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Maximize your storage while adding to the look of your space with the Terciel three pocket magazine rack. Designed by Joe Ricchio, this attractive magazine rack is ideal for reception areas, waiting rooms or outside of office and conference rooms. Guests and employees will be able to easily access magazines, shared documents, forms or files, and the sharp style while blend beautifully with your contemporary space.
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With Photoshop, Adobe eventually dipped a toe into the waters of 3D, and now it's After Effects' turn to follow suit. There are new features to address that, such as the 3D Camera Tracker. This takes regular 2D footage and extracts the position of the camera that captured it as well as the characteristics of the lens used. It does this in order to create a virtual 3D camera to match it, then adds 3D tracking points to the 2D footage. This allows you to then add your CGI element as a new 3D layer, lock it into place in the scene and then rotate the 3D camera. As the footage turns and moves, so does the view of the 3D object.
From the marked-up footage you can define areas to add lights and a shadow catcher so the 3D objects cast shadows onto the 2D footage. The analysing of the 2D footage can be done in the background (not particularly quick), or you can do it manually and enter specific details to give more precise results. Tracking points can be edited once created.
The other 3D area deals with vector shapes so that Illustrator and EPS files can be imported and turned into shape layers, which can be edited and animated. Working with logos in motion graphics projects has never been easier.
Also vector objects, including text, can now be extruded with a range of bevel and extrusion effects and displayed using a new raytraced engine – assuming you have an Nvidia graphics card that supports its OptiX technology – to give them a more professional finish.
(Above: Having run automatic camera tracking, you can edit individual track points or have 3D or text objects assigned to those positions)
There are general workflow enhancements throughout, especially in the use of disk and memory cacheing so AE can reuse something cached in RAM rather than re-rendering it. The rolling shutter effect, the bane of capture from digital SLRs, has a new repair tool to remove artefacts.
Footage from Avid's Media Composer and Symphony and XML files from Final Cut Pro 7 or earlier can now be used, Imagineer's mocha AE can be launched directly from within AE to allow instant access to its advanced masking tools.
(Above: Use the Color Key to remove the white, studio background and then edge thinning and feathering to get a better edge result)
In AE itself the other main feature upgrade is in compositing layers where you're keying out colours or areas. There are more mask feathering options, including refining and softening the edge, as well as the standard tools for painting on the alpha channel for a better looking composite.
(Above: AE can add CG rainfall through one of the new plug-ins, adjust scene depth and even factor in spread because of wind)
Finally, the video effects that helped establish After Effects in the first place have been given a sizeable boost. The CycoreFX HD Suite now has 73 HD plug-ins that support 16-bit colour, rather than AE 5.5's 8-bit version. Over 80 plug-in effects are new or updated, including some weather options like rain and snow.
After Effects CS6 is part of CS6 Production Premium and the Master Collection – plus Creative Cloud.
CS6 Production Premium costs £1,509, or from £298 as an upgrade. CS6 Master Collection costs £2,223, or from £397 as an upgrade.
Creative Cloud costs £38.11 per month with an annual contract. Current owners of CS3 or later suites or products can get this for £22.23 per month. On a month-by-month basis, Creative Cloud costs 57.17.
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The following link will take you to the Office of the Attorney General's (OIG) website. You will find audit reports where Job Corps Centers and Job Corps Contractors did not follow required policy procedures in the areas of awarding sub contracts to vendors. And, where numbers and statistics where overstated in order to bring the center higher in overall rankings. The very first one speaks of questionable "overstatement" of costs by MTC Corporation (Management and Training Corporation) of over one million dollars. Take note, MTC is a name you will hear often in the audit reports for their continuing practice of "overstating" costs and erroneous records reflecting "overstated" outcomes on their reports. OIG says "this is a continuing problem." Read the reports… Read the rest of this entry »
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Peacekeeping non-existent peace in Darfur - Why can't the African Union do it?
[Why can't the African Union do it? ]Well said Daniel! Mainstream media ought to pay Daniel for educating readers on the facts of matters in Sudan. He tells it like it is and has a nice way with words that makes for easy reading. His commentary appears easy to do. It's not.
A good question; the answer is that the AU simply does not have the money to finance AMIS unless the UN were to keep its promises about funding. All sorts of solutions would be better than UNMIS, but the brute facts of the matter are that this is a genuine and imminent humanitarian crisis and UNMIS is the only genuinely politically possible peacekeeping force solution.
I personally think it's an absolute scandal that the UN has nickel-and-dimed AMIS into the ground in order to promote its own proposal but these are the facts and a humanitarian emergency is no time to stand on one's dignity.


text: The highs and lows of Jason Statham We chart the hits and many misses of the accent-mangling Cockney action man 1/15Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) Way to launch an acting career! Guy Ritchie spotted Statham when he was working as a model for French Connection (having already been a top diver; he represented Britain at the 1990 Commonwealth Games), and reckoned he'd be perfect for the role of a con artist. It may have been Statham's real-life past as a street-corner perfume seller that clinched it. The film was huge, and the 31-year-old Brit was on the map. Read more2/15Snatch (2000) The actor successfully re-teamed with Guy Ritchie for this criminal underworld saga, playing a boxing promoter with a suitably hard-man vibe. Here was Statham on comfortable ground: using his own accent and hanging with his Lock, Stock… homies, including Vinnie Jones, a friend of Statham's since childhood. Read more3/15The Transporter (2002) Hollywood came calling for Statham, and unfortunately this required him to adopt a strange accent from an undetermined region of the United States, or indeed the world. Nevertheless, the film won fans and a sequel, and proved Statham had the muscle and moves to be an action star. Read more4/15The Italian Job (2003) Phew. The Stath reverted to his cheeky Cockney chatter for this remake of the 1960s classic that was moderately well received by both critics and audiences. Working as part of an ensemble team continued to suit the Derbyshire-born lad, and this fast-paced action-packed film was a good fit. Read more5/15Cellular (2004) Watching the trailer for Cellular, it's hard to work out whether Jason is doing an English or American accent, but having seen the whole thing we can confirm it's American. Mostly. The thriller itself was formulaic but efficient, while Stath put in a perfectly respectable turn as a nasty kidnapper. Read more6/15Transporter 2 (2005) And he's back, driving around, taking his shirt off, trying to save kidnapped people, kicking butt with no discernible improvement on the accent or indeed the plot. Even Transporter fans were generally less impressed with this one, but it was successful enough for a third film to follow in 2008. Read more7/15Revolver (2005) One of Statham's worst-reviewed films, Guy Ritchie's rambling Revolver did not replicate the success of their previous collaborations, to put it mildly. Time Out called it "A humourless, leaden and incoherent car-crash of a movie." Perhaps one of its many errors was to put Statham center stage, although this isn't even his worst performance. Read more8/15Crank (2006) Here's a film that embraced the inherent silliness that is Mr. Action Star Jason Statham and ran with it to darkly amusing effect. The preposterous plot saw him racing around L.A. with poison in his blood and in desperate need of life-saving adrenaline, allowing for a frenetic pace, extreme action and a fair few un-PC laughs. Read more9/15The Bank Job (2008) Here's Statham on safe ground again: a British hard guy doing a dirty job with a strong supporting cast and solid work from Cocktail and Species director Roger Donaldson. The Bank Job was never going to change the world, but it was a decent genre piece that benefited from the charisma of co-star Saffron Burrows. Read more10/15Crank: High Voltage (2009) It was a case of more of the same in this death-defying sequel. The novelty had slightly worn off but Statham still put some welly into it, rushing around with a mechanical heart that constantly needed to be jolted to life with an electric charge. Yes, really. It overflows with cheesy one-liners, which start with the poster tagline: "He was dead… but he got better." Read more11/1513 (2010) Okay, now this probably is the worst reviewed Jason Statham film. The original, the Georgian-French film 13 Tzameti, was a hard-hitting psychological thriller about Russian roulette. "Lumpy" and "stillborn" are just two of the words critics used to describe this remake from the film's original director. Statham was just one of many Hollywood hard men drafted in to embarrass themselves. Read more12/15The Expendables (2010) It may have spawned not one but two sequels, but this ensemble action flick was more about the novelty casting than any kind of sense-driven plotting or believable dialogue. One good thing for Statham was his relative youth: with Sly Stallone and Arnie on board, Stath got the lion's share of the action. Read more13/15Safe (2012) Our hero has to protect a young girl: it's a familiar scenario for Statham, but this time the frightened female was just 12 years old. Yes, Statham was finally old enough to play the father figure, and he duly drawled his way through a series of trigger-happy encounters with hard men. Gripping in parts, but nothing new. Read more14/15Redemption (2013) Now here's something new: Statham falling for a nun! This time his homeless-ex-army character fell for a server at the soup kitchen (naturally played by a model) and also cunningly posed as a homeowner's gay boyfriend while squatting. Slightly confused, but reasonably entertaining. Read more15/15Homefront (2013) Back in paternal mode, Statham played protective father to a kid in this slow-moving thriller about an ex-CIA guy tracked down by the bad guys. Despite our man's expert action moves it's all rather dull and unlikely, although the director made one sensible move: despite this being set in America, Statham is undoubtedly English. Read more By Anna Smith | Posted: Wednesday July 30 2014 Advertising Share Tweet Like what you see? 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The Memoirs of Lev Razgon
Harrowing, inspiring and unforgettable, True Stories stands out among the literature of the Gulag both for its literary quality and for its informed insights from a long life spent among both pro- and anti-Soviet figures.
Lev Razgon is the last man alive to have attended and survived the Communist Party Congress of 1934. When the Stalinist terror began in 1937 he was living among the Party elite, a journalist whose family had a long history of falling foul of the authorities. He brilliantly evokes the everyday atmosphere of a Soviet world of privilege soon to be destroyed in a cataclysm in which his own life was to be torn apart.
Arrested in 1938, Razgon spent the next eighteen years in labour camps or in exile in various provincial towns. His portraits of those who shared this inhumane life are telling and unusual in that the jailers and executioners feature as prominently as the victims. This, he explains, should not surprise us, for there were innumerable victims, and 'to shoot a million people requires a great many executioners'. Prisoners and jailers lived side by side for years on end and all, to Razgon, were human beings.
Written with a novelist's skill and with a sophisticated understanding of his country and his century, True Stories caused a sensation when it first appeared in Russia in 1988. It has now been translated into all the major European languages and has been the subject of a Russian TV documentary.
Razgon's reason for writing this memorable book is quite simple: 'When I first got out of the camps I was utterly happy for a few years… but there was always the terrible sense that I had survived when so many others had died… Ultimately I knew I had just one obligation – the obligation of the living to the dead.'
Lev Razgon was born in Gorki in 1908, the son of a factory worker. He studied history at Moscow University and on graduating joined the Communist Party and began his career as a journalist and writer of books for young adults. His marriage into one of the leading families of the new Soviet elite brought him into the higher echelons of the Party, but his wife's family was among those targeted following the attempt to oust Stalin. His wife died in a transit prison on the way to a northern camp and the years that followed were gruelling, with conditions deteriorating after Hitler attacked the Soviet Union. While in the camps Razgon met and married his second wife, the daughter of a leading opponent of the Bolshevik regime who had been imprisoned in the 1920s. In 1956 the Razgons were at last released and permitted to return to Moscow where Razgon took up his former career as a writer.
"Survive the Gulag for 17 years, and became one of its great chroniclers… Razgon described, in a remarkably restrained style, and with rare compassion and understanding, the extraordinary variety of the people he had met in the camps, their strange fates and terrible sufferings."
"Unforgettable testimony to the reality of Communism in the Soviet Union."
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Artist: Terra Nine
Title: Lucid Dreaming
Label: Altar Records
Released: 12th August
Hot on the heels of the recent Karune E.P. New Zealands Mike Westcot delivers 3 new tracks comprising his unique blend of electric viola, lush ambient soundscapes, breaks and trance.
The opening track 'Field of Wishes' is an eerie journey through atmospheric down-tempo electronics and lush viola that could easily slot into the background of any sci-fi flick. While the title track 'Lucid Dreaming' has a heavier breakbeat undertone the lush strings of the over-layered viola maintain the dream like quality that the title suggests. The E.P. closes with 'Positive Vibrations' a collaboration with Transient Dreams and going by the title you could be forgiven for expecting a reggae dub fusion. The reality is a slice of glitchy psybient for the viola to spring off and soar.
Overall this release didn't leave as deep an impression on me as the Karuna E.P. However, saying that it's not a bad E.P. and very reasonably priced. As always Mike delivers a dream-like quality that appeals to me which you certainly find in this release.
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Framework rules on air quality promised by end of year
Proposals for a new EC framework Directive on air quality will be ready by the end of this year, a European Commission official told the National Society for Clean Air's annual conference on 7 October. A key dispute over the legislation is likely to be whether it should prohibit any deterioration in existing levels of air quality.
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There are various trains of thought on this, Bread::Board is an excellent option that will help you keep a lot of things like this in order and tidy. Otherwise, you have to pass a logging object to your model instantiation or the context object from Catalyst itself.
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Preparing for roadworks at Main Street, Cundletown
Drainage works along a section of Main Street in Cundletown are being undertaken by contractors on behalf of MidCoast Council, in preparation for road reconstruction and an asphalt overlay to be carried out next month.
The work stretches 550m from King Street in Cundletown through to the driveway of Kingston Creek Creamery (1 Main Street), with current works in progress tackling existing drainage issues. In this initial stage, MidCoast Council crews have completed the replacement of existing kerb and gutter, and the contractor will continue on-site through to early May to construct a new dish drain.
In stage two, asphalt works will commence in mid-May, including heavy patching of the existing road pavement and the application of a 50mm overlay. It is anticipated the second stage will continue for about two weeks, weather permitting.
"It's a busy route that connects outer-lying residents to Taree's CBD, and a prime candidate for a makeover that will deliver a smoother and safer driving surface", Rhett Pattison, MidCoast Council's manager, projects and engineering, said. "The final asphalt treatment will provide a durable surface suitable for the high volume of traffic that Main Street carries on a daily basis."
The asphalt works will be undertaken primarily after hours, however traffic control will be in place at times and motorists can expect minor delays. Restrictions to on-street parking within the work zone will also be in place for the duration of the works.
Motorists are asked to observe roadworks signage, reduced speed limits, and directions from road crews, and to travel with caution through the area.
The Main Street reconstruction project is part of MidCoast Council's commitment to improving infrastructure across the region, and will be delivered through a combination of NSW Government grant funding, Stronger Communities funding and MidCoast Council capital expenditure funding.
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I saw this on TV last night for the first time then found it on YouTube.
It's so subtle I actually wasn't sure whether what was happening was happening (plus there was some other noise going on in the room.)
Have a look, you'll see what I mean.
It's a really very funny idea - and really cute. I think it could have been even cuter if the dog's teeth weren't so scary. But how would I know what a cute, small dog actually looks like when it sings? Check it.
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Now, strange as it might seem, I don't actually enjoy this driving lark all that much. A nice bit of relaxing shunting, yes. But a steady slog with continuous power and the responsibility of interrupting the service if things go wrong weighs heavily. And then having been involved in all the work on the loco, I know all there is to know about what is happening where, and any unusual noise, rattle, thump, crash or bang is magnified in my mind to some impending catastrophe that might be about to happen. Thus I would much rather wave it fondly on its way in someone else's charge and pat it on the back when (hopefully) it returns in one piece, and I really wasn't looking forward all that much to Tuesday, when I would be hauling 7 carriages and the Austerity back up the hill from Matlock, not once but 5 times. To give you an idea of what it is like let me take you on a run....
Before we first leave Rowsley, I am informed, in traditional railway style by a member of the station staff, that today this 7 coach rake weighs 250tons. Now, so far as I know, it weighed 250tons yesterday and should, corrosion aside, weigh 250 tomorrow, but I thank him sagely for his information so as not to offend him. Peak Rail operation into Matlock requires top and tail working, and we are the tail on the southbound run which means we have little to do. Once coupled, I set the light switches to display the correct lights at our rear, and the deadmans switch to "towed" which means that, provided I don't try "driving" the loco, I can sit back and watch the scenery go by. 14 901's chance to "star" commences when we get to Matlock.
So for this leg I can relax, practice my "royal wave" as we roll out of each station and wave at, well, anyone who chooses to wave back. (As I rolled over Church Lane crossing there were two young ladies sat in a car by the gates. The one in the passenger seat started waving. I waved back. Immediately the other lady in the driving seat, turned, grabbed her by the arms and I could see her mouth "Stop doing that!").
Once the train arrives at Matlock you have plenty of time to reverse 14 901's gearbox, select the Deadmans switch back to normal and hold the train on the loco brake while the vacuum is brought back up to 21". Then your secondman confirms we have the right-away from the Guard. So it's press the Voith In button, foot on the deadmans pedal, sound the horn, loco brake off and bring the power up. This is not a violent pull of the handle. A reasonably rapid rise on the rpm is all that is required, holding at about 1100 as 14 901 starts to move the train, which is on a slight uphill and curve just to make it a little harder. As the loco comes on the straight a downhill begins towards the new overbridge and on to Riverside – soon I can bring the power back down and let '901 amble down the slope, after all there's speed limits at the bottom so no point in rushing. As we near Riverside I might even give a touch of brake, just to keep the speed about at the limit and we amble past the Riverside box and platform at about 5mph.
At the north end the speed limit rises to 10mph over the bridge, but the climb begins too, so a bit of power back on to maintain the momentum as we come around and see that the first crossing (favoured by every dog-walker in Matlock, it seems), is clear. The line ahead is dead straight, and after sounding the horn I can bring the rpm up to 1300 or so, as the speed gradually rises. Sometimes I'll glance back and see that "Lord Phil"'s crew have decided that they'll bank me rather than sit and watch the scenery. Every now and again, I remember to take my foot off the deadmans pedal and re-apply – the control box bleeps and the lights change momentarily, but I know that the vigilance timer has re-set. If I let it time-out it will bleep and flash for four seconds, but if 901 is working hard and I have my head out of the window, I might miss it completely and a full scale emergency stop is not what the passengers have paid for.
Farther up and there's a series of bends, the top one is known as Redhouse and marks where the gradient ends, so with a final blast on the horns for the adjacent crossing, I ease the throttle back and feel the train propelling me on as we swing into a left hand bend and the overbridge at the south end of Darley. Coming into view, we hope to see the gates already open, but sometimes the signalman may still be opening them and we must be ready to stop before the Home signal. Either way we approach with the engine idling, for we must drop the Matlock-Darley staff with the Signalman and it doesn't pay to knock him over with it. So we cross the road and I drop the Voith out altogether, and it's now a guessing game. With 7 coaches and an Austerity behind I must stop beyond the end of the platform, ideally with the cab of '901 between a ballast pile and a small tree, which means that Lord Phil is clear of the crossing and track circuit. But this also means that the lead carriage has only its last door in the platform, so overshooting might be awkward for any passenger disposed to detrain. While we wait at Darley, it's back on the loco brake and put the vac brake back to release. If we are in a rush, then I speed up the engine to suck the train pipe out, but usually we end up watching the vac pipe needle going up and down about 15-17" for no apparent reason, before slowly climbing back up to 21". The starter signal at Darley is controlled from Church Lane Crossing, but better not to get excited as there is a further Home in the distance and the latter is not pulled off until the gates are open.
So as we get the green once again it is loco brake off, Voith "in", hoot the horn and open up to 1100rpm. The line at Darley is virtually straight and level, so 901 starts moving earlier but there's no rush and I ease back as we get under way, maybe 900-1000 towards the end of the loop. 901 moves over the turnout and hopefully by now the board is down, but still not time to speed up as the Church Lane to Rowsley staff must be collected on the way by. Once your secondman swings back in to the cab with it over his arm, it's time to throttle up and the train begins to accelerate. I hold the throttle fairly wide all the way up, the climb is easier than before and the speed rises, not that anything we are doing is Inter-City: this is a transport of delight not a commuter chug.
From Dom Beglin, who was about Darley Dale on Tuesday, comes these two vids of 14 901 passing Church Lane box.
As we near Rowsley we trip a limit switch that sounds a bell in the station to announce our approach, but just in case we sound the horn anyway and as we cross the crossover at the near end, I take the Voith out, throttle back and put my hand on the train brake lever ready for a second go at the guessing game. For at Rowsley we must stop the train so that Lord Phil is within reach of the water hose, and that (with 7 on) means being just a bit farther than the tank wagon at the end of the platform. I am taunted that the steam crew can stop consistently within a couple of foot every time when they're the train loco, yet the diesel crews cannot. My honour is at stake, even if my experience as to how these seven carriages respond is limited to what I've gathered today. Somewhere along the platform I put the train brake to first application position and the train brake needle drops. Nothing seems to happen, and it is a game of chicken – should I give it more or is the train just teasing me? In the end I give it a touch more, and immediately I know it is too much as the train starts to slow and I push the handle back towards release. They say you should stop the train on a rising vacuum, and with 901 that is difficult but not impossible, as although the vac will rise with the engine idling, it is slow and you haven't the hands and co-ordination to be pulling the throttle as well. But you hope for the best and somehow the train comes to rest a few feet from the end of the tank wagon. Wipe your brow, reverse the gearbox, put the deadmans back to towed and relax, it's Lord Phil's turn to take you back again.
On our last turn of the day our station clerk appears and I assure him that we've returned with all 250 tons that he entrusted us with this morning as well as give him the staff so that Lord Phil can be released from the far end. Our secondman uncouples, I reset the lights and we dash up the headshunt and back down the loop to see which loco can get to the turnout first. We win, and leave the turnout ready for Lord Phil to follow us back towards the shed and disposal.
So there you have it, and five times on Tuesday 901 arrived outside Sainsbury's. On Thursday I was back at Rowsley again, having more training to carry on (somewhat to Peak Rail's consternation as apparently none was scheduled, but I have too many next Thursday for comfort so juggled things around). On Friday I did a round-robin. Off to Rochdale to drop the first of the brake units in to Mattersons for repair, then Halifax to collect the windows for Ashdown, then back over to Batley for profiles and oils. On Friday too Andrew's rescheduled mainline move took place, or rather overnight Friday to Saturday, leaving me yet again to look after 14 901 in the "Mixed Traffic" gala. We had previously suggested deploying the Drewry (WD 72229) with Ashdown for some real variety, but this had been met with a "but you'll be driving the 14!" so we had dropped the idea.
For the Gala though, the 7 carriage rake had been split into two 4's, and before you question my sanity or my maths, our last act in the training session on Thursday had been to add the BG to the end of the 7 sat in the platform. During our runs on Tuesday, Rob had remarked that drivers should be dressed as drivers, i.e. a blue shirt and tie, so for Saturday I dragged out the outfit from the Warring 40s, added a shirt and an Irish Rail tie, and presented myself for the smartest driver competition. I arrived at Rowsley at about 9.15 ready to prep the loco, but had to delay this as 901 was parked on top of Ashdown, and Rob and Chris were wanting to use the latter to position the 4F on the turntable for the day. So Ashdown set off with 901 in front and the 4F behind, and a photographer whose results you can find on Flickr, and who has pontificated on "pretend" liveries, "imaginary" numbers and WIPAC lights (the first comment we've had in the 3 or 4 years since they were fitted), was so knowledgeable that he couldn't tell which was actually powering.
For the Saturday 901 had been paired with the class 31 on a diagram of 5 trips, starting with the 11.15 ex Rowsley. In theory, both trains were timed to stand side-by side at Darley so that passengers could transfer if they wanted to, but that meant opening the crossing gates twice and for some reason the signalman didn't do it this way, holding the northbound train at the Home until the southbound was ready to depart, resulting in the northbound rolling in to the platform at or after its departure time. This could be recovered in the Rowsley turnround, but was a bit frustrating when the southbound train wasn't even in sight as we stood at the Home.
You get some interesting questions in the layovers – one gentleman was convinced that because the cab was in the middle the loco must have 2 engines, so I opened up the casing doors to show him the Rolls-Royce in front and the Voith in the rear. I had equipped myself with a number of A6 sized "fliers" listing this site and Andrew's to hand out to all those who showed interest or where complicated questions might have resulted in late departures. (Yep, Hi to you!) Others seemed convinced that the loco had never operated here before. The inevitable questions about the number, the nickname, and so on come too.
Andrew meanwhile, having arrived back in Chesterfield at 9.45 am, decided to stay awake for the day and welded up the base of Cheedale's compressor, painted it, and for interest, stripped the head of the compressor to asses the valve state. He also did a bit on Libby, mounting a code light, but fatigue was getting the better of him.
If Saturday had gone smoothly, Sunday was rather different. 901 was teamed up with Lord Phil, with 6 turns to Sainsbury's starting at 10.40. I was joined by Peak Rail joint MD Roger Hallat, and on our first run we got as far as Darley when panic ensued at the kettle end as some of the eccentric bolts had worked slack. After judicious use of spanners we continued on, but on our return to Darley were delayed as the second train did not appear. Eventually we found that D8 wouldn't start and the second set was still in the loop. So we came on north, very late.
Lord Phil dropped off the train to get over a pit, and after an inexcusably long delay the 31 came from the other end of the second set and on to our front and we set off on run no.2. Andrew meanwhile had made it down and had joined the workers on D8. Basically one battery cell had "died" yesterday, and as they are all a bit tired, despite its morning top-up charge they were unable to make it go. After judiciously charging one "side" of the batteries (they're in two banks) it was able to start and join in. Lord Phil was also ready as we rolled back in to Rowsley and with truncated turnrounds we started to get back to time. I learned later that there had been another crisis on the kettle: leaving Rowsley the crew had had a difference of opinion as to how much coal to add, with the result that the fire had become rather er- small. Being largely downhill they had managed to keep going on reduced pressure while the fire recovered, and unknown to me, the fact that 901's exhauster was maintaining vac for them had saved the day as they had been able to turn the ejectors off to save steam.
And a final observation on the insect life of Derbyshire. Quite apart from the running battle we are engaged in with spiders who are producing cobwebs all over 14 901 and the wasps nest we had to deal with on "James", I was today treated to a sight which I daresay I will never see again. While '901 was plodding back up the hill from Matlock, a large wasp touched down on the side of the cab door just ahead of me, sh***ed on it, and took off again. The things you see going to Sainsbury's.


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The above pic was taken while stopped in traffic on I-5 driving north, while the below pic was taken in front of the museum. Actually, there are two museums across the sprawling Joint Base Lewis-McCord in the Tacoma, WA area. One of the museums is on the Camp Murray side of the base, and it is occupied primarily by the Washington National Guard. The other is located south about 2 miles and it too is just off I-5.
The main museum has quite a history. From wiki: Lewis Army Museum (originally Fort Lewis Military Museum) is a military museum at Fort Lewis in the state of Washington, U.S. It is housed in the historic former Red Shield Inn, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and can be seen prominently from Interstate 5. It is the only certified U.S. Army museum on the West Coast. Red Shield Inn is one of two surviving Fort Lewis buildings that date back to the World War I era, when the present Fort Lewis was "Camp Lewis". It is the only remaining structure from a onetime recreational area that was called Greene Park.
Not sure what these old tanks are, but they are steel relics from previous combat engagements.
Some of these pics require no explanation, so I'll just post. Some are pics of storyboards which will be self-explanatory. In any case, enjoy.
I was in the Navy, so I am clueless as to what these weapons are called. All I know is that they are weapons of combat.
Never really gave it much thought as to the real number women in uniform during WW2, not to mention the "Rosies" here in the factories across the country.
Quite frankly, my hat's off to the tens of thousands of Soldiers and Marines who have served our country in places that no man would go voluntarily, and under conditions that are just not akin to friendliness and the sanitary conditions, well, I'm glad I was Navy. I had three Brothers who were in the Army and Marines, and I just wonder....
This lake is primarily inside Camp Murray, and the RV Park is also on the Lake. We parked our coach on the lake for about five weeks or so. Most of the pics below were from the Camp Murray National Guard Museum. From Wiki: The Washington National Guard Museum, also known as The Arsenal Museum, is a military museum of the Washington National Guard. It is located at the Washington National Guard headquarters at Camp Murray visible from I-5 near Lakewood, Washington.
Weel, that about wraps our time for this blog. We enjoyed the walk thru the museums and learned some things that we never knew before. Of course one would expect that when touring museums, a look into our past. So, till the next blog, RVing Beach Bums signing off. This blog written from Coburg, OR on Aug 23, 2015.


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Ancient manuscript of Nityanandastakam in the name of Prabodhananda Sarasvati
Manuscript of Visvanatha Cakravarti's Gaura-gana-svarupa-tattva-candrika, copied on 1808 AD
Not so long after locating a manuscript of his Caitanyastakam, I was fortunate enough to come across a manuscript of the Nityanandastakam attributed to Prabodhananda Sarasvati. Although no date is mentioned, after having the manuscript assessed by a few experts, they all agreed that the paper, ink and style seem to be of the 16th century, so this is one of the oldest extant Gaudiya Sanskrit manuscripts. Both astakas will be published soon with the Viveka-satakam in a single book.
An important discovery was another copy of Visvanatha Cakravarti's Gaura-gana-svarupa-tattva-candrika. The manuscript is dated Samvat 1865 (1808 AD) and contains several verses which were missed by the copyist in the other copy previously found, and it also presents more correct readings. This will be essential to revise the text to bring it closer to the original in future editions.
Another phase of the BV Project has been started in order to retrieve the original documentation relevant to the life and work of Baladeva Vidyabhusana. There seems to be a good number of such documents preserved in some of the government archives, and I have already copied some of the personal letters issued by Vidyabhusana for the King of Jaipur. Other documents reveal important information about Vidyabhusana's activities and achievements in Vrindavan and Jaipur.
Despite my best efforts, I still couldn't get cooperation from the Vrindavan Research Institute, which hosts the largest collection of Gaudiya manuscripts in the world, but where unfortunately the present staff know nothing about research and are adamant that manuscripts should not be shown and that copies should not be given to anyone, besides having an extensive history of corruption. This has led me to lodge a complaint addressed to the Prime Minister of India, and the case is being processed.


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{DIY}: Stud Earring Holder
Creating this updated version of my stud earring holder was very simple. I had been wanting to update the look of my previous holder to increase the visual esthetic of my bedroom. Functionality, for studs and hooks, the holder is still very appropriate and the addition of the metal increases the overall integrity of the holder. I purchased my frame from IKEA and the perforated sheet metal from Home Depot. Home Depot offers a range if different sizes and style of perforated sheet metal, including varying sizes of holes. They do sell a style that is more suited for studs, but I loved the design of the style that I purchased.
- Perforated sheet metal
- IKEA TOLSBY Picture frame
- Tin snips
- Measure the insert of the frame to the sheet of metal.
- Carefully cut the perforated sheet metal (Caution the metal sharp and little pieces of metal and float around or end up on the surface you are cutting them on.)
- Cut to size
- Fit into frame
- Assemble frame to base
If you are into DIY or more personal gifts for the holiday, this would be a simple and creative gift to give someone!


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Having recently got into reviewing books I read I've realised that there is only so much I can do with a twitter account so have set up this blog to expand my horizons. As it says in my About section I love crime fiction and chick-lit but I'm also trying to re-start my love of sci-fi and fantasy. As I'm new to blogging and also about to start a creative writing course with the Open University I'm not sure how often I'll be posting here but you can always check out my twitter account too as I usually do at least one tweet a day. I really should get off here and go read now since I've got a book I've just started and I'm at that interesting point where you think it may be a good book but aren't quite sure yet because it's a little too soon to tell. Full review of that book will be posted in due course. Other book reviews are also due and I'll re-post some of the one's I've posted on twitter recently as well, that way you can get a feel for what I read.
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My search to find articles to refute has bound upon a plentiful pile at "Living in Dialogue" blog.
Here goes Anthony Cody, yet again…
There is growing evidence that the corporate-sponsored education reform project is on its last legs. The crazy patchwork of half-assed solutions on offer for the past decade have one by one failed to deliver, and one by one they are falling. Can the edifice survive once its pillars of support have crumbled?
No. You may wish it so. But it is not true. Saying it doesn't make it true. But you know what is on its last legs? Status quo education that your folks have been defending for so long, that is still failing children nation-wide.
Teach For America: This project had as its central premise the idea that what was wrong with the teaching profession was that not enough really smart people were becoming teachers. So we will recruit some high flyers and fill the gaps in high needs schools. And because these folks are sooo smart, they do not need the year or two of preparation that regular old teachers needed – they could learn to crunch data, manage a class and prepare for tests in just five weeks. And if they leave after a couple of years, that's ok too. They can transform education as the next generation of leaders and policymakers, because they will have brains that classroom experience, and TFA's no excuses philosophy to guide them.
As Cody continues with his selective history, I pulled this off the TFA website:
Wendy Kopp proposed the idea for Teach For America in her Princeton University undergraduate thesis in 1989. In 1990, a charter corps of 500 committed recent college graduates joined Teach For America and began fueling the movement to eliminate educational inequity. Since then, nearly 33,000 participants have reached more than 3 million children nationwide during their two-year teaching commitments. They have sustained their commitment as alumni, working within education and across all sectors to help ensure that children growing up in low-income communities get an excellent education.
Given the magnitude of the educational inequity, we have aggressively worked to grow and deepen our impact. Our corps members and alumni have helped accelerate the pace of change as teachers, principals, elected officials, social entrepreneurs, and leaders in all fields. Alongside many others, they have proven that classrooms, schools and now whole communities can transform the life trajectories of all students, regardless of background.
We are energized by the progress we have made over the past 22 years and more hopeful than ever before that one day, all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.
From this excerpt, I can see that TFA was started to commit recent college graduates who believed in eliminating educational equity to serve as teachers in low income communities. TFA is working the make sure that poverty doesn't write a child's future but that their education does. But because the union movement and it's friends like Diane Ravitch and Anthony Cody are just now trying to tackle poverty, they can't admit that anyone else is, because it takes away from the success they can produce. How selfish. That doesn't sound like its about kids. Sounds like it is about adults.
What is really the difference between a recent college graduate who took 30 more credits in education and a TFA teacher? Only the quality of their instruction. We already know there is a movement to transform schools of education because the teaching profession is lacking a true leader in that field. So, a lackluster 30 credits (which split up over a couple days a week for a couple of hours a day over two semesters) or 5 weeks of intensive training? Sounds like they could be pretty equal to me.
But this year TFA is hitting some serious headwinds. They are finding that recruitment has dropped for some reason, and the organization is even closing its New York training institute
office. Perhaps students have been finding out some of the problems with the program, discovering in advance that five weeks is not adequate preparation for the challenge of teaching in a challenging school. Perhaps potential recruits have encountered TFA alums sharing their experiences, or even some of those organizing to resist the program. And word may have leaked out that TFA is not the best vehicle for those concerned with social justice – given that corps members are sometimes being used to replace veteran teachers.
Ok Cody, where is your data, your research to support the crumbling? So what they are closing an office and there are fewer applicants. Those statements say nothing about the quality of the work TFA teachers do, or the success they have with their students. Where is your data proving that students with a TFA teacher perform worse than traditional public school teacher taught students? Unless you can back your statements up with some data, you are just crying wolf.
Since you mentioned veteran teachers….Some are very good. Many are not – either they haven't kept up with the times, their classroom discipline/management style doesn't mesh with today's youth, they haven't had a professional, thorough evaluation to determine where their professional development needs are (the subsequently they did not receive professional development to meet their needs, which not their fault, but a reality), they won't learn new education strategies, or the worst, they are just collecting a paycheck and passing out worksheets all day long.
This may not be a majority of teachers – BUT THEY DO EXIST!! and every single moment a student spends with these ineffective teachers is a wasted moment that the child is expecting to receive a quality education and simply is not. Children, parents and the community expect and are paying for high quality education. When are kids aren't receiving a quality education we are all wasting our money, might as well be flushing it down the toilet. Or, Like in DeKalb County, GA where I live, as long as all the friends and family have a high paying job at the school department, all is right with the world.


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For the past couple of years one of the most frequently heard phrases in our house begins " When all the children are at school I will..... ! The opportunity of having some time to complete many of the unfinished projects was suddenly drawing closer to being a reality, with all three children at school! Despite the fact that my little girl had pneumonia within a week of starting school and then was home again for some time , I do feel that there is now some time to tackle some of these jobs around the house! My aim is to start room by room so I am not completely overwhelmed by all there is actually to do to complete this project of a house. We do have some fairly major plans to knock down two garages and create a beautiful kitchen/family room. The plans have been agreed so hopefully I will be able to share that journey and pictures of progress with you soon.
In the meantime I decided that for once I would make us a priority instead of the kids - radical I know- and am starting in our bedroom! We have some pretty vibrant pine furniture - all of which needs a good coat of white eggshell to soften it down. I have also decided that working on my lap is not good for my long suffering back, so a desk is in order too. So off I set on a trip to one of my favourite places in the world - second hand furniture stores. I ended up at Steptoes - full of junk, or if you are like me, treasures that just need some TLC. I came out with a large chest ( I must admit this is not for me but for my little girls room , but too good to leave behind.) , a pine table - perfect for a desk for sewing and a laundry basket in gold ( !!!)
A pot of undercoat, a couple of pots of Farrow and Ball and some elbow grease and they all had a lovely new coat of fresh paint. The laundry basket is in Farrow and Balls plumbago grey and the pine furniture in Farrow and Ball's All White.In addition to the table, desk and laundry basket I have managed so far to also paint the two bedside cabinets and am hoping to tackle the chest of drawers and wardrobe next week. However , here's how Ive done so far. I'm pretty pleased! I'll post some complete before and after photos of the bedroom when I'm completely finished!
|Table washed, sanded and ready!
|Table and Laundry basket undercoated and first coat done.
|3 or 4 coats of paint later - done!
|With all my bits and bobs!
|Laundry basket in it's original state.
|The finished article - just need to line it!
|All finished and lined!
|Bedside cabinet x2!
|Mirror before.
|Mirror after!
|Green Chest with lid before
|Front view of Toy Chest - after!
|Side view of Toy Chest
|Seat in spotty pink!
Music while I work this week was Paolo Nutini. I prefer his debut Album "These streets". Have a listen to "New Shoes".....


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Thursday, July 3, 2014
A Little ABC Quilt
As I start another one of these quilts I realise I did not even blog about the first one. This quilt feels like cheating it is so quick to make. It was one of the quilts I put together over our ANZAC weekend sewing retreat with my quilting buddies. Adrianne ran an impromptu session on free motion quilting for some of us and got Vicki and I well on our way (I will have to check with Vicki whether I can share one of her photos here in a later post as she is a natural with the free motion quilting). Me, not so, but I will persevere. If you look closely you will see where I broke a needle right in the middle of the black vulture (sods law that it would be on the black).
The finished size of the quilt is 65 x 69 cm, so perfect for a stroller, change quilt, or baby capsule.
The fabric is the Alexander Henry's ABC with Me and the border is Very Duck Egg Blue Spot, which is almost sold out but is still available in the Mini version. The binding was a stripe I had. The backing is a co-ordinating Alexander Henry fabric ABC to Z.
2 comments:
- Adrianne @ On the Windy Side said...
It's really such a cute little quilt. Can't wait to see V2.0 :-)
- July 3, 2014 at 2:34 PM
- Leonie said...
Adorable! Sods law!!! dont you despise that! Looking forward to seeing the next one :)
- July 4, 2014 at 5:22 PM
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The Bourne Identity meets Divergent in this action-packed debut thriller with a Katniss-esque heroine fighting to regain her memories and stay alive, set against a dystopian hospital background.
Sarah starts a crazy battle for her life within the walls of her hospital-turned-prison when a procedure to eliminate her memory goes awry and she starts to remember snatches of her past. Was she an urban terrorist or vigilante? Has the procedure been her salvation or her destruction?
The answers lie trapped within her mind. To access them, she'll need the help of the teen computer hacker who's trying to bring the hospital down for his own reasons, and a pill that's blocked by an army of mercenary soldiers poised to eliminate her for good. If only she knew why…
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Internal Level Editor Preview
Thank you again for your pledges and support! As you can see, the project gets slowly funded, backer by backer but hey! Rome wasn't built in a day! Was it?
We noticed that one reason may be the poor visibility we have on the project and it would help a lot to be featured by Kickstarter. According to my sources, one of the statistics that Kickstarter uses to determine who gets featured on the main page is the number of "Finished plays" which means the number of time your video has been entirely seen. We currently have 21,59% of plays completed and we need that number up over 75%. So, here's my request: Please click play on the main project video, and let it play all the way to the very end. This is super important!
Now, let's talk about something way sexier. I mean the Level Editor! Many of you backed $80 to have an early access to it and therefore the ability to submit your own levels for the final version of the game. So, we decided to briefly show you how it works. Please keep in mind that this editor is our internal version and it's not as user friendly as the one you'll get. Ladies and Gentlemen, please a standing ovation for Guillaume Bouckaert and his level editing presentation!
Hope you enjoyed it!
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Apprendre la programmation et ses règles n'est pas quelque chose d'aisé et voir des projets comme le votre permettant de se familiariser avec la programmation de manière plus amusante et moins rude peut vraiment aider les personnes voulant franchir le pas.
Merci pour votre projet et j'espère vraiment que votre projet aboutira !


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Sad day today.
I mean, my home page, when I start Safari is the Apple website. Everyday, before going to Facebook, before going to read the news, before everything.. I go to the Apple website and I admire it. Today there was more. There was Steve Jobs close up. Unbelievable. So sad.
No words for that, only a big Thank You Steve, for the big inspiration you gave me, for Pixar, for making me looking cool with my new Ipod, my new Mac, my Iphone and bla bla bla, you gave to the world a lot of magic and now, to have magic again we have to wait we don't know how long. But now God, can finally have the Iphone.


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The latest edition of the Black Country Chamber magazine is now available to download (for those who don't get one in the post).
I highly recommend this publication as a great source of local information on one the most active chambers in our region.
Oh and I am featured as one of several new board directors!
Featured in this Black Country Chamber (Prosper) magazine are:
- An interesting article about INSPIRE, a company who provide realtime statistics on car manufacturing production lines.
- An article how the chamber has helped lock firms tackle a spate of crime in the Bilston area.
- More information on the exciting new developments at Wolverhampton University Science Park and their recently refurbished 200 seater conference centre.
- Information about a new initiative called "RAISE – Raising Aspirations, Inspiring Self-Employment and Social Enterprise".
- Local business Write Size has been commended for its exporting achievements and has been named "member of the week".
- Paycare deals with employee and employer healthcare costs and have exceed their turnover target by a whopping 50%.
- Chamber member Norman Bookkeeping reports ambitious growth and new staff being taken on.
- Three times winner of the national "Best of Business Awards" Integrity surveying has recently been shortlisted for a Black Country Chamber of Commerce Award.
- There is also full list of those businesses who have been nominated.
- Microsoft has awarded chamber members, MBM Limited with Silver Partner status, a world recognised achievement.
There is lots more to read about in this edition.
Get yours now on the link above or contact the chamber on 0330 024 0820 to become a member.
Becoming a member of the Black Country chamber of Commerce can serious improve your business prospects.
Want to feature about your business?
The next edition of the Black Country Chamber magazine (Prosper) will be published towards the end of January 2017.
If you have an interesting article about business in our region then note that deadline for submitting articles for the January 2017 edition of the magazine is the 15th December 2016.
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ABM have successfully installed a new CIP Unit at Joseph Holts' long established brewery in central Manchester.
Joseph Holts needed a new CIP system to improve the cleaning regime and to make savings on the costly chemicals used during cleaning of the brewery's vessels and extensive pipework.
ABM's solution of a fully automated single circuit unit allowed the operators improve both the performance and speed compared to the previous cleaning regime.
The installation and commissioning process were completed in around 2 weeks complete with extensive operator training.
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Path Through History Weekends (June 1-2 &7-8) and Museum Week (June 10 -16) make it fun and easy to visit arts and culture venues across the State Albany, N.Y. - One of the best times to discover the state's world-class art collections and leading museums, ranging from glass to vintage toys, is during New York State Museum Week, June 10-16. Museums across the state will feature special events, exhibits, activities and promotions for the second annual Museum Week, co-sponsored by the N.Y. State Council on the Arts and Museumwise: Museum Association of New York, which provide grants and shared resources for cultural activities and museums in the state. Plus, Path Through History, recently introduced by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, makes it easier than ever to discover fascinating arts and culture venues year-round. Arts and Culture is one of 13 themes, ranging from Sports History and Military History to Civil Rights, used to organize 700-plus heritage sites throughout the Empire State. The program includes identifying markers on major state highways and local signage utilizing a distinctive Path Through History logo to help point the way. There's also a Path Through History web page on www.iloveny.com/paththroughhistory with additional information. Path Through History will be celebrated with nearly 200 events throughout the state on June 1-2 and 7-8, so be sure to check regularly for more information. A sampling of Arts and Culture sites highlighted in the Path Through History program as well as other great museums and cultural venues around the Empire State follows below. Check with the museums directly for special activities during Museum Week and throughout the year. Prestigious and Eclectic Collections. The greatest concentration of art is in New York City, where collections range from small gems like the Museum of the Moving Image in the borough of Queens and the eclectic exhibits at the Morgan Library to the extensive collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (a.k.a. the Met), one of the largest and most comprehensive art museums in the world. In fact, Manhattan's Museum Mile contains nine prestigious museums, including the Met, Guggenheim, Museum for African Art and Jewish Museum. Coinciding with Museum Week is the 35th Annual Museum Mile Festival on June 11 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., when Fifth Avenue closes to traffic from 82nd to 105th Street and comes alive with art and live music in the street and free admission to all of the museums along the way. Scenes that Inspire Art. The beauty of New York State inspired the Hudson River School, a local art movement in the 19th century which featured artists such as Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church and Asher Durand. This summer, visitors to Central New York can catch a special Hudson River School exhibit as well as permanent folk and Native American collections at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown. The Thomas Cole National Historic Site in the Catskills offers guided tours of artist Thomas Cole's home, studio and hikes amidst the landscapes that inspired his works. In the Hudson Valley, Olana State Historic Site, the estate of painter Frederic Church, invites visitors to explore his artistically-landscaped grounds, home and personal art collection. Portraits in Nature. The interplay of art and nature in the Hudson Valley can also be explored at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers via exhibitions, lectures and outdoor activities. Dia: Beacon in Beacon, which displays art from the 1960s to the present, is situated on thirty-one acres on the banks of the Hudson River and is adjacent to ninety acres of riverfront parkland. For more art in nature, the Storm King Art Center in New Windsor provides natural outdoor settings for more than 100 sculptures. And Griffis Sculpture Park near Ellicottville in the Chautauqua-Allegheny region integrates sculpture into the parklands. Classes and Collections. On Long Island, the Nassau County Museum of Art features art classes amid the collection and grand surroundings of industrialist Henry Clay Frick's home, while the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington displays an eclectic collection that spans 500 years. Classes are also available at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, which displays works by New York School artists such as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning and Esteban Vicente as well as contemporary works by Roy Lichtenstein and others. The museum celebrates the alluring light and seascapes of Eastern Long Island that led William Merritt Chase to establish one of America's first plein-air painting schools in 1891. Celebrating a Centennial. The 1913 Armory Show in Manhattan was the first major exhibition of European avant-garde painting and sculpture in America. Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin were among the artists exhibited there. The centennial of this seminal event will be celebrated at several venues including the New York Historical Society in Manhattan (from October 11, 2013 to February 23, 2014) and the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, where the permanent collection features seven pieces from the original show. While there, fans of Andy Warhol won't want to miss the special exhibition that runs June 9 to Sept 8. Historic Homes for Important Artwork. In the Adirondacks, the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls features works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Picasso and Renoir displayed in an elegant turn of the century mansion, while the impressive Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake presents history, nature, handicrafts and fine arts in historic buildings. In the Thousand Islands-Seaway region, the Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg celebrates the work of this 19th century New York native, best known for his sculptures and paintings depicting cowboys, soldiers and Native Americans of the Old West. The collection is housed in a grand old mansion with an interesting history of its own. Art in All Mediums. Three notable museums in the Finger Lakes celebrate art for its elements. The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse is internationally recognized for its extensive and significant collection of ceramics, pioneering art video collection and distinctive structural design by noted architect I.M. Pei. The George Eastman House in Rochester, which houses the International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, tells the story of photography and motion pictures through lenses that have changed and continue to change our perception of the world. The Corning Museum of Glass celebrates a single material: glass. Architecture buffs flock to Greater Niagara to admire the sleek lines of Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo. The city's museums also include the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, known for its contemporary art, and the regionally-focused Burchfield-Penney Art Center. Drawing on Words. Writers have long drawn inspiration from the Empire State. At the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center in West Hills on Long Island, a tour of his 19th century farmhouse offers an intimate encounter with the poet through original letters, manuscripts, artifacts and even hearing Whitman's voice on tape. Nearby, restored mansions such as Old Westbury Gardens, former home of John S. Phipps, and the former Vanderbilt Estate on Long Island's Gold Coast offer a glimpse into the society that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." For insight into James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans," visit Cooperstown, his hometown in Central New York, where the landscape may feel familiar to his readers and the Fenimore Art Museum displays memorabilia from the author. A different type of inspiration moved Joseph Smith to publish "The Book of Mormon" in Palmyra in 1830. The Hill Cumorah Visitors Center in the Finger Lakes offers a free annual pageant-- July 12-13 and July 16-20-- which tells the Mormon story with a cast of over 650 players. Child's Play. Visiting fun museums can help cultivate a child's lifelong appreciation for arts and culture. In the Finger Lakes, the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester draws adults and kids with its nostalgic National Toy Hall of Fame, indoor butterfly garden and 1918 working carousel, while the Long Island Children's Museum in Garden City offers hands-on activities in science, music and art. The Capital-Saratoga region's Children's Museum of Science and Technology(CMOST) in Troy also encourages families to explore science and technology together through hands-on experiences, while The New York State Museum in Albany offers 200-plus public programs a year-many catering to kids and families--with exhibits focused on everything New York, from art and archaeology to ornithology. Indulge your Love of Sports. Interested in aviation? Set your course for the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island where you'll see everything from historic aircraft to hot air balloons and dine at the Red Planet Cafe, a Mars-themed eatery. Is baseball your passion? The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in Central New York is a must-see, while motorcycle enthusiasts rev up to see the Motorcyclepedia Museum in the Hudson Valley. 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It's 4 o'clock on a Monday afternoon and I'm drinking champagne.
Why not.
It's the last of my four day break. I spent the morning sewing quilt pieces. Then I denuded the ficus tree in the living room of its festive gear (doubling as our Christmas tree) and left it to its seasonal moult in peace. I've pulled a batch of cookies out of the oven. And it's snowing, again.
That's why I'm drinking champagne.
Sorry to have left y'all in the lurch over the holiday. By the time the last paper has been sent to the plate room on Christmas Eve, I'm pretty much done with the entire event. All I want to do is catch up on my sleep and try to find my sense of humour again.
I will give one little nod to the past four weeks: Bear Day in mid-December.
|Bear Day 2015. Fifty bears waiting to be taken to their new homes.
|Chief Bear Organizer
|Sub-Chief of the Bear Brigade
It's a tradition for us to work on a jigsaw puzzle during the Days In Between. Generally the pieces are spread out on Boxing Day, but as we hosted a dinner party for a goodly number of friends, the puzzle had to wait until Sunday.
The Daughter picked it up at one of the local thrift stores earlier in December. I knew it would be challenging because it's a shaped puzzle - no straight borders or regular corners. But this?
|This year's post-Christmas jigsaw puzzle. *deep sigh*
I've already referred to it as a bitch kitty in a recent email letter to friends, and the comment stands.
|What normal, self-respecting puzzle has pieces like this?!!
|or this?!!!
Progress has been slow. It may quietly disappear from our lives in a week or two.
We've been in valley cloud for days now - when it isn't snowing. The Husband and I felt the need for sunshine, prairie kids that we are. And as we like Sunday Driving (another prairie habit), yesterday beckoned to us, "Come out, come out."
|This incredible deep cobalt blue cloudscape has graced the skies in recent days.
A colour so surreal that if I painted it, I'd be told doesn't exist in nature.
Of course it does.
Our destination this time was Sun Peaks Ski Resort, north of Kamloops. We're neither of us skiers, but it's where the sunshine was, and it's fun to sit and watch the skiers and boarders come down the slopes.
However, we saw a road meandering down a broad valley about halfway in to the ski hill, and as is our wont, we set off to explore it. Backroads are our favourite places.
|The road we came in on.
The quiet so perfect, the air so still and clean. It's exactly like our our homestead in the North Country in that respect. These two photos, above and below, could have been taken anywhere on our property or for hundreds of km in any direction from where we lived.
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|What a perfect day. Looked for sunshine after days of valley cloud,
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 23, 2011
Contact: Quintin Mecke
Office: 415-557-3013; Cell: 415.505.2417
Sacramento - Sponsored by Mendocino County District Attorney David
Eyster, Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) has introduced a
bill, AB 1017, which would change section 11358 of the Health and
Safety Code from a mandatory felony penalty to an alternate felony or
misdemeanor, known as a "wobbler".
"When it comes to marijuana cultivation, one size does not fit all.
The proposed change affords local District Attorneys the charging
discretion to determine, for example, that a home gardener with a few
non-medical marijuana plants will not be prosecuted at the same level
as a profiteer operating a major marijuana plantation," said
Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster. "It makes no sense
that unlawful possession of less than one ounce of marijuana is an
infraction, that possession of more than an ounce of marijuana is a
misdemeanor, that possession of methamphetamines may be charged as a
misdemeanor, but that growing any amount of marijuana must be charged
as a straight felony punishable by prison."
"This change is long overdue and is simply common sense. Allowing
marijuana cultivation to be a misdemeanor will save the state money,
allow for more cost-effective prosecution and reflects the views of
most Californians. I applaud DA Eyster for his leadership on trying
to create a rational public policy for marijuana in California," said
"California's ongoing fiscal crisis is forcing a long-overdue
reconsideration of out-of-control corrections spending," said Stephen
Gutwillig, California director of the Drug Policy Alliance. "Sending
nonviolent marijuana offenders to state prison is a particular waste
of resources in a state that lowered marijuana possession penalties
and seriously considered ending marijuana prohibition outright last
year. That law enforcement figures like District Attorney Eyster are
supporting Assemblymember Ammiano's sensible new legislation shows
how quickly the tide is turning against our costly, ineffective, and
punitive marijuana policies."
Quintin Mecke
Communications Director
Office of Assemblymember Tom Ammiano
455 Golden Gate Avenue, #14300
San Francisco, CA 94102


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We are back… finally!
Our server host did a cock-up of a job with our domain in the last 36 hours which caused PD to be unreachable by many of you. We had to delay several posts from UNAA, but fear not, we'll be posting audio and images during this week as soon as we get all the technical glitches ironed out.
Thanks for your patience.
UPDATE: The downtime gave us an opportunity to kick some dust off our newly-developing redesign. We are still tweaking and adding more features to the posts. One annoying thing we have to joyously fix, is the fact that this site requires images for each post. We'll get around to updating most of the posts around here. After all, everybody loves looking at pretty pictures… admit it, you know you do!


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Here's a different kind of contest for readers of Christian books…win by giving thanks/praise. And the more praise and thanks you give, the better your chances to win a pack of 20 AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS!!
Author Lisa T. Bergren (Waterfall, Remnants) has invited me and other authors to share what we are thankful for this year. And she's giving away copies of our books. Two winners will receive a signed set of the books below.
That's 20 autographed books!
I'll share what I'm thankful for below, but visit Lisa Bergren's website to read what all these authors have to give thanks for this November, and for details on how to enter this drawing.
Here's what I'm thankful for this year.
1. I'm profoundly, joyously thankful that my sins are washed away by the blood of the Lamb, Christ Jesus. Without that, the greatest earthly blessings would be hollow. With that, the toughest trials are put into their proper perspective—a light affliction not to be compared with the eternal joy and wholeness that awaits the child of God.
2. I'm thankful God grants us the desires of our hearts. In my case, the opportunity to share my stories, and His grace, with readers. For nearly twenty years I prayed a specific prayer regarding this. "Lord, if You don't desire my stories to be published, then change the desire of my heart. Make me to desire what You see is best for me." I'm thankful He maintained that passion for storytelling in my heart through nearly two decades of waiting, and writing.
3. I'm thankful for my godly husband, Brian. During those twenty years I was writing and waiting—and not earning a penny—he was steadfastly providing for us, allowing me the time I needed to hone the craft of writing, and find my place in the publishing world. He did this all in faith, never knowing if the day would come that God might open one of those doors I kept knocking on. Without his support, I'd have given up long ago.
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Nov 5th, 2014 Credit Unions
Credit unions are financial institutions, which are owned and managed by its customers (members) to provide financial services to its members. Credit unions provide products and services similar to banks; however banks and credit unions cannot be considered as same. Credit unions are usually formed by a group of members with strong connections among them. When the members have a common bond and probably belong to the same region with similar financial needs and ideas, they are more likely to form a credit union. As credit unions have branch operations and deals with finances, they are operated by staff similar to banks.
We can see that credit unions are not just places where customers can deposit funds and take loans, but they also provide different products that are similar to that of banks. However, not every credit union might have all the products mentioned above. As most credit union choose their products based on the needs of its customers (members), backed up by its availability, the products vary between different credit unions.
Based on the products the credit unions provide services to its customers. Check books, direct debits, standing orders, internet banking, branch facilities, ATM access, debit card, electronic payments, credit union service centers are few of the services that credit unions provide.
Credit unions are managed by its customers who are also its members. The higher management is operated by the board of directors in credit unions. The boards of directors are mostly appointed by elections, wherein the customers vote for member who are interested to manage and operate the credit union. Important decisions are taken by the higher management in credit unions.
Yes, Credit Unions can compete with banks. Credit unions have products and services that are similar to banking. Hence it's natural for customers to have a look at both the options before taking up accounts. If customers find credit union's features and offerings interesting, then they can surely opt for credit unions instead of banking.
Some credit unions have attractive features, wherein customers do not require huge funds to open an account. They may just require to have a minimum balance such as $5 to $10 in some cases.
At the end September 2012 reports showed that nationwide credit unions and banks were almost equal in number. They were 7030 number of credit unions with an aggregate of $1 trillion in assets and 6170 number of banks with an aggregate of $13 trillion in assets.
Since 15 years banks and credit unions have experience similar trends. Banks have decreased by 30 % and credit unions decreased by 36%. While the total number of assets for banks increased by 140% and total assets for credit unions increased by 160%.
Yes credit unions are safe, most of the credit unions deposits are insured by NCUSIF (National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund). These credit unions are regulated by NCUA (federal organization) and thus this insurance is backed up by the government. Some credit unions deposits have private insurance instead of NCUA. Apart from the deposit insurance, there would be other safety measures taken by the members of the credit union to ensure smooth and secure operations.
Although banks and credit unions look similar, following are some of the basic differences which set them apart –
Hence we see that, even though banks and credit unions appear to be the same they do have certain differences between them.
Credit Unions and banks are both suitable for customers depending on their needs and interests. Credit unions are not just service oriented; they do make profits provided they operate efficiently.


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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Homemade Wilderness Systems SlideTrax Hardware and Acessories Plates - 2012 Ride 135
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Awesome! I had used the same approach, but used t-track hardware from woodcraft. The aluminum version is much nicer.ReplyDelete
I never though of using cutting board when I made my, I spent heck of alot more a a plastic storeReplyDelete
Thanks for the pics and easy explanation this blog is very helpful.ReplyDelete
Great idea! Did you use 1" stainless screws to attach the rod holder to the cutting board?ReplyDelete
Hey Jason, I did use 1" stainless screws. Before mounting the assembly to the kayak, I drilled 4 small pilot holes into the cutting board to mount the Scotty base. I then placed a dab of epoxy (optional) on each hole and tightened down the screws to mount the base to the cutting board. Lastly, I used a dremel tool to round off the screw points that stuck out the back side to make them smooth and flush to the bottom side of the cutting board.ReplyDelete
Thanks! I built 2 yesterdayReplyDelete
- AdirondackYakerJune 14, 2012 at 2:43 PM
Great job!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the details.
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 1:21 PM
Thanks for showing us the cool setup.ReplyDelete
I used the "old style" stainless sliding plate and screw that are used to secure surfboard center fins (mainly found on longboards), and some plastic cutting board that I already had. The screws are only 7/8" long slotted panheads, but they still work if you start to thread on the plate prior to sliding the unit into the slide trax. If I had to purchase the screws separately, I'd buy the 1" socket cap screws, as shown in your article.
I've been a surfer since the late 60's, and I had a lot of those fin screw/plate sets lying around, so it was a no-brainer to try them on my Tarpon 140's slide trax.
Also, I forgot to mention, the stainless fin plates are smaller than the Harmony brass plates, but their length is the same as the width of the Harmony ones, so you just rotate them 90 degrees for a good fit.
- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 at 10:26 AM
looks good!ReplyDelete
I made one in my tarpon 120
Any recommendations on how to cut the metal flat bar with a limited selection of tools?ReplyDelete
Nice. Thanks for providing such details and parts listing. Going to try this out on my hobie but will be doing the full dashboard. There are places that will cut the starboard for you at almost the same price as the cutting board material. Looks like you can get the same OEM look if you use a router on it. Going to give that a try. Very cool mod.ReplyDelete
Based in India, Udehra Mechanical Works is a prominent manufacturer and suppliers of huge variety of high tensile industrial fasteners like nuts and bolts which are supplied to our reputed clients.ReplyDelete
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