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The updated School Accountability Report Card, also known as SARC, is now available on our website. To view Bowman's most recent SARC, please visit our SARC webpage located under the "Our School" heading or at the following URL: http://www.ackerman.k12.ca.us/school/school-accountability-report-card-sarc
For more information about our school's SARC, please visit CDE's A Parent's Guide to the SARC website.
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Coloring eggs with plants is a good experiment, but usually this type of egg dying takes some time. One option is dyeing some of the eggs the day before. Different plants dye egg shell at varying speeds. Onion skin dye effects the shell immediately, but eggs placed in red cabbage dye need to sit in the fridge over night. If I was going to do this activity again, I might just use the onion dye. It makes a variety of pleasant shades from light yellowish pink to rosy ocher, and you don't have to wait. We ended up dyeing most of the eggs before the activity and showing the teens the different types of dyes. They were able to decorate on top of the plant dye with acrylic paint. It would be good to open a window to deal with the egg smell. Here is a link with directions and some lovely pictures:
Dying with eggs with plants (flowers and nylons): http://bigsislilsis.com/2010/04/02/natural-dye-colored-easter-eggs/

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Let's talk about the process of skin transformation following our Tumescent Liposuction technique preformed by Dr. Nathan Long of Cosmetic Procedures Clinic.
In this diagram of three images we will look at the images from left to right.
- Lets start with the first image on the left. This first image shows what our skin looks like when there is fat under the surface. We have two skin pores here with hair. The distance between these two pores is about 10mm.
- The second image shows what our skin looks like immediately following our Tumescent Liposuction procedure. You can see that the skin is now folded in tiny micron folds. This why our skin may appear to be wrinkled and not smooth up against the body. Our skin is constantly renewing itself by shedding the dead layers of skin and regenerating fresh new healthy skin. This is why after some time, you notice your mattress becomes heavier and heavier. Dead skin cells shed every single day. After our Tumescent Liposuction procedure, the skin goes through this natural process, only quicker. Wearing your compression garment during the time required it critical to keeping gravity from pulling the skin down.
- The third image in this diagram shows a smooth surface of skin following our Tumescent Liposuction procedure. You can see that the distance between the two pores is now 5mm. This is the final stage of the Tumescent Liposuction process. A smooth skin surface with no wrinkling or sagging skin.
This blog post is for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for professional medical care. – Cosmetic Procedures Clinic.


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This post assumes you hold a port-of-entry (issued on arrival) South African Visa that you wish to extend before you leave the country.
Basically you need to go the VFS South Africa web page, register and login, initiate an application, pay and then schedule an appointment for physical documentation and biometric data submission. You can only apply for Visa renewal / extension within the first 30 days of your stay in South Africa.
All of this can be done online but when it comes to payment you will probably not be able to use your overseas credit card (mine was not accepted and I have noticed that some online vendors in SA don't while others do), and assuming you do not have an Internet Banking enabled South Africa based bank account or someone with a South African credit card to help you, you will probably have to print out the payment reference page and go to any Standard Bank to pay it and get it stamped.
VFS (Visa Facilitation Services) is basically and international organization specializing in Visa processing outsourcing service. In the case of South Africa, the Department of Home Affairs (the gov org dealing with immigration) uses VFS for client facing and QA of submitted applications services.
You start by going to this page: http://www.vfsglobal.com/dha/southafrica/complete-online-form.html and clicking that says "Please click here to proceed with the online process if you are applying for the first time." or if you have already registered this one: "If you have already registered previously and have your login details please click here."
There are three issues here:
- The website really sucks. Documentation, usability, design are all pretty bad. DO NOT use Chrome as it is not fully supported and you will have issues. Internet Explorer (yes IE) is your best bet although Firefox seems to also not have any issues.
- Although links to relevant legislation docs are provided the specific options that you need to select while applying do not become clear after reading those docs and there no guidance on the site to help you out. If you select the wrong option your application will not get accepted when you try to physically submit it and you will have to go through the whole process again. They will refund you the abnormally high fees of R1,350 (about 100 USD at this time) though but only after 1 month!
- Do not ask people at the VFS or DHA; there is a good chance they will give you inaccurate or conflicting information due to ignorance or indifference.
Most relevant legislation can be found in the docs linked to below:
Here is a screenshot of the options you need to select when applying to extend your tourist visa from the standard 3 months to, say, 6 months:
Do not get confused with the multiple different 11(1) subtype options. Just select a the plain 11(1) option.
After starting like that it should all go smoothly. You just fill out your details, relevant dates and the reasons you are asking for a Visa renewal.
Remember: you should ask for RENEWAL NOT EXTENSION of your Visa.
In my case, in one of the forms, I was asked for dates of "any subsequent visa issued to me" and there was no way to skip of leave this blank(!) I think this is just a bug though because I simply entered the same dates as my original Visa and I had no issues physically submitting this and all supporting documentation to VFS. I am currently waiting to see if I will be granted by 3 months extension or not - regardless, thankfully, one can travel back home and then return back to SA for another 3 months as many times as he likes.
Once the three involved forms are fully filled out and the application submitted you will be given the the option for payment and scheduling an appointment. The link to schedule an appointment will not work until you have paid. If you pay via Standard Bank physical teller it will take 2-3 working days for the appointment link to be activated. Appointment slots seem to be generally available the next day or, in any case, not too far in the future; but do make sure that the appointment date falls within your first 30 days of stay in South Africa as it is probably this date that counts as "application submission date."
Before you actually show up for your VFS appointment please make sure you have the following items with you - some of them actually listed in the checklist in the appointment letter you will receive via email but will also be available on the site:
- Your passport valid for no less than 30 days after the expiry of your intended visa renewal/extension
- Online filled Visa Application Form (you can print this via the website but you must have also received it via email)
- Photocopies of passport and all passport pages with visas/stamps
- Original Bank payment / Electronic Fund Transfer receipt for payment done
- Original and Copy of Bank Receipt in case of Repatriation / Bank Guarantee paid in Department of Home Affairs Account
- Appointment Letter (you can print this viua the web site)
- Supporting Documents for the application:
- Ticket with date as close as possible and before the intended date of departure
- Proof of income (at least 3-4 full months back from date of application submission - basically this needs to show that you can easily maintain yourself in the country)
- Letter of purpose (why you are requesting renewal/extension explained in a nice short letter)
- Duration letter (a letter stating the number of the Visa you wish to extend, date of entry, current Visa expiry date and your desired date of exit after renewal/extension)
Good luck!


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I thought I was doing it right….
So my Disney vacation prep included making sure financially our family would be set once we returned. Two weeks before the trip, my truck died! So imagine my state of mind when my truck died, we had Disney coming up and it was the first of the month! We paid all of the current bills. I planned my monthly meal prep list and went shopping!
My freezer meals are bagged and labeled. My breakfast items are all in the outside freezer. We cleaned out both of the refrigerators and washed all of the clothes of every person in the house. We cleaned the house top to bottom.
The one thing I hate about vacations is coming home to a tornado! So I planned out my time line and had it perfect. Everyone is packed, suitcases lined up and the truck is gassed and ready to roll.
The calm before the storm….
Everything was perfect. Things were going very well, such a smooth transition and we were totally on track. Then the weather reports began to come in. A massive hurricane is set to hit Florida in about 24 hours! Imagine the disappointment of my birthday girl once we told her we couldn't leave until after the storm had passed!
Hopefully our next travel entry will be from Disney World this weekend!
Click here to read about our family disney trip and how our lives were changed.


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After our own Macau churches tour, Jandy, Cheska and I had our dinner at MacDonald's in Leal Senado Square. After dinner, we made our way to Wynn Hotel Macau, the first Las Vegas-style blended resort in Asia, where we were to meet up with Daddy, Mommy and Grace. Together, we were to watch the hotel's signature performance of the Fountains of the Performance Lake and the Tree of Prosperity and Dragon Shows, all open for public viewing and free.
When we arrived, they were already seated in one of the benches in front of the fountain and lake in front of the hotel. The lake houses over 200 water nozzles and shooters and holds 800,000 gallons of water. Together, we watched a fascinating and delightful fountain show featuring lofty plumes of water and fire shimmering and dancing through the air to the tune of classical and popular music as well as Broadway show tunes, all expressing a complexity of moods, rhythms and emotions.
After this vibrant performance, we proceeded to the atrium in one of the wings of the casino to watch the Tree of Prosperity Show. The atrium has an opulent and beautiful golden dome ceiling decorated with the 12 animals depicting Chinese and Western astrological symbols of the Zodiac.
The show begins when its 20 m. wide ceiling opens to reveal a screen of abstract designs. A giant chandelier then slowly descends. At the same time, a copper dome on the ground floor opens and a tall golden tree ascends and then rotates with the music.
The iconic golden Tree of Prosperity, a symbol of auspiciousness, has over 2,000 branches and 98,000 leaves composed of 24-karat gold leaf and brass leaf. As the tree rotates, there's a play of lights that changes the tree's vibrant color according to the four seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall).
Later, after 30 minutes, we witnessed the Dragon Show on the same atrium platform. However, instead of a tree, a giant dragon structure emerged from the dome on the ground. We, as well as the other guests, can't help but be thrilled and excited as we marveled at the creativity and showmanship of this truly beautiful and impressive technical shows. Truly a choreographic masterpiece of shimmering, sculptural patterns, music, video and light.
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A friend of mine recently approached me, seeking advice on how to increase wine sales. The friend in question had just gotten a job in the marketing department of a wine manufacturing company. And now he was trying to see if I could possibly give him some tips on how to increase wine sales. I previously had a successful stint as a marketer for a wine manufacturer – and it is on the basis of this experience that many people view me as a competent person to give advise on matters to do with wine marketing.
I advised my friend that the key to success in wine marketing lies in proper promotion. I told him to firstly consider running an advertising campaign, in order to create awareness about the wine brands he is trying to sell. I also told him to try to improve the distribution of the wines. The goal there would be to get more and more pubs (as well as wines and sprits outlets) to stock the brands he is trying to push. I told him that there is actually potential for him to benefit personally, in the area of distribution. I told him that, for a start, he could quite easily go to a website like www.sunbiz.org, and register a company there. The ,main business for the company registered at Sunbiz.org would be that of wine distribution. Setting up such a company on the Sunbiz website should be easy enough. Then, through the company in question, he could be undertaking wine distribution on behalf of his distributor. All this is, of course, assuming that his employer (the wine manufacturer) doesn't view the whole thing as a 'conflict of interest'.
I also advised my friend to ensure that the wines are reasonably priced – especially if he wants his wine brands to appeal to the mass market. I gave him this particular piece of advice based on my appreciation for the fact that his employer is trying to cut a niche in the market as a manufacturer of cheap wines. I concluded by pointing out the fact that as long as the wines are reasonably priced, and they are of a reasonably good quality, he shouldn't have difficulties getting buyers. That is, of course, assuming that he is also takes the trouble to promote the wine brands in the right manner.


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I recently discovered the beautiful crocodile stitch! It's makes such beautiful luxurious pieces!
I started with a scarf and have progressed to other items, including the bootie pattern below, again for my future niece/nephew!
Initially it can be difficult to get your head around the crocodile stitch but with the help of a couple of brilliant tutorials (linked to below) you can master it! And once you have you'll find that it's really quite easy and there'll be no stopping you!
Size: 0-6 months, app. 10 cm foot length.
Materials per bootie:
25g of yarn in one colour (I used dk Special by Stylecraft, shade 1218 'Parchment')
4mm crochet hook
Stitches used:
st(s) – stitch(es)
ch – chain stitch
hdc – half double crochet
sl st - slip stitch
Special stitches used:
v st - work one hdc, ch 1 and hdc again into same st
fphdc – yo and insert hook from the front to the back around the post of the hdc of previous row. Complete as for a regular hdc stitch.
NB. This pattern works the toe of the bootie towards the heel.
Rnd 1: Ch2 (remember the loop you put on the hook is not classed as a ch), join with sl st in first ch to form a circle.
Rnd 2: Ch2 (counts as first hdc), hdc 9 into centre of circle, join with sl st to first st (10 hdc in total)
Rnd 3: Ch2, 1hdc in same st, then 2 hdc in each st around the work, join with sl st to first st (20 hdc in total)
Rnd 4: Ch2, ch1 and hdc in same st *skip next st, then work a v stitch in next st*, repeat from * to * around, join final v st to first with sl st. This row and rows 5 to 8 form the toe area of the bootie.
Rnd 5 - 8: Repeat row 4 working the v st in each ch 1 space of the row belows v st
Rnd 9: Ch2, ch1, hdc in same st, then work six further v stitches into ch 1 spaces on the row below, turn the work (this row and following two form the side and back of bootie).
Rnds 10 - 12: Ch2, ch1, hdc in same space, then v st into each of the seven v st ch 1 spaces below*
Now for the fun bit! The Crocodile Crochet Cuff!
To make bootie's cuff you should begin by attaching the yarn in the middle of the heel.
Rnd 1: Ch 3, hdc in same stitch,* skip 1 ch, v st in next ch, rep from * around; join with sl st in top of first hdc. – (make sure that you have 10 v sts)
Rnd 2: Ch 2 (counts as a hdc), working from top to bottom around post of first hdc of first V-st, work 3 fphdc, turn work so v st is sideways, ch 1, working from bottom to top around post of second hdc of v st, work 4 fphdc , * skip next v st, working from top to bottom work 4 fphdc around post of first hdc of next v st, ch 1, turn work so v st is sideways, working from bottom to top around post of second hdc of v st, work 4 fphdc, rep from * around; join with sl st in top of first hdc.- (5 scales in total)
Rnd 3: Ch 3, hdc in same st, yo, insert hook in sp in the centre of the scales below and complete a v st, *v st in next ch 1 sp, yo, insert hook in sp in the centre of the scales below and complete a v st, repeat from * to * around; join with sl st in top of first hdc - (9 v sts)
Rnd 4: Repeat rnd 2 into alternate v st
Rnd 5: Repeat rnd 3
Rnd 6: Repeat rnd 2 into alternate v st
Fasten off!
Make another!
Text and images by L Tegg. This pattern cannot be reproduced or distributed -
mechanically, electronically, or by any other means, including photocopying, without
written permission. Finished products created with this pattern may be used for
commercial sale.


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Ok so cheesy title and i live nowhere near America but it seemed fitting. Here in NZ braising is not something we really grew up with. In fact i had my first braised pot roast only a couple of years ago and wow it was amazing! So today the better half and i decided to try making some braised lamb shanks. We are lucky enough to have a freezer full of lamb and hoggett at the moment which we purchased whole and had butchered. So a quick search turned up a yummy looking recipe from Amateur gourmet, one of my favourite stops for fool proof recipes. The recipe was actually for brisket but we adapted it a bit for the shanks. So we started with a herb rub on the lamb overnight. (Vegetarians you may want to look away now).
Then tada! Dinner, slow, tender lamb with a rich flavoured jus. A side of potatoes, broccoli and salad and it was just perfect. So perfect i forgot to take a photo before i finished most of the veges. Even better there is heaps of leftovers for lunches and tomorrows dinner. I love meals that mean you don't to cook again the next day. More time for baby cuddling! How was your weekend? Anything yummy cooking at your place?


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Why haven't you accepted my friend request yet?
The nick name is Mellie, and my real name is Melodie, nice to meet you all :3
I find myself very intuitive and non judgmental therefore, I am able to evaluate individuals but, I do so in a kind way :) On my spare time you will find me...watching anime or playing MMORPG's :3 I as well like to spend time with people I adore and I love to get tasks done to feel the accomplished xD
I am not a selfish person and I always think of other individuals, including the mass population of starving countries.
i want to study for college to become a counselor or a school teacher.
If you wish to speak to me, do not be afraid, I am a very accepting individual.
Well catch you all later and farewell >.^!
i am new here :D
Why haven't you accepted my friend request yet?
Can you add me on steam? my steam is imhappy1
We could possibly play CoF Co-op : D
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Hey can I add you? :)
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hi melodie nice i'am killer_zeta from france contry my real name is cyrille to meet you
its nice to meet you too :)
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Campus Recycling Rate Continues to Rise
The University recycling rate of paper, cardboard, and commingled (glass, plastic, and metal) materials reached 23 percent from July through September, an increase from the 19 percent that was calculated for the same time period of the previous year.
In addition to the increased amount of recyclables, the overall amount of waste generated by the University has shown a slight drop in tonnage over the past two months.
Penn Facilities staff attribute the improvement to increased awareness amongst the University community, and more specifically, to the wider availability of recycling bins across the campus compared to previous years. Several schools and centers have established new recycling programs or improved their existing collection systems by posting informational signs and emphasizing this priority to peers within their buildings.
The School of Medicine, for example, has added over 100 new recycling bins to its buildings over the past year and expects to provide a significant boost to the campus' cumulative rate in 2010.
The annual RecycleMania competition begins on January 17, and the Green Campus Partnership is looking for representatives from schools, centers, and departments to help organize and assist with the various events and initiatives being planned for the 10-week competition.
Volunteers who would like to organize a RecycleMania event in their College House or department (or help educate their peers about our recycling practices), please contact the RecycleMania team at email@example.com.


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Buyer Beware Of 3-D Printer EmissionsSource: Chemical & Engineering News, January 25, 2016
Author: Jyllian Kemsley
As costs of three-dimensional printers drop and the devices increasingly make their way into offices, schools, and homes, users should consider how to limit exposure to emissions of particles and gases in the space where the printer is located. This caution stems from research by a team led by Brent Stephens of Illinois Institute of Technology and Neil E. Crain of the University of Texas, Austin ... . The researchers tested the emissions of five commercially available desktop 3-D polymer-extrusion printers for ultrafine particles, which have a diameter less than 100 nm, and volatile organic compounds, including caprolactam and styrene. They used the printers to make a standard part from nine different polymer filament starting materials. The emissions varied more by the type of material than they did by the type of printer. Modeling the emissions in a 45 m3 air-conditioned office, the team predicts that caprolactam and styrene would reach concentrations that could be harmful to health.Read more...
See original article in Environmental Science & Technology, "Emissions of Ultrafine Particles and Volatile Organic Compounds from Commercially Available Desktop Three-Dimensional Printers with Multiple Filaments".


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So it has now become officialthat the government has rejected not only Norgrove's opposition to the concept of shared parenting but also the wrong headed rejection of it by the previous governments (Conservative and Labour) and the establishment (especially Cafcass and the judiciary).
This also includes those groups such as the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, the government's Equalities Department and other like minded groups (Fawcett Society anyone?) who proclaim they are in favour of equality while purposely turning a blind eye to the fact that children were (overwhelmingly) not being able to share their lives with their fathers.
The Equalities and Human Rights Commission's stance has been particularly sickening because it is clear there has been for decades a clear form of sexual discrimination against fathers in operation not only in the way the judiciary and Cafcass operate but also in the way that many mothers have been allowed to willfully break the law by ignoring court orders (even Ken Clarke on Radio 4's Today Programme on Monday morning bemoaned the fact that mothers broke court orders without any consequence and therefore were undermining the rule of law). Remember, if this was happening with the genders being reversed the Commission would be banging the drum every day. Their silence has been shameful and shows their antipathy towards men.
Until the ink is dry, the legislative statement in place and the judges acting upon it then we can not count our chickens.
However, it is worth reflecting on how the campaign was won.
Firstly, you do need a government that is willing to listen and is not ideologically driven to hate men (the previous government supported ideologically the view that men should not be part of the children's lives). While there is an anti-male element in the coalition government, overall there was a will to deal with this problem because of the family centred views of the two parties that form the coalition. It helps with a cadre of MP's who have had men turning up to their surgeries for years and not being to help. A new cadre of MP's suddenly facing this issue will also have helped.
Secondly, there was a pincer movement of more radical groups who worked outside the tent such as F4J and RF4J who brought the problem to the attention of every member of public and then other groups such as Families Need Fathers, Fatherhood Institute, Grandparents' Apart and Grandparents' Association amongst others who worked within the tent. This pincer and combination of groups broadly making the same arguments in different ways ceaselessly for years and years on end helped to create the framework for this week's result.
In terms of what lesson there can be learned for the future of male equality, dealing with injustice against men and men's issues in general, a few pointers could be made:
(1) The need to never give up - the campaign at all levels went through peaks and troughs but never ended and the campaign for equality for men must never end.
(2) The need for black swans/outliers, and wanting to be outside the tent is always vital. They help lay the ground and open the door for the mainstream. Here, despite the years of great work by FnF and others, if F4J had not brought the problem to the public fore, the impetus for change and the spotlight being shone on the subject in the way it did would never have happened. While this has been such a crucial and fundamental issue, Tom Martin's campaign against the LSE is another example of how the door can be opened and every year there are others (Mirko Fischer vs British Airways) who can make this happen.
(3) While (2) is vital, there also needs to be mainstream groups within the tent trying to influence public policy to ensure the government and others who are naturally conservative with a small 'c' have people they fell they can work with without controversy.
(4) The need to be firm, consistent, fighting the corner on our terms but doing it in the right tone is also vital. While (3) outlines the need for mainstream groups being in the tent, there is no point being in the tent if it means sacrificing your core aims. This is why the consistency and the firmness of groups within the tent has been important because, especially under the last government, it would have been too easy to have become suckered into the status quo. But groups like FNF stuck to their guns.
A number of other groups working in other fields such as the Men's Network, ManKind Initiative, Abused Men in Scotland, Prostate Cancer Society and others are vital because while they are in the tent and are part of the mainstream they are not losing their message. And on many occasions they are verr firm in what they believe in but the tone is right. This has to be the template going forward.
(5) Turning the equalities and fairness rhetoric against those who abuse it. The last point is to remember often discrimination against men and/or the omission of men, is undertaken in the 'spirit' of fairness and equality. One lesson from this week's announcement has been the way the messaging has been about the unfairness and inequality that children have in not being able to have a relationship with both parents. How could those who believe in those things continue to deny the rights of children in this way.
This (5) has been a powerful tool especially used by some of the groups mentioned in (4) and others in demanding why the women's movement proclaims it is is favour of equality when in practice that equality does not apply to people who happen to be men.
There may be other lessons to be learned but at least this week there is a glimmer of hope for those children wanting to have a meaningful relationship with their fathers and their grandparents who have been denied it so far because of the legal system and their mothers.
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04 March 2009
Calls for temporary Australian workers to get site-rates not market rates
During a time when Australian employment numbers are down and the debate concerning immigration continues, movements to change the pay conditions of temporary workers in Australia seem sideline issues.
However, Senator Chris Evans, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, has been overseeing improvements to the temporary Australian visa programme for many months now, and has been pushing for the introduction of market wages for all temporary workers in the 457 visa programme.
The Minister claims this would reduce abuse of the temporary worker's programme by encouraging employers to employ local workers first.
However, according to Fairfax newspapers, Adelaide Mushrooms chairman Douglas Schirripa argues that the introduction of an Australia-wide market wage for overseas workers is unfair.
Schirripa claims individual businesses should set the base wage for its workers so that overseas workers do not end up earning more than their local counterparts earn.
"If they're on a market rate, we won't employ them," he said. "Why should I pay them any different to the local people? Wage differentiation in the workplace is going to brew disenchantment."
Murray Bridge New Settler Services coordinator, Nayano Taylor-Neumann, agrees that overseas workers should be earning the same rates as their Australian co-workers, but that businesses should determine the pay scale and not the market rate.
Senator Evans said the purpose of the market rate is to ensure Australian wages are not undercut by overseas workers.
"The principle of the subclass 457 visa scheme is to supplement - not replace - the local workforce when there are serious skills shortages."
The 'Skilled Migration Consultative Panel', set up by the Government, is currently reviewing the temporary Australian working visa system and how best to implement changes to the wages for overseas workers.
The Australian Visa Bureau is an independent consulting company specialising in helping people with emigrating to Australia.


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We all know that one of the best ways to see more of London is on foot, and that a guide-led walk can reveal many lesser-known aspects of the city.
That probably explains the popularity of the Walk London programme which has been organising free guided walks within the capital since 2007.
The walks, funded by Transport for London and delivered by Walk Unlimited, happen three times a year, in January, May and September. The next weekend takes place on the 28 and 29 January 2017.
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text: The picture above is of a man's linen stocking dated circa 1660-1670 on display at the V&A Museum in London. According to the placard, "Plain hose was worn under silk hose to create a smooth line over hairy legs." OK, that is fucking brilliant. No need to shave one's legs! Just wear an extra pair of hose! I suspect that an extra layer of hose would also keep women warmer in the winter by allowing us to retain our body hair and to wear an extra layer to trap body heat. Plus, I'm guessing that two pairs of hose work even better than one in terms of holding in one's gut. (Please note: the "two layers is better than one" concept does NOT work for condoms, as the latex rubs against each other and causes breakage.) For smooth and sexy legs, though, you gotta admit that the idea is very, very clever.


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LONDON - Roger Federer wants to play at the 2016 Olympics — if his body holds up long enough.
"There's so many moving parts," Federer, who turns 31 on Aug. 8, said Thursday. "They also have a role in this decision-making. But the mind still wants me to play, and I hope the body allows me to do it as well."
First up for the world No. 1 is the London Games, where he will try for his first Olympic gold medal in singles at Wimbledon, where he has won seven of his Grand Slam titles.
Federer's first match is against Colombian Alejandro Falla, who pushed him to five sets before losing in the first round at Wimbledon in 2010.
The Swiss star teamed with Stanislas Wawrinka to win doubles gold in 2008. His best finish in the singles competition was a fourth-place showing in Sydney in 2000.
But the London Olympics could be his best chance yet for gold as it is being played at the All England Club, where Federer won his 17th Grand Slam title a couple of weeks ago.
Federer will not have to face one of his toughest opponents in London. Defending Olympic champion Rafael Nadal of Spain withdrew last week, citing a lack of preparation.
Nadal returned to Spain after losing in the second round at Wimbledon to 100th-ranked Lukas Rosol. He has not played since.
Nadal won the French Open a record seventh time earlier this year for his 11th Grand Slam title, but has struggled with left knee problems at times during the season.
Federer said he was "sad" Nadal, who has slipped to No. 3 in the world, wouldn't be competing in London.
"Because I'm sure he wanted to do that," he said. "I wish him a speedy recovery."
Second-ranked Novak Djokovic of Serbia, the bronze medallist at the Beijing games in 2008, was drawn in the same half as Wimbledon finalist Andy Murray of Great Britain, meaning the pair could meet in the semifinals. Djokovic plays Fabio Fognini of Italy in the first round, ahead of a possible second-round match against American Andy Roddick.
While Federer may be the favourite at the grass court venue, the best-of-three format up to the Olympic finals could prove troubling. The margins for error are smaller with shorter matches, he said.
"We know the danger of the early rounds," Federer said. "I think, hopefully, once I'm able to get going and get in full flight on the court I hope I can be the favourite or I am the favourite because usually that's when I do play better."


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On the 4th of April 2013, my good friends James and Laura finally tied the knot and became Husband and Wife on a freezing cold snowy day... bet that didn't come up when planning an April wedding. I had the great honour of being one of James's Groomsmen and signatory to the marriage. As you have already probably gathered I had the even greater honour of making the wedding cake.
Laura sent me some guidance and suggestions to the cake she wanted but my general brief was: 2 tier plus 150 cupcakes in the colours of white and dark green, easy enough....
So the problems, 1. I'm untrained and my skill at sugar craft is very low, 2. I don't drive so it had to be transported on a train. 3. equipment, I don't have loads of sugar craft equipment to create intricate designs plus see point 1.
To combat these problems, I kept the actual cake very simple, with ribbons and simple icing. The decoration you see on the cake is bought because something of that intricacy is currently beyond me, maybe one day.
The cupcakes were another problem in how to decorate and present them, I spent several hours looking at fancy cases, wrappers and stands. Fortunately a solution came along from the staff bake off where one competitor made a large teacup with cupcakes made to look like a bunch of flowers.
So the final design of a simple two tier white cake with several small bouquets of cupcakes had been settled, the final cupcake flavours were; chocolate sponge with green mint buttercream icing and lemon sponge with lemon buttercream.
Now just the small matter of making, transporting and assembling to do.
The actual making was the easy part, two fruit cakes are simple enough just time consuming and because I have two 24 mini silicone cupcake trays, making 150 cupcakes took only a few hours from start to finish.
Transporting however is a different matter, two heavy fruit cakes, 150 cupcakes, 4 bowls of butter cream icing and 6 floral oasis balls plus usual stuff for a weekend away are a 'insert swearwords here' to transport, but with the two of us we got it down there.
Assembly was done at the venue, the cake was smoothed down and the floral spray attached, then 150 cupcakes were attached with toothpicks to four floral oasis balls then iced with the two icings, leaves and butterflies were attached and voila my first wedding cake was complete.
To the Bride and Groom. Cheers
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I'm blessed with a car, and thought cakes were a pain to transport, I can't imagine trying to get a train!
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Thursday, 4 July 2013
Plato's ideal Platonic Reality within an artist theory on the physics of 'time' as a physical process.
The Ancient Greeks took a totally different approach to mathematics their mathematics was not based on equations, but on geometry. It was the mathematics of physical shapes and they used diagrams to represent their ideas, they had a visual approach to mathematics.
Plato believed in an ideal Platonic Reality that is accessible to the mathematically trained human mind.
His view was that the laws of mathematics are true, like the laws of nature. Mathematicians just discovered them, but they are pre-existing. Plato believed that our physical world is a dim refection of some perfect ideal reality.
In the theory explained in the video above this ideal Platonic reality is continuously coming in existence at the quantum level of the atoms as a process of spherical symmetry forming and breaking. This process of continuous energy exchange is not a process over a period of time rather it provides the formal basis for time as an emergent property
This theory is quite easy to understand because like the mathematics of Ancient Greece the mathematics represents geometry that can be expressed in diagrams. The only difference is that it is an interactive dynamic geometry that is continuously coming into existence.
This dynamic geometry is formed by the spontaneous absorption and emission of light. The wave-particle duality of light forms an interactive process that we see and feel as 'time' with the future continuously coming into existence light photon by light photon.
Only when the light waves come in contact with matter (electrons) do they collapse into photons forming a photon electron coupling. The electron is the most spherical object in the Universe and it is this spherical symmetry that represents Plato's ideal Platonic Reality in this theory.
This spherical symmetry forms the low entropy or high organization for the increase in entropy or disorganization that we have in the Second Law of Thermodynamics with the flow of time!
In this theory quantum physics represents the physics of 'time' as a physical process each quantum state is a state in 'time' as the future unfolds. Quantum uncertainty is the same uncertainty we have with any future event!
Light always take the path of least time and distance and people have ask the question: how can the light have known which path was the least time and distance.
In this theory the answer is that space and time are coming into existence by this process of light photon energy exchange. The present moment has to be able to create the future and this is happening as the smallest scale of space and time.
The future cannot be predetermined by mathematics because human mathematics is based on the geometry of this process therefore at the heart of mathematics we find uncertainty in the form of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle ∆×∆p×≥h/4π and Kurt Gödel incompleteness theorem.
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Two Brothers Will Face Off in Tonight's National Championship Game
You may or may not know the significance of tonight's National Championship but it will be an epic game for DC's Gonzaga High School. Former Gonzaga teammates and brothers Nate Britt (UNC) and Kris Jenkins (Villanova) will be going up against each other. They don't hail from Philly but it's all brotherly love when it comes to these two. Known for being a mean one-two punch in the WCAC conference, they'll both pack a punch of their own as they each look to win the National Championship. Both Britt and Jenkins had something to say about the importance of the game tonight.
"This right here is permanent bragging rights for the rest of our lives," Britt said, a gleam in his eyes. "If we ever get into an argument or anything we can look at this game, whoever wins. Like I said, it's permanent bragging rights, and there's not a better place to be playing him than here." – Nate Britt
Britt and Jenkins are used to talking daily but they haven't spoken since before the Final Four games and they don't plan to until they see each other on the court. They're trying to treat this as much like a normal game as possible yet this is probably the biggest game of their basketball careers to date.
"There's nobody I want to beat more than my brother." – Kris Jenkins
Which brother will take the bragging rights for the rest of their life? Will the crafty left hand point guard Britt be able to will a hot UNC team to victory? Or will the sharp shooting forward be smooth from beyond the arc and shock the #1 team in the tourney? Either way Coach Steve Turner and DC come out on top.
@GonzagaHoops Must be one proud coach today! Congrats on having Kris and Nate playing in the Championship.
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In addition, Macerich also announced the closing of an $85 million loan on Paradise Valley Mall in Phoenix, Arizona. The loan on the previously unencumbered asset bears interest at a floating rate with the initial rate of 5.50 percent. The term of the loan is three years, extendable to five years at the company's election.
After considering extensions and other loans committed but not yet closed, the Company's remaining debt maturities for 2009 are down to $30 million and $269 million for 2010. All of these debt maturities are on secured property loans.
Other Notable DealsDevelopers Diversified Realty ( NYSE: DDR) sold the second tranche of 15 million common shares to the Otto family for $60 million. That completes a transaction originally announced in February. Also, between August 10 and September 17, the Company sold approximately 18.4 million common shares for approximately $157 million….The New Jersey office of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) arranged $23.8 million in financing for the Azarian Group for the acquisition of the 218,524-square-foot Neptune Plaza Shopping Center in Neptune, New Jersey. The loan is a five-year, fixed-rate loan placed with a local commercial bank…. The New Jersey and Chicago offices of HFF secured a $12.5 million refinancing for the 135,355-square-foot Baker Hill Shopping Center for Columbia Retail Baker Hill, LLC, a joint venture managed by Regency Centers. The financing is a five-year, fixed-rate loan placed with Ladder Capital Finance…. Charter Realty & Development has been retained by RP Realty Partners LLC to lease the 391,000-square-foot Walpole Mall in Walpole, Mass…. Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors represented the seller in the $1.97 million sale of the 9,171-square-foot Alondra Plaza strip center in Bellflower, Calif. The buyer was a private investor from Los Angeles, Calif., represented by John Son at Lee & Associates. The seller was a private investor…. Houlihan-Parnes Realtors, LLC arranged the acquisition of the 16,000-square-foot Post Road Center in Mamaroneck, NY.
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Against an inventive canvas of archival footage, cleverly staged scenes and interviews with former Cold Warriors who still speak in the dated jargon of the era, Estonian compatriots reminisce about growing up during the duck-and-cover days behind the Iron Curtain. As it turns out, "mutually assured destruction" was nothing compared to the threat of "pop music, jeans and sex." Tallinn, the capital of Soviet Estonia and a mere eighty kilometers from "free" Helsinki, was a front in the battle for soft power between the Soviet Union and the United States; its weaponry ever more powerful antennae, rocket-born satellites and CIA-funded programming. Director Jaak Kilmi and friends recall, in spy-toned voiceovers, smuggling "Finnish boxes" in order to keep up with episodes of DALLAS and drilling a peephole through a summer-camp wall to catch a glimpse of the insatiable EMMANUELLE. One man converts a household thermometer into a mercury antenna to capture forbidden broadcasts and inadvertently jams signals to a nearby missile silo. The lengths these pop culture-deprived Estonians went to for a little salacious entertainment are as hilarious as the deadpan delivery of their stories. - Shari Kizirian
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Apple's Beats brand in April unveiled the Powerbeats Pro, a redesigned wire-free version of its popular fitness-oriented Powerbeats earbuds.
Apple Releases OS X 10.11 El Capitan With Improved Spotlight Search, Enhanced Performance, and Revamped Apps
OS X El Capitan is still rolling out to users, but it can be downloaded using the Software Update function in the Mac App Store, and it will run on all Macs capable of running OS X Yosemite. Here is a direct link for the update: OS X El Capitan.
As an update complementary to OS X Yosemite, as the OS X El Capitan name suggests, the new operating system builds on the features introduced last year. OS X El Capitan focuses on improving user experience and performance.
OS X El Capitan looks like OS X Yosemite, but it includes a new systemwide font, San Francisco, and it introduces a new Split View option for Mission Control, allowing two full-screen apps to be used side-by-side. El Capitan includes an improved Spotlight Search and several new app features. Safari, for example, has gained Pinned Sites and a universal mute button, while Mail has new iOS-style smart suggestions.
Photos in OS X El Capitan supports third-party photo editing extensions from Mac App Store apps, Notes has new features, and Maps includes Transit directions. Under-the-hood improvements in El Capitan also make a number of apps and processes on the Mac faster, and the introduction of Metal makes system-level graphics rendering 40 percent more efficient.
More information on OS X El Capitan can be found in our El Capitan roundup, which includes details on major features and some little tweaks that were added throughout the beta testing period. Discussion of El Capitan's new features is also taking place in our OS X El Capitan forum, and we encourage all of our readers to join in with questions and new discoveries.
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Updated iPhone and iPad Air 2, will update Macbook tomorrow.
Good night everyone!
Some fun things to try and note:
• Auto-hide the menu bar - System prefs - general - hide
• Select a file and command+option+delete to bypass the empty trash step and delete a specific file
• wiggle your mouse to make it bigger for a second
• Dashboard is off by default - go to mission control system pref to turn it on if you want
• Beautiful new desktop backgrounds
• Safari - I use "command 1" "command 2" etc to go to my fav websites in the favorites bar. Now it's command+option+number. Go to safari - prefs - tabs to change it back.
• swipe to delete something in Mail
I clicked download on the El Capitan page in the app store. No progress bar. How can I see what is happening?
Click "Purchased" on the top bar.
Nothing yet on my end, USA. East CoastTrying searching for it. Thats what worked for me.
Nothing showing here (UK).https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/os-x-el-capitan/id1018109117?mt=12
Who in the world uses spotlight search. If you don't know where things are on your mac, give up.Maybe the only thing you do with your Mac is surf the web and get emails, but others actually do some more complex things.
Spotlight for workflow? It's not that had to locate documents and applications on a Mac without spotlight.Lots of things are not hard. It's not hard to add up a series of numbers, but a spreadsheet makes it easier.
It's not hard to find documents and applications, but Spotlight makes things easier. I guarantee that I could find things on my Mac faster using spotlight than you could without it.
It seems like you don't use Spotlight, you really should give Spotlight a go.
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
Reverse Dungeoneering #13 - 101 DM Tips (Part 4)
31) Remember that there are other rewards beyond money.
It's easy to get used to just handing out experience points and money as the only rewards in game but there are plenty of other options. Giving titles, land, companions, items, events, etc. can all be other useful things to hand out as a reward to your players.
32) We're standing on the shoulders of giants.
Don't get so wrapped up in trying to be too original. It's okay to borrow good ideas. Much of what human society has become is thanks to standing on the shoulders of giants or else we wouldn't have progressed to where we are. That goes for works of fiction as well. You didn't invent the Dragon but you can utilize that concept in a nearly infinite number of ways. Remember that borrowing is part of good game design as well.
33) Don't plan too far ahead.
Imagine this scenario: you planned way in advance for all kinds of outcomes so that you would be ready for several gaming sessions in a row. You're so glad that all of that work is out of the way because you spent hours upon hours on it. Things are all going according to plan and then your players do something completely unexpected. They did something so out of left field that you're not only unprepared for that outcome but all of that hard work is now garbage because it won't come up in the game at all. Hours of work just got flushed down the toilet. Don't plan that far in advance so you can avoid that kind of nightmare.
34) Reward roleplaying.
It's pretty standard practice to reward the Fighter after he's decapitated a goblin with experience points but what about other aspects of the game? Don't miss the opportunity to reward roleplaying but be careful how you hand out your rewards because that leads to the next tip...
35) Don't reward based solely on the performance.
You don't want to create a prima donna that tries to steal the spotlight. You also don't want to fail to reward roleplaying that isn't seen. For example, let's say you have one character who is casting fantastical spells of glowing energy and describing their powers in detail and then another player at the table is roleplaying an assassin who is the exact opposite. They don't show off and everything they do is quiet and efficient. They're roleplaying their character perfectly and yet I imagine that many Dungeon Masters would accidentally ignore the efforts of the assassin. If they're playing their character the way they intended then that's all that matters.
36) Stick up for your players.
Some players think outside the box and some simply don't. Neither approach is wrong or superior to the other. Both are rather necessary but some players get picked on for what they might be attempting or for a choice they made. Defend your player's choices or else they might be afraid to make a decision in the future.
37) Don't stick to a script.
Never stick to a script. It's great to have an outline of things to keep track of since not everyone has the best memory in the world but if you get too involved in a script of what to say as an NPC then you're going to be lost when a player's character interrupts that NPC of yours or asks them a question. You won't have a line prepared to save you and you're going to have to improvise.
38) Utilize the tools that are out there.
I've mentioned some tools that I utilize in other Reverse Dungeoneering posts but it's useful to know what's out there and what might work for your group. There are initiative trackers that also keep track of status effects and other specifics of each individual character so you don't have to. There are power cards for players, DM screens, and a laundry list of other useful things that just make life easier and gameplay faster.
39) Prepare ahead of time.
Is there a map that needs to be drawn? Then draw it before showing up. Are there multiple floors in that dungeon? Then draw all the maps and lay them on top of one another. Do the monsters need initiative rolled? That can probably be rolled ahead of time. There are tons of things you can be doing before the game even starts that can make things run much more smoothly.
40) Set up ground rules before you begin.
If there are any houserules or simple etiquette rules you want to impose on the game then discuss it before you get the group together to sit down and play. People need to know these things in advance and you may have to deal with the fact that they might not like a particular rule you have set in stone. It's probably a good idea to also be a little open-minded about discussing these rules or even rules that the players themselves want to implement.


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575 Limit and 700 FlyingWing
Thought I would share with you my latest 2 designs.
The first is based on an older, standard tail version, of the tiny Germania Limit slope soarer. It was enlarged to a 575mm span from an origonal 455mm. It is powered by another cheap chinese motor which is designed to turn a 5x3 prop at 16-18000 revs on 11.1v
Goes well, it is fast and very agile
AUW 81/2 oz with an 800mA 11.1v lipo.
The motor draws about 6A at max power, but it flies well on 1/2 power.
The construction uses a depron skinned wing with an internal spar.
No ribs are used. The rear 1/2" of the wing skins are glued together with POR adhesive, the two skins are glued to the spar which is at the 1/3rd chord position. The depron skins at the front of the wing are pulled together and taped. with care you get a symetrical wing which is more than strong enough
The box Fuz is built of 1/16" balsa or 3mm depron. just like you would build any other fuz.
Tail and tailplane are from 3mm deprom
Heres a pic of the motor used.... another good little one at 22gm....
using a 7x3.5 prop you can get 10oz plus thrust. But its best for higher reving with a 5x3 and best used on the faster little models
Highly recommended
My second model is a 700mm span flying wing. It has been scaled down from a Zagi plan and a fuz added below the wing to make the motor and radio easier to fit
The wing construction is the same as the 575mm limit
The fuz was made with 1/16" balsa but depron would be fine, It is a basic box fuz with a laminated depron nose shape added
I have a set of pictures to show the construction method
NOTE ...the pictures show the first build for the fuz, its position in the build was not good and it was later moved backwards to enable the required COG to be acheived with ease..
In the first build I was working using a scaled down zagi drawing and the indicated position turned out to be too far forward
I then rebuilt the fuz extending out the back and moving the motor 35mm back from the origonal position. The nose was shortened by about 30mm.
By moving the fuz backwards, the cut out for the prop is now not needed.
The ailerons can be lengthened so they go right next to the fuz
I couldnt bother doing this as my wing had already been built
Specs.... motor - same as the limit, a 2500K/v 22gm with a 5x3 prop
battery 11.1v 1200mA ...
AUW 81/4oz
2x 5gm servos towerpro used
hitec rec hfs 05ms
esc cheapo towerpro 12A
IMPORTANT ..... when launching the wing throw the thing, then power up the motor,,or your fingers will get the chop....OUCH I wont show you the pictures of that...
nice i was just looking for a plane for my c20 and i believe this is it! any more construcion tips?how do you affix the wing to fuse?just went through your drawing/instructions and i think i can pull it off. do you have some more build pics or at least some more angles of the Germania. also not good with mm,what does 575mm translate into inches? Really been wanting to do a mini pylon for a while, ive also seen some of your other designs a havent yet tackled one ,but the mini germania definitely caght my eye.(and imagination)
good work
Hi danno the wing on my limit is removable and has a peg at the front for location and a overhanging top decking from the front of the fuz holding the front of the wing down
and there is a catch at the back which is held on with one nylon wing bolt this rotates to hold the rear of the wing.. but a permanent fixing would be ok.
I will be posting a lot of construction pics taken during the 700 wing build.
the method is much the same for the limit
The fuz is glued to the wing with uhu por and further held with packing tape.
All the decor is 2" wide colored sticky tape
the wingspan for the limit was suposed to be 600mm 24" but I must have cut it short when building..still it goes well, and with the front engine there are no launching problems.
will post more tomorrow getting late here....dave
Last edited by davereap; Apr 06, 2007 at 03:45 PM.
They say a picture is worth athousand words...... I hope so, ... here are some construction photos of the 750 wings build.
If anyone wants some different angle shots or close ups of anything please post here and I will try to oblige
there are no build pics for the limit, but the fuz is built like any box fuz with some triangle in the corners and rounded off,
build the wing first then construct the fuz onto that.
I fitted two servos into the wing, just behind the spar side by side.. one for ailerons one for elevator once they were linked I put a false floor just above them for the battery to be fastened to with velcro.
With the limit its the wing shape that make it look good, the fuz can be made fatter or deeper as you like to accommedate the radio gear and you wont notice the difference when alls done
My one was made initialy as a sloper, then converted for elec power, so the radio space was a tight fit, but it went in after a fiddle about
If I were building again, possibly I would make the whole thing a bit bigger say 650mm or 700mm span, the proportionally larger fuz would then take the radio easier
1 ...wing skins and spar cut
2 ...spar glued to top panel, glue applied to rear 1/2" of both panels and glue along bottom panel where the spar will go and along the top of the spar
If you are making a tapered wing I recommend the top side of the spar is flat and the spar is tapered along its lower edges, glue the flat of the spar to the top wing first, on a nice flat surface,
Fit the lower skin, still using the flat surface, to make the whole wing flatest along the top surface with the "V" along the lower surface
My spars go from about 10mm at the centre to 5mm at the ends
uhu por for all joints here
Last edited by davereap; Apr 07, 2007 at 11:49 AM.
The two skins are carefully lined up and fixed
Using 2" clear packing tape, 1" each for each surface the leading edges are pulled together accurately and fixed
Using 2" coloured packing tape some decor is applied
This is where the pics will vary from the recomended build.
I cut out a recess for the prop and fitted the ailerons.
I recommend that you forget the prop cut out and bring the ailerons further in, so as to be adjacent to the fuz.. This is because the fuz was moved rearward to get a good COG position and the prop now is well behind the wing and clears all the bits
Last edited by davereap; Apr 07, 2007 at 12:30 PM.
The aileron servos were fitted in the top surface of the wing, just behind the spars
Recommended ...you can bring them in a bit more towards the fuz now that the ailerons are also closer
A false floor is now fitted to the lower surface of the wing, width of your battery plus a bit..the servo leads are pulled through a hole in the floor.
This floor is stuck to the wing surface at the thickest position and has some laminations of depron at the back to make it roughly line up with the centre line of the wing section
dont forget.. your floor will go 35mm further back, as measured from the centre of the trailing edge on the wing
my motor mount was fitted at this time
Last edited by davereap; Apr 07, 2007 at 12:30 PM.
The fuz is built width and height as you need, but keep to the minimum size for your batteries rather than go too big
The rear of the fuz slopes up a bit to give a bit of shape and the corners here were rounded off as well
again dont forget...these pics show the fuz ends at the prop cut out...
yours should extend for 35mm behind the trailing edge, measured from the centre, with NO prop cut out
Last edited by davereap; Apr 07, 2007 at 12:38 PM.
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The genesis of this week's Friday Silly Movie Of My Youth Of The Day selection is found in the comments to last week's FSMOMYOTD, The Boy In The Plastic Bubble. First time commenter Marked Hoosier asked if next week's entry would be a "seasonal" choice. Jumping onto the theme in his patented style, Neighborhood regular John Royal suggested "one of those Rankin-Bass claymation things, like 'Rudolph' or 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.' I love those things."
And you know something, the conspicuous semitism of The Committee's membership notwithstanding, these claymation spectaculars are pretty well-regarded among The Elders as well. So, after rejecting John's requests for Xanadu time and again (and despite the sad fact that he's "out of town and nowhere near a computer" today), the votes are in, The Elders are unanimous in the sappy direction they chose to go this week, and today's FSMOMYOTD is none other than . . .
Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Funny thing is, as I headed home last Friday, already brainstorming about the next glorious FSMOMYOTD, I had no thoughts whatsoever that this, or any other Rankin & Bass Christmas special was making the grade. Just didn't think about it. But as I cracked a Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, the first of the high ABV beers (google it) I would drain that evening, and chilled on the couch as Mrs. Mike did whatever it is women do when their husbands start drinking on Friday night, what should come on the TV? None other than Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, followed by Frosty The Snowman.
Now, as these Friday posts should indicate, I'm never one to shy away from any excuse to indulge in lugubrious strolls down the sepia-toned paths of Nostalgiaville. Least of all when I'm rapidly catching a heavy beer buzz as a terror-inducing birthday approaches. Needless to say I watched.
Both of 'em. (Lucky woman, that Mrs. Mike, huh? How's that for a Friday Night? Drunk husband and children's Christmas specials! Straight out of the happy wife handbook.)
Frosty, I'm sad to report, didn't hold up too well. I mean, we still had Hocus-Pocus doing those . . . well, rabbity things he did. And Karen was brave & cute, and Frosty was still Da best belly-whhhhoppa . . . in da woild. But you know what else? The animation sucks, the story is about as good as you'd expect from a 54 year-old half-hour cartoon based on a silly song, and whatever childhood pathos we might've felt upon seeing Frosty turned into a puddle, is hard to re-muster when you've seen the north pole wind revive him 25 times and counting.
(And while we're here, let's just get it out of the way: Snowman + Greenhouse = Stoooo-pid. Then again, Frosty never struck me as the sharpest icicle under the roof. Get it? Icicle, instead of tool, because . . . oh, never mind.)
But Rudolph? It holds up. And then some. It's good. But you know what? I knew that already, because it was always my favorite as a kid, earning the December gold to Charlie Brown's silver and I guess The Grinch for the bronze. But I dithered on the Grinch, really digging it one year, then not the next. Maybe it depended on how good the roast beast was.
Now . . . let's just get something out in the open right now, shall we? Some of you may be thinking, "Rudolph??? Are you kidding?" Some of you may even be thinking, "This is a silly movie? It isn't even a movie, it's a goddamn children's Christmas special." (And the rest of you are certainly thinking, "For crissakes, I'm already exhausted and he hasn't even started talking about the program yet"). Well tough titties to all of you. Cause this is the choice. And I've got three good reasons to make this selection. In ascending order of importance:
1. The Ultimate Outsider's Story. Misfits, rebels, independents. I was SO all-over this, even as a child (I told you I was a weird kid);And if that 3rd reason, alone, ain't good enough, then you'd better just stop reading right now and come back next week.
2. I will straight-out mess you up if I hear you dissing Rudolph. Make no mistake; and . . .
3. Yukon. Fucking. Cornelius.
(And, yes, I'm aware that you probably think I'm crazy right about now. It's cool.)
It's funny that the "Rankin & Bass" franchise is so established, because based on re-viewings of some of those specials other than Rudolph, they weren't very good. It's true that Year Without A Santa Claus has the priceless comic duo of the Snow Miser & his insane brother, The Heat Miser, so of course that's good for a lot. He's Mr. Heeeeeat Miser, he's Mr. Sun . . . Let's mince no words: those songs are great. And whatever I touch/starts to melt in my clutch/I'm too much. C'mon, we're talking musical gold here. And the little assistant Heat Misers? Fantastic.
But I promise you, if you try to watch the entire show, You Will Regret It. Trust me. Same with Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town. We think Burgermeister Meisterburger will be funny because he's got a mildly amusing name and we thought he was hilarious when we were seven. But you know what, we thought Fonzie was cool when we were seven.
He's wasn't.
Ok, on to Rudolph. Another confession. I wasn't really that crazy about the character, Rudolph. I thought he was kind of a pussy, even though watching now shows him to be a pretty brave little red-nosed reindeer. And viewing as an adult, it's pretty clear that Hermie's desire to be a dentist isn't all that makes him a misfit. No sirree. Hermie doesn't like to make toys could be changed to Hermie doesn't like to "make" elf-chicks, and it'd be a hundred times more accurate.
As a kid, I would've had no idea what a gay elf was, any more than I really understood why an elf wanting to be a dentist was so strange. Elf's have teeth, right? Is elf enamel so tough they don't get cavities? Any dorky former (or present) D&Ders among the crew here who can help us out? Did elfs get +2 on Strength & +1 on Constitution for their strong choppers (yes, intentional word choice. Be patient. You don't think I'm dying to get to him?)
Oh, and another confession: I hated playing D&D. Who the hell cares what the Dungeon Master says? Some other dorky kid gets a massive power complex because he's "The DM," and he can just choose to have you run into a freakin' black dragon for no real reason 15 minutes into the game just because he's mad that you're faster than him on your bike, and . . .
Theoretically, of course. But the books, the Monster Manual? Oooo, I loved that shit. And I do have 20-sided dice, but that's from Strat-O-matic, not D&D. So I was a dork, but a different kind.
Where were we? Let's see, other characters in Rudolph. Well, with one notable exception (we're getting there), among the adult humans, the adult reindeer, and the adult elfs, they were all total assholes. The coach? Total dick. The head elf? A putz. Donner, Rudolph's dad? Nightmare. And of course we know who was, by far, the worst, backstabbing, no loyalty, only-looking-out-for-himself piece of no good crap, right?
That's right. Santa Claus himself. Telling Rudolph's father he should be ashamed of himself because his son had a Red Nose! Watching Rudolph brutally banished from the reindeer games, yet complaining that it was too bad only because the kid had such a great take-off. And even as he finally discovered Rudolph's special skill, he was still bitching and moaning about how it was hurting his eyes.
Enough! I can't take it. So it's time for . . .
Yukon Cornelius. That's riiiiight, jack. He may just have been one of my favorite cartoon characters as a child. Funny, courageous, smart, warm-hearted, he was the bomb. How's this for some dialogue:
Yukon Cornelius: Fog's as thick as peanut butter.And, in 1964, as America was still in the midst of the Cold War & its civil rights struggles, this lone prospector in the great Canadian hinterlands took in a talking reindeer with red lightbulb nose & his wannabe-dentist gay elf friend without question. Now that's an enlightened dog team driver! Hell, he even carried the dogs and pulled the sled at one point when the dogs wouldn't mush. I'm telling you, Yukon was one of my heroes.
Hermey: You mean pea soup.
Yukon Cornelius: You eat what you like and I'll eat what I'll like.
And, lest we not forget his finest moment: he stood up to the Bumble. Tell me you weren't devastated the first (and second, third & fourth) time you saw him go over that cliff. Don't even try to brush that off. I was distraught. And then when he showed up at that rat bastard Santa's place at the end . . .
Ok, I think I'm getting a bit misty here. So let's get to a few random questions and observations before hitting a (relatively speaking) small cast.
I know I'm not the first to ask this, and probably won't be the last. But . . . what was up with the doll on the Island of Misfit Toys? What made her a misfit toy? Was she a Ho' doll, "rescued" from a Bangkok brothel so she could service that weird, flying lion dude? A heroin addict? A she-male doll? Dyslexic? Tourette's?
Come to think of it, what was wrong with the polka-dot elephant? He's a stuffed elephant! Polka dots are ok for stuffed animals, right? Because the rest of the toys were really screwed up: trains with square wheels, water guns that shoot jelly, ostrich-riding cowboys, the freakin' Charlie in the Box that talked like Snagglepuss. Those were Misfits.
But the doll? I dunno, but I think someday the CIA needs to declassify the info and let us in on it. I need to know.
And if Rudolph has any flaws, this one's obvious: Despite the misfits/outsiders/independents theme of the show, the attitudes towards the female characters are laughably bad. Clarise has eyes bigger than a manga or anime chick, and her voice sounds like she belongs on a 900 line. And of course the famous line where Burl Ives's snowman tells us, after Yukon's fall, that though they were all "saddened by the loss of their friend," they knew that the best thing to do was to "get the women back to Christmas town." Because who needs women when you've got a talking reindeer with a red lightbulb nose and an elf?
And while we're at the Q&A portion of our discussion, forgetting about the doll for a second, what's up with King Moonracer, the Ruler of the Island of Misfit Toys? Why was a flying lion the king of the misfits? That's the best gig he could get? He's a goddamn flying lion!!! He's the King Of The Beasts and he can fly, and he's stuck on that silly island with a Charlie in the Box and his Ho' doll girlfriend? Someone get him a real agent.
And now . . . on to a short rundown of The Cast:
The voice of Hermie? Paul Soles. Which is the same last name as one of the "stars" of last week's FSMOMYOTD post, P.J. Soles. You see, no matter how much I ramble, it's the cast portion of the program that pulls it all together.
Or maybe not.
The voice of Yukon Cornelius? The extremely aptly named, Larry D. Mann. Damn straight he was. Mann, who'll turn 84 on Monday, actually had a very long career, doing both voice work and appearences in various TV shows. I don't recall the character, but apparently he played "Judge Lee Oberman" on Hill Street Blues over three seasons, totalling 15 episodes. If anyone knows about this, give us a report on what he looks like.
On second thought, don't. Finding out that Yukon Cornelius is 5'4", skinny & bald could traumatize me to the point of no return. Best to let sleeping bumbles lie.
Finally, the voice of Rudolph? A woman, Billie Mae Richards. You see, I knew something was off with that red-nosed reindeer. And it wasn't the nose. Let's be "independent" together, indeed.
But what's truly strange here, is that Richards, who was born in 1921 and did voice work in a series of increasingly sappy cartoons such as The Friggin Care Bears, appeared in 1978's Jailbait Babysitter. And no, that's not a typo. And lest you think the title is intentionally deceptive, think again. The following is the first (and only) comment on IMDB for this flick:
It's a drive-in schlock movie with some nudity and sexual situations. The woman who takes in the title babysitter is strange looking yet oddly sexy.And if you're thinking, "Wow, if Mike's seen this, it's sure to be a future FSMOMYOTD," corrrrrrrect you are. But, alas, I haven't seen it, and I can't say I'm going to. (Though I wouldn't turn it off if it came on late night cable.)
And somehow, John Goodman made it into that classic. It was his first role. Which reminds me of the one line of dialogue I'd add to Rudolph, and Yukon Cornelius would deliver it: "Forget it Santa, you're out of your element."
Come to think of it, maybe Rudolph himself delivering a terse, "Shut the fuck up, Santa" in that nasely voice would've been even better.