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I caught this on CNN's website and want to pass it along to every guy and girl–preferably in high school, but college works, too.
So there are these five guys, teenagers, who go on a road trip, a weekend at one of the guy's parent's mountain cabin. It's 1982. Hot, not a cloud in the sky, John Cougar singing a little ditty about Jack & Diane drifts across the lake to the boat dock, where the guys decide to pose for a group shot.
Five years later, they returned to the lake, set up the camera on self-timer and pose again.
Now, it's 15 years later, hair starting to thin and gray, and as they admit, their shirts stay on now, as they mug for the camera.
Now, it's the summer of 2012, 30 years on, and the guys have returned to the lake for what became a tradition, a picture of five friends who've kept in touch after all these years.
I wish I would have thought of this when I was a teenager. I think of friends from high school and college who I have since lost touch, despite youthful promises that we would never.
The guys at the lake say the scheduled photo shoot probably kept them together. I suspect it also motivated a few diets and sit ups in the weeks before the trip.
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A very disappointing game for me, very generic but for those who haven't "gamed" for long may find it enjoyable.
What did you expect from a remake of a TG-16 ? LOL
Not a remake. This is a new game.
Quite entertaining for those who are not expecting too much out of a portable.
I finished the game and I liked the title, there was few cons in the game, but for me it was quite enjoable (less then a hit more than a shovelware ).
It's a remake ... I have played the original and this ... it is basically a remake, with some jazzy additions.
I did play the original as well and this is far different from that one.
well imo the game wasn't that bad & it wasn't that great too it was just OK
anyway why the (europe) version have a bigger size (1Gbit) compared to the US & J version (512Mbit) is there any difference?
Could possibly be the languages?
It's an RPG, so text is heavily influenced.
Is this a roguelike?
Remakes are gonna have differences, or what's the point of re-making them?
Ahhh. So you're telling me they have the same storyline, which I remember is not the case.
Whatever. Believe what you want.
Because they allow you to play the game on different consoles rather than sticking with the old ones that you probably have stored away, sold, broken etc. as well as allowing you to play it on the go? =S Anyway, this game's great
Does this game have multiplayer?
Yes, its can even be played online.
I'm going to choose to take that personally. I actually quite enjoyed the US release and played through the story mode twice. This is one of those rare games where "hard" mode is actually hard.
I'm sure it's not for everyone, but it is a nice hack 'n slash / dungeon crawler for the DS, and it has the best wi-fi co-op available right now for the system.
[Edit] j/k Hadrian. Maybe having "gamed" for 20 years or so isn't enough for my tastes to have evolved.


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McKinley's books were a staple for me growing up. I've lost count of how many times I read The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown. One of the first impulse book-buys I made was Spindle's End, her retelling of Sleeping Beauty. It's also my favorite Sleeping Beauty retelling ever, mostly because of her unorthodox take on the whole fairytale.
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Sensing a pattern here? A lot of my favorites growing up were by the same authors, and nobody told a story like Jones. Howl's Moving Castle. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci. The Dark Lord of Derkholm. Just to name a few. They're stories that appeal to all ages, and I love them.
3. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, by Patricia C. Wrede
These are all short, but incredibly rich and funny. I think I loved them most for the strong female characters, something I didn't see much of in high fantasy when I was a kid. Princess Cimerone was a total kick-ass princess, and not at all interested in being rescued, and for that alone, I loved her. Plus, Wrede is one of the funniest authors I've read. Total tongue-in-cheek writing.
4. The Pit Dragon Adventures, by Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen was another staple of my childhood, but I loved this trilogy best. Dragons trained to fight in the pits, and the kids that raise one on their own. Brilliant story.
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This is another set I read over and over again. The story of Meg and her family drew me in and wrapped me up in a world that I wished so much could be mine. This is one of the books that most inspired me to love magic and science and the fine line between them, because science can be magical. It also helped me see that being smart isn't a bad thing, a thought I desperately needed to hear as the kid that everyone thought was too smart.
6. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
Speaking of books that spark a love for science fiction, this one is top among them. The enemy's gate is down. Words I have never forgotten. The story of kids saving the world from an alien threat. I loved it, loved the characters. I wanted to be in Battle School with Ender and Bean, and even as an adult, I still kind of do.
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Ethan Wilde bought his first computer, an Apple II, in 1979 after taking a BASIC programming class at San Francisco's Exploratorium. The experience changed his life, and computers have been close to Ethan ever since. Now a principal at Mediatrope, an award-winning multimedia company in San Francisco, Ethan has many Macs to script, when he is not writing books and teaching about AppleScript.
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Hello readers!
Happy holidays!
I've watched this new korean drama titled "That Winter, The Wind Blows" starred by Song Hye Kyo & Zo-In Sung. aaaa Zo-In Sung is really handsome here, uber loveee♥♥♥!!
All thumbs for this korean drama, recommended! :D
So here are the movie plot :
"Oh Soo (Zo In-Sung), known as the best gambler in the Cheongdam neighborhood, lives a meaningless life. His parents dumped him at an early age and he lost his first lover. Meanwhile, Oh Young (Song Hye-Kyo) is the heir to a large corporation, but she lives a lonely existence. She lost her eyesight at an early age and her father recently passed away. Their fate soon becomes intertwined.
Oh Soo was abandoned in front of an orphanage as a baby. Later on, he lost his first lover. Now, Oh Soo works with Jin-Sung (Kim Beom), who looks up to him. Meanwhile, there's another man named Oh Soo who takes care of Oh Soo's residence and cooks for him. One day, the employee Oh Soo tells Oh Soo and Jin-Sung that his father is the CEO OF PL Company and he has a young sister named Oh Young (Song Hye-Kyo). Oh Soo and Jin-Sung doesn't take him seriously.
Oh Soo is in a relationship with actress So-Ra (Seo Hyo-Rim). She's obsessed with Oh-Soo, but he doesn't love her nearly as much. So-Ra is about to go abroad for one year for work and she's afraid Oh-Soo will leave her for another woman during this time. She concocts a scheme to frame him for embezzlement.
Meanwhile, Oh Young's father is the CEO of PL Company. She is the heir to the company, but lives a lonely existence. She is blind and separated from her mother and brother after her parents divorced when she was 6-years-old. Now her father is gravely ill. She doesn't trust anyone, especially Hye-Ji (Bae Jong-Ok), who caused her parents to divorce. One day, Oh Young receives a letter from her older brother Oh Soo. From the mailman, Oh Young learns that her brother has sent her letters regularly and her stepmother Hye-Ji has hidden those letters. Oh Young then decides to visit her brother without telling her stepmother. She takes a taxi and asks to be driven to the address written on her letter. The address turns out to be a residence hotel.
Oh Soo wakes up from the sound of his doorbell ringing. He sees a woman standing outside of his room. She tells him that she is "Oh Young," but Oh Soo doesn't recognize her. She then asks him who he is and he tells her that he is Oh Soo. Meanwhile, Oh Soo realizes that she is looking for the other Oh Soo. He tells her that her brother is at an institute and will be back by 3pm. Oh Soo then goes back to sleep. When he wakes up and checks in the lobby, he sees that the woman is still there. Oh Soo approaches her and she asks him to read the letter sent by her brother. Oh Soo now realizes that she is blind. He takes her outside of the hotel and reads the letter to her.
While reading the letter, he notices a group of guys running towards to him. Instinctively, Oh Soo gets up and runs. While Oh Soo is running away, his employee Oh Soo appears and begins to follow him. Shortly later, employee Oh Soo is fatally hit by a car. Oh Soo is then caught by the guys chasing him and Oh Young is standing nearby hailing a taxi cab. She is unaware that her older brother Oh Soo has just died in front of her. Oh Young is leaving because she just received a phone call that her father has passed away.
While Oh Soo sits in prison, So-Ra and her lawyer visits him. They explain to Oh Soo why they set him up. She tells him to spend a year in prison and then live with her in Switzerland for good. She has about 7 million dollars from the embezzlement scheme. Oh Soo tells her that he won't ever go back to her, even if he is killed by the person she swindled.
One year later, Oh Soo is now out of prison. He learns that he has no money left and that So-Ra's sponsor has hired a gangster Moo-Cheol (Kim Tae-Woo) to get back the 7 million dollars he believes Oh Soo stole. Moo-Cheol tells Oh Soo that he has to come up with the money in a 100 days or he is dead.
Oh Soo doesn't have a place to stay so he goes to the rooftop room where his employee Oh Soo lived. While standing infront of the rooftop room a man approaches Oh Soo and asks if he is Oh Soo. After confirming that he is Oh Soo, the man named Jang Sung (Kim Kyu-Cheol) identifies himself as a company attorney for PL Company and a friend of the late company president. He has been searching for Oh Soo, because his blind younger sister Oh Young is all alone. The attorney believes Oh Soo is Oh Young's older brother. Meanwhile, Oh Soo realizes this is could be the way he can repay the money."
Here are the soundtracks folder, you can download it from this link :
Here are some photos of this movie :
Well that's all for today.
You must watch this movie, worth to watch♥ ♥!!
Bye guys, have a great day!
"I, for your sake, placed a million bells. Actually, this sound is from the rustling of the frozen branches of the trees. Later, when I leave, even when you lose the bell, if the winter wind blows, the trees will always make this sound. If only you could see this now, it would have been really nice. But more than this, what I want to show you is actually you, yourself, more than anything, it would be nice if you could see yourself."
– Oh Soo (Zo-In Sung on That Winter The Wind Blows)
xx, Jennifer.


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The Bur Oak is a large majestic tree that loves plenty of space. Native to Texas the tree is able to adapt to a wide range of soils and tolerates drought. Although it is a moderate growing tree it is long-lived and gives your yard plenty of shade. The Bur Oak produces large golf-ball size acorns. The leaves are varied in shape but are a dark green leathery leaf.


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This week has been an emotional week for me. I have experienced some pain, pain that I really did not expect to occur. But you know what family? In everything that happens God is still Good!
Sometimes God will allow you to go through things. (You didn't catch that… Through… That means you are not going to stay there forever). I'm sure that I am not the only person who has been hurt before. Matter of fact, I know that this world is filled with millions of hurting people. My Bishop says that people who sin are hurt and if you can heal the hurt you will be able to minimize sin in that person's life. I asked God this morning, what is hurt? And what is its purpose… and I heard God say… "Helping U Right Through"! My God, so what you are telling me today God is that all the pain and H.U.R.T I'm going through today is actually helping me? Yes! And God is telling someone today that through your hurt there is Help! (Glory to God)
So today family, we are going to take some time and meditate on "Hurt, you helping me out!"
1 Peter 4:12-13
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.
Family, as you grow closer to God some people who you love the most will not understand. And many times God will allow that person to come against you. But the bible tells us that we should rejoice because we participate, or are partners in Christ's Suffering. So what are you telling us God? That as I suffer for you… I become your partner? WOW!
How many of you remember elementary school when you had to pick partners in gym class. And you would stand back and try to pick the person who could help you win! Some of us would be the last ones selected (the last shall be first). But today, you do not have sit and wait for God to choose you because you have already been chosen. And you have the best partner ever because with him you are guaranteed to Win in the end!
So as you partner up with Christ, some people are not going to want to be with you. God just told me, that some people may love you but the enemy, which is on the inside of them will try to do anything to keep that person from sticking around you. Because the enemy knows that if they stay a little while longer, the same God that is on the inside of you, will rest on the inside of them. So that person may be hurting you… but in actuality they are HELPING U RIGHT THROUGH!
The word tell us in 1 Peter 4:12-13, do not be surprised and do not act as if this is new, but rejoice over your hurt. I believe that there is someone right now who is reading this message and they are down in the dumps. They are so hurt that they are getting ready to pull away from God. Someone is thinking that it does not matter if I am in the perfect will of God, I will still be hurt, and so I might as well give up. You feel as if you did not sign up for this, or you thought that once you became a child of God that you would never be hurt again. But I come right now to tell you that your H.U.R.T. is helping u right through! And the hurt that you once experienced outside the will of God is different from suffering for Christ. I know this may hurt a little more, but let me tell you the difference… this time you have a Partner who will let you sit on the sidelines and fight all your battles and with him you will never lose.
I pray today that you do not give up on God, because he will never give up on you. The hurt that you are feeling is ONLY temporary (you are going Through)! The word tells us that in the end all of our hurt will be replaced with Joy, moreover, we will be OVERjoyed!
If you are hurting, remember that it's helping u right through….through to your Destiny!
Let's Pray!
Lord, first we come asking for your forgiveness for all the things we have done that is outside your will. God we come today and many of us are hurt. We are experiencing some pains in our lives that are trying to pull us away from your perfect will. But today we stand strong on your word. We tell the enemy THANK you, because the more you hurt me the closer I cleave to God! God thank you for allowing us to experience pain, because we know that it helps us to become what you have called us to be! Lord, give us the strength to have joy in the midst of our suffering. God if there is anyone reading this message today and they are not saved, we asked Lord that you give them the desire to become a part of the body of Christ. We come against the enemy who is trying to keep them from you, and we declare that God will speak to their hearts daily until they surrender their lives to him. God thank you! We Love you! Amen!
Family, I pray that you are blessed through this message. Keep Praying for me!
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Hunger, Housing, Hope, and Global Outreach Team (H3GO) News
The mission of the Hunger, Housing, Hope and Global Outreach Committee is fourfold: 1) to battle hunger in our community and around the world by volunteering and giving generously to programs that feed those with food insecurity; 2) to support efforts to get people in shelter and/or affordable housing by partnering with entities that serve the homeless; 3) to help the congregation connect with Global Outreach opportunities within the wider work of the ELCA and other organizations such as our partnership with the SAME Lutheran congregation in Tanzania; and 4) to bring hope of the gospel and love of Christ to people by tithing to our synod and giving generously to our community, praying for and reaching out to those in our neighborhood, and showering blessing upon the guests whom God brings through our doors.
Hunger Team News:
CROP Walk a Success
On Oct. 8, 2017 a record 36 walkers from First Lutheran Church raised $5,600 so far for the CROP Hunger Walk to help children and families worldwide – including here in the U.S. – to have food for today, while building for a better tomorrow. CROP Walkers, volunteers and sponsors put their caring into action, raising funds to help end hunger and poverty at home and around the world. You can still support Team First Lutheran church by going to: http://www.crophungerwalk.org/cedarrapidsia
Together we are part of the solution!
S.E.M.P. Feeds Those in Need
You're welcome to join us in our 25+ year ministry of serving meals to all those in need once a week with our Saturday Evening Meal Program (S.E.M.P.) People from many churches including our own make up our 18 different serving teams who cook and serve a hot meal to 75-150 people at 4:30 p.m. every Saturday. We haven't missed a week due to weather or holidays in 25 years!
If you'd like to volunteer, contact Vicki Hughes at firstname.lastname@example.com
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
Global Outreach
Our Global Outreach team is still forming and planning a trip to Tanzania to reconnect with our sister congregation in Same in the summer of 2018. We'll have more information for you soon! If you're interested in getting involved in Global Outreach, contact Pr. Steve Knudson at firstname.lastname@example.com
Housing Team News:
Helping the Homeless
Family Promise Close to Restart First Lutheran was recently featured in a news story by KCRG-TV9 on an update of Family Promise. You can watch the story here: http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Family-Promise-of-Linn-County-plans-to-restart-services-458675363.html
Pigs with a Purpose Raise $48k
First Lutheran members taking our pigs to market at the SE Iowa Synod Assembly. L-R: Suah Borsay, Kari Kempf, Pr. Steve, Thomas Wolle (holding the tail), Pr. Leroy, and Pr. Craig. "Pigs with a Purpose" raised $48,000 from churches all across the Southeast Iowa Synod to fight World Hunger. Our Hunger, Housing, and Hope Team contributed $1,000 of your offerings to the effort. Thank you, church!
Hope Team News:
Worshipping Behind Bars
First Lutheran Members Deb Schamberger and Pr. Craig Brown raised their voices in praise on Saturday, Feb. 3 with inmates at the first ever worship of Free Indeed, an ELCA congregation inside the walls of the Anamosa State Penitentiary. About 10 inmates attended the worship. Inmates not only prayed and sang alongside our church members but also helped lead the service reading scriptures and playing in the praise band. The newly installed Pastor Jerry Collell preached and Pastor Craig helped serve communion. Pr. Craig said, "I was incredibly humbled to worship God with such strong Christian men who are obviously living out their faith in their daily lives and trying to make their world a better place in a difficult circumstance. As I was shaking hands and chatting before service about their families and the Superbowl I felt like I was at any other church and I forgot where I was. Maybe they did too even for a brief moment. We are all Christians, freed by Christ. No prison can keep us." The plan is to encourage other church members from other churches in our synod to worship with the men on a rotating basis in the future.
God's Work Our Hands Day Thank you to the 100+ people who helped us serve our community on We picked up 85 square blocks of trash (the entire Wellington Heights Neighborhood), prayed over and sent out military devotions, baked cookies for those in need, weeded, painted, and re-built our community as a part of God's Work, Our Hands Day - the ELCA's national day of service - on Sunday, Sept. 10th. Service is a big part of our call to faith as Lutherans and we look forward to serving with you in the future!


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Got my Phantom Skull ring in the mail today and thought of the great Mr. Falk!
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I really want to get some feedback from the developers, users, lurkers, other projects and everyone on this subject. It shouldn't be a taboo to talk about or considered a "can of worms" or a "hot button." It affects the project at pretty fundamental level, so I think it would be good if we did our best to get feedback. The problem: Upgrading apps between versions of Geronimo and it's integrated projects is not currently possible without a redeploy. The facts: - Our deploy system and storage of deployed apps is serialization based. - At deploy time we build and Jetty web containers, Tomcat web containers, ActiveMQ queues/topics, OpenEJB ejb containers, Axis webservices, TranQL connectors and more - We serialize those objects which include not just what they consider to be their public APIs but also the private implementations of those APIs. The tricky part: - We, qualified in alphabetical order, ActiveMQ, Axis, Geronimo, Jetty, OpenEJB, Tomcat, TranQL, et. al. cannot change our public API *or* private Implementation of our APIs and still deserialize objects from a previous version. - Unless we (the projecst above) agree not to bug fix, optimize, refactor, repackage, or reorganize our code in a way that would break deserialization of objects created with a previous versions of our code, it will not be possible to upgrade applications leveraging these projects without a redeploy. PROJECT POLL: [ ] We will do our best to ensure the implementations of our APIs are serialization compatible to future versions of our code. [ ] We do our best to ensure our public APIs, but use of our implementations in such a way is not supported by us. USER POLL: [ ] I do not mind redeploying my applications on each upgrade of Geronimo et. al. [ ] I do not want to start from scratch on each upgrade of Geronimo et. al. -David
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One of the things that a writer needs most is the skill to transform the imaginings that tumble around in the head into something concrete, like a story so well structured that other people can understand what the words convey.. The result can be powerful in both emotional and mental terms, it can draw a reader into wanting to know more about the topic, or it can be dismissed as too tough to read or is not written well enough.
This interpretation of an idea into something solid is not of course restricted to writers. Inventors need a great deal of imagination. In their minds they conjure up an idea, whether that be how to build a bridge, or use the power of steam to drive a train, or how to enable words typed into a platform to be transmitted around the world, via space. And what of those people who imagined they could send a man to the moon. Then what of the people who transferred that concept into practicality.
It is the fortunate disposition of humans that over time evolution increased our capacity to imagine and so prove ourselves to become the most prolific animal on earth, as well as the most wonderful yet dangerous of creatures. So imagination can be used for good or for bad, depending on the interpretation.
I set myself a task. It is one you can perform.I wrote a few sentences as the opening to a story.
"The way he talked it was obvious there was not much in the top paddock. Not that it mattered for the job he was applying for. A wounded wombat could do it. Still, he was the only one who applied, which was strange, considering."
The task is to now imagine where that story can be taken. There must be a dozen, maybe even three dozen, stories that can sprout from this simple imagined scenario. SO GO FOR IT. Just write a few hundred, or a few thousand words, to complete a story. Every person would come up with a different one. Such is the power of the imagination. It is brilliant.
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Checking my photos the other day I came across one of a rainbow, almost all of it, arching over my house. Now there is supposedly some good luck in this. or is it only the pot of gold at the rainbow's end? Has anyone ever found this pot of gold? There's the rub. Who is going to say if they do? Searching for that pot of gold is really akin to what a writer does. There is that ongoing search for an event, an idea, a character, something that can be bound into a story that is not only valuable but entertaining and interesting for the viewer/reader. It does not matter whether it is a novel, a film, a TV show, a stage play. They all have the same need, to enlighten other people with their dazzling colours, their confident structure, their overarching ideas, their desire to please. So, being the eternal optimist, I intend to look at my rainbow every day and recall the dozen or more publishers who rejected the first Harry Potter book and think that maybe some day my pot of gold will arrive at my doorstep via a worldwide publisher who is a wizard at marketing my books. Watch this space! Tell me of your experiences with rainbows, pots of gold or anything else to do with creativity. Love to hear from you.
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USS Maine. Second-class battleship (originally classified as armored cruiser). The first U.S. Navy battleship —if indeed it might be termed a battleship.
Sea power had suddenly acquired a cachet it had not enjoyed since the end of the Napoleonic Wars. "Ten years ago," a young writer named Fred T. Jane remarked in October of that year, "even in England, where the navy has a peculiarly vital importance, comparatively few people had more than the barest acquaintance with the units of their fleet; in France, the next naval Power, the warships were then scarcely known to the civilian; in the United States, memories of naval actions in the [Civil] War lingered feebly." Now the industrial world had fallen prey to an "all-pervading naval mania." Such mania, of course, would naturally lead to war at some point, but Jane admitted that "we are still blindly groping when we dream of the naval warfare of to-day or to-morrow." The past was of little help. "In history, as I read it, 'strategy' so often seems to have been, at the best, only on very broad and general lines." The young observer who would go on to found the most authoritative annual guide to the world's fighting fleets ever published added that "a vague desire to get at the enemy, and beat him, without much thought to subsequent issues seems rather to have been the dominant idea. The strategical advantages would seem to have been first noted and made use of after the victory." Groping in an admitted fog of ignorance about the new navies, Jane concluded that the "naval battle of to-morrow may be a terrible thing; but there is reason to believe that it will be far less dreadful than people are so fond of imagining." The new warfare between "ironclads" might "not be very sanguinary" since it precluded the kind of bloody, close-in fighting that characterized the Age of Sail, while science and technology had yet to solve the problem of "how to hit at long range—except at target practice." Quick-firing four- to six-inch naval guns were effective since they did not have to be relaid after every discharge, and thus sighted themselves, as it were. But shells from such comparatively small guns "cannot reach a ship's vitals."
Within a year the U.S. victory over Spain began to clarify if not resolve the issues that Jane raised, while reconfirming the primacy of ironclad warfare in the Western mind. Americans had been slow to grasp the geopolitical implications of the post-1870 revolution in world naval power. For many years, evidence from the War of 1812 notwithstanding, a majority chose to believe that the vast oceans lapping the shores of North America constituted an unbridgeable moat that no foreign invader would try to cross. Not until 1883 did Congress, "tired of being embarrassed by a nonfunctional, decrepit, wooden navy," authorize funds for "our first four steel warships," three modest-size "unarmored cruisers"— Boston, Chicago, and Atlanta, together with the "dispatch boat" Dolphin.15 However, these strange, handsome vessels with their two tall brown funnels, brilliant white hulls and upper works, and high masts still rigged for sails did not reach the fleet for years. When they did, they were commonly referred to as "the White Fleet." In the meantime, young Edward L. Beach, who graduated from Annapolis in 1888 with only thirty-four other young men, discovered that his beloved service anticipated having room for no more than half that number because of a personnel system so backward and chaotic that its books carried the names of officers who had not been on active duty for years, many of whom had died or acquired criminal records. Beach's first ship was the "wooden Civil War sloop-of-war" Richmond, an "old and thoroughly rotten" vessel whose crew was frankly ashamed of the "decrepit engineering plant" and "feeble smooth bore guns." The vessel "was a laughingstock for all who observed her." The men writhed in agony every time they encountered foreign sailors who served in brand-new "modern warships built of steel, with good engines and high powered guns." The navy, "superannuated" in every way, was filled with comparatively elderly time servers who clogged the promotion ladder.
Even in the new steel and steam vessels that appeared in increasing numbers after 1890, eight to ten junior officers were crammed into tiny dark holes near the coal bunkers or in the fo'c'sle at the bow of the vessel. The crew's quarters could be only imagined. Everyone slept in curved, uncomfortable, and closely slung hammocks (which remained standard issue for enlisted men to the very eve of World War II) or on thin mattresses on the steel decks beneath easily stowed tables. The officers—who enjoyed the status of wearing pajamas—were "forced to sleep, if at all," with their garments "tied tightly about our ankles and sleeve ends about our wrists, and with the further protection of gloves, socks and head guards. The bedbug is a mighty beast." Air-conditioning was, of course, unknown, and all suffered day and night during frequent cruises to the Caribbean. "Every meal was a torment," and uniforms were ludicrously elaborate, dreadfully tight, and always hot and uncomfortable.
Captains and commanders "went by the book." Even then the strain of command or the fear occasioned by capricious orders from Washington could overwhelm the most confident skipper, leading him to bizarre behavior, nervous breakdowns, and relief from command. "The enlisted man of those days was magnificent as a fighter and a seaman," Beach recalled, "but tough and hard to control." Because naval life was so unappetizing, citizenship could never be a requirement for enlistment, and many a brawling drunk from the depths of the immigrant population found his way on board Uncle Sam's warships. The abolition of flogging in 1851, though clearly mandatory on humanitarian grounds, nonetheless made disciplining the recalcitrant exceedingly difficult. When Lieutenant George Dewey, who would later gain immortality at Manila Bay, went aboard the ancient steam-driven side-wheeler Mississippi as executive officer in 1861, "he found over a hundred men in chains between the guns and rioters in possession of part of the lower decks."
But change was on the way. When Benjamin Harrison came to the presidency in March 1889 he brought with him the dedicated imperialist Benjamin F. Tracy who proved to be a superb administrator of the Navy Department and a formidable politician who could sustain and build upon the modest momentum already generated in and beyond Congress for a modern sea service. In the late eighties legislators had loosened the purse strings further, and between the spring and late autumn of 1889 the last of the three original unprotected cruisers was joined by four larger armored sisters, three gunboats, and a bizarre "dynamite ship." One of Tracy's first acts was to create a policy board that Mahan (then completing his magnum opus) advised but could not dominate. The board submitted a report at the end of 1889 calling for the creation of two fleets—one a coastal-defense force, the other "for long range offensive action." Under Tracy's lash, the first two seagoing but coastal-defense battleships, Texas and Maine, were afloat by 1891, with a half-dozen more battleships and armored cruisers being built in national and private shipyards from New York City to San Francisco. The later battleships, starting with Iowa, were conceived and designed to fulfill the long-range offensive role. When Beach returned to sea duty in 1890, he thus found the brand-new cruiser Philadelphia to be a "splendid ship," possessing "a magnificent assemblage of modern machinery" that included triple expansion and ten thousand–horsepower engines "with wonderful air pumps, circulating pumps, condensers, [and] Marshall valve gear." Ten years later, the authoritative Jane's Fighting Ships placed the new U.S. steel navy behind only Great Britain's mammoth imperial fleet.
Great forces, some scarcely understandable to the American people themselves, were shaping these developments. The United States of America was not only the first new nation of modern times but also the only one that rested on no large indigenous population. More than nine out of ten Americans of whatever racial or cultural stock were either immigrants or at best second- or third-generation native born. A sense of nationhood thus had to be forged out of common experience, and only one such experience was available either as something personally lived or as romantically conceived—westward expansion and the frontier. The year Mahan burst on the scene, with the nation rapidly transforming into an urban-industrial giant, a young historian named Frederick Jackson Turner wrote that "our early history is the study of European germs developing in an American environment. . . . The frontier is the line of most rapid and effective Americanization." But Turner proceeded to emphasize the recent conclusions of the superintendent of the federal census. By 1890, a clear "frontier of settlement" was no more. For the first time ever, and forever more, "Americans would be forced to live within a closed space." There was only one way out of this admittedly vast continental confine, and Mahan had shown the way.
The captain's genius lay not only in showing his people the way to a seemingly endless frontier out on the world ocean and on the far distant coasts of the earth but also in stimulating their fears of continued vulnerability from predatory European nation-states. A powerful, often overlooked, element in Mahan's work was his insistence that the balance of global military and naval power in 1890 had swung decisively against the United States. There was abundant evidence to support the supposition. France coveted Central America and during the American Civil War had established a brief puppet government in Mexico under Maximilian. In 1881, Count Ferdinand-Marie de Lesseps began what would prove to be a failed effort to dig an Isthmian canal in Panama. Germany's rising interest in establishing colonies in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific was well known. Britain's enmity toward its former North American colonies had flared anew when Whitehall supported the Confederate cause for as long as it appeared promising; in their hearts Britons had never yet accepted the United States of America, and there was no reason to suggest that they ever would. Even Spain, weary and dispirited, its ancient New World empire crumbling under native insurrection, seemed able to defy the Americans with impunity. In 1873 a Spanish warship seized Virginius, almost starting a war, even though it quickly became apparent that the gunrunner was flying the American flag illegally. If Europe could so consistently and humiliatingly dismiss or ignore American hemispheric interests, where did that leave the venerable Monroe Doctrine? Finally, the United States could not even impose its will upon fractious hemispheric neighbors. As late as 1879 the U.S. fleet was so inferior to that of Chile that Washington could not intervene on behalf of friendly Peru when the two Latin countries went to war.


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Mater-need-ty Clothes.
Here is a rant for the day. I went to Target in search of a few maternity items and was shocked to see that they had done away with their Maternity section! I have to admit, I was pissed. I went to Old Navy a month back, same thing. So I'm sitting here thinking, WTF […]More


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Posted on 17.05.2011 - 14:00 EDT in ROV NEWS by Rons_ROV_Links
The exhibition spotlight falls on three key areas of expertise on the Fugro Renewables stand (E195) at All-Energy 2011, the UK's largest renewable energy exhibition and conference. The show sees the launch of a new ROV; information on the company's operation and maintenance services for all marine renewable energy infrastructure; and their marine environmental consultancy capability.
"With 35 years' experience in the marine industry, we have already proved our worth to over 50 marine renewables clients working on more than a hundred projects, and are well set to take on more challenges with cost-effective, innovative and highly relevant solutions," says Tony Hodgson, Global Business Development Manager, Fugro Renewables, established to bring together the expertise of operating companies within the Fugro Group to serve the renewables industry globally.
Tracking arrangement for work class ROVs
A design and development team, led by Jacco Huipen, Fugro's Subsea Engineering and Tooling Manager, has developed a new tracked arrangement for Fugro work class ROVs. The system was designed and manufactured at Fugro's base on Denmore Road in Aberdeen.
Fugro already operates tracked ROVs for inspection. The Rocsi system was developed in Germany a few years ago and was the company's first entry into this market. Rocsi has already seen success offshore as an inspection tracked ROV for cable burial depth and location surveys, but experience showed there was a need for a much more powerful work class system, capable of carrying a comprehensive range of heavy intervention tooling; so the tracked skid evolved, rising to this challenge. The detachable configuration fits below and expands the capability of a normal Fugro work-class ROV, such as the FCV, to make it possible to operate for more realistic periods in extreme tidal currents, like those found on many of the marine tidal sites and wind farms around the UK, and elsewhere in the world.
Jacco Huipen explains: "It was an interesting design project and one which presented the team with a few motivating challenges, such as how to steer a work class ROV in the shallow waters near a beach. The team has come up with a new and novel design which is simple to use, and which adds to the company's capabilities."
O&M plays a vital renewables role
Fugro Renewables has an enviable track record in offering operation and maintenance services to the marine community – a role its skilled and experienced teams around the world have been supplying for 35 years.
At All-Energy the focus will be on services available to the offshore wind sector, which include blade indexing access; gearbox removal and installation; transformer changes; scour protection installation and remediation; scour monitoring studies; and ROV services. Operation and maintenance are equally important to the tidal and wave device sectors, where Fugro's expertise in installation, servicing and decommissioning is highly relevant.
A lifetime of marine environmental expertise
With over a thousand marine surveys undertaken covering nearshore/landfall and offshore requirements, Fugro is one of the leaders in offshore environmental studies. It is on this firm foundation, and by acquisition of specialist companies such as ERT (Scotland) Ltd in 2010, that their Marine Environmental Consultancy work is based.
Expertise pertinent to the marine renewables sectors includes: environmental impact assessment; environmental baseline surveys; fishing interaction surveys; marine resource (interaction) studies; environmental comparative location studies; monitoring environmental effects; and environmental sensitivity studies.
"We are looking forward to two busy and stimulating days at All-Energy 2011, meeting many of our existing clients as well as making contact with those embarking on rising to the challenges of working in the often hostile world offshore," says Tony Hodgson. "Whatever stage their projects are at we are confident that they can most certainly 'count on Fugro' as our display material proudly proclaims."
Further information from Stand E195 and at www.fugro-renewables.com


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|"Near Bolderwood Hill"
Oil on canvas board, 9" x 12" painting by Frederick Golden SHORT
|Advertising Poster for John Gilkes & Sons of 146 North Street, Brighton, Sussex, ENGLAND
After Conrad H. Leigh - 'Wallpapers and Decorations' (Advertising Poster for John Gilkes & Sons of 146 North Street, Brighton), colour lithograph, approx 119cm x 79cm.
|Appreciation: SHORT, Elsie
Written by "Neighbour"
|Appreciation: SHORT, Samuel Henry
"The Late Sam SHORT"
By Mrs. E. O. CLARK, Lower Southgate.
|Australia's First - The Goolwa to Port Elliot Railway
The Governor?s plans for the railway were approved by the Colonial Office in June, 1851; the estimated coast was ?21,109. This was a considerable project, because the railway lines, the axles, wheels and turntables - everything required for the creation of a railway - even the cotton waste, had to be ordered from England. The railway lines eventually used were second-hand, having served to transport stores during the Crimean War. Recycling is not a modern concept. It was decided that the gauge for the railway would be five foot, three inches, because at that time both Victoria and New South Wales had decided on this gauge for their proposed railway.
Work commenced in 1851 at Port Elliot, but not without difficulties. Not only was there no local engineering base in South Australia, the Province was short of sawyers to produce the necessary sleepers on which the railway would be laid. The sleepers eventually used were eight-foot lengths of unhewn local eucalypts. They were about seven inches in diameter, and were grooved to accommodate the rails which were screwed to the sleepers with four-and-a-half-inch screws. There were no platelayers to be found anywhere, and so a few carpenters were engaged to supervise gangs of labourers. They were, in fact, building a tramway; the carriages were to be horse-drawn.
Most of the proposed route was through level country. It was only at the terminals that blasting was required. Here Mr Buxton Forbes Laurie, a young chemist, who had experience with explosives, came into his own. Buxton Forbes Laurie was an interesting character. He appears to have been popular every where, and even his wife adored him! Obviously a talented man, he became Superintendent of the Railway on his thirtieth birthday. The next day he was made a Justice of the Peace, and the day after that he became a Magistrate - a man of remarkable talents. He was already one of the great landowners in the district. Now his use of explosives was so successful that the resultant stone from the blasting was sufficient to ballast the entire line and the Port Elliot jetty. In the same year the foundations were laid for large storage sheds at each terminal. These buildings were completed within twelve months. The shed at Port Elliott was a handsome three storied building which remained until 1896. The railway ran to the end of the hundred yard long jetty. Unfortunately, even at the end of this jetty the water was only six feet deep, which meant the goods from the railway had to be transported by way of lighters to the ships which stood further off shore. At Goolwa the line ran at right angles to the wharf, and the trucks had to be swivelled on a turntable to run alongside vessels. From the wharf, the railway ran past the present Post Office, where the verandah served as the passenger station. The railway curved past the Corio Hotel and eventually took the track the railway still follows today, towards Middleton and Port Elliot.
The railway was never officially opened, but by May 1, 1854, the line was fully operational. Goods and passengers were accommodated in eleven wagons and one carriage. Mr Buxton Forbes Laurie had already been Superintendent of the Railway since January 1. His salary was two hundred and fifty pounds a year.
In Australia, this was the first public railway on which carriages travelled on iron rails. It was probably the first in the Southern hemisphere. Certainly Adelaide had to wait until 1865 before the Adelaide to Port Adelaide railway line was operational. The rolling stock consisted of eleven wagons and one passenger carriage. One of the elegant little carriages can be seen today near the Goolwa Post Office. One of the passengers in this vehicle described it - "A quaint, bone-shaking affair it was. A journey in that strange vehicle was an ordeal in endurance..." The writer goes on to suggest that anyone, setting out from Goolwa dressed in black, would arrive in Port Elliot looking as though they "had slept for a week in a flour mill". Apparently, on a good day, the journey from Goolwa to Port Elliot could be completed in fifty minutes.
On the completion of the Goolwa to Port Elliot railway a celebratory dinner was held on March 28, 1855. Mr Buxton Forbes Laurie was Master of Ceremonies, and Mr Nation sang a song which was much appreciated. The company drank to the health of the Governor "with every demonstration of respect."
On April 10 and 11, 1855 a violent storm damaged the breakwater and destroyed twenty yards of the rails. In May another storm tore away sixty yards of rails and undermined the breakwater. Even worse storms followed. Then the new Governor, Sir Richard McDonnell, curtailed expenditure on public works. In spite of these disasters, the Goolwa to Port Elliot railway continued to serve the district until more violent storms seriously damaged the Port Elliot Jetty and ships were wrecked. Those who had argued against Governor Young?s choice of a harbour were proved to be correct in their judgement, and Port Elliot ceased to be an ocean port in December, 1864, when the tram- line extension to Victor Harbor was completed.
|Bigraphy: Short, Gordon Herbert (1912 - 1959)
SHORT, GORDON HERBERT (1912-1959), press photographer, was born on 23 April 1912 at Petersham, Sydney, youngest of four children of Herbert George Short, a civil servant from England, and his native-born wife Lilian, n?e Greer. Gordon attended Stanmore Public School and in 1928 became a messenger in the pictorial department of the Sydney Morning Herald. Known as 'Shorty', he formally began a cadetship in 1930 and moved quickly from the duties of the darkroom into general photography. He covered the 1934 royal tour of the Duke of Gloucester, from Melbourne to Sydney. His photograph of the duke opening the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park was the largest photograph that the Herald had ever published, wrapped around the entire paper. As the 1930s advanced so did his skill.
|Biography: DOUST, David
(28th October 1836-19th January 1937)
Biography about David DOUST and his achievments in Australia.
|Biography: LAURIE, Buxton Forbes
Buxton Forbes Laurie, was one of the earliest vignerons south of Adelaide, planting his first vines in 1853. He then built a winery, Southcote, and gained his distillation license in 1863. Much of the wine was bottled and sent to England. Buxton died in 1876. His widow, Mary Laurie, continued the business and is believed to have been the first registered lady vig.
|Biography: SHORT, Hubert Edward Hassard
Hubert Edward Hassard Short (1877?1956), usually known as Hassard SHORT, was an actor, stage director, set designer and lighting designer in musical theatre who directed over 50 Broadway and West End shows between 1920 and 1953. Theatre historian Ken Bloom called him "one of Broadway's greatest directors and lighting designers", while theatre writer John Kenrick described him as a "groundbreaking director and choreographer".
|Early White Rock Settlers
The following item was published in Carillon Chimes, the journal of the Family History Group of Bathurst Inc. in December 1986.
I have tried to copy it exactly so hope I haven't introduced any typos.
|Extracts from "The SPICER FAMILY of White Rock, BATHURST 1823 - 1883" by Bruce W. THOMAS 1975
|Goulburn Post - Inquest into death (Transcript)
|History of 112 Abel Smith Street, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
William and Jane SHORT resided at 112 Abel Smith Street, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND until he (William) committed suicide by cutting his own throat on the 26 May 1906.
|HOTCHKISS/LEONARD Marriage
Contributed by John Johnston
|James SHORT - Astronomer - Searching the southern skies
Details James SHORT and his involvement with mapping over 1 million stars in the southern skies.
|Lady Juliana (aka the Lady Julian)
Was a convict ship that dispatched in 1789 from Britain to Australia. She was the first convict ship to arrive at Port Jackson in New South Wales after the First Fleet.
She is therefore sometimes considered as part of the Second Fleet and sometimes not.
The ship was 401 tons and was chartered to transport female convicts.
|At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
1778 - 1986
A Family History
To the memory of our founding mother
Mary Ann Wade
to the pioneers of her family who through
courage and conviction formed a path
for us to follow.
Former Commissioner of Railways
|Out of the Holliday Closet!
Written by Virginia Stokes and updated April 2006
This information has been written for all those members of the Holliday - Porter clan who are interested in their forebears with apologies to those receiving this who are not. Evidence strongly points to the fact that there was not one but two skeletons lurking in the Holiday- Porter rectory closet. They have now both come out! Not only did Henry Thomas Holliday have a convict ancestor but also his wife Mary Porter!
|Pirie Street Methodist Church
The Pirie Street Methodist Church, located behind the Adelaide Town Hall, was the 'cathedral church' of Methodism in the city. Built in 1850, it could seat 800 downstairs, and an additional 400 in the galleries. In 1969 Pirie Street merged with nearby Stow Congregational Church, an early step in what was to become the Uniting Church. In 1972 the church was closed and demolished to make way for the Colonel Light Centre.
|Prisoners of War in France 1804-1814
by John Tregerthen SHORT & Thomas WILLIAMS
|Richard and Paulina Short
- Written by Harold Short
|SHORT, Frederick Golden
SS Gothenburg docked at Port Adelaide wharf after her lengthening in 1873.
|Stream, New Forest
Oil on canvas board, 11" x 15" painting by Frederick Golden SHORT
|The Illegitimate Child
What is believed to have happened.
William's disappearance from the Law Lists for some years after 20 May 1803 suggests that he was either in gaol, overseas, or went off with his new daughter (and perhaps also her mother) to Hertfordshire to lay low for a while to avoid the scandal of his having an illegitimate child. The Law List was published only about 4 months after his daughter was born on 23 December 1803. So, the child would have been conceived some 9 months previously around 23 March 1803. William, then aged only about 23, might not have known the mother of Celia was "expecting" at the time he put his name down for the list published on 20 May. In other words, the "scandal" of his illegitimate child might not have hit the fan at this time.
After the passage of a few years and memories had faded somewhat, William returned to London about February 1807 with his daughter Celia from Hertfordshire and placed her in the foster care of Samuel WEBB and his wife Celia. The last mentioned two people were cited as the parents of the child, when she was baptized in London on 3 March 1807. She was then four years old. The child had been born in the town of Elstree or the village of Aldenham, Hertfordshire.
St Martin in the Fields, Westminster was where Celia Roubel KING, alias WEBB was baptised on 3 March 1807.
It is my hypothesis that Celia Roubel KING, alias WEBB, was in fact the natural child of a Miss KING and William ROUBEL and was raised by a foster parents named Samuel and Celia WEBB, who are mentioned at her 1807 baptismal ceremony. Alternatively, Celia WEBB, nee KING, could have been the natural mother of the child and had subsequently married Samuel WEBB prior to the christening. The 1871 census records the birthplace of Celia Roubel SMALL as Elstree.
Written by Rod Kennedy, Ulmarra, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
|The Spicer Family of White Rock, Bathurst - EXTRACT -
Death of Elizabeth SHORT nee Spicer
|The Spicer Family of White Rock, Bathurst - EXTRACT -
Elizabeth Spicer and Walter SHORT married
Second day, Friday 11 April - Second Middlesex Jury - Before Mr Sergeant Arabin.
809. JOHN SHORT was indicted for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of William Moores, on 12th of March, at Pinner, and stealing therein 1 watch, value 3/-; 2 shirts, value 4s; 8 shillings, 4 sovereigns, and two 5/- Bank notes, his property.
WILLIAM MOORES. I rent a little ground - my dwelling-house is in the parish of Pinner, in Middlesex. I have known the prisoner seven or eight years; he once lived servant with me, as a labourer, in my farm - he slept in my house and knew the premises well. On the 12th of March I went out at nine or ten o`clock in the morning, leaving my wife at home; I returned about eleven o`clock, or half-past, and found a pane of glass has been pushed in, which was secure when I went out; anybody by pushing it in could put their arm in and unbolt the door. I missed a watch from the head of the bed; it was worth 3/-; I missed two shirts, worth 4s; four sovereigns, and some silver from between two beds, where I kept them, and two 5/- notes; I had seen them safe the morning before; they were all covered up together. I told a constable of it and he found my watch and shirt.
FANNY GREENFIELD. My husband is a labourer, and lives at Pinner. On the 12th of March, about eleven o`clock, I saw the prisoner at Pinner, coming in a direction from Moore's house - he was coming across Mr Hill's field, and was waling quiet fast; he was about a quarter of a mile from Moores'; my landlady was with me: we made some observation about the prisoner, which he must have heard; I turned round and said, "Lord, there is Jack Short;" I knew him very well, but had not seen him about Pinner for a long while; he turned when he heard me speak, and walked briskly away.
WILLIAM CROSS. I am a constable of Aylesbury. I saw a paragraph in the New Hue and Cry on the 21st of March, stating this robbery, and that John Short was suspected. I went to the pawnbroker's to make inquiry, and found nothing; I went from there to where the prisoner had lodged for a few days that week - I had seen him near the house on the morning of that day myself, and several times in the course of that week, and while I was in the house, speaking to the landlady, the pawnbroker's boy fetched me; I went to the pawnbroker's and found the prisoner there, offering a watch in pawn: the shopman produced it in his presence, and said that he had come to pawn it; the prisoner said nothing to that - I said to him, "That is Mr Moores' watch"; he said, "No, it is not - it is my own"; I said, "Where did you get it?" he said he bought it in London; I asked him in what street; he said he did not know: I asked what number, and he did not know; I took him to my own house, stripped him, and on his person found this shirt, with the initials W.M. on it; I secured him.
WILLIAM MOORES. This is my watch, and this is my shirt; they are what I lost that day.
GUILTY - DEATH. Aged 26. Of stealing in the dwelling house, but not of breaking and entering.


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POWER generation firm Drax has pledged its commitment to its 100 staff in Oxford, saying it plans to expand its base here.
Jonathan Kini, chief executive of Drax Retail, was speaking as half-year results were announced for the Group.
Drax bought Banbury Road-based Opus Energy for £367m in January.
Mr Kini said: We have over 100 employees in Oxford that are dedicated to Opus and we stand very committed behind those.
"As we grow Opus, we look to grow opportunities across those businesses."
He added: "We have some very talented people in Oxford on our commercial and finance side and are very happy and supportive of the work they are doing for us."
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) were up £51m year-on-year, from £70m to £121m for the half year to June 30.
But acquisition costs, including the purchase of Opus, plus £65m of foreign exchange losses – the firm buys fuel in US dollars and sells energy in British pounds - sent underlying earnings per share down.
The half-year figures showed improved earnings from renewable energy, including biomass, as Drax gradually moves its business away from coal, in line with government targets to reduce carbon emissions.
In its financial statement, the firm reported integration of Opus Energy into the Drax Group was 'proceeding well' and reported 'a focus on research and innovation'.
Drax, which runs Selby power station, contributes 14,000 jobs and £1.2bn to the UK economy, according to researchers at Oxford Economics.


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The first RN aviators funded their pown training, but soo nthe Admiralty realised the potential benefit of eyes in the sky, both for recconnaisance and gunnery spotting and Naval aviation became fully endorsed by their Lordships. The First World War saw massive developments, aircraft becoming more capabl;e and then armed. The RN carried out the first strategic bombing from the air and developed fighter tactics. Additionally, aircraft at sea developed from flimsy floatplanes to being able to land and take off state of the art fighters from ships under way.
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Pallas Light Welded Mesh
Pallas Light is cost effective security solution for a wide variety of applications. The strong and sturdy mesh panels are the perfect to retrofit existing chain link fence.
Pallas Light Welded Mesh Fencing
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- Excellent for upgrading existing chain-link projects
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