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July 4, 2008, First Friday
Minutes by Steve Smith
Meeting called to order at 4:04 PM in John Pomeranz and Kathi Overton's front yard.
Treasurer's report:Same as last time.
Capclave Present:There will be a meeting at the Scheiner's tomorrow at 1PM
Capclave Future:The dodo cups have arrived. The rest of his energies are going into Worldcon.
Capclave Far Future:Was changing tires.
Entertivities:The committee needs a new chair; Sam Lubell volunteered.
Publications:Nothing to report
Awards:So far, only 38% of WSFA has voted on the short stories. This is far away from chocolate.
The Committee to Actually Discuss Science Fiction:Reiterates that the First Friday discussion will be of F&SF and the Third Friday discussions will be of Asimov's
Trustees:No report
Rules:There are rules.
Old business:Sam got a card for Ally Parsons.
New business:None
New people:David Grimm attended his first WSFA meeting.
- Lee Strong announced that, in new movies, Hancock is good if gross in places, The Happening is "ick!" and Wall-E is good.
- Bill Lawhorn has rooms at Worldcon for the Capclave parties. They're on the 22nd floor of the party hotel.
Meeting unanimously adjourned at 4:10 PM.
Charles Abel, Christine Abel, Mike Bartman, Will Frank, Cathy Green, David Grimm, Bill Lawhorn, Sam Lubell, Michael Nelson, Christopher Neumann, Barry Newton, Judy Newton, Bob Macintosh, Sandra Marshall, Sarah Mitchell, Mike Palmer, George Shaner, Judy Scheiner, Steve Smith, Lee Strong, Ivy Yap.
July 18 2008, Third Friday
Meeting called to order at 9:23 PM at the Madigan residence.
Treasurer's report:10675.41
Capclave Present:No report
Capclave Future:Harry Turtledove was at the National Press Club Tuesday; Cathy sent him a message asking if he wanted to come to Capclave parties at Worldcon. Bill Lawhorn displayed one of the Dodo cups. They're 12 oz — big enough, for a reasonable amount to drink, but small enough to refill. The sex of the dodo was questioned. [If you can't tell, does it matter? — sgs]
Capclave Far Future:no report
Entertivities:Lee Strong gave some quick movie reviews. The Dark Knight: Very powerful story that combines a classic superhero battle with a meditation on the effects of terrorism on society. The climax includes possibly the most outstanding display of heroism ever depicted. Hellboy II: The Golden Army: Very good fantasy story. The climax is very strong but the anti-climax is incredibly weak and illogical. Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D: An adequate remake of the Jules Verne novel and the 1959 movie. Lee did not like the 3D effects because it seemed as tho things were being poked or dripped into his eyes.
Publications:Had time management issues, but no journals. [sorry about that — sgs]
Rules:The rules for the mailing lists all translate as "Don't be a jerk". The Secretary will circulate rules to the mailing list and post them on the Yahoo group.
Awards:nothing official. Voting is closed but there are no official announcements. There was a discussion of how to pry information out of them.
The Committee to Actually Discuss Science Fictionwill discuss F&SF at First Friday. The Third Friday will conflict with Worldcon.
Trustees:No report on our work to get right with the Federal government. Our expert, John Pomeranz, is waiting to hear from the Feds. Regarding elections, our next exercise in democracy is the election of 2 members of the Literary Awards Committee in November. Since there is a Capclave between now and then, please be thinking about candidates now and suggest them to the Trustees (Colleen Cahill, Judy Newton and Lee Strong). Only members of the club in good standing can nominate or serve. Candidates must agree to the nomination. There were some jokes made about our member Crystal Pepsi.
They have to read all of the submissions and pick finalists. The Award is getting good press; we got twice as many submissions this year as last year.
Old business:None
New business:There are Fifth Fridays in August and October; Labor Day and Halloween. The Call for Volunteers was made; there was no response.
New people:Sarah Katz, who was at Capclave and knows Judy Kindall, was attending her first meeting.
- From the Hosts: Standard announcement: The white bunny bites, no chocolate for the dogs, leave change on the floor. Nonstandard announcements: Candy is off vending tonight; this means that Kindra is making the cookies. They have a new bunny named Butterball.
- Brian Lewis's contract on a condo fell apart., but he's settled on a new condo. He paid money and everything. It's Annandale/Alexandria area off Little River Turnpike. He's looking for recommendations for somebody to work on the kitchen and bathroom.
- Barry announced that the Capclave rate has been extended to the end of this month; he has fliers.
- Cathy brought Capclave fliers to distribute.
- Bill Lawhorn announced Worldcon parties. They're on the 22nd floor of the party hotel. Four nights, six parties. He may survive.
Meeting unanimously adjourned at 9:45
Charles Abel, Christina Abel, Mike Bartman, Drew Bittner, Adrienne Ertman, Carolyn Frank, Erica Ginter, Cathy Green, Sarah Katz, Bill Lawhorn, Brian Lewis, Sandra Marshall, Walter Miles, Sarah Mitchell, Chris Neumann, Barry Newton, Judy Newton, Steve Smith, Laura Somerville, Terry Somerville, Lee Strong, Ivy Yap
Hancock, Reviewed by Lee Strong.
Twentieth Century Fox, 2008
Directed by Peter Berg
Reviewed by Lee Strong
This film certainly is an original take on the superhero trope. Not too many "heroes" are as sleazy and foul mouthed as the villains they fight.
It's just another day in crime ridden Los Angeles including disastrous interventions by boozy superhero (?) John Hancock (Will Smith). Every citizen seems to hate their foul mouthed savior and he seems to return their collective opinion. Enter struggling advertising man Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman) who wants to save the world and his wife Mary (Charlize Theron) who wants to save her marriage. He treats Hancock like a person and gradually wins the latter's respect and commitment to be a better person. The mysterious superman is still violent and prone to slipping back to his antisocial ways but now he's trying. But wait! Just as Hancock seems to have won the respect of the community, a sudden twist reveals his past and a startling new menace! Will Hancock regain his memory and defeat his 3,000 year old nemesis?
I found this film to be adequate but somewhat below average. First of all, it was very foul mouthed, which is not my cup of tea. Much of the language seemed to be appropriate (?) given the situation but I still prefer my superheroes to limit themselves to "Blast!" and "Holy road wheels, Tankman!" More seriously, part of Hancock's time in prison includes a VERY graphic scene depicting someone's body part going "where the Sun don't shine." Fortunately, there's some warning so you can either avoid it or memorize it as you prefer. The cinematography was also surprising weak with the camera getting much too close to people's faces much too often. In addition, I did not find Hancock's nemesis to be very impressive and their battle seemed more than a little contrived. On the more positive side, the story is very strong with an excellent plot twist redefining the film partway thru. The characters were well drawn and acted.
I therefore rate Hancock as 2.5 stars on the 5 star scale. — LS
The Happening, Reviewed by Lee Strong.
The Happening
Twentieth Century Fox, 2008
Written, produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Watched, reviewed and critiqued by Lee Strong
"You know you're in trouble when you're losing a battle of wits with a head of cabbage." — Dr. Anonymous
This film wastes no time getting underway. People start dying of a mysterious "event" that causes them to first become disoriented and then suicidal, often in very disturbing ways. (The term "The Happening" is not used in the film.) Our heroes, science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel), their neighbor Julian (John Leguizamo) and his daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez), flee Philadelphia for the increasingly remote Pennsylvania countryside only to find that the event is following them. In the best scientific tradition — plus a giant clue from a friendly farmer — Elliot gradually works out the event's parameters and a possible cause for the wind borne toxin but can the Moores find safety before it's too late?
I found this movie unappealing on almost all fronts. The cinematography was good but almost everything else wasn't. I consider the Big Plot Device and the supporting speculative gobbledygook to be religious — specifically the Living Planet Gaea Hypothesis — rather than scientific. Since I don't agree with the Hypothesis, I found the movie's core idea to be ultimately foolish rather than fearsome. While the principal characters do employ some scientific analysis in order to understand the event, they seem to get as far as they do by sheer dumb luck rather than anything else. The multiple suicides demonstrate some ingenuity of presentation but they're certainly nothing that you should want to see within 24 hours of eating. And neither is the acting of the live characters, all of whom seem to be limited to various degrees of helplessness. Just because people like these exist in the real world doesn't mean that you should spend 90 minutes with them.
I therefore rate The Happening (2008) as 1.5 stars on the 5 star scale because of an implausible plot supported by wooden acting. — LS
Wall-E, Reviewed by Lee Strong.
Disney-Pixar, 2008
Directed by Andrew Stanton 1.0
Reviewed by Lee Strong 3.0
If you wait long enough, anything will come back into fashion once again. Here we have a delightful 1930s slapstick story of an upper class girl meeting and falling in love with a lower class guy. The difference is they're robots.
It's just another day on the job for our hero, Wall-E, toiling diligently away to clean up Earth after the mess left by humanity. True, humanity is 695 years overdue for their scheduled return from a 5 year stellar vacation but orders are orders. Since he's the last functioning robot on the planet, Wall-E keeps himself going physically by scavenging parts and emotionally by watching reruns of Hello Dolly. His dutiful bachelor existence is interrupted when a female robot, Eve, arrives to scan the desolate planet for life more advanced than Wall-E's pet cockroach. When her spaceship shanghais her back into space, our hero stows away and eventually arrives at the super space liner Axiom where slug like humanity waits, 700 years into their 5 year tour. Eve's findings trigger a dusty plan to recolonize Earth but only over the dead hardware of the master robot Autopilot whose secret orders have kept the Axiom and its blubbery passengers and crew in orbit for centuries. It's a battle of the robots and humans for the destiny of our planet and two species!
This is probably not the greatest science fiction movie ever animated but it is fun. The characters are well drawn (literally!) and certainly engaging. Their various quirks and conflicts derive from logical electronic and social programming. The major conflict, ultimately, was not about good versus evil but about two concepts of good — a more subtle and interesting theme. I especially liked the way that the sluggish humans rallied and recovered their destiny when their faithful robots revealed the wonders of the universe and the recolonization plan. The camera work is good and various planetary and spacecraft backgrounds beautifully done in their separate ways. The back story is swiftly and appropriately sketched in with various devices. I found the dialog particularly clever. The whale-like humans speak normally but most of the robots use sentence fragments, non-linguistic sounds, facial gestures and body language instead. Neither Wall-E nor Eve ever speak a complete sentence, for example. Instead, thoughts and emotions are conveyed by actions and music. Some of the apparent software programming can be criticized but I'm willing to allow the scriptwriters some dramatic license. And, after all, machines that stay on mission 700 years after their warranties expire deserve some leeway!
I rate Wall-E as 3.0 stars on the 5 star scale. And the next time you see a janitor dong his job, say "Thank you." — LS
The King of Elfland's Daughter, Reviewed by mortal Lee Strong.
The King of Elfland's Daughter
Ballantine Books Editions, 1969, 1977
Written by Lord Dunsany
Reviewed by mortal Lee Strong
"A fantasy novel in a class with the Tolkien books!" — L. Sprague de Camp
I must respectfully disagree with Mr. de Camp on this one. I generally find Dunsany's fantasies to be only mildly interesting and this was no exception.
The parliament of the tiny principality of Erl wants there to be magic in their mundane little realm. So they ask their Lord, Alveric, to obtain some. Mindful of their wishes, he first obtains a magic sword from the local witch and then enters the timeless realm of Elfland, which, it seems, is a short distance east of Erl. He wins the heart of Lirazel, the eponymous princess, and returns with her to Erl where she gives him a son, Orion, while trying to fit into the mortal world. Her father sends a magic rune after her and she returns to Elfland. Alveric begins a years long quest to return to Elfland but the wily king causes it to recede from mortal lands when Alveric is near, thus preventing his son-in-law's reentry.
This classic novel does contain the elements of a fantasy story but in such small doses that the book becomes an emotional energy sink. The characters seem to be mere stock figures of almost no emotional depth and color is applied to the situation and landscape in only the palest of hues. The plot lacks drama and Dunsany's lackadaisical execution and convoluted sentence structure drain what little tension there is. I liked the resolution where Elfland engulfs Erl but that was an exception to the generally boring slog thru this leaden tome. Robert E. Howard could have written the same story in 10 pages and make it sing. Lord Dunsany spends 242 pages and makes it sink.
I rate The King of Elfland's Daughter as 1.5 stars on the 5 star scale because reading it became a dreary task rather than an exploration of wonder. — LS
WSFA History
Ten Years Ago
Twenty Years Ago
There was much excitement over the upcoming Bucconeer.
The Journal also had a collection of computer error messages redone as haiku. Example:
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
Secretary Mary Morman included a "Sex Role Identification Survey" in the Journal, trying to figure out just how weird we all are.
From the Editor
Sorry about the lateness of the last couple of issues. Like I said above, time management issues.
— Steve Smith, Editor, The WSFA Journal


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A 15-year-old Wyoming teen has pleaded not guilty to murder in the strangling of a western Nebraska jail guard.
Dylan Cardeilhac, of Torrington, Wyo., made his plea Monday in Scotts Bluff County District Court.
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Authorities say another inmate, 16-year-old Guy Eagle Elk, of Lisco, told Cardeilhac how to choke the woman. Eagle Elk's trial on a charge of aiding and abetting assault is scheduled for July. He's pleaded not guilty.
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In the present work, nondimensionalized axial and bending stiffnesses are used to investigate the buckling behavior of tri-layer beams having asymmetric double separated delaminations. A generalized analytical analysis using the Euler–Bernoulli beam theory is developed. Appropriate boundary and kinematic conditions are used to formulate the systematic homogeneous equations. The model is verified with the previously published data for homogeneous beam case and an excellent agreement between the results is observed. Effective-slenderness ratio, a new nondimensionalized parameter, is defined and introduced which strongly influences the buckling phenomenon.
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The Lead SQA Engineer will work as a lead member of the Quality team at Hart. This individual will be responsible for general QA leadership and will collaborate closely with QA Director on test planning, testing strategies, project plans and risk mitigation strategies. This person will lead the planning, design, development and execution of test processes, test plans, test setups and test scripts (manual as well as automated) for Hart InterCivic's election systems suite of products. This includes a variety of applications and products such as voting devices, desktop applications, client-server applications, embedded applications, device firmware, XML validation, relational databases, software utilities, customer specific applications, reports and user documentation.
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FFVII Remake And Kingdom Hearts III - Dev Explains Why They Can Provide Precise Info To The Fans
Final Fantasy VII Remake and Kingdom Hearts 3, these are two games that Square Enix fans have been waiting for a long time. The problem with Square Enix is that whenever they deliver some new information related these two games, they manage to score on marketing and promotion front, but fails to fulfill fans need more relevant and precise information.
What exactly is the problem, why this difficulty? Square Enix's Shinji Hashimoto finally broke his silence on this interesting and very important topic in a recent interview with a French Publication Khisland Info. When asked: Why is this so difficult to communicate and give concrete and precise information on Final Fantasy VII Remake and Kingdom Hearts 3 to the fans? Hashimoto replied:
"You must know that for each future titles (i.e. FFVII Remake, KH3 etc), there is an established development planning. So we must first consult it to check on the progress of the game, to be able to convey the most interesting and relevant information to the public. To give you an example, many events will take place this year. There is Final Fantasy's 30th Anniversary event, Final Fantasy VII's 20th Anniversary event as well as Kingdom Hearts' 15th Anniversary event.
Knowing this, it is obvious that fans are expecting a lot and we wish to show more in order to celebrate all of these events. Regarding Final Fantasy's 30th Anniversary, we have many events planned in Japan, Final Fantasy XV's DLCs, Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age Remaster and the new extension of Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood. We wish we could give as much information as possible but it is imperative that we have control on the calendar in order, so that we can reveal relevant information at the precise time."
In addition to this, Shinji Hashimoto also talked about Marvel, future of Final Fantasy series and many other things. You guys can read the full interview here (in French).
Final Fantasy VII is scheduled to launch on PlayStation 4, release date not yet announced (not even a year has been confirmed so far). The game will be released in Episode format, and gameplay is not going to be similar to what we saw in the original game. These biggest change might not go down too well, here's why - Is Dev Playing With Fire By Revamping Gameplay And Episodic Release?
On the other side, Kingdom Hearts III is scheduled to launch in 2018 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.


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If you are not kidding about your wellbeing, rest ought to be at the highest priority on your rundown of needs. Lamentably, for some individuals, it just isn't. You may give off rest something to do more, enthrall your diversions, or invest more energy with companions. Bunches of individuals do this and arrangement on getting up to speed with rest at whatever point they can.
In any case, rest is a standout amongst the most dynamic in the range. Rest issue are turning out to be more normal in the United States, and in the event that you don't organize your rest, you may pay for that choice for quite a long time to come.
Every rest issue may show in diverse ways and may originate from distinctive reasons. For instance, fretful leg disorder causes the legs to shake wildly while setting down, making it incomprehensible for individuals to rest. The reason is obscure.
Then again, sleep deprivation is an unexplained powerlessness to nod off or stay unconscious. It might be brought about by medicine, family history, or rest propensities. A few individuals sleep in, which is frequently brought on by drugs, sadness, or hidden wellbeing issues.
On the off chance that you wake up tired in the morning even subsequent to resting, there may be some kind of problem with your nature of rest. Now and again, rest issue can be treated with an adjustment in propensities. In different cases, these issue may oblige restorative intercession. In any case, it is essential to make sense of the reason for your rest issues and how you can settle them.
Getting a lot of rest, insufficient rest, or low-quality rest can have various diverse consequences for your physical wellbeing. Your body does not have the vitality it needs to run viably in the event that you are continually running on too little rest. It adjusts by closing down or backing off pointless procedures.
At the point when this happens, you may begin creating digestive issues, putting on weight, or seeing that you get wiped out all the more regularly. The more extended your rest issues proceed with, the more extreme these wellbeing issues get to be.
Researchers are at long last beginning to acknowledge exactly how imperative rest is to a man's general wellbeing. They have led various sorts of examination, and this exploration demonstrates that individuals with rest issue are more inclined to endure wellbeing issues like heart ailment, diabetes, and perpetual contaminations.
You might likewise find that constant rest issues have an impact on your mental working. The mind, more than whatever other piece of the body, requires on consistent, quality rest to keep running at full proficiency. When you are restless, you encounter mental mist, slower response times, and trouble with memory.
Rest exploration has revealed a considerably scarier join. A late study demonstrates that rest issue have been connected to an expanded danger of Alzheimer's malady.
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Painful Decision
To the Editor:
I am a Vietnam-era veteran and I have no political party preference. Since 1972 I have voted my conscience for Democrats, Republicans and Independents. My preferred candidate has not always won the presidency, but no matter who became our president, I consistently attempted to show respect for the office and to the person holding that office.
I always believed that despite having differing opinions on major issues and concerns, the person holding the ultimate office was a patriot and had the best interests of the country at heart. Up to now no president in my lifetime possessed qualities and attributes that would prevent him from being president.
At times it was difficult to support these presidents, but given the privilege of free speech, I have always had the right to question the issues, concerns and the direction of our country without reprisal, as I am doing now.
Personally, I am at a crossroads where I cannot find it in my heart, my rational mind and my conscience to unequivocally support the current president. While I don't enjoy being in this state of mind, I find it necessary, based on my beliefs, that the leader of this already great country be honest, trustworthy and ethical and have the best interests of all our citizens – all ethnicities, all races and all religions.
I do not believe, and I am sad to write, that our president comes anywhere near this description. There are many reasons for this decision, which, frankly, I wish I did not have to make, but this president's continual misleading statements and validated lies, sophomoric and crude behavior, disparaging remarks to and about women, minorities, immigrants and the handicapped, and critical and insulting remarks about our closest and enduring allies leave me little choice.
Combine this with the president's positive statements about Russian President Vladimir Putin, and I just shake my head in wonderment and angst.
Regardless of whether he realizes it, the president is a role model and, quite frankly, not one I would endorse for my daughters or anyone else about whom I care and want the best.
Why are we, as rational American citizens, tolerating this boorish and foolish behavior? Don't American citizens see that this man's values leave much to be desired? Don't we recognize that this person has shown himself to be a selfish, self-serving bully who criticizes just about anyone who publicly disagrees with him?
As a patriot, a World War II veteran and the greatest man I have ever known, my father, if he was alive today, would be appalled at our president's behavior and lack of character, integrity, empathy and compassion. My dad once told me, "You will never reach higher ground if you are always pushing others down." The president should heed my father's advice and look for the best in people and build them up instead of continually disparaging them and putting them down.
Continuing his behavioral path will only lead to further division of our country and alienation of our strongest allies, with the real possibility of a major multinational war.
Bill Green
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Where oh where is Katie?
Check the map…
Read the signs..
Look at the scenery…
Do you know yet?
Katie left us a week ago for her sophomore year in college at a new school, new roommates, and a final decision on a major (elementary and special ed!).
She and I moved her stuff in 95 degree weather. It was lovely fun, let me tell you.
But when I moved her in, I left wishing I was going to college now too. Check it out…
Her building…
her balcony…
and the views off the balcony…
And that's just the outside!
Her bedroom…
and kitchen….
with decorations proving girls live there…
Plus a full sized washer and dryer! Definitely not the basic dorm room I had in college!
We went for a short visit today so the rest of the family could see where she is living.
A quick stop back off at her room and we headed home.
Wonder if we'll be welcome again??
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Where is College?
Where oh where is Katie?
3 thoughts from friends:
- The Johnson 5 said...
just wait until those trees outside her window start changing. The campus is BEAUTIFUL in the fall! I'm glad she is all settled in in every area :)
- August 22, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- NeuroMama said...
Wow! Is that really a dorm or is it an apartment? She is one lucky woman, for sure. I remember the beautiful cinder block walls of my expensive, private university dorm room. It was more like a cell block than a dorm room. Ah, the good old days.
You must be proud (flattered?) that she's following in your professional footsteps!
- August 22, 2010 at 11:07 PM
- Tara said...
that is so nice! I wonder what it will be like when the little ones go off to college.
- August 23, 2010 at 2:46 PM


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Water Buffalo Hunting Safaris Photo Gallery 2016
- Great old buffalo bull taken by Mr Kruse, Germany. Whilst not a high scoring bull with long tips, an old bull like this with one broken horn exhumes character and in many hunters views... a better trophy.
- 2 buffalo bulls on the flood plains Carmor Plains. The one on the left is fantastic!
- This big bull was keeping cool laying in the water. He has just smelt us and lifted his nose.
- Nice buffalo bull, March during the wet season... perfect for hunting!
- Buffalo bull on the Carmor Plains before a storm. He is giving us that look, like we owe him money!
- Mr Taylor with his water buffalo trophy. This old buffalo bull was very tough. He took 8 shots with a 458 and 1 with a 470.
- Mr Taylor with an old buffalo cow with very unusual twisted horns, a great trophy.
- Big flood plain bull covered in mud, Carmor Plains
- Good bull taken by Mr Sedelbauer, USA
- Great old buffalo bull taken by Mr Lynn Sedelbauer, at the end of the wet season
- Monstrous old buffalo bull taken by Mr Sedelbauer, USA at Carmor Plains
- Jack Kolar, USA, took this management buffalo with my 460 Weatherby, Carmor Plains, at the end of the wet season. Guide Matt Chin behind in the airboat. These bulls are only accessible with the help of this machine.
- Mr Kolar, USA with a fantastic old buffalo, 47 inches wide. Taken at 30 yards with a double rifle.
- Mr Kolar, USA with a nice old buffalo, hunted at 25 yards with a double rifle in 9.3x74. March, everything is nice and green.
- Mr & Mrs Hojsleth, Denmark with a great buffalo bull. Taken with a 375 H&H at 20 yards. Always more fun at close range!
- Mr Sedelbauer yet again with a big buffalo. This bull was taken with a 470 NE double rifle. This bull has incredibly thick horns, 19 3/8 thick at the base, they just don't get much better.
- Big buffalo bull at sunset, Carmor Plains, Australia
- Mr Luke McCormack with a beautiful buffalo bull, 100 SCI
- Young bull covered in mud, Carmor Plains
- Old bull in the long grass, one last glance before he sneaks off
- Mr Theisen, Germany with a good buffalo bull
- Mr Kooijmann and his son with a great buffalo bull, Carmor Plains
- Mr Kooijmann with his son and another nice buffalo bull
- Mr Chris Miers, Australia with a great old sweeper buffalo bull
- Mr John Gustainis, USA with a beautiful buffalo bull, 102SCI
- Mr Peter Jensen, Denmark, with a great old buffalo bull, taken at 25 yards in long grass
- Young Mr Niels Thordal, Denmark with a very big buffalo bull of 14 years. This heavy old bull taken at close range is 100 SCI points.
- Mr Kevin Wilbanks, USA with a monstrous buffalo bull, taken with his 577 double rifle. 105SCI bull
- Mr Wilbanks, USA with another big old bull taken with his 577 double rifle
- Mr Greg Ritz, USA with a beautiful bull from Carmor Plains
- Kimberly jeter, USA with a very nice sweeper bull of 43 inches. Taken at close range in long grass, always a recipe for adrenaline!
- Young Mr Jonah Jeter, USA with a dandy buffalo bull. His first big game animal, taken at Carmor Plains
- Mr Russ Jeter, USA with a big bodied bull, taken on the plains with his 577 double rifle
- Chris Miers with a very very wide buffalo, 79 inches actually!!! The widest we have ever seen!!
- Mr and Mrs Anderson, USA with a great old buffalo bull, taken with a 416 Rigby, Australia Wide Safaris
- Mr Jeff Anderson with a very impressive curling bull taken one afternoon on the Carmor Plains, 100 SCI+
- Mr Mark Martinko, USA with a most fantastic buffalo bull taken at Carmor Plains. This bull scores 111SCI points. They don't come a lot bigger than this old fellow.
- Old buffalo bull watching from the safety of the grass
- Mr Mark Martinko, USA with his 2nd buffalo bull. This old bull had a mate that would not back off and so we had a stand off for 5 minutes in the long grass until he decided it wise to wander off.
- Fantastic sweeper bull taken by Mr Patera, USA. This old bull is 14-15 years old and in my opinion is a trophy of a lifetime. 50+ inches wide
- Dr Patera Jnr with a great trophy bull
- Mr Patera with his 2nd buffalo bull. This one was even bigger, 52 inches wide!


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Listeners to the laser-sharp analysis for which the chart-topping podcast Football Weekly has long been a byword will know that in yesterday's episode of t'Interweb's most self-indulgent broadcast (apart from anything done by any stand-up comedian or Ricky Gervais), a nadir was reached. "Well one team might win, or … eh ... the other team might win," mused one near-earth orbit regular upon being asked to "call" a forthcoming fixture. "Of course," he added, "it could be a draw."
Of course.
While the pundit in question deserves kudos for putting his neck on the block when others might sit on the fence, the Fiver decided to do likewise with tonight's Premier League fixtures at the Stadium of Light, St Andrew's, the Reebok Stadium and Old Trafford. Women, the dark, ringing telephones, carrots: the Fiver is frightened of many things, but it has never been afraid to make the Big Calls.
Aston Villa go into their match against Sunderland as favourites but their players are almost certain to struggle as a result of the collective swollen head sustained in a lucky win over Manchester United and subsequent newspaper talk bigging them up as Liverpool's heir apparent in the Big Four. "For us, it is a great win, in terms of confidence it is great, but now we have a game on Tuesday which will be equally as difficult," chirruped Martin O'Neill, who knows as well as the Fiver what's going to happen to his side tonight. The Fiver's verdict: They will lose. Although Sunderland are just as flakey so they may win. Or it could be a draw.
"The goals will come," said Blackeye Rovers manager Big Sam ahead of his side's encounter against Birmingham City, in an article we couldn't read in its entirety because we're too tight to pay for what laughably passes as "premium content" on the Blackeye website. The Fiver's verdict: The goals will not come. Birmingham will win 1-0. Or Blackburn will win 1-0. Or it could be 0-0.
Bolton's match against West Ham is harder to call, even though it's a game both sets of fans want the home side to lose. Possibly because of his hair-colour, Gary Megson remains as popular at the Reebok as Weird Uncle Fiver at a girl guide jamboree, and many Trotters fans would happily take the defeat if they thought it may hasten his departure. That way they could get somebody who promotes a more aesthetically pleasing style of play, like West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola, in to guarantee relegation by February. "It is up to us to deliver," said Zola. The Fiver's verdict: They will not deliver. Although they may deliver. Or both sides could deliver the same amount.
And whipping them in, we have Manchester United taking on Wolves at Old Trafford. The home side have lost one in a row, the visitors have won two in a row. "We're not going to be playing expansive football and chasing it because they will beat us at that game," ay-upped Wolves manager Mick McCarthy. "Whinge … whinge … boo-hoo … injury-time … bleat … moan … s'nae fair!" countered Sir Alex Ferguson. Fiver verdict: Manchester United will win. Or Wolves wi … no, Manchester United will win.
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You know the way music fans are getting under Simon Cowell's skin by lobbying right-thinking folk to rocket Killing In The Name by Rage Against The Machine to the Christmas No1 spot? Well League Two side Notts County are getting under the Fiver's skin in much the same way, proving an unexpected irritation by constantly having newsworthy stuff we don't really understand happen to them, forcing us to give them attention a once-proud institution of their current lowly status wouldn't normally be afforded by a once-proud institution of our current lowly status.
Anyway, today their manager Hans Backe resigned after nine games, apparently because he felt his position was no longer tenable following the recent change of ownership at the mega-rich/poor club (we're simple folk who just don't have a clue any more and Proper Journalist David Conn has stopped taking our calls).
As well as conjuring up amusing memories of that scene involving North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and former UN Monitoring Verification and Inspection chief Hans Blix in Team America: World Police, Backe's departure has naturally led to uncertainty over the future of the man who appointed him, Sven-Goran Eriksson, who has called in his lawyers to help him recover millions of pounds he believes he is still owed for staying in the same job for several months, without anyone giving him a seven-figure sum of money for no apparent reason.
Although Sven is unlikely to walk away from Notts County when being kicked out the door tends to be so much more lucrative, it seems the Fiver will have to revisit this story a few more times before Notts County can go back to being ignored again. "The club wishes to thank Hans for his service and wishes him all the best for the future," declared a club statement, which stopped just short of congratulating their former manager for lasting eight matches longer than Sol Campbell.
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Hans Backe has resigned as Notts County manager after just nine games in charge. "The club can confirm that first-team manager Hans Backe has resigned his position at the club," read a club statement. "Please allow women, Swiss mining companies and children into the lifeboats first while we evacuate the ship," it didn't continue.
Fabio Capello insists Owen Hargreaves can still make England's World Cup squad, despite the Man United midfielder having eight broken legs, no shins, a chipped nail and a bad collection of leather jackets. "He has six months to recover his good form but he needs to play," said Capello. "I will choose players that will be fit in May, the players that play all the games." That's basically a no, then.
Arsène Wenger says Arsenal are "ready to fight" for the Premier League title this season, rather than lie down and cry at the first sign of adversity like they usually do. "Chelsea looked to be running away with it two weeks ago, today it is different," said Wenger. "That is why, certainly since I have been here, this is the most open championship."
Mary Shelley's Oliver Kahn reckons Jens Lehmann should retire after recent escapades that have included him taking a 'comfort break' on the edge of the pitch. "There is no point to it anymore," roared Kahn. "Stuttgart's management have got to work out whether Lehmann is helping or damaging the team."
Plymouth are the latest club to fall victim to transfer knack because of unpaid debts. "It will all be cleared," said Plymouth suit Keith Todd. "It is in relation to an historic matter that will be cleared this month. It's not a problem."
And a dozen members of Eritrea's national football squad have disappeared in Kenya after playing in a tournament, leading to speculation they fled the repressive regime in [Fiver flicks through The Big Book of World Capitals] Asmara. "We think they are hiding somewhere with the intention of going somewhere, or just intending to remain here," said a spokesman, narrowing down the search. "We have alerted the authorities to help track them down."
Another day, another drama at Notts County. Hans Backe joined Sol Campbell, Ian McParland and common sense out the Meadow Lane door this morning. However County remain second favourites to win League Two at odds of 11-4 with only Rochdale higher in the betting and they are odds on at 11-20 to gain promotion to League One.
Tonight sees four fixtures taking place in the Premier League and after their win over Tottenham on Saturday can Wolves create another surprise tonight at Old Trafford? We make them a massive 14-1 to shock Man Utd. Birmingham go for their fifth Premier League win in a row tonight against Blackburn and you can back them at 11-10 with us. Sign up with Sportingbet today and you can pick up £50 in free bets. Good, eh?
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Obama and the West
Today we post a remarkable review of Barack Obama's presidency from William Lafferty, laying out in stunning detail why Obama is such a threat to America, her values, and her future in the world. HINT: It has nothing to do with race. It's Don't Miss reading but lengthy, so we added the subtitles and pictures....
Today we post a remarkable review of Barack Obama's presidency from William Lafferty, laying out in stunning detail why Obama is such a threat to America, her values, and her future in the world. HINT: It has nothing to do with race. It's Don't Miss reading but lengthy, so we added the subtitles and pictures. PLEASE SHARE!
By William Lafferty, Friday, June 27, 2014
When Obama was first elected, liberal friends of mine often confided that they were mystified by what they perceived as absolute hatred for Obama on the part of many conservatives.
Nothing I could say made any sense to these folks. But that was in the early stages of the Obama presidency.
What I would say now in answer to their question is this: although there have been a number of periods of reform in the United States, such as the Revolution against Britain, the New Deal, the 60's, none of them have involved a change in the Core Values traditionally represented by the United States and the West generally.
Now we are at the cusp of a different kind of reform in which the issue is whether the Core Values of American culture are to be preserved or changed to values that have been, at best, on the fringes of American life. Obama represents those competing values.
It was apparent in Obama's campaign for the presidency that something was wrong. He appeared detached, enigmatic – he seemed to have another frame of reference, to come from another culture.
Nonetheless, he had a mesmerizing effect on his followers. Hundreds of them broke down in tears at his public appearances and many behaved as if they were experiencing a religious awakening.
Maybe they were. Some news anchors behaved the same way.
Beyond that, Obama was secretive. He wouldn't release his birth certificate and when he finally did release it in the form of a pdf file on the internet, a number of forensic experts declared it a forgery:
"Obama Birth Certificate Confirmed Forgery According to Top Experts"
"The Mystery of Barack Obama Continues"
He spoke of hope and promised to effect a profound change in American life. That promise was not an empty one.
His first important act of office (apart from sending the bust of Winston Churchill back to the British government from its display in the White House) was to mount a blitzkrieg campaign to pass his signature legislation, Obamacare. The promise was that it would save every family $2500, that everyone could keep their doctors, everyone could keep their health plans "Period", and 30 million uninsured would get insurance.
Of course, none of that was true.
What was true was that the entire scheme was impossible simply by way of the fact that adding 30 million people to an existing medical insurance structure cannot result in cost savings or the same quality service for the insured. And it has not.
The scheme was a lie intended to obscure the fact that Obamacare is a socialized medicine scheme that is resulting in rationed care, death panels, and reduced service.
On top of that, for those interested in the sustainability of government, Obama orchestrated the passage of this bill with unprecedented arm-twisting and deal making with insurance companies, hospitals and drug companies, and he did this under cover of the urgent need to act quickly.
Just as in making his illegal and unconstitutional interim presidential appointments, bypassing the requirement of the advice and consent of the Senate, in pushing Obamacare through, he was saying "I refuse to take no for an answer."
Obama was right about the need to act quickly. If anyone had paused to think about this bill – a bill that not a single republican voted for – it would have failed because of its obvious shortcomings, not the least of which was that those who voted for it did so without knowing what was in it. Nancy Pelosi, Obama's chief legislative spokesman famously said that we all would find out what was in the bill after it was passed.
This is not the behavior of a president. It is the behavior of an ideologue run amok. It is precipitous, wrongheaded, dangerous, and, as it has worked out, damaging to the economy and to the people.
Even after Obamacare was rammed through, Obama seemed to be from another place, to have an unfamiliar sense of things, to have little or no respect for American values and traditions. He seemed remote, detached.
He seemed that way because he is that way.
Dinesh DeSouza, who is Obama's age, who grew up in India as Obama was growing up in Indonesia, who is non-white as Obama is non-white, who attended American ivy league schools, as did Obama, graduating the same year, and who even was married the same year as Obama, sees him as a person profoundly affected by his Indonesian experience and his Kenyan father:
"[I]t is the anti-colonial ideology of his African father that Barack Obama took to heart.
From a very young age and throughout his formative years, Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination and destruction. He came to view America's Military as an instrument of neocolonial occupation. He adopted his father's position that the free market is a code word for economic plunder.
Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America. He began to detest corporations as institutional mechanisms for economic control and exploitation.
In Obama's worldview, profits are a measure of how effectively you have ripped off the rest of society, and America's power in the world is a measure of how selfishly it consumes the globe's resources and how ruthlessly it bullies and dominates the rest of the planet."
– D'Souza, The Roots of Obama's Rage (Washington, D.C, 2011), 34.
The strength of D'Souza's analysis is that it explains more about Obama than any other theory I have seen.
Obama hates the Core Values of the United States because he sees the United States as a neocolonial power, like Britain (remember returning the statue of the infamous neocolonialist Winston Churchill).
He views the United States as a plunderer of third world nations and an exploiter of their resources, cheating them and keeping them from realizing their rightful place in the world.
Having been taught to hate Western neocolonialism, Obama's mission is to destroy the United States and the Core Values that make it work. His ultimate goal is to destroy Western Civilization itself, for it is the West that is the shameless and evil colonizer.
The Core Values of the United States and the other nations, mostly European, that make up Western Civilization have been well described by Samuel Huntington:
"The West differs from other civilizations not in the way it has developed but in the distinctive character of its values and institutions. These include most notably its Christianity, pluralism, individualism, and rule of law, which made it possible for the West to invent modernity, expand throughout the worlds and become the envy of other societies."
– The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York, 1996), 311.
The Western values of Christianity, pluralism, individualism, and the rule of law, which are unique to Western civilization, explain the cohesiveness of our culture.
A multi-ethnic people with the same culture (Core Values) will work together; a multi-ethnic people without the same Core Values or culture cannot.
If our Core Values are abandoned, their demise will end the United States as a viable political entity and as the foremost exemplar of Western civilization.
To test the idea that Obama hates the West and would destroy its Core Values, resulting in its accelerated destruction, let's consider how he has behaved with respect to each of the Core Values Huntington mentions.
Christianity. Christian teachings are a "core value" of the United States and a major contribution of Western civilization to the world.
Obama belongs to Jerimiah Wright's brand of Christianity, the "Goddam America" brand, because he can simultaneously present himself to white folks as a Christian and to blacks as a militant. However, he has claimed to foreign leaders that his entire family is Muslim.
His affinity for Islam is also apparent in his artful bumbling in Syria and Iran, the result of which will be that these two Muslim nations will soon have nuclear weapons.
Beyond that, other nations in the region will purchase their own nuclear arsenal, probably from Iran, creating a situation where the United States, which Obama is now unilaterally disarming, may well be unable to defend itself from nuclear destruction by a combination of rogue Muslim states.
Alireza Forghani, a strategy specialist in the camp of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said "the Islamic world should rise up and shout that a nuclear bomb is our right, and disrupt the dreams of America and Israel."
Apparently Obama agrees.
Obama's pro-Islamic posture is also evident in
♦ his insistence on abandoning the GITMO facility, which houses Islamic terrorists who pose a threat to the United States;
♦ his bizarre proposal to try war criminals in civilian courts in New York City,
his unprecedented recent release of five key Taliban fighters in the midst of a war with Taliban-related groups;
♦ his directive that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will now have the primary mission of reaching out to Muslims;
♦ his insistence that the Islamic Fort Hood shooter who killed 13 fellow soldiers and wounded 32 while shouting "Allahu akbar" was engaged in workplace violence and not Islamic terrorism.
The significance of Obama's friendliness to Islam is that Islam is poised to do battle with the West and reduce it to third world status or worse:
"[The]'reaffirmation of Islam, whatever its specific sectarian form, means the repudiation of European and American influence upon local society, politics, and morals.'
In this sense, the revival of non-western religions is the most powerful manifestation of anti-Westernism in non-Western societies. That revival is not a rejection of modernity; it is a rejection of the West and of the secular, relativistic, degenerate culture associated with the West.
It is a rejection of what has been termed the 'Westification' of non-Western societies. It is a declaration of cultural independence from the West, a proud statement that 'We will be modern but we wont be you.'"
– Id. p. 101, footnotes omitted.
Christianity is useful to Obama only as a political tool, but Islam is a kindred spirit in its hatred of the West.
Pluralism. Although one of Obama's major goals is diversity, what he means by that is black, Hispanic and Islamic favoritism.
The founders of our country, as Huntington points out, feared diversity.
They created the national motto "e pluribus unum," (one out of many) because of their concern that racial, sectional, ethnic, economic and cultural diversity would lead to civil war (Id., 305-306). The founders saw diversity as a threat to the stability of the country.
Before "diversity" made its appearance in the United States, many of us grew up thinking of America as a melting pot, a place where people from many backgrounds came together and blended into one people.
Obama appears to prefer the view that Americans are diverse and insular, at each other's throats, divided and hateful, not one people united and strong. Pluralism is not a value for Obama.
Individualism. All of the traditional individual rights guaranteed Americans are an anathema to Obama, for they thwart his socialist mentality, which seeks to impose uniform and centralized plans like Obamacare on the entire country.
Thus, it is no surprise that Obama's NSA eavesdrops on individual Americans without reason or leave of court, that Obama and Holder have worked tirelessly to eliminate individual gun ownership, that Obama's IRS has targeted groups who have individual political views different from Obama's, or that individuals are pilloried if they utter words reflecting their individual beliefs but not acceptable to Obama. One might say that individualism is not an Obama priority.
The Rule of Law. Even Obama's supporters will admit that Obama has not been long on obeying the law.
Although Obama personally controls the State Department (responsible for the Benghazi scandal), the NSA (responsible for the snooping scandal) the IRS (responsible for the suppression of contrary views scandal), and the ATF (responsible for the Fast and Furious scandal), he has refused to order any agency to turn over to congressional investigators critical papers from any of these agencies that they have subpoenaed.
On at least 38 occasions, he has ignored and altered statutory mandates in the Obamacare Act: "Is ObamaCare A Law?"
He has allowed his Attorney General to be held in contempt of Congress,
♦ he has made public statements in local criminal matters in favor of blacks which have the effect of biasing juries,
♦ he has flooded the United States with tens of thousands of illegal immigrants,
♦ he and his attorney general have refused to prosecute blacks who intimidate whites at voting places, and
♦ he has sponsored a health care act that has wrecked the existing system, affecting nearly 18% of the economy, without constitutional authority.
These lawless acts are so egregious that the Speaker of the House of Representatives has announced that he will sue Obama for his lawlessness.
In sum, Obama has acted and will continue to act to destroy the seminal values of our culture and our civilization, what Huntington calls the "Core Values."
He has done this because he believes Western nations like the United States are neocolonial powers which have plundered and exploited third world nations like Indonesia and Kenya, dominating their economies and occupying their land.
He correctly believes he can destroy our nation by renouncing our Core Values and substituting the values of "diversity," Islam, collectivism, and extra-legal conduct in the service of a higher morality. If he is successful at substituting his values for those of the West and the United States, he will, indeed, be successful in his determination to destroy our culture and, thus, our country.
The advent of having a president determined to destroy his own country is bad enough, but it comes also at a time when Western Civilization and its leading proponent, the United States, is entering a period of decline.
This decline is illustrated not only by the difficulty we have had winning a war with a third world nation like Iraq but also by our declining control of the world's resources:
"To defeat Iraq, the United States deployed in the Persian Gulf 75 percent of its active tactical aircraft, 42 percent of its modern battle tanks, 46 percent of its aircraft carriers, 37 percent of its army personnel, and 46 percent of its marine personnel. With significantly reduced forces in the future, the United States will be hard put to carry out one intervention, much less two…"
"[T]he West will remain the most powerful civilization well into the early decades of the twenty-first century.
Beyond then it will probably continued to have a substantial lead in scientific talent, research and development capabilities, and civilian and military technological innovation.
Control over the other power resources, however, is becoming increasingly dispersed among the core states and leading countries of non-Western civilization. The West's control of these resources peaked in the 1920s and has since been declining irregularly but significantly.
In the 2020s, a hundred years after that peak, the West will probably control … perhaps 25 percent of manufacturing output (down from a peak of 84 percent, and less than 10 percent of global military manpower (down from 45 percent).
– Id., 90-91.
The shock of gradually losing our place of primacy in the world has produced a confusion, both cultural, economic and military, which Obama has been able to exploit.
Novel ideas, like going into debt a trillion dollars a year, unilaterally reducing our military force, and flooding the nation with illegal immigrants ("By the Obama administration's own estimation, 230,000 unaccompanied alien minors are expected to cross through the Rio Grande Sector by the end of next year.") float by unnoticed in this time of crisis and are tools of destruction.
The realization of any of these ideas — driving the nation into insolvency, reducing our military defenses to inadequacy, or flooding the nation with illegal immigrants – would be sufficient to destroy the nation.
No other president in our history, no matter what his politics, has posed this level of threat to our Core Values, to the culture, to the country and to Western civilization. And we haven't even touched on Obama's willingness to squander 100 million dollars on one Roman-emperor vacation to Africa.
The question we began with was why conservatives have such a strong negative view of Obama.
I admit it's a puzzle. What's not to like?
Published with Permission from WilliamLafferty.com


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A lot of people wish they had a garden, no matter how tiny. Just a small patch of land under the sun to plant some beautiful flowers and herbs. What can be healthier and more delicious than to go and pick a handful of parsley, basil or cilantro directly from your own garden instead of buying it from the supermarket, wrapped in a plastic box? For all of you who are both health and environmentally conscious, we have done some research and discovered tn creative ideas for having your own herbal garden indoor. That's right, you can have your small garden, straight inside your apartment. How is that possible? Let's see!
#1 Mason Jars to the Rescue
Mason jars are large enough to put some soil in them and herb seeds and start your own small herbal garden. This simple and effective arrangement, using a piece of wooden board and some metal bands for fastening the jars to it helps you keep your herbs close at hand in the kitchen and never forget to water them.
Source: HouseBeautiful
#2 Convert a Bookshelf into a Garden
These shelves are sturdy enough for quite a lot of potted plants. You can mix flowers and decorative plants with herbs for added effect – just don't mix them up when you are cooking. This kind of shelf garden can thrive on any balcony as a separating wall dividing the cooking and dining areas.
Source: Homedit
#3 Sunken Kitchen Island Garden
Look how nice and handy this tiny herb garden looks! Right in the middle of the kitchen island, next to cooking oil, vinegar and wine bottles, the herbs are just ready to be picked and incorporated into your delicious dishes.
Source: Brit
#4 The Hanging Herb Garden
Where space is really a big problem, there is one simple and creative solution: create an upside-down hanging garden of various herbs. It looks great and it makes it so easy for you to pick whatever you need as you are cooking.
Source: ArchitectureArtDesigns
#5 Go Vertical
For really tight and tiny spaces, here is yet another simple and creative solution: a tiered herb garden which can be easily made from a few pieces of wood, metallic rods and mason jars. The arrangement makes it easy for you to water all the plants and pick whichever you need.
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#6 The Self Watering Garden
If you have a busy schedule and tend to forget to do minor chores, such as watering the plants, this simple DIY project will help you have an ever green and healthy herbs garden without worrying about it. All you need is a mason jar and the upper part of a wine bottle (with long neck).
Source: HouseBeautiful
#7 All-In-One Garden
Large decorative ceramic pots are ideal for an all-in-one herb garden indoor. Herbs and plants have no problem growing so close one to the other and you will save space and time when you have to water them.
Source: Homedit
#8 Use Gutter Elements
Gutter elements are usually made of aluminum, a lightweight metal which does not rust. These elements are perfect as vertical trays for various herbs. This solution is not just space saving, but also very decorative in your kitchen.
Source: Brit
#9 Give New Life to Old Teacups
It happens all the time: you break a few teacups or saucers and the set is incomplete. It does not look nice to serve guests from mismatched cups, but what can you do to make the remaining ones useful? That's simple: turn them into tiny pots for herbs! They look so pretty and they are now useful again for a long time.
Source: ArchitectureArtDesigns
#10 The Small Pot Which Rains
This is an adorable DIY project if you want to make your herb garden look truly unique: the vessel above the pot, shaped like a cloud, has tiny holes at the bottom. Thus, when you put water in it, the small droplets falling from the bottom will imitate rain perfectly.
Source: PioneerSettler
And we're done! We have reached the end of our list of ideas for creating your own herb garden indoor. We hope that you will find at least one of these solutions inspirational and practical to create your own. Good luck!


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The Pyramid Peak mountain route, gives you opportunity to explore Prespa and Pelagonia regions and enjoy the beautiful panoramas.
Starting from the church St. Mary (Св. Богородица) on the regional road Bitola – Resen, (1176 m), a marked mountain track leads up to the Peak Pyramid at elevation 1656 m.(1.5-2 hours hiking).
The peak "Golem Kamen – Piramida" (Big Rock – Pyramid) offers one of the most beautiful panoramas of the regions where the ancient Roman road - Via Egnatia passed. Being rewarded with the kind of scenery that brightens your day and broadens your horizons, the next destination can be adjusted depending on your interests and also hiking capabilities.
One option is to visit the picturesque village Gopesh andwith is grandiose church Holy Transfiguration (Св. Преображение.). (~2km/ 30 min downhill hiking)
Other option is the famous revolutionary village Smilevo, which with its picturesque nature and rich history provides an excellent opportunity to learn more about the history of the Macedonian people. (~ 8 km / 2.5 hours downhill hiking)
- Duration: 2 hours (up to Pyramid Peak) / +30 min to Gopesh village / or +2.5 hours to Smilevo village
- Difficulty : Moderate
- Elevation:
- Church St. Mary (Св. Богородица): 1176 meters
- "Golem Kamen – Piramida" (Big Rock – Pyramid): 1656 m
- Smilevo village: 925 m / Gopesh village:1110 m
- Best time for visit: April to November


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The Company offers an array of amazingly crafted products for every room of your home. There are options in their home office furnitureto suit any home office from an executive level office to a small home office with simple work stations or computer armoires. They also offer bookcases and a variety of office desks for home usage. With Hooker Furniture's choices, you can turn any space in your home into a functional home office.
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Maemo Update to Allow N900 to Dual Boot with MeeGo.
Not the full experience, but we'll take what we can get.
The MeeGo blog has confirmed that the upcoming update for the Nokia N900 (PR 1.3), will allow a dual-boot option between MaeMo and MeeGo. Considering Intel's recent announcement that the smartphone market won't be getting an official MeeGo device until 2011, users eager to try the OS out on a phone are going to have to take what they can get.
An interesting note for developers, the dual-boot feature allows for testing Qt apps in both operating systems. App development for both MeeGo and Maemo are based on Nokia's Qt development APIs, allowing apps to be written on a PC and then transfered to both Maemo and MeeGo.
Nokia told the MeeGo blog that the N900 is used as a development hardware platform and that there is no plan to implement the dual-boot option in commercial software releases.
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Docker is now offering Kubernetes as an orchestration platform.
Kubernetes 1.8 Announced
The new release comes with two new features for better security.
Final Ubuntu Desktop 17.10 Beta Arrives
Ubuntu completes the cycle of life and goes back to letter A and Gnome.
Linus Torvalds Invites Attackers to Join the Kernel Community
He wants attackers to join the community instead of attacking the code.
Oracle Donating Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation
Oracle is recommending a new name for the Java Enterprise Edition platform.
Reddit Closing Doors to Open Source
The peanut gallery of the Internet is closing its open source repository.
Largest Open Source Summit to Date Around the Corner
LinuxCon is now Open Source Summit.
Gnome is Celebrating it's 20th Birthday
More than 33 releases since the first release of Gnome.
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Part d, find the average rate of change of f on the interval from x is greater than or equal, negative four is less than or equal to x, which is less than or equal to three. So really the interval that they've depicted right over here. And then they say there's no point c between in that interval for which f prime of c is equal to the average rate of change. Explain why the statement does not contradict the Mean Value theorem. Fascinating. Alright. Let's do this first part first. The average rate of change of f on the interval. Sounds like a very fancy thing, but the average rate of change on the interval is really just a slope of the line that connects the end points of the interval. So these, this right over here, those are the end points, and let's figure out the slope of that line. So, going we, going from this point to that point, our change in x, we do this in a color that you're likely to see. Our change in x over here, our change in x, change in x, is equal to 7. And you can get that by taking 3 minus negative 4 or you could literally just count, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. That's our change in x. And our change in y, when we, when we run over 7, when we go 7 to the right, our change in y, our change in y is equal to negative 2. We went from negative 1 to negative 3 is equal to negative 2. So, slope, slope, which is change in y over change in x, rise over run. Is equal to 7 over negative 2, or well actually let me, the other way around. The change in y is negative 2 over 7. So negative two 7s and that's all it is. Now you could, you could kind of. Think of it in, in, kind of a more fancy sense, but you're gonna get the exact same answer if you said, oh well look, you know, the average, the average rate of change of f on the interval. Well, the rate of change of f is f prime, f prime of x. That is the rate of change of f at any point x. And so if you want to find the average value of this over the interval, you would integrate it from our starting point, from negative 4 to 3 dx, and then you would divide it by your change in x. So then you would divide it by, you would have it over 1 over 7. Over 1 over 7. But then this, this part right over here is just going to be the same thing as f of 3 minus f of 4. And then this over here you have a 7 in the denominator. So this is really just your change in x. This is your change in x which is, which was by definition or how we, how we actually set up this average right over here. And this over here is really just your change in y. So it really is just a slope between the end points. So, we did the first part. Our average rate of change of f on the interval is negative two 7s. And then let's think about the second part. You see there is no point c in that interval. For which f prime of c is equal to the average rate of change. Explain why this statement does not contradict the Mean Value Theorem. So the Mean Value Theorem, just as a little bit of a review, as a little bit of review, it says that if we have some type of an interval. If you have an interval. So, let me draw some axes right over here. If you have an interval. Let me draw an interval like this. And over that interval you have a differentiable function. You have a differentiable function, so maybe my function looks like this. It says at least, there is at least one point c on that interval where the derivative at that point c is equal to the average rate of change. So the way I've drawn it right over here, the average rate of change of this function, I'll do it in magenta, is this right over here. And the Mean Value Theorem says, is it, if this is deferentiable, there's at least one point c in this interval. Where I have the same slope. Where the tangent line has the same slope. Where the derivative is the same as the slope, as that average slope. And you can see here, is probably right over here you have one of those points and actually we probably have multiple of them. We probably have another point right over here that's like that, and then another point there that's like that. And if you think about it, it's kind of. It's kind of intuitive that at some point, you know, here we're, we obviously have a larger slope and over we have a smaller slope and since our, since it's differentialable, our derivative is continuous. So at some point, at some point the slope has to get to exactly what the average slope is. Now, let's think about our little conundrum with this question right over here. Why is there not a point c for which f prime of c is equal to the average rate of change? You can even verify that for yourself because from negative 4 to 0 our slope is positive. We have a positive slope here, and then the slope just jumps down to negative 2. It just jumps down to negative 2 which is a much more negative slope than this. So, it never goes to negative 2 7s, and the reason is that. This is not a differentiable function at x is equal to 0. It is not differentiable at x equals 0. Our slope jumps here and because it's not differentiable the Mean Value theorem doesn't apply. Now you can imagine if this was differentiable, if this did have a continuous derivative, then you would find a point. So if this looks something like this instead, I'll continue it over here. If it looks something like this instead where it was, it had a continuous derivative then there would be a point where the slope was the same as the average slope. Maybe it would have been right over there. So it's really because, it's really because f is not differentiable over the entire interval. It does not have a continuous derivative. The derivative jumps from a, from a positive value approaching 0 here and it jumps just straight down to negative 2 right over here. It doesn't go continuously through all the values in between.