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Having just returned from Michael Rosen's Hackney Streets, a postmodern milieu of Hackney life past and present, it was good to see that at least Hackney theatres are permissible forums for expressed concerns about the Olympic plans. This statement is of course in light of Sinclairgate last month.
Jules Pipe, Mayor of Hackney, has said about the Council's embargo against Iain Sinclair at a recent library reading that the decision was taken because of his "recently published, largely negative comments about regeneration in the borough". He goes on to say that "the Council welcomes public discussion on such matters".
He is not interested in creating a forum for public debate, as evidenced by this knee-jerk reaction to what was perceived as a threat to the public image of regeneration in the host borough, despite the Council's full understanding that Sinclair was there to promote, and only to promote, his non-partisan book about Hackney's past.
Pipe likes to dismiss writers such as Sinclair and Rosen as part of a "keep Hackney crap mentality" to make it easier to ignore them.
Hackney Streets was not a scathing or bitter diatribe, it was a provocative piece that speaks about Olympic regeneration in a wholly non-confrontational manner, yet undoubtedly it is a piece that would have been vetoed and vetted, or most likely blacklisted altogether had it been on Council property.
"The Dalston regeneration- a dream of childless towers, of weekday workers, where there is no need for swings or slides", Hackney Streets' actors proclaim. It suggests a histrionic transformation of a once culturally and socially diverse area into a homogenous metropolis for City workers and childless couples.
The play, and much of my research on Olympic regeneration has left me thinking- in four years' time what will we have then? When the journalists and athletes are gone what will be left for us?
It seems challenging the Olympics and how it is set to affect us as London residents is not a popular, fashionable or apparently acceptable thing to do. The Olympics has essentially become a project that's scale and magnitude is well beyond our country's means and the rationale for investing so much money is a thinly veiled excuse of regeneration for all.
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Please visit Susan our wonderful hostess of this even and see her great thunderstorm shots this week, and also the other participants of OW.
Can you say orange. Orange Cosmos that is. I collected these seeds from plants two years ago and threw them in the ground this year and they, well, produced very well. I probably should have thinned them out, and placed some all around, but I was too lazy. Happy Outdoor Wednesday, thanks for stopping by.

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It's hard to believe summer is officially over with the First Day of School today here in Baton Rouge, LA. I agree with you that August 11 is way too early for summer to end! Especially this year because this year there are still three weeks left in August! The kids will be halfway through the first six weeks before September even starts! I miss the old days when the first day of school was the day after Labor Day and the last day of school was the end of May. And I miss everything about the way we did school when I was a child in the late 60's and early 70's. Thats when school was school. We looked forward to going to school each day for the sake of learning. We sat in our desk, had our own supplies, and the grades we got were the grades we earned based on how hard we worked and studied and listened in class. And if we miss behaved at school, our parents would be upset and disappointd with us, and not angry at the teachers or principal. The parents knew how important it was for their child to listen and behave at school and they put the fear of God into us before we had a chance to missbehave at school. We knew better. As a result, there were very few behavior problems at school. And if a child could not behave, they wouldn't last long at school in the old days. They would be sent home until they could learn to be good. Now fast forward to classrooms today...chaos! The teachers are spending 50% of their time and energy on discipline problems and classroom management. Yes, even in the best classrooms. What happened? I think we know what happened. It is a direct result of the breakdown of the American family. Mothers are working full time and they have important careers, Fathers are absent from the home, families are living farther away from the support of extended family, and many students are sent to school only for the free breakfast and free lunch programs. Can I fix it? No. Do I have to participate in this disaster? No. So this year I am at home on the first day of school. What do I miss about the first day of school? Bright smiling hopeful faces of parents and children, new clothes, new shoes, and school supplies. I love school supplies! I miss colored construction paper, wide-ruled notebooks, freshly sharpened pencils, school boxes, writing your name on everything, and the snapping sound of a three-ring binder. I know there are many excited children and parents today experiencing their first day of the 2014-2015 school year. I wish them all a successful and happy year of learning! Good Luck!
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The American Society for Metals has had a presence in eastern Virginia for some time. A formal request for the establishment of a Richmond Chapter ASM was made by petition to National HQ on October 28, 1957. This petition was accepted by the Board of Trustees on November 5, 1957, and an organizational meeting was held in the Reynolds Metals Company dining room on November 20, 1957. The Charter presentation was made at the April 2, 1958, National Officers Night meeting by President G. M. Young and Secretary "Bill" Eisenman.
Initial membership of the chapter was approximately 50. This increased in 1958 to 110 as Reynolds Metals Company transferred a number of its employees from Louisville. Significant membership increases also occurred as employees from the Newport News Shipbuilding Company and the Babcock and Wilcox Company (Lynchburg) joined the chapter. In 1962, membership stood at 148.
In 1963 members from Newport News Shipbuilding decided to start a chapter in the Tidewater area and 35 members were transferred from the Richmond Chapter. The name chosen was the Hampton Roads Chapter. In 1999, a request was made to ASM to merge the two Chapters again. This brought the combined membership to about 240. The new Chapter name chosen was the Eastern Virginia Chapter.
Regular meetings have been held on the second Tuesday of each month, September through May. Outstanding speakers have presented a wide variety of information about metals, ranging in subject matter from practical uses and properties to fundamental scientific. Three special meetings were an annual custom: Student-Teacher Night, Ladies Night (May) and the Chapter has each year been invited to participate in the Joint Engineers Meeting (February). In addition to its regular meetings, the chapter hosted the Southern Metals Conference in 1967 and continues to sponsor educational seminars with continuing educational credits (CEUs) and Professional Development Hours (PDHs).
Officers and members of our Chapter have been active in national affairs of ASM. They have participated in national Committee meetings, in meetings with officers of other chapters and have taught ASM courses at Materials Park. Also, members have been featured speakers at regular meetings of other chapters. The Chapter has been honored to have eight members elected to the ASM Fellow status.


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It's a beautiful sunny day, so rare in November, and it's a terrible shame that I feel too ill to fully appreciate it! I have got the cold that is going round all my friends and colleagues, the annoying thing is that after over a week of it, it just seems to be getting worse and worse. Bit of a set back, I am impatient to get on with my own training, but the slightest exertion leaves me wheezing and weak, I have lost my voice, and I feel exhausted and can't think straight. Everything is on hold until I get over it, but with Deece's final next weekend, time is running out! I did still go to the North Downs show, it is my club and I wanted to help. Luckily I was given jobs where I could sit down! It was lovely to catch up with people, well the ones that risked getting close enough to talk to LOL. Unable to run, and with the dogs unable to hear me, we didn't manage to do anything great in the competitions. Deece really enjoyed the noisy environs of the indoor school, but Zazzy got flatter with each run. Thanks to Karen for videoing this run, Deece's 4,5 jumping.
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The highest magnitude earthquake that I have felt was the 1952 7.3 Magnitude Tehachapi (Kern County). In Taft, where I lived, the Modified Mercalli Intensity was VII on the intensity scale, although it was much greater in Tehachapi.
|My ancestors, who lived in Central Kentucky,
would have experienced an Intensity level of VII during the New Madrid Quake.
|At the time of the Tehachapi Quake,
I lived in the region which is labeled with an Intensity VII
1. "Earthquake damage in Tehachapi - California Digital Library." 2008. 15 Aug. 2015 <http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3489q87b/>
2. "New Madrid Earthquakes 1811-1812 - Earthquake Hazards ..." 2009. 15 Aug. 2015 <http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1811-1812.php>
3.The New Madrid Seismic Zone. 26 Aug 2015 http://gsa.state.al.us/gsa/geologichazards/NewMadrid.htm
4. California Earthquake Map Collection, 26 Aug 2015 http://geology.com/earthquake/california.shtml


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Initial purchases have been for British Highland Infantry, Fuzzy Wuzzies with rifles, and Dervish Camelry. I'm going to be getting more British, including Camelry, Cavalry, Artillery, and Naval Machine guns, plus oodles more Dervish and Fuzzy Wuzzies over the next few months as funds allow.
First set of pictures are of the Fuzzy Wuzzy with rifles, and Dervish camelry Unit, and Black Watch unit. Comments appreciated.
|The Black Watch
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|Another shot of the Black Watch
|Beja with rifles
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This term a key priority for the department has been on creating the right environment. Displays, you see, set the tone, establish the culture, support pupil learning and celebrate success. Here is what we have been working on at the academy.
Welcome to English board
Every member of staff within the English department has a space on the Welcome to English board. Each staff member has a WeeMee. Alongside this, to support our reading culture, every member of staff has identified a book of great significance to them and explained why.
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Thursday, 27 September 2012
The greenest of men!
We had a long weekend away last week, to visit family. We also stayed one night at Ye Old Ferrie Inn, on the banks of the beautiful river Wye. it was a lovely stay, good accommodation, great food. This was the view from our window.
....it was wonderful, and one night wasn't enough, but it was all the time we had. Anyway we did a round trip of the places we love which we hadn't visited for a few years. One of the places was Tintern Abbey, a beautiful tranquil place. Whilst there we went into the studio of
The Spirit of The Green Man.
Now I have a passion for green men, I only
had two which I'd bought a few years ago. This was the first one I bought....
...I bought him from a wonderful shop in Hawes, a couple of years ago. He stands about 18" tall. he graces our patio all year round. The second one we bought in Dorset about a year ago.....
..He's a wall hanging, I bought him in his "raw" state, he was just plain terracotta. I painted him with Plaid outdoor paint and gave him a few extra touches with gold paint. But now I have two more. The first one is Orrik....
....he is a wall hanging man, and to accompany him is Bat
....they are both waiting to be hung in their places. They are just wonderful. I know there are people out there who are not keen on these types of garden decoration, but I adore them and wouldn't want anything else. BUT, I also love dragons, witches and fairies. I do have a wooden dragon chime in the garden.
I'm sure that I shall be adding to my collection again at some point. Now that autumn is here there are so many wonderful things to enjoy. I love autumn and all that it brings. But more on that another time. I have a huge pile of ironing waiting for me ( I knew I shouldn't have left it for so long) and then it's time for some autumn baking!
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ROOM FOR RENT in nice Cremorne Art deco apartment (Sydney)
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Washington Post "Style" Writer Proves to be a Partisan Hack
Writing at The Weekly Standard blog, Mary Katharine Ham notes a telling double standard at the Nation's Capital's favorite brand of fishwrap:
Washington Post Style writer Robin Givhan has a reputation for occasionally channeling her political predilections in petty fashion critiques of certain Washington actors. George Bush's hair is a "dull gray thatch," but Kerry should "gloat" over his "silver" mop, and John Edwards' mane "demands to be nuzzled."
This week, the Pulitzer-winning critic waxes predictably poetic about the be-Dockered and deck-shoed style of the Kennedys, obviously nostalgic for the "look of rich tradition" and refinement embodied by the kids from Hyannisport. She bemoans the inability of the modern American politician to wear it without apology (or, rather, the American people's alleged inability to countenance a look of easy affluence).
She wasn't nearly as nostalgic in her pettiest of attacks, in 2005's "An image a little too carefully coordinated," which took aim at John Roberts, his wife, and his two knee-high children. What was their sin, you might ask? Flip-flops at the White House? Tony Hawk t-shirts and Ninja Turtle shorts? No, their transgression was apparently trying to achieve "refinement" without being Democrats. What was the look of rich tradition on the Kennedys became "syrupy nostalgia" on Roberts' family:When President Bush announced his choice for the next associate justice of the Supreme Court, it was hard not to marvel at the 1950s-style tableau vivant that was John Roberts and his family.On the Kennedys, such fashion was a "style of dress that might best be described as both aristocratic and democratic," a mix Givhan regrets is "virtually impossible today, at least on the political stage."
But when Roberts' son Jack wore an "ensemble that calls to mind John F. "John-John" Kennedy Jr.," Givhan declared it "not classic" but "old-fashioned. These clothes are Old World, old money and a cut above the light-up/shoe-buying hoi polloi."
The verdict, on the Kennedys: "The modern fashion industry has argued that clothes can make a man look rich. Those images of the Kennedys recall the days when it was assumed that a man did that for his clothes."
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I live at 22nd and Allen. 2 cars totaled, finished basement had to be gutted, boxes of personal treasures thrown out, hot water heater damage, 10,000 in repairs, so far. Sewer drain backed up 2 days later, direct result of the storm drains pushing it up, another 2,000 to jack hammer the floor and replace pipes. Next door neighbor's hot water heater is gas and after sitting in in 3 ft of water, almost blew. We were evacuated by the fire department, clean up is overwhelming, stress is unbelievable, but ..............I am an ungrateful bastard! Mary ShimsheaThe city will complete it's survey of the storm sewer problem by 2019, and in the meantime keep two rowboats at the West End Firehouse. Those who line up at that podium should be content with the opportunity to express themselves. The notion that a city moving forward at this rate of speed can slow down to correct neighborhood problems is selfish.
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Allentown's Pesky Citizens
Ungrateful Bastards Of the West End.
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Hundreds of millions for an arena while basic needs are neglected. I know arena proponents talk about the rising tide this arena will bring…it seems to me the tide is high enough in the West End.
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California has passed a second part of a DREAM Act which will allow undocumented students on a path to citizenship to receive state-funded financial aid in 2013. The law goes into effect January 1, 2013. The first part of the Act was passed in July and allows undocumented students to receive private scholarships for colleges. Read the complete article by Michael Martinez, CNN : http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/08/us/california-dream-act/
Ama Appiah is an attorney in St. Petersburg, FL, whose practice focuses on family-based immigration, family law (with a special focus on child custody, termination of parental rights, and adoption), and appellate practice. Contact information for Ms. Appiah is: Law Office of Ama N. Appiah, P.A., 721-1st Ave. N., Ste. 101, St. Petersburg, FL 33701; Phone: 727-471-3538; Fax: 727-478-3058; E-mail: email@example.com; www.amaappiahlaw.vpweb.com. Also see "Student Contributions" below.
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This is a big help for those illegal immigrant like those students . So now they can be a US citizen .
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NUM rejects retrenchment of mineworkers
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The National Union of Mineworkers has expressed shock, disgust and sadness by Harmony Gold's intention to retrench three-thousand-and-forty mineworkers at its Doornkop operation.
Acting NUM National Spokesperson Livhuwani Mammburu said, the union has requested the Minister of Mineral Resources Ngoako Ramatlhodi to intervene immediately to stop this drastic action by the company that will leave hundreds of mineworkers in a dire situation.
Mammburu says we experiencing serious job cuts at Doornkop mine. We received section 189 from the company which was really telling us that the company intends to put Doornkop mine and the Metrological plant on maintenance that is going to affect about 3 600 jobs.
As NUM we are totally rejecting and denying the retrenchments of employees.
"We are going to challenge that, and already we wrote a letter to the Minerals and Resources department seeking its intervention", Mammburu added.


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The current #1 movie of the year
The #1 movie of each box office year has a lot of things in common with each other. It's not just the type of movie they are: it also has a lot to do with us, the consumer. For example, how quickly we see a movie and the atmosphere in which we like to see movies says a lot about our culture now.
Opening Weekend
The opening weekend has become more essential to box office numbers than ever before. Spiderman in 2002 became the first movie to make $100 million, making $114 million. After Spiderman the opening weekend record has now been broken 5 times, and there are now 22 movies that have made $100 million in their opening weekend. This year's #1 movie became the first movie to ever make $200 million in an opening weekend. All 5 movies that have broken the opening weekend record were the #1 movie of their year.
So what does that say about us, the consumer?
Instant Gratification
We now live in a time where we can get any information we want almost right away. Movies still, despite a decline in attendance, highlight this trend. We need to see things as quickly as possible, and looking at the past #1 movies of a box office year it's clear our demands need satisfaction right away.
This also applies to us. The internet provides you with quick information, such as this year's #1 movie or box office predictions for The Hobbit. You can just hop onto the internet, and you can find a site like mine that will tell you this information. Here's a question, though: why do we still see movies in theaters at all?
With our desire for instant gratification, how come most people don't run to the internet to find a pirated copy? Why do we still mostly choose to see movies in the theater?
Theater Experience
I mean we have to pay to see these things, so what do theater screens have that our computer screens don't? Another interesting question is, if we hate when people talk at the movies, why don't we stay at home where there's a guarantee of silence?
The point I'm making with these questions is that the movie theater experience has a strong appeal. Pirated movies aren't ending theater going altogether for some reason. For one the screens are bigger at a movie theater; the picture, and sound qualities are better as well. So seeing a movie in Imax which features an even larger screen, even bigger picture quality, and even better sound would definitely enhance the experience.
It's an interesting feeling when you have a great theater going experience; sometimes it is almost an out of body experience. One thing about a good experience at the movies is the crowd is silent but active at the same time. This means that the audience is reacting to what's on the screen pulling us in more instead of pulling us away. When this happens together, we join as one. We immerse ourselves into the screen and for 2 hours nothing else has our attention but whatever world we have chosen to go to.
Budget Explosion
What else do such #1 movies of the year as Avatar, The Avengers, Pirates of the Caribbean have in common? A budget of over $200 million. This compares well with our need for a theater experience because we as consumers value quality theaters and quality production values. The film's production quality amplifies the theater quality, and those two can often morph into an overall quality experience.
Art Form
Film I would say is the greatest art form of the last century, and we value the power of a good movie. When we see a great movie, it can–as I said before–create an out of body experience. We as consumers value quality over anything else because what good are good special effects without a good story?
So these factor into what the #1 movie of a box office year says about us as consumers: we value an instant quality theater experience.


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Maritime General Agency announces its newly formed business identity of Maritime Program Group, which combines three niche marine insurance underwriting facilities - Maritime General Agency, Marine MGA, and Windward Marine Underwriters - into one powerful managing general agency.
Our history dates back to the early 1990's when Maritime General Agency and Marine MGA were founded; Windward Marine Underwriters was added in 2002. Each of these related companies specialized and excelled in different aspects of marine insurance. Maritime Program Group was formed to unite these three companies and integrate their programs, services, 20+ years of expertise, and shared heritage.
Under the new name of Maritime Program Group, or MPG, the agency offers brokers unified and integrated insurance products, expert underwriting, and dedicated services that cover the entire spectrum of marine-related risks.
The consolidation solidifies Maritime Program Group as the largest program underwriter of Recreational Marine insurance in the United States. The firm is also a leading provider of Inland and Ocean marine insurance. In addition to these core strengths, MPG has added a Private Client Services division to serve the complex insurance needs of the affluent.
"The strength of MPG is more than its 20 years of experience," said Christopher Pesce, President of MPG. "It's our ability to cover every aspect of marine related risk, from the everyday yacht owner, to large commercial marine enterprises, to transportation and construction operations with inland and ocean assets. We've truly become a broker's single source solution for all marine related risk."
The firm's new website all of MPG's services, underwriting programs, risk management tools, and downloadable applications and forms into an easily accessible format for brokers. The broker services section of the website features an instant online rating tool for boat policies as well as production reports and online endorsement and policy processing functionality. Another new feature of the site "Marine Mishaps - Claim Stories" details some of the more interesting claims MPG has experienced over the years, including photos.
"Our new site is designed to educate and empower our partner brokers with the resources needed to deliver the right protection and the highest level of service to his or her clients," said Pesce.
The tag line developed to represent MPG's capabilities, Coverage in Motion, expresses the mobile nature of the risks they insure, the fluid nature of the forms that cover them, and their commitment to provide protection for every contingency and need moving forward. This tag line will be used in MPG's marketing, web content, and other materials.
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Six years ago the deadly Loma Prieta earthquake struck the Bay Area without warning, collapsing freeways, damaging the Bay Bridge and igniting San Francisco's Marina district.
Now, thanks to a grant from Pacific Bell's CalREN program, Berkeley's Seismographic Station is upgrading its seismic network to bring closer the time when Northern and Central California will have critical early warning of quakes like that.
In the case of distant quakes such as Loma Prieta, which struck near Santa Cruz Oct. 17, 1989, strong ground shaking can take from 30 seconds to more than a minute to reach the Bay Area. Early warning would give authorities a brief period in which to respond.
"If you could get 20 to 30 seconds advance warning of a dangerous shock, you could stop potentially hazardous equipment, like electrical generators," says Berkeley seismologist Lind Gee. "With 30 seconds to a minute warning you can begin to think about human response issues, like evacuation."
The $85,000 CalREN grant will subsidize installation of high-capacity communication lines linking outlying earthquake detectors with the campus, and linking the campus with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park.
Six of a planned 21 lines have been installed so far, and one detector is already connected to the Seismographic Station to feed seismic data day and night.
Gee estimates that with the new high capacity lines funneling "real-time" data from detectors directly into the station, their computers eventually will be able to analyze and spit out a preliminary magnitude and location within seconds of a quake.
Seismographic Station director Barbara Romanowicz, professor of geophysics, cautions that an early warning system would be of limited use to cities near the epicenter of a quake.
"Most of the quake sources are in the Bay Area, so warning would be short," she says.
Cities farther from the epicenter could benefit, though. San Jose and Santa Cruz, for example, could be warned of quakes at the north end of San Francisco Bay, and vice versa.
Already the Seismographic Station has developed a program called REDI, for Rapid Earthquake Data Integration, that alerts emergency preparedness agencies, power and telephone companies and transportation agencies of an earthquake as quickly as possible--typically within six to nine minutes of a temblor. Operated in cooperation with the USGS, REDI delivers information via pager after analysis at Berkeley and is made available to the public through the World Wide Web at http://www.seismo.berkeley. edu/seismo/Homepage.html.
Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the USGS are now working on an improved system that would provide warning within seconds.
"We are now at the point of developing equipment to see if it's feasible," Gee says.
Essential to this goal is quick, reliable transmission of data from the field. In Southern California the networks operated by the California Institute of Technology and the USGS were set up with high capacity lines earlier this year, thanks to a $98,000 grant from CalREN.
Berkeley's network, however, currently relies on old fashioned phone lines, plus a few microwave relays and radio links, to get the information to Berkeley.
These links can fail and block transmission of critical data, or can introduce noise or glitches.
"The new network will provide more reliable and cleaner data," Gee says. "Glitches can be mistaken for even big earthquakes, and now a lot of our analysis time is spent trying to tell the difference between glitches and real signals."
CalREN's grant will enable Berkeley to hook up 21 high resolution seismic detectors scattered around Northern and Central California to the campus via Pacific Bell's "frame relay" system.
The system has the ability to route information around damaged parts of the phone network, ensuring reliable, real time delivery. The system also can transmit 56,000 bits of information per second.
An even faster link will be built between Berkeley and the USGS to carry 1.5 million bits of data per second, allowing the Seismographic Station and the USGS to share earthquake data.
The high speed communication lines will also help seismologists collect other types of geophysical data, such as position information needed to track earth movement. The Seismographic Station operates a network of continuously recording GPS (global positioning system) receivers in northern California to monitor fault movement in cooperation with the USGS.
"Now we dial up once a day to get the data," Romanowicz says.
"With a continual connection we could do real time geodetic processing, providing complementary information to the seismological data."
Berkeley also has nearly completed an expensive program to improve its 21 seismic detectors.
Soon each will have both a state-of-the-art strong motion detector designed to record accurately during even the most violent shaking, plus detectors tuned for sensitive monitoring of smaller quakes.
The USGS also has plans to upgrade its seismic network in the near future.
"The USGS network is denser, providing a more accurate and rapid position for a quake, but with the dynamic range and accuracy of our instruments we can make a more robust estimate of a quake's magnitude and rupture characteristics," Romanowicz says.
"In that sense our networks are complementary."
CalREN (California Research and Education Network) is a $25 million program set up by Pacific Bell in 1993 to stimulate practical applications for emerging communications technologies.


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This blog about children's books is written by a high school English teacher turned stay at home mom who recently returned to teaching. It is inspired by one family's real life reading.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
A Question for You
Imagine you are going to be on an airplane for seven to eight hours. What book (or other reading material) would you bring?
Posted by Christine at Thursday, May 13, 2010
3 comments:
- Ginny Marie said...
I would bring the Robert B. Parker books I haven't read yet in the Jesse Stone series. I just found out he passed away suddenly last January. I will miss his books! (I love his Sunny Randall books, too!)
- May 13, 2010 at 8:19 PM
- Christine said...
Are those the ones with Tom Selleck in the film version or am I confused?
- May 14, 2010 at 7:58 AM
- Ginny Marie said...
No, you're right! I love Tom Selleck, too! :) Hope you are off on your vacation sight seeing right now!
- May 19, 2010 at 7:38 AM
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Yes I am stuck on summer graphics pretty much…but I really like approaching making ATC cards like just something to play with and put together…seems to make things easier for me. I really like all the lil whimsy elements in this one…like the lil crab and the pink fishy…even the kite…it is almost summer in the sunshine state 12 months a year but the reality the beach is only worth going to from April to September – that is our summer…otherwise the water is just too darn cold.
Anyway – our internet has been going in and out since last night even more so I wanted to get this out now before I no longer can get on…I promise as soon as my internet connection is more stable I will be visiting more…right now it is very frustrating getting thrown off constantly and waiting hours to get back on.
I want to THANK you all for stopping by and visiting..I so appreciate the company. This is day 9 of my double challenge month…fun fun fun.


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Sunday, 24 June 2007
Great Summer Find
I try my best to relax in the summer, spend time with my family and re-energize for the coming year. However, I just come across things that make me think about my upcoming year. I recently visited the Schultz Center and previewed a book sale. I was looking for more board books for my 4 1/2 month old little boy, when a peddler with caps on his head caught my attention. Yes, Caps For Sale! I am always looking to increase my collection of great literature for my students to "read" when they enter school and Caps for Sale is one of my favorites! Even better, the paperback book was on sale for $1.50 each. Of course, I bought a small handful, knowing they will come in handy this coming year in my Kindergarten classroom. I can already envision my little students shaking their fingers and pretending to throw their caps as they "picture read" the book. Now I can't wait for August!
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Band: The Doobie Brothers
Genre: Classic Rock
I'm kinda falling asleep right now cause I didn't have time to write this before bed, so I'm gonna draw on one of my backup songs. This is a really fun song to listen to, so I hope you like it as much as I do.
These guys name makes me laugh.
Talk to ya'll later.


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In discussing the oneness of practice and attainment, Nachmanivotich tells us about his use of a temenos, a ludic space:
The specific preparations begin when I enter the temenos, the play space. In ancient Greek thought, the temenos is a magic circle, a delimited sacred space within which special rules apply and in which extraordinary events are free to occur. My studio, or whatever space I work in, is a laboratory in which I experiment with my own consciousness. To prepare the temenos—to clear it, rearrange it, take extraneous objects out—is to clean and clear mind and body.
(Free Play, p. 75, my emphasis)
He goes on to add that in situations of live performance he treats the stage or the whole theatre as temenos.
There are those, surely, who wouldn't let philosophical discussion anywhere near a magic circle. However, if philosophy is to allow for experimentation, play without fear, then any objection to thinking within the magic circle would risk seeming picayune. On the other hand why not bring magic under the microscope? Are there words that would undo magic? Magic words?
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We've been home from Colorado for a week now and I do believe I am ready to go back real soon. There is just something about that place that makes me feel so alive. It does the same thing to Stephen. Maybe it's the fact that it's not blazing hot outside. We hiked several miles one day at a very rapid pace and you know we didn't really sweat. Yes, I was getting a great workout with out nearly passing out from heat exhaustion. I think I sweat more here just taking my kids out of the car. There's just so much to do outside there. I just love that place and so did Andie and Gray.
Another very obvious reason I love Colorado is the beauty of the mountains. It's just so quiet and peaceful. You see these amazing mountains that only God could have created with these beautiful trickling rivers and streams running beside them with ice cold fresh water. Ahhhh! Love it and miss it!


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|New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife
October 11, 2001
According to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Fish and Wildlife, the Trapper Training course originally scheduled for October 18 and 21 at Fort Dix has been moved to another location. The course will be held at Sportsmen's Center on Rt. 130 in Bordentown on Thursday, Oct. 18 from 6:30 - 9 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 21 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Successful completion of this course, which includes training with body-gripping snares, box traps and conibears, enables the participant to purchase a trapping license. Please note that individuals who already possess a trapping license, but who are not snare-certified must complete this course in order to use snares.
Any person who has not pre-registered for a trapper education course, but would like to enroll, can "walk-in" to the first session and inform the instructor. Attendance at both sessions is mandatory.
For more information, call the Division's hunter education office at 1-877-2HUNTNJ (1-877-248-6865).


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Thomson Reuters is taking on Swift and a host of other start-ups in the race to develop a central utility for Know Your Customer due diligence checking with the launch of Accelus Org ID.
When I wrote my comment to a previous announcement about the KYC registry I did not want to do the bird of ill omen to SWIFT although all planets seem aligning to put the bank cooperative
into a corner.
I will be elaborating this thought in a blog post soon to be published here on Finextra.
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Interior Design Project... Area Rugs Continues
Well after ordering a total of now 5 different rugs for our living room we are still left without one. I think we have spent as much money sending them back as it would have cost to purchase the more expensive one I wanted from the beginning that is now back ordered until December. UGH! This process has been so frustrating. So today I decided to pick the project back up again and was super excited to see that West Elm had some new choices. I sure hope this will be the one. Can you guess which one I picked?!
The ones that caught my eye...
Posted by True Event at 6:17 AM
Labels: area rugs, interior design project, living room, true event, west elm
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- Paloma said...
I think they all fit the space so well but I am going to guess number 1!
- August 19, 2010 at 3:24 PM
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I don't know about you, but for the holidays I'm doing most of my shopping online. I hate trying to find a parking spot and waiting in lines. So why not earn cash back on purchases you'll be making anyways, right? I am obsessed with Ebates; it's as simple as browsing their site for current cash back offers, following a link to where you want to shop, and earning $ on your purchases! They also have great coupon codes.
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Ismail Abdulle Sabriye who works for London based Somali TV (Universal) was arrested by the police after receiving arrest order from Hirshabeelle President's office.
Hirshabeelle Information Minster Mr Mahad Hassan Osman whom the National Union of Somali journalists talked on the phone to clarify the reason behind the detention of the journalist confirmed that Ismail was detained by the police after being accused that the journalist misinterpreted the remarks of President who held a press conference in Jowhar on Thursday, May 4 ,2017 after returning from Mogadishu.
"We condemn in the strongest possible terms all violations and arrests against journalists without due process including the case of Ismail Abdulle and we call upon Hirshabeelle regional Administrations to release him unconditionally." Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu, Secretary General of the National Union of Somali Journalists said, "We also call on all sides and regional states to respect the freedom of media f and freedom of expression which is currently still under.
National Union of Somali Journalists will closely follow up the arrest case and will definitely watch the 15 minutes long footage of Presidents' press conference on Thursday to find out more the accusations against the journalist.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Lists, self help and me
Self help books, too, I just love them. In fact in a previous life as a freelance writer I used to even write self help magazine pieces (and a lot of other items) for which people paid me actual money. Which proves I was good at it, or possibly that they were desperate for filler, well, never mind about that.
I do remember one of my high school teachers, Mrs. Butler, to be exact, saying after I handed in an essay in which you had to give instructions on doing a simple task, writing exercise, that after she read my How to Iron a Shirt, she felt like running off and trying it!
So I'm credentialed, is all I'm saying. And I totally click on those Yahoo links offering to explain to me how to get rich and thin and What My Dentist Won't Tell Me. I don't actually take any of the advice. It's just a harmless hobby.
So I thought I'd just get in on it, and count on blogistas also liking those self help deals (which includes clicking on which Austen heroine you are and what kind of dog you'd be if you were a dog, I think I'd be a terrier).
So here's my request: think about Your Tribe. Meaning what people current or past, living or dead do you resonate with? your like minded souls. And please comment to tell us your tribe, up to five people. You can say why, if you want to, not if you don't. Also, big favor: please say who you think belongs in my tribe. See? self help and mutual assistance is FUN. So please do it. I'm an old lady, so humor me so I don't run amok with my umbrella.
Also, see a great help-yourself-to-books idea from NPR, I love this:
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Five - wow that's HARD!! I would have to say Nelson Mandela for one - not just because he passed away today, but because I admire him and what he managed to go through. 2. Karen Ruane, because I love her work. 3. I would like to have someone from the Victorian era who made crazy quilts...just because we would have so much in common. 4. Ernst Haeckel - because I would love to see him draw. 5. God - for obvious reasons.ReplyDelete


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Clearly, playoff hockey is not our thing. All of the good faith we managed with our perfect regular season has been obliterated by our performance in the postseason.
Hence, our movement toward another action packed indoor sport--Arena Football! The NFL may be locked out, but that won't stop us from making money on football. Behold our very first 2011 Free AFL Pick.
Spokane Shock -6 over Tampa Bay Storm
Neither of these proud franchises are off to the start they envisioned, but thanks to an enhanced 18-game schedule, the season isn't over for either sub-.500 squad--particularly the defending champs. We like the Shock to get to .500 tonight, and to do so by more than a touchdown in the high-scoring action.
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If you dig Tom Waits (Oh Dave, you know I do...), and if you dig the Kronos Quartet (Shit yeah, I'm down with KQ...), and if you dig HBO's "The Wire" (Nigga, please!), then you'll definitely want to download an MP3 of Tom Waits and the Kronos Quartet performing "Way Down in the Hole" live in concert.
Guess what else? It's FREE... courtesy of AOL's Spinner.com. Just click here.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
A free Tom Waits download
Posted by Undercover Black Man at 11:23 AM
Labels: Free MP3s
5 comments:
- SJ said...
I heard that Steve Earle is going to be performing the theme song for season 5. Is that true?
- July 12, 2007 at 12:39 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
I believe that's right.
- July 12, 2007 at 1:39 PM
I am psyched. Feel like kicking someone's ass. Get my strut on and look for a soul to save.
- July 12, 2007 at 3:43 PM
Let's hope I don't "get rained on with my own .38"
Thanks UBM you made my day. Waiting for season five.
- July 12, 2007 at 3:45 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ A long wait, unfortunately, Bumpster. Like, early '08.
- July 12, 2007 at 3:56 PM
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The origin of this seems to be the 1921 work by the early Christian feminist, Katharine Bushnell, God's Word to Women, which is still in print.
According to an article by Pat Joyce on this site here, "Bushnell holds that the first section [of Genesis 3:16] should be translated "a snare has increased your sorrow . . ."
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She gets "snare" from the Hebrew word ARB (ARB) translated "ambush" and" liers in wait" or "in ambush" fourteen times in Joshua and Judges. [Actually, I counted twenty.][Although in fact, as far as I can see, the KJV never translates it as 'snare', see also Swanson, J. (1997), A Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains.]
The difference is between the two translations given below is only in the vowel signs.
HaRBeh, AaRBeh, "multiplying I will multiply," which is usually translated as I will greatly multiply your sorrow
HiRBah AoReB, "has-caused-to multiply a lying-in-wait." Remember that lyer-in wait can also be translated an ambush or snare.
The problem is that the first statement in the argument is simply not true, namely that "The difference is [sic] between the two translations ... is only in the vowel signs."
The first transliteration should be not 2 groups of 3 consonants: HaRBeh, AaRBeh (where, following Pat Joyce, "Upper case represents the original Hebrew letter. Lower case represents vowel signs"), but (using the same convention) 2 groups of 4 consonants: HaRBaH AaRBeH. There is a Hebrew consonant (He) at the end of each word, not a vowel point.
The reason for this is straightforward: the first word is an infinitive absolute, which combines with the imperfect of the same verb to express emphasis - "multiplying I will multiply", cf "not dying you shall die" (3:4, translated, "you shall not surely die.")
The word 'ambush', however, as Joyce acknowledges, is 3 consonants: ARB. You cannot therefore (following Joyce) derive this from a conjectural re-pointing of ARBH into AoReB ("a lying in wait", "an ambush" or "a snare"), because you still have a 'spare' He: AoReBH.
I have checked this as thoroughly as I can, but others may wish to contribute.
(The Septuagint, incidentally, follows both the Hebrew as traditionally pointed and the English translations: Πληθύνων πληθυνῶ , multiplying I will multiply.)
John Richardson
3 April 2009
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