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Will Prince Charles finally be King... of Romania?
Prince Charles has long lived in the shadow of his mother, Queen Elizabeth. Will he step into the role of King of another country while his mother and father are still alive?
Want Prince William to become King of England instead of his dad, Prince Charles? Well, convince good ole Chuck to move to Romania. Newspapers in the Eastern European nation were abuzz with rumors that Charles could become King Carol III if the country's monarchy is restored.
"The last royal ruler, King Michael — who reigned from 1927 to 1930 and again from 1940 to 1947 — was forced to abdicate by the country's new Communist leaders, who threatened to carry out mass executions if he refused to step down," The Daily Mail wrote.
"Romania went on to endure decades of communist government, most notably under dictatorial party leader Nicolae Ceausescu who ruled the country with an iron fist from 1965 until he was deposed and executed in 1989."
However, Prince Michael of Romania, 90, and his family still remain in the country.
The rumor mill went into further overdrive when the country's powerful tourism and development minister, Elena Udrea, flew to London last week to meet with Charles at Clarence House," The UK newspaper added.
"The meeting was not publicized in advance, although pictures were subsequently released and the glamorous Udrea subsequently spoke of her host in glowing terms and said Romanians should be more like Charles and 'appreciate the country they live in.'"
The Prince does have a stake in the country — he owns land within the nation and is even related to the country's famous bloodsucker. "The genealogy shows I am descended from Vlad the Impaler, so I do have a bit of a stake in the country," he joked.
We'll chalk this one up to "never gonna happen," but we bet he enjoys thinking about power without Queen Elizabeth's influence.
Image courtesy Daniel Deme / WENN.com
Read on for more royal family
Kate Middleton "doesn't look like a princess" kids say
A royal dismissal: Zara Phillips' husband gets canned
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College degrees
Much has been written lately concerning college degrees and the question whether young people should pursue them given the state of the economy. Although I agree that one should consider trade schools and alternative training programs after graduating from high school, I don't believe giving up on a university education is necessarily the right path for everyone either.

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Question: How do I create a good Frequently Asked Questions ("FAQ") section for my startup website? Customer care efficiency company Inbenta has collected thousands of consumer questions to develop their natural language search tool. If you are looking for answers, start here.
Do I need an FAQ?
FAQs are great to have – they cut down on the time you spend answering email questions and the Q&A format ranks highly in Google's algorithms, so you are more likely to show up in search results. But the true value in creating an FAQ is understanding what kind of questions your customers are asking. Take the opportunity in writing your FAQ to talk to your customers and your business will be better for it.
Where do I start?
Look for competitors with similar product lines. They probably share your customers and, by extension, your customers' questions. Don't want to be a copycat? Put up an FAQ page with a single question: What do I do if I have questions?"
Answer: Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com and a real human will get back to you in 24 hours/3 days/ASAP/Whatever time you feel comfortable committing to.
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Are there FAQ rules I should follow?
There are writing rules you should follow, and they apply nicely to FAQs.
Keep it simple – Your questions should be brief and, well, they should be questions. "Where can I check my order status" is better than "Check order status" or "How do I check my order status and cancel it or make changes?"
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Chocolate and Strawberry Terrine
Chocolate and Strawberry Terrine
This Chocolate and Strawberry Terrine is dairy free, egg free, gluten free and nut free, and uses aquafaba to replace egg in the sponge. It has a chocolate sponge base, a layer of chocolate mousse, a layer of strawberry cream, more sponge and then is topped with chocolate ganache. It's not a 5 minute job obviously but it looks and tastes sensational and keeps well for a few days in the fridge.
Vegan Macarons
These Vegan Macarons are egg, wheat and dairy free but contain nuts.
My daughter turned 10 recently and I made the terrible mistake of asking her what cake she would like. DO NOT DO THIS! 10 year olds are very tech savvy, and next thing I had an email with a picture of THE EXACT CAKE she wanted from Pinterest. ARRRGGGHHH. But I think I kind of delivered…it wasn't an exact replica but not too bad. It did take quite a while though, and because she is egg and dairy free, I had to be a bit creative. It had macarons on, and I wasn't optimistic I could pull these off with aquafaba, given how temperamental they can be just with egg, but I'm pleased to announce they worked first try!
Breastfeeding children with allergies
Today is the last day of World Breastfeeding Week…I've been watching some of my clever blogging friends write amazing insightful posts about breastfeeding, and didn't think I had anything new to offer, but tonight I decided I'd like to share my sometimes wonderful, sometimes troubled, sometimes heartbreaking journey of breastfeeding my three beautiful girls, all with an array of food allergies and associated health challenges.
Chicken Roulade, Clove and Sage Onions, Chicken Crackling and Crispy Roast Potatoes
This Chicken Roulade, Clove and Sage Onions, Chicken Crackling and Crispy Roast Potatoes dish is my modern interpretation of traditional roast chicken like my Grandmother used to serve when we were children, and is a sponsored post for Countdown. It is dairy, egg and nut free and very easily adapted to be gluten free. It is an awesome dish to pull out for a special date or dinner party or if you just like a bit of a challenge 🙂
Food Allergy Smart Book Review
The awesome team at My Food Allergy Friends have come out with another book in the 'Thai' series…if you haven't come across these before, they are brilliant books about a lovely boy Thai who manages his allergies in preschool. My kids absolutely love them and proudly take them to preschool or school occasionally.
Chicken Chickpea Soup with Sausage and Spiced Tomato
Chicken Chickpea Soup with Sausage and Spiced Tomato
This Chicken Chickpea Soup with Sausage and Spiced Tomato is a hearty soup with a few different components…they aren't all necessary if you wanted something a bit simpler. We have a great big log burner which I just love on cold days as the top opens up for cooking on. So I often have pots of stock, soup or stew on the go 🙂 I made the base for the soup from scratch but feel free to substitute ready made chicken stock (or water) if that's easier for you.
The Chicken Chickpea Soup with Sausage and Spiced Tomato is a sponsored recipe I came up with in conjunction with Countdown Supermarkets. I used Kings Vegetable Soup Mix (bonus: it's on price lockdown at Countdown), making soups super affordable this Winter. I've got a 9 year old in the house eating like a teenager so I've been keeping a big pot of soup in the fridge to pull out for hearty afternoon teas when she gets home super hungry after school. I do sometimes crave something 'Winter-y' with an injection of flavour though, so I've added a spicy punch to this soup and a few added healthy elements like kale and mushrooms.
Chocolate Rhubarb Tart
Chocolate Rhubarb Tart
Dairy free and Egg free
I absolutely love the Hunter Gatherer Gourmet mixes and I was lucky enough to get one of the chocolate ones at the Food Show recently which had been sitting in my pantry waiting for inspiration to hit me. A dear friend also popped a box of freshly cut rhubarb from her garden (love gardening foodie friends!!!) and was coming over for a playdate so I thought I'd try to pair the two together even though chocolate and rhubarb is a slightly weird combination?? So I created this Chocolate Rhubarb Tart and it was really good! If you can't get the baking mix or it doesn't fit with your allergies, you can substitute any brownie mix that works for you.
Blackcurrant Mousse Cake with chocolate and egg free meringue
Blackcurrant Mousse Cake with chocolate and egg free meringue
This little blackcurrant party on a plate is dairy free, egg free, nut free and gluten free :). If gluten is ok in your house, just swap the cake for any traditional vanilla cake or sponge which suit your allergies. I have used the delicious blackcurrant powder from Sujon. It is a significant undertaking in full, awesome if you want a fancy dessert, but any of the items on it's own is also fab! My favourite part is the meringues, they are white with flecks of blackcurrant on the outside, but when you break them open, that are a beautiful purple inside and bursting with blackcurrant flavour.
Egg Free, Dairy Free Caesar Salad
Egg Free, Dairy Free Caesar Salad
This Egg Free, Dairy Free Caesar Salad is egg free, dairy free, nut free, and easily adapted (as I did) to be gluten free.
Sujon Product Review
Sujon Product Review
I've been enjoying Sujon berries for a number of years now, and had tried their blackcurrant powder a few years back, so I was pretty excited to be given some to try out and see how it might work with allergies. Although lots of people take this powder for health reasons: supporting muscle performance, reducing fatigue and supporting the cardiovascular system (see Sujon's website for more information about this), I was interested to see how the powder would work in baking, and everyday allergy-friendly recipes.


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Friday, 20 June 2014
Little local difficulties
4 comments:
- Woodsy said...
It could only get better after that embarrassing intro, and it did, mostly because Cllr Frost generally deferred to the more experienced officers who really run the show in these parts.
Why do I get the impression the officers are going to run rings around the new boy?
- 21 June 2014 at 12:11
- Stockwood Pete said...
Councillors in this NP seem to be more reactive than proactive; occasionally they'll resist something that appears on the officer-led agenda, but that's about as far as it goes.
Who knows, maybe the new boy, without experience and without a party whip, will want to challenge the status quo. Perhaps we'll find ourselves voting on a motion to get Stockwood and Hengrove out of Europe!
- 21 June 2014 at 23:16
Thanks Pete,
i have read your comments with ammusment, yes i am new, yes, it was the first meeting i attended and i was in the chair, and neded some guidence, but come the general election one thing will be certain, greens and lib dems will be wiped out, and this media that unfortunaley allows "the nutter on the bus" like you, to contact more people than just whoever is unlucky to sit next to you
- 6 November 2014 at 21:16
- Stockwood Pete said...
Welcome to the Stockwood Pete blog, Mike. Actually I thought this post was quite objective for an opinion piece; apart from poking a bit of fun at your faux pas at the start of the meeting, I don't think there's any unfair comment in there, and some sympathy for a new boy coming into what can be a bit of a bearpit.
I hope you'll want to comment constructively (I can do without the gratuitously offensive comments) on other posts you see on here - maybe like the most recent one about Hydrogenesis, climate change, and His Georgeness.
As it says on the tin, this blog is 'Green Perspectives on Stockwood and Bristol - mostly' so like any comment piece there's a bit of an agenda behind it. I wish there were more on our patch, because it would open up ideas for discussion across both wards, reaching well beyond the usual suspects who turn up at Neighbourhood Partnership meetings. Maybe you could start your own? I'd be happy to add comments. Politely, of course.
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April 14, 2014 08:00 ET
Nielsen's Chief Research Officer, Paul Donato, Will Keynote the Event
Nielsen's Chief Research Officer, Paul Donato, Will Keynote the Event
WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - Apr 14, 2014) - Directions Magazine announces the agenda for the Location Intelligence Summit 2014, May 19-21, in Washington, D.C. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The theme for this year's event is Location Analytics and Visual Data Discovery … New Pathways to Business Intelligence.
The Location Intelligence Summit will feature Paul Donato, the chief research officer and executive vice president of Nielsen, the consumer insights company, as its keynote speaker. Donato has held this position since April 2007 and is responsible for integrating research functions within Nielsen, overseeing the development and evaluation of research, and serving as Nielsen's research liaison to clients and industry associations. His keynote address is entitled "140 Characters to 140 Terabytes."
Now in its 10th year, the Location Intelligence (LI) Summit features the emerging trends that support the integration of location technology with business intelligence, analytics and location-based mobile applications. Once again, LI will be the host event for Oracle's Spatial Summit. In addition, LI has added two major corporate partners: HERE and the Eclipse Foundation. HERE, a Nokia business, will provide an exclusive look inside its latest offerings in location content and services at the HERE Summit. The Eclipse Foundation will provide a full day of presentations focused on open source geospatial technology at the LocationTech Summit. This multi-track event will offer a unique business opportunity for corporations seeking to leverage location intelligence for a competitive advantage.
"Our Summit agenda exposes those location technologies that are trending now within the broader LI ecosystem," said Directions Magazine's Joe Francica, conference chairman. "As an example, indoor location and positioning as well as open source solutions are opening new possibilities for enterprise solutions and mobile apps, respectively, and will receive substantial attention at this year's event."
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Allow Me to Tell You Why Giving Yourself Your First Brazilian Is a Terrible Idea
It's basically SAW: Beauty Edition.
First off, thanks be to xoJane commenters krisasaurus and Monica Brouwer for suggesting a "House Creepers" column to us way back when. We loooove the idea of showing you inside our homes, warts and all, and plan to feature more sneak peeks at the crazy/sentimental/silly/lovely stuff our writers and readers collect, display, and treasure.
I thought it might be fun to kick things off by sharing a few items around my own apartment that bring me joy on a daily basis, which also happen to be handmade and inexpensive to recreate. And away we go...
I love my colorful plate to pieces. I mean literally, since it was made by affixing many, many bits and pieces of vintage and new paper scraps to a clear glass plate. I made this plate in a class taught by my amazing artist friend Lisa Congdon, who also wrote up the instructions as a how-to project that appears in the book "Crafting a Meaningful Home." That book is FULL of killer ideas, btw.
If you start squirreling away cool patterned papers, you'll build up a great stash in no time, which is great for projects like this one. The plate currently hangs on my kitchen wall alongside some thrifted odds and ends. Its confetti-bright colors cheer me up and remind me of the friend who showed me how to make it. Aww!
I have two cats who prowl my apartment like savage panthers, mowing down everything in their paths ... including houseplants. But for some reason they've never been tempted by these crepe paper flowers I made. They've lasted for 3 or 4 years now, which is more than I can say for my ficus.
These particular flowers -- which I think are supposed to be dogwoods, but I'm no botanist -- were made using a Martha Stewart Crafts kit from Michaels, which I don't think they offer anymore (though she does offer a multi-bloom style kit for $9.99). Her website offers instructions on making several styles of flora, however, so give it a try if real plants aren't your bag but you want a bit of springtime pretty up in your joint.
I am a renter, and my landlord has elected to keep our hot water heater in our kitchen, right next to the fridge. Stupid AND ugly, my favorite! For years I just suffered the fug, but when I repainted (and re-floored, thank you ... yes, I put in that linoleum!) the place with my brilliant pal Hannah a while back, she had a great idea.
She had a thrifted, accordion-style room divider languishing unused in her basement, so we unscrewed one of the panels, spraypainted the whole thing white, and glued on some vintage wallpaper (try Etsy and eBay) using Mod Podge. Now I have an adorable screen to look at instead of a dumb appliance. How I wish I'd done it AGES ago!
I kinda hate most commercial shower curtains, and I couldn't find one I liked that coordinated well with my newly-repainted bathroom. The paint came from my local True Value and the color is called "Sea Salt" which totally makes me want to lick the walls, except that it's a bathroom so there are probably some really horrible microscopic germs lingering there, so I won't (haven't you read about how if you leave your toothbrushes on the sink you're basically brushing with turds?!).
ANYWAY. Since I couldn't find a curtain I liked I grabbed some fabric scraps and made one for myself inspired by this tutorial by Brett Bara. As Rachel has alreadyshown us, Brett's instructions are always clear and easy to follow, the lady is ON POINT. A patchwork shower curtain is a great way to use up weird-sized fabric scraps, and I like that I can just toss it in the wash when I need to. If I ever get bored with it, I'll make pillows out of it or something.
So simple, yet so cute and SO handy. I have an old-fashioned gas stove which I occasionally need to re-light, plus I enjoy scented candles like a big girly-girl, and I got sick of opening the kitchen drawer to pull out the matches every time I needed them. So I glue stick'd some pretty paper to a matchbox, then used a stronger glue (E-6000 is the BOMB) to adhere a strong magnet to the back. Now my matches are within easy reach whenever I need one, and I can use them to hang up the drawings my friends' kids make for me. (This drawing actually cost me a dollar, the kid is a freaking mercenary I tells ya!)
This last little bit, I cannot claim credit for, but I wanted to share with you nonetheless. I reached into the freezer to grab some ginger one day and was met with this little goofus my husband created for me:
Now I know THAT is a home décor project just about anyone can handle, craft-savvy or not, and you won't find it on the shelf at Pier 1.


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I have previously had the cluster repaired
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My sunroof control is on that overhead
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Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park
Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park is a 35,000 km² peace park that is in the process of being formed. It will link the Limpopo National Park (formerly known as Coutada 16) in Mozambique, Kruger National Park in South Africa, Gonarezhou National Park, Manjinji Pan Sanctuary and Malipati Safari Area in Zimbabwe, as well as the area between Kruger and Gonarezhou, the Sengwe communal land in Zimbabwe and the Makuleke region in South Africa.
The memorandum of understanding for the creation of the peace park was signed on November 10, 2000 as the Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou Transfrontier Park. In October 2001 the name was changed to the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. By the 5th World Parks Congress held in Durban, South Africa, in 2003 the treaty had not been ratified in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Fences between the parks have started to come down allowing the animals to take up their old migratory routes that were blocked before due to political boundaries.
On the October 4, 2001 the first 40 (including 3 breeding herds) of a planned 1000 elephants were translocated from the over-populated Kruger National Park to the war-ravaged Limpopo National Park. It would take 2½ years to complete the translocation.
The new Giriyondo Border Post between South Africa and Mozambique has started in March 2004.
There are new plans that should increase the size of the park to 99,800 km² (36,000 sq. mi.).
Park will include the following[edit]
- Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park
- Kruger National Park about 18,989 km²
- Makuleke region also see: Makuleke (tribe), and Makuleke about 240 km²
- Limpopo National Park (Mozambique) about 10,000 km²
- Banhine National Park (Mozambique) about 7,000 km²
- Zinave National Park (Mozambique) about 6,000 km²
- Maputo Elephant Reserve (Mozambique) about 700 km²
- Gonarezhou National Park (Zimbabwe) about 5,053 km²
- Manjinji Pan Sanctuary (Zimbabwe)
- Malipati Safari Area (Zimbabwe)
- Sengwe Safari Area (Zimbabwe)
Elephant crossing the road in Kruger National Park.
A bird (look carefully) riding a Giraffe in Kruger National Park.
Two lionesses having a break after an unsuccessful hunt in Kruger National Park
The deep canyon of the Luvuvhu River in the Lanner Gorge in the Makuleke
This park comprises a gamut of wildlife including mammals such as elephant, southern white rhinoceros, giraffe, blue wildebeest, leopard, lion, cheetah, mongoose and spotted hyena.
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- Shingwedzi 4x4 eco-trail: five-night, six-day fully self-sufficient 4x4 trail. Starts at Pafuri Picnic Site in Kruger National Park, enters Mozambique at Pafuri Border Post and traverses Parque Nacional do Limpopo, the Mozambique sector of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park camping at pans and on river banks.
- Rio Elefantes Canoeing Trail: three-day paddle down the Rio Elefantes (Olifants River) from its confluence with the Shingwedzi to its confluence with the Limpopo. Camp wild at the side of the river in rustic bushcamps. Guided, fully catered and ported.
- Palarangala Wilderness Trail: three nights spent camping out in a rustic bushcamp with days spent exploring the pristine wilderness area stocked with game from the adjacent Kruger National Park. Guided and fully catered.
- Lebombo Hiking Trail: three night and four day trail spent hiking through pristine wilderness with good bird and game sightings. Fully catered with overnight accommodation in rustic bushcamps. Guided, fully catered and ported.
- Elefantes Gorge Backpacking and Fishing Trail: three night and four day fully self-sufficient guided trail spent traversing the plateau of the Lebombos, camping wild and fishing for Tiger from the shores of Massingir Dam, an important Breeding Ground for the Nile Crocodile.[1]
See also[edit]
- Limpopo National Park
- Kruger National Park
- Gonarezhou National Park
- Manjinji Pan Sanctuary
- Malipati Safari Area
External links[edit]
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-- Former WWE performer Kristal Marshall posted more comments on her protected Twitter account that she and Bobby Lashley have split. "Hello everyone Bobby (Lashley) and I have split, but remain great friends," she wrote. "He is a constant in our son's life and a tremendous father."
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There are many legends in Japan about hitobashira (literally "human pillar") human sacrifices made for erecting a construction. One of them is at the Maruoka castle, one of the 12 surviving Japanese castles.
Legend says that the wall built for the tenshu foundation was many times reconstructed, because it kept falling apart. Then, someone came up with the idea that a human sacrifice should be made to appease the gods, and a poor one-eyed woman named Oshizu, with two children, agreed to be sacrificed with the promise that one of her children will become samurai.
Afterwards the construction was finished, but the lord was transferred to a different province and failed to fulfill his promise. During the next spring, water started to spring from the wall and the people realized that the cause were Oshizu's tears. And they made next to the castle a small grave to pray for her soul…
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Officials Named For Quillin vs. Konecny Title Fight
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The problem may be that the most active FOSS-based feminists have been unable to articulate more than general principles. Skud and Mary Gardiner, a co-founder of The Ada Initiative, once attempted to express the values behind the Geek Feminism Wiki and could only state that the site was focused on documentation, logical analysis and women in minority environments. They have never offered answers to such basic questions as whether contributors advocate hiring quotas for women regardless of expertise.
Probably, given the diversity of wiki contributors, such position statements would be difficult, if not impossible. However, without them, Geek Feminist contributors leave themselves vulnerable to being defined by opponents. For example, I have frequently seen opponents assume that Geek Feminist contributors advocate hiring quotes, then accuse them of reverse sexism. In the absence of any policy statements, others frequently believe such claims all the more because they are stereotypical.
Moreover, the fact that Nice Girl's comments were quickly echoed in milder form by Endsley and long time community contributor Leslie Hawthorn, shows that she is not the only one who believes that the characterization holds some truth.
In response, Skud stated that "no feminist group is 'the opposition' to another. " And to some extent, she may be right -- change often is introduced by radicals, then integrated into society by moderates.
But the problem is that more moderate feminists do not always extend the same tolerance in return. Such depictions could not only derail FOSS feminism as radicals and moderates feud, but also create negative impressions of women's issues by depicting the best-known advocates as straw feminists -- parodies of themselves.
However, the women and men addressing women's issues in FOSS are stretched thin and are mostly volunteers. Under these conditions, expecting them to address all the implications of their subject at once is unrealistic.
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Forest Labs said that its cost-savings initiative—dubbed Project Rejuvenate—is aimed at reducing operating expenses by $500 million. The company said it's realigning R&D, reducing marketing expenses and slashing SG&A costs.
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Georgia nursing home to pay $2.5 million settlement
A Georgia nursing home has agreed to pay $2.5 million to resolve allegations of misuse of government funds.Federal and state authorities investigated Life Care Center of Lawrenceville, GA, after five whistle-blowers filed a complaint against the facility in 2002. They alleged the facility failed to provide adequate care to residents and, as a result, some residents died prematurely. The failure was a result of under-staffing, inadequate training, high staff turnover, an ineffective medical director and other deficiencies at the facility, they said. All five complainants were relatives of residents at Lawrenceville.
The fine was assessed based on violations of the federal False Claims Act for billing for services that were not provided or were worthless to residents. Tennessee-based Life Care Centers of America, Gwinnett Operations LLC, Developers Investment Company Inc. and Forrest L. Preston will pay the fine. The federal government, the state of Georgia and some of the initial complainants will receive portions of the settlment.


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Credo Mutwa, a Zulu Shaman from South Africa offers a succinct and profound introduction, followed by numerous chapters both on domestic (cat, dog, goat, cow, sheep, rooster), and wild animals (28 of them altogether). He goes on to tell us that cats and dogs are thought of more as keepers of their human 'owners' than the other way around. We pay tribute to them by feeding them…they in turn protect us, [and not just from obvious physical incursions]. Many of the chapters begin with Credo's praise song to the particular species. These are followed by ruminations on various traditions and names (with translations) associated with the different animals, as expressed in some of the various languages of Southern Africa. Much of the time, several traditional stories (often short, somteimes very lengthy) will be offered in which the given animal plays a large or primary role. Some of these are cosmic stories and/or creation myths in which the animal may serve as the hero/heroine others are more at fables. All are well told. The chapters range in length from a few sentences (the seal) to 14 pages (the monkey – including a long, very graphic 'cosmic' legend involving God, his 4-headed dog, and a huge demonic creature whose activity threatens to destroy the inhabitants of earth, humans included – the monkdy ends up the main hero). The book is profusely illustrated with beautiful and intricate pen-and-ink drawings of most of the species, sometimes integrated into scenes of the indigenous environment… While it's too bad this is currently out of print (its publisher is in Cape Town, South Africa), and used copies are sometimes expensive.
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Courses with hyphenated numbers (e.g., HIS 495-HIS 496) are year-long courses. Students will not be awarded credit for either course unless they complete both semesters.
Renumbered Courses
The notation ("formerly ABC ###") after a course number and title indicates that the course designator or number has been changed. Courses renumbered from lower-division (100-200) to upper-division (300-400) level may not be used retroactively to satisfy the 39 upper-division credit requirement of the University unless specifically noted in the course description. The newly renumbered or designated courses may not be repeated for credit.
Southampton Courses and DEC or Skill Designators
If a course satisfies a DEC or Skill, the DEC &/or Skill designator is indicated in the Course Description listings of this Bulletin following the course number (e.g. HIS 104 K&4 or WRT 103-A).
Courses offered in Southampton that are also offered on the west campus are tagged with a "-S" location marker on class schedule and student transcripts to simplify class searches and student enrollment. Courses with the same subject designator and course number offered on both campuses are identical in content and satisfy the same prerequisites and requirements for graduation. For example, MAR 303 on the west campus is the same MAR 303-S on the Southampton campus. The "-S" location marker is only noted on student transcripts and class schedules when the course is offered in Southampton and is not noted in the Bulletin or Course Catalog description for the course. Course subject designators for courses that are only offered at Southampton do not carry the "-S" suffix (e.g. CSK, EDP, EHI, EHM, ENV, SBC, SUS).
Enrichment Courses
These courses are restricted to specific groups of students. Introduction to Stony Brook 101, Undergraduate College Seminar 102, and SBU 101, one-credit courses for first-semester freshmen and transfer students, introduce students to the Stony Brook academic environment. All freshmen entering Stony Brook in the fall semester are required to take ACH/GLS/HDV/ITS/ LDS/SSO 101 in the fall and ACH/GLS/ HDV/ITS/LDS/SSO 102 in the spring, based on their undergraduate college affiliation. Freshmen entering Stony Brook in the spring semester must take first-year seminar 102. Students in the Honors College register for HON 106 (fall) and HON 105 (spring). AIM 102 and 104 are open to students in the EOP/AIM program only. See the descriptions of each of these courses in the Course Descriptions section of this Bulletin.
Multiple Registrations for the Same Course
Auditing refers to the practice of attending a course for informational instruction only. The privilege of auditing courses is limited to matriculated students and senior citizens. Matriculated students who wish to audit a course must first obtain permission from the instructor. Senior citizens must arrange to audit courses through the School of Professional Development. An auditor does not receive academic credit for the course, nor does the University maintain any record of the auditor's attendance in the course.
Individual instructors may establish policies for auditors in their courses. In general, auditors are expected to refrain from participating in class discussions and from turning in or asking for grading of homework, term papers, or examinations. After the end of the add/drop period, the student may not change status in a course from auditor to registered.
Course Prerequisites
Students should meet the prerequisites to a course before taking the course. Prerequisites indicate through specific coursework the type of knowledge, the level of academic maturity, or the acceptance to a specific program that a student should have achieved before taking a course. Completion of the prerequisites may be in progress at the time the student advance registers for the following semester. The University has the option to de-register, by the end of the first week of classes, any student not meeting the prerequisites to a course. In addition, some courses enforce prerequisites at the time of registration. Students who believe they have satisfied the prerequisites to a course through transfer work or through other study or experience should seek permission of the instructor before registering. Permission of the instructor supersedes stated prerequisites. Certain courses may be taken only with the permission of the instructor or of the department; this is listed as a prerequisite to the course.
Advisory prerequisites indicate the type of knowledge a student should have in order to do better in a course than would be expected without that knowledge. Students electing to take a course without satisfying the advisory prerequisite should expect to have to work harder and not do as well as students who have completed the advisory prerequisite.
Limits on Course Credits and Grading Options
There are limits on the number of credits from certain courses that can be applied toward the 120 required for the B.A. or B.S. degree, or the 128 required for the B.E. degree. Listed below are the maximum numbers of credits that can be applied toward the total number of credits required for a degree:
Independent study (30 credits): courses with numbers 273, 287, 444-449, 484-489, 499
Internships (12 credits): of which no more than 6 credits may be EXT 288
Activity-related courses (9 credits): AFS 283, LHD 307, LHD 308, PSY 283
Undergraduate teaching practica (6 credits)
Maximum numbers of credits that can be earned in non-liberal arts and sciences courses: B.A. candidates 30 credits; B.S. candidates 60 credits; B.E. candidates 90 credits
The following courses are non-liberal arts and sciences courses: ARS 154; BUS 210, 214, 348; MUS individual instrument or voice instruction courses; student teaching courses numbered 449, 450, 451, 452, and 454; THR 244, 295, 296, 301-307, 340; BME, CME, ESE, ESG, ESM, and MEC courses; HAD, HAN, HAS, HBA, HBM, HDH, HDO, HDP, HNI courses; HWC fieldwork courses
Credits by approved examinations (30 credits): Approved examination programs are Advanced Placement examinations, College Level Examination Program subject examination, Regents College examinations, Stony Brook Challenge examination
Graduate courses (6 credits)
Developmental courses (0 credits): AIM 102, MAP 101, and MAP 103 are developmental courses
Repeated courses (0 credits): Courses are not repeatable unless specifically noted as repeatable in the Undergraduate Bulletin course description. See the entries "Retaking Courses" and "Repeatable Courses" earlier in this chapter for more information.
Restrictions on Credits Earned with a Grade of P: Students must complete at least 100 credits of the 120 required for the B.A. or B.S. or of the 128 credits required for the B.E. degree with a letter grade. In addition, courses taken under the Pass/No Credit option will not satisfy D.E.C. or general education requirements.


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CAMPUS Closeup: Ken Culp
Texas native Ken Culp (Mathematics and Computer Science) retains a detectable Southern accent despite spending the past 14 years as an Upper Peninsula resident. His path to NMU involved a series of coincidences. Culp earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in his home state and fell short of completing a doctorate when he joined the U.S. Navy. After his stint in the service, he had trouble finding a job with a four-year-old degree. He worked with semiconductors for Texas Instruments, then computers before managing software development teams for a company that specialized in automated systems for dental offices. Culp delivered and installed the software.
"One of the dental offices happened to be in Marquette," he says. "I married the office manager a few years later and took her back to Texas. We returned in 1999 via motorcoach and parked it in the back yard of her son's house. The software business was dying so I spent a year with the iEconomy startup. However, their business model evaporated with the dot-com failure. I called the department head at Northern a few times about teaching, but didn't hear back. I sat next to Andy Poe (Mathematics and Computer Science) in the Marquette Choral Society and acted with him in the boathouse play Haywire. The rest, as they say, is history. The Lord put me in the right place at the right time. That connection led to a teaching job."
Culp began as an adjunct instructor in 2001, has had term appointments in recent years and plans to apply for a continuing appointment now that he's eligible. He recalls that his mother offered to pay for him to complete his doctorate when he started teaching.
"I didn't want to give up two years of my life for the dissertation. Everything is built around that and you have to focus exclusively on that. There was too much else I wanted to do. Northern offered the best of both: I could teach, but without the pressure of having to finish my PhD. I don't do it for the money; I enjoy making a difference in students' lives. The number one objective is to help them succeed in life. The classroom is secondary. If I do the first, they'll achieve the second."
Recognizing that students in his beginning statistics classes have a hard time visualizing computations and probability distributions, Culp developed NMU Stat-Help. It gives students a variety of options for inserting values and obtaining a visual representation of the data. Culp has made his program easily accessible, with both a downloadable and a Web-based application. This effort helped him earn a faculty Technology Innovation Award in 2010-11.
Outside of work, healthy activities dominate Culp's free time. He can be seen regularly at the PEIF donning a leather weightlifting belt for strength-training sessions. He also has started running. Culp eats plenty of fresh produce or canned goods he and his wife, Gloria, harvest from their garden. Even the church where he serves as an elder nurtures the body as well as the spirit, with health-related talks and vegetarian potlucks.
"I also read a lot because I've gained a lot of knowledge that way and changed who I was. I couldn't stand to live with the person I was 15 years ago. I was nerdy and negative. Reading self-help books on thought patterns and motivation by authors like Dale Carnegie and Stephen Covey helped to fix my mindset. An old salt once said, 'If you think you can or think you can't, either way you'll be right.' I've gone out of my comfort zone and done public speaking on time management, health and attitude. The human brain responds to what we think. A can-do attitude can be seen immediately on an MRI."
Culp applies that can-do attitude to construction projects, which he describes as cathartic. He built the couple's country home southwest of the Grove Restaurant while they lived in a local apartment complex. Because the house was beyond the reach of NMU's WiMAX signal, he also dug a square hole 7-feet deep to serve as the concrete base of a telescoping ham radio tower he erected to pick up the signal through a WiMAX receiver mounted on the tower (pictured). He gets Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone service through the system as well.
"Life is a hoot right now, both personally and professionally," Culp says. "I just turned 69 and I don't plan to retire until I look out in the classroom and the students give me a blank look. I get paid to do what I enjoy and it's fun."


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The bibliographical record of early printing and publishing in Italy is highly fragmented and localised. Until comparatively recently there have been no large-scale attempts within Italy itself to record early book production on a national scale.
This situation is partly a result of the strongly regionalised and localised identities of Italy, but it also reflects the complex character of Italian book production. This from the outset has been notable both for the very large number of minor centres of printing in addition to the main cities such as Venice, Milan and Rome, as well as for the vast number of individual printers and publishers working in the leading centres. In looking for a reference for an Italian book therefore, it is always worth searching on the name of a town, of a library, of an individual printer or publisher since annals or catalogues with these as their focus may well have been produced.
The main bibliographical resources which are available are described below. For printed reference works, British Library shelfmarks are given.
16th Century Books
- Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum (London, 1958); Supplement (London, 1986) [shelfmark: RAR094.20945].
With around 16,000 entries, this is a high enough proportion of the estimated total book production in 16th-century Italy to make the British Library's collections significantly comprehensive and representative. Includes indexes of printers and publishers; (in supplement) places of printing; false and fictitious imprints. For further information on the catalogue see: A.F. Johnson, Italian Sixteenth-Century Books: the Presidential Address to the Bibliographical Society 19 March 1957, The Library, 5th series, vol. 13, no.3 (1958) [shelfmark: RAR010 (small-sized sequence)].
- Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of books in Italian printed abroad, 1501-1600, held in selected North American libraries, by Robert G Marshall (Boston, Mass., 1970) [shelfmark: RAR094.20945].
Covers the holdings of 42 libraries, including the Library of Congress, Folger Shakespeare Library, National Library of Medicine, and New York Public Library. Index of printers and publishers.
- Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600 in Cambridge libraries, by HM Adams (Cambridge, 1967) [shelfmark: RAR094.2094 CA].
Covers the University Library, college and departmental libraries. Indexes of printers and publishers; places of printing.
- Censimento delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo (EDIT16)
Since the online version went live in the spring of 2000, EDIT16 has become the leading resource for 16th-century Italian books. Contains around 50,354 entries (June 2003), estimated to rise to 80,000 when work is completed. Covers the holdings of over 1,200 libraries. Allows searching by title, author, publisher/printer, year of publication, printer's device, etc. (no keyword searching); browsing; navigational linking. Contains a partially complete authority file for the headings for authors and publishers/printers � this usefully lists the biographical/bibliographical reference sources consulted to establish the heading. Note: The first three letters of the catalogue are also available in printed form (Rome, 1985- ) [shelfmark: RAR094.20945]: it is unclear whether this form of publication will now continue.
17th Century Books
- Catalogue of seventeenth century Italian books in the British Library (London, 1986) [shelfmark: RAR094.20945].
Around 14,000 entries. Indexes of and publishers; places of printing; false and fictitious imprints; books with no place or printer or publisher.
- Italian 17th-century books in Cambridge libraries: a short-title catalogue, by RL Bruni, DW Evans (Firenze, 1997) [shelfmark: RAR094.20945 CA].
Continues the work of Adams (see above). Covers the University Library, college and departmental libraries. Nearly 6,000 entries. Indexes of titles; editors, translators, commentators; printers and publishers; places of printing; by year of publication.
- Autori italiani del '600, a cura di S Piantanida, L Diotallevi, G Livraghi (series: Libreria Vinciana)(Milano, 1948-51). [shelfmark: RAR094.20945].
A bookseller's catalogue which because of its range and detail has established itself as a permanent reference resource. Library locations are not given. Around 5,000 entries, arranged by subject (social life, history, law, economics, theatre, religion, etc.). The indexes as originally planned were never compiled; see below.
- Italian seventeenth century books: indexes of authors, titles, dates, printers and publishers - based on the Libreria Vinciana�s 'Autori italiani del '600', by RL Bruni and DW Evans (Exeter, 1984) [shelfmark: RAR094.20945].
Indexes to the Autori italiani del '600 above.
- Répertoire des ouvrages imprimés en langue italienne au XVIIe siècle conservés dans les bibliothèques de France, SP Michel, P-H Michel (Paris, 1967-84) [shelfmark: RAR094.20945 FRA].
Includes only books in the Italian language and omits the very considerable proportion of Latin books published in Italy during the century. Covers the holdings of over 50 libraries, including the Bibliothèque Nationale, and the Arsenal and Mazarine libraries.
18th Century Books
There are no major bibliographical resources dealing exclusively with 18th century Italian printed books. However, many of the works listed under General Catalogues can be used.
19th Century Books
- Catalogo dei libri italiani dell'Ottocento (1801-1900) (CLIO) (Milano, 1991) [shelfmark: HLR015.45].
Around 421,000 entries. Excludes serials, official publications, commercial catalogues, maps. Arranged in three sequences: authors, publishers and printers; places of publication. Indexes of translators, editors, illustrators, etc., places of publication by region and by city.
General Catalogues
Given the lack of comprehensive catalogues of Italian books, especially for the 18th century, in the search for bibliographical references for Italian material, it is always worth checking:
- Base Dati 'Libro Antico' of the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale).
Period covered: 1465-1830. Includes non-Italian books found in Italian libraries. 282,010 entries (June 2003). Searching by author, title, publisher/printer, place of publication, keyword, etc.; browsing; navigational linking. Note: About half the number of entries in this database (ca. 142,000) are also included on the Heritage Printed Book Database, produced by the Consortium of European Research Libraries (see below).
- National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints (NUC) [shelfmark: HLL018.3 NUC].
- Heritage Printed Book Database [available through the Electronic Resources computers in the Rare Books and Music Reading Room].
Period covered: ca. 1455-1830. Around 1,240,000 entries (June 2003), of which some 90,000 are Italian publications. Searching by author, title, subject, printer/publisher, etc. Covers holdings of 37 national and university libraries in 15 countries. For further information on contributing libraries, editorial policy, etc. see the website of the Consortium of European Research Libraries.
- Union catalogue of foreign books in British libraries, 1501-1800.
Card catalogue kept in the office of the British Library Early Printed Collections department. Some 208,000 entries (no separate figure for Italian publications).
The catalogues of the principal UK and European libraries with substantial Italian holdings and also worth consulting. These include:
- Bodleian Library pre-1920 catalogue of printed books (CD-ROM) [available through the Electronic Resources computers in the Rare Books and Music Reading Room].
- John Rylands University Library of Manchester Online Catalogue.
- Bibliothèque nationale (Paris). Catalogue général des livres imprimés 1897-1959.


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The eldest son of actor Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas was born in 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Over the years, Douglas has won four Golden Globes, and two Academy Awards as producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as Best Actor in Wall Street.
In March 1977, 32-year-old Douglas married 19-year-old Diandra Luker; Diandra filed for divorce in 1995. A few short years later, Michael was introduced to Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones by Danny DeVito at the Deauville Film Festival in France. They started dating a few months later in March 1999.
Douglas's divorce with Luker was finalized in 2000, just in time for Douglas to wed Zeta-Jones in November 2000. Both Douglas and Zeta-Jones share the same birthday though they have a 25-year age gap.
Zeta-Jones jumped on the Hollywood radar in the 1998 action film The Mask of Zorro and in the 1999 film Entrapment. Since then, she has appeared most notably in the films Traffic, America's Sweethearts, and Chicago.
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Farming is a dangerous business. And, despite a concerted effort to lessen the number of accidents, the fatalities keep coming. Susan Edmunds looks at what manufacturers and the powers that be are doing to change that.
Farm accidents are expensive, whether you count the financial cost of medical expenses, the hassle of forced time off work or the human cost of injury. But farming representatives say government plans to impose rules and regulations on agricultural practices and equipment are unrealistic. In many cases, education initiatives simply are not working.
There have been a number of safety campaigns run over recent years but they have had seemingly little effect on the number of serious and fatal agricultural injuries. The rate of on-farm fatalities remains hardly changed at roughly 20 a year over recent years.
In 2010, there were 312 serious injuries recorded in the farming sector, up 15 percent on the year before. Eighteen fatalities were reported by the Department of Labour in the industry. And, at the end of September, 12 had already been reported for 2011.
The agricultural industry is over-represented in the workplace harm statistics. Farms employ more than 114,000 people full-time. But construction, which employs about 171,000 people, only reported five deaths last year.
Federated Farmers spokesman David Rose says it's fair to question farm safety. "We are up there in the statistics." But he says it was unrealistic to aim to get the number of injuries to zero because of the nature of the industry, and the fact that accidents were, by definition, "unexpected, unintentional and unlucky".
Farmers worked whatever the weather, often alone, with unpredictable animals, machinery and vehicles, battling fatigue caused by long hours.
But the Department of Labour is taking aim at the industry again this year. A spokeswoman said the department had released a National Action Agenda, focusing on the five employment sectors where most harm was occurring, including agriculture. The action plan for the agricultural section outlined a series of actions to reduce the death and injury tolls in the sector.
Rose said while those kinds of moves were well-intentioned, most were not getting through to farmers. "Like saying you have to wear a seatbelt on a tractor – it's good to have it for when you need it but when you are going to drive for a minute, then get out to open a gate, then drive for another minute. It's not practical."
Rose says farm safety messages needed to be the kind that would prompt lasting change, and had to relate to real-life situations. "The best campaigns are ones that farmers hear the message, think 'yep, absolutely, I've been there and should have changed something'. If we can get a permanent change in the way things happen, that's good."
One of the culprits most commonly fingered in farm deaths is the ubiquitous quad bike. Several attempts have been made to bring down the number of ATV deaths but the Department of Labour admits that its quad bike safety campaigns in 2007 and 2008 made little difference to the number of injuries recorded. It was now planning to take a firmer approach, a spokeswoman said.
Between 2009 and 2010, ATV injuries declined 13 percent but the number of fatalities remained constant at five. Three had been recorded to the end of September this year.
Quad bikes are getting more powerful, which means they can tow bigger loads but also achieve higher speeds and can be harder for inexperienced drivers to handle. Honda now issues free helmets with its ATVs and supplies DVDs to new owners. It says the demand for ATV safety training has increased. And many other manufacturers like Yamaha are moving towards safer, enclosed ATVs known as Side x Sides.
The Department of Labour spokeswoman said it was running another campaign and this time it would use its enforcement powers because research had shown farmers were aware of what they could do to prevent accidents, but were not doing it. "To date we've visited more than 400 farms across the country and issued more than 120 enforcement notices."
The push is for everyone using an ATV to wear a helmet because the department says 40 percent of farm quad bike accidents investigated over recent years involved some level of head injury. Its inspectors have the power to issue warning notices to quad bike users not wearing a helmet.
But Rose said again that was impractical. "When you are relying on a helmet, the accident is already happening."
He said the focus needed to shift to prevention of accidents. A lot of the time, people were working long hours, alone, and were not able to make decisions as well as they normally would.
Federated Farmers was pushing messages about slowing down and taking time to consider decisions. Rose said: "Use the four by two rule: Take four steps back and two minutes to think about it."
Farm workers should get adequate training and farmers should make sure they knew what they were doing before they were sent out alone.
Unlike a factory environment, where a machinist could be given an induction and shown how to do their specific job, farm workers would be doing something different every day, and have to have skills across a range of areas. Rose said: "It's not as simple as saying 'here's your job, we'll get someone to show you what to do'."
Farmers should assess their workers' abilities and make sure they knew they could call for help if they needed it.
Rose said farmers were adopting safety messages where it worked in with their everyday lives. He had recently seen new statistics from ACC that showed the number of claims relating to hearing loss had dropped dramatically to about a fifth of what they were the year before. He said part of that was because the criteria had been made tougher but it was also because earmuff manufacturers were producing a product that was much easier to wear, and farmers knew they had to protect their hearing.
"People generally do wear earmuffs now, they are more practical and comfortable than they were."
One of the problems facing farmers was complacency, Rose says. "You could do something hundreds of times with no problem but the one time there is a problem, there is a serious accident."
Unlike in some other industries, there was always the potential for danger, he said. But he said it was a bit like road safety. While you could work to educate drivers to reduce the crash rate, it was inevitable that every so often, an accident would happen.
Prevention's better than a cure
Farm equipment manufacturers are putting an ever-increasing emphasis on safety, industry experts say.
Paul Stewart, events and ATV training manager for Blue Wing Honda, says employers were becoming more conscious of the need for staff to be fully trained in the use of their work tools. His company had run a safety programme over the past two decades and, while farmers were sometimes resistant to safety messages, progress was being made.
"We have, for the past 16 years or more, worked closely with Agribusiness Training, which provides training in the safe operation of tractors, four-by-fours, chemicals, chainsaws."
He says Honda pushed for all ATV purchasers to use a helmet, and subsidised a training course. More than a million helmets had been given away to buyers.
"Because it's got four wheels, and you can't fall off it, an ATV has an inherent safety feel about it. Inexperienced people get on and away they go. They don't realise it's rider active and they have to move their body weight."
He says everyone should get adequate training in the operation of ATVs, children should not be allowed to drive them, people should follow the advice on manufacturers' safety labels and always use the right gear for the job.
Stewart says Honda was fully supportive of the Department of Labour's moves to crackdown on aspects of farm safety, including the clampdown on ATVs.
Husqvarna's Daniel Chima says his company had a focus on user safety. "One of the many things the company is doing is the introduction of the trio brake on selected chainsaws."
Chain brakes are a relatively recent thing – introduced over the past 10 years or so – but this takes them a step further. Chima says with a traditional chain brake, where the user had to push a lever towards the chain with their front hand, there was a chance that they could miss and cut themselves, or not do it fast enough and get kickback.
With a trio brake, there were three ways to stop the chain: with a rear handle on the chainsaw, through inertia operating the brake when the chainsaw kicked back with a certain velocity, and with the traditional front-brake method. He said safety authorities in New Zealand were so impressed with the trio brake they wanted it to become mainstream, but the idea was patented to Husqvarna.
Chima says a chainsaw was one of the few pieces of machinery freely available for purchase with the ability to easily kill someone. Husqvarna had improved its other equipment, with cut-off switches on all mowers, mechanisms that stopped the mower's engine if someone let go of the handles, and sensors that would cut a motor if there was no weight on a ride-on mower's driver's seat. Husqvarna's ride-on mowers also required the rider to make a conscious decision to put the machine into reverse, with a key switch, to encourage the person to look behind them to double-check.
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