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We are a academic CTU, who is debating how to interpret the meaning of the onset date for the event. We wonder whether it should be the first sign and symptoms of the event (i.e. when the event may still be non-serious) or whether it should be when the event meets any of the seriousness criteria.
We thought it was easier for new events which become serious within hours or days and in those cases we would take the onset date as the date of the first sign and symptoms on the SAE form. However we found it more difficult for long-term and pre-existing AEs which worsen during the trial as we debated how to pinpoint the correct onset date (e.g. date of worsening? date of change of the severity grade from 2 to 3, and then maybe change to 4? Events which fluctuate often from grade 2 and 4, which date to consider?). We couldn't find ant clear guidance on the literature and ICH, therefore we welcome your advice.
We would like a system which works for both new and existing AEs.
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Welcome to Engineers Edge.
There is not a standard that am aware of that limits the use of color on engineer drawings.
In fact, I have seen organizations that utilize different colors to indicate hole size tolerances vs. location tolerances.
Is there a standard that says engineering drawings should be Black and White? Our company just made the decision to output our PDF's in color. There is a large potential for items to be overlooked that are shown in light colors and printed on a b/w plotter.
Welcome to Engineers Edge.
There is not a standard that am aware of that limits the use of color on engineer drawings.
In fact, I have seen organizations that utilize different colors to indicate hole size tolerances vs. location tolerances.
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Here's one drawback - out of five people in this engineering department, two are color blind! And they both make drawings all day long. One made it all the way through high school and didn't find out he was color blind until he tried to join the Air Force. I think the actual percentage is something like 8% or 9% of the population.
Not even considering that, I am strongly against that decision for many reasons, but they all get back to one bottom line: confused communication, and all the bad, probably even dangerous things that result from it.
For one thing, you know they won't stay in color. Somebody will make "regular" copies for a contractor, or vendor, or customer, or inspector or whoever. Some people will see those light colored lines and notes (assuming white paper), and some will miss them.
Another reason - color is confusing in a technical drawing. I think this very fact may be at the heart of this misguided management decision. Color (especially in 3D) is a WONDERFUL enhancement to presentations to management or customers. It increases their understanding of the concept being presented. It helps the presenter "sell" his idea and creates supporters. A key point here is that these people do not have to have a deep enough understanding that they could build the device. They just have to understand it well enough to have confidence that it CAN be done and that it will work. They don't have to DO it themselves.
After that step, drawings begin to serve a different purpose. They have to accurately, clearly, and completely communicate all the information required for a techician to fabricate or make the device in question. Any excess, any distraction, any over-complication inhibits that process. In this level of detail, color just confuses the eye, and the brain. Its the same with 3D. Wonderful for presentations, but a completely inadequate tool for detailed construction. Even the most impressive 3D models eventually are reduced to simple 2D prints on paper (or a screen) for fabrication.
I'm sure that management "knows better" though. Just remember you heard it here first. They will regret and change this decision after they see all the havoc it causes.
As mentioned its all the client/company's preference. But one good tip is to remember if the document has any chance of going to site or the manufacturing floor, make sure when using colour formatting, that the underlining linetypes should be such that they should still be identifiable when photocopied. Example the blue line is also solid and thickness 1, but the blue line is dashed and thickness 4.
Thanks for the above ideas. This is perfect information.
Hi. ...I have read comments above and I have to say: Do not blame the colour outputs for any failure!
There are techniques how to calibrate your CAD outputs with the printers using the right colour profile and driver and there is technique how to express any colours to the colour profile acceptable also for colour blind people or exported in light colours.
It is a Graphic Design discipline, but it is applicable in Mechanical/Electrical Design as well.
I have some vintage, nicely coloured technical drawings framed ...and they are absolutely beautiful. The reason why we had period of strictly B&W technical drawings was simply based on limited reprography options (blueprints from tracing papers etc...)
I tend to use colour for the tender packs so the client has something nice and pretty to look at but once these get stripped back to become working drawings, I go back to black on white. The lads on site find it easier to work from because they're not looking at solid blocks of green all day and trying to differentiate between all the different parts of the structure.
make sure when using colour formatting, that the underlining linetypes should be such that they should still be identifiable when photocopied.
Also one more reason not to make drawings views in color. What happens if you send someone your drawings as color PDFs. And they don't have a color printer/plotter? Your detail drawings now come through as grey blotches of ink. Masking all of your detail lines in your views. Also what happens if you fax a color drawing to someone? Now your detail views are large black blotches of ink.
Where is the clarity in making any views in color? There is none. Drafting has been around since in the works of the French flight pioneer Jacques de Vaucanson (around 1700) or in patent documents from the 19th Century. Those were never in color. Why change things now? Because we can? I say no.

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The realization came to me today as I was deciding which desktop file to place this photo of a newly made pincushion that I have lots and lots of files filled with lots and lots of projects. Do I file this cute as can be pincushion under "Think Pink", "Easter Cute", or "Pincushions"?
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Information about the City's Final Plat Review Process.
City Survey Office Final Plat Review Process
- The surveyor or agent will submit one 18" x 24" copy of the unsigned plat along with the completed Final Plat Checklist to the City Survey office. These items constitute the review comments when completed by the City Survey office. Copies of the checklist can be obtained from the City Survey web page: http://www.cabq.gov/municipaldevelopment/architects-engineers-and-developers/construction-services/surveying
- The plat will be reviewed within 48 hours. Comments will be available after that time. Items to be addressed and other comments will be noted on the review copy as well as on the checklist. It is the responsibility of the person(s) submitting the plat to check on its review status, and to pick up the comments from the City Survey office.
- After changes to the original mylar have been made per City Surveyor comments, the plat is ready for the signature of the surveyor and owner(s), with the latter requiring notary acknowledgment(s). All signatures should be in black ink. Notary and professional surveyor stamps must be legible.
- After all comments have been addressed and the plat has been signed by the surveyor, owner(s), and notary, the City Surveyor will receive the review comments, and if complete, sign the plat. The review copy and checklist are retained by the City Survey office and the owner/surveyor will retain the original mylar. Additional signatures will be required through the Development Review Board approval process.
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- Final plats of major subdivisions require a surveyor or developer to submit a Letter of Assurance for centerline monumentation at the time the plat will be signed by the City Surveyor. An 8 1⁄2" x 11" copy of the final plat will be filed with this letter in the City Survey office.
- For platting purposes, all subdivisions will consist of entire lots or tracts of public record, or proper conveyances executed prior to November 12, 1973. Subdivision of portions of lots or tracts creating remainders is not allowed.
- For all plats done within the City of Albuquerque, surveyors will certify to compliance with the Albuquerque Subdivision Ordinance and also to State of New Mexico Standards for land surveying.
- All dedications of private land to the City of Albuquerque for right-of-way or other public purposes will be in fee simple with warranty covenants unless another type of conveyance would benefit the City of Albuquerque, and is permitted by the Development Review Board.
- This information is not comprehensive, and only identifies the City Survey Office process for plat review; additional conditions will be required by the City of Albuquerque, Planning Department, Development Review Board.
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American Sugar Alliance: 'The country is swimming in sugar'
Roney, writing in the association's Sugar Beet newsletter, claims surplus stocks are suffocating the sugar market, owing to a combination of strong domestic production and "excessive imports triggered by a controversial USDA decision to boost supplies earlier this year".
The surplus is bad news for overseas farmers, too, since the US is the world's biggest sugar importer, he argues:
"In fact, the government of the Philippines recently announced it would delay a large sugar shipment to America in hopes of better prices down the line."
According to USDA, producer prices for refined sugar fell another 4% in November, with two million tons of excess sugar currently overhanging the market.
US raw sugar prices are now in line with artificially low prices on the global dump sugar market
While US bakers and confectioners argue that they pay over the odds for sugar, making them less competitive and sending food manufacturing jobs overseas, the ASA claims candy makers pay less for sugar than counterparts in other developed countries, and have grown sales during the recession.
When you factor in transportation costs, US raw sugar prices "are now in line with artificially low prices on the global dump sugar market, which has been called the most distorted and depressed commodity market in the world", claims Roney.
NCA: Reform of the archaic US sugar program is vital for candy companies across the US
However, the National Confectioners Association (NCA) argues that the US sugar program, which sets import quotas on sugar, enforces a minimum price for sugar in the US market, limits how much US sugar processors can sell, and forces USDA to buy surpluses and sell them to ethanol refineries, means US sugar prices are artificially high.
According to the Coalition for Sugar Reform, an alliance of food and beverage manufacturers and other groups, the sugar program (as outlined in the 2008 Farm Bill), reduced access to imports and distorted markets, causing sugar prices to spike to record highs in 2010 and 2011.
Artificially high prices in turn created an incentive for domestic growers to produce more sugar crops, explaining the current surplus, it claims.
"With supplies on the rise in both Mexico and the US, US refined sugar prices have fallen to around 32-34 cents per pound — still higher than the 28-cent average under the 2002 Farm Bill and roughly 50% higher than the world price. "
Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA earlier this week, NCA senior vice president communications and outreach Susan Smith said the NCA's top lobbying priority next year is reform of the sugar regime.
She added: "Reform of the archaic US sugar program is vital for candy companies across the US."
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By Scott A. Cupp
This is the 186th in my series of Forgotten, Obscure or Neglected Films
When I was 8 or 9 I saw George Sanders and Barbara Shelley in the classic horror film Village of the Damned, which was based on the remarkable John Wyndham novel The Midwich Cuckoos. It was a very effective film with the trope of evil children pitted against a secluded town. In it, one day in the town of Midwich, every person mysteriously falls asleep. Soon, every woman capable of bearing children is found to be pregnant. They all give birth to blond children with golden eyes and a bad attitude.
The film as very successful financially, so naturally it was time for a sequel: Children of the Damned.
But the kids in the first film had been destroyed, so what to do? Following the oldest Hollywood rule regarding sequels, they decided to remake the first film with slight differences.
In this new movie, British psychologist Tom Lewellin (Ian Hendry) and geneticist David Neville (Alan Badel) are working for UNESCO looking into child development. One of their exercises takes them to young Paul Looran (Clive Powell). When given a large 3D puzzle, he completes it in about a minute while the other students being tested are still picking up pieces.
They are amazed and go to check on his parents. They meet Diana (Sheila Allen) who exudes the phrase "lower class" – undressed, unkempt and uneducated. They try to find out about his father. There is no father present. Diana obviously is scared of the boy and hates him. She agrees to let the scientists examine at him.
Meanwhile, other scientists have encountered five more children of the same age and abilities. They all are children of single mothers with no fathers present. And, like Paul, they are super smart and creepy. They can make people do anything. Paul, for example, has set Diana off to rendezvous with the front bumper a speeding truck in a dark tunnel.
The new batch of kids all solve the big puzzle in the same amount of time as Paul, down to the second. They're brought to London through their various embassies and it's soon discovered all six are in telepathic communication — instant communication.
But there are politics in motion. The embassies want the kids for themselves and intelligence services get involved, but the kids will have none of that. They have decided Paul's aunt Susan (Barbara Ferris) will be there spokesperson, against her will.
They hole up in an abandoned church. Bad things befall anyone who tries to remove them. A large church pipe organ turns into a weapon. Soldiers kill each other unwillingly.
This was an OK film, not nearly as effective as the original but better than the 1995 Village remake with Christopher Reeve. I thought the political aspect was pretty shallow and the military involvement might have come from a Republic serial. There seemed to be no real thought to what the soldiers were doing or what might happen to the attackers or the civilian populace.
So, it was not bad, just not particularly good or creepy, until the events surrounding the Indian boy Rashid's (Mahdu Mathen) killing are resolved. The final resolution of the film was weak to me. Overall, I'm glad I saw it, but I won't watch it again without one of the creepy kids compelling me to do so.
Of course, your mileage may vary. But watch at your own risk.
Series organizer Todd Mason host Tuesday Forgotten Film reviews at his own blog and posts a complete list of participating blogs.


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My brother
by Jenna Ward
Sometimes, late at night, my brother sits in his darkened room watching television without any sound and laughing hysterically. His giggling is punctuated by one-sided, incoherent conversations that he holds with the voices he hears in his head.
Doug is 30 years old, and for the past 10 years, he has suffered from schizophrenia, a fact which he neither acknowledges nor accepts. Whenever I tell someone about him, the person invariably nods, even if he or she has no idea that schizophrenia isn't "multiple personalities" or the result of bad parenting. Almost always, the first thing they ask me is, "Does he take medication?"
It's not a bad question. In the past several years, there have been some real breakthroughs in drugs to treat schizophrenia. Scientists have come much closer to pinpointing the ways in which neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin go awry in the brains of schizophrenics, and they are creating better medications to adjust the balance of chemicals.
These drugs, which have names like risperidone and olanzapine and clozapine, are not a cure. Often they have miserable side effects, and they are only partially effective in combating the so-called "negative" symptoms of the disease, things like apathy, social awkwardness and emotional withdrawal.
But the drugs can make it possible to live independently, to work and to interact with people, and to banish the hallucinations and voices. The new drugs are one of the few causes for hope in an otherwise devastating affliction, but there is one problem – if your brain is sick, how is it able to recognize its own illness?
This is not a hypothetical question. Consider that if your stomach hurts, the nerves in your body pass the information on to your brain, and it figures out what to do. But what about when the problem originates in the brain? How can one little piece of the mind hold itself apart, like some island of sanity, in order to make a self-diagnosis?
Doug, like many other people who have schizophrenia, cannot or will not realize that something is wrong, and he refuses to take any medication. So for my family, it all becomes useless, all the groundbreaking research and fancy new drugs, because he will not help himself.
Sometimes I want to just shake him and scream, "Don't you know? You don't have to be like this!" He is so lonely, so profoundly isolated from all that exists outside the cacophony in his skull. He has no friends, almost no human connection with anyone at all. He often imagines he smells horrible odors and sees vomit covering the television, his stereo, the carpet, his shoes.
Conversations with him go like this: "Kansas, you know Kansas is actually in Dallas, because there is the road, and then you're in Texas and that's why Texas sports teams are so good. Never buy Campbell's. Chunky soup is really important. Never buy Campbell's."
But once upon a time, he was just my big brother who liked to tease me and taught me to water-ski and wanted to be an accountant. Now I barely remember that person.
And there is nothing we can do about it – we have no way to force him to get help. If a person with schizophrenia refuses to take medication, the only recourse is to have him or her involuntarily committed. But you can only do that by proving the person is a danger to him or herself or others.
I think we would have my brother committed if we could, and we watch for symptoms that would make this possible, but so far, he is just plain-old insane, not violent or dangerous. The system can only intervene when something goes terribly wrong, if Doug ties to harm himself or attacks my parents or a stranger. All we can do is wait for the crisis.
"He may have to get worse before he gets better," Doug's psychiatrist told my mother. If or when he breaks down completely and lands in an institution, only then will we be able to force medicine into his body, medicine that may have the power to bring back the person we lost 10 years ago.
And hopefully once he starts taking drugs, he'll recognize he needs them and continue to take them on his own. I imagine it will feel like coming down off a 10 year acid trip.
But my brother has already lost a full decade of his life. Doug is in no position to make rational decisions about his own health care, and there should be some recourse other than acute crisis to allow for intervention.
I believe that another factor in assessing involuntary commitment should be the need for treatment. Doug may not be an immediate danger to himself or others, but he is clearly ill and highly unpredictable. I believe – and the statistics tend to support this – that at some point he will try to hurt himself or someone else. He needs medication now.
What makes it more depressing is the knowledge that, as with so many illnesses, the chances of recovery from schizophrenia improve with early, aggressive treatment. We missed that chance with Doug. Maybe things would have been different if we had been able to intervene when he first got sick.
Some – the same civil libertarians with whom I normally side – would call this a victory, that a person has some right to be insane. I call it cruel and an enormous waste of human potential.


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As we head into the Memorial Day weekend, Weil's Bankruptcy Blog is re-launching its Bankruptcy Beach Reading series. Throughout the summer, we will publish on random Fridays some lighter suggestions for weekend reading. For our first installment this season, we simply have reprinted the text of a decision from Canada that has absolutely nothing to do with bankruptcy (or even the CCAA). It is more of an object lesson on how to be a good neighbor (or not), whether at your beach house, apartment, or suburban home. And, although it does refer to a New York decision on whether a cause of action exists to recover damages for emotional distress due to the death of a family pet, it also shows that litigiousness is not limited to residents of Canada's neighbors to the south.
CITATION: Morland-Jones v. Taerk, 2014 ONSC 3061
RE: Paris Morland-Jones and John Morland-Jones, Plaintiffs
Audrey Taerk and Gary Taerk, Defendants
BEFORE: Justice E.M. Morgan
COUNSEL: Paul V. McCallen and Pamela Miehls, for the Plaintiffs
Brian Shiller and Angela Chaisson, for the Defendants
HEARD: April 25, 2014
[1] The parties to this action live across the road from each other in Toronto's tony Forest Hill neighbourhood. The video footage played at the hearing shows that both families live in stately houses on a well-manicured, picturesque street. They have numerous high end automobiles parked outside their homes.
[2] The Plaintiff, John Morland-Jones, is an oil company executive; the Defendant, Gary Taerk, is a psychiatrist. They do not seem to like each other, and neither do their respective spouses, the Plaintiff, Paris Morland-Jones and the Defendant, Audrey Taerk.
[3] In this motion, the Plaintiffs seek various forms of injunctive relief on an interlocutory basis. It all flows from the Plaintiffs' allegation that the Defendants have been misbehaving and disturbing their peaceful life in this leafy corner of paradise.
[4] As counsel for the Plaintiffs explains it, the Plaintiffs' house is ringed with eleven video cameras for security purposes. Two of them are aimed directly at the Defendants' front door and driveway. They record, 24/7/365, every movement in and out of the Defendants' home. The Plaintiffs can see when Ms. Taerk leaves to go shopping, they can study what the Defendants are wearing every morning when they pick up their newspaper on the front step, they have a videotaped record of when Mr. Taerk goes to work or walks his dog, etc.
[5] Nothing that the Defendants do escapes the Plaintiffs' video camera lens. The cameras trained on the Defendants' house may or may not provide the Plaintiffs with a sense of security, but as demonstrated by the dozen or so videos produced in this motion, the Plaintiff's "security system" is as much a sword as it is a shield.
[6] The hearing before me started off with counsel for the Plaintiffs playing a short excerpt from security footage shot by the Plaintiffs several years ago, in which Ms. Taerk is seen performing a "poop and scoop" after a dog did its business on her front lawn. The Plaintiffs' security camera shows her crossing the street with the plastic bag-full in hand, and then walking toward the Plaintiffs' driveway where the garbage cans were out for collection. Although the impugned deed actually takes place off camera, Ms. Taerk can be seen moments later returning to her side of the street empty-handed.
[7] Apparently, much to the consternation of the Plaintiffs, she deposited the goods in the Plaintiffs' garbage can. In doing so, she failed to walk to the back of her house to place it in her own receptacle like a truly good neighbour would do.
[8] The "dog feces incident", as counsel for the Plaintiffs calls it, is a high point of this claim. At the hearing, it was followed by counsel's description of a cease and desist letter sent to the Defendants in 2008 by a lawyer then representing the Plaintiffs, which describes what is now referred to by counsel as the "dog urination issue". This letter enclosed photographs – apparently stills taken from the Plaintiffs' non-stop video footage – documenting Mr. Taerk walking his dog and occasionally allowing it to lift its leg in a canine way next to the bushes lining the Plaintiffs' lawn.
[9] The Defendants did not respond to this erudite piece of legal correspondence. Counsel for the Plaintiffs characterizes this silence as an "admission", although it is unclear just what legal wrong was being admitted to.
[10] And it goes downhill from there. For example, the Defendants are accused of occasionally parking one of their cars on the street in a legal parking spot in front of the Plaintiff's home. The Defendants do this now and then, according to the Plaintiffs, just to annoy them. This accusation was admittedly pressed rather sheepishly by Plaintiffs' counsel, since the Plaintiffs have conceded that they park one of their own cars in front of the Defendants' home every day. Indeed, the Plaintiffs cannot help but concede that fact, since their own non-stop video surveillance of the Defendant's house shows the Plaintiff's car sitting there day after day.
[11] The Plaintiffs also complain quite vociferously about the fact that the Defendants – in particular Ms. Taerk – are in the habit of sometimes standing in their own driveway and taking cell phone pictures of the Plaintiffs' house across the street. Apparently, the Plaintiffs, who keep two video cameras trained on the Defendants' house night and day, do not like their own house being the target of Ms. Taerk's occasional point-and-click.
[12] The Plaintiffs also accuse Ms. Taerk of taking pictures of the Plaintiffs' housekeeper taking their dog for its daily constitutional. The video tapes show the housekeeper leading the dog to what they describe as its favorite grassy spot in a parkette only feet from the Defendants' front lawn. The housekeeper has deposed that she goes there with the dog every day. Ms. Taerk has made of show of documenting that activity.
[13] Another complaint submitted by the Plaintiffs is that Mr. Taerk has taken up the habit of walking by their house with a voice recorder in hand, trying to catch some of the verbal exchanges between the parties. According to Mr. Taerk's affidavit, Ms. Morland-Jones occasionally shouts profanity or other insults at him when he is on his walks, so he now only ventures onto the road armed with his dictaphone. He tends to hold it at the ready in his right hand as he walks rather than holstering it on his hip.
[14] The controversy has even extended to other lucky residents. The Plaintiffs summoned under Rule 39.03 no less than four of their neighbours to testify on the pending motion, no doubt endearing themselves to all of them. One witness, a lawyer, was asked to confirm that he had warned the Plaintiffs about the Defendants when they first moved into the neighbourhood; he responded that can recall saying no such thing. Another witness, a professor, was asked to confirm that she sold her house for below market value just to get away from the Defendants; she said she did not.
[15] Each of the summonsed witnesses was asked by Plaintiffs' counsel to confirm the affidavit evidence sworn by Mr. Morland-Jones that the Defendants are difficult people. None of them seemed to want to do that, although one of them did recount that the Defendants had objected to a renovation permit that the Plaintiffs once sought, and that the matter had proceeded to the Ontario Municipal Board. Another of the neighbours was asked to recount the rude nicknames that some neighbourhood children had given Ms. Taerk when she was a substitute teacher at a nearby school.
[16] In what is perhaps the piece de resistance of the claim, the Plaintiffs allege that the Defendants – again focusing primarily on Ms. Taerk – sometimes stand in their own driveway or elsewhere on their property and look at the Plaintiffs' house. One of the video exhibits shows Ms. Taerk doing just that, casting her gaze from her own property across the street and resting her eyes on the Plaintiffs' abode for a full 25 seconds. There is no denying that Ms. Taerk is guilty as charged. The camera doesn't lie.
[17] For their part, the Defendants have not been entirely innocent. They appear to have learned that the Plaintiffs – and especially Ms. Morland-Jones – have certain sensitivities, and they seem to relish playing on those sensitivities. They realize, for example, that Ms. Morland-Jones does not enjoy having her house photographed, and so Ms. Taerk tends to take her cell phone out and point it at the Plaintiffs' house precisely when Ms. Morland-Jones can see her doing it.
[18] Ms. Taerk has testified that, in fact, she has not taken any pictures but rather has been pretending to do so by simply pointing her phone and clicking it randomly. Ms. Taerk presents this as a justification for not producing any photographs in the evidentiary record, but of course the explanation reflects more malevolence than what it attempts to excuse. In any case, Ms. Morland-Jones can be counted on to respond as predicted. It is a repeated form of hijinks that could, if a sponsor were found, be broadcast and screened weekly, although probably limited to the cable channels high up in the 300's.
[19] The same is true with Mr. Taerk's voice recording technique. Although Mr. Taerk may have started carrying this device in order to record Ms. Morland-Jones' spontaneous eruptions, cause and effect have now been reversed. Mr. Taerk appears to enjoy walking by the Plaintiffs' residence with his dictaphone conspicuously raised to shoulder level when he sees Ms. Morland-Jones in her garden, which then prompts the very outbursts that he was at first reacting to. On one of the tapes, Ms. Taerk can actually be heard prompting Mr. Taerk to go out and goad Ms. Morland-Jones in this fashion.
[20] The Plaintiffs' teenage son has testified that when he was 10 years old, Ms. Taerk instructed him to stay off the public parkette adjacent to her home, saying that it belongs to the Defendants. He also deposed that when he was 16 the Defendants appeared to be photographing him one day as he sat in a parked car in front of his house – or, more accurately, just across from the Defendants' house – with his girlfriend. He speculated, but could not entirely recall, precisely what he and the young woman were doing in the car at that moment.
[21] The antics have only gotten worse since then. Ms. Morland-Jones has shouted at the Taerks from her front yard, and Ms. Taerk has given Ms. Morland-Jones "the finger" from her front driveway. The Defendants have apparently called the police on the Plaintiffs numerous times in recent years; the Plaintiffs have responded by retaining a criminal lawyer to attempt to have a peace bond issued that would restrict the Defendants' movements. All of that has been to no avail.
[22] Now the Plaintiffs have pursued civil litigation. To their credit, or perhaps to the credit of their counsel who has advised them well in this regard, the Defendants have not counterclaimed. Having acted provocatively to egg the Plaintiffs on and to prompt this gem of a lawsuit, the Defendants did not need to bring any claim themselves. The Plaintiffs have been their own worst adversaries.
[23] In my view, the parties do not need a judge; what they need is a rather stern kindergarten teacher. I say this with the greatest of respect, as both the Plaintiffs and the Defendants are educated professionals who are successful in their work lives and are otherwise productive members of the community. Despite their many advantages in life, however, they are acting like children. And now that the matter has taken up an entire day in what is already a crowded motions court, they are doing so at the taxpayer's expense.
[24] As I explained to Plaintiffs' counsel at the hearing, a court cannot order the Defendants to be nice to the Plaintiffs. Litigation must focus on legal wrongs and legal rights – commodities which are in remarkably short supply in this action. As my colleague Perell J. put it in High Parklane Consulting Inc. v Royal Group Technologies Ltd., [2007] OJ No 107 (SCJ), at para 36, "[i]t is trite to say that making a living is a stressful activity and that much of life can be nasty and brutish. Tort law does not provide compensation for all stress-causing and nasty conduct that individuals may suffer at the hands of another…"
[25] I cannot help but comment that the courts as public institutions are already bursting at the seams with all manner of claims. To add to that public burden the type of exchanges that these parties have engaged in would be to let the litigious society stray without a leash – or perhaps without a lis. I note the observation made to this effect by the Supreme Court of New York in Johnson v Douglas, 734 NYS 2d 847, 187 Misc 2d 509, at 510 (2001):
Although we live in a particularly litigious society, the court is not about to recognize a tortious cause of action to recover for emotional distress due to the death of a family pet. Such an expansion of the law would place an unnecessary burden on the ever burgeoning case loads of the court in resolving serious tort claims for injuries to individuals.
[26] What is true regarding the death of a family pet is certainly true regarding the scatology of a family pet. There is no claim for pooping and scooping into the neighbour's garbage can, and there is no claim for letting Rover water the neighbour's hedge. Likewise, there is no claim for looking at the neighbour's pretty house, parking a car legally but with malintent, engaging in faux photography on a public street, raising objections at a municipal hearing, walking on the sidewalk with dictaphone in hand, or just plain thinking badly of a person who lives nearby.
[27] There is no serious issue to be tried in this action. The Plaintiff's motion is therefore dismissed.
[28] Both counsel have submitted costs outlines indicating that the parties have spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees. Costs awards are a discretionary matter under section 131 of the Courts of Justice Act. In exercising that discretion, Rule 57.01(1) of the Rules of Civil Procedure authorizes me to consider a number of factors including, in Rule 57.01(1)(d), "the importance of the issues".
[29] There will be no costs order. Each side deserves to bear its own costs.
Morgan J.
Date: May 20, 2014


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My laptop has gone Pffzzzt! I have only limited internet/email access in the meantime, so will be a couple of days before I'm up and runing again.Cheers
Pro Fide, Pro Utilitate Hominum
These two sentences were simply inspirational for creating the vision of a game in my mind. In Tom.War terms we're talking a Quality Test for the 'Blink Test'. If Amy Pond and you know who are not your thing, then leaving behind any reference to DR WHO, a similar game could be achieved using these ideas with Khurasan's Space Demons, the hammerheads especially, in a setting inspired by PITCH BLACK (2000)."Hostiles with built-in turn-based behaviour. Could make for very interesting games. Watch your lines-of-sight and pray that your characters don't fail their blink-test."
It's a potent reminder that whether I have a good day or a bad day at work, that every day I wake, I've just rolled a '6'.
The Tomorrow's War expansion will sell for $15. USD
Tomorrow's War bundled with the printer friendly version of FoF will be $5 USD more, for a total of $20. USD
This is a pre-release version – it contains the core rules for the stand-alone Tomorrow's War print version that we'll be publishing with Osprey in September of 2011. It doesn't contain all the fluff, photography, or AMAZING art you'll see in the final version, but it does have everything you need to play. There will be a few minor differences in next year's version to reflect the changes we're making in 2nd Edition FoF – but honestly, most of those changes are relatively minor.
TW does contain our re-worked vehicle rules, though, so you'll get a sneak peek at what those will be like in FoF II, albeit in a SciFi setting.
We're putting it out this way as a service to our fans whom we assured would have the game this year – it doesn't seem fair to make them wait till 2011 for something just because we entered into a new business arrangement. We're doing the bundle deal for those new to our games who want to get a jump start on Tomorrow's War.
Release is imminent – a layout draft is with our layout artist. I hope to give you all a solid release date Monday.


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Things fall apart, or not.
Dear Word Detective: I was reading a story about the Round Table the other day. In this novel there was a discussion about the past tense of "cleave." It ended with a fish being "clooved," and there was no definite answer. What is the past tense of "cleave"? I thought it might be "cleaved," "clave," "claved" "clove" or, I think my best guess, "cloven." I couldn't find out. I don't have a good dictionary, either. My parents can't help me on this one. Can you? — Cora.
No good dictionary? Horrors. A house without a good dictionary is like a house without … I was going to say "phone book," but I can't remember the last time I saw one around here. Well, anyway, you actually do have access to a couple of good, trustworthy dictionaries online. One is at Merriam-Webster.com (or just m-w.com). The other is at Yahoo Reference, and if you manage to navigate through through the unnecessarily byzantine interface at education.yahoo.com, you'll find the excellent American Heritage Dictionary (which used to be parked at Bartleby.com). You should also check the website of your local public library; many libraries offer their members free access to the Oxford English Dictionary Online.
"Cleave" is, as you've already discovered, a tricky little word. It's often cited as an "auto-antonym," a word which can mean its own opposite, because "cleave" can be used to mean both "to split apart" and "to stick together." Some such pairs of words (also called "Janus words," after the Roman god with two faces) are actually the same word with contradictory senses developed over time (e.g., "fast," moving quickly, and "fast," securely attached). The two senses of "cleave," however, are two entirely separate words, with different origins, that just happen to share the same spelling.
"Cleave" meaning "to split, divide, separate" first appeared in Old English in the form "cleofan," derived from Germanic roots with the general sense of "to split or cut." The original meaning of this "cleave" in English was "to part along the grain," as in splitting wood for a fire, but today we use it to mean simply "to cut in two, divide."
The other "cleave," meaning "to adhere to, stick to," also harks back to a Germanic root, in this case the same one that eventually gave us the word "glue." Along with its literal sense of "stick to" ("Huge masses of masonry, which seem to cleave to the bare rock," 1867), this "cleave" has long been used in the warm and fuzzy sense of "to remain attached, devoted, or faithful to" (as in the Biblical injunction "Cleave unto that which is good").
If this all seems like a recipe for confusion between the two words, you ain't seen nothing yet. The fact that English has two "cleaves" from different sources and with entirely different meanings would, if language were logical, dictate that they each have their own distinct forms to indicate tense, etc. No such luck. As the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) explains, because the words were identical, "…their inflectional forms were naturally also confused, and to some extent blended or used indiscriminately." Thus the antiquated past tense form "clave" belongs etymologically to "cleave" (adhere), but it has also been used off and on as the past tense of "cleave" (split). The more common form "cleaved" also serves as the past tense of both verbs.
The OED has a fascinating rundown of the dizzying array of past tense and past participle forms of both words over the centuries, but I sense it's time to cut to the finish line and give you the long story short. So the existing past tense forms of "cleave" in the "split" sense are "clove," "clave," "cleaved" and "cleft," and the past participle forms are "cloven," "cloved," "cleaved" and "cleft." In the "adhere" sense we have "cleaved" and "clave" again for the past tense and "cleaved" for the past participle. Practically speaking, "cleaved" is probably the most popular past tense form for both words, though "cleft" for "split" is more poetic, and the participial "cloven" ("having been split") is one of my favorite words. "Clooved," incidentally, is a very creative, but historically non-existent, word.


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Once reminded, most Americans are protective of 1st freedoms
Jul 18, 2012
Inside the First Amendment
By Gene Policinski
First Amendment Center
Americans once again don't run up big positive numbers in an annual First Amendment Center survey when it comes to being able to name all five freedoms in the opening 45 words of the Bill of Rights.
But once reminded of "religion, speech, press, assembly and petition," they do have some strong opinions about how those freedoms ought to work.
The annual State of the First Amendment national survey was released earlier this week. For all of the results from this and past years, see www.firstamendmentcenter.org.
The 2012 survey shows that although just 4% of us can name all five freedoms, and only "speech" is named by more than half of respondents, we're pretty protective of our rights. We support videotaping police, think it's OK to use copyrighted material just for fun, and oppose giving the government too much power over the Internet, even in a national emergency.
Just 4% of the 1,006 adults sampled in this year's survey — conducted in June for the First Amendment Center — could name "petition," and just 13% could name either "press" or "assembly."
There were some slightly encouraging results: 28% identified "religion" and 65%, cited "speech." Though not exactly jump-for-joy figures, both were the highest for those freedoms since the survey began in 1997.
But once past that opening question, participants were reminded of all five freedoms — and generally a majority took a protective stance when it came to "their" freedoms.
Just 13% said the First Amendment "goes too far in the rights it guarantees," the lowest figure ever on that question. Still, that means about one in eight of our fellow citizens would cut back on some part of the First Amendment — even though in much of the world, people are willing to risk lives and liberty to get even a portion of the rights that we have enjoyed since 1791.
Some states — most notably, Illinois — have laws that limit or even criminalize the act of taking video or photographs of police activities in public. But the public overwhelmingly endorses the idea of holding authorities accountable through digital imagery, with 85% saying such activities should be allowed.
A majority — 57% — opposes allowing public schools to discipline students who use personal computers at home to post material that authorities say is offensive.
And though 59% of respondents are OK with the government's being able to prosecute those who illegally distribute copyrighted music and movies online, they draw a distinction on what's "illegal" or not: 46% say using copyrighted material without paying a fee is fine as long as no money is being made. If there's a profit motive, 64% say a fee should be paid.
About two-thirds of respondents said the U.S. Supreme Court got it wrong in a 2010 decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which removed federal campaign spending limits on corporations and unions. The Court said it was protecting political free speech — the most protected kind of speech — for those groups. But by 65% to 30%, those surveyed opposed the idea of such wide-open spending.
Even in the event of a national emergency, it would seem, we want our Facebook and Twitter — and all the rest of the World Wide Web: 59% disagreed with giving the government the power to take emergency control of the Internet and limit access to social media.
But at least for now, such power is in place. Last week, President Obama signed an executive order, the "Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions," that authorizes federal officials to take control over telecommunications and the Web during natural disasters and national-security emergencies.
For those aiming to roll back that order, consider that history says we may well be only one crisis away from broad public support for such federal control. In 2002, about eight months after the 9/11 terror attacks, the State of the First Amendment survey found that 49% said the amendment went "too far" in its freedoms.
The larger meaning in that 10-year-old result is chilling — but also a call to action, to be better prepared and more engaged in society's ongoing discussion about how our core freedoms are applied in the 21st century.
Such efforts start with a very simple exercise: memorizing what those freedoms are.
All together, now: RELIGION, SPEECH, PRESS, ASSEMBLY, PETITION.
Give it a try right now. Feel "free" to go on from there.
Gene Policinski is senior vice president and executive director of the First Amendment Center, 1207 18th Ave. S., Nashville, Tenn., 37212. Web: www.firstamendmentcenter.org. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Coming every Saturday, Hodler's Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.
Top Stories This Week
Three reasons Bitcoin tumbled below $30,000 in a surprise overnight correction
Intensifying sell pressure saw Bitcoin briefly plummet below $29,000 for the first time since Jan. 5. The fall from $37,000, which happened within 48 hours, resulted in the biggest daily candle ever.
There have been some signs of institutional investors taking profit, as bulls attempt to cement $32,000 as a new support level. Analysts at QCP Capital are seeing signs of "institutional exhaustion," and they warned the rally could be in danger if appetite for BTC slows down.
Of course, some institutions are indefatigable… with MicroStrategy "buying the dip" and snapping up 314 BTC at an average cost of $31,808 — a total spend of $10 million.
Bitcoin has lost 14% of its value over the past seven days. But over this period, many major altcoins haven't been suffering sell-offs to the same extent. Ether is down just 2.6% on the week, Polkadot is actually up 1.5%, and XRP has fallen by 5.6%.
BTC/USD is in a corrective phase since the rally became overextended above $40,000. The question now is when this will end. If the $30,000 area doesn't hold, a further drop to $24,000 becomes likely — resulting in a retrace of 40% since recent highs.
Guggenheim CIO expects Bitcoin to drop to $20,000
Just a month ago, Guggenheim's Scott Minerd was anticipating that $400,000 was in sight for Bitcoin. How times have changed.
Speaking to CNBC, Guggenheim's chief investment officer argued that BTC is now poised to drop to $20,000 — and Bitcoin is unlikely to climb any higher than $42,000 until 2022.
He said: "I think for the time being, we probably put in the top for Bitcoin for the next year or so."
ETH finally beats its 2018 all-time high, surpassing $1,428
It's been a long time coming. This week, ETH finally reached new all-time highs against the dollar — surpassing $1,428 on Bitstamp. Unfortunately, the major altcoin didn't spend much time in uncharted territory — falling as low as $1,050 in the days that followed.
Are Ether bulls now in trouble? Well, the large drop after the ATH has been linked to how the Ether futures market was extremely overheated, with open interest on ETH hitting a record high of $1.8 billion.
At one point, Vitalik Buterin's main wallet saw the ETH in his wallet amount to over $470 million. That's a stark contrast to Jan. 2020, when his ETH fortune stood at just $58 million.
Strategists at Fundstrat Global Advisors believe that 2021 could be a year to remember for ETH. According to its researchers, the second-largest cryptocurrency could climb more than sevenfold to $10,500.
President Biden freezes FinCEN's proposed crypto wallet regulations
Joe Biden wasted little time in getting to work following his inauguration on Jan. 20. One of the first actions the new president took on his first day in office was to freeze the federal regulatory process — and this is good news for the crypto community.
The freeze means that the controversial regulations surrounding self-hosted crypto wallets, proposed by former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, are now on ice for 60 days.
Compound Finance's general counsel Jake Chervinsky lauded the move, declaring: "We fought hard & earned the right to take a breath & reset. Janet Yellen isn't Steve Mnuchin. I'm optimistic."
It's fair to say that Yellen isn't wild about Bitcoin, though. During her confirmation hearing with the Senate Finance Committee, she stated that cryptocurrencies are being used "mainly for illicit financing" — and that she wanted to "curtail" their use. She later clarified that she only wanted to clamp down on cryptocurrencies being used illegally.
The former chair of the Federal Reserve is now one step closer to earning the nomination after the Senate Finance Committee voted unanimously in her favor, paving the way for a full Senate vote.
Ripple pins hopes on Biden administration as co-founder sells 28.6 million XRP
As it readies itself to face a lawsuit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed under Donald Trump's administration, Ripple is hoping that Biden's time in office will bring favorable changes in regulations.
Executives at the embattled company have predicted that Biden's team will most likely "bring a renewed focus on regulation and enforcement in the crypto space." The post said that fintech and blockchain players have been left "in a state of limbo" by the lack of a clear framework — and warned countries like the U.K. and Japan are "miles ahead."
Ripple's general counsel Stu Alderoty wrote: "Intelligent, well thought-out regulations communicated effectively and uniformly applied can help level the playing field and unleash innovation and further mainstream adoption here in the U.S."
When Gary Gensler's appointment as SEC chair was announced, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse tweeted: "Congrats to Gary Gensler! We're ready to work with SEC leadership and the broader Biden administration to chart a path forward for blockchain and crypto innovation in the US."
Is $1 billion a day in volume the "new normal" for Uniswap?
Uniswap is nearing an average of $1 billion a day in trading volumes during January.
It's already surpassed the previous monthly trade volume record of $15.3 billion set in September during the DeFi boom.
Uniswap traders are spoiled for choice with 1,558 coins traded in more than 2,400 pairs, however, the majority tend to favor less risky trades.
On one day this week, ETH pairings with stablecoins USD Coin, Tether and Dai made up 45% of the $1.1 billion traded.
Uniswap strategy lead Matteo Leibowitz has already declared that $1 billion volume a day is the new normal.
Winners and Losers
At the end of the week, Bitcoin is at $32,300.43, Ether at $1,250.90 and XRP at $0.27. The total market cap is at $944,648,313,957.
Among the biggest 100 cryptocurrencies, the top three altcoin gainers of the week are Enjin Coin, Curve DAO Token and Decentraland. The top three altcoin losers of the week are IOST, Zcash and Dash.
For more info on crypto prices, make sure to read Cointelegraph's market analysis.
Most Memorable Quotations
"I think for the time being, we probably put in the top for Bitcoin for the next year or so. And we're likely to see a full retracement back toward the 20,000 level."
Scott Minerd, Guggenheim CIO
"Only by widening the playing field and facilitating more participation will crypto reach and maintain a market cap of $2 trillion and beyond."
Aite Group
"Ethereum will continue to see demand outstrip supply as global adoption continues."
Danny Ryan, Ethereum Foundation researcher
"We fought hard & earned the right to take a breath & reset. Janet Yellen isn't Steve Mnuchin. I'm optimistic."
Jake Chervinsky, Compound Finance general counsel
"We've obviously seen the price of Bitcoin rise quite a bit; we've seen a lot of activity in the DeFi space, and I think all of these things will provide a nice framework against which a new chairman can take a fresh look at questions across the board in the crypto space."
"Crypto Mom" Hester Peirce, SEC commissioner
"I'm honestly loving how well $ETH is holding up in this climate."
Neko, cryptocurrency trader
"There is an increasing amount of trader doubt that #Bitcoin will revisit $40,000. But according to address activity and trade volume, the long-term trend still looks plenty healthy. Keep a close eye on whether $BTC's usage rate stays propped up."
"Congrats to Gary Gensler! We're ready to work with SEC leadership and the broader Biden administration to chart a path forward for blockchain and crypto innovation in the U.S."
Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple CEO
"Bitcoin is the best cryptocurrency suited for store of value. In terms of what the Bitcoin blockchain can currently handle from a latency and throughput point of view, Bitcoin is very strong."
Konstantin Richter, Blockdaemon founder and CEO
"Grayscale were buying $251 million of #Bitcoin on avg per week in Q4 2020. Last week they did $700 million in one day… And today $590 million… Pay attention."
Danny Scott, CoinCorner CEO
"The flow into the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust would likely need to sustain its US$100 million per day pace over the coming days and weeks for such a breakout to occur."
Prediction of the Week
Hedge fund predicts $115,000 Bitcoin price and the fall of "speculative" altcoins
New data from Pantera Capital this week suggested that Bitcoin's current price action is closely following the stock-to-flow model's trajectory.
The firm's analysts believe BTC will have reached $115,212 by Aug. 1 and that its price will gain an average of more than $10,000 a month, hitting six figures in the early summer.
Pantera believes that a significant difference between this rally and 2017 is linked to the overall market composition and where value is located — with altcoins losing out.
Andy Yee, a public policy director for Visa in China, tweeted: "This rally is different. Massive shift from high-speculative, non-functioning tokens in 2017 to #Bitcoin and #Ethereum today."
FUD of the Week
More institutions will warm up to crypto once market cap hits $2 trillion, eToro says
Barriers are still hindering institutional adoption of crypto, a new report commissioned by eToro suggests.
Researchers at Aite Group said the crypto market could reach a $2-trillion market cap if more institutional players were to get on board amid more favorable conditions. These firms would be more likely to adopt crypto if there was less regulatory uncertainty, a developed market infrastructure, and less risk surrounding security.
Tomer Niv, head of business development at eToro, said: "Only by widening the playing field and facilitating more participation will crypto reach and maintain a market cap of $2 trillion and beyond."
The report also warned that "technical complexity" is an issue that needs to be addressed, with Niv adding: "More needs to be done from a market infrastructure point of view to make this group of investors feel comfortable joining the crypto ecosystem."
83% of cryptocurrencies that peaked in 2018 are still down by 90%
More than 80% of crypto assets that hit all-time highs in January 2018 are still down by at least 90%, according to data from Messari.
The data set included 410 assets that posted record prices during 2017 or later, with 2018's 157 star coins performing the worst with an average of -90.71% since the previous ATH.
2017's top cryptos have since crashed by 82% on average, while 2019's crop is down 72%, and 2020's standouts have shed 53%.
CMT Digital analyst Matt Casto, who spotted the data, tweeted: "Holding assets that hit high marks +3 years ago is proving to be a massive lost opportunity cost for deploying capital."
Armed robbers steal $450,000 from Hong Kong crypto trader
A manhunt is underway after robbers posing as crypto buyers stole $450,000 from a woman in Hong Kong.
One member of the gang completed multiple transactions with the victim to win their trust, and an investigation has uncovered there were three previous deals ranging between $77,000 and $90,000.
On the day of the robbery, the other members of the gang rushed to the scene as soon as their colleague received the Tether tokens in exchange for the $450,000 payment.
Armed with knives, they proceeded to lock the woman in the office where the deal took place but not before snatching her iPhone and the cash.
According to The South China Morning Post, the woman was able to use her second phone to inform her husband, who contacted the police. Detectives said that the woman's uncle, who chaperoned her to the meeting place, reportedly saw four men fleeing the scene.
Luckily, the woman was unhurt in the attack, unlike other victims who have suffered physical injuries and even death at the hands of bandits looking to steal cryptocurrencies.
Best Cointelegraph Features
Believing, not seeing: Institutions still predict $100,000 Bitcoin price
Even though Bitcoin has struggled to reclaim its recent high of $42,000, Shiraz Jagati says projections of BTC reaching $100,000 still seem achievable to some.
Access denied: Banks seem prone to cryptophobia despite growing adoption
Banks in many countries continue to either outrightly deny or limit their services to crypto exchanges.
Bitcoin as a last resort? Murmurs of crypto as a reserve currency abound
Could Bitcoin fulfill the key functions of a reserve currency? Andrew Singer talks to experts as he aims to find out whether BTC can find a new and unexpected role for itself.
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I usually try to post about the nuggets in the Record Store Day releases. When this year's Record Store Day list posted yesterday, I was admittedly underwhelmed by the releases. I saw some compelling ones, like the third part of the Complete Big Star Third collection, the 2nd release of the CSC Funk Band on Electric Cowbell (their first release Funkincense came out as an RSD exclusive, which I have and love). The Fleetwood Mac Alternate Mirage is interesting, if ultimately non-essential as a vinyl release.
But, deeper in the list, down in the compilations was the new RSD exclusive Soul Slabs Vol. 1 compilation of the legendary 7″ R&B/Soul/Funk releases from the Ohio-based Colemine Records. In 2014 Colemine released a compact disc compilation of singles called 20/45 in celebration of their seventh birthday. Soul Slabs is an update of that compilation, bringing the collection up to 2016. There is a pretty big overlap of the two releases, but since this is on vinyl and updated, it really is the more essential release in my opinion. It doesn't miss the big cuts: Ikebe Shakedown's "Hard Steppin'" is pretty much an R&B classic at this point– Colemine reissued the single for RSD a couple of years ago and reissued the Hard Steppin' EP on vinyl. Orgone has been a force for a few years, and the releases on Colemine are an essential addition to their catalog– their release Beyond the Sun is positively breathtaking and should be in everyone's soul collection. That goes for Durand Jones and the Indications new LP as well. Damn. Colemine started a subscription service of sorts where they email you about new exclusive releases and they give you a chance to buy it before it goes totally public. A lot of those releases are on this comp too: Soul Scratch, The Ephemerals, Kris Lager, Gene Washington & The Ironsides.
1. Jungle Fire – Comencemos
2. The Droptones – Don't Get Caught
3. The Rugged Nuggets – Yo Todo Tu Yo
4. Dojo Cuts – You Make Lovin' Real Easy
5. Ikebe Shakedown – Hard Steppin'
6. On The Spot Trio – Suction
7. Monophonics – Like Yesterday
8. Los Sospechos – Jano's Revenge
9. The Jive Turkeys – The Reggie
10. Fat Night – Things You Do
11. Alan Evans Trio – Authoritay
12. The Grease Traps – Street Sweeper
13. Gene Washington & The Ironsides – Next To You
14. The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – City Heights
15. Kris Lager Band – Money & Loneliness
16. In Motion Collective – Jesse's Jing
17. Orgone – Do What You Came To Do
18. Durand Jones & The Indications – Smile
19. Leroi Conroy – Remember When?
20. Soul Scratch – Pacified
21. Ephemerals – Things
22. The Gripsweats – Ziggy's Walk
Here is a YouTube Playlist of all of the tracks. ENJOY!!!
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MCST arranged a workshop (via telecon) to discuss the status, impact on science products and way forward in regards to the Aqua CFPA temperature issue. The presentation can be found in the following location: https://mcst.gsfc.nasa.gov/mcst-meetings
Note to Users:
A Collection 5 QA update beginning on 02/27/13 changed the status of Terra Band 5 Detector 4 in L1B data to 'Inoperable' from 'Noisy' at the request of the science team to correct a known striping issue for higher level products that uses this Band. The QA status for this detector is 'Inoperable' for the entire mission dataset in Collection 6.
Terra non-recoverable data losses due to contact errors:
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The next MODIS Science Team Meeting will be held April 15-17, 2013 at the Silver Spring Civic Center in Silver Spring, MD. Information regarding registration, logistics, and agendas will be posted when they become available.
Terra non-recoverable data losses due to contact errors:
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The MODIS Characterization Support Team (MCST) is dedicated to the production of a high quality MODIS calibration product. This product is a precursor to every geophysical science product. MCST works for the Science Team Leader and is responsible for developing and maintaining the calibration product (L1B algorithm).
Collection 6 has been under development for a number of years. MCST, in consultation with representatives of the science disciplines, developed improvements to the calibration algorithms and methodolgies to handle known issues with the aging MODIS sensors. Summary talks of the proposed Collection 6 changes have been delivered at the MODIS science team meetings over the last few years.
Current L1B LUT Versions:
Terra C6: 188.8.131.52; Terra C6.1: 184.108.40.206; Aqua C6: 22.214.171.124; Aqua C6.1: 126.96.36.199


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vol. 40, no. 2 (2007)
Philippine Journal of Psychology
The Philippine Journal of Psychology(PJP) is an international refereed journal published biannually by the Psychological Association of the Philippines. It is the flagship journal of psychology in the Philippines, and its principal aim is to promote psychological studies in the Philippines and psychological studies of the Filipino people. The PJP publishes articles representing scholarly works of Philippine psychologists, articles on psychological studies conducted with Filipino participants and/or conducted in Philippine society, cross-cultural studies including a Philippine sample, and articles of general interest to psychologists studying and working with Filipino people.


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I'm clearly on a major metal stamping kick right now, but I've still got projects, so why stop now? This is a cute and unique way to label your plants, using old silverware that you could easily get from a thrift store.
- Antique spoon (Modern stainless versions don't stamp well at all.)
- Metal stamps (Mine are from Evie's Tool Emporium on Etsy!)
- Nail file, steel wool, or fine grit sandpaper
- Permanent marker
- Heavy rubber mallet
1. Place the spoon face-down against a very firm surface. Using a heavy rubber mallet, pound the back of the spoon until it is completely flattened. I found that setting the spoon atop a towel on the concrete worked better than a countertop or table.


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The Zero Blaster launches 2 to 4 inch diameter non-toxic fog rings that sail up to twelve feet. Zero Blaster uses the same liquid that Hollywood uses in the movies to make special effects fog. It's a great stress buster and with practice you'll be able to create bigger and better rings. Price: $19.95.
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Steelhead fishing series
with Barry M. Thornton
The Pacific coast of North America is home to one of the most exciting and challenging fresh water sports fish. The average weight of British Columbia's sports caught steelhead is eight pounds but, many have weights in the teens, the twenties, and even the thirties. These latter fish are the trophies that bring anglers from all over the world to fish British Columbia's 500 plus known steelhead streams.
The steelhead is a sea-going or anadromous species of rainbow (Kamloops) trout. Until the late 1980's it had the scientific name, Salmo gairdneri Richardson. However, the American Fisheries Society (AFS) recognized that the Kamchatka or Asian steelhead race had an historic previous label, mykiss, hence all steelhead and rainbow trout now have the name mykiss. At about that same time, the AFS determined that there was no biological reason for separating rainbow trout from Pacific salmon at the generic level. Therefore they labeled all trout and salmon of Pacific lineage in the same genus, Oncorhynchus. Today, steelhead throughout the world are known as Oncorhynchus mykiss.
My first experiences with the sporting thrill of steelhead occurred during the late sixties. I had moved to Vancouver Island and had the opportunity to fish 20 steelhead streams within a one hour drive from my home. I spent 12 months of the year on many of these streams, steelhead fishing, trout fishing, and snorkeling. My various diaries, both audio and written, tell of the thousands of encounters I was fortunate to have with this majestic fish in these and many other coastal rivers and streams. There is no doubt in my mind that the steelhead is the "Supreme Trophy Trout".
Steelhead have two distinct race, winter steelhead and summer steelhead, so named because of the season of the year these fish enter their home streams. Winter steelhead begin ascending their natal streams as early as November. Runs of these fish continue to ascend their rivers from November through April and some rivers actually have winter steelhead entering their systems as late as June. Summer steelhead begin to enter their home rivers in June and continue through October. Spawning for both races occurs throughout the winter months in fist sized gravel.
Temperature is the key factor which determines when the eggs hatch and when the yoke-bellied alevin break free to grow between the gravel. Once the young steelhead complete using their yoke food reserves they squirm up through the gravel and become free swimming fry. They live in their home stream for two, three, or even four years before they enter the smolt stage and migrate downstream to the ocean. Prior to reaching the ocean they 'silver-up' adapting to the osmotic change that will occur when their body moves from a fresh water environment to a salt water medium.
In the ocean steelhead migrate north along the continental shelf; then in a great eastern/southern crescent around the Gulf of Alaska; then, south along the shelf of the Aleutian Island chain to a vast marshaling ground near 50' N latitude and 170' W longitude. Here in this immense area of the Pacific ocean they mingle with steelhead from other North American streams and their Asian cousins from streams on the Kamchatka Peninsula. When the urge to migrate back to their home streams occurs they reverse their journey or make a direct line back to North American shores, then travel south until they reach the estuary of their home stream.
Steelhead are generally loners, fish that travel by themselves unless for opportunistic feeding times when they will find themselves in the company of other steelhead and salmon. When they reach the river mouth they will stay in the estuary until water conditions like a rain storm or freshet occurs which will draw them up the river. Once in the river they travel slowly, usually in the evening or early morning, or, during overcast days.
Some steelhead are wanderers, in fact nearly 20% wander to spawn in streams other then their home river. This wandering is the way that steelhead have historically populated streams and the manner in which genetic viability has occurred.
Spawning is the ultimate purpose of all steelhead. It is their reason for being. Unlike Pacific salmon who die after spawning, steelhead are able to reverse the chemical and physical changes that occur prior to the spawning act and survive to spawn a second and even a rare third time.
Spawning occurs when the doe or hen steelhead locates a suitable gravel area at the tailout of a pool. Turning her body in a sygmoid shape she snaps her tail upwards sucking the gravel out from its bed where the current will take it downstream. She repeats this a number of times in one location and then spawns between 500 and 2000 eggs in this first depression. The male, or buck, spawns his sperm at the same time, knowing from the excitement of the doe that she is spawning. Often two or more male steelhead will spawn at that same moment beside the doe. After the first spawn the doe moves upstream and once again using the sygmoid body shape she prepares another depression for a second spawn. The gravel from the second depression drifts downstream to cover the first spawning. This process is repeated until the doe has spawned her approximate 6000 eggs.
After spawning, steelhead are refereed to as kelts. In their emaciated state they drift downstream often feeding voraciously on any foods available. Their's is a race to reach the ocean food and many do not survive at this time. But, for those that do, the ocean offers a smorgasbord of feed and the salt water quickly mends the infections and sores that were sustained while they were in fresh water.
The life history of the steelhead is a fascinating story. It is a journey in a watery medium which is only now becoming unravelled as scientists discover more and more about this valuable resource. In my recent book, "Salgair, a Steelhead Odyssey," Hancock House, 1997, I detail the life history and odyssey of one steelhead's journey. I highly recommend it for the readers who wish detailed information about this majestic trophy trout. The steelhead is a true barometer of the health of watersheds and of the ocean. Their journey is a life long odyssey full of fascination and adventure.
"The End"
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Size: M12 x 1.75
Drill Size: 10.2mm
Orientation: Right Hand
Goliath is one of Australia's most trusted and valued names for high quality, high speed threading solutions. Use Goliath tap sets for tapping steel, aluminium, plastic, brass and more. Goliath thread tap sets include Taper, Intermediate and Bottoming taps at a discounted price. Also available for sale in individual tap units if required.
Taps are used to create a new thread thread or to repair a damaged or worn out thread in any material. When you are tapping a new thread, use your pilot drill size as recommended (+ or – 0.2mm is fine) followed by first the Taper tap (starter tap) then the Intermediate tap (middle tap) and finally the Bottoming tap (finishing tap).
If repairing a thread, an intermediate tap will often do the job but it does depend on the type of hole (through hole, etc). For best results it is recommended to use all 3 tap types in proper order.
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text: Pineider Avatar Ballpoint Pen In 1774, Francesco Pineider opened his first shop in the heart of Florence, in the magnificent Piazza della Signoria, opposite Michelangelo's David. For 243 years, Pineider has been applying traditional Italian methods to the production of its world-renowned, hand-dyed watermarked paper, leather goods, custom stationery and desk sets. Now Pineider introduces two new collections of writing instruments designed by the great Italian pen designer, Dante del Vecchio. The Avatar pens, which have a clean, streamlined look and timeless modern shape, are individually hand-turned from solid bars of marbled Italian resins in Saffron Yellow, Coal Grey, Lipstick Red and Pacific Blue. The large dome cap is anchored by a slender, curved clip sculpted in the shape of a quill. The cap fastens to the barrel with a magnetic closure. The polished metal cap band is etched with the Florentine skyline. The Avatar fountain pen has a beautiful stainless steel nib engraved with a fleur-de-lis, the crest of Florence. The capped rollerball and slim ball pen are made for writing pleasure. Every Pineider writing instrument is shipped in a unique gift box that includes Pineider stationery cards.


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The G Pro Italian designer angled grab bar is manufactured from premium quality high grade stainless steel in a brushed finish and is reversible. Suitable for residential and commercial projects.
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Flairlight "RAVEN" 10w 36° WW Non-Fire Rated Regressed Fixed LED Down Light
Flairlight "RAVEN" Non-Fire Rated Regressed Fixed LED Down Light, 10w, 760 Lumens Output, 36° Beam Angle, CCT 3000°K WW, CRI>92, ZIGBEE and Bluetooth available
Cut-out 62mm Ø – One size for all products. No need for various cut-outs. Invisible bezels are flush with the ceiling. As good as Plaster-in without the hassle. Hole Cutter available to order (40402.00). IP44 as standard, IP65 Bezel order 40401.10.
Regress Baffles available in Black, Blue, Red or White.