definitely won't let anything get out of control.


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On Wednesday, August 23 an adult class will begin studying The Gospel of John, which is a favorite of many.
All participants are encouraged to read the gospel of John in one sitting before the first class meeting. In fact, if you have not read the gospel in one sitting before the first class meeting, you might best be served by staying home and reading rather than coming to that first session.
The gospel of John is a favorite, this class is an opportunity to take it to another level of understanding and practice. Several teachers will share the leading of this study which will meet at 7:00pm in the fellowship hall.


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Let's talk about our wedding for a second.
And by 'second,' we mean, the time with which it took Brock to buy a pair of velvet loafers, decide they would be perfect for the 'big day,' receive them in the mail, see that they were damaged and return them, simultaneously realizing that he might have rushed deciding his wedding shoes without even knowing what our tuxes are going to look like… or even where we're getting married…
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– Our wedding will be black tie, formal.
– Our wedding will be in the Fall of 2019.
– Our wedding will be officiated by one of our closest friends, mentors and confidantes (we've already asked him and he said yes ☺☺)
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The scene: grocery store parking lot. Two days before Thanksgiving. Sixteen hours post-failure to indict Darren Wilson. White woman loading up her groceries. Black man walking in uniform from his place of employment — to his car, perhaps, or maybe, just to move his body during a break. He is beyond athletic looking, with a giant tangle of braids pulled back at the nape, reaching below his waist.
White woman dumps her clementines. "Fuck," she says.
He passes.
"I should have real problems, right?" she says. Not in apology for the swear word — goodness no — but to acknowledge grievous recent events.
He returns. Gets down on his hands and knees. Looks under the carriage of her car. They conclude in unison that the errant clementine — having rolled to the near exact mid-section of the car — cannot be reached.
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Chinese venture capital firms are taking another look at blockchain, according to an article by Nina Xiang on Coindesk. After the 2018 crypto crash, up to 90% of blockchain-focused VCs left the market. Now, as China's central government pushes for greater blockchain adoption, some are returning.
During the first six months, Chinese blockchain startups raised $368 million via 71 funding deals, according to Chinese financial data tracker 01Caijing.
VCs are finding it easier to raise money. Hong Kong-based Kenetic, which started in 2016 with a few partners trading their own capital, is on track to close an eight-figure fund next month, said managing partner Jehan Chu. NEO Global Capital, a fund backed by the NEO crypto project, has also been raising a second fund of about $50 million since June.
It is among numerous funds that are raising new vehicles this year because of a renewed sense of optimism. At the same time, VCs firms are diversifying away from equity plays in startups towards areas such as secondary trading and bitcoin mining.
These include Sora Ventures, an early-stage blockchain investment firm that entered the secondary market trading earlier this year. Its trading activities include swap, futures of mostly mainstream cryptocurrencies, which takes up about 20% of its asset-under-management, said founder and managing partner Jason Fang.
Fundamental Labs, a $500 million-under-management blockchain fund that has backed Coinbase, Canaan Creative and Binance, invested $44 million in bitcoin miners in May that could increase the bitcoin network's total hash rate by at least 1,000 peta hashes per second (PH/s).
And Parallel Ventures, a blockchain VC founded by Yizhou Zhu, a former investment director at FreeS Capital, also invested in bitcoin mining equipment this year via a separate unit. The investment boasts a computing power of about 300 PH/s that's worth about $15 million. FreeS has backed Chinese and US tech startups including Uber. It also manages assets for other investors who are interested in the crypto space and completed raising a 200 million yuan ($28 million) new blockchain fund in August.
Regulatory framework
Blockchain investors were given a boost last week by the passage of a new cryptography law, which according to Chinese media, will come into effect on January 1, 2020. It will tackle all the regulatory and legal challenges blockchain companies face, Crypto Gibraltar reported.
The law was passed just a day after China's President Xi Jinping called for increasing support for blockchain development in the country. Many believe that Xi's encouragement of blockchain research and innovation was what prompted Bitcoin's massive rally over the weekend, in which the coin's price jumped by more than $1000.


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Lucid has been commissioned by RSSB to develop an interactive training course on Workplace Related Violence: SWeRVe II.
The course will build upon the success of the SWeRVe I DVD launched in 2006.
The course will provide rail industry trainers with video based scenarios and presentation materials to facilitate classroom discussion. A dedicated trainers' website will be launched to host the course outline, background materials and delivery notes.


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My wife and I just saw "Thor: Ragnarok" over the weekend. I was (and am) fighting a nasty head cold, but a steady supply of gel caps helped me through it. We couldn't get tickets to see it in our preferred Dolby Atmos theater (the one with the plush reclining seats), and our second choice theater was waaaaayyy too expensive, so we finally saw it at a nice, relatively modest theater complex just a few minutes south of us (we are literally surrounded by theaters where we live). We booked a 2D matinee show (with assigned seats), and for this particular movie, it was fine.
I don't want to get too into the story/plot mechanics of the movie, so I'm going to do the lazy thing and cut and paste from ye olde Wikipedia for that section (in quotes).
Two years after the Battle of Sokovia,[N 1] Thor has been unsuccessfully searching for the Infinity Stones, and is now imprisoned by the fire demon Surtur. Surtur reveals that Thor's father Odin is no longer on Asgard, and that the realm will soon be destroyed in the prophesied Ragnarök, once Surtur unites his crown with the Eternal Flame that burns beneath the city. Thor defeats Surtur and claims his crown, believing he has prevented Ragnarök.
Thor returns to Asgard to find his adopted brother Loki posing as Odin. Thor forces Loki to help him find their father, and with directions from Stephen Strange on Earth, they locate Odin in Norway. Odin explains that he is dying, and that his passing will allow his firstborn daughter Hela to escape from a prison she was sealed in long ago. Hela had been the leader of Asgard's armies, and had conquered the Nine Realms with Odin, but had been imprisoned and written out of history after her ambitions became too great. Odin dies, and Hela appears. She destroys Thor's hammer Mjolnir, and when Thor and Loki attempt to flee through the Bifröst Bridge, she pursues them and forces them out into space to die. Hela arrives in Asgard, destroying its army and the Warriors Three; resurrects the ancient dead who once fought with her, including her wolf Fenris; and appoints the downtrodden Asgardian Skurge as her executioner. She plans to use the Bifröst to expand Asgard's empire, but Heimdall steals the sword that controls the Bridge, and hides away with the rest of Asgard's citizens.
Thor crash-lands on the planet Sakaar, a garbage planet surrounded by wormholes. He is captured by a bounty hunter named Scrapper 142, and taken to serve as a gladiator for the planet's ruler, the Grandmaster, whom Loki has already become ingratiated with. Thor recognizes 142 as one of the Valkyrior, a legendary force of female fighters who were killed defending Asgard from Hela long ago. Thor is forced to compete in the Grandmaster's Contest of Champions, facing his old friend the Hulk. Thor almost defeats the Hulk, before the Grandmaster fixes the fight to ensure the Hulk's victory. Still enslaved, Thor attempts to convince Hulk and 142 to help him save Asgard, but neither is willing. He soon manages to escape the palace and finds the Quinjet that brought Hulk to Sakaar. Hulk follows Thor to the Quinjet, where a recording of Natasha Romanoff makes the Hulk transform back into Bruce Banner for the first time since Sokovia.
The Grandmaster orders 142 and Loki to find Thor and Hulk, but the pair come to blows and Loki forces her to relive the deaths of her fellow Valkyrie at the hands of Hela; she decides to help Thor, taking Loki captive to prove her goodwill. Unwilling to be left behind, Loki provides the group with the means to steal one of the Grandmaster's ships. They then liberate the other gladiators who, led by Korg and Miek, stage a revolution. Loki attempts to betray his brother to gain a reward from the Grandmaster, but Thor anticipates this and leaves him behind. Loki is soon found by Korg and the gladiators. Thor, Banner, and 142 escape through a wormhole to Asgard, where Hela's forces are attacking Heimdall and Asgard's citizens. Banner becomes the Hulk again, fighting Fenris, Skurge, and the resurrected warriors with 142 while Thor faces Hela. Loki and the gladiators arrive to help, and the citizens board their large ship; a repentant Skurge sacrifices himself to allow their escape. Thor loses an eye and then has a vision of Odin that helps him realize that only Ragnarök can stop Hela. While she is distracted, Loki locates Surtur's crown and places it in the Eternal Flame. Surtur is reborn and destroys Asgard, seemingly killing Hela.
Thor and the others escape with Asgard's remaining citizens aboard the Grandmaster's vessel, and Thor is crowned king. He decides to take his people to Earth. In a mid-credits scene, they come across a large spaceship.[N 2] In a post-credits scene, the Grandmaster encounters some of his subjects, who are still taking part in the revolution.
In three words; "Thor: Ragnarok" is fun, flashy and forgettable.
* Lots and lots of humor.
From the little moments, such as Chris Hemsworth's Thor pleading (and whimpering) with Stan Lee not to cut his hair, Jeff Goldblum camping the absolute hell out of his ridiculously-effete "Grandmaster" role, Tom Hiddleston's patented brand of devilish-grinning mischievousness, and, best of all, Dr. Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) piloting a spaceship into a black hole and announcing (with a far straighter face than I could), "We're approaching the Devil's anus!" I try not to talk at all during movies, but I had to lean over to my wife and whisper in her ear, "I wonder how many takes it took him to get through that line."
For my bargain matinee-priced ticket, the humor was the single BEST thing about this movie. In many ways, "Thor: Ragnarok" is less a comic book adaptation and more a supercharged action comedy, like a bigger-budget "Rush Hour" sequel with superpowers. Arguably the humor undercuts any gravitas the movie tries to generate (even Thor losing an eye isn't a big deal). You'll either enjoy that or you won't. Luckily for my wife and I, we did. A dour, humorless version of this movie would be a tremendous and pompous bore.
* Hulk SMASH.
The big gladiatorial match between Hulk and Thor (previewed in the trailers) is about as ridiculous, consequence-free and silly as you'd expect. In fact, Mark Ruffalo's Hulk/Banner is less conflicted Jekyll/Hyde scientist and more comic sidekick to the heroic (but quite goofy) Thor. The matchup is has all the gravitas as a pro-wresting match (and about a third of the reality).
* Tons of CGI action sequences.
Marvel's overuse of CGI action has become a bit numbing in the 9 years since Marvel officially re-launched their movie brand and unveiled both "Iron Man" & "The Incredible Hulk" in 2008. Those earlier Marvel movies look downright spartan by comparison these days. "Thor: Ragnarok" is no exception. It's big, gaudy and showered with needless CGI crowd shots, ginormous set extensions and ceaseless action set pieces. I don't mean to slam them, as they're a lot of fun the moment that you're watching them but they have absolutely zero resonance. No gravitas. They evaporate moments later.
* Prestigious guest stars.
Seriously, Marvel; was it really necessary to cast Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett as Hela, the Goddess of Death? This is a role so two-dimensional that it could've been played by just about any actress who fit in that slinkier version of Angelina Jolie's "Malificent" costume. And Blanchett chews so much scenery in this movie that pieces of it are probably still in her teeth today.
Sir Anthony Hopkins, already cast as Odin from the previous "Thor" movies, gets to ham it up as he eats grapes (he's really Loki in disguise, of course) and finally enjoys a nice 'death' scene walking in the wilds of Norway (in comfy street clothes, no less; I'm assuming by that point in the shoot, Hopkins was really sick of those 70 lb. robes).
Idris Elba also returns as the former Gatekeeper, who now leads a revolution in Asgard.
I'm not sure what Jeff Goldblum's asking price is these days, but he plays the Grandmaster as if "Jurassic Park"'s Ian Malcolm was involved in a transporter accident with Jaye Davison's Ra from 1994's "Stargate."
I was also impressed/surprised to see Tessa Thompson ("Dear White People" "Westworld" TV series) as the alcoholic ex-Valkyrie "Scrapper 142." Like the rest of the cast, she appears to be having a blast (and adopting a posh accent). I suspect the blooper reel of this movie might be as fun (if not more fun) than the actual film.
Popular action star Karl Urban ("Lord of the Rings" "Star Trek" "Dredd" "Red") also has a nice but predictable turn as an Asgardian collaborator turned hero. He's the one cast member of this movie that I've actually met (however briefly) in person.
There's also Matt Damon's hilarious cameo as 'theatrical Loki' in an Asgardian propaganda play. A bit of sly stunt-casting, since Damon also played another version of Loki in Kevin Smith's 1999 Jay & Silent Bob epic, "Dogma."
Oh, and I almost forgot: Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange returns for a cameo.
* Token attempts at social commentary.
There is a bit of social commentary (believe it or not) thrown into this film; we see a planet drowning in the universe's trash, ruled by a ineffective leader worried only about keeping the hungry, angry masses entertained and appeased with gladiatorial matches.
The remaining, fleeing Asgard population (who are galactic refugees now) could speak for any/all displaced people of the world (Syrian or Somali refugees, perhaps).
But I suspect that's not what most people will remember when they see "Thor: Ragnarok." Whatever commentary I perceived in the film doesn't really matter. I'm guessing the audience probably won't give two flying farts over that sort of thing, since it's really a nice two hour means of enjoying popcorn and sodas (which we did). It's doubtful that any 'messages' in this movie really connected to their target audience in any meaningful way. This isn't "Blade Runner 2049."
* Marvel fatigue IS a factor these days…
I was a kid who used to LOVE Marvel comics. In fact, I used to have large paperback editions of Hulk and Spiderman. But older me is feeling more than a bit of Marvel fatigue these days. Having seen what feels like a million of these films since 2008, they're becoming bi-annual exercises in sensory overload. Like two-hour roller coaster rides or fireworks shows, Marvel movies are fun in the moment, but they're also starting to blur together in my feeble, middle-aged brain. I can't really remember which movies are which anymore. I only remembered "Age of Ultron" because it had the robot with the funny kissy lips.
As much as I enjoy the roller coaster rides, I'd be okay with not seeing a Marvel movie for a few years; to allow them them to feel fresh again.
Despite my seeming negativity towards the movie, I want to reiterate that I didn't hate it. Not at all. In fact, it's exactly what I expected. It's a fun, flashy diversion for a couple of hours, and nothing more.
If you do go to see "Thor: Ragnarok"? Don't spend too much on your ticket, grab some popcorn and soda, and have a blast.


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Find out how much fuel consumption in liters or gallons per km for Lincoln Aviator information fit for all models of years 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.
The information below can be found in each vehicle manufacturer manual.
Technical details and how much fuel consumption in liters per kilometer or miles per gallon maker Lincoln Aviator in the user manual is:
- Lincoln Aviator it is a SUV.
- Car engine capacity: 4605 ccm (279,60 cubic inches).
- Car max power: 306.00 PS (223,88 kW or 300,49 HP).
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In 2016 we were charged with protecting print sales in the face of industry-wide decline whilst also building a base of known customers whose data we can collect, enabling us to find new ways to monetise them in future. To do so, our goal was to create a digital loyalty scheme so simple and rewarding that it could overcome people's growing fatigue and disengagement with loyalty programmes.
Our hugely successful rewards club, Sun Savers, helped stem the decline in print sales with a 4.4 million circulation uplift. We gave our members £5 in cash every time they bought 28 copies of The Sun, offered exclusive discounts on days out and holidays, and huge competitions from £15,000 in our monthly raffle to winning their mortgage. We now know our members wants and needs and are on first-name terms with over 800,000 people.


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The five stages of Grieve have been identified by psychologists:
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining (with foreign enemies)
4. Believing your own wildest rhetoric
5. Standing as a vanity candidate out of spite in a General Election
Many former MPs recently defenestrated may be feeling the signs of Grieve as the nights lengthen and the season of ill-will approaches. Once outgoing characters in an established rut, now thrown into the real world and feeling Gaukey, we should not be cruel – they are in need of help and counselling.
See also
- 101 Uses for a Dumped MP
- Sarah Wollaston joins Plaid Cymru
- Operation Casement: still no arrests
- Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
- Oh, and by others:
- By Rory Stewart:
- By David Cameron:
- For the Record
- Cameron on Cameron
- For the Record by David Cameron
- By Boris Johnson:
- Woke: A Guide to Social Justice by Titania McGrath
- The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay (1841)
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, by Jordan B Peterson
- All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class by Tim Shipman
- Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union by Harold D. Clarke, Matthew Goodwin and Paul Whiteley
- Brexit: How the Nobodies Beat the Somebodies by Sebastian J. Handley
- Rising Tides: Facing the Challenges of a New Era by Liam Fox


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|"If you want to be healthy, you can be healthy. It's simply a choice that you make."
Help & Tips
Take coffee for weight loss
Here's a really simple tip to help your exercise efforts: use coffee for weight loss (plus, it will also give you a little more oomph in your workouts).
Keep exercising past 3 weeks
There can be a lot of resistance to changing your exercise habits. When you are feeling tired or sore, it can take a lot of effort to keep exercising to achieve your weight loss goals.
How is it possible to keep exercising when you simply don't feel like it?
Exercise Motivation and Reasons
I have been asked many times: what is the one most important thing for getting in shape. Is it effective exercise? Is it the right food plan? Is it taking the right supplements?
No. It's your exercise motivation. Your motivation to exercise (and eat well) is the number 1 priority.
The healing benefits of exercise
The benefits of exercise include improvement, development, recovery, growth and strengthening. Obviously this can be applied to the physical body. And you know what, movement is also a massive aid to improvements on a mental and emotional level...
Exercise again no matter how you feel
Some days the last thing you feeling like doing is going to the gym to exercise again. What does it take to get the motivation - and even the energy - to get your workout done?
Even those of us who have been exercising consistently for a long time need to find motivation to turn up and exercise again and again.
Making high intensity exercise easier
I'd like to share with you something that I have started doing during my cardio workouts that makes doing me exercise easier. I've been using certain affirmation statements during the last three minutes of my workouts.
Exercise Fuel
What you eat when attempting to get in shape is very important: nutrition is your exercise fuel. As an approximation, nutrition contributes 70% to your overall level of physical change.
Lift weights to bulk down
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The pizza oven is here! The pizza oven is here! And it arrived just in time for the Guv's 38th birthday! Whoo-hoo!
Here's a picture of my personal pizzaiolo, Brooklyn-born "The Guv," with one of our first pies. Cooking in this thing is an art form. One has to build the right kind of fire, burning hot (up to 800 degrees), and the fire is moved around the oven to properly heat it. When the pizza goes in, it takes about 90 seconds to cook. Magic!
Tonight, we celebrated the Guv's 38th birthday with some fantastic friends, and the birthday boy himself tossed and baked some fabulous pies. If it feels like I'm using a lot of superlatives, it's both because the Guv's pizzas are that good and because our friends bring good wines with them.
When good friends, good wine, and good pizza come together, nirvana happens.
We are so very lucky to live here in Silicon Valley, making our dreams come true (including this oven!) and surrounded by smart and fun friends who love pizza us.
But since this is the Guv's birthday post, enough about pizza and friends: let's talk about why, this year, I celebrate him a little extra. Here is my birthday toast (hiccup!):
Guv, we've shared twenty great years of belly laughs, stories that never grow old, conversations that are always interesting and inspiring, and a whole lot of fun. I remember your 18th birthday, on which I gave you a picture frame with a picture of us to take to Yale. (It was pink. What was I thinking?!) This year, you've gotten a convertible and a pizza oven. So for my birthday, I'd like a Vespa and ... wait, this is your toast. Seriously, this year has been hell, and you've had my back every step of the way. I have no greater friend, and, as far as old men go, you're alright. Keep that pizza coming, and I might keep taking care of you in your old age. I hear that metal peel you're holding can double as a cane. Just remember, before you come chasing after me to chastise me for this post, you don't want to throw out your back or anything. Those kinds of things are a lot harder to fix as you approach AARP-eligibility 40. But even when you get there, I'll be right beside you, and I'll lend you my arm if you need some help hobbling... 'cause that's how we roll, together. I'll love you even when you're 98, you know; God-willing you'll keep me laughing that long. To many more birthdays, pizzas and fun times, I toast you with a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY! xo


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I've got to make this quick.
But I wanted to let y'all know.
After a shuttle ride, train ride, taxi ride and two plane rides…
we are, at last, home.
The trip was manageable.
It had it's moments.
Definitely could have been worse.
But 28 hours?
With at 22 month old?
Well… it's over.
And that's all I wanna say 'bout that.
The highlight of the trip was the outstanding welcoming committee at the airport.
I'm so glad I had my camera handy.
Seeing those smiling faces filled this mama's heart to overflowing.
As expected, everyone went positively wild for Miss Poppy.
And what did Poppy think?
I think she's going to like it here.
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Proposals for 2011 Code4LibCon Preconferences
Proposals will close Friday November 19 so we can finalize the list and add them to registration!
We'll have space for up to 3 full-day pre-conferences and 3-6 half-day pre-conferences.
Please include a "Contact/Responsible Individual" name and email address so we know who is willing to put on the proposed precon.
Text mining
- Description: This workshop will describe and demonstrate the principles of text mining and other digital humanities computing techniques. With the advent of so much full text content available in libraries, and with the increasing ease in which people can find content, the question to ask one's self is, "What do I do with all of this content?" Or, as Gregory Crane said, "What do you do with a million books?" Text mining, visualization, concordancing are some of the answers -- process for making sense of large full text corpora -- something often called "distant reading". Participants will go away with a better understanding of what the digital humanities are and how they can applied in a library setting.
- Duration: half-day
- Speaker Bio: Eric Lease Morgan considers himself a librarian first and a computer user second. His professional goal is to discover new ways to use computer to provide better library services. Some of his more notable projects included Mr. Serials, Index Morganagus, the Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, and MyLibrary. Currently he spends his time investigating the digital humanities and integrating them into VUFind.
- Contact: Eric Lease Morgan (emorgan at nd.edu)
What's New In Solr
- Description: The library world is fired up about Solr. Practically every next-gen catalog is using it (via Blacklight, VuFind, or other technologies). Solr has continued improving in some dramatic ways, including geospatial support, field collapsing/grouping, extended dismax query parsing, pivot/grid/matrix/tree faceting, autosuggest, and more. This session will cover all of these new features, showcasing live examples of them all, including anything new that is implemented prior to the conference.
- Duration: half-day
- Speaker Bio: Erik has spoken at several code4lib conferences (Keynoted Athens '07 along with the infamous pioneering Solr preconference, presented at Providence '09, and pre-conferenced Asheville '10). Erik co-authored "Lucene in Action", and he's a Lucene and Solr committer. His library world claims to fame are founding and naming Blacklight, original developer on Collex and the Rossetti Archive search.
- Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidimagination.com)
Intro to Functional Programming with JavaScript (and a little Haskell)
- Description: Functional programming is a topic that is becoming increasingly important for programmers to be aware of. Unfortunately it also has the reputation of being an area of programming that is particularly difficult and academic. Languages like Haskell, while being very powerful, certainly live up to this reputation. However many of the essential features of functional programming can be explored through a language as simple and commonplace as JavaScript.
- This preconference talk will cover what makes a language 'functional' and the usage and implementation of essential features of functional programming: first-class functions, lambda functions, higher order functions, closures, and function currying. It will show how many of the powerful abstractions in a language like Haskell can also be implemented in a language like JavaScript, this will include a discussion of the trade offs between purity and performance.
- The aim of this talk is to prepare participants to both implement functional techniques in everyday programming, as well as start exploring the topic more academically. Even if you never plan on coding in a purely functional style this workshop will give you an understanding of topics that should improve your programming in other languages with functional features such as Ruby, Python, and C#. At the very least after this workshop you can go to the bar and throw around words like "lambda function", "closure" and "currying" with confidence!
- Duration: half-day
- Speaker Bio: Will Kurt is the Applications Development Librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is also working on a master's in Computer Science. He has spoken at several library conferences including Computers in Libraries and Internet Librarian on topics including the Microsoft Surface and Visualizing Information.
- Contact: Will Kurt (wkurt at unr.edu)
CURATEcamp Hackfest
- Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in digital curation? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's "Where Librarians Go To Hack" and the page for the Access 2010 Hackfest. I propose a full-day hackfest with a focus on the domains of digital curation, preservation, and repositories -- think stuff like CDL's microservices, Hydra, Fedora, etc. Here's how it works, roughly: we assemble in the morning and do some whiteboarding, mostly to gauge folks' interests and jot down project ideas; then we separate into teams and hack on stuff for the rest of the day and present our progress at the end. Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable! (Wiki space will be made in advance of the hackfest so participants may begin kicking around ideas.)
- Duration: full-day
- Speaker Bio: Facilitators of the CURATEcamp Hackfest will be:
- Shaun Ellis - Digital Library Collections Interface Developer, Princeton University Library
- Jason Fowler - Programmer Analyst, UBC Library Systems
- Contact: Mike Giarlo (michael at psu.edu)
Running cloud Servers
- Desription: In this pre-conference we will work with the Amazon EC2, S3, and EBS platforms to launch, configure and deploy cloud-based servers. The workshop will include a series of short hands-on tutorials designed to take you from complete novice to semi-skilled cloud server administrator. the tutorials include: 1)short overview of Amazon cloud services and how they are used 2)Amazon registration, 3)Launching, configuring and securing your first instance, 4)Installing a service (Vufind) and 5)Backing up in the cloud - Backup routines and server images.
- Duration: half-day
- Speaker Bio: Erik Mitchell is the Assistant Director for Technology Services at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Over the past year he and his team have focused on using cloud-based services to serve the IT needs of the ZSR library. More information about the work done on this project can be found at [1], [2]
- Contact: mitcheet at wfu dot edu
Publishing Historic Newspapers with NDNP tools
An in-depth session on publishing and working with historic newspaper content made available through the US National Digital Newspaper Program. The software behind the LC-hosted site at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov (python/django/mysql/solr) is available under a free/libre/open source license at sourceforge. This session will include an introduction to the program and working with the software; discussion of adding features such as linking between ChromAm at LC and other institutions publishing the same newspaper content; creating structure and submission for user edited OCR corrections; and article level viewing. This event is open to everyone - non-NDNP participants are invited to join us and learn how to work with this content and help consider how to improve the software. The schedule will include ample time for technical discussion and hacking on the software itself.
Full day (possibly preceded by NDNP-participants-only pre-pre-conference session the day before)
Contact: Karen Estlund, University of Oregon Libraries; Dan Chudnov, Library of Congress


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Julio Ribera was a Spanish comic artist, who has spent most of his career working for the French market. While his early work was published in Spanish magazines like Nicolás, El Coyote, Florita and Yumbo, Ribera has worked on a great many French comic magazines from 1954 until the 1990s. He has also drawn many newspaper comics for Opéra Mundi and France-Soir. The artist is however best known for his many collaborations with scriptwriter Christian Godard, with whom he most notably created the sci-fi saga 'Le Vagabond des Limbes' (1975-2003), but also the erotic 'Le Grand Manque' (1988-1993) and the crime noir 'Le Grand Scandale' (1994-1997). On his own, Ribera has made the erotic horror parody 'Dracurella' (1973-1979) and his autobiographical series 'Montserrat' (2003-2006). He worked in both a realistic and a caricatural drawing style, but he used a mix for his most popular works.
Early life and career
Julio Ribera Trucó was born in Barcelona in 1927. Growing up during the Spanish Civil War left a lasting impression on the boy. The death of his sister Montserrat added to the trauma. His father fought on the side of the liberals, while selling French cars to earn a living. Julio earned his first money by drumming in a jazz band and making illustrations in cooperation with the artist Pedro Alférez, who owned the publishing house Éxito. Among his main influences were American artists like Alex Raymond, Hal Foster, Milton Caniff and Will Eisner, but also the Disney school. Later in life, he also expressed his admiration for his Pilote colleagues Jean Giraud, Robert Gigi, Alexis, Jean-Claude Mézières and Philippe Druillet, as well as his fellow press illustrators Jacques Pecnard and Charles Popineau.
Early comics
He also made his first comics in his native Spain, both realistic and humorous. He signed these works with J. Ribera or with pseudonyms like Jules McSide and Bop. He was the artist of adventure comic book series like 'El Vagabundo' (1947) and 'Robín y el Murciélago' (1948) for Publicaciones Ibero-Americanas. The latter was direct plagiarism of Bob Kane and Bill Finger's 'Batman'. He also began an association with the children's magazines of Germán Plaza's Editorial Clíper. For the newly launched magazine Nicolás he created strips like 'Don Cejas' (1948), 'Penicilino Pi' (1948), 'Lope Carota' (1948) and 'Mínímo' (1949). Among his best-remembered work for this publisher were his contributions to the girls' magazine Florita, for which he drew the series 'Rosy' (1950-1954) and 'Pirulina' (1953-1954). Both were continued by Jordi Buxadé after Ribera's emigration. He was also present in Yumbo with his first fantasy comic, 'Pepin y Sulfato' (1953), in El Coyote with 'Gus Miley, Piloto del Tiempo' (1950, scripts by Vallmajor) and 'Juan Tormenta' (1951) and in El Gorrion with humorous work and cartoons (1953). Both 'Rosy' and 'Pepin y Sulfato' were additionally published in France, in Mireille and Pierrot, respectively.
Ribera however also contributed to other publishers than Cliper. For Hispano Americana de Ediciones S.A. he illustrated a series of four humorous comic books about a bellboy, called 'El Botones' (1953). He first delved into realistic science fiction with 'Platillos Volantes' (15 volumes, 1954), a comic book series about flying saucers for Exclusivas Gráficas Ricart. In Bruguera's Pulgarcito, he drew 'Liborio' (1949) and 'Vaguete' (1949), while 'Miky Pecas' (1951) ran in Santiago Vives' Pocholo. 'Rex Kenton' (1951, scripts by Vallmajor) appeared in Alcotán, 'Ted Powers' (1953) and 'Capitán Rido' (1953, scripts by José Mallorquí) in Futuro's Aventurero and 'Duke' (1951) in Detector, a magazine which also printed American comics.
Move to France
Feeling a need for more freedom and financial opportunities, Julio Ribéra and his wife fled from the censorship of Franco's Spain and settled in France in the second half of 1954. The young couple first lived in the Parisian suburbs with another Spanish expat, Francisco Batet, but quickly moved to the city with Manfred Sommer and his wife. Ribera's first work in his new country was the western comic 'Pistol Jim' in Zorro, a magazine published by Chapelle.
'Le Barrage' (Bayard, 9 September 1956).
Within no time, Ribera was working for a wide range of French comic magazines of the time. He made short stories and illustrations for such magazines as Contes du gai Pierrot, Lisette, Pierrot, À Tout Cœur, Fillette, Bonjour Bonheur, Spirou, L'Intrépide, Hurrah!, La Semaine de Suzette and Vaillant. In 1956 his fruitful collaboration with the magazines of La Bonne Presse took off. He created several series for Bayard, varying from adventure serials like 'Le Barrage' (1956, script by J. Petit Duc) and 'Tony Sextant Chevalier de l'Espace' (1957-1961, scripts by Jean Acquaviva) to the funny animal strip 'Lolo et Mandoline' (1959-1960, written by Acquaviva under the pen name Pierre Mérou).
'Lolo et Mandoline'.
For Bernadette he mainly made comic stories of an educational nature. Between 1962 and 1966 he illustrated several historical short stories for Coeurs Vaillants and its follow-up J2 Jeunes (published by Fleurus), while also contributing to Amis-Coop in 1964. In a 1971 interview with Henri Filippini, Ribera expressed his gratitude to the editors of this last monthly, as they gave him full artistic freedom. It gave the artist the possibility to experiment and settle upon his definitive drawing style.
Through his compatriot José Laffond he was introduced to the Opéra Mundi agency, for which he drew comic strip adaptations of novels like André Armandy's 'Les Épaves Dorées' (132 strips, 1962-1963), Georges Ohnet's 'La Dame en Gris' (114 strips, 1963), Pierre Decourcelle's 'Les Mystères de New York' (225 strips, 1963), Georges Ohnet's 'Le Droit de l'Enfant' (141 strips, 1964) and Margaret Kennedy's 'La Nymphe au Cœur Fidèle' (107 strips, 1965). He also drew the detective strip 'Mystère Minute' (1963), starring the investigations of inspector Fauvel, and installments of the series 'Reines Tragiques' ('Wou-Tso-Tien', 'Frédégonde contre Brunehaut'). The Opéra Mundi serials appeared in such newspapers as L'Aurore, Le Parisien Libéré, L'Echo du Centre, Presse-Océan, La Montagne and La Liberté Dimanche.
By 1965 Ribera got the opportunity to work directly for France-Soir, a paper which not only offered a better pay rate, but also had a circulation of a million copies! First of all, he made an adaptation of the TV serial about 'Belphégor' (1965), the phantom of the Louvre. It was followed by a serial based on Louis Malle's film 'Viva Maria' (75 strips, 1965). He also contributed to the paper's true story serials 'Le Crime Ne Paie Pas' ('Les Bandits de Mexico', 'Les Empoisonneurs de Marseille') and 'Les Amours Célèbres' by Paul Gordeaux and Robert Mallat. His most extensive work for the paper were his adaptations of Richard-Bessière's 'Capitaine Tempête' adventure novels in 650 strips between 1968 and 1970.
From 1965 onwards, Ribera illustrated a variety of short stories and editorial pages based on current affairs for Pilote magazine. He had his first claim to fame with 'Dracurella', a light erotic parody of the horror genre, for which he provided both script and artwork. The series was collected in book format by Dargaud in 1976 and 1979, with a third installment published by M.C. Productions in 1987. While working for Pilote, he met Christian Godard, who would become his scriptwriter on many of his future comics projects.
Le Vagabond des Limbes 2 - 'L'Empire des Soleils Noirs'.
Le Vagabond des Limbes
The first and best-known of these was 'Le Vagabond des Limbes' (1975-2003), a somewhat psychedelic space opera set in an alternate universe.The main star is Axl Munshine, a former conciliator for planets at war, who is banished from his galaxy for breaking the commandment of "not crossing the threshold of sleep". The "Vagabond of Limbo" roams the universe in search of Chimeer, a woman who has appeared to him in a dream. He is accompanied on his travels by Musky, the heir of the Prince of the Eternauts, who at first appears to be a boy, but later turns out to be a woman. The series was one of the most original in its genre, and the authors constantly play with comics conventions and the evolution of their characters. Graphically, it is a mix of the semi-realistic Spanish sci-fi school of Carlos Gimenez and Alfonso Font, and the more classically oriented French one of Paul Gillon and Raymond Poïvet.
Le Vagabond des Limbes 12 - 'Les loups de Khom'.
The series was originally published directly in album format by Hachette, but later episodes were prepublished in Circus (1975-1976), Tintin (1977), Pilote (1978-1984) and Pilote & Charlie (1986-1987). Dargaud took over the album series in 1978 from the fourth story on. Albums 16 through 21 were however published by Le Vaisseau d'Argent, Godard and Ribera's own publishing label established in 1988. By 1992 the firm was dissolved and the series returned to Dargaud, who published the 31st and final album in 2003. A concluding installment called 'L'Engrenage' was announced, and allegedly also created, but has not appeared during Ribera's lifetime. Dargaud had dropped the series, and the authors couldn't find another publisher to release it. From 1988 onwards, Ribera has received assistance for the backgrounds from Claude Plumail and Benoît du Peloux, while Claudine Pinet and Jean-Jacques Chagnaud have provided most of series' coloring. Godard has furthermore scripted two spin-off stories of the saga. 'Une Enfance Éternelle' was drawn by Carlos Giménez and published by Le Vaisseau d'Argent in 1990. 'Les 13 Transgressions' appeared in the same year, was written in cooperation with Laurent-Frédéric Bollée and drawn by Al Coutelis.
L'Histoire de France / Vallée des Ghlomes
Ribera and Godard have furthermore participated in two volumes of the Larousse collection 'L'Histoire de France en Bandes Dessinées' (1976-1977). In 1985 and 1986 Ribera also illustrated the first two albums of Godard's 'Chroniques du temps de la vallée des Ghlomes', a saucy fantasy series in Charlie Mensuel about a strange country where the ladies lift their skirts and show their derriere whenever they're offended. The third and fourth installments were drawn by Florenci Clavé.
Le Grand Manque / Le Grand Scandale and other series
Their erotic series 'Le Grand Manque' was serialized in L'Écho des Savanes and published in book format by Le Vaisseau d'Argent (1988) and Soleil (1993). Their next project was 'Le Grand Scandale' (Dargaud, 1994-1997), a series about a lanky comic artist who uses his talent to lend style to his cheerless life, but ends up in a political scandal. Their book 'Je suis un monstre' appeared in Glénat's collection Grafica in 1994. In 1995 Soleil released 'Le Fils de l'Orfèvre', the first and only album in their series 'La Jeunesse d'un inconnu célèbre'.
Autobiographical graphic novels
In the final stages of his career, Julio Ribera published three autobiographical comic books about his early years under Franco's fascist regime. They were published in the Grand Angle collection of the publishing house Bamboo. The first book, 'Montserrat - Souvenirs de la guerre civile' (2003), dealt with the Civil War and his late sister Montserrat. 'Jeunesse bafouée - Une dictature au fil des jours' (2005) chronicles the first years of Ribera's artistic career, and the third book, 'Paris Liberté - Le parfum de l'espoir' (2006) is about his move to France. A single volume compilation was released under the title 'Mon crayon et moi' in 2011.
Graphic contributions
Julio Ribera was one of several artists to make a graphic contribution to 'Pepperland' (1980), a collective comic book tribute to the store Pepperland, to celebrate its 10th anniversary at the time.
Final years and death
Between 2009 and 2014 Éditions Regards published 'Capitaine Temête', 'Viva Maria' and 'Les Vagabonds', book publications of Ribera's early newspaper strips. The artist passed away in Cognin, France, on 27 May 2018. He was 91 years old.


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World War Two was not caused solely by short term events in the 1930's such as Austria and Czechoslovakia. The anger and resentment that built up in Nazi Germany – and which was played on by Hitler during his rise to power and when he became Chancellor in January 1933 – also had long term causes that went back to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Patriotic Germans had never forgotten their nation's treatment in Paris in that year.
The League had some successes in this decade (the Aaland Islands, as an example) but the weaknesses of the League had also been cruelly exposed on a number of occasions when an aggressor nation successfully used force to get what it wanted and the League could do nothing. This process set the mould for the 1930's and any would-be dictator would have been very well aware that the League did not have the ability to enforce its decisions as it lacked an army. Those nations that were best equipped to provide the League with a military force (Britain and France) were also not prepared to do so for domestic reasons and the aftermath of the Great War in which so many were killed or wounded. From a political point of view, the British and French publics would not have tolerated a military involvement in an area of Europe that no-one had heard of. Politicians were responsive to the attitudes of the voters and neither Britain nor France were prepared to militarily support the League in the 1920's – despite being the strongest nations in the League.
However, the apparent stability in Europe after 1925 and its apparent prosperity, meant that conflicts rarely occurred from 1925 to 1929.
In fact, Europe could have been confident in assuming peace would last as two treaties were signed that seemed to indicate that a new era of peace and toleration had been ushered in.
The Locarno Treaties were signed in December 1925. The major politicians of Europe met in neutral Switzerland. The following was agreed to :
France, Germany and Belgium agreed to accept their borders as were stated in the Treaty of Versailles. France and Belgium would never repeat an invasion of the Ruhr and Germany would never attack Belgium or France again. Britain and Italy agreed to police this part of the treaties. Germany also accepted that the Rhineland must remain demilitarised. In other treaties, France promised to protect Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia if Germany attacked any one of them. Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia all agreed that they would never fight if they had an argument between themselves – they would allow the League to sort out the problem.
However, nationalists in Germany were furious with their government for signing these treaties. By signing, the German government effectively agreed that it accepted the terms of the Versailles Treaty of 1919. This to the nationalists bordered on treason and was totally unacceptable. Their claims of treason went unheard as Weimar Germany was experiencing an economic growth and the hard times of 1919 to 1924 were forgotten. Moderate politicians were the order of the day in Germany and the extreme nationalists such as the Nazi Party faded into the background. The success of these moderate politicians was emphasised when France backed Germany's right to join the League of Nations which Germany duly did in 1926.
The other major treaty which seemed to herald in an era of world peace was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928.
This pact was signed by 65 countries. All 65 nations agreed never to use war again as a way of solving disputes.
Therefore, Europe was effectively lulled into a false sense of security by 1929 as the politicians of Europe had made it plain that war was no longer an option in solving disputes and that previous enemies were now friends. This new Europe relied on nations being at peace and harmony with one another. The stability of Germany was shattered by the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and the nationalists who had spent 1925 to 1929 in relative obscurity, rose to the political surface once again. They had no intention of accepting either Versailles or the Locarno treaties and the League's weaknesses in this decade had also become apparent. The League could only function successfully, if the politicians of Europe allowed it to do so. Hitler and the Nazis were never going to give the League a chance once they had gained power.


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Last night, Cumnor 2's chess players gathered at the Rose Hill Methodist Church to pit their skills against Cowley Chess Club.
Cowley currently has two teams (Cowley 4 and Cowley 5) in division four of the Oxfordshire chess league, and on this occasion Cumnor was facing the stronger of the two sides.
I'm delighted to report that Cumnor 2 was victorious, winning the match 2-4. Huzzah!
|Cowley 4
|Cumnor 2
|Hameed, Asif ( )
|Alvarez, Francisco (115)
|Taylor, John F (131)
|Cluley, Graham (112)
|Sengenberger, Sara (112)
|Steven, Bennett (110)
|Atkinson, Nick ( )
|Steel, Robert (85)
|Burgess, John (75)
|Sterrie, David (78)
|Burgess, Jasmine (61)
|Harrop, Richard (55)
|Match played on 8 Dec 2014.
Pako's game on the top board was the last to finish, and saw Cumnor's Latin American legend giving spectators palpitations as time rapidly ran out on both his and his opponent's clock.
Pako managed to win his opponent's rook, and after promoting a pawn to a Queen and mopping up all of Black's pieces it looked like the win was a formality.
After all – how could a rook and queen fail to win against a solo king?
But sadly for Pako – hit by serious time trouble, sometimes knocking over his pieces (and his chair!) – he ran out of time on the clock with a forced mate just a move or two away.
Without sufficient ammo on Black's side to indicate a win against Pako was possible, the game was declared a draw.
Bad luck Pako.
Here is my (Graham's) game against John Taylor on board 2:
Well done to all who played last night – it was a great match.
Cumnor 2 currently sits in second place in division 4.