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When Model Meets Fashion Mastermind
Designer Karl Lagerfeld partnered with on-the-rise model Kaia Gerber on a collection of Parisian-inspired pieces with a West Coast edge to them. The Karl Lagerfeld x Kaia Collection--which launched on August 30th--features ready-to-wear accessories, sunglasses, footwear, jewelry, and clothing staples that are practically begging to be added to closet collections.
Lagerfeld first met Gerber when he signed her on to model at Fashion Week for Chanel in September 2017. That season, she was given the opportunity to walk the runway for 18 brands including Saint Laurent, Versace, and Calvin Klein. Although fame runs in the family (her mother is one of the original supermodels, Cindy Crawford), Gerber has evolved on her own, growing her Instagram following to 3.7 million followers (more than her mother).
After a one-year partnership, Lagerfeld decided to take his collaboration with Gerber to next level by giving her the role of co-designer on an exclusive capsule collection. "I have loved being a part of the creative process and working with Karl is a dream," Gerber stated in a press release for Karl Lagerfeld. "It has given me a new appreciation for how hard designers work, and how much creativity and thought goes into every collection."
The line features an extensive array of items, from faux leather leggings to a metallic skirt to a millennial pink belted faux fur coat. Other standout pieces in the collection include faux leather gloves, a graffiti mini shoulder bag, "Kaia Kreeper" platform sneakers, and a tuxedo blazer with a logo pin accent.
The launch of the line was kicked off this past week at the Revolve Social Club in Los Angeles, where a pop-up shop is opening for the collection starting on September 1st.
Additionally, the public is invited to attend a consumer event at the Karl Lagerfeld flagship in New York on September 12th. Fans will have the chance to win a meet-and-greet with Gerber at the event by following the rules posted on Lagerfeld's social media.
Karl Lagerfeld x Kaia is now available on Karl.com and Revolve.com for two weeks. Starting September 14th, you can shop the line at retailers worldwide as well, including Selfridges, Excelsior, Breuninger, La Rinascente.
It seemed like Gigi Hadid was the ultimate multi-faceted model following her collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger on the Tommy x Gigi Collection. Now it's Kaia's turn to step into the spotlight. With an impressive debut line, her supermodel status seems to be going nowhere but up from here.


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For me, there are two main meanings to the card of strength:
Firstly, it speaks to you of taming the wild. Not through force but through patience.
To translate that to your heart's work: Now is the time to be patient and receptive. To be vulnerable.
You have to wait for your work to approach you. To trust you enough to show itself. This is not necessarily an easy task.
It requires first of all that you are clear on what you want, and then to allow it to reveal itself, all the while staying open and receptive.
This card is not about doing nothing. Instead it's about having the trust and faith that what belongs to you will find you. You don't have to force it to come. In fact, you can't force it.
Like the lion, you have to be strong, confident and calm. Don't try to overcome a problem. Instead, work with it.
Strength is the card of patient mastery. It will take time to become a master in your craft. Strength accepts that and works with it. This card is about playing the long game.
Be courageous enough to look your demons in the eye, and let them be. Do what needs to be done, and have patience and compassion both for yourself and for others.
Secondly, strength is a card of opposites, of extremes.
It can be moody and solemn, prone to fits of temper and bursts of annoyance.
When you have drawn this card, you might eat too much or you might starve yourself, depending if the grip you have onto your 'wild, instinctive' nature is loose or tight.
You can be a passionate lover, and you can become celibate without warning.
You probably also pivot between self confidence and irrational timidity. And when you feel timid, you can make yourself truly weak and frightened.
Basically, you can turn yourself into a pussy cat, and you might get stuck that way.
If this resonates with you, your work is reminding you of your innate power and courage, and of the rightness of being yourself. There is a reason for all that you are!
Decide, right now, to believe in yourself!
Working with Strength:
Firstly, become aware of who you are! A lioness, a creature that is wild, courageous and very powerful.
If you have forgotten this, all the patience in the world will not connect you to your life's work.
You have to find your lion heart first.
The easiest way to do this is to just know that it is there. If you have drawn this card, the mighty lion is with you, and in you.
Surround yourself with her energy.
Find a photo of a lion, hang it up. Or enlarge one of the cards above if they speak to you.
Get a toy lion.
Roar loudly during your walk in nature, or while you take a shower or drive your car.
Go through your day being aware that you've got this! You are the queen of the (concrete) jungle. You are the ruler of the pack!
Once you feel connected again to your true nature, your work can approach you, because now know that you are worthy of it.

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The public gallery of the Australian Parliament began singing "I Am Australian," an unofficial country anthem, today as legislators passed nationwide marriage equality in a near unanimous vote. (Only four legislators voted against it.) The vote followed approval of a same-sex marriage bill in the Australian Senate last week and a non-binding national postal vote last month in which 61.6% of voters supported Australia same-sex marriage as well.
The bill will now go to Governor-General Peter Cosgrove for Royal Assent (possibly within the next seven to 10 days) and will become law 28 days later or sooner, if the government sets an official date.
The quick passage of marriage equality a month after the postal vote follows 22 unsuccessful attempts to pass marriage equality since 2004.
The passage of marriage equality has also caused celebrities to praise the vote via social media. A homophobic straight couple who promised to divorce if same-sex marriage became legal has announced their plans and the hashtag #EatShitLyle began circulating on Twitter as a taunt to Australian Christian Lobby managing director Lyle Shelton, a vocal opponent of marriage equality. We'll discuss all these in brief below.
Here's a video of the Parliament passing the Australia same-sex marriage bill:
After announcement of the vote, viewers in the Parliament's public gallery broke into tears, applause and a rendition of "I Am Australian," an unofficial anthem whose chorus goes: "We are one, but we are many / And from all the lands on earth we come / We'll share a dream and sing with one voice / 'I am, you are, we are Australian.'"
Celebrities like pop-singer Kylie Minogue, Australian Drag Race alum Courtney Act, Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe and director Dustin Lance Black all celebrated the legalization on Twitter.
#Australia ?? pic.twitter.com/7jvyLGieL2
— kylie minogue (@kylieminogue) December 7, 2017
You may now officially say "CONGRATULATIONS" to Australia on #MarriageEquaility ????
— Courtney Act (@courtneyact) December 7, 2017
Thank you, Australia #yes
— Ian Thorpe (@IanThorpe) November 14, 2017
Ain't it great to start the morning with goosebumps? Congratulations #Australia! #MarriageEquality https://t.co/LbxY2KheG9
— Dustin Lance Black (@DLanceBlack) December 7, 2017
Straight married couple Nick and Sarah Jensen voted against marriage equality in the non-binding postal vote and pledged in 2015 to divorce if same-sex marriage became legalized. They've since predictably backtracked on their promise, although more than 100,000 people have joined a Facebook event called 'Celebrating Nick and Sarah Jensen's divorce.'
The hashtag #EatShitLyle has also started circulating on Twitter in response to Australian Christian Lobby managing director Lyle Shelton, a vocal opponent of marriage equality.
Here's my response to your years of hate, lies and demonisation of people who just wanted the equal legal rights: #eatshitlyle
— Chris Miller (@plumbat) December 7, 2017
I hope all my queer friends are okay and you get increasingly fewer reasons to not be okay and also eat shit Lyle
— christian mccrea (@christianmccrea) December 7, 2017
I am outraged at the Eat Shit Lyle abuse being directed at @LyleShelton. The correct form is "Eat Shit, Lyle". Vocative commas are important. #SSM
— Richard Newsome (@RichardNewsome) December 7, 2017
It's now compulsory for all celebrants to say "Eat Shit Lyle!" during wedding ceremonies.
— Pauline Pantsdown (@PPantsdown) December 7, 2017
now, a #MarriageEquaility haiku:
equal marriage rights,
at last, australian law.
also: eat shit lyle
— illy bocean (@IllyBocean) December 7, 2017
In addition to vocally opposing same-sex marriage, Shelton repeatedly refers to kids brought up by same-sex couples as "a Stolen Generation" and supports the psychologically torturous (and throughly debunked) use of so-called ex-gay conversion therapy on LGBTQ minors.
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Savannah River Points in Context: Video from Day 9 of the Broad River Archaeological Field School
Last Friday's fieldwork was eventful. With just a few days left in the field, we are down into the nitty-gritty of the feature excavations intended to recover detailed data about the Late Archaic (ca. 4000-1000 BC) occupations at the site. Last year's work in the block revealed the presence of a significant Mack component (dating to around 1000 BC) and hinted at the existence of an earlier Savannah River component (dating to around 2000 BC) in close vertical proximity. Although we won't know which features go with which component until we excavate and analyze them, Friday's work gave us some important clues. Enjoy the video!
You can find all the videos from the 2018 season on the Broad River Archaeological Field School website.
Week 6 Field School Video: Come for the Archaeology, Stay for the Hooked X Jokes
We had an eventful day in the field last Friday, so this week's video is longer than usual. Every project like this reaches what feels like a "hinge point" where you can start accurately sizing up what you can and can't get accomplished. We won't be able to do everything I wanted to do at 38FA608 this semester, but we'll be able to do a lot of it. Fingers crossed the weather continues to cooperate.
We finally took the large rocks out of the floor of Unit 5. One of them turned out to be something unexpected (I won't spoil is so you can enjoy the moment with us on the video). The other turned out to be . . . well, watch the video for that also.
My arms and hands began blooming with poison ivy rash at about 2:00 on Saturday morning. Last week it took a couple of days before I started to feel the irritation. My folk theory is that the lack of rain allows the oils to build up and concentrate. Spring is aggressive and early here: plants and animals move into the excavation areas during our week-long absences from the site.
Enjoy the video!
Today is my last morning in Tulsa at SEAC 2017. I spent all day yesterday in the "Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast" symposium: 18 papers that included state-by-state updates of what we know and the data we have and treatments of topics such as megafauna in the Southeast, plant use by early foragers in the region, wet site archaeology in Florida, lithic technologies, etc. It was a marathon.
My presentation with David Anderson was last in the lineup. I was tasked with an effort at a "big picture" demography paper. It was a lot to talk about in a short time (20 minutes) -- a difficult balancing act to discuss the dense data from such a large area and be able to explain how I tried to integrate it all into a geographical/chronological model that can be evaluated on a region-by-region basis. Anyway . . . the detail will be there in the publications that result from the endeavor.
I uploaded a pdf of my presentation here. Some of the details will change as we work through the process of refining the analysis and dividing the content into multiple papers. But you should be able to get a decent idea of what we were going for.
"The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast" Symposium at SEAC: Our Contribution
I'm currently in Tulsa, OK, at the 2017 Southeastern Archaeological Conference. I took a break this afternoon from papers and talking to hole up in my hotel room and put the finishing touches on the presentation I'll be giving tomorrow. I'm honored to be senior author on a paper with David Anderson (University of Tennessee). Our paper will be last tomorrow in a marathon symposium organized by Shane Miller (Mississippi State University), Ashley Smallwood (University of West Georgia), and Jesse Tune (Fort Lewis College).
I'm really looking forward to the session, which will present summaries, updates, and syntheses of work from across the Southeast. It's intended to be a 20-year update to the work that culminated in the landmark Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast volume that was published in 1996. Congratulations are due to the organizers who conceived of the symposium and pulled it off.
I briefly discussed our paper back in September. Significant work has happened since then, and I'm pretty happy with the result. The point of doing a "big" paper like this, in my view, is to attempt to identify and describe patterns that require explanation. We used information from three large datasets -- PIDBA, DINAA, and an always "in progress" compilation of radiocarbon dates -- to investigate patterns of population stability/fluctuation during the Paleoindian period in the Eastern Woodlands.
As of now (rushing through this blog post so I can go out to dinner) I like the result: a six period chronological/geographical model identifying the time/space parameters of population stabilities and fluctuations. As I listen tomorrow to region-by-region updates on what we know about the Paleoindian period in the Southeast, I will almost certainly learn of many things that are wrong. But I will be listening to the results of others' work with a model in mind. That's useful. As the famous quote goes: "all models are wrong, but some are useful." To me, a useful model is a machine for thinking that makes predictions about the world that can be evaluated. So I'm looking forward to seeing what I got wrong. I wish I had a big piece of paper I could spread out on a table so I could take notes time period by time period, region by region.
After this updated photograph of Woody Guthrie, I'll post images of a few key slides from the presentation. I'll put the whole thing on my Academia page tomorrow after the dust settles. [Update 11/13/2017: the presentation is available here.]
38FA608: The First Radiocarbon Dates
I recently announced the return of the Broad River Archaeological Field School for the spring semester of 2018. Student registration begins in November, and the logistical and strategic wheels are in motion.
This week I received radiocarbon dating results from two samples I submitted to Beta Analytic. Radiocarbon dates are not cheap (about $600 for an AMS analysis that returns an age estimate from a very small sample), and I am grateful to a private donor who supplied funds to date one of the samples from 38FA608.
Here are the date results on a generalized figure of the stratigraphy at 38FA608 as I currently understand it (based on profiles of Units 1, 2, 9, 11, and the original machine cut):
The date for Zone 7 -- from a single piece of charcoal that Jim Legg picked out of the profile of Unit 9 -- came back right at the Middle/Late Archaic transition. It's a date that's consistent with Zone 7 being related to the Guilford point fragments that we've gotten from the site (only one of which has actually been found in situ). Thus my original suspicion of a Middle Archaic age for Zone 7 is supported.
The date for the Zone 19 sample, however . . . was a bit of a surprise. It also came back as Middle Archaic in age, about 700-800 calendar years older than Zone 7.
I only wrote briefly about Unit 11, which I and several volunteers put in after field school to get our first good look at what is beneath the deposits exposed by the original machine cut. There wasn't much material until we neared the boundary of a seasonal water table. Right above that, there were some large cobbles and a very light scattering of small, angular quartz fragments. As I wrote back in May, none of the cobbles appears to have been modified (at least based on a macro inspection), and none of the pieces of angular quartz is a slam dunk for a human-made stone tool. Other than human deposition, however, I can't think of a good explanation for how that material got there -- it is so unlike its sandy matrix in terms of size that it could not have been transported by the same mechanism.
I dated a single piece of charcoal plucked from the wall of Unit 11 (FS 1318) from a zone beneath the "cultural" material in an attempt to learn something about where those deposits might be in time. Given what seemed to be a fairly regular accumulation of the sand from the Middle Archaic though the Woodland period, I was expecting an Early Holocene rather than a Middle Holocene age -- I thought we might be looking at the edge of an Early Archaic deposit.
There are two main possibilities for the date: (1) it accurately dates the age of Zone 19; or (2) it doesn't.
It's possible that that piece of charcoal worked it's way down through the sand from a higher elevation, perhaps through bioturbation (movement by animals or roots). There's no obvious signs of intrusion from where the sample was taken, but that doesn't mean much in these old sands: we wouldn't necessarily expect that subtle signs of intrusion would be discernible in these kinds of sediments after 6000 years.
So the date could be "bad" in the sense that it isn't giving us the age of the deposit. I think it's entirely possible, however, that it is accurate. While the idea of a slow and steady accumulation of sand over the course of the Archaic is appealing, there's no reason to assume that that's how it went down. It's possible that rates of deposition varied. The levee could have aggraded more rapidly during the Middle Holocene, perhaps as a function of both Middle Holocene climate and the lower elevation of the existing surface at that time (making it easier for the landform to be over-topped by flood waters).
If Zone 19 really dates to around 4700 BC, the deposits in Zone 15 could be related to a deeply-buried Morrow Mountain occupation.
Investigating the deep deposits at 38FA608 is a top priority for excavations in the spring. Stay tuned!
We're now into the fourth week of the semester here at the University of South Carolina. As usual I've been writing for this blog less than I'd like (I have several unfinished draft posts and ideas for several more, and there's currently a backlog of Fake Hercules Swords). A good chunk of my time/energy is going into the Forbidden Archaeology class (you can follow along on the course website if you like -- I've been writing short synopses, and student-produced content will begin to appear a few weeks from now). Much of the remainder has gone into pushing forward the inter-locking components of my research agenda. This is a brief update about those pieces.
Small-Scale Archaeological Data
At the beginning of the summer I spent a little time in the field doing some preliminary excavation work at a site that contains (minimally) an intact Archaic component buried about 1.9 meters below the surface (see this quick summary). Based on the general pattern here in the Carolina Piedmont and a couple of projectile points recovered from the slump at the base of the profile, my guess is that buried cultural zone dates to the Middle Archaic period (i.e., about 8000-5000 years ago).
My daughter washed some of the artifacts from the site over the summer, and I've now got an undergraduate student working on finishing up the washing before moving on to cataloging and labeling. Once the lithics are labeled we'll be able to spread everything out and start fitting the quartz chipping debris back together. Because I piece-plotted the large majority of the lithic debris, fitting it back together will help us understand how the deposit was created. I'm hoping we can get some good insights into the very small-scale behaviors that created the lithic deposit (i.e.,perhaps the excavated portion of the deposit was created by just one or two people over the course of less than an hour).
Drawing of the deposits exposed in profile. The numbers in the image are too small to read, but the (presumably) Middle Archaic zone is the second from the bottom if you look at the left edge of the drawing. Woodland/Mississippian pit features are also exposed in the profile nearer the current ground surface.
When the archaeology faculty met to discuss the classes we'd be offering in the spring semester, I pitched the idea of running a one-day-per-week field school at the site. Assuming I can get sufficient enrollment numbers, that looks like it's going to happen. The site is within driving distance of Columbia, so we'll be commuting every Friday (leaving campus at 8:00 and returning by 4:00). The course will be listed as ANTH 322/722. It's sand, it's three dimensional, and it's pretty complicated -- it's going to be a fun excavation. I'll be looking to hire a graduate student to assist me on Fridays, and I'll be applying for grant monies to cover the costs of the field assistant's wages, transportation, and other costs associated with putting a crew in the field.
Large-Scale Archaeological Data
Some parts of my quest to assemble several different large-scale datasets are creeping along, some are moving forward nicely, and some are still on pause.
Complex Systems Theory and Computer Modeling
Complex systems theory is what will make it possible to bridge the small and large scales of data that I'm collecting. Last year, I invested some effort into transferring my latest computer model (FN3_D_V3) into Repast Simphony and getting it working. I also started building a brand new, simpler model to look at equifinality issues associated with interpreting patterns of lithic transport (specifically to address the question of whether or not we can differentiate patterns of transport produced via group mobility, personal mobility between groups, and exchange).
As it currently sits, the FN3_D_V3 model is mainly demographic, lacking a spatial component. Over the summer I used it to produce data relevant to understanding the minimum viable population (MVP) size of human groups. Those data, which I'm currently in the process of analyzing, suggest to me that the "magic number of 500" is probably much too large: I have yet to find evidence in my data that human populations limited to about 150 people are not demographically viable over spans of several hundred years even under constrained marriage rules. But I've just started the analysis, so we'll see. I submitted a paper on this topic years ago with a much cruder model and didn't have the stomach to attempt to use that model to address the reviewers' comments. I'm hoping to utilize much of the background and structure of that earlier paper and produce a new draft for submission quickly. I also plan to put the FN3_D_V3 code online here and at OpenABM.org once I get it cleaned up a bit. I also discuss this model in a paper in a new edited volume titled Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis in Archaeological Computational Modeling (edited by Marieka Brouwer Burg, Hans Peeters, and William Lovis).
How big does a human population have to be to remain demographically viable over a long span of time? Perhaps not as big as we think. The numbers along the bottom axis code for marriage rules (which will be explained in the paper). Generally, the rules get more strict from left to right within each category: 2-0-1 basically means there are no rules, while 2-3-8 means that you are prohibited from marrying people within a certain genetic distance and are compelled to choose marriage partners from within certain "divisions" of the population.
It will be a relatively simple thing to use the FN3_D_V3 model in its non-spatial configuration to produce new data relevant to the Middle Paleolithic mortality issue I discussed at the SAA meetings a couple of years ago. I'm also going to be working toward putting the guts of the demographic model into a spatial context. That's going to take some time.
Early Archaic Abandonment of the Southeast: In Search of Compiled Radiocarbon Data
As I mentioned briefly in a post yesterday, I've become interested in looking into the evidence for an abandonment of large portions of the Southeast at the end of the Early Archaic period.
This (2012) paper by Michael Faught and James Waggoner provides an example of how this could be done on a state-by-state basis. Faught and Waggoner use multiple lines of evidence to evaluate the idea of a population discontinuity between the Early Archaic and Middle Archaic periods in Florida. One of the things they discuss is the presence of a radiocarbon data gap between about 9000 and 8000 radiocarbon years before present (RCYBP). They are able to identify that gap (which is consistent with a significant drop in or lack of population at the end of the Early Archaic using a dataset of 221 pre-5000 RCYBP radiocarbon dates from Florida.
Assembly of radiocarbon datasets for states across the Eastern Woodlands would be really useful for seeing if there is a similar "gap" in other areas of the Southeast that correlates with technological and statigraphic discontinuities. It seems to me that small bifurcate points (e.g., LeCroy cluster) and/or larger lobed points (e.g., Rice Lobed cluster) are good candidates for marking a contraction or retreat of late Early Archaic hunter-gatherer populations. While common in the Midwest, such points are absent (?) from Florida and present in only parts of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama.
I'm aware of the Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia Radiocarbon Database published by Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. I'm wondering if there are similar existing compilations (either print or electronic) for other eastern states, especially those south of the Ohio River. I've only spent a short amount of looking, but I haven't come across any yet. At the risk of being accused of being lazy, I thought I'd throw the question out there and see what turns up. I will be very surprised if radiocarbon compilations haven't been produced for many areas of the east, and it seems worthwhile to ask about existing resources (which may not yet be easily "discoverable" online) before I contemplate yet another large-scale data mining effort. Please let me know if you can help.
Update (3/27/2016): I've created this "Eastern Woodlands Radiocarbon Compilation" page to store links and references to radiocarbon compilations.
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With a possible profit of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, thefts of antique folk art — such as weathervanes and wood carvings — has grown across New England in recent years, police and antique dealers say.
Weathervanes in particular have been targeted, having reached record values among collectors over the past two years.
One example can be found in Vermont. On Dec. 7, officials from the Vermont History Center and city representatives from Barre, Vt., celebrated the town's decision not to sell the antique weather vane which sat atop its old fire station for decades. The city earlier this year had received several unsolicited offers for the hammered copper weather vane, which depicts a horse-drawn hook and ladder truck with two firemen at the helm. The city had the weather vane appraised by Northeast Auctions of Portsmouth, which placed the value at $700,000 and $1.2 million.
The city paid $75 to buy the weather vane 103 years ago. Now stored in a climate-controlled chamber at the Vermont History Center, also in Barre, it was made by W.A. Snow Ironworks of Boston in 1904, when the Barre fire station was being built. It was removed and stored at the local library in 1984.
There have been more than 20 thefts of antique weathervanes from New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts, according to state police in Vermont, where most of the thefts have occurred.
In 2005, one was stolen in Concord, according to police, who tracked the antique to Florida, where it was recovered.
In May 2006, a weather vane was stolen from the top of a garage at a Washington Street residence in Dover, said Police Lt. David Terlemezian. There have been no leads and the crime still is unsolved, he added.
The 50-year old weather vane, made of wrought iron and in the shape of a horse, was estimated to be worth $1,000.
A weather vane also had been reported stolen in Rye a week earlier, Terlemezian said.
"Every once in a while, there seems to a rash of weather vane thefts," he said.
According to Dick Kagan, a writer for artandantiques.net, record prices for weathervanes were broken three times in 2006.
The record price for an antique weather vane was $770,000 before 2006. But in January of that year, a weather vane depicting the 'goddess of liberty' sold for $1.08 million at Christie's New York.
In August of the same year, Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth sold a locomotive weather vane for $1.2 million.
In October 2006, an American Indian weather vane sold from $5.8 million.
Stacy Hollander, senior curator for the American Folk Art Museum in New York, said weathervanes are a distinctly American cultural expression, and were ubiquitous in the late 18th to 19th century. However, while three records were broken in 2006, the particular weathervanes sold were large and unique specimens, she said.
Smaller weathervanes, made into similar shapes by the same individual or later mass-produced in factories, go for much less. Christies also sold weathervanes in 2006 for $2,400, $6,600, and $9,000.
Sandra Cutchin, of Nevermore Antiques in Dover, said thefts of antique weathervanes have become more common as their value has spiked.
"They can range in worth from a couple of hundred dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars," Cutchin said.
The most valuable weathervanes are large, one-of-a-kind pieces which often were on top of municipal or public buildings, she said.
She just sold the last antique weather vane in her inventory — for $8,500. She said she doesn't plan on getting any more because as their value has gone up, not only are more weathervanes being stolen, they're being forged.
"A good-quality antique weather vane is hard to get a hold of these days," she said. "There are a lot fakes out there, ones that are new but have been chemically treated to look old."
Other cases of theft of antiques and folk art in recent years in the area have included:
q In Plymouth, antique firearms were stolen from a moving company last summer, said Steven Temperino, Plymouth police chief. The firearms included a shotgun and two rifles. they were recovered in the home of local teens.
q Two years ago, Kittery Police Detective Sgt. Ronald Avery said an antique Bellamy Eagle was stolen from a residence on Rogers Road. Avery said the homeowner noticed the carving was missing after remodeling work on her home was done. Avery said the carving had been kept inside the home. The eagle has not been located, and there are no current leads, he added.
John Haley Bellamy was a wood carver in the late 1880s. Originally from Kittery, Maine, he worked in many other New England towns, earning his living primarily by carving eagles for sailing ships and homes.
A Bellamy Eagle usually can be identified by its square beak, long neck and red eyes. Bellamy did not sign his work, though he did embellish his carvings with saying such as "Remember the Maine."
The carving stolen from Rogers Road was about 8 to 10 inches high with a wingspan of about 30 inches. Avery said the owner placed a $25,000 value on it, though Avery said similar carvings have been sold for $50,000 to $60,000.
In August 2005, a Bellamy plaque, valued between $35,000 and $55,000, sold at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth for $145,000. That fall, a Bellamy carving was sold for a record-breaking $666,000, and another went for $165,000.
A little more than a year ago, a painting valued at $5,000 was taken from a Kittery Point residence, Avery said. The work was an oil painting of a Kittery Point fort done by George Savary Wasson, between 1855 and 1926.
Wasson was a Massachusetts artist and writer who spent summers sailing the New England coast. Wasson, his wife and two sons moved to Kittery Point, Maine, where he continued to paint and write until 1916, when he moved to Bangor.
In February 2006, several books from the library of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, who lived from 1873 to 1966, were stolen from the private library of an estate in Madison.
Valued at more than $65,000, the missing books included 19th and 20th century scholarly material in the areas of philosophy, religion and international law, as well as 17th and 18th century philosophy.
Folk art, antique thefts up as objects' values rise
With a possible profit of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, thefts of antique folk art — such as weathervanes and wood carvings — has grown across New England in recent years, police and antique dealers say.


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Hosea continues his prophecy to Northern Israel in Chapters 7-9. Though Israel had been in an intimate relationship with God, like a marriage, now disloyalty to God was spiritual adultery. (9:1) Israel had turned away from God and turned to Baal worship, as well as sacrificing at the pagan high places. They were mingling with godless foreigners and flitting around worshiping foreign gods with arrogance (7:8–11) and materialism (8:14). God's judgment was inevitable.
This section continues to outline God's case against Israel (ch.7-8) and then pronounces judgment (ch. 8-9). Listen to the heart-breaking cry of God's heart in holy jealousy:
I wanted to redeem them,
but they have told lies about me.
They do not cry out to me with sincere hearts.
Instead, they sit on their couches and wail.
They cut themselves, begging foreign gods for grain and new wine,
and they turn away from me.
I trained them and made them strong,
yet now they plot evil against me.
They look everywhere except to the Most High.
For you have been unfaithful to your God,
hiring yourselves out like prostitutes,
worshiping other gods on every threshing floor.
God's judgment is inevitable and rightly severe: God says that Israel's harvests will be inadequate. They won't be able to stay in the land, but must return to Egypt where they will be conquered. Their sacrifices will not be accepted. Nettles and thistles will take over their ruined homes. They will be childless—or their children will be taken away & slaughtered. They will wander about homeless among the nations. The worst part of the judgment, it seems, is that God will reject them and leave them alone.
As you read, put yourself in Hosea's shoes…how would he have felt? Then think about how the Israelite hearers must have felt. Finally, consider how God would have felt.
Personally, I can sometimes relate to Israel's shameful practice listed in 7:16 in my own life: "They look everywhere except to the Most High." Not good. How do I turn that around? It's something to prayerfully consider.


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About John Grund:
Began his golf career in Southern California.
An active Junior Golf career had him playing National and local events with a few victories along the way.
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As a competitor I feel fortunate to have competed in the 1981 US Amateur, 1977,78,79 and 1980 NCAA Championships' as well as the 1987 US OPEN.
Other notable milestones as a competitor include several Leading money winner Titles on the Golden State Mini Tour, Player of the year Honors in Metro Chapter in Southern California. More recently John has twice qualified for the United States PGA Senior Club Professional Championship.
Competed in the South African, South Pacific and the Canadian Tours.
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It was a very early start on Saturday morning. Zac played his first game of cricket. He did so well and we were so proud of him. He didn't score many runs, but he held the team together. He faced lots of balls and saw many partners come and go. The drinks break was his undoing, he was caught, in the first over back.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Zac's first Cricket Match
Posted by Melleny Ams at 6:58 pm
2 comments:
- Brian Bailey said...
Well done buddy it is good to see you playing.
- 7:47 pm
- Sheree said...
Great action pics Melleny! Hope next weekend goes well!
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City and United play mean
THE war of words between local rivals Manchester United and Manchester City has intensified.
City kicked things off by parading new signing Carlos Tévez around Manchester in a petty yet amusing billboard campaign.
City welcomed Tévez to the city, conveniently forgetting that he had plied his trade with United for the past two seasons.
To make things worse for United's fans, the picture shows Tévez scoring a crucial goal at Wigan last season which went some way to securing the Premier League title.
Sir Alex Ferguson has responded in typical fashion by writing off City's title challenge, before the season has even begun.
He said: ""It won't be easy for them to win anything, even with the players they have bought.
"I can't look at them as our main competitors. Liverpool and Chelsea are our main competitors."
Except by even mentioning them Ferguson has included City as a possible challenger.
Last season Ferguson picked Rafael Benitez to be his public combatant of choice, as Liverpool became genuine Premier League challengers for the first time.
This came after years of ignoring the Spaniard, prefering to verbally joust with Arsene Wenger, who suddenly Ferguson has become best buddies with, as the threat of Arsenal has receded.
By kicking off his mind games this early Ferguson has admitted for the first time his fear of not even being the number one side in Manchester.
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if you're going to set yourself up as an on-line hack then good luck to you. you will however have to say something credible. can you really believe city will challenge utd this season? please. a handful, if not a bucket-full, of some of the most mercenary 'in it for me' strikers in the premiership does not make a team, and a team is, unfortunately, what is required. city may do better, they definitely should do better, but they will not make it into the top 4. the very best they can hope for, if aresenal, villa and everton have poor seasons, is 4th place. please, be serious.
I think you'll find sir alex's comments, from an interview published in the Daily Telegraph, were in response to being asked if he saw city as a threat. to which he replied (to paraphrase) "they might be up their but theyre hardly the only ones as we're challenged by arsenal, chelsea etc every year"
not really him starting the mind games by mentioning city – since he was specifically asked about city. if in an interview someone asks him about luton town – does that mean that he's worried about them too by simply replying?


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My favorite way to tackle housekeeping or organizing tasks is to start a DVD, get about 15 minutes into it, then pause it and work like crazy on my chore for half an hour. I grab a caffeinated beverage, press play and repeat until the project and the movie are finished. Some projects are double features.
Certain movies are better for organizing than others. I like something light-hearted and a bit fairy tale-ish (think Cinderella) with a killer soundtrack. The following are some of my favorites that make a chunk of chores a whole lot more fun.
"Party Girl": Parker Posey in one of her career defining roles as an eccentric life-of-the-party type whose dismal finances force her to get it together. We're given a hint that she's got what it takes because her wardrobe, though wacky, is, nevertheless, highly organized. By the end of the movie she categorizes her DJ friend's record albums using the Dewey Decimal system and becomes the world's coolest librarian.
"Something's Gotta Give": Diane Keaton inspires as Erica Barry, a successful playwright with amazing discipline and a house in the Hamptons that is full of light and free of clutter. The only things she collects are smooth white pebbles. This totally controlled woman learns to let loose, but she still — and this is key — finishes her play, makes another boatload of money, and spends her birthday in Paris.
"Working Girl": Brooklyn babe Melanie Griffith organizes her personal and work style by patterning herself somewhat after her boss, the elegant Sigourney Weaver. You can't picture Weaver laying on the couch eating Doritos, can you? The scene in which Griffith is practicing her diction while exercising on a stationary bike is pure organizing inspiration. She fits in to the couture dress and impresses the client. Sometimes multi-tasking does make sense.
"Inside Man": How to organize the perfect heist. There are lots of these types of movies (such as "Ocean's Eleven," "Twelve" and "Thirteen"), but this Spike Lee Joint is my favorite. Clive Owen and Denzel Washington play the leads. Yum and yum!
"Under the Tuscan Sun": How Diane Lane (playing author Frances Mayes) takes an abandoned Tuscan villa and creates a Tuscan fantasy: all melted Crayola colors (Mayes' image), food, wine, a quirky but loveable community and olive trees for miles. It's not a great film by any stretch, but when my husband and I were remodeling, I watched it over and over to help me keep my eyes on the prize.
"Overboard": There is a sweet scene in which Kurt Russell's character designs shoe storage for rich girl Goldie Hawn's yacht closets, but what I love most about this movie is how later in the story Hawn's character reorganizes her new hillbilly family and whips a dilapidated bachelor pad into shape.
"Private Benjamin": Another classic Hawn flick, and like "Overboard," a reverse-Cinderella story. This time she is spoiled Jewish princess Judy Benjamin who learns discipline and some amazing skills in the Army. My favorite scene: when Judy polishes the troop's bathroom with her electric toothbrush.
"The Guitar": Saffron Burrows lets everything go and starts from scratch in this unusual film by Amy Redford, Robert's daughter. A story of loss and gain on lots of levels, I really enjoyed the reminder that sometimes letting go in a big way brings in something new that you couldn't have imagined. It's a fairy tale, but no prince rescues Saffron's character — it's her focus and practice that give her the life of her dreams.


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Mainframe Security: Operating System Protection
Like all servers, a mainframe has many doors that can be "knocked on" to gain entry. Whether or not you can open the door and gain entry depends on the implementation of security in the chosen External Security Manager (ESM)—RACF, ACF2 or Top Secret—as well as the operating system configuration and a vast array of resource managers such as TSO, CICS, IMS, WebSphere, etc.
We often hear that the mainframe is secure and IBM has an integrity statement, so we're fine! However, what does "system integrity" really mean? Well, according to IBM: "System integrity is defined as the inability of any program not authorized by a mechanism under the installation's control to circumvent or disable store or fetch protection, access a resource protected by an ESM (note it actually states RACF in the official IBM document), or obtain control in an authorized state; that is, in supervisor state, with a protection key of less than eight (8), or Authorized Program Facility (APF) authorized." In other words, it works, is secure, and will maintain integrity if configured correctly!
Anyone familiar with mainframe security will be aware of such things as APF, Linklist, LPA, PPT, Started Tasks, etc., often called "sensitive resources," and over time, we've come to understand how important it is to secure these with our chosen ESM.
Who should have access to an APF authorized library? What level of access should they have? These are examples of the many questions we should know the answer to these days. How often do we review the access to these sensitive resources and realize we have an issue? I sometimes hear the question, "How has that happened again?" In the majority of cases, it happens because the process in place to manage these resources is flawed.
One thing that helps with managing these challenges is a robust change management procedure. This will vary widely within each organization, as it isn't a "one size fits all" solution.
Another stumbling block to implementing our chosen change management solution is determining what level of access the systems programmer should have to manage system resources. In some organizations, the systems programmer is allowed to update these resources and in others he or she isn't. However, when sensitive resources are updated, we must be logging access, so we can answer the question, "How has that happened again?"
How many organizations spend countless hours reviewing audit reports, looking at individual security violation messages? What about the access granted by the ESM? Is this access appropriate? If we get a security violation, is our chosen ESM in fact doing its job and preventing unauthorized access?
Today, we should be looking for trends in the violations and not at individual messages. We should also be spending more time and effort recertifying access to resources. For example, periodically reviewing the actual data set profiles that protect all APF data sets with the resource owner and confirming that the access granted is appropriate will ensure access is correctly authorized.
IBM and CA Technologies continue to invest in facilities to help us protect our corporate assets, sensitive resources, and operating systems. IBM recently announced support to allow us to digitally sign programs. Should we be using this facility and, if so, how?
We need to provide the technical teams, security teams, and auditors with the processes and procedures they need to effectively perform their jobs. There are tools that allow for real-time alerting to enable an enterprise to proactively monitor changes to the system—not only at the operating system level, but also changes in the ESM configuration right down to individual resources protecting the sensitive resources. These tools immediately alert technicians and management via email, SMS, SNMP, and various other means when a change that's considered sensitive is made.
So, in summary, we need to:
- Build and maintain our own list of sensitive resources
- Audit all successful updates to them
- Recertify access to these resources on a regular basis
- Not focus on all security violations; people make mistakes, so look for trends
- Move from a retrospective review of security violations to real-time alerting.


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We offer all kinds of classes and workshops for beginners, to experts and everyone in-between.
My classes are an expression of my passion, love and devotion to the ancient wisdom of Yoga and Ayurveda (Yoga's sister science). My emphasis is on complete health and wellbeing. I take a foundational approach to both Yoga asana (poses) and Ayurvedic lifestyle — meeting people where they are — both physically and emotionally.
I offer weekly Yoga classes, private sessions, as well as health coach consultations and monthly workshops. Yoga is a wonderful practice that goes far deeper than just the poses. It embraces and unites your mind, body and spirit, creating inner peace, vitality and joy.
I began my journey on the path of yoga in 1992 when I first attended an Ashtanga yoga class in San Francisco. Since that day I have cultivated and nurtured within myself a lifestyle that incorporates this beautiful wisdom. I studied yoga therapy with Janice Gates in 2002 and again in 2005 with T.K.V. Desikachar. And through my deep belief and love for the practice I went on to become certified in Heart of Hatha Yoga with Amanda Dozal in Grass Valley, CA. I then furthered my education by studying Ayurveda at the CA College of Ayurveda. Becoming a certified Ayurvedic Health Educator and Practicioner in 2015. In 2018 I became a certified Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coach through the Shakti School of Ayurveda. My deep understanding of Yoga and Ayurveda has lead me on my own path to healing and I deeply want to share my realized knowledge of this healing modality with others. Health and wellbeing is a lifestyle and this path does lead to true inner peace, happiness, joy and absolute freedom. All it takes is taking the step and loving yourself.


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How to Be Loving & Understanding to New Moms
Maybe someone you know have just entered into a new season of life - motherhood.
And maybe it's a season you're not yet in, so you're at a lost on how you could love on your friend as she transitions into new challenges.
Please allow me to share how some dear friends have loved on me as a new mom that I appreciated much:
1) Be Gracious
I am a pretty punctual person; I was raised to appear for appointments 10 minutes early.
But when a baby is added to the mix, I can no longer control what my time of arrival is.
Yes, there are things I can do to prepare beforehand; but it is out of my hands if my baby decides to have a blow-out 10 minutes before getting into the car seat.
This could mean I'd be late after all the cleaning up and changing clothes - and this is where I was extended grace that I couldn't appreciate more. Instead of getting impatient or annoyed, my friends gave me grace and understanding. I could not be more grateful for them.
By being gracious to new moms, you have just made her day a little bit easier.
2) Be Flexible with Your Time
In addition to unexpected blow-outs, other circumstances could also totally change your game plans. IE sickness. If it so happens that you need to reschedule your meet-up, a new mom would definitely appreciate your flexibility.
3) Ask if She Has Taken a Shower Today
Not in a way to make her feel bad or self-conscious, but new moms (like, me) don't get to take showers very often, or even if they do, their baby is probably somewhere close by, crying.
That could make a pretty stressful shower, I've been there. It is truly a luxury taking a hot shower in peace and quiet, you guys.
So if you happen to have a little bit of a free time, why not offer to watch her kiddo for her so she could get a much-needed shower? She will thank you, forever. (I know I will :P)
**Some moms might prefer to take a nap instead of a shower if you do offer to watch their littles, well, let them!
So these are my tidbits on giving new moms some love. What else would you add to the list?
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A perspective piece and an editorial have featured in the same edition of Biological Conservation (March 2018): both tackle a recent debate among conservation biologists as to whether at a local level biodiversity or species richness is changing and in what direction.
This paper by researchers from the USA, UK and Mexico examines the biodiversity conservation and carbon storage implications of a number of land-use scenarios related to cattle ranching in Yucatán, Mexico.
This new book, edited by Michel. P. Pimbert, Director at the Center for Agroecology, Water and Resilience in the U.K., critically examines the kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing needed for food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity.
This new handbook, edited by Danny Hunter, Luigi Guarino, Charles Spillane and Peter C. McKeown, presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of the current knowledge of agricultural biodiversity.
This new book by Bioversity International summarizes the most recent evidence on how to use agrobiodiversity to provide nutritious foods through harnessing natural processes.
This paper in Biological Conservation argues that the role of pesticides in driving biodiversity loss deserves renewed emphasis, quantification and amelioration. The authors present their views on how conservationists should support integrated approaches, for sustainable agriculture and rural development planning, that simultaneously address food security, pesticide use and biodiversity conservation.
This paper, taken from an inaugural edition on planetary health in the Lancet, analyses global food and nutrient production and diversity by farm size, providing evidence on how smallholder farmers contribute to the quantity and quality of our global food supply and discussing the structural impacts of agriculture on nutrient availability.
This review assesses the performance of organic cropping systems as an approach to sustainable agriculture, and seeks to identify the contextual considerations (such as type of cropping system) that may affect this performance. The scope of the review is constrained to the level of the farming system (i.e. excludes considerations of other components of the food system, such as packaging or transport). In order to provide an unbiased assessment of organic farming as a means of sustainable agriculture, rather than approaching the question from the usual "What does organic farming do well/badly?" angle, the authors ask "What constitutes successful sustainable agriculture?" then measure organic farming against this yardstick.
This paper makes an important methodological contribution to the highly disputed debate about whether the net effect of agricultural intensification on biodiversity is positive or negative. What is already known is that there is clear relationship between increased agricultural intensification and decreased biodiversity on the land that has been intensified.
Initiated in 1999, the Grain-for-Green Program was set up primarily to reduce soil erosion and uses cash payments to incentivise people to replant trees on sloped crop and scrubland. This study examines the effects on bird and bee species in the scheme across the country. It finds that the program has not greatly benefited birds and bees due to the common practice of monoculture tree planting.


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Gianluigi Buffon set to retire from football at the end of the season
Juventus legend, 39, was crowned best goalkeeper in the world at last night's Fifa Best awards in London
GIANLUIGI BUFFON is set to retire from football at the end of the season.
The Italy and Juventus keeper, 39, was last night crowned best goalkeeper in the world at Fifa's Best awards.
But reports say the World Cup winner, who picked up his eighth Serie A title with Juve last season, will hang up his gloves.
Italy face Sweden in the play-offs to make next year's World Cup in Russia.
So it is feasible the legendary keeper's farewell year may not take in the biggest competition of all.
Buffon alluded to his age in his victory speech last night at the London Palladium.
Beating off Real Madrid's Keylor Navas and Bayern Munich's Manuel Neuer, Buffon said: "I am very happy because this is a great award to win at my age.
"The last year has been fantastic for Juventus and me but it wasn't enough to win in Europe.
"Hopefully this year we can play better and win with the national team and Juventus.
"I would love to finish football with fantastic victories."
Buffon made clear earlier this year his intention to retire.
He said: "I'm 99.9 per cent sure that's how it will go.
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"I will have one final, intense season full of key dates, then it will be time to call it a day."
The 6ft 3ins keeper has made almost 500 appearances for Juve since 2001 and played 168 games for Parma before that.
He also has 173 caps for Italy.


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Even the best CBSE school or a top international school is primarily measured with the yardstick of its academic performance, or in other words, through ranks and such systems. There is no wrong in it, in fact this the mark of how good the educational institution is as a choice. But the method in which education in imparted and the systems being implemented differs within each group of the so-called acclaimed institutions. What sets apart the healthy mode of learning is the factors stressed upon during education.
Preschool education is often ignored or treated merely as a play school learning. But it is the basic and building block of the student's interaction with learning, and is therefore of immense importance. If you look at the best matriculation school in Chennai or a top higher secondary school in Mumbai or any other competent school within the city, the learning curriculum may be similar or same. Developing a humane attitude and instilling in the child's mind about education as a need and an interesting means to personal development is the point of true success for a school.
While most schools do not succeed, even if they do at the obvious & surface levels, there are sadly only a few which actually make an impact in encouraging children towards stress-free education and making education interesting for them. Only the best of faculty can really "train the minds to think". All of us have both good and bad things to say about the educational system. But we do not take steps to make the good things better and converting the bad things into good. The lion's share of economic progress may be attributed to education. The awareness created by education makes for analysis and utilization of better opportunities. Good investments too are the results of wise learning. It is therefore the oil for the wheel of progress.
To curb the trend of increasing numbers of students' suicides and to make education interesting to children, they need to be first taught to appreciate knowledge and learning as an activity. Children should be treated with respect as growing individuals and not as high-score brewing machines. Their unique talents or inclinations to a healthy and creative aspect of one's personality has to be appreciated and allowed to be developed. Only a well-experienced teacher can bring out the best resources of a student and help him or her identify strengths and lacking nodes. Atleast 90% of us would agree to the fact that we never found education interesting during our schooldays, irrespective of whether 10 years or 50 years back. It was always either a role-model teacher or a teacher friend who made us realize the value of education and helped us understand the seemingly insurmountable subjects. To some of us it could have been mathematics, to a few others it could have been science and so on.
Teaching is one of the noblest professions in the world. Making it nobler is the power of teaching fraternity. Systems, practices and attitude of imparting education can make a significant change and influence students' lives. This change can emerge to be a sea change in shaping the tomorrow of the child and the society in which he or she lives in and will continue to be a part of. Thus it becomes a social responsibility rather a collective one to make education interesting to children so that they do not stop with asking questions but also arrive at the answers themselves, with proper guidance in the right direction.


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Route Novomoskovsk - Morgves (Новомосковск - Мордвес) v2.5 for TS 2018
Description about Route Novomoskovsk - Morgves (Новомосковск - Мордвес) v2.5 for TS 2018:
Route Novomoskovsk - Morgves (Новомосковск - Мордвес) v2.5 for Train Simulator 2018 game.
Game Title: Train Simulator 2018 / Railworks
Year of manufacture: 2017
Author / Developer: Moss®
Distribution type: Mods
Software Version: 2.5
The required version of the game: TS2017, TS2018
Language: English
Required language of the game: Russian
Description: Route "Novomoskovsk - Mordves".
More than 100 km.
There are some "native" objects of the route (at Uzlovaya2, Urvanka, Klyuchevka) from Razor, le Sandro.
24 standard scenarios and all the necessary PS are included in the distribution.
Not compatible with traffic signaling version 0.6 or more (!)
Version 2.5.1 of the route (Content) DOWNLOAD is available on the forums railworks2.ru and railunion.net
Version 2.5.1 uses Assets from this distribution
- Optimization of the 1st level
- cosmetic changes version 2.4 in the direction of optimization
- extension of the route to Morges station
- the length of the route is more than 100 km.
- The development environment of Train Simulator 2017, i.e. Only assets Assets \ Kuju \ RailSimulatorCore are needed
- not compatible with a signal other than 0.5 (due to non-working shunting when moving to 0.6)
- 24 scenarios inside
Changes in version 2.3:
- Cosmetic changes (Hands, factories around the world)
- Extension of the route to the station Gritsovo (+ bonus "Gritsovskie mine")
- Route length - 60 km.
- 16 minutes for the script DM62U (NGRES from the mines, traffic, markers)
- Wednesday Train Simulator 2017 development
- Still not compatible with the signaling other than 0.5 (not working because of shunting at the transition 0.6)
- 16 standard scenarios within
How to set the fashion in the Train Simulator: for RailWorks add-ons are installed using the built-in Utilites Add-ons Manager, located in the root folder of the game.
Press the large Install button (SET) which is to the right, and specify a location or rpk rwp-archive.
If the file is not packed in such a file, then copy the Assets folder to the root of the game and confirm the replacement.


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Director leaves post at Tarboro Chamber
Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
TARBORO — Susan Freeman has bid farewell as the Tarboro Edgecombe Chamber of Commerce's executive director to accept a similar position in the far southeastern part of the state.
Freeman has been hired to direct the Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce, which is in Shallotte near the Atlantic Coast. Additionally, Freeman's husband, George, is leaving for South Carolina because his employer in the Twin Counties area has promoted him.
Susan Freeman and her husband accepted their respective offers within an approximately 24-hour period.
"It was kind of like a God moment," Freeman said in an interview on Monday in describing what happened.
Monday marked the last day at the Tarboro Edgecombe Chamber office for Freeman, who had been leading the business and civic organization since autumn 2015.
The Tarboro Edgecombe Chamber's membership is at 265, up from 176 when Freeman started.
As for what she considers to be her most significant achievements at the Chamber, she said, "Working with fantastic small businesses and helping them to find their way, promoting them, supporting them — being there to be their listening ear."
And she said she is going to miss what she calls a phenomenal Chamber board of directors.
She also said she is going to miss the Chamber staff, quipping, "If I could put them in a pocket and take them all with me, we'd all be out of here tomorrow."
The Chamber has five staffers.
Freeman is originally from Williamsport, Pa., and she has long had a passion for small businesses, in part because her mother had a successful salon.
Freeman worked in the service industry in the Keystone State before going to Avery County, in the western part of the Tar Heel State, to work as a volunteer coordinator for Habitat for Humanity.
Eventually, she served as events and membership coordinator at the Avery County Chamber of Commerce before becoming that organization's executive director.
After she and her husband moved to the Twin Counties area, she became involved with the Tarboro Edgecombe Chamber as an ambassador. She served as interim executive director before being hired for the top position.
Her husband works for QVC, which has a distribution facility in Edgecombe County. He is going to be working for the company in Florence, S.C.
Tarboro Edgecombe Chamber Board Chairwoman Donna Dew, in an email, praised Freeman.
"Sue has done an outstanding job over the last four years by increasing membership, offering more benefits to members and connecting the Chamber with more business throughout the county and training the staff she has managed," Dew said.
Tina Parker, who is coordinator of the Main Street revitalization program in downtown Tarboro, said working with Freeman was a good experience.
"She always has brought a lot of energy and has done a great job to make connections within Edgecombe County and the surrounding areas," Parker said. "So I feel like she's going to do the same thing for Brunswick County."
News of Freeman's departure shocked Barbara Molten, who owns Farm Life Pet & Feed Store downtown. Molten said she had no idea Freeman had even thought about leaving.
Molten said Freeman did her grand opening of her business last year, with a lot of people attending the event.
"We hit it off," Molten said of her relations with Freeman.
Molten described Freeman as easygoing and nice but also with a can-do spirit.
"She tried to boost everything downtown," Molten said.
The Tarboro Edgecombe Chamber is going to be led on an interim basis by Chamber staffer Elizabeth Burns.
Burns said she is going to continue to support the small businesses and the corporate members and make sure Chamber-related events go on as planned.
At the same time, Burns said she is interested in being named Freeman's successor because her family is from Edgecombe County.
"This is my home," Burns said. "I love the businesses here, the people here. It's just a great place to be."
Burns earned a degree in business administration in 2014 from William Peace University.
Burns was a stay-at-home mother before Freeman approached her about working for the Chamber.
As for what she is going to miss about Freeman, Burns said, "Her spunk and her leadership."
"She's just an awesome person," Burns said.


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Environmental Groups Continue Fight Against Border Wall
This week, National Guard troops from Arizona and other states have started moving south to reinforce and support the U.S Border Patrol. In the meantime, another part of President Donald Trump's border security plan is also underway — the border wall.
Federal authorities began construction this week on a 20-mile section of the border wall near Santa Teresa in New Mexico. Since it's inception, Environmental groups have challenged the Trump administration's right to build the wall, saying the administration cannot waive a host of environmental laws to rush construction of the wall.
Earlier this year, a U.S. District Court judge ruled the administration does have the authority to waive those laws and proceed with construction, which is now being appealed.
But as the lawsuits continue, construction is underway. The Southwest Environmental Center, which is based in New Mexico, is one of the groups that sued the Trump administration to challenge its waiver of environmental laws there.
Kevin Bixby, the center's executive director, spoke with The Show about their efforts.


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Welcome to my favorite fives! Hosted by Susanne, Living to Tell the Story!
Date Day
My husband and I went to Lake George on Sunday for the day. We were blessed with beautiful weather; sunshine, blue sky, a light breeze with warm temps. We ate lunch first, on a deck of a cute place right on the main drag of the village. After lunch we walked around the park where a huge "merchant's circle" was set up (tents and people selling all sort of things from crafts to food); walked through the village in and out of shops (I bought a purse!!) and had wine tasting at a cute Adirondack wine shop. We sat on Adirondack chairs near the lake and watched people walking and swimming and boating, then later had dinner at a restaurant next to the lake with a fun summer drink called White Mango!! A wonderful day in Lake George!
I am thankful that the Lord has allowed us to run a daycare in our home. It's not easy getting kids because it seems like everyone is doing daycare now but we love the kids we have and feel very blessed!
Out with Gram
This week, my grandma and I went to an outdoor concert featuring a band called "Second Time Around". They played a couple of polka songs and swing dance music, etc. Was refreshing to hear music from that era, way long ago, compared to the music you hear today!! We got an ice cream cone after the concert.
I am blessed to have wonderful friends, most of whom pray for me and with me and I can share things with, have a glass of wine or cup of coffee with, etc. I love friends!
I am LOVING this cooler morning and evening weather. My favorite season is Fall. I am not a lover of hot, humid weather.
Have a great weekend!!!