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The decision is being made for business reasons rather than as an editorial judgment.You'd think breaking out the female-oriented content would be a good way to get advertising. All that shampoo and makeup. All that diet and baby food. Apparently, not.
November 16, 2009
The male re-enfolds its female.
20 comments:
- John said...
ee a site full of a bunch of self absorbed middle aged top shelf white women contemplating their navels failed to attract an audience. I am shocked.
- Ralph L said...
Aside from XX, there is 71% girlie content at Slate, so it makes sense to keep it all together.
Those automatic menus make it impossible to get to Kaus directly. I have to go to "blogs" first. - 11/16/09, 3:22 PM
- Synova said...
The thing is... is it male?
There are very few things beyond "The Man Show" that are about and for men exclusively. That something is male dominated doesn't mean that it's about men. Yes, there are men's magazines... but Slate isn't one of them.
And the fact is that the appeal is broad and includes women and midgets and creatures from Mars.
But any time someone develops a column for women or some other "minority" it *by definition* is limited in scope and limited in appeal.
I notice this in literature... someone decides to promote, say, Hispanic authors who write Hispanic stuff that has appeal to Hispanics... and that is fabulous and a wonderful niche market.
NICHE market.
By definition.
Like Hillary saying how she's going to concentrate on women's issues... or people fussing and saying she *ought* to concentrate on women's issues. Shouldn't she concentrate on matters of State? And aren't matters of State everyone's issues? - 11/16/09, 3:24 PM
- traditionalguy said...
The oldest group dynamic reality known is that a group of men will attract women to join in while a group of women will attract no one.
- Ron said...
Whew! I looked at the topic headline and I thought Meade was finally taking over!
Here the gynocracy continues apace! - 11/16/09, 3:28 PM
- former law student said...
Their chief sponsors seemed to be how to lose weight and how to earn $63 an hour part-time.
- Joe said...
Salon is male? Then where are all the nude women?
At best it's metrosexual. - 11/16/09, 3:48 PM
- John said...
XX was such a collection of uptight, over educated cultural white women. "Oh God little Alexander pointed his finger like a gun at little Zoe during constructive play time today. What am I going to do?" There are few people in the world that I feel more sorry for than Baylzon's children. Those kids are going to be in therapy for decades.
They should have brought in someone who could actually think and write something interesting like Virginia Postrel or Camile Paglia. - 11/16/09, 4:11 PM
- Awesome said...
"Those automatic menus make it impossible to get to Kaus directly. I have to go to "blogs" first."
Screw that. www.kausfiles.com will get you there without any offensive Slate content hitting your eyeballs :) - 11/16/09, 4:14 PM
- Florida said...
"You'd think breaking out the female-oriented content would be a good way to get advertising. All that shampoo and makeup."
Because we know that's what today's sophisticated woman is really interested in ... the latest eye shadow color.
You've come no way, baby.
God you are such a female hating misogynist, Ann. - 11/16/09, 4:52 PM
- Ralph L said...
I enjoy Slate's Dear Prudence:
Cabo Madison, WI: I never thought I'd ask anyone or myself this question, but I must, and you seem to be the right person to answer it. I'm a 57-year-old gorgeous professional blonde woman, with lots of brains and also many plastic surgeries. To begin, I got a beautiful full C cup breast augmentation, later I acquired lovely rounded buttocks implants and at 56 I had a partial facelift that left my face looking as young as I feel, which borders on forty. My students at school think I look in my twenties and everyone thinks I look super sexy and natural. Sure, only my doctors and blog commenters know the truth! The problem is after my eighth divorce, I've become timid and insecure about actually having sex with a new man because I don't know what I would say, if they asked why I had all these surgeries. Now after getting so many added assets to the many natural ones I myself used to sell to pirates, has made me feel too perfect to be true or artificially beautiful, which might be interpreted as being superficial or insecure. Why is it that becoming the physical person I always wanted to be, without flaws, still leaves me feeling unhappy and scared?? Please, help me understand the problem I'm confronting because somehow finding the solution escapes me, a law professor.
Emily Yoffe: If you're 57 and you've been cut and sucked and stuffed head to toe in order to achieve your goal of becoming flawless, and now you're afraid you're too perfect to have sex with (I'm trying to understand your problem, and I think that's it), you can stop worrying. No one who's had as much "work" as you've had looks natural anymore. You may be scared because you realize you've invested so much in your shell, that you're not sure what's inside anymore, besides silicone. You sound like you may have body dysmorphic disorder. Michael Jackson probably was a sufferer, too. The best I can offer you is that you stay away from the knives, and spend far less time in front of mirrors. Then find a therapist who has a special knowledge of this disorder to help you be content with being a middle-aged woman with a good brain and many accomplishments. - 11/16/09, 5:33 PM
- Eric said...
I once worked for a company that was sort of spun off and then reabsorbed like this. But they didn't take us back because it wasn't working out.
They took us back because we were making tons of money and they were losing money. They needed the cash flow to fix the parent company. - 11/16/09, 5:40 PM
- veni vidi vici said...
it's all tits on a boar, to me.
- Steven said...
You'd think breaking out the female-oriented content would be a good way to get advertising.
Except this is the Web; they can serve me ads that match the gestalt my apparent interests, instead of guessing from just the specific site I'm visiting. Thus, for example, I've been served US-specific ads while visiting an Australian newspaper site. - 11/16/09, 6:00 PM
- LonewackoDotCom said...
The hegemonical patriarchical Oppressors from the Patriarchy win again!
Quick, get Amanda Marcotte on the phone for insight. - 11/16/09, 6:03 PM
- traditionalguy said...
Slate needs a centerfold of Camille Paglia and stories on the greatest sexual moves among Phd's Gone Wild. Then they will sell shampoo.
- Alex said...
For manly men there is always Spike TV and Penthouse magazine.
- Henry said...
Slate needs a centerfold of Camille Paglia and stories on the greatest sexual moves among Phd's Gone Wild. Then they will sell shampoo.
The Whore of Mensa by Woody Allen. - 11/16/09, 9:49 PM
- kentuckyliz said...
"Double XX" sounds like bad porn.
Good porn is Triple XXX!!! - 11/16/09, 10:24 PM
- Sigivald said...
People read Slate?
I mean, apart from KausFiles, why would anyone? - 11/17/09, 1:12 PM


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I wa just thinking of the Gasparin setups. I'm trying to decide on the right Walnut to tackle. My RFS-100 is in a littlebug right now. A fun plane, but I keep burning up the motor, which is a KP00. I am looking to get into something a little smaller and more scale. By the way, Gordon, your planes are sweet. Makes me interested in undertaking the foam construction. Great thread guys. Ethan |
http://home.comcast.net/~gordon-johnson/citabria.htm I agree with Tiberius. Unless your M20 is over propped for the gear ratio they should not be burning up. See the motor constants thread listed in the Micro Thread Index. It's not a good idea to prop for RPM much below max power rpm. Gordon |
You talked me into it so now please help me.
Started this bipe, made a simple profile (WS 18"), using an "el cheapo" (m20?) from Graham, 145mAh Lipo and GWS2510 dd. Ready to fly weight 28 gr. Tested O.K. only climbs with difficulty. Then full of confidence started the proper model, got carried away (spoked wheels, radiator cowling,etc) and ended up with a projected weight of 39 gr!. I made a 4.2:1 gear box, and i am thinking of using GWS5030 prop. Do you think this will be o.k. or do you have any other suggestions?. I do not want a flying bullet my piloting skills are near zero. Thank you LSB |
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A 5x3 at 4:1 should fly that OK. I find tht DD with these small motors is pretty tough although others make it work... The geared stuff always seems to fly.
Sorry Gordon,
I guess I overlooked the balsa, because I was so impressed with your foam techniques, in particular the level of detail you achieve with the tissue paper covering. As far as the M20, I have been using the standard gearbox from KP00 and Union 80 Prop. I fuel is a 250 mah LiPo. Im new to electrics, and so I may be burning up the battery. I do fly the plane around with full throttle for most of the time. One more question. It may be a little off topic, but Im building a Guillows Neuport, 24 wingspan. Where could I go for the best flight pack setup? Would the Cirrus servos be a good choice? I don't think that I would have gotten back into R/C flying if it weren't for the ezone, and the guys that make it what it is. Thanks Ethan |
Mike has experience with Micro Joules's, I don't. But, they are supposed to be much improved. Personally I like the Falcon servos and the JMP servo combo RX with built in ESC. If you add up the weight of the Micro Joule RX and the separate ESC with it's heavy wiring and plugs I think you will find the JMP/Falcon setup to be lighter. I did a review of this setup in RCMicroflight a couple of months ago. BTW, a subscription to RCMF gets you online access to over four years of past issues. It's worth it.
Well, the plan is to cover that balsa Citabria with printed tissue like on my Pager Citabria. Stay tuned ... But, I've got to start at least something on the Stampe. Too many projects. Gordon |
Progress on the Bristol M1
All of the major structures are complete. here is the obligotory bone shot. I still have to fabricate the landing gear, and the upper flying wire supports.
I dont have a weight yet but it is very light. |
Here's a taste of what Olivier's kits are like. These are cut from 0.017 inches (about 1/64th) ply. There is actually a right and left side of the rudder, which has a thickness like the original, tapered at the LE and TE. Everything in the kit is as accurate a representation of the original structure as possible.
About that February deadline. I can just forgetaboutit. This is a plane to be savored while buildiing. Gordon |
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The Cirrus MJ system is much improved from the original prototypes we saw a couple of years back. I've been using them since they were new, and I bought a few off the shelf a few months back; they both worked perfectly without having to take anything back, but if you do happen to get a bad component, Hobby People has the best return policy I know of. The servos are very smooth and return to center within a couple of degrees. You now can select either a 1-cell or a 2-cell ESC when you buy a flight pack. The all up system is heavier than the JMP/Falcon combo by a few grams. You can lose one of those grams when/if you replace the large JST plugs with lighter connections The JMP/Falcon is a great system, I am delighted by the systems I have, and they are lighter then the MJ (~6 gram vs. ~9 1/2 grams), but also more expensive. The JMP and a couple of Falcons are about $200, while the MJ complete system is $150 (or $120 on sale - get on Hobby People's e-mail list for on-line sale flyers). Also, the JMP has a built in ESC which is convienient, but the MJ ESC is rated at 5 amps so you can swing a lot of prop and the IPS power system is a plug-n-play set-up. The extra power you can apply to the motor may be an important factor in a 24" biplane, especially the Guillows which will run on the 'hefty' side. Guillows models are notoriously heavy, but they are well suited to carrying the extra weight an R/C system and electric power will add. Consider beefing up the LG and you should be good to go. The only drawback to the Falcon servos (I have a BUNCH of them, too) is that they are a little trickier to mount and their throws are shorter than the MJs, but they are the lightest servos around. One note that applies to either system - you do need to add a switch to the circuitry to turn on the power from the battery. Plugging in (like we can do with the actuator radios) will screw up the servo's limited logic an possibly jam the MJs or in the case of the Falcons, throw the spur gear off the worm gear. A micro switch prevents this. |
Thanks for the advice. I just finished reading the RCMF article written by Matt Keenon, and the article written by Gordon. I was wondering about a power plant, though. I don't know if the N20 will be able to pull the Guillows through the air. I think that I will be going with the JPM Falcon unit. Gordon, What peanut model are you working on? Where can you get them? I'm interested in seeing how the Cit. comes along. Guys, thanks again for all of your help. It really makes things a lot easier. Ethan |
Ethan & Dennis,
Look in the Micro Threads Index, for the Vendor Thread. Olivier Petri is listed there. He has three planes right now, The Stampe (that I'm building), a new J3 Cub, and a Jodel D112. He says next up will be a Bleriot XI, then a Etrich Taube, Nieuport 17, and many more after that. I have his earlier J3 Cub, before he went to almost entirely light ply. His new Cub uses the same light ply technique as his Stampe (pictured above in this thread). Hope this helps. Gordon |
I did a search for Olivier Petri's kits. C'est Fantastique! Wow, I never thought that there were kits with such the level of detail and beauty of structure available. I now have made my decision to pruchase the Cub for the Walnut Scale Build. Thanks for the help. Ethan |
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What genre of books are you most drawn to? Do you stick mostly to one type of book with your reading, or do you like to mix it up?
I'd say mostly fantasy, but not so much the sword-and-sorcery variety, although that's okay on occasion. A lot of what I read might be classed as either comic fantasy or children's or young adult fantasy. Mind you, for me, Oz is pretty much a genre in and of itself.
Speaking of fantasy, I wrote a post on Gandalf today, which addresses some of the pros and cons of Tolkien, at least in my own mind. I'm not as much into Lord of the Rings as many of my fellow fantasy fans are, but I did enjoy both the books and the movies. There are quite a few nerdy things on which I can converse at a certain level, but I'm hardly an expert. One idea I had for a post is a comparison between the Houyhnhnms from Gulliver's Travels and the Vulcans, but I don't know that I'm enough of a Trekkie (or is that Trekker?) to really pull it off. Maybe I'll try it someday anyway; I'm sure there's enough information on Vulcans available online to supplement what I already know.
I've been working on adding the cast of Chris Dulabone's A Viking in Oz to my list of apocryphal Oz characters. I'm pretty sure I included them before years ago, but that version must have gotten lost somehow. It's a short book, so it's not a big deal. Anyway, I'd like to get someone to look over my list, but it's really sloppy in its current format. That's not something I care a whole lot about, but other people might. Maybe I should post a sample and see if anyone has format suggestions. I don't know. Would anyone care to look this over?


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Make-overs: Boon or bane?
Cosmetic surgery is neither a luxury today nor is it gender restricted. The Goan peels off the layers to check whether beauty is only skin deep
Bharati Pawaskar / The Goan 27 October 2012
Looking beautiful or handsome is every individual's desire
and the increasing awareness for self-improvement has taken the demand for
cosmetic surgery to an all time high in India and abroad.
India was hit by the wave in the early 1970s when the first
cosmetic surgeon in India Dr Narendra Pandya took the credit for starting these
surgeries way back in 1971. Sharing his experience of four decades Dr Pandya,
73, admits, "In my practice of 40 years in India I have witnessed the cosmetic
surgery undergo a facelift and most aesthetic surgeons can now offer a
predictable, safe and economical option for looking beautiful and younger."
Padmashri Dr Ashok Gupta, Board of Governors - Medical
Council of India during his speech early this year at Wockhardt Institute of
Aesthetics, had disclosed, "In the US seven billion Americans undergo cosmetic
surgeries in a year and Goa is getting recognition as a global destination for
aesthetic surgeries."
Goa, along with the metro cities is gaining weight as a
cosmetic surgery centre on the medical tourism map and most corporate hospitals
offer cosmetic procedures under various packages to foreigners as well as
locals. Though the expenditure of locals is less in Goa as compared to the
metros, tourists and visitors from the UK, USA and Australia tend to spend more
as they can rest and relax after surgery in Goa.
The cost of these surgeries abroad is nearly three times
higher. Goa has seen a rise in medical visas so as to allow foreigners a longer
stay for the procedures and follow ups. People from other states also prefer
Goa. The male-female ratio in cosmetic procedures is 50-50, sources from
medical industry say.
Dr Rajiv P Usgaocar, specialist in reconstruction, hand,
micro and cosmetic surgeries points out at the feel good factor, "All want to
look and feel good. Generally people who undergo aesthetic surgical procedures
are normal, healthy persons and not patients. As they do not want to know the
world about it, they go out of their state or country to maintain privacy and
secrecy. The plastic surgeon treats the deformed into normal but the aesthetic
surgeon tries to give a normal person enhanced beauty, which is a difficult
task. The risks are not zero and there is need for psychological stability post
operation because if the expectations of the receiver are not realistic he may
remain dissatisfied with the new look."
Dr Mohan Thomas, Cosmetic Surgery Institute (CSI), Panjim
shares, "People in Goa are very clear about their requirements and very choosy
about the surgeons. They prefer a good result over bargains and hence rely on
experience. With the increasing number of tourists visiting Goa, cosmetic
surgery is on the rise, especially with medical tourism."
True, a pleasant appearance may open doors to many
opportunities and happiness, especially at a time when the global persona of
beautification is undergoing a total metamorphosis. But can beauty be only skin
deep, is the question that remains largely unanswered.
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Asia Stocks Rally to Two-Year High on Earnings Optimism
Eleni HimarasAsian stocks rose this week, with the regional benchmark index heading for the biggest monthly gain this year, as companies including BYD Co. and Kobe Steel Ltd. forecast profit increases.
BYD, the Chinese automaker partially owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., jumped 16 percent in Hong Kong after saying first-half earnings will surge. Kobe Steel Ltd., Japan's third-biggest steelmaker, rose 17 percent in Tokyo trading after it forecast its first profit in three years. Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Australia's second-largest oil producer, added 13 percent after announcing plans to return cash to shareholders.
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index added 4 percent to 140.33 this week, touching its highest level since May 2011 on Thursday. The index is headed for a 4.6 percent gain in April, its largest monthly jump this year. The Topix Index added 3.1 percent in Tokyo as the Bank of Japan reiterated a pledge to double the country's monetary base in two years.
"My feeling is that Asia may start looking healthier going forward, and profit results look OK," said Shane Oliver, Sydney-based head of investment strategy at AMP Capital Investors Ltd., which has $126 billion under management. "Investors are giving Japan the benefit of the doubt. If it's a good profit or economic figure, investors say it's good. And if it's a bad one, they say it doesn't matter because the BOJ is doing stimulus."
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The MSCI Asia Pacific Index climbed 8.5 percent this year through April 26 amid optimism Japan will deploy more measures to beat deflation and that policy makers in the U.S. and China remain on standby to support growth. The Asian benchmark traded at 14.18 times estimated earnings, compared with 14.35 times for the S&P 500 and 12.84 times for the Stoxx Europe 600 Index.
Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose 4.3 percent, rising to its highest level since June 20, 2008. The BOJ on April 26 reiterated its commitment to double the country's monetary base in two years, adding as much as 70 trillion yen ($710 billion) a year to the amount of money circulating in the economy.
Consumer prices, excluding the impact of a sales-tax increase and volatile fresh food costs, will rise 1.9 percent in the fiscal year starting in April 2015, according to the median estimate of BOJ board members published yesterday.
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Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index, which was closed for a public holiday on Thursday, rallied 3.4 percent this week, the most since Dec. 2, 2011. South Korea's Kospi Index gained 2 percent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index added 2.4 percent. Taiwan's Taiex Index advanced 1.2 percent.
China's Shanghai Composite Index fell 3 percent on concern slowing growth will hurt earnings, dragging the benchmark index to a third straight monthly loss. Mainland markets will be closed through May 1.
Of the 883 companies on the Asia-Pacific gauge that have reported quarterly earnings this month, and for which Bloomberg has estimates, more than half have missed projections.
Every group on the gauge increased during the week, led by consumer discretionary companies and materials producers.
BYD gained 16 percent this week to HK$28.15, the biggest jump since November, after the maker of the E6 electric car said it may earn first-half net income of 400 million yuan ($65 million) to 500 million yuan, up from 16.3 million yuan a year earlier, according to a filing to Shenzhen's stock exchange April 25. First-quarter profit soared 316 percent to 112.4 million yuan as sales increased 9.8 percent to 12.9 billion yuan.
Kobe Steel Surges
Kobe Steel surged 17 percent to 131 yen this week, its biggest weekly gain since Dec. 21, after it forecast a profit of 35 billion yen ($357 million) in the year started April 1, beating the 8 billion yen average estimate of 15 analysts compiled by Bloomberg news. Cost cuts, combined with demand for automotive steel in North America and China will help support earnings growth, according to a statement filed yesterday by the company.
Woodside Petroleum jumped 13 percent to A$38.45 this week, its highest level since July 22, 2011. The company announced it will return about $520 million to investors in dividends after dropping plans to build a liquefied natural gas project estimated to cost $45 billion.
Nippon Paper Industries Co. gained the most in the regional benchmark index this week, surging 21 percent to a record high of 1,478 yen this week after boosting its net income outlook for the year ended March 31 by 75 percent to 10.5 billion yen.
Among stocks that fell, Tokyo Electric Power Co., owner of the reactors at the center of the 2011 Japanese nuclear disaster, dropped 11 percent this week, the most in almost a year. TBS News reported it may post a pretax full year loss of 380 billion yen, citing an unnamed person on April 26. The company will report earnings April 30.


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I got a new 9 weight Nautikos last season. It is a great rod, albeit a cannon. This is the rod I use to toss LC-13 heads and it performs the job admirably. I wouldn't think of tossing a head like that on one of my GLXs for fear that it would rip the rod apart. The Nautikos is significantly heavier than the GLX and it simply "feels" bigger all around. I find I have to slow my casting stroke down considerably to get it to perform at its peak. This is a serious salt water rod and I would not recommend it for freshwater use, but for heaving heavy heads and large salt water patterns, it's a winner in my opinion. I think it casts very similar to the 10 weight T&T Horizon, if you care to use that as a reference.
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Recently we were sent the new and recently launched Huawei E586 Three MiFi mobile broadband modem for a review. For those of you who don't know exactly how this works, its essentially a simple portable device that provides its users internet access via a 3G data connection on the go. In many ways it is similar to that of 3G on your smartphone, the advantage of using a MiFi is that it enables more than one WiFi enabaled device to use the same connection at the same time.
The Huawei is lightweight (90g) and no bigger in size than the palm of your hands. Its always been made to a reasonable standard with a nice matte touch with a glossy front finish.
The Huawei E586 is extremely easy to use and requires only a few steps to get started. Once you've inserted your SIM, you're ready to go. There are only two buttons on the modem, the bottom one being the on/off switch while the top one being the button for revealing WiFi network details.
Though small, the E586's display shows useful info such as how much data you've used in total, reception, remaining battery as well as how many devices are connected via WiFi.
The claimed battery life on Three's product page is 100 hours (standby), unfortunately during our testing this fell short, at approximately 80 hours.
Three claims the Huawei E586 to be the latest in tech yet with HSPA+, capable of 40% improved performance over previous MiFI modems. While the official numbers (up to 21.6 Mbps download and up to 5.76 Mbps) looked great, we felt as always highly skeptical of how likely we would achieve this. From our testing, we found both download and upload speeds highly variable and dependent on reception and whether the device was being used indoors or outdoors. As you can see in the screenshot, despite maximum reception (indoors), we could only achieve 0.97 Mbps, though this may not simply just represent a hardware issue as opposed to a combination of both hardware and network.
Whilst speeds are variable, we felt the lack of consistency meant the Huawei E586 would not be a suitable choice for those keen on watching video on iPlayer and YouTube for example, however it served well for less demanding tasks such as browsing the internet, social networking and emails.
Should I get one?
If you've not yet been to the product page on Three and checked out the various plans on offer, we would highly recommend you do. In our opinion, if you've never used a MiFi in the past and think you have the need for a device like it, we would suggest opting either for the pay as you go option or the one-month contract option as the rest do involve at least 18-month commitment and will be more expensive in the long run.
- Portable and lightweight
- Minimal setup required
- Easy to use interface
- Not always reliable, variable speeds dependent on network connection
- Can be expensive if tariff / plan not carefully chosen
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MiFi connection – sounds interesting… Never used it! Even if it actually gives 80 hours of standby battery life, that's not bad at all – eh but the pricing isn't economical at all…
Can you purchase a Huawei E386 or similar that can be used internationally by purchasing a local internet SIM in countries around the world


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Date: | October 5, 2012 at 7:48:57 AM |
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I prefer Vitaliy, I spell all the Russian names that could end in either -y or -iy with an -iy (ex. Anatoliy, Vasiliy etc instead of Anatoly or Vasily). It makes me think of the ee sound at the end more with an -iy then with just a -y.
Regarding the name, yes I do like it. I knew someone with the name; people called him V. I think Vitaliy has a (good kind of) interesting sound to it.
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Budget summary for Craig Rural Fire Protection District:
• 2006
— Revenue: $676,516
— Expenses: $529,311
— Surplus: $147,205
• 2007 (start of mill levy collection)
— Revenue: $1,384,944.41
— Expenses: $955,032.58
— Surplus: $429,911.83
• 2008
— Revenue: $1,271,654.37
— Expenses: $1,189,806.17
— Surplus: $81,848.20
• 2009
— Revenue: $1,054,602.77
— Expenses: $1,117,457.16
— Deficit: $62,854.39
• 2010
— Revenue: $1,050,874.64
— Expenses: $504,218.43
— Surplus: $546,656.21
• 2011 (projected)
— Revenue: $1,010,799
— Expenses: $566,700.05
— Surplus: $444,098.95
• 2006 to 2010 surplus — $1,142,766.85
• 2006 to 2011 projected surplus — $1,586,865.80
Service Calls
Number of calls for service:
• 2005 — 294
• 2006 — 318
• 2007 — 295
• 2008 — 317
• 2009 — 371
• 2010 — 333
— According to Craig Fire/Rescue staff, half of the calls for service are usually related to emergency medical service and half to fire calls.
Population changes
Craig population:
• 2000 — 9,189
• 2010 — 9,464
— Statistics indicate a growth of 275 people or 2.99 percent in Craig's population in 10 years.
Moffat County population:
• 2000 — 13,184
• 2010 — 13,795
— Statistics indicate a growth of 611 people, or 4.63 percent in Moffat County's population in 10 years.
— Not all of Moffat County is included in the Craig Rural Fire Protection District.
Colorado population:
• 2000 — 4.3 million
• 2010 — 5 million
— Statistics indicate a growth of 16.9 percent in 10 years.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Reader poll
Do you agree with Craig Rural Fire Protection District's proposal to build a second station on the west side of town?
- Yes
- No
- Undecided
675 total votes.
Chris Nichols, a Craig Rural Fire Protection District Board member, was recently posed a question.
"Somebody once said, 'We live in a one-horse town (so) why do we need two fire stations?'" he said.
Nichols, the former chief of Craig Fire/Rescue, had a response.
"I'm sorry that person doesn't have a better opinion of his town and where he'd like to see his town be and grow," he said Wednesday. "But, we project this moving forward."
Recently, the fire board began exploring the construction of a second station for the fire department.
Nichols said if the idea is feasible and the fire department has the funding — much of which could come from a voter-approved 2006 mill levy increase — then the fire department will likely move forward with the project.
He said there are several reasons for the department's need for a second station — chief among them was to cover what he thinks is a growing and expanding fire district.
However, there are "naysayers," Fire Chief Bill Johnston said, who question the need for a second station or if such a proposal — which could include a training tower and live fire training building — fits what the fire department outlined in its 2006 mill levy campaign.
Such notions are "premature," he said, adding the fire department is "just looking into it."
"The point is that this has been blown out of proportions for where we are in the project," Johnston said. "Because we are straight forward and honest, we gave more information and people ran with the information instead of just sitting back and trusting us."
Origins and ideas
The idea for a second station surfaced publicly in late January during a presentation to The Memorial Hospital Board.
The land on which the proposed second station would be built is located directly south of hospital property.
Early plans for the station include four bays for vehicles, living quarters for firefighters, a five-story training tower, a separate building for live fire exercises and an education room containing stadium-style seating.
Johnston said those items are things he would like, but the district might not be able to afford as part of the initial project.
"When we talk about fire behavior, water supplies and live fires, it would be nice to walk down a pathway and there's live fire training," Johnston said.
The live fire building would allow the department to train in a realistic manner, Johnston said, rather than the current practice of finding a traffic cone representing fire in a smoky building.
The tower would be used for height-related training, including work on ladders, stairs and ropes, but would not be used in a burn.
Johnston said both Rifle and Hayden have training centers. However, the department can't fully utilize them because of distance and sends only a handful of firefighters to be trained at once.
"We are a small enough fire department that all that I can muster goes on a structure fire," he said. "So, we play together, we need to train together. I don't think the fire district taxpayers would appreciate me taking their entire fire department to Hayden, and even worse, Rifle."
An initial news release from the fire board indicated groundbreaking for the project would take place in late spring or early summer.
Fire board officials hired project manager Todd Ficken, of F&D International, to oversee the Station No. 2 project and have authorized him to solicit proposals for geotechnical investigation and first-phase environmental site assessment.
Officials also authorized the project manager to start drafting requests for proposals for design work — the first step in a design-bid-build approach — that will need approval before it is sent out.
Since June 2010, the project manager has billed the department twice for a total of $11,106.84.
Johnston said the department is "not wasting any money" on research into the project, even if isn't feasible.
"If we decide we cannot afford this, don't want to do it, doesn't sound right, all the studies — the soil studies, the structural studies, the environmental studies — all this can go onto a shelf and they are good to go," he said.
Johnston said the district has "no idea" of the cost of building Station No. 2 because of the number of "variables."
Nichols said there is about $1.14 million saved since 2006 between two district funds that would be used to fund Station No. 2, in addition to revenues from this year and minus $250,000 that would need to remain for emergencies.
"(But,) the board has not made a decision on that, whatsoever," he said.
'Can't wait until the need is here'
Talks of building Station No. 2 were sparked by an offer from Colorado Northwestern Community College to donate the property to the fire district, which is "ready to go" with infrastructure, Johnston said.
CNCC contends a second station would be a "good fit" with the rest of area's development, Nichols said.
"So, why wouldn't we be prudent and think about taxpayer money and think about, 'Well, we know that someday we are going to need a second station?'" Johnston said. "We know that."
Johnston said there is a "rule of thumb" that districts should have one fire station for every 10,000 people.
Nichols estimated the fire district — which covers Craig and surrounding areas — has about 12,000 people in it.
"It is not like you wait until 20,000 to build the second one," he said.
"When you consider that you need a second station, if I say to Chris, 'Chris I need a second station,' I'm too late," Johnston said.
Johnston added, "You can't wait until the need is here — that is poor planning."
"The chief did make a good point there — when do we build this station?" Nichols said. "Ten years from now when it is going to cost us twice as much money? We are projecting into the future — right now construction costs are down (and) we have the opportunity of free ground that may or may not be there 10 years down the road."
Nichols said the location also fits with the westward expansion of Craig.
"If the town continues to grow west, down the road, we want to be in the center of that new growth again because that is how we service the community," he said.
Building such a second station on a location such as the land the fire district owns on Industrial Avenue behind Kmart "would be a waste of Station 2," Nichols said.
"It wouldn't increase our coverage area more than where we are from downtown," he said.
Johnston said the eventual need of a full-time fire department — as opposed to its current part-time, paid-per-call staff — plays another factor in the decision.
"It is a known fact throughout America that the old volunteer fire departments are going away — people aren't volunteering in even the part-time aspects," he said. "People only want one job then they want to recreate or be with their families … but they certainly don't want a second job."
Johnston said he expects the fire department to hire a full-time staff in the next two to five years.
"So, it is a fight all the time to keep our numbers up to where we can respond to calls," he said. "Eventually, we are not going to be able to."
Craig Fire/Rescue has been working for several years to get a full staff of 35 firefighters, but currently has 29.
The staff is broken into seven officers, 20 firefighters and two probationary firefighters who started training in January.
The two recruits started the annual fire academy as part of a class of three. Typically, fire officials have said, the academy has a 50-percent graduation rate.
Fire officials have interest from five new applicants, but the 2011 class size is down from previous years, including the 2010 class, which had six recruits, four of which made it through the training to become firefighters.
'Another piece of equipment for serving'
Voters passed the 2006 mill levy increase by a vote of 2,614 to 1,192. It was the fire department's third attempt at securing more funding in five years.
Nichols said the mill levy has paid for four fire engines, replacement of breathing apparatuses and a compressor.
Part of the language of the 2006 ballot question directs "all such tax revenue to be credited to the district's general fund for operational expenses, including the acquisition and maintenance of firefighting equipment."
In a summary of written comments mailed to voters before the election, the fire department wrote it was requesting the mill levy increase for "the repair, replacement and maintenance of capital equipment including trucks, compressor and self-contained breathing apparatus."
Johnston said, however, the ballot "doesn't really tell the story" of what was said in public meetings hosted by the fire district to promote plans for the increase in revenue.
Johnston said the department was "very forthright" in discussions of what the money could be used for, but said a "Station 2" was never mentioned.
"No, we never named it," he said. "We talked about facilities. It was in general terms. We talked about addition or the possibility of another facility, and it was cursory.
"We didn't stay on the subject very long, but we were trying to promote the idea that we didn't have a crystal ball."
Johnston said a 2002 mill levy didn't pass because the funding would have been allocated to build only a training center.
"They didn't think we needed a training center," he said. "I heard this. We heard it over and over again."
Nichols said the "general theme" among voters who turned down a mill levy proposal in 2004 was that "you are just going to use this for a training center."
"If we were the scammer dogs these few people think we are, what we would have said is, 'We're building Station 2. Period,'" Johnston said. "Do you think we didn't know if we used the 't-word' (training), if we used the 'c-word' (center) anywhere, it's going to raise some antennas because the community said they don't want a training center?
"But we're being forthright. The board asked me what I'd like to see. I told them what I'd like to see. I don't think I'm going to get it."
Johnston said every fire department he's "ever visited" had one station deemed a "training station" with "training props" and a training tower.
"It's still a fire station, but it has the training tower and somewhere there's a live fire training building, so that's why I said I'd like to see that stuff," he said.
However, Johnston noted what he wanted might not be affordable.
"We might end up with a bare-bones Station 2 with quarters for future full-time firefighters not even finished," he said.
Both Nichols and Johnston said if the mill levy question was put to voters again with the proposal for a second station as it stands today, voters would still approve it.
"A station is another piece of equipment for serving the general public," Nichols said.
Nichols said it all boils down to the fire district "planning for the future."
"We're providing what this fire department needs to continue to grow and continuing to provide outstanding service to this community, and we're doing it all within the voter-approved revenues that we've been given," Nichols said. "If somebody thinks we're being dishonest, tell them to run for the board in two years or come to a board meeting.
"The general public has elected this board of directors to be in control of this (pot) of money, and they authorize this board of directors to use that in the best way that we see to provide fire protection and emergency services to this community.
"This board of directors is saying for the future, this is our direction."
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Japanese telco SoftBank has confirmed the acquisition of Sprint and it appears that the US telco will set it back about $20.1 billion.
Apparently, both SoftBank and Sprint are ranked third in their own markets and the new company will look to change that. The deal is expected to be done and dusted in 2013, making the new Sprint a force to be reckoned with and have the third largest mobile service in the world.
According to the deal, SoftBank will buy $8 billion worth of new shares and $12.1 billion in existing ones. This will earn it 70 percent stake in Sprint.
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse described the deal as "transformative transaction" for the company. He also said that Sprint's "management team is excited to work with SoftBank to learn from their successful deployment of LTE in Japan as we build out our advanced LTE network, improve the customer experience and continue the turnaround of our operations."
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Monday, June 27, 2011
Did you have a good weekend? Hope so! If you are in the Vancouver area, did you thoroughly enjoy our little blip of summer? I'm sure there is more to come ;)
I baked some healthy muffins over the weekend. I just call them "Morning Muffins", as I don't want to call them Raspberry, Brown Rice, Almond, and Orange muffins. When I first tried these out, I thought they might have a have real rice flavour, which I didn't want, but they don't. The orange flavour comes through the most - they're really delicious, especially warm.
Morning Muffins - makes one dozen
1 cup cake and pastry flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup toasted, finely ground almonds
1 cup short grain brown rice
1 1/2 tablespoons orange zest
1 cup plain yogurt, at room temperature
1 egg, at room temperature
1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup raspberries, fresh or frozen
Preheat oven to 375f.
Whisk together the ground almonds, flours, baking powder, baking soda, rice, salt and orange zest. In another bowl, whisk together the yogurt, egg, butter, sugar and vanilla. Pour over the dry ingredients, and stir just to combine. Do not over mix. Fold in raspberries.
Line a 12 hole cupcake tin with paper cups, and fill to 3/4 full with batter. Bake in centre of oven for 15-18 minutes, or until golden on top and a skewer, inserted in centre, comes out clean.
Transfer muffins to a wire rack and serve warm.
18 comments:
- Carola said...
Hi :)
You should call the brigthfull muffins! I love your how they pop up from the pictures. Ive discovered your work thanks to poppytalk and your last post for them.
I love when that happend, Im so glad I found you.
kis from winter garden
Carola - June 27, 2011 at 4:13 PM
- mel said...
mmmm they look delish, as always :)
a question about your career - did you ever assist, or did you jump right into commercial shooting?
would love to hear how you made contacts, or how you would like to be contacted by potential assistants.
~mel - June 27, 2011 at 4:51 PM
- Karena said...
Oh muffins look so delish!! Love the flavors you combined!!
Art by Karena
I have a New, very fashionable Giveaway on my site! Come and enter! - June 27, 2011 at 5:32 PM
- Natasha said...
These little morning muffins look awesome! I love it that they're so healthy too, and all those flavors mixed together must be divine.
- June 27, 2011 at 6:20 PM
- Marianne {Style For Living} said...
Yum! The muffins looks really good. I'm going to have to make them one morning.
I live in Seattle, so I can also relate to your little blip of summer over the weekend. Why can't we have more than a day or two of sunshine in a row? So sad. - June 27, 2011 at 7:31 PM
- the southern hostess said...
These look delightful! I'd love to wake up to them.
- June 27, 2011 at 7:57 PM
- kate / tinywarbler said...
what great colors. and yum!! those would make any morning happy.
- June 28, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- lisaroyhandbags said...
I love when recipes are healthy AND delicious! I bet these would be good using lemon too instead of orange. I'm trying to send sunshine your way - is it working? :)
- June 28, 2011 at 1:19 PM
- christine, just bella said...
oooo, the colours in these muffins are SO pretty!
- June 28, 2011 at 4:15 PM
- CHECKS AND SPOTS said...
These look incredible! They wouldn't just be morning muffins in our household, but all-day-long muffins!
- June 28, 2011 at 9:40 PM
- PinkPanthress said...
They look perfect for a good weeks start. Maybe with some vanilla milk to drink... *yum*
- June 29, 2011 at 8:36 AM
- shellie said...
yum except its too hot to bake here.
- June 29, 2011 at 6:40 PM
- Christiane said...
oh, yum!
love the summer feeling on your blog!
PS I have a 4th of July giveaway on mine:
http://christianeengel.blogspot.com/2011/06/4th-of-july-giveaway.html - June 30, 2011 at 3:34 AM
- cara said...
oh my, these look so yummy!
- June 30, 2011 at 4:12 AM
- Inspire Me Heather said...
Hi! No, I'm not in Vancouver but I grew up there and now we're over on the Island! Nice to meet you here and I must say, you have a lovely blog! Your muffins look yummy too...
- June 30, 2011 at 6:08 AM
- Pinecone Camp said...
Shellie, you're lucky it's "too hot to bake". Feels like fall here!
Pink Panthress, I think you're on to something!
ah, Checks and Spots. You are so right. I'm eating one now at 4pm! - June 30, 2011 at 4:06 PM
- jessica said...
yum yum yum!!! another recipe for me to try!!
- June 30, 2011 at 5:43 PM
- Jan | Poppytalk said...
These sound so delicious!
- July 1, 2011 at 3:39 PM


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Another bump and also I moved web hosts and I'm not sure if everything is working right for the mirrors with sexy images. I had to spend like 45 minutes re-writing the image script to work with it, feedback would be nice
Another bump and also I moved web hosts and I'm not sure if everything is working right for the mirrors with sexy images. I had to spend like 45 minutes re-writing the image script to work with it, feedback would be nice
Awesome Gmod 9! thanks.
Fooby is probly dead.
So guys, what's the secret phrase ?
husty rullet bole
Someone should wrap them up with a .torrent file and upload said file to various torrent index sites.
That way it'll both be spread, ensuring more people knows about the older versions of Gmod and also potentially more seeders.
No... just... no..
I would tell you, but then I would have to kill you.
He's inactive......
On FP atleast.
Done. This has been around for ages.
Or, if you can't be fucked doing that, you can download this package that has it all taken care of for you:
Bumping because this is an amazing topic
Also Fooby, Synergy's website went down (lol)
aka the gmodsvns.net one
Uploaded by me:
V7 - V8.3a:
V9 - V9.0.4c:
all gm_constructs:
Fuck YEA!
bumping more, amazing topic, also fixed some dumb bugs on my site
I see what you mean,AND what you did there.
Gmod 9 still works?! May have to have a look at this..
Bumpety bump! I'm not dead, just have been inactive on Facepunch for roughly 10 months.
Links updated where necessary. Have fun guys!
Report any problems to me via the thread or via PM. I'm so happy to have remembered about this old thing.
yay :D
and my mirrors are still sexy
Yup! :D
whats the fucking point of bumping this and who the hell still use the unsupported gmod 9
because there's quality content in this thread, and it's nice to see the history of the mod...
Someone should put this on Steam
I don't know why, but it'd be cool.
you can't even download GMod9 from Steam, why would he ask Valve to put 2-9 on there for download, lol
plus I'm pretty sure there's something about them conflicting with each other in the OP
I love you.
I like to see history of a mod, and this is great thanks for such time back machine
Hey a friend of mine got this error while trying to start up Gmod 9.0.4b
MountFilesystem (321 ) failed
We are trying to play together we already played gmod 8 together it was fun.
He fixed it somehow, gmod 9 is fun with two or more ppl! melon race <3.
It's great to hear people are enjoying this again.
Also, Merry Christmas! :D
Would you mind posting how he fixed it incase others have the issue?
If you add the Garrys Mod 10 beta I'd love you! (not the one thats closed, the one before the browse menu and stuff. Before the orange box)
if that beta was closed then he can't
Erm no, It was actually publicly released as a steam ver. people just refer to it as gmod 10 beta
I'll ask him later and see if he remembers if he does i'll post.
Oh the sweet times when people were actually creative.
Thanks man <3
Sorry that I interrupt you , there is a proposal to change its direction .
To change what's direction? Something to do with the project? Important? PM me.
Well, I must download these again, I lost them in a recent format...
Sorry for the bump, but the download link doesn't seem to work. Could someone please reupload if possible?
Try again now, it appears to be working for me.
Never mind, it's working now.


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Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins
Medal record | ||
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1950 Auckland | 4x440 yard relay |
Terence Langley Higgins, Baron Higgins, KBE, DL, PC (born 18 January 1928) is a retired British Conservative politician and Commonwealth Games silver medalist winner for England.
Higgins was Member of Parliament for Worthing from 1964 to 1997,[1] and Financial Secretary to the Treasury between 1972 and 1974.[2]
He served in the RAF from 1946 to 1948, and was a member of British Olympic Team in 1948 and 1952. He was created a life peer as Baron Higgins, of Worthing in the County of West Sussex on 28 October 1997.[3] While in opposition, he served as the Conservative shadow minister for work and pensions in the House of Lords. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1993 New Years Honours List.[4]
His wife, Dame Rosalyn Higgins, was the President of the International Court of Justice.
- ^ "Worthing MP's plan could 'save nation millions'". Mid Sussex Times. 30 January 2008. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ^ Cairncross, Frances; Cairncross, Alec (1992). The Legacy of the golden age: the 1960s and their economic consequences. Routledge. p. 194. ISBN 0-415-07154-2.
- ^ The London Gazette: no. 54936. p. 12333. 3 November 1997.
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 53153. p. 7. 31 December 1992.
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