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Faculty Position in Developmental Biology
The Department of Biological Science at Florida State University invites outstanding applications for a tenure-track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in the broadly-defined area of Developmental Biology. The Department is interested in individuals using any experimental system to understand fundamental developmental processes, including those of biomedical significance. Successful candidates are expected to establish an innovative, extramurally-funded research program and contribute to undergraduate and graduate education. The Department of Biological Science is a diverse and interactive group with 47 tenure-track faculty members, including scientific leaders in developmental genetics, epigenetics, chromosome biology, neuroscience, evolution, cell biology, structural biology and virology. Researchers have access to excellent facilities including a state-of-the-art imaging facility with a Titan Krios electron microscope, confocal live cell imaging and super-resolution 3D-SIM, as well as flow cytometry and mass spectrometry facilities, the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. For information about Florida State University's Biology Department, visit our website at https://www.bio.fsu.edu.
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Summarising the AGM
Last week, we had our annual general meeting at Tapu te Ranga Marae. To start the meeting, we acknowledged the passing of Kaumatua Bruce Stewart in June of 2017. His vision of a bush and bird reserve on Tapu te Ranga Marae land was a seed that grew into a thriving hillside of native trees, birds and lizards. This 25-year-old restoration project is one of the oldest restoration projects in Wellington and many hands have planted the trees, weeded the gorse, cut the scrub, cleared the tracks, nurtured the seedlings and most importantly enjoyed seeing the forest and birds return over these years. Nga mihi nui e hoa, Bruce
Kua hinga te tōtara i Te Waonui a Tāne.
There was a positive discussion about how the Manawa Karioi Society has been reinvigorated this year with healthy numbers attending our working bees and we have built up a good community awareness of our project and the reserve.
Our public access tracks are becoming more popular and we are seeing more people use them for walking, running, horse riding and dog walking. The Manawa Karioi Society and Tapu te Ranga Marae are delighted that the tracks are well used.
With this increased track use, our focus for 2018 is marking the tracks and updating our signs, we would also like to put more focus on fundraising and finding sponsorship for our new signs. We had some great ideas at our AGM last week and are ready to kick into action
If you would like to read our Chairmans report, you can find it here.
Vanessa Patea
A tree enthusiast and an ex-resident of Island Bay. Vanessa brings her digital skills to the volunteer team at Manawa Karioi - one of the oldest reforestation projects in Wellington.
Ross Gardiner
With over 17 years experience volunteering with Manawa Karioi, Ross has a detailed knowledge of the project.
Paul Blaschke
Paul Blaschke is an environmental consultant and part-time university lecturer. He loves living and working in Wellington's southern suburbs, whether in the Owhiro catchment, the Town Belt near his home, or on the slopes at Manawa Karioi.
Chris Liversey
Chris and his partner and their 3 children were at the dawn planting of the first tree in 1991. He has maintained his involvement in the project ever since and gets great satisfaction now from seeing how much the trees have grown and how the associated native ecosystems have developed over those 26 years. Chris emphasises that providing tracks to enable the public to enjoy Manawa Karioi, and carbon sequestration, are both integral parts of the project.


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CAIRO: Ismaili reached the Arab Champions League (ACL) quarter-final after thrashing 10-man USM Alger 4-1 on Sunday to advance with a comprehensive 7-2 aggregate win.
The Dervishes, who defeated Alger 3-1 in the first-leg at home, proved far superior to their opponents to book a last-eight berth.
In-form Iraqi striker Mostafa Karim opened the scoring three minutes before the break.
Matters went from bad to worse for Alger when goalkeeper Mohamed Amine Zemmamouche received his marching orders just before the half-time whistle.
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Hello everyone and welcome to The Sarlacc Pit. Today, I am going to discuss my favorite movie of all time, "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back." Specifically I am going to point out the parts of this movie that make it, in my opinion, the best Star Wars movie. While I discuss this movie I will write under the assumption that you have watched the Star Wars franchise in the correct order, meaning you watched Episodes IV-VI before I-III. Obviously, there will be major spoilers from the original trilogy (OT), so read at your own risk. Although if you have not seen the OT yet, then I am confused as to why you are reading this, and greatly encourage you to get your life together and watch these movies.
Reason #1: The Setup
In "Episode IV: A New Hope," the Rebel Alliance landed a crippling blow to the Empire when they destroyed the planet-killing Death Star. Everyone was super stoked about this, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo got medals, and everyone lived happily ever after, right?
WRONG! Yeah, the Death Star was space dust, but after the Battle of Yavin, the Empire knew where the Rebel base was, and still had a fleet of ships called Star Destroyers and a bad grudge. Also, most of the Rebel fleet died in the Battle of Yavin, so the Rebels were up one Jedi, one smuggler, and a Wookiee, but they were down one base and most of their fleet, as well as a planet of people who supported them. So the Rebels are on the run, but luckily they find a pretty secluded planet, that just so happened to be an icy hellscape (the ice planet Hoth) inhabited by freaking yetis, what could possibly go wrong?
Reason #2: Luke's Brush With Death
Well, one thing that could go wrong would be if the newly minted hero of the Alliance gets ganked by a wampa (the name of the aforementioned yetis living on Hoth) and strung up like a slab of beef in a meat freezer (which totally happened). Now, in this one scene we get two major moments: 1. this is the first time we see someone use the Force to move something. Luke, bleeding, cold, and watching as his pet tauntaun is getting eaten by the abominable snowman, clears his mind and focuses on the Force, and for the first time in the movies, is able to pull his lightsaber to him to cut himself off the icy roof of the wampa's cave and also cut the wampa's arm off (classic Star Wars-style dismemberment).
Major moment number 2 from this scene is that Obi-Wan Kenobi comes back from the dead to give Luke a mission to go to Dagobah, find Jedi Master Yoda, and become a true Jedi. If you don't think that Kenobi coming from the dead to give Luke a Jedi mission is cool then you don't understand Star Wars.
Reason #3: Everything Else Goes Wrong (a.k.a. The Battle of Hoth)
Ok, so Luke just got some heavy Jedi poodoo dropped on him, but he has to brush it off for a second because while he was out jackin' around with wampas, the Empire found the Rebel base. Also, Darth Vader and the Emperor know that the guy who blew up the Death Star is there and is strong in the Force, and they want him bad. So the Empire, not one to do things half-assed, throw everything they have at the Rebels. This scene is my favorite scene in the movie, nay, the entire franchise. First of all, it's really the first part of Star Wars that really feels like a war. While the Battle of Yavin had some cool dogfighting action between starfighters, this scene has it all. It has infantry on the ground, giant tanks taking out gunner encampments, and air support from above. If you got into Star Wars because you thought it would be a cool sci-fi war franchise, then this is the scene you were looking for this whole time. In the end, the Rebels put up a good fight, and a good many are able to escape, but only after losing their new base, and being forced to run once more.
Reason #4: Luke Tries to Become a Jedi
After the Battle of Hoth, Luke takes a break from being a Rebel, he saw his mentor come back from the freakin' dead and give him a mission, so he's going to carry out that mission. He's looking for Yoda, when he runs into this insane little goblin who can barely speak basic. After some comical stuff where they fight over fishsticks and a flashlight, Obi-Wan's voice transcends the veil of life and death to insist that Yoda trains Luke. Yoda begrudgingly accepts, and begins to take Luke on a mystical journey through the Force. Here were see Luke lift objects with his mind, do cool acrobatics, run around with Yoda on his back, and learn more about the mysteries of the Force. I think that even including the prequel trilogy, "The Empire Strikes Back" teaches more about the Force than any other Star Wars movie.
During Luke's training, he constantly fails. He is unable to lift his X-Wing because he is wrapped up in his current way of thinking, when confronted with the dark side of the Force he gives in to his fear, not to mention he was a total jerk to Yoda, who ended up being his teacher (not the best way to start off your Jedi training). Through this we see that while he may be the hero of the Rebellion, he still has a long way to go before becoming a Jedi. Also, ya boi Obi-Wan Kenobi comes back from the dead again to talk to Luke as a Force ghost, which is pretty neat.
Reason #5: Cloud City
Everything that happens at Cloud City is awesome. First off you got Lando Calrissian, a smooth talkin', baby blue cape wearin', backstabbin' gambler who legitimately won an entire mining operation and city in a game of cards.
Oh, and then this bro betrays Han, Leia, and Chewbacca, handing them over to Darth Vader to use as bait to lure in Luke Skywalker. When Han sees Vader and realizes what happened, do you think our favorite smuggler panicked? Do you think he tried to talk it over with the 7′ tall cyborg? Nope. Han pulled out his blaster and started shooting. And if you think that's cool, Darth Vader blocked Han's shot…WITH HIS FREAKING HAND! HE JUST ABSORBED THAT MESS LIKE IT WAS NO BIG DEAL!
Sure, Lando then double-crosses Vader, turning his security force on the stormtroopers and freeing Leia and Chewie, but only after Han got frozen in carbonite and shipped via UBS (United Boba Servie) to Jabba the Hutt. Also, Luke, like a dummy, has already taken the bait, and arrives to confront Vader, where one of the best lightsaber fights in the OT occurs (granted, there are only three of them, but it's not the worst one). We see Vader throw things at Luke with the Force, Luke uses the Force to do cool jumps and flips, Vader throws a lightsaber, it's some cool stuff, man. This leads to…
Reason #6: THE MOST IMPORTANT PLOT TWIST IN FILM HISTORY
Luke is backed into a corner, or more literally backed into a bottomless pit. He has lost his hand, his lightsaber, and probably a lot of respect for himself considering he went in all confident that he was gonna kick some cyborg ass. That's when Vader tells him that he was not the man who killed Anakin Skywalker, he WAS ANAKIN SKYWALER!!! That's right, the biggest bad guy in Star Wars was the hero's own father, and if you think that's not at least in the top 5 of biggest plot twists then it is because someone spoiled it for you ahead of time. This is HUGE! How can Luke even consider himself a Jedi knowing his father helped wipe out the Jedi? How can the Rebel Alliance trust Luke knowing his father is the Emperor's right hand man? What are even Luke's options at this point? This is when Luke literally chose suicide over joining Vader. Sure, he survived through some luck and some Force telepathy, but when he jumped into that pit, there is no way he could have been certain he would survive, but he decided right then that he would rather die than to face the fact that Vader was his father and turn to the dark side. And I think that that's really intense.
This leads into the end of the movie. One thing that strikes me really hard is that "The Empire Strikes Back" is a movie where the heroes constantly fail: the Rebels are driven off Hoth, Luke is an asshole to the greatest Jedi of the past few centuries, Luke fails in the cave when he gives in to his fear of Darth Vader, Luke leaves his Jedi training early because he fell for Vader's trap, Han gets frozen in carbonite and taken to a giant gangster slug on Tatooine. It does not have a happy ending, and viewers are left with a sense of loss at the end, a drastic change from the ending of "A New Hope" and "Return of the Jedi."
This movie also has major conflict. The heroes are shown to be deeply flawed and just as vulnerable to failures as anyone else. In "A New Hope," the heroes seem as though they are able to succeed in anything they attempt, including blowing up a Death Star in a ship they've had zero experience in. In "The Empire Strikes Back," there are successes, but there are also crippling failures, humanizing the characters and making them more relateable. These are just a few of the reasons "The Empire Strikes Back" is, to me, the best movie in the Star Wars franchise.
That's it for this week. Next week, I am going to discuss Luke Skywalker's character development in the movies, from whiny teenage farm boy to Jedi master with magnificent flowing hair. I will keep to the character development seen in the movies, but there will be major spoilers for the OT, as well as one major spoiler for "The Force Awakens." Thanks for reading, and as always, may the Force be with you!


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I really hope these pictures are in order, but the naming system for screenshots Sims 4 is weird and keeps putting pictures out of order…
I don't know why this is the first picture, but it's cute… These two are my favourite couple I've had in Sims 4 so far.
Amanda still continues to dress inappropriately for her pregnancy, despite having four other completely acceptable outfits.
Olivia's still working hard at her garden, which got a bit bigger when she had to graft some plants, which didn't seem to do much for the actual plants other that rename then to 'spliced (Insert plant name)'.
Olivia's heading off to have her baby in the hospital, which I didn't know was an option until a couple of days ago, I thought you had to wait for the Sim to have the baby on their own, but apparently not.
Meet the beginning of generation 2, Max Gray (Confession: I totally forgot his name and had to check my notes).
Amanda went into labor while at work, but was also really hungry, so I made her eat before going to the hospital. Also, I love the babies being anchored to the crib, because I can just go into build mode whenever Olivia moves rooms and move the baby next to her.
Here's Xander Gray (Whose name I did remember on my own). I seriously can't tell the two kids apart, they don't even look alike, I just can never remember which ones which. I had to change Max's crib to pink and Xander's to blue so I would remember. Pink=Olivia's baby, Blue=Amanda's baby.
Zest got old, he's still adorable though.
He decides to give the babies a bit of a show… Okay, I stuck him in there so someone could take care of the babies, because Olivia spends eery moment of her life in the garden or in bed.
Amanda's old too… I had to do a lot of work to make her look more age appropriate, the blue eyeshadow does not look as good without the blue hair.
I switched Zest with Amanda, because Zest has to go our every day to collect items, and Amanda only leaves the easel for work and to eat (they both have the never weary reward at this point, and I get it for Ben at some point in this post, but I can't remember when).
Amanda feeds what I'm pretty sure is her own son, could be her grandson though.
Not sure what this picture was for, but damn, Olivia has gained no weight since her pregnancy, like at all… The pregnancy weight gain stuff is confusing.
Creepy… Time for birthdays apparently.
This one's Max, I remember because he got Olivia's hair, and I think he got her skin tone too.
This one's Xander, not sure where the hair came from. Also, why did all my gen 1 kids get Zest's light skin, one of the reasons I had them have another kid was in the hopes of getting one with skin closer to Amanda's colour… So no cool game.
Both the boys are have the Whiz Kid aspiration, which they will never complete, because it requires them to do well in school. Also I didn't randomise Xander, because he's not an official legacy kid. I chose to make him a genius.
This picture is to show Ben using the new kitchen, which I redecorated when I realised I could make the cabinets and counters look different… There's a picture later on.
Showing off Amanda's totally appropriate work attire.
Olivia is with child again. I'm doing the strict equality rule (I just decided this play through) and I only want Olivia to have two kids, so we're hoping for a girl.
Amanda reads to her son and grandson, Xander does not seem into it though. Also I forgot Max's trait, it's lazy.
Zest get's a promotion, and finally a picture which shows just how buff collecting has made him.
The garden is way too much for Olivia, so I decided Zest could help… it's still way too much, I swear he spent a whole day watering plants because every time her was about to finish another lot of plants would dry up.
The boys play chess together for there aspiration.
I've been slowly decorating the house as the family gets more money, it finally has a second floor with kid and teen rooms, although all the second floor has right now in the way of furniture is two beds and a chess table. I've done about half of the house, and from this point on there are pictures scattered through the post of the work I've done as I've done it.
This kitchen.
And a little dining area in the kitchen.
A proper dining area.
The foyer area, potions on the table to the left and a cute painting Amanda did to the right. Also, Hi Xander!
Main bathroom, through one of the doors is the toilet, but that's boring.
Zest and Amanda's walk in wardrobe/study/activity area.
Ben and Olivia's walk in wardrobe/study/activity area… The tree thing has been ignored because the garden is such hard work already.
Ben has to cook at an event, but Carly does not seem happy to be at the house.
Amanda and Zest both retire, neither topped their careers, but Amanda makes more money painting on her own and Zest still gets like 500 a day for his pension, and someone has to look after the garden (he waters, weeds and sprays for bugs while Olivia fertilizes, harvests and evolves).
Oh look, more house shots… Here's the living room area.
And Ben and Olivia's room. I'm having Amanda push out as many paintings as she can before she dies so we have something to decorate with.
Oh my Plumbbob! Give birth already! This post was only going to be until the boys became children, but it was too short, so I was like "I'll end it when Olivia gives birth". And then she took like a week to have the baby.
And it's a girl! Meet Angie Gray, who will probably be heir, unless I get bored and decide to make Olivia have another baby and it's magically a girl.
And I literally quit right after taking this picture because it took her real life hours to have this freaking baby.


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SAN DIEGO Indiana coach Mike Davis recited a brief version of his resume: 21 victories, the Big Ten record for best defensive field-goal percentage, and a runner-up finish in the conference tournament.
Those are things Bob Knight never achieved in his first season in Bloomington. Yet Davis still is waiting to learn whether he gets the job permanently.
I feel like no matter what happens, I deserve the job, said Davis, an assistant who was hired as interim coach when Knight was fired six months ago. You never know in this world, but I feel like I'll be back.
The Hoosiers (21-12), whose No. 4 seed is their highest since 1993, agree. They hope to further make a case for Davis with a victory over 13th-seeded Kent State (23-9) in Thursday's first round of the NCAA tournament.
What else does a man have to do? He's basically proved everyone wrong, said center Kirk Haston, who leads the team with 18.7 points a game.
He should be signed to a long-term contract, Haston said. If he's not, somebody is going to pick him up and it's going to be a mistake that the university is going to make.
Indiana officials have said Davis' status would be decided after the season ends. In four of the last six years, the end came with first-round losses in the tournament, including a 20-point blowout to Pepperdine in Knight's final game last year.
It's a pretty humbling feeling to be just sitting there with nothing to do but wait 'til next year, Haston said. We have something to prove.
Davis, an assistant under Knight for three seasons, made wholesale changes when he took over. He dumped Knight's motion offense, saying he never understood it, in favor of getting the ball inside to Haston and Jared Jeffries, the Big Ten's freshman of the year.
I didn't want to have an equal opportunity offense, he said. I wanted the ball in the hands of the guys who could do something with it and play off them.
Davis also changed defensive strategies, which paid off when Indiana set the Big Ten record by holding opponents to 38.2 percent shooting. Teams are averaging 63.9 points against the Hoosiers, the lowest point total since 1983-84.
It's a testament to how good a job coach Davis has done. There was about 15 people who believed we could do this, Haston said.
Those believers existed mainly inside Indiana's locker room. Students and diehard fans protested Knight's firing after 29 years that included three national championships and repeated controversy.
A lot of people felt I wasn't tough enough to handle this job, said Davis, whose low-key demeanor is the opposite of Knight's temperament.
You don't have to go around hitting people or doing things to show that you're tough. You don't have to speak loud or whatever people think toughness is, he said. Toughness to me is just refusing to lose and playing relentless. That's what I want our guys to do.
In September, players shocked and angered over Knight's ouster threatened to quit if Davis wasn't selected as interim coach. Even then, some of them said the season would be dedicated to Knight.
Davis' success has changed all that.
We wanted to keep the team together because it's a team that (Knight) brought together, but the season is definitely coach Davis', Haston said. He's the one that's done the work and kept us going in the right direction this year. Right now this is coach Davis' team by far.
Kent State coach Gary Waters is backing his friend Davis.
I think it's a travesty that he hasn't been named the coach yet, Waters said Wednesday. If you wait 'til the last minute, that's how you end up losing some key recruits.
Davis is passionate about his players, a smiling bunch who appear to be having more fun than they ever did under Knight.
Last year we didn't have the same fire in our eyes as we do this year, guard Tom Coverdale said. Everybody is playing as hard as they can and that's made a real difference.
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As a result, a man still needs to get paid and that beautiful course entrance you see up top is exactly where I will be collecting those pay cheques from. To find out about what is going to happen with Fresh Out (I won't ever stop this thing) for the remainder of the summer click below
All the other authors have been cut from the team, not because they aren't valuable or anything…just because I don't have the time to teach and they don't have the time to post content…makes sense. That will probably be reevaluated for the fall, but for now it is what it is.
I wake up at 4:30am daily for my job now. No complaints, just saying I have a far different lifestyle than I used to. The majority of my posts were scheduled ones conjured up at night while I was restless in bed. There will still be posts, and a more concerted effort than there has been to make it on a daily basis…but they won't be coming in droves like they used to.
Consider the next few months until probably September the "Slow Cooker Edition" of Fresh Out The Oven. And please stick with us, anything and everything posted will still be worth your ears, time and bandwidth.
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Meghan McArdle notes that the sales of Nissan Leafs (Leaves?) and Chevy Volts are, uh, slightly below expectations.
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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending a dear friend's 50th birthday. Besides delightful company and excellent food, there were speeches made, as is customary at most important fetes. Before coming to Germany, the speeches I heard at weddings were so lacklustre they were embarrassing at best.
I don't know where Germans learn how to make intelligent, funny and touching speeches about their daughter's escapades in life, or write poems to honour a silver wedding anniversary, or write ditties about a colleagues working career, but they do it with a flair.
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Yes! I've also noticed how well they give speeches. We too were at a birthday party yesterday - for an artist friend. She gave a short speech thanking everyone who came to here atelier to see her works in progress, and then her husband stepped in and gave a 10-minute love letter to his wife and his work. It was touching, thought-provoking, and thoroughly entertaining.ReplyDelete
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For Jerusalem stumbled,
And Judah is fallen,
Because their tongue and their doings
Are against the Lord,
To provoke the eyes of His glory. (Isaiah 3:8, NKJV)
This has been another hard one. Which is good if you think of it – cause it makes you really sit and think right?
Well, to back track, Isaiah in chapter 2 was talking about the end of the world and the day of the Lord (I don't write on weekends – but that doesn't stop my reading). Now he talks about the judgement of Judah and Jerusalem.
In the first two chapters, we see that Judah and Jerusalem have turned their backs completely from God. They were lofty and haughty…what does that mean right? Well, according to google: Lofty – of great height; thick and resilient. Haughty – arrogantly superior and disdainful. I know what you're thinking – oh that sounds like everyone now a days. I thought that at first too. But ya know what? Sounds like me sometimes.
Ha. Lets be honest. All the time.
Our sinful nature …. my sinful nature. Dude. I can not even begin on my pride.
The look on their countenance witnesses against them,
And they declare their sin as Sodom;
They do not hide it.
Woe to their soul!
For they have brought evil upon themselves. (Isaiah 3:9, NKJV)
Yea. Hello? Heard of twitter? I try to stay humorous on there but sometimes I can cross a line. But the point is to realize your fault and change.
I know, I know – believe me I KNOW how hard it is. But our God is a patient and loving God. He will always stand there with arms stretched out to you.
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Hi Everyone,
Critter has settled in very nicely. We have been spending a lot of time in my office, working on a new book and taking on many new tasks for 2011. He sits next to me at my desk and is quite an encouraging little guy. Hope everyone is doing well. Oh and btw, I still have not figured out how to blog to my followers, or how to follow others. I am going to have to google this issue, as I am becoming frustrated. Sorry, I hope I will figure it out real soon.
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About myself. I like new things. New places. New people. That's what I like to shoot. It makes sense and I am guessing that my two regular readers (Hi Mom & Dad!) are already saying, well, "yes, we know that". I think that's why I like photographing people so much. Especially my kids. They are always new. They are growing and changing, the youngest was just learning to spin around on the floor the other day and now she is crawling, or will be by the time I'm home today. That'll be a fun new thing to shoot. And shortly after that, she'll be walking, and I'll be spending less time laying on the ground with my camera. Our older daughter is learning new stuff all the time. Riding a bike, catching fish, her new attitude… You get the idea.
I think that's why I love events so much. A good party, or ceremony. It's always different, and new, and I love being there for it. I was never much of an attention grabber growing up. In drama, I would rather be a stage hand than a supporting much less leading actor. I love standing out of the way and catching a 'moment', and then looking for the next.
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Loving: that Jeremy is back in L.A.! and that I got to see Sarah, my old college roommate, yesterday when she was in town from Hawaii, and I met her, her husband, and a member of the U.S. Women's National soccer team who used to play for Carolina (yes, I'll admit that was gratuitous information I added to impress you and to make you think I regularly hang out with important people) (did I mention my next-door neighbor is a movie/TV star?) and went to a taping of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, which was fun except that it was freezing in there and I had to pee the whole time. Oh, and BTW, Lucy Liu was there as Jay's guest wearing the most gorgeous dress I have ever seen and had a waist so tiny and perfectly proportioned to the rest of her tiny body that I felt I must run out of the studio immediatly and start doing crunches right there by the side of the road.
Hating: this city's ridiculous traffic problem. I'm getting to where the drive to work makes me want to scream every day, and my commute supposedly isn't even "that bad," comparatively. If I had a commute that was "that bad," I would get another job, or move. It ain't worth it.
Loving: that Lisa Loeb reality show, "#1 Single." I like her! Don't know what it is, but I just like her and love her show.
Hating: I went to the dentist yesterday and found out I had the first two cavities of my life! Bummer. Well, it's been a good 27-year run.
Loving: Trader Joe's organic yogurt, and that I just remembered I have a ton of it in the fridge here at work
Hating: That I am retarded. I just now realize that I totally forgot to TiVo Jay Leno last night to see if I saw myself in the audience. What is the matter with me?!


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At the rear of the upper level (the mill area) is a corner formed by a scene block and the apartment wall. I've built this corner up about two inches and populated it with flats and 3D buildings representing various mill shops, delivery points (by road — there is no trackage in this space) and so on. Four house flats at are right, adjacent to one of the three high tension towers positioned in this area (which bring power to the mill). Next to them will eventually be three tenement apartments I'm building from scratch. Those will be at ground level, with their roof tops at a level to that of the lowest house flat's roof (the houses themselves, or the backs of same [since only the rears are represented], are stepped down).
Visible in these four shots are the two tracks that come up to the mill area. One (where the ore cars are in the photos) goes up to serve the blast furnace stock house, where iron ore, coke, and flux (limestone) are stored and then taken as needed from there to the tops of the furnaces by skip cars. This is known as the burden, or charge, for the furnace. Once a blast furnace is "blown in" it never stops, except for periodic maintenance (or some malfunction or emergency). This track is generally known as "the high line" due to it being elevated somewhat above the ground level trackage in the furnace department. On the MonCon Railroad at J&L Steel's Pittsburgh works, this was called the high grade, for some reason. The main running tracks, on the other side of the furnace alley itself, were referred to as the low grade; one supposes this is the explanation. These tracks fronted the Monongahala River. Most high lines in blast furnace departments consist of two tracks, sometimes more. On the MCRR there were four on the high grade, and two additional tracks that went into the stock house itself. Factors of space precluded me from representing more than one high line track, however.
The track to the right leads to the blast furnace itself. It splits on the grade, with one line running up and into the furnace cast house (after having split, itself, into two tracks), and the other running in front of the cast house for slag service and as well to empty the furnace dust catcher. Additionally, this track divides, with one line serving the rear of the #1 electric furnace positioned below. Both of these tracks go off the layout into "infinity" . . . ostensibly to a connection with a Class 1 railroad or to some other part of the plant not represented.
Note: beneath the bridge at this point runs the layout's left side mainline track, at ground level. This is the only track that runs in a "circuit" (offering continuous running).
(In the future I'll post a diagram of the entire "railroad."
Empty ore cars heading downgrade
Upper Level Detail #1
Upper Level Detail #2
Upper Level Detail #3
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Welcome & Introduction
Welcome to Goldfish on the Run. In the future there may well be goldfish here — or photographs of them in their element, as it were — but these will have been happy goldfish, running from or to nothing. My desire here is primarily to post photos (and videos if I deem such to be of sufficient interest) of my model railroading efforts and other things about or related to the past-time/distraction/hobby that is modeling. As well I plan on adding photos of the real life counterpart to the main focus of my modeling, which is, at present, the steel industry (or what remains of it). Speaking of which, the first photos in this sub-category will be "the remains," or better said, ruins of a long-diminished industry, although from time to time I should like to include photos from the past. Since copyright law is not among my areas of expertise, such photos will be restricted to my own, though links to worthwhile sites will be a future consideration.
I consider myself a mid-level modeler, at best, and one more than willing to experiment and try anything once. My love of trains in general can be traced back to my childhood, and model railroading (not to be confused with "toy trains," either collecting or displaying) was something I pursued sporadically in my adolescence, with the supervision and guidance of my father — a Pittsburgh steel mill railroader who first introduced me to the activity, in the mid-50s, when a 4x8 "platform" would magically appear on Christmas morning under the tree. When Santa was no longer an issue said platform was put up a week or two before Christmas and some of my earliest memories involve "helping" Dad put up the trains (which mostly consisted of me following him around with my little plastic, battery-operated drill). Later the whole business was moved to our basement. Year after year the "start time" for working with the platform grew earlier and earlier (extending eventually to as early as immediately after Thanksgiving), and the trains would stay up until well after New Year's. Gradually Dad let me take over construction entirely; an additional plywood board was added, one year, and this seasonal operation continued until my high school years, when a growing interest in girls, music, and writing began gradually to replace that of HO modeling. The trains and all the accessories went up into the attic, then, where they remained while I attended college and, following that, did a four-year stint in the army.
When I first married, in 1981, and was living in the Northern Virginia area (working in DC), the basement of our rented house was large enough for a good-sized pike and I took up the hobby again. Sporadically over the years I would be at work on something of one size or another, exploring the hobby in some depth and learning the different aspects of things — design, operation, electronics, scenery, kit-building, and so on. While all the various sub-activities were challenging and interesting, I found myself most fascinated by, and attracted to, the scenery aspect of this business. By the late 80s materials available for that (and the companies producing those materials) began to burgeon and as such ones options for achieving or attempting to achieve a certain degree of realism increased nearly exponentially. Sawdust was no longer ones only option for ground-cover, for instance (nor dyed lichen ones single choice for "vegetation"), for instance. Woodland Scenics, for one example, had come onto the scene, selling ground foam in various textures and colors, and many other landscaping materials as well.
Another extended and self-imposed interruption in my modeling occurred from 1987 until I took up the hobby again in '05. I had made some minor efforts to "keep up" with things but much had changed in the intervening years. (More on this in subsequent posts.)
I'd been divorced for quite a while but remarried in 1998. When my wife and I bought a home, that year, I had an eye on two potential areas in the house for possible modeling activity on a large scale, but other matters (among them graduate school at George Mason University, where I was pursuing for a time an MFA in poetry) interceded and I never got around to envisioning nor even even armchair-planning a railroad. I did buy, though, a kit I couldn't resist when I saw it. This was a large (very large) model of a blast furnace with casthouse and gas stoves which was being sold by Wm Walthers. This monstrosity was intimidating, to say the least and, since I had no place to put it, the thing remained in its box for many years.
My father passed away in March of 1996 and though he had been retired from the Monongahela Connecting Railroad (J&L Steel's [later LTV Steel's] Pittsburgh works inter-plant railroad) since 1983, and the entire complex itself was nearly gone by the time of his death, I had come to have a kind of relationship with various aspects of his past, along with the history of steel-making generally, combined with my own memories of growing up in such a place. On top of this was the fact that I had spent a summer in the car shop on the MCRR, in 1974, as a carman's helper.
A particular wish or desire to model something of or about this in HO scale seemed to take root — perhaps like the very first beginnings of a brush fire (a smoldering one really doesn't particularly notice or pay much attention to). I had since gotten divorced again and was living in a one bedroom apartment in Alexandria, VA. Then in early '05 and with a little time on my hands, I dragged that big blast furnace kit out of the closet, looked it over, sucked in a deep breath, and decided to "have at it."
This blog will be about what began then and continues.
My goal as a modeler is not to recreate a prototype. I am not a "rivet counter," as those perhaps overly involved with prototypical representation are referred to. I have not pored over blue-lines of the MCRR in the 50s and 60s with a desire to represent either the real railroad in scale (which would be impossible unless one had space the size of the massive HO-scale layout at Museum of Industry in Chicago, for instance) or even to selectively compress certain elements of real scenes. There are some modelers who do just this indeed, and they are to be commended and praised for their efforts and achievements at recreating "what once was." Instead, and as with my poetry when it comes to matters of reality, imagination, and the interface of those things, I've tried to create a sense, merely, of what something like this might be, might have looked and felt like at one time.
Thus my present layout is wholly free-lanced — an act of the imagination, as it were — and suffers, in many senses, as a result of that. In a future post I'll include a blue-line drawing of what was known as "the furnace alley" at J&L in Pittsburgh, if for no other reason than to suggest the difficulty one would have in modeling something like this. All of the trackage, which was extremely complex in that very small place, would have to be hand-laid, a task itself that would take a patience (if not the skill or ability) that I simply don't possess.
Of course, the ultimate act would be to recreate, accurately, that very furnace alley — the six blast furnaces there known collectively as the Eliza furnaces. This would be the supreme homage one supposes and would take, in scale, about twenty feet of real space. (And, in an integrated plant such as J&L was, the iron-making that went on in the blast furnace department was one small area of a significantly much larger operation. My single blast furnace, cast house, and the associated gas stoves, takes up four feet of linear space.) One might forgive me when I say I'm not quite up to that kind of endeavor.
In the meantime, though, I'm keeping busy learning, exploring, and discovering what my hands can do, what my imagination will allow me to create. There are times when I've been working for a while on some particular area, either in situ or as a module that I can build at a table and then place in its spot on the layout, and I'll look up at the clock and see how much time has passed — three hours, four, seven . . . whatever. I'll get up and stretch my back, grab a cold beer and take a look at things, at what I've managed to do. I'll think about my Dad, for some reason, and how he might have gotten a kick out of what I've been up to: "Still doing it, yep, Daddy, after all these years . . ." Then I'll think that what I'm doing — modeling something or anything — can't and will never compare with his own 40-some years on such a railroad in such a place. That kind of reality is difficult to understand, really, now that he's gone, other than the bald fact of it. The thousands and thousands of nuances and moments he experienced there can never be recreated, but it's amazing fun to work a little, once in a while, on something that allows me to engage with what I myself remember and deem essential to remember of this kind of history, and imagine him approving of it, on the whole, and saying perhaps, "Well, you know it looked a bit different from what you're doing
I'm not much of a photographer, particularly. The photos I've taken and will post here are mostly what would be called snapshots. One need only look at the pages of Model Railroader magazine to get a sense of the specialty that model railroad photography has become. I shoot with a little Kodak digital camera, no lighting other than what's extant, and do the best I can.
I hope you enjoy this blog, and return to find different and interesting postings.
I'll post only one photo at the moment — an accident I happen to like and have called, "Long After Sunset."
Till next time, then . . .
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A Rosary Meditation … The Fifth Sorrowful Mystery, the Crucifixion. "And Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said, 'Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit.' " Luke 23:46. A dramatic scene, isn't it? A Man, in the thralls of death, giving Himself over to the care of God totally. Not that Jesus didn't always do this, it's just that this moment, frozen in time for us by its depth and the severity of His suffering, stands out. And it should. It should also make us think about our own handing over of our own lives to God and how it works out when we do it. We are, as Christians, as Roman Catholics, surrounded by a hostile world. A world that hates the truth because the Truth reminds it of what it IS and what it SHOULD be by comparison. The result of our witness is, often as not, the response of "Kill the messenger!" Which is what we should expect. After all, that was the world's reaction to God as He ministered to it in the flesh, wasn't it? But when we proclaim His truth, knowing how unpopular it will be and the personal repercussions we'll likely have to suffer, do we witness as He did? Do we follow His example? Do we cry out with a loud voice? Or do we whisper, so as not to be heard while soothing our consciences that we did, after all, speak out? Its one thing to speak out. It's another to mean to be heard.
Today …
St. Lazarus
Lazarus is the poor man at the gate of the rich mans home in Christ's parable related in Luke (Luke 16:19-31). His name was perpetuated in the Middle Ages by such words as Lazaretto (hospital), Lazarone (a beggar in the street), and the Order of St. Lazarus, though it was a military order, had as one of its objectives the care of lepers. And do you remember what Dives, the rich man, did when he died and found himself in a place of torment? He cried out. The idea of "Better late than never" doesn't always work. We need to be a Christian witness NOW.
Quote … "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone" ― Pablo Picasso.


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Saturday, November 22, 2014
Not A Good Time To Be Cosby
It truly is not a good time to be Bill Cosby......
Was it only a generation ago that Bill Cosby played the role of America's Dad, with a No. 1-rated family sitcom, a runaway best-seller about fatherhood and a lucrative ad career built around his Everyman image.
His legacy as a pioneering African-American entertainer seemed secure. Early success as a stand-up comic was followed by a starring role in "I Spy," the 1960s TV hit. In the 1980s, he starred as Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable in "The Cosby Show," one of the first sitcoms centered on an affluent African-American family.
Now, his career stands threatened by allegations of sexual misconduct — with media companies running away from the man they once embraced in a hurry..
The scandal will "certainly shoulder its way into" the way Mr. Cosby is remembered, even after his death, said Martin Kaplan, professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.
"Obits traditionally have a 'who' sentence at the start," Martin Kaplan added. "Until now, his would have been: 'Bill Cosby, who ...' followed by something about the Huxtables and being America's Dad. Now I think that sentence will continue with ... this sad, sordid history now unfolding."
The onetime father figure is battling claims that he sexually assaulted women, including aspiring actresses looking to break into showbiz. The alleged victims who have recently stepped forward include former model Janice Dickinson, whose rape claim was vigorously denied by a Cosby attorney this week.
The escalating crisis of image forced NBC officials on Wednesday to scrap plans to develop a Cosby comedy pilot in which he would have played the grandfather in an extended family.
"We can confirm that the Cosby project is no longer in development," said a person with knowledge of the situation who was not authorized to speak publicly. By Wednesday afternoon, the cable network TV Land announced it was pulling episodes of "The Cosby Show" from its channel indefinitely.
Those actions followed an interview with Dickinson that aired Tuesday on "Entertainment Tonight" that prompted Netflix to back out of a special in honor of the comedian. "At this time we are postponing the launch of the new stand-up special 'Bill Cosby 77,' " a Netflix spokesman said in a statement.
The program, taped on the performer's 77th birthday, had been scheduled to premiere Nov. 28. The statement neither gave a reason for the postponement nor specified whether it would be rescheduled.
Meanwhile, a coalition of civil rights and women's groups on Wednesday called on the Treasure Island resort in Las Vegas to postpone an upcoming appearance by Cosby pending an investigation of his alleged victims' claims.
Although these allegations have only recently gained national attention, they date back decades...I had heard whispers about this before...But I'm not hearing whispers now..It's LOUD!
In 2005, Temple University staffer Andrea Constand sued Mr. Cosby, claiming he drugged and groped her during a visit the year before to his Philadelphia home. During that case, 13 other women came forward with similar stories and were prepared to testify, according to published reports. But her lawyers reached an out-of-court settlement with Cosby in 2006; the terms were not disclosed. The scandal died down so much that it was not mentioned in Mark Whitaker's biography of Cosby published earlier this year. "There were no definitive court findings," Whitaker explained to the Huffington Post.
Further back, in 1997, a woman named Autumn Jackson who claimed to be Cosby's biological child was convicted of trying to extort millions of dollars from the entertainer. Cosby admitted to a relationship with Jackson's mother but denied paternity.
The accusations returned to the spotlight last month after a routine by stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress made fun of Cosby's fatherly image in light of the allegations of sexual misconduct.
Hanibal Buress' stand up routine, captured on a jerky smartphone camera, quickly ricocheted around the Internet. It went "viral as they say and America once again was OUTRAGED!! I tell you it seems like we are outraged about something or someone every week... It proved the match that lighted the fuse. On Nov. 13, The Washington Post published a first-person piece by Arizona artist Barbara Bowman in which she claimed that Mr. Cosby had drugged and repeatedly raped her in 1985, when she was a 17-year-old aspiring actress.
My thing is this...These women have been silent for all these years..Now some comedian, who few people ever heard of outside of serious comedy groupies tells a joke...a joke he has been telling for months and all of a sudden ALL of these women suddenly remember Mr. Cosby assaulted them in 1972, 1977, 1982 ,1985 et al...I'm just saying...True or not...It does make you wonder or at least it should....Most of these cases were settled out of court(meaning somebody took some cash for their silence...) and are so old he can't be prosecuted for them even if he is in fact guilty....Again..If you weren't there, you don't know..Only Mr. Cosby and the girls know for sure....We should remember...These are just accusations...I can accuse somebody of doing anything....With no concrete proof or action it means nothing...
A lot of us forget that....We just join in with the crowd and hope to GOd...Nobody discovers the skelaton bones in our own closets and puts it on the internet!
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One reason to smear Bill is he's in works of buying a network along with others to put back family oriented shows on tv. We know how he feels about the plight of us. We know how he feels about positive imagery among black folk. Now if a man like Bill get his own network then shows like real housewives, and those other shows we love would have serious competition and sponsors are about money and networks make too much money to have a idealist like Bill to have that kind of power. That's Just One Reason These Charges and timing of it came out
- Sat Nov 22, 05:17:00 PM
Set Up from the Get Up!
- Sat Nov 22, 05:18:00 PM
You say something enough, people will believe it. There are many that didn't and still don't believe Obama is president.
- Sat Nov 22, 05:18:00 PM
Remember one of the devil's jobs is to destroy and to destroy you need to deceive the people around him or he's support (fans), then there can kill the values that he displaying to you and I.I don't know about you, but the man had been a role model since the Cosby kids,yes Fat Albert and the gang.Me personally can't say one way or another, but he's character says otherwise.
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- Sat Nov 22, 05:20:00 PM
I don't think this has anything to do with race or destroying his legacy ... It's not like he's in the prime of his career ...the comments on this post is exactly why woman don't report rape!!! If my daughter came to me and said " Mommy so and so raped me 12 years ago" I am not going to say "well your timing is suspect or I think this is a set up" close your eyes for a minute and think about if one of these women were your mother or daughter. I work with rape victims and there are a bunch of reasons why they don't report ...fear no one will believe them is at the top of the list. Will you criticize the young daughter who was raped by her father but didn't tell anyone until she was a teen? Sometimes all it takes is for one person to come forward...sometimes that is what gives these women the courage to speak up...knowing that they are not alone.
- Sat Nov 22, 05:21:00 PM
@James Perkins- James is cheating on your wife being a good role model for young black men?
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The Flight
mila: I absolutely adored the plane ride from Los Angeles to Dubai. It was fantasmical. And by fantasmical I mean horrendous. And by horrendous I mean not so bad. And by not so bad I mean it could've been worse. Cause let's face it, as Ashley says, it could be be worse. If you apply this statement to all things that go wrong in your life it will make you feel better and you'll do that thing where you shrug and nod in agreeance. It's true. Next time you get mad or something fails you, say to yourself, "It could be worse." And somehow, magically, automatically you will feel better. And if that statement isn't successful in your life then you are just doomed for gloom.
I'm listening to Bryan Adams right now… Music is supposed to help with this sort of thing, and why I chose him is beyond me because it's not like he makes me feel the culture of India anymore intensely. Maybe I secretly long for America and my mouse finger subconsciously chose Bryan Adams in hopes to connect to my Canadian roots. I just now realized how off topic I am… Let's get on with it. Ashley, my mother and I flew on Emirates Airlines. If any of you like me who didn't/don't know how to pronounce Emirates, let me break it down for you: EM-EH-RITZ. As in the United Arab Emirates. Apparently they've only been flying from the U.S.A for four years. I thought it was interesting, or maybe it's not and in my delirium on board I was fascinated by such facts. For some reason I got to my seat before Ashley and I noticed this old Arabian lady hacking her lungs behind me. I laughed because I knew this would be Ashley's favorite thing. When Ashley arrived I figured it best to warn her and not let her discover such a treat on her own. The flight crew on this particular flight was truly laughable. I began laughing the second I boarded because I knew this was going to be an experience. This one attendant, Ashleigh was complaining right from the start. She was yelling at all the passengers about their baggage and the Arab passangers yelled back. This man wanted his bag in the compartment above his seat but there was no room so Ashleigh says, "No, no, no." and the man goes, "Yes, yes, yes." Again, I laughed. Anyhow, my favorite run-in was with Constantin, a not-so-hetero-male attendant. I was leaving the bathroom, walking back to my seat and I had to pass through the back quarters. My eyes scanned the area as anyone's would. Constantin was speaking to another joyful female attendant, and he stops and goes, "Yes, please?" and I say, "What?" and he says loudly and more rude, "YES, PLEASE?" I was kind of confused and didn't understand what the hell was happening so I just said, "Nothing." and walked away. At any other point in my life, I would have let this bother me and let it fester until I would explode but I've come to a place in my life where I'm trying to let these petty things just pass. So I got to my seat and laughed. Later, Ashley and I were getting ready to watch some serious cinema in the form of "Made of Honor" and I had saved my cookies from dinner. All I needed was milk, and Miss Joyful Attendant was passing by with water and I kindly asked for some milk, which annoyed her. She failed to bring it. Three-quarters into the movie I saw her again and asked again, then fifteen minutes later she brought me milk. It was all awesome. That was the tone of the flight, a lot of ignoring, huffing, puffing but overall a genuine out pouring of love, true love.