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The Animal Law Committee of the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section will honor Valparaiso University Law School professor Rebecca J. Huss with the Excellence in the Advancement of Animal Law Award. Presented annually, the award recognizes exceptional work by a member of an international, national, regional, state or local bar association's animal law committee who has advanced the humane treatment of animals.The award will be presented during the ABA Annual Meeting in Toronto at the TIPS Animal Law Committee Awards Reception, Aug. 6, at 4 p.m. at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel."Rebecca Huss is one of the leading voices in the country on the laws regarding companion animals and service animals," said TIPS Animal Law Committee Chair Mariann Sullivan. "Her work has brought much illumination to the confusing patchwork of laws that govern our relationships with these animals. In addition, her work as the court-appointed special master/guardian in the Michael Vick dog fighting prosecution was truly groundbreaking in encouraging the recognition of the American pit bull terriers seized in that case as crime victims."
Huss teaches courses at Valparaiso University Law School in business associations, mergers and acquisitions, animal law, and securities regulation. Prior to becoming a professor of law in 2004, she served as an associate professor of law (2002-2004) and assistant professor of law (1999-2002). Huss was a visiting professor of law at Lewis and Clark Law School (summer session 2011), Stetson University College of Law (fall semester 2006), the University of Iowa College of Law (summer session 2006), Notre Dame Law School (spring semester 2005).
Prior to joining the law faculty at Valparaiso University Law School, she also served as an attorney for the Fort Dodge Animal Health Division of Wyeth (1998-1999), an associate in the corporate department of Husch Blackwell (1996-1998), and as an associate in the corporate finance and business/tax/international departments of Perkins Coie (1992-1994).
Huss earned her Master of Laws in international and comparative law from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1995, her Juris Doctor magna cum laude in 1992 from the University of Richmond School of Law in Richmond, Va., and her Bachelor of Arts in 1989 from the University of Northern Iowa, where she minored in international studies and graduated with highest honors.
Huss is member of the TIPS Animal Law Committee in which she has actively participated since its founding in 2004 and currently serves as chair-elect-designee, vice-chair and co-chair of its Companion Animal Subcommittee. She also served as co-chair of the Indiana State Bar Association's Special Committee on Animal Law and chair of the American Association of Law Schools Animal Law Section.
Huss is renowned for her service as guardian/special master handling the disposition of the dogs seized in the Michael Vick dog-fighting prosecution, which involved working intimately with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Attorney's Office to provide for the humane disposition of the dogs. She also played an instrumental role in the drafting and ultimate adoption of ABA Resolution 108B, urging all federal, state, territorial and local legislative bodies and governmental agencies to enact laws and implement policies to ensure the humane treatment and disposition of seized animals in a timely manner, which was approved by the ABA House of Delegates in February 2011.
She has been the recipient of many awards including the U.S. Department of Justice, National Asset Forfeiture Award for Outstanding Investigation or Case (July 2009); 2008 President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency and Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency Award for Excellence; Award of Excellence from the United States Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General; and the 2008 Law Enforcement Public Service Award from the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Houston abolitionists will celebrate "World Day Against the Death Penalty" at KPFT Radio (90.1 FM) from 7 - 9 pm on Thursday, October 10.
Over 140 nations around the world have abolished the death penalty either by law or practice. This includes most European nations *, most nations in Central and South America, Mexico and Canada. Many nations that retain the death penalty in their laws rarely, if ever, use this punishment.
The top 5 executing countries in 2012 were China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the United States. The U.S. has executed 1350 people since 1977 and still has over 3000 people on its death rows. Texas has executed over 500 people and continues to lead the nation each year.
"We are inspired by the nations around the globe who have stopped using this unnecessary, costly and flawed punishment", says David Atwood, founder of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. "Similarly, we are inspired by the 18 U.S. states that have abolished the death penalty. The death penalty will be abolished in the United States, and even in Texas. It is just a matter of time. The decrease in death sentences and executions in recent years indicate that it may not be that far away. It is clear that the death penalty is still applied in an arbitrary and capricious manner."
*See statement by European Ministers of Foreign Affairs --- http://diplomatie.belgium.be/en/binaries/Joint_Appeal_with_names_tcm312-234415.pdf
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By the way, just to be clear, I personally completely agree with the architectural impurity of having local type information take precedence. Though I also completely agree with fact that unregistered mime types exist and web server configurations are not always correct. Which is why I'm very keen to have a definitive statement and a practical plan to make the choice stick, as when it comes to a choice of being conformant or working with a wider range of content providers, business motivations can prevail. (comments and links embedded below) --Brad Chris Lilley wrote: > On Friday, February 7, 2003, 8:59:40 PM, Brad wrote: > > BP> Dan, > > BP> Hopefully you didn't intend your comments to sound as inflamatory > BP> as they might be interpreted. > > I am sure Dn did not intend to be inflamatory, any more than the > initial response intended to be dismissive. > > BP> HTML and SMIL are in clear conflict on their use of the type attribute. > > Further, SMIL is in conflict with itself on the type attribute, > depending on what element it is used and what the transport protocol > is. > > SVG also uses a type attribute, as an informative hint and as a way to > allow client-side selection from available media. > > BP> Other specifications do not make a clear statement either way. > > They do, in fact. In SMIL, local value takes precedence. In HTML 4.01, type is a hint. In XHTML 2.0 type is a definition of the allowable mime types for that resource (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-attribute-collections.html#adef_attribute-collections_type). I find the statement of precedence ambiguous here as even though the type is "advisory" it doesn't specify the precedence. http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/#sec-o-SignatureProperty > BP> I have not seen a clear statement from the TAG yet. > > No, but you will and I hope you will take part in the preceeding > discussion. > > Dans statement was a first heads up, as a matter of courtesy, that the > TAG has an open issue on this subject. > > BP> I have seen > BP> substantial email threads debating this issue in different working > BP> groups without clear consensus. > > I would appreciate pointers to such, particularly those that > considered retyping was desirable. Here are some threads with relevant discussion that I found quickly. There may be more: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1999Aug/0035.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1998Jan/0076.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1999May/0011.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2002Aug/0346.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/2000Jan/0123.html > BP> As is documented in the comments, we did work to address this > BP> question with Martin. The working group did choose to follow the > BP> language and use from SMIL for the reason that practically > BP> speaking not all web servers return the right MIME type for the > BP> content. > > Aha. We suspected that might be the reason. The problem is that this > transparent fixup (and sniffing in general) has a number of > undesirable knockon effects. > > BP> If you are not satisfied with the details provided in the > BP> response, we would certainly be happy to discuss it further. > > I would encourage you to do this. > > BP> I personally would welcome the TAG addressing this issue and I > BP> would be very willing to participate in such a discussion. > > Thanks, this is appreciated. > > -- > Chris mailto:email@example.com on Friday, 7 February 2003 16:22:27 UTC
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Noam Chomsky elicits a lot of emotional reactions. I've talked with some linguists who think Chomsky's been a real roadblock to research in recent decades. Other linguists love Chomsky, but I think they're the kind of linguists I wouldn't spend much time talking with. Many people admire Chomsky's political activism, but sociologist blogger Fabio Rojas distinguishes "the Chomsky's of the world who sit around and speechify about the man" from the good guys, "the academics whose work leads to tangible improvements."
When Thomas Basbøll sent me this note,
I [Basbøll] wonder if you react in the same (sympathetic) way to these remarks by Chomsky [text here] as I do. I think he's right that something happens to research when "applications" come into view. I like his distinction between two conceptions of science, one of which is based on "big data" in which patterns are found by brute information processing, and the other which requires the construction of simple, elegant models that represent the underlying principles that explain what is going on. There's an important difference between the sort of science that mapped the genome and the sort of science that discovered DNA.
I replied: My linguistics colleagues whom I respect very much think Chomsky is wrong and annoying about many things.
Surrounded by admirers and haters
Chomsky seems to be surrounded mostly by admirers or his haters. The admirers give no useful feedback, and the haters are so clearly against him that he can ignore them. As with others in that situation, Chomsky can then make the convenient choice to ignore the critics who are non-admirers and non-haters. From an intellectual standpoint, those are the people who require the most work to interact with.
Basbøll replied:
I agree with that interpretation of Chomsky's situation, both in linguistics and politics actually. But I think he's onto something in this particular case, perhaps not about the state of AI research, or even its prospects, but on the choice that can be made between two different ways of doing science.
The lazy left meets the grasping right
This all made me think of the political aspects of the scholarly criticism that Basbøll and I have been doing in recent months.
The question came up in our discussion of sociologist Karl Weick, who tells poorly-sourced stories to audiences of scholars and business executives: I see some sort of alliance there between the lazy left (who, I think, secretly believe in the inevitability and scientific correctness of right-wing economics and embrace anti-scientific thinking as a way out) and the grasping right (who are always on the lookout for stories that justify inequalities of wealth and power). What to do with this political angle? I don't know. We can blog on it, but I don't have any ideas right now about how to think about this more systematically.
P.S. This post really isn't about linguistics, but some commenters requested that I link to some specific criticisms of Chomsky's linguistics work, so here's something from Bob Carpenter and here's something from Dominik Lukes.


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The Swedish fashion brand Monki encourages female power. With its new campaign called "Monki Festo" Monki wants to support young women and therefore worked together with the illustrator Camilla Engström
Result of this partnership is a t-shirt collection about self-love and self-confidence. Engström chose her art character Husa to be represented in four scenarios which are familiar to many of us. The idea behind Husa? "Hush was a counterreaction to my former job. There I had to draw lots of fashion figurines", explains Engström.
The illustrations are printed on four t-shirts with four different slogans. The encouraging messages are "Stay zen", "Do it", "Speak Up", and "Love it". These shirts can be bought in all Monki stores in Europe and Russia from mid of May.
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Modding:Modding Basics
- 1 Quick Navigation
This article will show you the steps you need to take before you can start actually modding, and also the steps you can take after you are done modding, to pack and publish your mod.
You will need a text editor that is not the Windows included notepad.exe, as it does not support UNIX line endings. Do not use a word processor such as MS Word instead of a text editor. Only UTF-8 is supported, other encodings are likely to cause crashes. Optionally, for easier packing and unpacking of mods and assets, you may use ModPackHelper (available for Windows and Linux).
Step 1 - Unpacking Assets
Furious Koala introduced a .pak format which improves loading times and eases mod distribution. This means we need to unpack the assets before we can start modding.
Note - This step will not remove or change your packed.pak file, but simply extract its content for use as reference material. Changes you make to the unpacked assets will have no effect on your game.
Current as of Version 1.3.1, June 5th, 2017
- Open up the main directory folder for Starbound.
- Shift + right-click within the folder and select Open Command Prompt/Windows Powershell or equivalent (depends on Windows version).
- Type the following into Command Prompt/Windows Powershell:
.\win32\asset_unpacker.exe ".\assets\packed.pak" ".\_UnpackedAssets"
- Command Prompt/Windows Powershell will do nothing until asset_unpacker.exe has finished, this will take a while on most computers.. There are no progress updates.
- Once Command Prompt displays a message equivalent to this, "Unpacked assets to UnpackedAssets in 250.063s," you can close the program and move on to creating mods.
- If purchased from Steam, the location of the main Starbound directory folder typically looks like this:
- The text typed into Command Prompt are three directory locations:
- The location of asset_unpacker.exe, which is the program that does all of the unpacking.
- The location of Starbound assets, or Mod assets, to be unpacked.
- Where you want the unpacked assets to be dumped. This third string can be changed to whichever location or name you prefer.
It is advised to read the Unofficial Modding E-book instead, available on Chucklefish Forums. http://community.playstarbound.com/resources/unofficial-modding-ebook-2-0.2930/
Current as of version 1.3.0, June 13th, 2017
If you have purchased Starbound from Steam, then these instructions will work. Otherwise you will have to find your Starbound assets folder and apply the file paths to these instructions.
- Open Terminal.app in OS X (hopefully you have 10.7 or higher)
- Type
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Starbound/assetsNow you are in the assets folder.
- You need to create a new folder here where you want your unpacked assets to end up. Type
mkdir unpacked
- Now you need to navigate to the asset_unpacker. Type
cd ../osx
- Type
./asset_unpacker ../assets/packed.pak ../assets/unpacked(The asset_unpacker should finish anywhere from 1 to 500 seconds depending on your computer, so let it work. If it takes longer than 20 minutes, quit Terminal.app and start over. If retrying doesn't work, then you have an issue external to the asset_unpacker.)
- In Finder browse to your unpacked folder by clicking on "Go" on the menu bar, holding the [alt/option] key on your keyboard (this will show Library, which is usually hidden), clicking on Library, then browsing to -> Application Support -> Steam -> steamapps -> common -> Starbound -> assets -> unpacked (sound familiar?).
It is highly recommended that you make a backup copy of your original, working packed.pak before you mod and pack.
To pack, do exactly the same steps as mentioned above (minus making a new folder 'unpacked'), but when you get to step 5, where you actually unpack the packed.pak file:
- Type
./asset_packer ../assets/unpacked ../assets/packed.pak
Current as of version 1.2.3b, May 26th, 2017
- Open the main directory of starbound in your shell (i.e. /home/clate/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Starbound if purchased on steam)
- Type the following into your shell:
linux/asset_unpacker assets/packed.pak unpacked_assets
- linux/asset_unpacker is the path to the executable
- assets/packed.pak is the path to the packed assets
- unpacked_assets is the name of the directory, where it'll extract the files in. If the directory doesn't exist, it'll be created.
- There is no progress bar while unpacking, but after completion, it'll print something like this:
Unpacked assets to unpacked_assets in 70.0567s
- After that message appears, you can close the shell (if you want to ;) ) and start creating mods.
Step 2 - Setting Up Your First Mod
_metadata file
This file is entirely optional.
Now that you have a file to tell the game that the mod will load the contents inside, the next step would be to add a _metadata file. The _metadata file is to tell the user who installed the mod the general information about the mod when they check the mod list on the Starbound title screen. This will list the username, the version of the mod, the link to the mod's page and a description of the mod along with who made it.
Create a file called "_metadata" or ".metadata", not "_metadata.txt"! Or else it wont work.
Open the file inside a text editor and paste this information in:
{ "version" : "0.00", "friendlyName" : "MODNAMETITLE", "link" : "", "steamContentId" : "", "name" : "MODNAME", "description" : "This a cool mod!", "author" : "NAME" }
|The version number of your mod.
|This is the name that will show up in the mod list menu.
|A URL that links to the mod.
|This is the unique id that steam uses, if you are not putting the mod up onto steam's workshop, leave this blank.
|(If anyone knows what this argument is for, please update this!)
|This is the description of the mod. type '\n' for a new line.
|The author of the mod, put in your name here.
Step 3 - Modding
Reference Pages
If you did everything right, Starbound should load your new mod the next time you run it. If the game crashes, or your changes are not found in the game, check your starbound.log file.
Step 4 - Packing your mod
Before publishing your mod, it is better to pack it as a single <modname>.modpak file. This process is recommended because it simplifies the installation (drop the file in the Starbound/mods/ folder). The alternative is to just put all the files into a zip archive.
To assemble your mod into a modpak, follow bartwe's post or use ModPackHelper:
Windows/Linux with ModPackHelper
- Follow what is described in #Step 1 - Unpacking Assets (Depending on your operating system).
- When script is launched, choose action 1].
- Then select the mod you want to pack (If your mod folder does not contain a .modinfo file, it will not show as a choice).
- Press Enter. The mod is available in the Starbound/giraffe_storage/mods/ folder as <modname>.modpak.
Step 5 - Publishing
Only one thing left to do - publish your mod! To do this, go to the official modding forums, select "add mod" in the upper right hand section, select the category of your mod, fill out the information form and hit save. It is that easy.
There are other places mods can be uploaded, or you can just share it with friends. What you do with your mod is up to you!
External links
- Chucklefish Forums: How to successfully pack and unpack .pak files
- Chucklefish Forums: Getting started in making mods for Starbound
- Chucklefish Forums: Unofficial Modding Ebook 2.0
- Chucklefish Forums: ModPackHelper


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REPRINT OF A REVIEW POSTED IN 2011. I will be posting a review of Helen DeWitt's new collection of stories, Some Trick, within the week.
Note: This novel was SHORTLISTED for the IMPAC Dublin Award of 2002.
"I got home and I thought I should stop leading so aimless an existence. It is harder than you might think to stop leading an existence, & if you can't do that the only thing you can do is try to introduce an element of purposefulness….and though I might have to wait another 30 or 40 years for my body to join the non-sentient things in the world, at least in the meantime it would be a less absolutely senseless sentience."–Sybilla
Author Helen DeWitt expresses her admiration, at one point, for "the type of person who thinks boredom a fate worse than death." And she obviously writes for this type of reader as she performs amazing literary and scholarly acrobatics in this unique and energetic novel which never flags–and certainly never bores! No one will ever accuse her of the "senseless sentience," she rejects in the lead quotation.
Main character Sybilla is the hard-working, single mother of Ludo, a 6-year-old genius who gobbles up even the most complicated subjects, seemingly overnight, and DeWitt incorporates many esoteric subjects here – Japanese language, Greek verbs, Icelandic verse, Fourier's analysis, Arabic, astrophysics, and tournament chess, bridge, and piquet, among other things – as she describes their intellectual daily life together. Despite Sybilla's arcane subjects and complex ideas, DeWitt manages to write so entertainingly about them that they enhance, rather than obscure, the human story at the heart of the novel, even for readers like me with little interest in many of these subjects.
Though Ludo is obviously extremely precocious, he is nevertheless a completely engaging and in many ways "typical" little boy, and the relationship between mother and son is mutually warm and endearingly protective. Both Sybilla and Ludo are fans of Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, which Ludo knows by heart and searches in an effort to find the model for his absent father. This film (completely unrelated to the Tom Cruise film of a similar title) eventually forms the framework of the novel when Ludo decides to test seven fascinating and brilliant men whom Sybilla has known to see which, if any, of them might be his unknown father. His tests are ingenious and great fun to follow.
The resulting story has everything. It is funny and sad and disarming and challenging – simultaneously amusing and poignant, and thought-provoking. The many layers which emerge as Ludo engages in his quest should keep readers, critics, and book clubs intrigued and entertained for years. But the book is at heart an absorbing human story–of identity, of aspirations and achievement, and, ultimately, of the love and connection which makes our personal journeys worthwhile. A wonder-filled novel from beginning to totally satisfying end.
ALSO by Helen DeWitt, a new collection of short stories, SOME TRICK
Photos, in order: The author's photo appears on http://gggozu.com
The poster of the Japanese film version of The Seven Samurai is from http://www.japan-zone.com
Note: This novel is completely unrelated to the Tom Cruise film entitled The Last Samurai, though the author would probably have enjoyed the irony.


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Along with records revenues, WorldWater & Solar Technologies Corp (WWAT) also reported a gross loss in the third quarter, ending Sept. 30. WorldWater reported a $2.3 million gross loss for the quarter. Offsetting that news was a significant increase in revenues to $6.5 million compared with $4.4 million over the same time last year. Installations for the Valley Center Municipal Water District of Valley Center, California and a Denver International Airport project were the two biggest contributions of that revenue.
The gross loss in 2008 was primarily the result of a solar project for the town of Windsor, Calif. that was terminated in September. "After many months of effort, securing financing for the Windsor project with terms acceptable to the company, was not achieved and the financing contingency of the agreement was invoked," a company news release said.
"We are in the process of building the engineering, design, manufacturing, project management, project financing and administrative support infrastructure necessary to support our aggressive growth plans," said CEO Frank Smith. "We are placing significant emphasis on building a strong team that is technically competent, market focused, process oriented and highly disciplined."
Worldwater also continues settling into its merger with ENTECH. It's now a subsidiary of Worldwater. They recently exhibited at the Solar Power Trade Show in San Diego, highlighting ENTECH's concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) and solar thermal products, which can deliver solar electricity and hot water simultaneously.
"The Board and I, along with all our senior staff, are committed to successfully commercializing ENTECH, leveraging its brand and technology, and moving the company in a new and profitable direction," Smith said. "This will take time, but we are confident we are on the right track."
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Keep all your vents and cool air returns clear of barriers. This comprises of keeping any ventilation around your home clear.
Test your thermostat often to ensure it's working correctly. Merely turn it on and slowly raise the temperature setting until you catch your furnace turn on. If it doesn't turn on, check back to our blog post on furnace repair for additional thermostat tips, or give us a call.
If you observe dust accumulating around your cool air returns or a lot of dust within your ducts, think about having your ducts professionally cleaned. To learn more about duct cleaning and how to determine if it's time to hire someone, go to our blog on duct cleaning.
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Ruby is a true object-oriented programming language renown for its ease for comprehension and maintainability. It can do most of the things other programming languages can do, but the programmer has more fun.
Now at the end of 2016, when I look at my very old notes from 2007 I wonder.. Is Ruby's hayday over?.
- RubyGems is the primary tool for libraries.
- Shoes for GUI stuff.
- Ruby Version Manager
- Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 transition
- Was a project I did with a youngster who wanted to learn to program, specifically for games. I wanted to start him off with general programming before setting him on his own path with other tools like C++.
- Ruby testing
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Ruby is easy to learn. Everyday tasks are simple to code, and once you've done them, they are easy to maintain and grow. Apparently difficult things often turn out not to have been difficult after all. Ruby follows the Principle of Least Surprise---things work the way you would expect them to, with very few special cases or exceptions. And that really does make a difference when you're programming.
We call Ruby a transparent language. By that we mean that Ruby doesn't obscure the solutions you write behind lots of syntax and the need to churn out reams of support code just to get simple things done. With Ruby you write programs close to the problem domain. Rather than constantly mapping your ideas and designs down to the pedestrian level of most languages, with Ruby you'll find you can express them directly and express them elegantly. This means you code faster. It also means your programs stay readable and maintainable.
Back in the day (2006?) I was told that garbage collection, threads and IO suck.
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ri comes with Ruby, and gives a very rough rundown of commands. For a helpfile on the topic:
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While sometimes helpful, it's usually cryptic. Think "man pages" in terms of usability.
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Peace of God by Michael Romani Matthew 11:28-30 New International Version (NIV) 28 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Peace of God by Michael Romani In this world of chaos and mess Too often filled with all the stress We wonder if we'll pass the test And know we need to find rest So often under life's pressure Filled with hope we'll measure We place all of our treasure So often in what gives us pleasure Caught up in the drive for more Determined to keep the score Despite the damage that's done Taking the best from everyone We need to find God's better rest Snuggled into knowing we're blessed Going to the Lord, before the Cross Gaining peace instead of feeling loss Taking off the rags and ruins of anxiety Realizing our way into this simplicity Accepting the Lord's love and grace Thriving in the peace of God's embrace There feasting on the bread of life Filling our needs with peace not strife There in the living waters of our life Quenching our thirst through living sacrifice Leaving behind the weariness of empty roads Unburdening ourselves from our heavy loads Gaining strength in heeding the master's call After we find ourselves hitting that brick wall Turning to walk with Christ turning to light Leaving behind the darkness of the night Submitting our lives to follow the teacher Spelled out in the words of the preacher We find peace in Jesus and in Him alone Like the cave when they rolled away the stone Following His footprints across the sands Being and living freed through His commands In doing these things, we join together Connections made to living love forever No spectator sport is found in this walking But peace by living and no longer squawking Peace comes in a Holy attitude we've caught Keeping to the paths of light as we ought Living the truth of righteous fellowship In the closeness of loving Holy worship Leaving behind the days of walking numbly Catching the second winds of living humbly Finding that peace of God lived with dignity Putting all our fears and care in the divinity In coming to Christ to find our best rest This is the final answer to life's big test We find our rest in giving the rest of our days In joining together in following His ways (c) July 16, 2017 Michael Romani All Rights Reserve
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Super Computers
Universities Press, 1999 - 104 pages
This book explains what a supercomputer is and why such a machine is needed to solve challenging problems in science and engineering. The architecture of super computers which distinguishes them from other computers is explained and the need to vectorise programs to make effective use of supercomputers is brought out.
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Quite the interesting discussion broke out amongst Grantland's Three Amigos – Bill Simmons, David Jacoby and Jalen Rose – with the topic centering around who gets the best real estate in the club during Super Bowl Weekend – President Obama, Jay-Z, Michael Jordan or LeBron James. Using those four names, it's hard to argue Jalen's order of the same rankings.
In some parallel universe, President Obama taking his cabinet to the club on Super Sunday Eve would make every news outlet in the world. Jay-Z and Jordan could be swapped out depending how I'm feeling at the moment. The big game is in New York next year which, on the surface, would give Jay the edge, but this is Mike Jordan we're talking about here. And bringing up the tail is LeBron. Yet, using Simmons' criteria, here are a few more worthy mega-celebrities deserving of consideration.
1. Any era Bill Clinton post-blowjob because who wouldn't want to pop bottles with Billy C in VIP? This guy would.
2. A 1980s Michael Jackson would hands down cause a movie to be shot in the club. And not the ones your city's party promoters claim happen every Saturday. An actual movie.
3. A 1980s Magic Johnson, as Jalen alluded to.
4. A mid-1990s Will Smith. I'm thinking the Will who reeled off the final season of Fresh Prince and jumped right into Independence Day and Men In Black a year later.
5. A 2013 Future only if he wasn't allowed to drink. We can't run the risk of a nasty hangover the night before he sings the National Anthem.


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My spiritual journey began when I was about five or six years old. I remember going to the Morada in Cordova with my mom and grandma every Wednesday and Sunday of Lent and participating in all the ceremonies and rituals of Holy Week. I remember wanting to become an Hermano when I was about six years old, but was told I had to wait till I was eleven. Every year that passed I went faithfully to all the scheduled services at the Morada. I as got older an was able to stay alone at home, there were times that I opted to stay home to watch TV. Really the only time was when the movie "Jesus of Nazareth" came out. Usually the week before Holy Week. And of course the Sundays I was visiting with my dad.
The years before joining the Morada I would try to mimic the Hermanos at home by pretending have processions. I would gather my cousins and line them up like the Hermanos did. I had a small cross I had received one year at catechism. I would try to pray (sing) the alabados the best I knew how. I we would process around my grandma's living room and kitchen. At that age I really didn't understand what all this meant, but for some reason it was calling me.
Finally, I turned eleven and Lent was coming to a close in 1989. Easter was about 10 days before my eleventh birthday. My time was missed to join the Morada. Yet I didn't get discouraged, I knew that next was going to be the year I would join the Hermanos as one of them. I was exited to turn eleven. I remember Her. Ricardo Lopez telling us year after year that we didn't join the Morada by choice, that we were called by God and Christ to be members of this Hermandad. We were chosen to carry on the traditions of our ancestors forward teach the life of Christ. Yet, at eleven I had no clue what I was doing. I was there from some reason that I could not figure out. All I knew was that becoming a member was for life and full commitment was a must. I have committed to the Morada fully.
2014 marked 25 years of service to my beloved Morada. In those 25 years I have grown to be a many of deep faith and extremely knowledgeable about the faith given to us by our grandfathers and grandmothers. A faith that was rooted in simplicity and humility. In those same 25 years I was elected as celador and hermano mayor of my morada. Both at a very young age, I was in my teens to yearly twenty's as celador and mid twenty's as hermano mayor. I was also a member to the Mesa Directiva. This was the board that is in place to unit all the Moradas of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. In my twelve years of service I was the secretario and the hermano mayor secundo. I have about 1000 years of experience that has guided me for the last 25 years in my spirituality. Keep in mind that when first joined the Morada Her. Jorge Lopez and Ricardo Lopez had each been in the Morada over 70 years and both were in their 90's.
In 2007 I was celebrating my graduation from nursing school from Northern New Mexico College. I had invited co-worker Ana Cisneros to my graduation party, which was on a Friday night. Ana spent a little bit time at my fiesticita and enjoyed some food. Then, she excused herself and on her way out she invited me to the Santuario (de Chimayo) the next day. She told me she and some Aztecs would be dancing. The next day I got up and made my was to the Santuario with camera in hand. I starting shooting a few photos and caught up with Ana. I thanked her for the invitation. Ana then told me that they had been there since the night before praying and singing and today they were dancing and offering there prayers. Ana suggested that I come the following year to the night serve. I told Ana to remind me. The stage was set, my spiritual journey was to take on a new path.
Between 2008 and 2011 I participated in both the velacion and the ceremonia with Ana. In that time I met Jacobo Dimas and his wife Mayahuel Garza and Beatrice and her husband Tomas Vigil. All five of these individuals taught me about the ceremonia and the velacion. Jacobo always made sure that i was able to share an alabado during the night ceremony. This a great honor for me. I was able to represent my ancestors in this sacred ceremony. I was told that the ceremony being observed was in honor of El Senor De Chalma, an image of a dark crucified Christ and the image was in a town in Chalma in Mexico. One of the reasons the group had chosen the Santuario as the site to celebrate this ceremony was to also honor El Senor de Esquilupas, another image of a dark Christ.
By 2011 I had been in a relationship with my girlfriend, Amanda for about three and a half years. 2011 was a bitter sweet year during the time of the Velacion de Nuestro Senor de Chalma. In 2011 Amanda's mom was getting married that Saturday, we were unable to participate in all of the velacion or the danza. Yet, as faithful as we had become to the velacion we still went to greet our friends and spend a couple of hours with them.
As we were getting ready to leave I had permission to address the group to let them know we had to leave. At that point Jorge Garcia Atilano and his wife Virgina Necochea were about to address the group that their time as padrinos of the cendal has come to an end. They were in the process of choosing the next set of padrinos for the cendal. Being the padrino of the cendal is a three year commitment. As we were getting ready to say our good byes, Jorge stated that after discussions with the elders of the group they were going to ask Amanda and I if we wanted to be the padrinos. I discussed with Amanda and we accepted the honor. ((read story here)).
During this time Amanda and I had a lot of negative energies testing our relationship. Two members of my family were being mean to Amanda and it caused us to fight a lot. The negative energy was strong. I believe that God knows when he needs to add some extra help in peoples lives. The timing of us becoming padrinos of the cendal came at a critical time in our relationship. During those three years we here padrinos,especially in the beginning things were rough. The annual velacion and ceremonia was our saving grace. This was the one time every year we prayed together with the help of our friends. There prayers were our strength. I don't think they know this, but after reading this they will.
Now its 2014 our commitment has been fulfilled. The negative energy is slowly making its way out our lives. The spiritual powers of the Danza and the Morada have combined in me and helped me be a bit stronger in my faith. In 2013 Amanda, Esperanza, Isabella and I were asked to become Danzantes. We participated in the Danza for the first time as Danzantes not just as members of the community. Jacobo and Mayahuel have been big supporters of us becoming part to this ancient and beautiful tradition. This year we passed on the obligacion of the cendal to David Martinez and Pilar Trujillo. It was a decision that only made sense. The connection between El Senor de Esquipulas and El Senor de Chalma needed to maintained for a least three more years. The bond that was create is now being strengthened.
Amanda and I were given our trajes de la Danza. Amanda got her blouse (not sure the actual name) and I received my tilma. Jacobo stated that he and the Jefa Helga Garza had worked on it. They felt that the symbol on my tilma needed to reflect who i was and were i came from. The symbol they gave was the Sacred Mountain with La Cruz de la Conquista in it's summit and the Sacred Heart in the Center. Jacobo and Helga stated this represented where i was from, my faith and my commitment to La Cruz de la Conquista. I was deeply humbled by this gift and by the honor of becoming part of an ancient tradition.
In conclusion, my spiritual journey has a new path for me to embark on. I will take to ancient traditions and learn from them the story of my ancestors. I will learn the faith and pass it on to my children and hope they pass it on to their children for generations. Being a Penitente and Danzante are two obligacions that are life commitments. I believe the God has brought this two forms of spirituality in to my life to learn about humility and simplicity in this modern world. What i have learned in 25 years as an Hermano and the last 7 years with and now as a Danzante is the respect is a most, humility is something we need to practice daily and faith will get us through the rough stuff.
Here are some photos of this years Ceremonia.
Photos used with permission by the Danzantes. Always keeping in mind that Danza is a sacred ceremony and a prayer. Please respect the photos by not downloading if you are not a danzante or do not have their permission. Thank you for understanding and respecting this sacred tradition.


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De Rosa - Prevention
- Brian Donaldson
- 19 February 2009
(Chemikal Underground)
When you hear a man from the central belt singing about blood and urine and snow it's all too easy to conclude that we are swirling around in sub-Arab Strap territory. But move away from the red and yellow and white substances of 'Under the Stairs' and you'll discover a vastly more eclectic record than those Falkirk chroniclers of urban decay and spiritual loss ever managed.
While the opening tracks drop unexpected hints of Elliott Smith and Pet Shop Boys fascinations, the De Rosa boys reach their own voice-finding zenith with the gorgeous 'Stillness' and the heartbreaking 'It Helps to See You Hurt'. There should be nothing to stop Prevention from climbing some lofty peaks.


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Efforts and proceeds of the 2019 South East Craft Beer Festival will benefit:
The South East Craft Beer Festival began in 2013 with the desire to bring more unique beers to Missouri….
… And has that been accomplished and more! Several breweries have now come to the festival without distribution in the state of Missouri, and are now distributed in Missouri. Lots of breweries that will never distribute here, have been able to sample their products out and have festival attendees come visit their breweries and taprooms. We all love beer and the South East Craft Beer Festival continues to grow and reinvent itself in ways to make the weekend a party for all that are involved. Whether you wish to partake in the Sampling & Educational Conference, different foods, arts, music, and of course beer, it is all bundled up in one weekend for you.
This year we are proud to have teamed up with the Ronald McDonald House as our charity, and the Red Shoe Ride prior to the fest is a great addition to the fun activities for the day. Nothing beats working up a thirst on the way into a beer fest!
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Becoming a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) in Ontario
April 28, 2015
This is a very good time to become a psychotherapist in Ontario as it is the first province to undertake the long political process of establishing psychotherapy as a fully regulated profession. The College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) was proclaimed on April 1, 2015. Although the College itself has been proclaimed, proclamation of the controlled act of psychotherapy has been delayed because the need was identified for further definition of the controlled act which will affect professionals who offer partial psychotherapy services, or services that may be close to psychotherapy, but are not actually covered by the act. Members of other Regulated Health Colleges who have access to the controlled act (doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, occupational therapists), will begin a process of interprofessional collaboration, led by the CRPO, to discuss how they will interpret the controlled act of psychotherapy for their members. The Psychotherapy Act was passed in the legislature back in 2007, but has to be 'proclaimed' in order to come into effect. It is expected to be proclaimed by the end of December, 2015. At present, the new College has been proclaimed, is fully operational and is processing thousands of established and new psychotherapists.
Many people want to train to become a psychotherapist in mid-life as a career change or as a first career because they are drawn to the exploration of the complex world of the psyche, because they are 'natural psychotherapists' who are often sought out by friends for their empathic listening skills, or because they have found their personal psychotherapy has evolved into a professional interest.
From interviewing many students over the years, we understand that undertaking this or any other professional training is a big commitment of time and money. If you are considering psychotherapy training as a first career choice, or if you are changing from another career, or if you have been working as a psychotherapist but think your training has too many gaps to meet the grandparenting criteria for a Registered Psychotherapist, we hope you will call us for an interview and discuss entering the Living Institute Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy training.
The Living Institute has kept abreast of all developments throughout the regulation process and acted as an active stakeholder in the professional and political dialogues. Our Clinical Director is personally involved with a number of stakeholder organizations: Alliance of Psychotherapy Training Institutes (APTI), Canadian Humanistic-Existential and Transpersonal Association (CHTA), the Ontario Alliance of Mental Health Practitioners (OAMHP), of which CHTA is a member, the Forum, Canadian Association of Integrative and Energy Therapies (CAIET) and was past-president of Canadian Association of Psychodynamic Therapists (CAPT). We mention this background because, as is usual in a situation where something is newly emerging, it can be difficult to get precise information that separates fact from opinion and is up to date. This is especially true because the profession of psychotherapy is so diverse, and because other professionals may provide psychotherapy as part of their professional offering.
The CRPO recognizes that, like the Living Institute, many psychotherapy schools offer 'modality training' (i.e. training in a specific approach to psychotherapy not available in universities). We began our training program in 2007 (the year the Psychotherapy Act was passed as legislation), and, as a new school, have been swift to adapt our program structure to adhere to the Council's training recommendations as they have emerged. Our extensive Self Development Program (which mainly focuses on personal psychotherapy or counselling) is a very effective way to develop the competency of "safe and effective use of self" (or SEUS) as is required by the CRPO. In fact, we believe that personal growth work is one of the most effective means of training professionals and also assuring public protection. Our diploma program is designed to meet all the requirements to prepare graduates for registration, and we are currently working on the demanding process of CRPO 'recognition'. Programs are recognized based on providing education in the competencies required to practice psychotherapy as defined by CRPO. 'Recognition' of programs is similar to 'accreditation' and assures that teaching is at a 'masters level' (which does not result in a masters degree but is at the level of study required for a masters degree). Our program focuses on integrative learning where a variety of theoretical and methodological frameworks inform practical psychotherapy skills.
Our extensive faculty are well-established professionals with many years of experience as you can see from the faculty bios on this site. We have a very successful Student Clinic that supplies interns with screened clients to cover the required client contact hours, and supervision is provided within the Clinic.
We focus on the individual student and have made a commitment to helping our graduates prepare themselves personally and clinically for practice as a Registered Psychotherapist (RP), and also to be well informed and congruent with the new Regulations. We are getting great feedback about our interns from the clients in the Student Clinic and our graduates have thriving private practices and have been accepted as RP's in the new College. If this is a career for you it is an excellent time to step in to the field.


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EMC Simulation - Computer Simulation and Numerical EM Simulation
EM simulation plays an important role in EM compatibility testing because of the highly complex nature of the electromagnetic structures involved. This complexity makes it difficult to gain an understanding of EMC problems by means of measurement engineering and mathematical analysis alone.
For example, EM simulations are frequently performed in conjunction with aircraft measurement campaigns. But they can be equally valuable in the design phase.
Our Services
EMCC performs EM simulations on wires, wire grids and other metallic objects using the proven Concept II MoM tool. Focus applications include HIRF, RFS, LEMP, NEMP, BCI and antennas. Drawing on its extensive experience, EMCCons applies numerical methods to gain deeper insight into EMC issues. The powerful combination of measurement engineering, EM theory, and analytical and numerical methods delivers rigorous results in a highly efficient way.
HIRF certification applications
Aircraft manufacturers perform measurement campaigns to achieve HIRF certification for their products. They complement these campaigns with EM simulation as part of HIRF assessments. Typically, this involves evaluating the specific RF behaviour of simplified (morphed) geometries of the aircraft. The data sets obtained are included as a supplement to the measurement results, providing a comprehensive analysis. EM simulation is also employed to interpret a ground setup with physical boundaries that differ from the flight, start and landing scenarios. The resulting relative impacts for these two situations can be quantified to a certain degree.
Example showing a logarithmic periodic antenna placed in a Semi-Anechoic Chamber (SAC) with metal ground plane:
This is a typical task for EMC measurements with in-situ boundary conditions. It is useful for characterizing a test site and for validating a model before it is applied:
Example showing the analysis of a horn antenna in free space:
The characterisation of an antenna normally includes an assessment of radiation patterns and antenna behaviour over frequency. Key parameters are beam width, side lobes, antenna factor and antenna gain. The information obtained can be applied in antenna and test-setup design:
Current Seminars
2019-11-13 to 2019-11-15
- EMC-Basics, Test and Measurement-Seminar for MIL and Avionic Standards
2019-11-14 to 2019-11-15
- Test and Measurement-Seminar for MIL and Avionic Standards
2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20
- EMC-Basics, HIRF/HERF – Electromagnetic Effects in Aircraft
2019-11-19 to 2019-11-20
- HIRF/HERF – Electromagnetic Effects in Aircraft
2019-11-21 to 2019-11-22
- Lightning Electromagnetic Effects on Aircraft


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Slumdog Millionaire has won the Oscars. And the country is celebrating. But do we have reasons to celebrate ???
The movie claims to depict passion and love and the courage to succeed in life despite all odds. But for a viewer, the more lasting impression out of the movie will be a disturbingly bad image of India. The movie shows the slums, unjust police, unethical reality show hosts, poverty, cruelty and miserable living conditions. Is that all India is all about?People believe what they see, even though it might be just a movie. What would a tourist, who has never visited India, think of this great country?
Movies are considered to be a platform to showcase the world about its diversity. And what has been shown in the movie is not the true India. This movie seems to have been aiming only at the awards, and not at people's hearts. We must not fall for it.
Many Indian movies have scenes that are shot in foreign countries. How many of those Indian movies show the darker side of those countries? It is agreed that not all foreign countries have slums and not all countries suffer from poverty and unemployment in a very large scale. But every place has its darker side. The grass is never greener on the other side. And still we tend to seek the beauty in these foreign countries while we go there for a movie shoot. We probably should try something. Make a movie about the distasteful of the British, probably some huge national problem that their country is facing. And screen the movie in Britain theatres. And then expect it to be well received and sweep their box office. Will that happen?? This really is something to think about.
There is a difference between an Indian narrating the national problems in a movie and a foreigner doing the same. It would have been acceptable had these issues been depicted in a movie made by an Indian. This is because, only a true Indian can experience the spirit of India. Only a true Indian can share the suffering of a fellow citizen. Only a true Indian can live the life of an Indian and be proud of its varied culture. Any sensible Indian will agree that India is not what has been shown in the movie and it definitely is not a correct and complete picture of India.
Slumdog Millionaire claims to have extolled the 'Spirit of Mumbai'. Has it really?? A British movie, made by a foreign director, with the lead role played by a person who has not visited India and who had had a tough time speaking with an Indian accent… I still am not able to comprehend how these foreigners claim to have experienced the Indian way of life in just a few months.
India has loyal policemen and soldiers who are ever willing to lay down their lives for the nation. India has really good talent and excellent reality shows. India has places with scenic beauty. India is trying hard to alleviate poverty. India has a comparatively good economy considering the fact that the rest of the world is feeling the heat. India has a varied culture and good people. But, will we get an opportunity again to tell the world, "Hey, this is what India is… " ?…


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For Immediate Release
Chicago –Attorney General Lisa Madigan today urged Illinois residents planning a home improvement project for this spring to take the necessary precautions to avoid becoming the victim of a home repair scam artist.
"Although we're waiting for the warm weather to arrive, Springtime officially has begun and many Illinoisans are planning home improvement projects," Madigan said. "Home repair fraud is a serious problem that affects thousands of Illinoisans each year. Consumers must be careful that the contractor they choose is reliable and the quality of work worthy of the payment," Madigan said.
Madigan's Consumer Protection Division received 3,025 consumer complaints in 2005 regarding home improvement issues, including complaints about contractors failing to start or complete work, excessive charges and shoddy workmanship. Construction and home improvement fraud ranked third on the 2005 Top Ten Consumer Complaints list released by Madigan's office and consistently has ranked as one of the top three consumer complaints since 1984.
Madigan said there are certain fraudulent scenarios that should raise red flags for home owners. For instance, a consumer should always be wary of an out-of-town salesperson with no local connections who knocks on the consumer's door and offers to do home repair work for substantially less than market price. In addition, if a salesperson going door-to-door insists that the consumer sign a contract or pay a substantial down payment on the spot, consumers should take their time and carefully evaluate the offer.
Madigan also urged consumers to beware of so-called "storm chasers," who go door-to-door offering fraudulent deals to homeowners who are eager to clean up and repair damage to their property from winter or spring storms. For example, earlier this month, Madigan's office received a complaint against and assisted in the arrest of a Springfield man who allegedly collected more than $500 from an elderly Jerome woman who hired him to clean gutters and power-wash her home in the wake of the devastating tornadoes that struck the Springfield area.
Madigan said the best advice for consumers to protect themselves from becoming victims of home repair scams is to request and then check references provided by contractors or to deal only with companies and individuals who have done work for friends or neighbors.
In addition, consumers should never sign a contract that contains blanks nor make final payment until unless the work has been completed satisfactorily.
"Consumers should always be wary of contractors that knock on doors looking for customers; usually, these contractors are searching for their next victim. Consumers must not let these or other high-pressure sales tactics convince them to sign a contract or make a down payment," Madigan said.
Madigan reminded consumers that the Illinois Home Repair and Remodeling Act requires contractors to furnish customers with written contracts for any repair or remodeling work costing more than $1,000. A contract must be signed by both the customer and the contractor.
In addition, Illinois law provides consumers with a three-day right to cancel a home repair contract if the sale of services or merchandise involves $25 or more and the contract is signed when the salesperson or contractor is physically present in the consumer's residence. The law requires notice of the three-day right to cancel to be given both orally and as part of a written contract.
The law also requires contractors to carry minimum amounts of insurance for property damage, bodily injury and improper home repair . Contractors also must provide consumers with an informational pamphlet entitled "Home Repair: Know Your Consumer Rights."
To find out if any complaints have been filed against a home repair company or to file a consumer complaint, consumers can call the Attorney General's Consumer Fraud Hotline at one of the following numbers:
Chicago: 1-800-386-5438 and 1-800-964-3013 (TTY)


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Temperature for August 1980
In August 1980 the average high temperature in Key West, FL was 90.0°F, and this was 0.1°F warmer than the average of 89.9°F. The hottest day in August 1980 was 29 August when the temperature reached 91.9°F. Overnight the average temperature in August is 79.0°F and in 1980 the average overnight temperature was 0.7°F warmer at 79.8°F.


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I spent the week developing a new set of etchings for use on my HO layout, but it will be useful to any HO modelers doing industrial scenes. The etchings are currently in pre-production and will hopefully be ready for sale in a month or so.
In the meantime, I will be presenting several talks in the upcoming two weeks. The first is tomorrow at the NMRA Potomac Division Minicon. At 2:15 I will be presenting a talk I call, "Down to the Sea in Trains." The talk complements my newest book from Kalmbach, "Waterfront Terminals and Operations," which I am happy to say has spent the last 4 weeks as #1 best seller for Amazon's model train category.
On March 18th, I will be presenting two talks to the Layout Design and Operations Weekend in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to "Down to the Sea in Trains," I will be doing a talk on the design and construction of the USMRR Aquia Line layout.
Montfrooij ModelSpoor. It depicts the Port of Rotterdam in HO scale. Montfrooij ModelSpoor are a group of 5 modelers, 3 Montfrooij brothers, one of their sons and a friend. They have been working on this project since 2009. They scratch built nearly all the models on the layout including many impressive ships, cranes, and straddle carriers. Their layout is a very impressive display. They take it to a couple shows a year in the Europe. Check out their website. It is written in Dutch but well worth a peek.
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In September 1507 King James IV granted a patent to Androw Myllar and Walter Chepman authorising them to set up a printing press in Edinburgh. The earliest known dated output from their press ('The Complaint of the Black Knight') is dated 4th April 1508.
Celebrations to mark the 500th anniversary of the introduction of printing to Scotland began in 2007, and throughout 2008 institutions and organisations throughout Scotland marked the quincentenary with exhibitions and events: for a record of these celebrations click here
A book surveying the history of Scotland's printing industry is now available, price £5 including postage. For more information, email Helen Williams
Following the quincentenary year, this website brings together information about the history of one of Scotland's most significant industries. Links to websites and web-based exhibitions, developed as part of the celebrations, can be accessed through the page on Scotland's printing history. Links to permanent exhibitions and collections relating to the history of printing are available through the Calendar of Events page.
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Please note: all images on this website are the copyright of contributors to the project. If you have any queries about the celebrations, please email Helen Williams
Last updated: 25 January 2010


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One of the advantages of having a stupidly large nail polish collection is that I generally don't struggle to find the colour I'm after. Even if I might not have the exact same shade, chances are I'll have something similar. For the neutral, sandy base, I opted for Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Café Au Lait, a polish I found intolerably dull painted on my nails alone, but in the context of this design, surprisingly works well. Of course, I had a white and black polish handy (NYC Nail Colour in Lili White and the glittery black Chi Chi Salon Formula in Wednesday respectively). The hardest part was trying to pick the kind of blue used on Katy Perry's toes. While I do love my blue polishes, I have mostly ice/baby blues, greenish/seafoamy blues or dark marine blues. I lack a medium, bright, Santorini-esque blue. Consulting good ol' Wikipedia for "shades of blue", I guess the closest to what I was looking for is Persian blue or Egyptian blue. In the end, I picked Essie Bikini So Teeny because it was the least wrong.
After Café Au Lait dried, I painted freehand the white half moon shape. Being right-handed, my left hand fared much better than the right, where things got a little outta control. If I was supposed to remain faithful to the original inspiration, I faltered since the white area was too large. It was also difficult to get an even curve without expanding the white half moon even more, a problem compounded by the fact three layers were needed to achieve full opacity. Painting over the white with Café Au Lait to correct any mistakes was out of the question since that would've resulted in a super uneven, patchwork job.
Pressing on nonetheless, I then dotted Essie Bikini So Teeny in the centre of the white with the nail polish brush (no nail art tools here) and made a smaller dot with the black polish. Once again, my left hand was much more uniform and presentable than my right, which was all over the place. Uneven sized black dots, wonky placement, out of proportion blue dots compared with the white crescent.
But that's the perfectionist in me talking. All in all, as William Hung said, I gave my best. I'm unlikely to attempt this again any time soon, but I do like the end result and have been enjoying something new and different on my nails. If only I had the accompanying Greek islands vacation to go with it.


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Glass Bead Plaster
Your pool finish will dazzle with glass bead plaster!
Glass bead plaster is a type of aggregate plaster finish for your swimming pool. This plaster carries an excellent warranty and ton of color options which makes the price worth it!
It is the most expensive type of plaster and is considered luxurious! This type of plaster is regular found on very high-end luxury swimming pools with particular attention to details and exclusivity.


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Shakib Al Hasan, also known as Saqibul Hasan, (Bengali: সাকিব আল হাসান) (born 24 March 24 1987 in Rajshahi) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who made his One Day International debut against Zimbabwe in August 2006. He is a left handed middle order batsman and Slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He emerged from Bangladesh's only educational sports institution.
Hasan is a slow left-arm orthodox, who in only six first-class matches has already taken 28 wickets for his local team, Khulna Division. He has played in 12 under-19 ODIs for Bangladesh, taking 15 wickets and has shown a lot of potential for future success. He took his first Test wicket against South Africa, bowling AB De Villiers. He has become an increasingly important part of Bangladeshi test cricket including taking a record breaking 7 wicket haul and scoring a half century against New Zealand in October 2008. He then got 5-70 and 96 against Sri Lanka in the boxing day test at Dhaka; He was named man of the match.
Revealing his talent on his ODI debut with an undefeated 30*, Hasan is already becoming a key member to the Bangladesh squad. Averaging 31.60, he provides great support to his teammates, like steadying the ship for his partner Shahriar Nafees to score a century. He has one of the highest batting averages on the Bangladeshi team and has played face saving performances in the middle order for Bangladesh many times. He is currently ranked as the best ODI all-rounder in the world according to the ICC ODI rankings.
Links to more information on Shakib Al Hasan:
*Acknowledgements to Wikipedia.org and owners of pictures and videos used.


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The much-anticipated and heavily teased video for Christina Aguilera's new single "Your Body" hit the Internet Friday (Sept. 28), and somewhere Russ Meyer is smiling.
Aguilera goes all supervixen in the video, adopting the late exploitation filmmaker's style and attitude toward men, bumping off three willing dudes over the course of four minutes (in between eating cereal and watching "Lucy Show" reruns in her trailer). Don't worry, though: A disclaimer at the beginning of the video insists "no men were harmed" in the making of it.
"Your Body" is an ode to the one-night stand, and even though she leaves guys battered and broken, it's not like the clip gets overly graphic. One of her conquests ends up covered in blue paint, and another explodes in glitter. We also count at least four different hairstyles and one pink pickup truck.
"Your Body" debuted at No. 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week. It will be on Aguilera's album "Lotus," due in November. Watch the video below and let us know what you think.


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GEORGIA: URGENT Calls needed –
YES to House Ed on SB 167
March 4, 2014
Georgia is leading the nation in returning control of education to the state and local school districts! SB 167 has passed out of the State Senate and is now in the Georgia House of Representatives. This bill is the strongest anti-Common Core bill to pass out of a legislative chamber in the nation, and its restrictions on data collection and data tracking are by far the tightest in the country.
The House Education Committee will hold a hearing on the bill this Wednesday, March 5. The exact time and location will be announced on Tuesday afternoon and will be posted at georgia.stopcommoncore.com. Your presence is needed on Wednesday, and your phone calls are needed now.
SB 167 will:
- Allow Georgia to potentially abolish Common Core from most Georgia school districts as early as the next academic school year.
- Implement an open standards-review process that will allow parents and other interested citizens into the previously closed-door process of setting standards.
- Enforce a prohibition on national standards and the testing of national standards.
- Protect student data beyond anything thought possible several months ago.
This bill is the only hope we have right now of restoring control to Georgians. Every year Common Core remains in effect, it will be that much more difficult to dislodge, and the companies eager to profit from Common Core's high tech bonanza will become much more difficult to stop.
We can expect the following attacks on this bill:
- Big companies such as Google are now lobbying to strip the entire data-privacy portion of the bill because they know strict data security interferes with current data-mining practices.
- Superintendents are attacking the bill with false rumors, even advancing the ridiculous claim that the bill gets rid of norm-referenced tests such as the SAT. This bill does not even attempt to replace any current Code section on norm-referenced testing.
- Some complain that the bill does not go far enough because it should mandate an immediate statewide withdrawal from Common Core rather than allow local control over that decision. But if SB 167 had done that, it would have failed in the Senate Education Committee. Further, some complain that it does not provide a total return to local control as was the case in the early 1980s.
- Some attacks on the bill just originate from a lack of understanding on how to read legislation or from confusion about how it fits with other existing state or federal statutes.
SB 167 is our only hope of escaping Common Core in the foreseeable future. Your efforts are urgently needed this week with the House Education Committee. Call all House Education members by Wednesday lunch. Use area code 404 for all members.
Take Action!
Email the Chairman, Vice Chairman and members of the House Education Committee and urge each one to vote in favor of SB 167 and to vote in favor of only the amendments approved by Sen. Ligon. (See below for comprehensive list of members.)
- Rep. Brooks Coleman (R- Duluth), Chairman, Phone: 404-656-9210
- Rep. Mike Dudgeon, Vice Chairman, Phone: 404-656-0298
- Representatives Tommy Benton 463-3793,
- Amy Carter 656-6801,
- David Casas 656-0254,
- Joyce Chandler 656-0254,
- Valerie Clark 656-0202,
- Pam Dickerson 656-0314,
- Tom Dickson 463-2247,
- Terry England 463-2247,
- Hugh Floyd 656-0314,
- Mike Glanton 656-0325,
- Henry "Wayne" Howard 656-6372,
- Jan Jones 656-5072,
- Margaret D. Kaiser 656-0265,
- Edward Lindsey 656-0177,
- Howard Maxwell 656-5143,
- Rahn Mayo 656-6372,
- Alisha Thomas Morgan 656-0109,
- Randy Nix 656-5087,
- Ed Setzler 656-7857,
- Willie Talton 656-5105,
- Kevin Tanner 656-0152,
- Sam Teasley 656-5146
Further Reading: Common Core
Please SUPPORT SB 167
Please SUPPORT SB 167 in the Georgia House Education Committee in order to reject federal overreach and restore local control of education to Georgia.
The Common Core Standards were developed in a process that was neither transparent nor democratic, and the results do not provide an adequate education for our children.
We urge you to ensure that Georgians decide how to educate our children, not the federal government or big business interests.
Please support SB 167, so that we can return to improving education in Georgia, not undermining it.
Thank you for your defending Georgia children, parents, and education.