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When the warm south wind starts whispering across the south Louisiana coast there's only one place that can fill the soul of this man. It's a place like no other on earth. An abyssal wilderness filled with hope and desire, passion and adrenaline, life and death. A place where a mighty river dumps nutrients into a bottomless canyon filled with toothed monsters awaiting battle. The battle's beginning is where the muddy waters of the marsh meet the open blue abyss and the sharp canyon walls plunge into depths that only make rise to giant steel oil platforms. This place is called the Gulf of America, and this, my friends, is a where the monsters live.
As I stared at slack flags on the shrimp boats outlined by a clear blue sky at Venice Marina, I knew it would be a great trip! It was finally calm and Mother Ocean had blessed us with absolutely beautiful conditions. We were headed to the deep water this weekend to tangle with some big nasty pelagic predators. With full tanks and the chest full of ice, ballyhoo, cigar minnows, and beer it was only a quick run down the mighty Mississippi to our hunting grounds.
We made one more quick live bait stop at a smaller rig about 5 miles out of the mouth to fill up the live-well with some "tuna crack" also known as hardtails. As always, a little bumping of the sabiki rigs against the rig leg did the trick on the hard tails. With high spirits and a boat full of premo bait we headed toward blue water.
A few more sets of long period rolling waves and we were greeted with grass building on a color change from hazy green to cobalt blue. Big nasty rip; it was on! Out went the islanders rigged with ballyhoo and pink stretch 30's. As the baits bounced in the wash it didn't take long for mahi to start flying! Nothing like the explosion of brilliant yellow and emerald to get the blood flowing. Like ravenous golden acrobats some dauphin made for the perfect start to an epic night.
As tough as it is to leave a productive rip, we were after bigger predators. Fifteen more miles to deeper water we went. As the sun began to set casting a brilliant golden blaze on our starboard shoulder "Mars" came into sight. As we closed in on the oil rig, it's huge blazing flare and hundreds of lights began to overpower the setting sun. We found ourselves in the middle of an unforgetable scene. As swarms of tiny flying fish buzzed across the surf, we witnessed a violent interception that sent a 100+ pound Yellowfin Tuna into a slow somersault through the air. Here they came like miniature submarines flying out of the water. A machine built for speed and power, these Yellowfin Tuna are one solid hunk of muscle designed to cut through water and rip through prey. Drift after drift the 100lb mono screamed off the 50 wides. Gaffed and hoisted 1 by 1 big nasty sea monsters crashed onto the deck. As the giants thrashed, the roar of "tuna tail thunder" and warrior cries attracted the attention of the rig crew. Bloody high fives and ear to ear smiles spurred on back wrenching fights into the morning! Several hour long battles and a jam-up crew filled up the man sized fish boxes to the brim!
As the morning sun burst orange across a beautiful Sunday sky we headed back to the shelf for one last pelagic monster. What do you use a 2 lb hook, 4 lb weight, 400 lb leader, and a hole butterflied black fin tuna to catch?…Warsaw Grouper! A couple broken leaders and one more death match brought the last of our quarry for the day. Bursting to the gills with meat, and ice steadily melting, the 26ft catamaran and her exhausted crew headed back up the river. What a great overnight Legionnaire trip to the canyon!


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Tom, age 90 of Delran died July 21, 2017. He was born July 6, 1927 in Camden and graduated Mt Holly High School Class of '44. After leaving high school, Tom ventured off to find adventure with the U. S. Coast Guard, serving as an Electrician's Mate Third Class. The young Tom would meet the love of his life, the late Betty Joo, at a Riverside Firehouse Dance. After asking Betty's brother for permission to date, Tom and Betty enjoyed 65 wonderful years of marriage together. Even after leaving the U. S. Coast Guard it was never far from his mind: he was recently honored at his grandson-in-law's retirement ceremony from the U. S. Coast Guard for Tom's service during World War II. He'd later become a carpenter at Hercules and Superintendent for Building and Grounds in Burlington County. As an Eagles season ticket holder of over 20 years, he cheered his beloved birds through the good and the bad. He also enjoyed salt water fishing and clamming. Relaxing times found him down the shore with a rod in his hand or trying to catch the occasional clam. He was a Past Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus, St. John Newman Council #1436 and a member of the Polish American Club. If it was broke, Tom could fix it. With a little duct tape he could work wonders. He travelled with his wife and a close knit group of friends everywhere from the Poconos to the Caribbean to dinners on the Moshulu. But his happiest times were always spent with his family. He thought nothing about dropping everything to hop on a plane to visit his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Tom and Betty were blessed with two children; Peggy (Ricky) Giles-Ross and Thomas W. Jr. (Angel); grandchildren, Holly Williams (Mike), Bernie (Amy) Williams, Josh and Nathan Giles, and Kelli (Robert) Fairchild; and great-grandchildren, Taylor and Chase Williams, Riley and Jake Wilson, and Aidan Fairchild. Tom was predeceased by his siblings; Alma Giles Farner and Charles Giles. He was survived by many nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews and great-great nieces and nephews.
Come celebrate 90 great years, Friday July 28, 2017 from 8-10 am at the Sweeney Funeral Home, Riverside. Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10:30 am at Jesus the Good Shepherd, Riverside. Interment St Peters Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Samaritan Hospice, 5 Eves Dr. Suite 300, Marlton NJ 08053.

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An interesting experiment was carried out in one of Russian universities, at the psychological department. A person was told during a seance of hypnosis that he was inside an orbiting spaceship. A hypnotist told the person that he was about to find himself into a state of weightlessness. When devices showed the complete absence of weight, the scientists did not believe their eyes: the weight of the hypnotized individual vanished totally!
How could this happen? Modern science tells us that nothing exists until we look at it or focus upon it with our senses. As counter-intuitive as this may seem, thousands and thousands of experiments have proven this to be true. The ability to levitate has been recorded all over the world. Shamans, healers, psychics, holy men and women have been doing it for centuries. There are references to levitation in the Christian Bible as Simon Magus levitated himself in view of St. Peter. Tibetan monks, Hindu magicians, Shinto priests have the ability to change their body mass and float just by thinking about it.
This brings us to our original question, if a hypnotist can suggest that a man become weightless, and the weight of that person disappears, what happens to the weight? Do we really control the world around us with our thoughts? Science would say yes. The ego shrieks a loud no. Which is correct?
A curious phenomenon has been discovered in the brain. When neuroscientists examine the electrical activity of the human brain, they discovered that less than 5% of the activity could be connected to anything going on in the body. The electrical tracings of the brain are very active in most people. But if you try to follow the patterns and figure out what they are doing, you quickly discover that you are wasting your time. It would appear that the brain is busy doing a lot of something that scientists cannot understand.
Many scientists call it unconscious activity and attribute the energy patterns to deep thought and brain activity associated with organs and biochemical processes. Some believe that the activity is completely random, amounting to no more than the brain amusing itself. What if this activity is a reflection of the brain creating what we call reality around us in the manner that we are used to? What if the brain constantly constructs what we expect to see and feeds it to our senses?
There is a hidden secret system of study in ancient magic called Dhactielle. In this system, an individual can learn to control the hidden processes in the brain to manipulate the laws of reality around this. This system was referred to in a recent movie. In the movie, the main characters were put through a series of tests that led up to their introduction to a hidden system of ancient magic called "The Eye". Believe me, telling you this will not change your experience of this wonderful movie but is does illustrate my point.
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This site has a good, fairly unbiased wrapup.
April 2004
"Much has changed in Iraq a year after the US invasion, but one constant survives: the ignorance of US news networks when it comes to the Iraqi people. That lack of understanding was on clear display Monday, when ABC's "World News Tonight" ran a short piece on the loyalties Iraqi Shia feel to Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani and Moqtada Al Sadr. The very premise of the report was absurd. Sistani is one of the most important figures in Shia Islam… but it's Sadr who, in Peter Jennings' imagination, "is wildly popular with the poorest Shiites. He taps into the resentment in the underclass." Never mind that, when Sadr proclaimed a government last October, no one paid any attention."
— The New Republic, March 29, 1994, three days before al-Sadr led an Iraqi uprising against the US occupation, thanks largely to the Shi'ite underclass that TNR sneered at.
To be fair, al-Sadr's popularity took a huge leap when he opportunistically grabbed hold of the Arab public's fury at Israel by declaring himself a virtual member of Hamas after Yassin's "liquidation". After all, it's not fair to expect the US news media to connect the dots between the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Arab irritation with the West in general. That would require actual analysis. And stuff. Easier to be snarky about your competition.
(source unknown)
In the comment thread from the Fallujah atrocity post-it note I slapped up in between server compiles:
If by \'e2\'80\'9cMogadishu Moment\'e2\'80\'9d all that is meant is that both events provided a rather gruesome TV moment that shocked and unsettled a lot of people, then this clearly was that. If instead \'e2\'80\'9cMogadishu Moment\'e2\'80\'9d is meant to suggest a watershed moment when policies are re-examined and the commitment to the campaign is seriously reconsidered, then the analogy largely fails.
Well, the thing is, gruesome TV moments DO shock and unsettle people, and that DOES cause policies to be re-examined. Considering the fact that our military has apparently started Operation Not Taking Any More Goddamned Crap in the past couple of days, a policy was in fact re-examined – the policy of benign neglect. Instead of whistling quietly and hoping no one notices as we disengage from Iraq, people are starting to talk in terms of "America at war" again. Whoops.
Now, some might claim this all to be more electioneering and political posturing, but unless you somehow think Mullah al-Sadr is working for John Kerry or something equally bizarre, it's more a case of things continuing to fall apart and the center continuing to not hold. Empire building is HARD.
So I finally googled myself, and apparently there's another Scott Jennings out there. (I know, hard to believe. It's such an uncommon name and all.) My doppleganger even looks vaguely like me.
(Since I'm the one with the goatee, I must be the Mirror Scott Jennings from the Evil Universe.
On the other hand, we both appear to be very drunk.)
He does improv, and more importantly he updates his blog more often than I do. Yay! Now when I'm feeling lazy, I can just have the site redirect to his. Not only that, according to Google he's more Scott Jennings than I am. In his words:
According to Google (and are YOU going to try to dispute them?), I am the #1 Scott Jennings on the Internet, finally overtaking that presumed wanker Scott Jennings who does a lot of video game stuff I'd never be interested in. He can keep it. Seriously, I used to be buried on page 24 or something, so this represents a major surge in the Scott Jennings rankings for me.
Alas, since that entry Google has posted the log you're reading right now, as opposed to that OTHER Jennings guy, at #2, just behind some painter. However, I think he should be disqualified, as not only does he have some new agey MIDI going on, but he isn't even a real Scott Jennings, prefixing his name with a W. Two out of three Scott Jenningss agree – he's OUT of the club.
There's also a usenet group called alt.bonehead.scott-jennings. I'm not sure what that's about.
Anyway, that's all your Scott Jennings news for today. Tune in tomorrow when I gaze at my navel some more.
More comment on last entry next entry. I really did play Sacred instead!
Some random notes, because I'm at work and don't have time to blog, so instead I leave you with links.
Daily Kos: extremely influential left wing blog. When the Islamo-fasicst savages that burned, exhumed and mutilated American "security contractors" were shown on the news, his immediate reaction was "Screw em". (Oddly enough, also my immediate reaction, although his was directed towards the people running the war and mine was directed towards the people of Iraq)
A good summary of the event, with links on the right wing blogosphere's fight back (using the pocketbook) is here.
I'll probably have some commentary later tonight. Or maybe I'll just play Sacred instead. Mmm, clearing maps. Your takeway thought though – Fallujah was the Mogadishu Moment. On that right and left can probably agree, although the desired result will wildly diverge.
<IRC denizen> here's a keeper from my lurking in #wishnews
<IRC denizen> [12:36] <Nebu> Don't you find it funny that Lum for make a statement about games being unfun while working for the primary culprit of what he despises most?
<IRC denizen> [12:36] <Nebu> wow… that sentence made almost no sense
<IRC denizen> [12:37] <JtheYellow> try running it back and forth through systransoft
<IRC denizen> [12:37] <Nebu> Lum chastises the industry for churning out crap and treadmills while working for one of the greatest treadmill manufacturers
<IRC denizen> [12:37] <Nebu> that's a little better
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Any idea who these guys are?
How about these guys?
The reason I'm asking is that they charged my bill $9.95 for a web design template. Normally a $9.95 bill on my credit card wouldn't raise any eyebrows – except that it happened while I was at GDC. I'm fairly certain I didn't purchase any web design toolkits while I was out of town.
So I raised one eyebrow when seeing this on my monthly statement. The other eyebrow I raised was when I saw this page from a googling of the bill's listing. Which isn't listed anywhere else on their site. (So how did Google spider it?) Complete with generic "hmm, let's get MORE personal information" form.
So – if you were at GDC, and ESPECIALLY if you used your credit card at a nearby restaraunt while at GDC, I heartily recommend checking your statement for small furry mammals. Or else the next bill might have the Russian mafiya billing you for midget clown porn.


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In 1970, after serving in the Army during the Vietnam war, Kevin returned home. He decided he needed a "sabbatical from civilization," so he took up residence on a large vineyard in the hills of Adelaida to reflect, as he puts it. There he learned all the aspects of viticulture from seasoned dry farmer, Mel Casteel. Kevin developed a love and respect for the way Mel nurtured his head-pruned vineyard. Kevin spent roughly 10 years there honing his skills as an organic viticulturalist and learning how to make wine. He would make table wines, fruit wines, desert wines - just about anything worth fermenting, Kevin was compelled to master.
Later, Kevin was offered a position with family owned Pesenti Vineyard and Winery. There he gained knowledge with head-training and maintaining mature zinfandel vines from one of the founders of Pesenti Winery, patriarch Frank Pesenti. While working there, he developed a long-lasting friendship with Frank Nerelli, Pesenti's winemaker. As their mutual respect grew, they worked closely marrying vineyard and winery techniques, producing some of the most sought after wines in California.
Kevin worked as Pesenti's vineyard manager and assistant winemaker for some 19 years until the winery was sold in 2000.
Today, Kevin can be seen in our Estate vineyard enjoying his tractor time and his off days fishing.


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Episode 15
In this episode, we give the info dump on info dumps, talk about writing reviews and Amazon's culling of "friends and family" reviews.
Works in Progress
[00:00:37] The sixth edition of Mike's Opening Act newsletter went out, and it was about 1000 words. Mike also put out proposals for presentations at Wordcamp Milwaukee. One was accepted! Mike just uses pictures for his slides, so he writes out the content for his presentations beforehand to make sure he has everything he needs to say.
[00:01:21] John is still working on his BattleTech story (working title: Dispossessed). He's at about 6400 total words but needs to stop and edit. The story started as only a single scene that played out as a movie script, but as he put characters to the story, they took the story in a different direction. He thinks he needs to start over with a new second draft.
Eric asked what the target for the story would be, and John thought it should have been about 5000 words. Originally it was supposed to start as a short story, but may be a novella before all is said and done. John's not sure when it would be ready for a beta read?
"I am an artiste! It will be done when its done!"
[00:02:31] Eric is working on the rewrite of Don't Wake Up. He's made some interesting headway, but is unsure if he likes it or not. He has also slapped down a few more words on Faith, Love and Rust on Penflip. It's an open project, so you can find it here.
What's happening online
First Quarter Sales from three U.S. Publishers
[00:03:03] A post on Publishers Weekly showed mixed signals from three of the largest publishing houses.
"First-quarter reports from three of the largest U.S. trade houses gave mixed messages about the state of book publishing at the start of 2015. Sales rose at HarperCollins and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt trade division, but fell at Simon & Schuster, compared to the first quarter of 2014. Revenue at HC, however, fell 5% if sales from Harlequin—which HC bought last summer—are excluded."
A Writing Cheatsheet
[00:04:00] Cheatography is a website for building cheat sheets on any topic you'd like. It has a nice interface for creating multiple section with lists, columns and text.
John created a cheat sheet for writing with quotes, plotting techniques, and crutch words to avoid. His writing cheatsheet
Beta Readers
A post over at The Write Practice talks about the value of beta readers. Why Beta Readers can Revolutionize Your Writing The article covers why beta readers are important to your writing, where you can find them, and what you should look for in a beta reader.
All three of us have accounts on Scribophileand a Typehammer group. While critiques and beta readers differ, our Scribophile page is a great place to discover beta readers for your work.
29 Awesome Books With Strong Female Protagonists
[00:07:08] Editor Susan Price posted on her facebook page a BuzzFeed article 29 Awesome Books with Strong Female Protagonists. Based on our conversation in Episode 13 on Fantasy novels for people sensitive to humans being horrible, Eric thought this article would be appropriate to share.
Reading Spotlight
A Dark Lure
[00:09:11] Mike finished A Dark Lure by Loreth Anne White. His concern that a romantic subplot would get in the way in reading this suspense novel. It turned out to not be the case, however.
How to Make a Living as a Writer
[00:13:03] John is finishing up How to Make a Living as a Writer by James Scott Bell. It has good advice, but it feels a little like an advertisement for all his other writing books. John is in the section right now that discusses the differences between short stories, novellas and novels in terms of plot points and subplots that has been really useful.
The Tears of Jihad
[00:14:10] Eric started The Tears of Jihad by Sean Emerson. This self-published book is a "sword and sandals" story between the Byzantine Empire and the newly-formed Muslim army. It's off to a slow start, but Eric's starting to get into it.
Tech Focus: Penflip
[00:14:53] Penflip is a Git-based writing tool created for writers rather than programmers. You can still track revisions and changes but doesn't have the hard-core coder feel sites like Github does. Projects can be created as either short stories (a single page like Gist), or a full book project (that's more like a Github project). You have the ability with the books to create scenes and folders for chapters. You can share the stories with others to gather feedback and track changes.
[Penflip is] really geared for writers.
You can create open projects for free, or private projects if you subscribe to the service. The site says it costs $10 a month, but I discovered it really charged only $8 a month.
It also has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
When you create a story, you get an edit window similar to Draft or StackEdit that allows you to type in Markdown. Eric really likes the interface and John even plunked down his credit card and subscribed.
"Branches and Tags and Forks, oh my!
When another writer wants to make changes to a document, they get their own branch for their change. Another options would be to create a new branch if you want to keep your original draft intact.
If you'd like to check out Eric's story on Penflip, you can find it here: Faith, Love and Rust and offer your suggestions and edits!
Craft Talk
Info Dumps
[00:21:34] Information dumps are large sections of prose where nothing is happening because the author is trying to disseminate a large amount of information the reader needs to continue reading the story. In general, this is considered lazy writing.
Good examples of info dumps
Douglas Adams, in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, cheats on info dumps and is able to use the Guide itself as the dump like a Wikipedia page about the topic he needed to describe.
Neal Stephenson, author of Cryptonomicon, Reamde, and Seveneves, writes really technical prose that often needs a lot of description to make sense. One example he used in Cryptonomicon was in his description of the workings of the Enigma machine during World War 2. He used a character riding a bike with a faulty chain and broken tooth on the gear as an analogy for how the tumblers in the Enigma machine fell into place. The bike would drop the chain whenever the broken tooth and the broken link in the chain met.
William Gibson, on the other hand, info dumps only at the last possible moment when the reader's curiosity is the highest. In The Peripheral, the characters talked about "The Jackpot" several times, but he never described what it was until the point when the suspense was enough that the reader is screaming for the information and it is no longer a dump that distracted from the story.
Elmore Leonard is a king of the non-info dump as he writes very sparsely.
Bad examples of info dumps
Star Trek: The Next Generation was one of the worst offenders of the info dump, so much so it earned its own term: Cabbage Head. Despite being a ranking officer on the ship, someone would always turn into a cabbage head, going dumb so other characters could explain what was going on to the audience.
Another generic example of bad info dumps are dialog as info dump. The amount of information one character would say in a single, uninterrupted block, despite people not talking that way. Sometimes you can get away with this when one character (a mentor) is talking to another character (an apprentice) who honestly wouldn't have any idea about what is going on.
"Well, you know she's our sister" is the worst kind of info dump as dialog. The only reason anyone would say something like this is because the author is lazy and needs to tell the reader something.
Mike brought up some books he's read where the author inventoried the entire contents of a room which not only was boring, but also was never mentioned again.
"That's why people don't use editors. Because they know editors will kill that (info dump)."
- Eric
Writing Reviews
[00:30:38] Mike gets books from NetGalley, which is a site that provides books in exchange for a review. Mike would give a bad book a one-star if it meant warning other people of what they might be getting into. He doesn't give many three-star reviews. Generally, he gives four or five star reviews.
John thinks the one-star reviews should get written, but doesn't want to be that harsh. He gets a little leery about writing them. Three stars reviews are those books that are perfectly fine. It's not a bad review. It's average. There isn't anything wrong with the book. A four star review are books that he thinks about after he finished reading. Five star review books are those he'd read again.
Eric has done some reviews, but not nearly as many as he should. For example, Rob Hart's book New Yorked. Eric wants to give a nice review of that book, but hasn't done it. When it comes down to sitting down at the computer and doing some writing, writing the reviews
Eric says, reviews to me are interesting. When he goes to Amazon, he'll see a bunch of 5-star reviews and 1 1-star review. Eric knows immediately that some of those 5-star reviews are friends and family.
Amazon can pull reviews if family or friends do reviews. There's a lot controversy in deciding who is or isn't a relative or friend. What's a really good friend? As a writer, you should be making friends with your readers, they should be mavens for your writing. So what happens when your closest readers are flagged by Amazon as a friend? Eric calls shenanigans on that.
Mike pointed out that we're close friends, so would our reviews get blocked by Amazon because we're too close.
"If I have to give you a 1-star review, that means I didn't do my job as your beta reader or critiquer."
Writing that Pays
[00:37:08] E-Commerce Bytes is looking for articles about online stores. Articles should be between 100 and 500 words. All types of articles about selling online are appropriate.They pay about $20 a story. Knock out a few of those and get some beer money.
[00:37:50] We are having a Twitter contest running from July 27th, 2015 through August 9th, 2015. All you have to do is tweet using the @typehammer Twitter account and you can win a beautiful tulipwood pen carved by Eric.


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The scheme to widen a 2.5 mile stretch of the A23 between Handcross to Warninglid in West Sussex is now well underway, with the first phase nearing completion.
The £76 million scheme will see the main route widened to three lanes in each direction; lanes have been temporarily narrowed with a 40mph speed limit in place to allow construction works.
Preparatory environmental work began in April 2011, which saw the road shut for six nights a week for three weeks. This was followed by clearing the site and felling trees in November 2011 to prepare the site for the widening.
The Highways Agency said that this stretch of the road is used by 70,000 vehicles a day and is the only part of the A23 between the M23 and the Sussex coast that has never been improved.
As of this month the first phase of southbound carriageway temporary widening, including rebuilding the eastern and central sections of the southbound Slaugham Bridge have been completed. In addition to the new accesses to the East Park and Stanbridge properties, the earthworks and drainage to the new Warninglid northbound junction, two balancing ponds near the closed Slaugham junction and 1500 metres of water mains pipes and 900 metres of electricity cables have been diverted.
The bad weather through the latter part of 2012 has affected the Highway Agency's planned programme so they have reviewed their construction schedule to enable the improvements to be complete as planned by autumn 2014.
Permanent traffic management with narrow lanes remains in place on both carriageways and a speed limit of 40mph is in place for the safety of road users and the workforce. Average speed cameras continue to monitor the speed and it has been found that over 99% of road users are complying with the speed limit.
A third portable Variable Message Sign has been installed on site which can display warning messages including alerting customers of any broken down or stranded vehicles on the carriageway. An Impact Protection Vehicle is now available as an additional measure to assist with protecting customers at vehicle breakdowns.
Overnight lane closures and full carriageway closures have been taking place; a fully signed diversion route is in place for the overnight closures, between junction 11 of the M23 and the A272 at Bolney, via the A264, A24 and A272.
This year, crossovers in the central reserve are being built which will enable a switch in traffic between carriageways to maintain two lanes in both directions on one carriageway in contraflow. This will allow work to continue on the opposite carriageway free of traffic. It is intended for the Warninglid northbound slip roads to be reopened before the end of April.
Starting later in 2013, the slip roads at Handcross will need to closed while the junction is being rebuilt. To tie in with the VOSA weigh bridge reconstruction works, the closure of the slip roads will need to be staggered and in place for around six month. Access to all properties and businesses on both slip roads from Handcross village will be kept open during the closures.
To keep update with the development then visit www.highways.gov.uk


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I feel like I have been posting so much today but seriously, this article and it's comments are my new favorite thing in the world:
It is from the site "Chicks on the Right", tagline "Because Conservativism Needs a Makeover" and their logo does, in fact, incorporate a shoe (becauz ladees). They're just "cool chicks who like to tell people what we think about stuff", "except that instead of being served up all newsy and serious, it'll sound more like you've just sat down for cocktails with us, after shopping for shoes". OMG TOTES!
I have been shown the error of my thinking by "Mockarena", who was born to immigrants who came over years ago "before the cool� thing to do was to just come over illegally and refuse to learn English". She believes in "good old Christian values", and she "hates educators who teach self-esteem and correct condom use in place of history and algebra".
But it is in the comments section where I have truly learned the most about myself and my opinions. I'm obsessed with Megyn Kelly's boobs! I'm a brainless bimbo! Feminists like myself are actually just mentally ill, and we use feminist theory to explain and cover for our illness! I should be pissed on!
I would like to give one shout out to the voice of reason, Loobie, who notes that I am actually just a fictional character in the Lemony Snicket books and he's confused why they even bothered to read a fictional character's work in the first place. Loobie, you have got a real point.
Please browse and enjoy. I'm actually laughing so hard at work that I have to lean forward and try to hide my face behind my computer so no one can see.
P.S. Does anyone here at Groupthink want to challenge them to like an annual game of powderpuff football or capture the flag? I would watch the heck out of a reality show covering that - maybe something where the winning team gets 10,000K donated to the charity of their choice, so we're playing super hard so that it doesn't go to prolife crisis centers and they're like ready to kill us so it doesn't go to support one of our crazy feminazi causes? I volunteer to run our vegan bake-sale to raise money for our gender neutral uniforms!


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I went to see Rocky Balboa, it wasn't bad. It was better than Rocky V, and on par with Rocky's II through IV. It had a sympathetic plot, and was reasonably entertaining.
The actual fight scene was rather a letdown. Just didn't get me into it like any of the previous Rocky movies. I was also dissapointed at the lack of Mr. T. I mean, c'mon how hard would it have been to throw a Mr. T cameo in there. And no Eye of the Tiger either.
So Rocky is old, Adrian is dead, and his kid is still a putz. Rocky want's to fight a little bit more, nothing big, but then opportunity knocks and he gets to fight the world champion who nobody likes in a glorified sparring match that turns serious as Rocky shows he still has heart.
If they make Rocky VII (Adrians Revenge) they should make sure Stallone is replaced by a CGI Rocky. It'd look slightly more realistic than what they came up with. I'm sorry but Sly's gotten a few too many facelifts and botox injections and his face is starting to fall apart like Michael Jacksons.
So, not a bad movie like Rocky V, but it could have stepped it up a notch if they really wanted to. All in all, a better end to the franchise than Rocky V. Still they should have called it Rocky VI - Rocky Balboa.
and for those who are never sure which Rocky movie is which, here you go:
Rocky - the first one. he loses.
Rocky II - the second one - he wins
Rocky III - Mr T and Hulk Hogan!
Rocky IV - Rocky defeats communism
Rocky V - Rocky fights some punk
Rocky VI - Rocky is old.


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Not long ago it was common to hear members of the community doing an Autumn de-worming or their annual Spring cleanse. These folks would mix concoctions of castor oil with their family's proprietary blend of minerals and botanicals. These people were concerned about intestinal worms after months of working in the garden and the barns caring for farm animals.
We now use words like 'Parasites' to replace the historical terms of 'worms'. There are literally thousands of different species of parasites. They can be diagnosed, by chance during a stool collection if some ova (eggs), dead parasite, or a free parasite is collected. A more advanced stool collection is available for a fee. A Comprehensive Digestion Stool Analysis is more likely to indicate the metabolites of parasitic infection, however it is not 100% accurate either. Experienced practitioners can also use Electro-Dermal screening to determine the certainty and the identity of your infections. The diagnosis of parasitic infections is left up to the treating physician whom will qualify if any of the testing results and patient symptoms could be caused by a parasitic infection.
Diarrhea caused by parasitic infections represents the greatest single worldwide cause of illness and death. Parasitic infections are more common in underdeveloped countries in part due to poor sanitation. The numbers of these infections however are increasing in North America due to world travel. It is currently the third major cause of disease and death in North America.
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From the BBC:
Savers putting their money in funds investing in UK stocks and shares would have made more money since 2000 by putting it in savings accounts instead. If £1,000 was invested at the start of the decade, it would now be worth £1,094 in an average UK unit trust but £1,358 in a typical savings account.
The exclusive research for the BBC found that £1,000 invested in a UK equity income fund would also have made less than in an instant savings account – now being worth £1,302.
The article points out that good timing would have bucked the trend:
The same calculations, but up to July 2007, would have seen shares perform comfortably ahead of cash. (And) if anyone made the unusual decision of investing in a commodities or natural resources fund eight years ago, their £1,000 would now be worth £3,260.
The experts cited in the article said that stocks still outperform savings in the long term. I'm not sure what they're referring to–the last time I checked, eight years was considered long term. They'll have to extend their definitions to prove their point.
So much for the dogma that the stock market always wins out over savings.


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This is to inform candidates that participated in Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, 2018/2019 admission screening exercise that the first batch and second batch admission lists have been released online.
Bowen University admission list contains the names of candidates offered provisional admission into the university's various degree programmes for the 2018/2019 academic session, and the provisional admission is subject to validation by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
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CLEVELAND, Oh -- Sweet Potato Hash is a wonderful side dish this time of year and can even be a full meal depending on what ingredients you add.
Chef Eric Wells runs Skye LaRae's Culinary Services and he showed Fox 8's Wayne Dawson how to use sweet potatoes in a different way that create a comforting dish with a lot of flavor. This recipe is also part of an upcoming class Eric is teaching on Southern Thanksgiving Dishes. You can learn more about his class and culinary services by clicking here.
Sweet Potato Hash
1 tablespoon brown sugar
2 teaspoons kosher salt
2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon chili powder
¼ teaspoon dried rosemary
4 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 medium red sweet peppers, chopped
½ large sweet onion, sliced thin
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons fresh minced thyme
In a medium bowl, combine the first six ingredients, set aside.
In a large skillet, sauté sweet potatoes in oil until lightly browned. Add peppers, onions and garlic, sauté until vegetables are tender. Stir in spice mixture. Cook for about 10 more minutes or until heated through. Top with fresh thyme.


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Urney Pub Manager Determined To Improve 'Customer Experience' After Attending Marketing Course
The manager of a local bar in Urney has launched a marketing campaign in a determined effort to improve the quality of service to its customers. Paul Taggart, who runs McGee's Bar in the hamlet, decided to improve the pub after having attended a 1-day marketing course in Omagh last month. He denies that he is using big words he learned on the course without knowing what they mean.
Launched with the slogan, 'Come to McGee's. You Won't Get Better', Taggart said,
"We really want to dynamise the whole customer experience and start taking a collaborative approach with the clientele. That's why we're going to put fresh sawdust down in the bogs once a week from now on. And we've also got some of them deadly wee blue things to stick in the urinals, like they've got in the upmarket bars in Donaghmore. McGee's is going places. Make no mistake".
He went on,
"We need some actionable strategies that will help give people a relaxed and tranquil environment, that makes them want to come in and get completely hammered".
Locals however have not responded well to the new approach, with many customers saying that the decision to start serving fancy cocktails such as lager and lime, and stocking new-fangled flavoured crisps like Worcester sauce was 'a bridge too far'. One anonymous regular complained that after having been forcibly ejected from McGee's on Friday for making favourable comments about Joe Brolly, Taggart asked him to complete a questionnaire on his 'experience'.
"Listen to this", fumed the 58-year old borderline alcoholic. "'On a scale of 1 to 10 how satisfied are you with the way you were thrown into the schuch?' Any more of that shite and I'll take a collaborative approach to slapping him in the bake. That bollox has gone on thon course and come back with his mouth full of marbles".
Another customer who also asked not to be named said he was asked by Taggart whether the ambience of the bar lived up to his expectations.
"I wouldn't have minded, but I was vomiting all over my own legs at the time. There's a time and a place. Jaysus, I must've had a skinful".
"It's a transitional project", admitted Taggart, who said that the questionnaire was aimed at his 'target demographic' which are regulars who frequently become angry with inanimate objects, or loudly claim to be an expert on things they know nothing about when sober.
Posted on September 5, 2013, in Donaghmore, Omagh, Urney and tagged bar, demographics, Donaghmore, Joe Brolly, Omagh, pub, Urney. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.


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After a Labour party meeting earlier this year, I paused outside to roll a ciggie. I got talking with an engaging Old One from the Silent Generation. She sounded like she had been a Labour member from Mickey Savage's time on. The lady had outlived Norm Kirk's Camelot, Rogernomics' Quantum Leap, and will still be signed on long after Helen Clark's Office is over.
She said, "Whatever happened to the really important things? I look at the Kelburn Viaduct or the Karori Tunnel, or the Mt Victoria Tunnel. All their commission dates are a lifetime ago. What public works are being done today, to leave something as good as our forebears gave us?"
I really didn't have an answer to give her. Moa Point seemed not quite right and the Bypass, for all its engineering, seemed too small. I knew what she meant, and extending a motorway 300 metres wasn't it. There was nothing new. No link road from Karori to Owhiro Bay, not even a Johnsonville route fit for anyone but Sunday Drivers and hoons. Transmission Gully was still not happening then (Is it now?). No extension of rail into the heart of the city.
On a bigger scale, there was no Main Trunk Line to gloat about. No bridge between the Heartland and the Mainland. Auckland still had no rail to the North Shore, or even a bridge more worthy than the 1950's clusterfuck it uses now. While the Kaikoura Roulette is finally getting fixed, we still haven't got a decent drive linking Wellington to the Wairarapa after we turned down the Yanks' tunnel offer back around WWII. The Rimutakas are a beaut to tramp on, but a cunt to drive over. Same same with Arthur's Pass, without the tramping.
So the only answer I could give this Old One was, "We pay our way." And that's us all over. It is writ big with Michael Cullen's new GAAP and Cullen Fund. We will pay and pay and pay. We will have student debt, personal debt, hire purchases, mortgages, car finance. We pay for insurance just in case any of the things we are paying for Get Cartered. Plus GST.
Little wonder then that Labour's student loan interest write-off was a vote-winner. In one fell swoop a Gordian knot is cut. The Old Ones oblige, because they know what's happening. Gen X and Y and probably Z are getting screwed. We will be picking up the tab for the Baby Boomers for a while yet.
The Boomers have had it sweet. Raised by parents who knew the value of a dollar, becoming self-made people before the laws got too complicated, or university graduates when education was still free. There is no class war in NZ. It is generational. One day, the Boomers will pay.
And this is how. Y'know that Cullen Fund, that one that all the PAYE-earners are paying for on top of the seven percent for current Super? The Super Fund throws cash into such things of negligible public good for NZ as $19 million dollars in Verizon or $44 million in Macquarie Infrastructure Group, which is "the world's largest listed infrastructure fund, with assets in Australia, the UK, Germany and Portugal."
Instead, we should put our money where our mouth is, along with the rest of us. Just like Muldoon did in 1975, it's only a matter of time before someone cracks that piggy bank. Better now, for the right reasons. Just make sure that you gamble and win.


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Jury Deliberations Begin in Blagojevich Retrial
Jurors at the retrial of ousted Illinois Gov.
Rod Blagojevich have begun deliberating.
Judge James Zagel told lawyers during a hearing on Friday that he was giving jurors copies of jury instructions so they could start. Closing arguments wrapped up Thursday.
Jurors in Rod Blagojevich's federal corruption retrial have completed their first full day of deliberations and have gone home for the weekend.
The case was sent to jurors Thursday evening after prosecution and defense attorneys had their final say during closing arguments. Deliberations on 20 criminal counts against Blagojevich began Friday morning. Jurors have already selected their foreman.
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Many film critics in Sri Lanka, including Ciril B. Perera, have mentioned Wasantha Obeysekera, Dharmasena Pathiraja and myself as filmmakers of the left-wing. Now, Wasantha and Pathiraja are no more. They have gone forever and will never come back. I too feel that I have nothing left to do here and it is time for me also to leave. Before that, I have a humble request to make from all of you. Do you remember my film 'Thunveni Yamaya' which was screened in 1983? In order to rescue this movie, I have only one month left. This film is fully destroyed. I sent it to the Prasad Lab in Chennai, India for a test. I have attached herewith a copy of the letter sent by the Prasad Lab to The National Film Corporation mentioning the cost for the restoration. To make 'Thuveni Yamaya' I spent my own money. To restore this movie and preserve it for Sinhala Cinema I must find $16,343. I do not want to make another movie. But, I need to rescue the movie I have already made. I am truly grateful, if there is anyone who can help me with this. I am even ready to pass the ownership of the movie.
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Wasantha Kotuwell, Indira Jonklas, Winston Serasinghe, Iranganee Serasinghe, Ranga Bandaranayake, J.H.Jayawardhane, Udaya Abeysekera
Script & Direction : Dharmasiri Bandaranayake
Camera: Andrew Jayamanne
Music: Premasiri Khemadasa
Editor: Stanley Alwis
Producer: Dharmasiri Bandaranayake
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Date Jan 22, 2018
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We thank you for giving us an oppurtunity to work with you. Further to the visit of Mr. Sasika Ruwan and the based on the Reel # 6 of the film "THUNWENIYAMAYA" sample print received last week and the TEST done for Digtisation, Grading and Restoration, please find the quotation for 2K Picture Digitization & Restoration, along with the scope of work to be carried out. Below is the cost estimate with the break down for production, deliverables and media for output. Total package cost all inclusive USD 16343/-.
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Happy Easter Week everyone! Thanks for joining me … and paying it forward for those Reeses and Cadbury eggs you'll be eating this weekend (they are the best…) Here's what we rode to tonight:
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The report from Committee of Public Accounts 'Providing the UK's Carrier Strike Capability (HC 1427)' looks at the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), when the Department had contracts for two carriers with an estimated cost of Ł5.24 billion and delivery dates of 2016 and 2018.
Decisions taken in the Review mean the UK will have no carrier aircraft capability from 2011-2020. While two carriers are still being built, only one will be converted to launch the planes that have now been selected, and the other will be mothballed.
The UK will only have one operational carrier with a significantly reduced availability at sea when Carrier Strike capability is reintroduced in 2020. That carrier is being built according to the old design and will have to be modified to make it compatible with the requirements of the new aircraft: the cost of these modifications will not be known until 2012.
The SDSR decision is forecast to save Ł3.4 billion, but only Ł600 million of this is cash savings while the remainder is simply deferring expenditure beyond the Department's ten year planning horizon. The decision will lead to nine years without Carrier Strike and full capability will not be achieved until 2030, with more work needed to get the best and most flexible operational use from the carrier.
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For the last three editions of this column we have examined the fundamental and incisive critiques of what the South African radical political economist, Professor Patrick Bond, describes as the pervasive looting in various guises of the resources of one of the most endowed regions of the world largely responsible for the persistence of underdevelopment in Africa. In the concluding section of the last chapter of his book, Bond summarises his central argument concisely and precisely thus: "The looting of Africa dates back many centuries, to the point at which value transfers began via appropriation of slave labour, antiquities, precious metals and raw materials. Unfair terms of trade were soon amplified by colonial and neo-colonial relations. These processes often amounted to a kind of 'primitive accumulation', by which capital of Northern countries grew by virtue of looting Africa. But as this book demonstrates, this was not a once-off set of problems, solved by the 1950s-90s independence struggles. In recent decades, wealth extraction through imperialist relations has intensified, and some of the same kinds of primitive looting tactics are now once again evident".
Of course these same points have been convincingly made by such radical scholars as Walter Rodney, Claude Ake and Samir Amin among others. Bond does not spare conniving local allies of the North within Africa states who cooperate in implementing neo-liberal, free market policies that have intensified underdevelopment across most parts of Africa since the early eighties. According to Bond, "Instead of a sustainable level of debt service payments, as claimed by those supporting the elites' limited debt relief schemes, Africa's net financial accounts went negative during the 1990s. And although remittances from the African diaspora now fund a limited amount of capital accumulation, capital flight is far greater. At more than US10 billion/year since the early 1970s, collectively, the citizens of Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, the DRC, Angola and Zambia have been especially vulnerable to the overseas draining of their national wealth".
Bond points out that Africa has lost over $272 billion to trade liberalization since the early 1980s. While the West advocates the abolition of subsidies in Africa "…agricultural subsidies accruing to Northern farmers rose from the late 1980s to 2004 by 15 per cent, to $279 billion mainly benefitting large agro-corporate producers". Contrary to the IMF's characterization of African countries that deviate from unhelpful and ineffective neo-liberal policies as being 'off-track', Bond argues that most African leaders have actually been 'on track' by comprador elites and neo-liberal technocratic elite that demonstrate unrestrained loyalty to Northern objectives detrimental to their countries' interest. Nigeria is a case in point here particularly with the dyed-in-the wool World Bank/IMF loyalist, Dr NgoziOkonjo-Iwealla as the country's economic Czar.
How then does Africa move from looting to the liberation that will promote development and radically minimise misery on the continent? Bond is sympathetic to the ideological perspectives of the World Social Forum (WSF) but believes it is too loosely organised and laissez-faire in its attitude to provide the coordinated approach needed for development-oriented social struggles in Africa. For instance, he notes that in 2005 at the WSF in Porto Alegre, 19 progressive intellectuals and activists had produced a draft of twelve proposals for the emergence of a more just, equitable and humane world that would help underdeveloped countries break the shackles of poverty.
Among these proposals were cancelation of the external debt of Southern countries; implementation of international taxes on such financial transactions as direct foreign investments , consolidated profit from multinationals and weapons trade; dismantling all forms of fiscal, juridical and banking paradises; recognising the right of all inhabitants of our planet to employment, social protection and retirement/pension; promoting all forms of equitable trade while rejecting all free-trade agreements and laws proposed by the World Trade Organization; forbidding all forms of privatisation of common goods for humanity , particularly water; dismantling all foreign military bases and allowing troops to operate in foreign countries only under the mandate of the United Nations; taking urgent steps to end the destruction of the environment and the threat of severe climate change as well as reforming and deeply democratising international institutions through the protection of human, economic, social and cultural rights.
Although Bond doubts that these proposals were thought through thoroughly enough and with sufficient consultation with those most affected by the issues, his own more detailed proposals hardly differ in concrete terms from those proposed by diverse groups within the World Social Forum. However, he agrees with Walter Rodney that any genuine liberation of Africa must involve the vital activity and participation of the African masses just as happened during the anti-colonial struggle. But Rodney considers this a tall order given "the shabby reality of neo-colonial Africa".
In the words of Bond, moving from the historical legacy of looting in Africa to liberation and transformation would require the replacement of "shabby neo-liberal projects like the New Partnership for Africa's Development with a bottom-up programmatic strategy that can confront the looting of Africa…through the rapid development of mass democratic movements across the continent, suffused with the values of liberty, equality (including between the sexes) and solidarity. In addition, the intellectual plays a crucial role. The possibility of a revived African left intent on halting and reversing the looting of the continent depends upon the nurture of Africa's independent-minded nationalists, feminists, critical political economists and anti-imperialists, who are already helping to shape the strategies of progressive movements".
What Bond's work so poignantly demonstrates is that a world in which so much poverty exists despite the technological capacity to actually make poverty history is unsustainable. It will continue to contend with all kinds of violence, revolt and social disorder including religious fanaticism and assorted forms of terrorism that fuel global insecurity. Sooner or later, Africa must face the challenge of fighting for its second and more meaningful and impactful liberation.


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There is nothing like some Apple leaks in the morning. This time we have learned some details regarding the upcoming iPhone's specs. The source of these leaks is unknown, though, so please do not take them as a 100% confirmed info.
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