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Hell. It's been years since I submitted anything to iBrattleboro. I do look at it every once in awhile, mostly to see that things are okay in one of my favorite places to live. But, I haven't been there since 2004. I sense everything is okay. And I do hope all my friends there are happy, or at least struggling towards a worthwhile goal.
When I lived in Brattleboro I always thought, "this would be a good place to stay." Yeah, I know. It has its quirks. But I'll never forget my first day there when a postal worker spent ten minutes helping a homeless person get their mail straightened out. And I thought, "if I'm ever poor, this is where I want to live."
Anyway, I just returned to Chicago after spending the past seven years on the California coast. What I call Oprah-Land. Or Nirvana Land. Or a host of other names. I do like California. Mostly the geography, ocean, desert, weather, and it still has a faint memory of the Beach Boys. And old silver screen movies. The Westerns. James Dean. And a lot of dreaming.
I want to say hi to my friends. Yes-am still alive. And I have no idea what anyone is doing back there. But I wish you all well.
And if you get a chance, download/listen to "I Remember" by Kaskade. Beautiful vocal and great dance beat. Kinda' goes with spending Fri/Sat night in Brattleboro.But I have to run. There is a local wine bar that I want to check out...
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Well Hello there!
How great to hear from you! Not even three days ago I was wondering whatever happened to you. I hope you're doing well. I guess you have heard by now that Yankee, err Entergy, is closing.
Yeah. Heard it through the atomic grapevine awhile back. I've always felt that a community should make choices, and then live with it. What I hope not to see is pleading for the same entity to come in and pay for the solution. Is like dating someone who makes choices and sends me the bill ;) I prefer to think that one can be in the empire, but not of the empire. It's so damn interconnected. Which is good, when the constructs fade away... Nice hearing from you Stevil. John
I was just thinking of you a couple days ago. I'm okay, still the same old. Hoping you're well and happy. Come visit when you can! Happy holidays! <3
Greetings D,
Very nice to hear from you again. We think of you often and hope to see you passing through at some point.
Much has changed since 2004, and much hasn't. You'd recognize the place, but probably wonder where a few stores and people went, and who some of the new faces are.
Aside from climate change, a terrible economy, NSA spying, and a rise in cancers, things are great!
Probably the noticeable project at the moment is the rebuilding of the Brooks House, which had a rather bad fire a couple years back. Lots of construction activity. Also the tearing down of the I-91 bridge between exit 2 and 3… much activity there, too.
The Latchis has new seats and has restored the ceiling as part of the renovations. The theatre is looking really good - almost like when it opened.
Old buildings by the train station have been taken down, downtown road was paved, ugly lights and a weird traffic system was installed. Most of the kinks have been worked out, but for a while it was a disaster. The flooding from the hurricane took our collective attention away from the ugly poles and oversized lights.
The Coop has a new, super-efficient building in roughly the same location as the old store. Lights were added to Malfunction Junction as part of the upgrade project. It's still a mess. Yesterday I saw someone just parked in the middle of it all, staring and wondering what to do.
A kid named Marble went missing about the time of the Irene floods. No one seems to know where he ended up.
We've lost a few notables - you might remember Homey (Michael Marantz) and Larry Bloch as regular participants here.
In the personal category, I'm doing more animation. Also just finished up a complete alphabet with cats hanging around each letter. I'm going to make it into a poster, and possibly a book. Also got much better at baking since you left, so if we know you are coming we can bake a cake.
iBrattleboro-wise, we're finishing up our 10th year. You might like that we added a philosophy section… feel free to partake.
And yes, as Stevil pointed out, Entergy said they were going to close VY. There is a good deal of concern for how this will impact the local economy, what former employees will decide to do, and how quickly/slowly the site will be decommissioned. More information is needed and there seems to be a bunch of behind the scenes negotiating, planning, and such. Entergy is, of course, balancing what happens with this plant while thinking about other plants they plan to close soon, too, and likely coming up with a business plan for the complete portfolio of nuclear plants. I'm surprised they haven't proposed building a new thorium reactor, or something along those lines.
Still lots of nature to enjoy. I saw a huge possum waddling down the driveway the other night with long, gorgeous fur.
Let's see, what else? WVEW sounds better than ever. BCTV has upgraded, too. Our trio of citizen-created media opportunities (radio, TV, web) is alive and well here.
See you soon...
Wow, Chris. Lots going on. I had to chuckle at your comment about the driver just parked in the middle of the junction. Funny. You could probably work the traffic thingy into your animations. I always like your animation work. Very professional and creative.
And, of course the new site design Lise has completed. Very-very nice. I like it.
On VY, not sure how that will play out. They will need to keep a skeleton crew onsite as long as fuel is stored there. Mostly security and some maintenance, chemistry, rad-protection folks. It really depends on the timeframe of dismantlement. Whether it gets moth-balled for awhile or dismantling begins right away--which will mean jobs for the locals.I spent a few months at Zion station (two years ago) setting up their training program for all the construction workers coming onsite to dismantle it. Return it to farm land. Maybe house prices will come down to where the average person can afford one?
What I saw at Zion when they shutdown was a slow loss of city services. From the public library, firemen, etc.. The town still looks -okay- ten years later. But they definitely took a tax base hit, and they lost a lot of consumer spending. The other thing I noticed that as Mom/Pops closed or moved out, the Big Boxes were able to come in and acquire prime locations.
So, I don't know. Good and bad. Or just plain life, eh. The thing is, no industry/manufacturing lasts forever. Heck, Brattleboro used to manufacture organs, right? And they used to have soldiers stationed there (read that letter you posted). Some things are not designed to be backward-scalable. And some things do well.
Anyway, need to end this before it becomes a tome.
Tome away...
I miss your tomes… : )
It is tough, that plain old life thing. It would be nice to cherry pick from history to assemble something new that had say, the prices of 100 years ago, the wealth of post WWII, the fun of Dreamland at Coney Island, etc. If only we could just keep the good things (and agree on what those good things are).
Hey, darqmatr! Thanks for stopping in! We think of you every now and again and wonder where you are, how life is treating you. Glad to know you're well.
I agree with Chris that some things have changed, some remain the same. My big worry is the effect the economy is having on regular people and small towns and cities. Brattleboro seems to have some real money problems now, which is going to 'trickle down' onto the rest of us. It seems like a lot of it has to do with big loans we took out to pay for infrastructure improvements and since those loans have long terms, it looks like our money problems will too. Alas.
But hey, the holidays are upon us. This weekend was the big weekend for holiday bazaars and craft fairs. Chris made it to the Kids' Craft Fair at the River Garden on Friday night and yesterday we both went to the Guilford Church Bazaar and the Cherry Street Arts mini festival which were both really nice with lots of great people selling their wares. Then last night we went to the amazing Christmas lights display in Chesterfield, which was dazzling to say the least. Joe Bushey filmed it last year, and if I can find the link I'll post it.
Probably the biggest thing for me was finally launching the new, improved iBrattleboro in February of this year. It was a long and arduous process that has filled my to do lists for the last two years. It was a relief to make that happen and so far, I think it's been a successful transition.
McNeills is still here so if you ever make it back to town I will buy you a beer and we can talk about old times.... Have a good one!
Lise, you did an excellent job on the site. I really like the layout and user friendliness. And the damn interesting stories.
The River Garden... had forgotten about it. Is like a time tunnel with nature on one side and the city on the other.
And McNeills. Yes. Am almost ready to cry when I think about the loss of good beer.
Nice hearing from you, Lise. John
We think of you the same -- you're a current and ongoing pal, no matter where you are. Surely, one of these days, you'll be back in town if only for a visit.
Glad you like the site. It was much harder rebuilding it in a new CMS then just making it up as we went along the first time. We started out with like 14 users. The relaunch was with a group of over 2000 registered users and we had to do it right so we wouldn't upset people. It wasn't a perfect transition but hey, we're here. ;)
So thinking of you in Chicago, how are the public schools doing? We've been trying to understand and write about public schools this year, our own for the most part, and have discovered that modern education is a veritable minefield of issues right now. Chicago has had a fairly loud discussion about theirs, and given the connection to the Obama administration through Rahm Emanuel, it's been kind of surprising just how rancorous it's been.
As for VY closing, I hope we don't lose all our local businesses because they are a huge part of what makes Brattleboro unique. My take is that we'll figure out a way to maintain our identity which has more to do with the people who live here than with the tax base. Brattleboro is relatively low income, as is most of Windham County. I'm hoping that we'll be more resourceful and imaginative with our future town. I guess we'll see. Perhaps we'll have some new opportunities not possibe with VY in the picture. Holding out for the silver lining as you can see.
Thanks again for dropping in. Enjoy the windy city....
Backatcha 2
You know, I always wondered how Rahm Emanuel got to be mayor. But I will keep my mouth shut (after a few sentences). I mean, I respect someone who works their way from the bottom up. And has earned respect along the way. But to win an an office because they hob-knobbed with a famous person? Okay. Am shut up.
Don't know that much about the Public Schools as my kids (3) are all done with college and on their own. But the gist I get is that during times of plenty benefits and retirement structures were generous. And probably fair if you had to do the work these people do. I don't envy them one bit. But we were living on a windfall. And now, well... there's no wind. Simply put.
I'd say we're in the Horse Latitudes. If you get my drift (dear friend). Which is off the coast of Africa where the wind would disappear and they'd throw the horses overboard due to lack of water/rain for weeks.
I can't say it enough, Lise. You've done an outstanding job on the site. It's a substantial contribution to community.
Greetings, O wanderer ..
& many merry happies to you. Like everyone else, I had been wondering where you were, doing what - thanks for dropping in!
I haven't lived in town since late in '04, when I moved into a little house built by friends on a nice patch of mountain woods. Much of the house (& a fair chunk of my heat) comes from my own trees, though I'm getting a bit old & feeble for much cutting. Lyme disese has made it up to my altitude (though it's not as bad as down in Bratt). Happy to report I am one of the lucky folks whose doctor believes in testing & for whom the antibiotics worked.
Here's a snapshot:
Woods in September for Robin & Larisa:
Out cutting deadfall for winter heat,
careful not to crush the caterpillar,
a moving froth of airy white spines ...
see moths fly up in sleepy startlement
when their roosting places vanish ...
watch the small frog swimming
in the pool by the spring.
Have a great winter - m.
Well, you know what they say... first the body and then the mind ;) I feel like I'm getting perma-frosted back here in Chicago with the temp being 3deg last eve. But, at least it's civilized somewhat and am not out in the desert somewhere. I miss our little chats ;)
If I keep coming back here I'm gonna' have to post one of my stories. Since you closed with some nice lines of your own. But first, I should visit one of the local diners, and have a glass or two of wine. Then will write stuff I will surely regret the next day...
Am glad you are doing well, friend.


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Student Recognition Award
The Bradley University Parents' Board of Directors established the Student Recognition Award in 2009. The award is presented at the Student Leadership Reception in May of each year.
This Student Recognition Award recognizes the outstanding contributions of a Bradley University student who has contributed to the success of the University through their personal commitment and enthusiasm for the betterment of its student body, academic or co-curricular departments, student organizations, the Peoria community and the University as a whole.
The recipient of the Student Recognition Award receives a $1,000 monetary award and a certificate. Funding for this annual award is made available through the generosity of the Alice and Thadd Bush family. Alice, Thadd and their two daughters, Alicia and Samantha, are all Bradley University graduates.
Current Award Winner
James Ghareeb
2016 Student Recognition Award
Past Recipients
Megan LaPage
2015 Student Recognition Award
Past Recipients
- 2015 - Megan LaPage
- 2014 - Sam Kintop
- 2013 - Jessica Revord
- 2012 - Tricia Anklan and Vanessia Darby
- 2011 - Jacqueline Seddon
- 2010 - Sandra Hall
- 2009 - Marcus Belin
Nomination Process
Nominations of current Bradley University students may be submitted by Bradley University faculty, staff, students, alumni, parents, and/or members of the Peoria community. Nominees must be a full-time undergraduate or graduate student with an average grade point of 2.5 or higher and have demonstrated service to Bradley University and/or the Peoria community. Consideration will be given to the impact of the overall contributions and achievements.
To nominate a student for the Student Recognition Award include a brief summary that addresses the positive impact the nominee has made at Bradley University and/or the Peoria community. Please try to address as many of the following criteria as possible. Please see nomination form here.
- Demonstrates exceptional work and service to the University and or Peoria community
- Contributes creative ideas to make improvements and/or develop projects
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- Values the opinions and recognizes the importance of others
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My children have never been told that they "can't sing." I got that message somewhere along the way and have been telling myself for years that I can't sing. That's rubbish! I CAN sing…it's just that no one else might enjoy hearing me sing. But that doesn't change the joy of singing. And that's why we have showers and cars and other places that make it safe to sing.
I hope you do something today that you love deeply and aren't very "good" at!


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As a number of leading retailers are now welcoming e-cigarettes into the industry, it appears as though even more success is on the horizon for the smoker's alternative.
It isn't easy to find hard and fast numbers when it comes to this particular industry. However, the Electronic Cigarette Consumer Association reports that the industry is valued at somewhere between £5mn and £10mn in 2011. A number of companies declared earnings of over £1 annually in the UK.
The association predicts that the growth levels currently in the UK lie somewhere within the region of 50 per cent a year but estimate that it will slow gradually by 2014.
2013, has seen growth and already retailers such as Manchester based TABlites Electronic Cigarettes, have reported double digit growth since January.
Since the initial e-cigarette was born, in 2000 in China, millions all over the globe have begun to enjoy the simulated yet realistic experience that smoking the e-cigarette has provided. Like other successful inventions before it, it targets a sizeable niche that was previously unpenetrated. It is the perfect nicotine replacement tool as it is not harmful to the user, giving them a fantastic method of starting their smoke free journey. They work by giving the user a small amount of liquid nicotine and water vapour, that simulates smoking but cuts out all the tobacco, carcinogenic's and ultimately smoke, making them safe for the user as well as the general public – the perfect quitting tool!
One major event which turned the tide of its success took place in 2007 when we saw the inception of the smoking ban in the UK. The law prevented people from smoking cigarettes in public places. Although numerous non-smokers saw this as a change for the better, the law affected numerous people in a more negative way, when it came to their social life.
Numerous smokers who got a kick out of smoking either Pipe Tobacco or cigarettes felt like they were no longer welcome in bars and pubs that they had been going to for tens of years. Although the venues themselves did plan to offer their loyal customer's adequate support by introducing outdoor seating and smoking shelters, the social side of visiting such venues was tarnished irreparably.
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The other night I was in the Burnaby area with a friend and we realized that we were starving as we headed back towards Vancouver. We thought we'd check out some place new on Commercial Drive, since it was nearby, and were craving Vietnamese food (which happens quite a lot). I did a bit of research on my blackberry and found Red Pagoda (right next to Marcello's near the corner of Kitchener Street).
To start off, we ordered the spring rolls – each order comes with three rolls and there is also a vegetarian option. I really liked these – they were a bit smaller in size than others that I've had, and they were super crispy and filled with quite a lot of meat. And of course, I made my usual hoisin sauce and hot chili oil combination to dip it into – something I would highly recommend to anyone that loves spice.
We couldn't decide between pho and some lemongrass chicken for our mains, so we decided to get both. I started with the Pagoda Special Beef Noodle Soup, which came with medium rare beef, tendon, beef flank, brisket and tripe – although I decided to skip the tripe since it's one of the food items I just can't eat. After adding the bean sprouts, lime and some basil, I took my first sip of the broth, and did find that it wasn't as flavourful as other places I've been. It was still quite good, I just needed to add a bit of hoisin and some chili oil to it; but I love having a fragrant bowl that is pretty much ready to eat as is, once you throw in some lime – then you know that you have found yourself some serious pho.
Pagoda Special Beef Noodle Soup
Once the Charbroiled Lemongrass Chicken with a Fried Egg added on arrived, we were already starting to get pretty full – our eyes were larger than our stomachs yet again, it seemed. However, it was definitely tasty. The chicken was tender and moist, with a great coating of lemongrass and onion flavour, and it was slightly charred fresh off the grill. There was also the usual side salad that you find on most similar Vietnamese meals, with cucumber, carrots and lettuce (helps make me feel like I'm getting my veggies for the day ;)) .
Charbroiled Lemongrass Chicken
Although it's not as good as my beloved Cambie Vietnamese Restaurant on Main Street (and also has a little less variety), this is a good alternative for that area of town. The staff were extremely friendly and the service was very quick. Plus, the two large pictures hanging on opposite walls made it feel very zen and comfortable – one was a temple and the other was a smiling buddha, looking down over our table.
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1408 Commercial Drive
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If I could blog more, I would.
Take that back. I technically, quite obviously could (and should) blog more. I did in fact sit home for precisely 30 days in a row on break from college where I reached the absolute epitome of unproductiveness.
Aside from digging my nose deeper and deeper into The Hunger Games series, the unwillingness to socialize or accomplish anything of importance piled up until I returned back to the white walls of my dorm room and bone-chilling cold weather.
And now I lay here, vertically of course and far too close to the edge of my twin XL bed, while I ponder a question that's been assigned for the students of "Personal Essay" with author Fred A. Wilcox to answer on our very first week of the second semester.
Who am I?
We've been warned, in a way, that this process of self-assessment and open-ended questioning can be a fun, liberating and painful experience. It may seem silly, asking someone who's lived 18 years on this earth if they have any idea of who they actually are, because in a heartbeat one might say:
"Of course I do. I'm _____. I'm a ____ major and I was raised in ______. My _____ taught me to always ____ and ________ …"
But what does that really tell anyone about yourself? Are you really who you think you are? Who told you that you're outgoing, caring, shy or selfish? I'm only beginning to brainstorm such generic adjectives and then apply them to my life to see who I might "be."
I literally have no idea how to go about this, but I'm really excited to find out.


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According to a Fernandina Beach Police news release, Alan Richard Vincenty, DOB 5/19/60, of 2902 West 5th Street in Fernandina Beach, was overheard telling someone in Fernandina Beach recently that he had committed a robbery south of there on March 9th. Then Vincenty committed a similar armed robbery in Fernandina Beach on March 17, and fled to Auburndale.
FBPD detectives contacted the Polk County Sheriff's Office with their suspicions that he was in Polk County and had possibly committed a robbery here on March 9th, and that they had a Nassau County warrant for his arrest as well. Vincenty was arrested without incident on Sunday, March 18, 2007, and booked into the Polk County Jail on Nassau charges of Armed Robbery, Aggravated Assault, False Imprisonment, and Grand Theft.
Now armed with his mug shot photo and fingerprints, PCSO robbery detectives followed up on leads that Vincenty was responsible for a robbery here. Vincenty was positively identified by the victims in the Auburndale Food Store robbery, and a palm print that he left behind at that scene was also positively identified as his. Nassau County deputies came to Polk County on March 20th to transport Vincenty back there to face their charges, and PCSO detectives will be additionally charging Vincenty for the Polk robbery that he committed.


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Video Podcasting: A Student Project
Like to add a video project to your syllabus? Not sure about having students edit their videos? Not even sure where to get a camera? No worries! With our sport cameras which you can check out from STV 133 and the Windows Live Movie Maker software already installed on the computers in the STV 250 suite, you are ready to lead your students into quick and easy video projects. The video below offers a quick guide to getting started:
Below I've included the basic outline for the video above – feel free to share this with you students so they can see one approach to organizing a video. Or for the printer-friendly version, see Video Podcasting for Students: Your Quick How-To Guide!
Yes, these are just the notes I used for making the video podcast. But they offer a quick reminder of what you've seen. Plus, you can let your students see that video-making doesn't need to take forever.
Part 1: Equipment Check-Out – STV 133
Considering a video project for your Fall Syllabus? We have the tools for you!
Video of one of the cameras.
Show how to turn on, turn off, and open USB.
Show an example of shooting a video and then plugging in USB.
Part 2: Downloading Your Video
Using Camstudio to record this.
Recommend that students save all their work to a thumb drive. Video files tend to be large, so students should use thumb drives with at least a gigabyte. The Student Temp Drive may also work, but only as a temporary solution.
Create a single folder on the drive for your Windows Live Movie Maker file. This folder should also contain your video files. If you move these files to different folders, your Movie Maker file will lose access to the video files, so keep them all together.
Reminder: All movie files MUST be on the thumb drive BEFORE you start using Movie Maker.
Part 3: Editing Your Video
Open Movie Maker
Simply drag-and-drop video clips into Movie Maker
Hit "Save Project" to save your Movie Maker file (you should still do this often…)
Hit "Save Movie" to export your edited film. ("Recommended for this project" works well, but watch your file size).


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Tennessee's science law: academic freedom or monkey business?
Depending on whose press release you believe, Tennessee's new science law either promotes "academic freedom" or "allows creationism to be taught in public schools."
Enacted on April 10, the legislation instructs school officials not to prohibit teachers from informing students about the "scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses" of "scientific controversies" such as biological evolution.
Science education groups are outraged, arguing that the law has nothing to do with academic freedom — and everything to do with finding new ways to undermine the teaching of evolution with trumped-up "controversies" and unscientific "weaknesses" disguised as science.
Dubbed the "monkey bill" by opponents, Tennessee's law is the latest round in the long-running battle over teaching evolution in the science curriculum of public schools.
In 1925, Tennessee teacher John Scopes was famously convicted of violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution. But today, the curriculum shoe is on the other foot.
Anti-evolution laws such as the one challenged by Scopes have been ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. And the theory of evolution — considered settled science by the vast majority of scientists — is a key component of science education.
Now it's opponents of evolution who are demanding to be heard in the science classroom.
Tennessee's new law is similar to one enacted in Louisiana in 2008 and to others recently debated in at least four states. Abandoning the failed strategy of pushing for inclusion of creationism or intelligent design in the science curriculum, anti-evolution forces now advocate "teaching the controversy" about evolution (and, to avoid singling out evolution, other purported "controversies" such as global warming).
In an attempt to pre-empt First Amendment challenges, the Tennessee law states that nothing in the legislation is to be "construed to promote any religious or non-religious doctrine."
Anti-evolutionists, of course, can readily support language prohibiting promotion of religion in schools since they maintain that creationism and intelligent design are not religious but rather "scientific alternatives" to evolution.
And there's the rub: What's religious to one side is science to the other. Under the new law, Tennessee teachers apparently get to decide what counts as science (and what counts as "weakness" in scientific theories) — even if most scientists disagree. Critics of the law see this as a green light for teaching creationism or other religiously based ideas as science.
They may be right. What Tennessee lawmakers tout as academic freedom (a freedom, by the way, denied to teachers in every other subject), is very likely to be used as a Trojan horse for inserting religious convictions into the science curriculum.
A far better approach would be to address the religion-science debate up front by preparing teachers to teach students something about the history and philosophy of science, including the interaction between religion and science over time. Helping students understand the context for the culture-war fight over evolution may help them accept what modern science has to say.
Learning about various religious worldviews is an important part of a good education. But it is unconstitutional to present those worldviews as science. Public schools have a legal and educational mandate to teach what is widely accepted in the scientific community as sound science, even when that science tells people what they don't want to hear.
The Tennessee law uses all the right language about helping students develop "critical thinking skills" necessary to become "scientifically informed citizens."
But giving teachers carte blanche to attack evolution and promote religion isn't the way to achieve that goal.
Charles C. Haynes
First Amendment Center senior scholar
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rgilson at adelphia.net wrote: > Any one got any suggestions for a WASS GPS which interfaces with a D7 > or D700 and powers on with a signal from the Kenwood's. Please no > Garmen Earthmate. A display is not necessary but power on from the > Kenwood's is mandatory. Power supply can be 12, 6, 5 VDC or > whatever. I'm sure something has replaced RS Digitravelier. Thanks. > WA2WWK > Ron > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 1) Earthmate is Delorme, not Garmin 2) The Kenwoods don't provide any kind of explicit power-on control signals, especially the TH-D7 which has only a three-conductor bare minimum serial hookup (TXD, RXD, common through a 3-cond 2.5mm stereo minijack). What they can do is provide a constant voltage on the outgoing data line from their dedicated GPS jacks indicating to an external device that the radio is turned on. . 3) The Garmin ForeTrex wrist devices will respond to (indeed require) the wakeup voltage on their incoming data lines before they start talking. However this only turns off/on the RS232 interface in these devices (one of the most power-hungry subsystems); the main GPS RX and it's local LCD display remains live even when the RS232 is turned off. A review of the ForeTrex is here on my website: http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/ForeTrex 4) Why worry about switching the GPS on and off at all? A device like the Garmin GPS-18 powered by a decent switching mode regulator (not a 7805 linear device) only draws 50-60 mA at 12VDC which translates to about 1 Amp-Hour a day. You can leave this device on for a week or more without affecting the car battery significantly. The advantage is that the GPS is always locked and has a currrent ephemeris and almanac ready-to-go. Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com Home Page: http://wa8lmf.com New APRS Symbol Chart http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/miscinfo/APRS_Symbol_Chart.pdf New/Updated "Rev G" APRS http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/aprs Symbols Set for UI-View, UIpoint and APRSplus: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.tapr.org/pipermail/aprssig/attachments/20050709/5aa91ac8/attachment.htm
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This work concerns the building of enhanced scene maps during real-time monocular SLAM. Specifically, we present a novel algorithm for detecting and estimating planar structure in a scene based on both appearance and geometric information. We adopt a hypothesis testing framework, in which the validity of planar patches within a triangulation of the point based scene map are assessed against an appearance metric. A key contribution is that the metric incorporates the uncertainties available within the SLAM filter through the use of a test statistic assessing error distribution against predicted covariances, hence maintaining a coherent probabilistic formulation. Experimental results indicate that the approach is effective, having good detection and discrimination properties, and leading to convincing planar feature representations.


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1) ETFs. Perhaps the easiest way to bet against the dollar is by investing in an inverse dollar ETF. The PowerShares US Dollar Index Bearish ETF (NYSE:UDN) is the best in class with a daily trading volume around 156,000 shares. UDN shorts futures contracts as it tries to track the Deutsche Bank Short US Dollar Index (USDX) Futures Index. A better option, though, might be shorting an ETF that's long the dollar in the form of UDN's sibling, the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish ETF (NYSE:UUP). UUP has a trading volume that's 16 times higher than UDNs, and some sources argue shorting long ETFs is a better strategy than going long short ETFs.
2) Buy gold. Since the supply of gold is relatively stable, the precious metal's price tends to behave independently of the actions at the Fed's printing press. If the value of the dollar goes down, gold prices can stay the same, but it'll still take more dollars to buy the same amount of gold. Throw increased investor demand for gold into the mix when inflationary fears are building in the economy, and you've got a recipe for surging gold prices.
3) Convert your dollars to yuan. The Chinese government has loosened the strings it has the yuan of late, finally allowing allowing Americans to open yuan savings accounts directly in the U.S. The Bank of China branches in New York and L.A. allow investors to save cash in the form of renminbi (deposit up to $20,000 a year). Kiplinger also recommends checking out EverBank, which offers savings accounts in 20 foreign currencies (provided you pay a 0.75 percent transaction fee when you buy and sell currencies). Accounts can be started with as little as $2,5000.
4) Invest in multinational Blue Chips. While companies like tractor-manufacturer Deere & Company (NYSE:DE), The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) and software company Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) are all headquartered in the U.S., they derive significant portions of their income overseas. In the case of Oracle, 70 percent of the company's revenues come from business outside of the U.S. Not only does these investments give you exposure to emerging economies, they hedge your exposure to the dollar while paying a modest dividend.
5) Invest directly in foreign companies. In the tech realm, the Chinese market operates behind what's been dubbed The Great Firewall. American tech companies can't get in, and a lot of the country's biggest tech companies aren't yet trying to capture audiences outside the domestic market. That means growth in your investment is unmoored from the performance of the dollar. In tech, consider SINA Corporation (NASDAQ:SINA), the maker of a Twitter-like microblogging service called Weibo. China's financial markets has a new player in wealth management company Noah Holdings Limited (NYSE:NOAH) and the Chinese advertising industry looks like it's led by Focus Media Holding Limited (NASDAQ:FMCN). There are also numerous plays in China's solar industry from JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ:JASO) to Trina Solar Limited (NYSE:TSL) to name a few.


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Star Trek: Invasion Preview
I want to start this hands-on preview of Star Trek on a little note. I am not a "Trekky", I honestly never seen an episode of any Star Trek series not even any of the movies, so this preview will be all judged based upon the game and not on my likeness of the franchise, not that I have one anyway. In the past we've seen Star Trek games done on systems like Sega Genesis and SNES, they never had the feel that the fans were looking for. I particularly never liked Star Trek, the concept and the weird looking characters never gripped my attention as much as Star Wars did. My dislike for Star Trek is about to change though, because I got a chance to get acquainted with Star Trek: Invasion first hand. Activison has sent us a preview build of Invasion and truthfully I wasn't too ecstatic when I popped the game into my PS. So see if my emotions were lightened or darkened as Star Trek was booted up in my PS. Check out the screens too.
  The first thing that came to my mind was "wow, these visuals are breathtaking". When I first started the training stage the premier shot was the Starship Enterprise flying over the camera, at first I thought a CG movie took over again to grace my entrance into the world of Star Trek. But to my surprise the game was using its own engine to re-create the enterprise and get me ready to do some training objectives. Okay, okay enough about gameplay, this is the visuals department. First of all, the aircraft that you pilot is one detailed piece of machinery. The whole structure of the aircraft feels as if you are watching a big budget Star Trek DVD flick on a 50" screen. Alright so it isn't that pretty but for a PS game this is certainly something to talk about. Warthog (the developer) is pushing the PS' polygon limits, for the past three years I though nothing can beat Colony Wars or CW2 but I'm pretty wrong now. Star Trek not only has the prestigious texture detail but also has the eye popping lighting effects. Everything that transpires on screen is always worthy of an "oooh" or an "ahhh". Explosions are something that can easily be qualified as the some of the best explosions in any current generation game. The fire looks frighteningly real that you can almost feel the scorching heat. Star Trek: Invasion also has incredibly polished CG sequences that really add a lot more to the graphics. If the final version looks any better than this than expect Star Trek: Invasion being one of the best visual titles on the Playstation. Great graphics, can the same be said for the gameplay?
  Yes! After playing the first areas in Star Trek I was quickly hooked on this shooter. The game starts off with an intro that explains some details of the game. Then when you first start your play you will be thrown into a training portion where you will be required to fly through loops, drag pods through their corresponding loops and a few more. After the training is over you will be able to move on to another training area or start Stage 2 for some action. I decided to go for every level so I did all of the following stages after Stage 1 which is the training stage. There are quite a variety of weapons to use including a few bombs and napalms as well. But the action isn't always just "go get them", sometimes it can be "destroy enemy ships and protect this or that". You aren't always thrown into a different area in space and just shooting bogies, nope. The gameplay in Invasion is far deeper than that, but it still is mandatory for you to destroy enemy ships most of the time.
  Surprisingly Invasion has a great sense of speed when it comes down to double tapping R2. When hitting R2 twice your aircraft will blast off in the speed of light so you can get away from an enemy. I find Star Trek best played under the first person view, not only do I get the feeling that I'm in a Universal Studios theme park but it also feels like I'm playing X-Wing vs Tie Fighter on my PS. The Universal Studios feeling is given to me because of the fully orchestrated music which eerily reminded me of the ET ride. Star Trek Invasion is shaping up to be a frigin' killer game, Warthog is doing every thing right and when this title is released you must pick it up especially if you are a gamer who enjoys space shooters.
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'JN1 won't become a propaganda station'
The TV news channel dubbed 'the Jewish al-Jazeera' hopes to attract a global audience with its independent stance
By Luke Browne, Media Guardian
The world's first Jewish 24-hour TV news channel has launched with the aim of offering not just "news for Jews" but attracting viewers interested in world events from a Jewish perspective as an alternative to leading networks such as the BBC, CNN, Sky News and al-Jazeera.
"Since the beginning of the world, everything with the word 'Jewish' in it has been news," said Alexander Zanzer, Brussels bureau chief of Jewish News 1 (JN1). "So we thought it was about time someone created a 24-hour rolling TV news channel that looks at global events through Jewish glasses."
Broadcasting in Europe began via satellite last Wednesday. The channel will be rolled out across North America and the Middle East in cable and satellite packages over the coming weeks, and an internet live stream will be up and running within a month.
"We don't look at our channel as just being 'news for Jews'," said JN1's editor-in-chief Peter Dickinson, based in Kiev. "It's a much wider enterprise than that and I'm confident we'll get a lot of non-Jewish viewers coming by for the variety of our voice.
"If you look at the news market over the last 20 years, the real development has been diversification. A lot of channels have gotten a lot of kudos by being different and we hope to do the same by offering our own unique perspective on global affairs".
JN1 has already opened bureaux in Brussels, Tel Aviv and Kiev, and further studios are planned for Washington, Paris, London, Berlin and Moscow, with both Jewish and non-Jewish correspondents being signed up.
The channel – a not-for-profit venture – currently broadcasts in English, but plans to expand and provide current affairs coverage in Russian, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Italian and German, said Zanzer.
Its owners are Ukrainian oligarchs Igor Kolomoisky and Vadim Rabinovich, president and vice-president respectively of the European Jewish Union (EJU), a Brussels-based umbrella body of Jewish communities and organisations in Europe.
Both are prominent philanthropists in the international Jewish community, financing civil society events in Israel and Ukraine. The pair have reportedly invested $5m in the channel because, said Zanzer, "they now want to do something that resonates on an international level".
The Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations dominated the channel's output in the last week, but it also broadcast other Jewish-themed international news items, such as a call for fans of the football team AFC Ajax to bring Israeli flags to their next home match in protest against calls from antisemitism campaigners to ban the club's supporters from singing pro-Jewish chants.
Eytan Gilboa, a communications professor at Israel's Bar-Ilan University, said that JN1 was part of a growing trend of independent global news channels set up by governments and non-state organisations dissatisfied with coverage offered by leading international TV news networks of their countries and interests.
"France has France 24, Russia has Russia Today, China has CCTV news," he said. "Israel should have had a channel like this long ago, though I'm glad JN1 is a private venture because government channels have no credibility."
Coverage of Israel by existing news networks like BBC World and CNN International – as well as al-Jazeera – was biased against the Jewish state, said Gilboa. The point was echoed by Zanzer, who said JN1 would "give more voice to Israel". "Journalists want good guys and bad guys when they write a story, and when they write about Israel they've already made up their minds," he added.
But Zanzer was keen to point out that the channel was independent from the state of Israel and "will not necessarily be pro- or anti-Israel; we'll let the public hear the Israeli perspective and it'll be up to the viewers to decide whether they're right".
The channel's Israeli bureau chief, CNN and ABC News veteran Jordana Miller, was also adamant that JN1 will not become a "propaganda station", saying "there's nothing about this network that will exclude, diminish or cut off the Palestinian narrative when it comes to the conflict here".
Gilboa claimed it was too soon to say whether channels such as JN1 could be successful but pointed out that success was relative and dependeent on the goals and expectations of the people backing them.
"None of these channels are profitable, they lose money," he said. "It's like foreigners buying football teams in Britain – they don't buy them to make a profit."


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Super rare Chicago-made (by Kay/Stromberg-Voisinette) Jumbo, basically a Nick Lucas body. Back and sides are maple, with the back most likely being laminated. Bracing is the more rare and higher quality X style. Also rare is the original round neck, beautifully shaped, instead of square, since Oahu was a publishing company selling Hawaiian slide guitar lessons. The extra-long scale means it will work beautifully with a bottleneck. The gold decorations are stencil/gold leaf with hand painted details, and beautifully done.
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How do you get over a soul-mate? I was in love with this guy for 7 years, We have been broke up 7 yrs ago, not over it
im trying to get over someone i thought was my soulmate. its very hard..
dont think you ever do
Breakups are alwayas hard! I agree...BUt look arround u...Who didnt had a breakup in their life?I would say almost...almost all of us...THeres a time limit for every thing.....U have to get over it......****...how many years you wated for tis *** hole?

Come on.....its time to move on....I guess you never made any effort to find a new guy...

G out...go to bar....find some good guys and hang out with them and you will be amazed how easy it is to forget him........Have a life lady!
there are more souls, mate.

but in all seriousness im sorry. you fell under the one and only curse of being gorgeous.
You're just ******. Everything about your story says you had every reason to get over him and move on with your life, and you didn't. He was a **** to you, he was sleeping with other women, and he wasn't even interested in telling you he clearly didn't want to be with you anymore. Yet you claim he's your "soulmate" because you haven't found anything better to obsess over. You really need to move on. You've wasted 14 years on Cap'n Douche-Nuts and you're forecasting - what - another 7 years? 14 years? Move the **** on already! Get out there and do something with your life. Hard to forget someone when you have nothing else to think about. Jesus ****.
Well I object....
i would suggest you two things and advise you a cure

suggestions no 1 --- as long as they lusts and not loves the new girl its almost all right , he does not love the new girl ( it is just for sexx ) . if the guy is blind enough to fall in love with the new girl , then he is worth less .

suggestion no 2 --- try not feeling hurt , just act calm and let him know that you still love him ( with a stern face ) . and see how he responds . it can come out posative .

the trick to forgetting him is long and complicated , ill send you a personel message .
Gee send me that Help to because. I can kinda relate.Is 7 years the Magic number for it to be over?
Only way you might possibly be able to get over a true soul mate

is if you can find another soul mate.

But its so freakin hard to find even ONE soul mate its virtually

impossible to find 2.

You never get over a soul mate. Mine died in the Asian tsunami

back in 2005. I think about him every day, (and night).
Thanks. I have a wonderful b/f these past 6 years
but I never compare him to Hau. It wouldn't be fair.
You may know that a soulmate is absolutely creepy
how they are so much part of you & know you better
than you know yourself. Once they are gone you have
lost the better part of yourself, so you must go on
living with that part missing. I am forever changed
from who I was, so I'm thankful to have found someone
who puts up with me.
Let me get this straight..."he stopped coming around as much?" So you like dated for seven yrs and never moved in together? Helloooooo....you must be a natural blond. This soulmate thing was obviously one sided. But I can see why you are stuck on this guy ....it's not like there are a million other guys in the world
It's happened to me as well, but hey pining for 7 years, get yourself together and move on.
He probably wasn't your "soul mate" as you put it, and you should just get on with your life. Go meet some new people and don't think about him.
If its a true soul mate, only death can separate you.
This because each of you becomes the better half
of each other, and you can't stand to be apart. My
soulmate and I both quit our jobs so we could work
a job together and never be away from each other.
We were together 24-7 and loved it. If its not like that
its not a true soul mate.
We were together 24-7 and loved it. If its not like that its not a true soul mate. This I believe.
perhaps you're too focused on ba<x>se sexual reality?
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Does anyone have a recipe for the duggar laundry soap? I heard them mention it on TV a while back, but never got around to jotting down the recipe. We are trying to cut back on what we spent and I figured I'd give this homemade laundry soap a try.
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For our family viewing of the Olympics we made some fun finger foods including a whole lot of absolutely delicious chicken wings. As always, this recipe is super simple, very healthy and incredibly good!
This recipe is for one pound although I would highly recommend doubling (if not tripling) this recipe!
Here's what you need:
1 lb Chicken wings
1 tbsp Garlic powder
1 tbsp Pepper
2 tsp Paprika
1 tsp Cayenne pepper
1 tsp Salt
2 tbsp Melted coconut oil
Here's what you do:
1. Preheat oven to 480 degrees.
2. In a small bowl mix seasoning together.
3. Throw chicken wings on baking pan and drizzle with oil.
4. Sprinkle all seasoning on wings and toss.
5. Bake for 20-25 minutes.
Freezer tips: This meal can easily be prepped ahead of time and frozen. Season chicken wings and put in freezer bag. Thaw before cooking in oven. Or, thaw and place in foil wrap and grill outside.
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Bellamy Young Speaks on Being Mellie Grant, Moving from Stage to ScreenMiranda Wicker at . Comments
On the ABC drama Scandal, Mellie Grant is the First Lady everyone seems to love to hate - or who everyone hates to admit they love. In reality, the actress who plays her is a talented singer and actress with a passion for both the stage and the screen.
I recently had the opportunity to chat with Bellamy Young about her experiences prior to Scandal and the relationship between Fitz and Mellie. Read on to find out what she had to say!
TV Fanatic: Your background is in theater, musical theater specifically. What's it like to go from the stage to the screen?
Bellamy Young: What a great question. It's a thrill. It's a different kind of storytelling. You can be a lot more internal with it, even more so on film because your face is giant. You can sort of telepathically reach people on film, and on television is sort of the middle ground. You can have a rich internal life that people see that's coming to them 7 feet from their sofa. And then on stage, it's much more about full-body, making sure that the people at the back of the house understand even through your pinky finger what you're feeling and where we are in the story. So it's just a different way of using your body, your instrument, differently to adjust to the size of the medium.
But it's all still storytelling and we're just lucky that a lot of plays are just, the writing is so beautiful because you have someone to craft them, and I'm in a moment where I'm super lucky because the writing is so beautiful even though those writers have 4 minutes and 2 seconds. It's jaw-dropping writing.
TVF: Would you like to return to the stage some day?
BY: I would love to. Nothing would please me more. And I miss New York every day. And I'm a singer and it's a whole different experience to be able to sort of move people with song. That is my greatest gift, like my truest self. I don't know where I'd be if I couldn't sing. I don't know who I'd be if I couldn't sing. Yes, I hope that's ahead of me again.
TVF: Any chance we'll get to hear Mellie sing, perhaps to America's Baby?
BY: We took the writers out for a writers' appreciation dinner and that idea was bandied about, so we'll see if that happens.
TVF: Which real life First Lady(ies) have been drawn from to create Mellie's style? Did you study the lives of any First Ladies to help develop the character of Mellie Grant?
BY: I'm aided in that pursuit by Lin Paolo who is a genius, and if you know her history, we are so lucky that she's in charge. Through this pregnancy, I had a few misgivings about "what am I gonna look like?" She has made Mellie so cute it defies logic. She and Shonda, who is very involved, and I, we wanted to continue to tell the story in her clothes. So you can see in the flashbacks, things like her jewelry is a little different. Mellie is a little freer. She's grown into her idea of what a First Lady would be. And we never see Mellie when she isn't 100% hair and makeup fabulousness.
Mellie has a very particular sense of what a First Lady is. You can't say the phrase First Lady and not think of Jackie O. She is absolutely iconic. But Michelle Obama is also an incredibly stylish woman and we've drawn from her a lot. It was fascinating to watch the campaign because we're moderate Republicans on the show so watching Ann [Romney] was very informative. You do your homework and you draw a little bit from everywhere and it just comes up fresh.
TVF: Were Mellie and Fitz a marriage of convenience or love?
BY: I think very much you're meeting them at a miserable moment in their marriage. but they have very much always been a team. Mellie loves Fitz, true love, would do anything, wishes she could've taken the bullet for him. I think Fitz thought he loved her as you love people before you meet the person you're in true love with. So I think that, absolutely, their marriage was out of love and a shared hope for the future and being partners on a very particular path. And it just sort of got linebackered by Fitz falling in true love with Olivia. When he met her his life changed.
TVF: What's holding Mellie together right now? She seems isolated in the White House and could use a friend.
BY: Well right now Mellie is isolated at the ICU and what's holding ehr together right now is the sheer force of will to keep Fitz alive. so whatever that takes, and to keep him alive and keep him President and keep their life together, she will stop at nothing to make that happen. She loves that man. She is ferocious in her love for him.
Miranda Wicker is a Staff Writer for TV Fanatic. Follow her on Twitter.


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Senior Jessica Marsico had quite an afternoon for the Mustangs with five RBIs in an 8-2 Mathews victory over Badger.
Marisco added two doubles and a home run to the stat sheet. Maddie Williams helped her team out with a triple, double, and a single. Williams also had two RBIs and two runs.
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Mathews advances to the District Semifinals to face Windham, Monday, May 20. The game is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Candlelite Knolls.


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Cottage Guest Bath-Industrial StyleBy Mary
Before I begin to share the latest elements of the small cottage project I have to say I had two wonderful weeks touring from Kingston NY, Blacksburg VA, High Point NC to beautiful Lake Gaston NC. Each stop was filled with many different activities but the BEST was being so warmly embraced by all my family and friends. THANK YOU!!!
Now it is back to work and the demolition is occurring at the small house project, now being know as the Cottage House. If you missed the first segment you can catch it here:
Today the client and I visited the local Ferguson Supply showroom to look at an "industrial base" pedestal sink. She had spotted it last week when I was away. I was a little skeptical about it until I saw it today. If you are looking for "industrial style" this piece really fits the bill. It is manufactured by Stone Forest. We are researching the vessel sink options. It will most likely be a grey/black granite similar to the sink in the lower right of this picture.
We selected the Brizo Odin through-the-wall vessel sink faucet to compliment the base.
Tonight I did a little more research for various other elements to use. Here are my suggestions:
This is going to be so COOL! Loving this look. This is the first time I've tried to pull something like this together in a very small space. I think the small scale of the pedestal sink will really open up the small bathroom.
I found another light fixture that works well with this theme as an option for over the small breakfast table.
What do you think about this look? It may not be for you but you must admit the rustic iron base of the pedestal sink is really unique! I am looking forward to seeing the outcome.
Let's hear your comments!
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Modern Muslim Women: Radiant Skin
If you followed my last post and tried salt/sugar as an exfoliant, then you're probably wondering what you can do to maintain that nice smooth skin.
Personally, I like to use products that are natural or that have very few ingredients (especially if you can't pronounce them). If you want to keep your skin hydrated after you exfoliate or whenever your skin feels particularly dry, I suggest using some form of oil.
I used to use only olive oil for hair and skin, but found another oil that is just as good and not as smelly.
Jojoba oil.
It's great and keeps your skin feeling nice and smooth. You can even use it to remove makeup!
Look for the pure stuff at any health food store. I bought mine at Trader Joe's for around $6.99.
Well worth it when you think of all those expensive creams at the department store that usually contain alcohol.
Alcohol is known as a drying agent and will strip your skin of natural oils. But that's a topic for another post.


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A headteacher has expressed his"delight" with the plans to rebuild a Kings Langley school.
Gary Lewis, headteacher at Kings Langley Secondary School, Love Lane, said the new school, which is set to begin construction in February 2015, will provide children with the "facilities they deserve."
He said: "As the headteacher of a 1,100 school, I'm utterly delighted that they are going to get the facilities they deserve. The facilities that we have got at the moment are not fit for purpose. It is remarkable that the children have done so well."
Kings Langley Secondary School will be rebuilt after the Education Funding Agency (EFA) announced that the school would be one of 8 to be rebuilt. The school is expected to be finished in July 2016.
The building work will be carried out by Interserve Kajima and the EFA estimate that the build will cost in the region of £15million. The architects at Interserve Kajima focused on re-positioning the new three-tier school to "maximise the environmental performance of the teaching areas" and get as much natural light into the school as possible.
Plans for the new school.
Richard Sharp, Lead Architect at Interseve Kajima said: "As a school, it should be about the future.
So it should be a build that is prospective rather than retrospective."
No teaching areas will be demolished during the construction process.
Richard Sharp added: "It is important that we don't halt the education of the children during the construction process."
Gary Lewis praised the work of the Education Funding Agency in the planning process.
He said: "The EFA have been meticulous about the way they have organised it. I cannot fault them.
"When the intense work was being done, they met with us every two weeks.
We have formed an excellent working relationship with them."
Parents are united in their support of the designs for the Love Lane school.
Chrissy Gomez, 37, who has a daughter in year seven at the school, said: "It is quite dilapidated at the moment. The fact that it's going to be a modern school will be good not only for the pupils, but for the community as a whole."
Steven Bennett, 48, who used to be a student at the school, said: "It looks fantastic.
"Nothing has changed...I was here from 1977 onwards and it is quite nice to think that it is going to new."
Nicki Bennett, 43, said: "It looks really modern. It looks grown up, like a college. It looks great."


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|The Lost Totem
|Written by Information Bureau
|Sunday, 04 November 1973 19:00
The Afo-A-Kom is far from the world's greatest piece of art—or even Africa's. A 5-ft. 2½in. image of a king, it is rather crudely carved in iroko wood, the torso covered with sackcloth stitched with reddish-brown beads, the face masked in copper. But the Afo-A-Kom (literally, the Kom thing) is sacred to the approximately 30,000 people who constitute the Kom kingdom, a tribal enclave in the northwestern part of the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
Last week this rather ungainly sculpture caused a flurry of diplomatic exchanges and created an uproar that stretched from the elegant salons of New York's art world all the way back to Laikom, the capital of Kom.
For it seemed that the Afo-A-Kom had been stolen in late 1966 from a storage hut near the royal palace and smuggled out of the kingdom. According to the New York Times, the statue was mysteriously spirited away by thieves using a highly organized system of logistics that included Land Rovers, trucks and airplanes. When he realized his loss, Law Aw, the Fon (King) of Kom was thought to be "psychologically killed," and soon died.
The King's nephew, suspected of complicity in the disappearance of the statue, was ostracized, and, according to one account, nearly everyone in the country took to quarreling.
The new Fon, Bobe-Meya, had a new Afo-A-Kom carved and displayed, as is customary, with female figures representing his wife and mother. But the new sculpture was no substitute for the old. According to Sandra Blakeslee, a former Times reporter living in West Africa: "There has been no peace in the kingdom since the statue was taken out."
Then a few months ago, a catalogue of a show called "Royal Art of Cameroon," mounted at Dartmouth College, reached Evan Schneider, a longtime Kom scholar and a member of the Peace Corps in Cameroon. There, resplendent in full color on the cover, was the lost Afo-A-Kom. It had been lent to Dartmouth by its new owner, Aaron Furman, a respected Manhattan dealer in primitive art, and it was reportedly on sale for $60,000.
Beyond Money. It was no surprise in Cameroon that the statue was in the U.S. (The U.S. embassy had been asked to discuss the matter with the government of Cameroon in August.) But the new publicity about the sculpture caused a stir. Last week Thaddeus Nkuo, first secretary of Cameroon in Washington and himself a Kom, demanded its return, explaining: "It is beyond money, beyond value. It is the heart of the Kom, what unifies the tribe, the spirit of the nation, what holds us together. It is not an object of art for sale, and could not be."
Embattled Dealer Furman retreated behind his lawyer but declared that he was "not inclined to return it or to sell it back." He had bought it for a five-figure sum from an "impeccable dealer," probably in France, though Furman declined to say. His story, as reported by the Times, had the intricacy of plausibility. He had first been told by the go-between that the statue was being offered for sale by the King of Kom. Furman paid for it, it was delivered to him some time in 1966, then he was told that the King had changed his mind. Says Furman: "I shipped it back, and my check to my agent was torn up. That was the last I heard of it for six months. I got another letter saying that the King had cooled off and was in a position to sell again. Then I bought it."
Was the Afo-A-Kom stolen? Or, as the organizers of the Dartmouth show suggested, was it sold by the King or someone in his family? This second theory was supported by the fact that smaller "sacred objects" have been sold off by past Fons of Kom in exchange for such commodities as zinc roofing and a Land Rover. Cameroon's Ambassador to the U.S., Francois-Xavier Tchoungui, thinks otherwise: "We cannot avoid the fact that the Afo-A-Kom was stolen," he says. "We cannot believe that a chief could sell his own totem."
In this specific instance, the question scarcely matters, since with all the diplomatic hassle, the statue may well be returned to Kom, perhaps with compensation to Furman. Even so, it will leave moot the questions that more and more agitate the art world: Can or should even a legitimate owner sell an art object outside his own country if it is declared a national treasure, and can an art dealer legitimately buy it, in good faith, for mere cash?
Read the original article in TIME MAGAZINE.
"I President Paul Biya of the Republic of Cameroun do hereby, in a bid to provide lasting peace to the Bakassi conflict, commit myself and my government to respect the territorial boundaries of my country as obtained at independence."
- Annan-Bakassi Peace Accord
I can state here and now that the People of southern Cameroons (Ambazonians) would never have voted in favour of unification with French Cameroun if it had not been for the assurances given that the resulting union would take the form of a federation...
- John Ngu Foncha
International Law does not regard you (Ambazonians) as people of Cameroonian Nationality; this must be shocking to you.
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