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Friday, August 14, 2009
Video: Lord Ekomy Ndong "300809" [Elections in Gabon]
"300809" is the actual election day in Gabon. You know overseas they write date starting with the day, the month then the year unlike here where we starts with the month then the day (083009).
Anyways, so I thought I'll bring you that Gabonese conscious Hip Hop to update you on the upcoming Presidential elections in Gabon. The official campaign starts this Saturday. The interim President just fired all remaining Government members running for the Presidency that haven't resigned yet. There was only one left actually, Ali Ben Bongo, Defence Minister and son of the previous President who passed away months ago.
A couple violent incidents took place in a very popular spot in Libreville (Rio) where protests organized by the opposition asking for the resignation of one specific candidate, Ali Bongo from the government. The gathering was never authorized by the government so the Police was called to break out the crowds. Stones and mace were thrown and arrests were made. When the candidates (a dozen) finally showed up, they were allowed to hold their protest.
Two suspicious fires were also reported at two local markets (Mont Bouet, PK5), they are still investigating those incidents.
The campaign is going to run for about two weeks until election day and we will finally know who will be the next President of Gabon.
I'm really getting nervous about the political atmosphere in Gabon right now. I'm hoping and praying for the well-being of my family back home. This transition must happen peacefully.
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"I know sweetheart", I told her soothingly, "It was lightning and snow thunder."
It is something that doesn't occur often but once in a while when the weather has been warmer -high forties- for a few days and then a snow storm moves in with its cold front, the two differing temperatures collide. It happens in the springtime. Our piling snowstorms that keep us confined for up to three days come in March or April but most likely the end of April. There the kind that spawn stories that locals tell southerner to watch the panic looks that cross their face. Snow doesn't typically float to the ground softly like it did today or should I say the snow pellets that floated softly. We knew this little storm was coming and with a storm almost always comes the wind. It's due to continue into the night with the addition of thirty mile an hour winds. Not bad but awfully hard to keep the smokehouse lit with a wind blowing the flames out like a birthday candle.
So Kirk set up the camp stove in the garage and put two canners full of water on it to boil.
They will be poured into a large container and a side of bacon put in to soak. When most of the salt that was rubbed into it has washed off he pulls the side out and empties the water putting in fresh and soaking the side again for a while to draw the salt out. The bacons were rubbed thoroughly with curing salt and put in plastic bags to sit to cure on. A couple times a day I flipped the bags over and so they have sat waiting until Kirk was off from work again today. We would like to leave them in the salt cure a shorter period of time but it would tax me lifting the hams in and out of the water and walking up a ladder each time to hang them from the rafters while the water was changed and then in and out of the top section of the smoker.
While I'm snapping pictures before heading to the corrals Kirk is finishing up the last side of bacon.
Yum! The bacons are out but the hams are still in the smoker. Looks like the wind is starting to pick up. They had better hurry. After the bacon cools we'll slice them. Kirk has to work again tomorrow so I may do it by myself tomorrow.
This pig butchering project goes on forever. I just finished washing greasy coats and clothes and I've still the Butcher Boy saw to wash down and then Kirk will cut up the hams after they cool. Then I'll wash the saw down again.
My granddaughter is eating pudding in the kitchen and Kirk is off delivering cakes I baked for a church function tomorrow. It was pretty easy to get him to run the errand when I told him I thought the yellow slip we'd gotten in the mail was my new bread cookbook I'd ordered, one for European style artisan whole grain breads.

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Ziggy heads to the beach as the three disapproving pigs prepare for the wolf, but it's Ziggy's "outside the box" thinking that saves the day.
In fear of a visit from the Big Bad Wolf the three little pigs improve the 'security' of their, straw, stick and brick homes. Ziggy happily sleeps under the stars. The other three scornfully reject Ziggy's carefree invitation to go swimming. When the wolf blows apart all three homes, the pigs run to the beach. There, Ziggy provides a brilliant lesson in "thinking outside the box" (It's also a lesson for advocates of U.S. "Homeland Security").


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The statistics are appalling: More than 50,000 dead and 130,000 injured;
half a million left homeless; 58 villages obliterated and 250 more damaged severely.
But raw totals tell only a fragment of the story. The enormity of the Dec. 7 earthquake in Soviet Armenia can be grasped only in small increments, in images of destruction and sorrow multiplied by a thousand.


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The transmitter is probably using lead acid batteries that are not quite visible below the small "receiver" table. It is a "pre-regulations" ham station that is virtually complete, authentically reassembled and is displayed with photographs, taken in 1912, showing Dodd using his station.Most of the 1909 Station parts seen in the photo were used to construct Dodd's 1912 station (below.) This is the Wireless Station that M. Dodd's station survived intact because the new regulations (the 1912 Radio Act (Alexander Bill) that went into affect in December 14, 1912) made both Dodd and his station illegal.Also, you'll learn just how awful a person can be and, if you're attractive enough, still reel in the dates.First you'll hear Stephen Dubner interview Alli Reed, a comedy writer living in Los Angeles, who conducted an experiment of sorts on Ok Cupid: So she created a fake profile for a woman she called "Aaron Carter Fan" (Aaron Carter, for the uninitiated, is the younger brother of a Backstreet Boy.) Reed loaded her profile with despicable traits (see the whole list below) but used photos of a model friend. (For more, see Reed's article "Four Things I Learned from the Worst Online Dating Profile Ever.") Oyer hadn't thought much about online dating until he re-entered the dating scene himself after a long absence and was struck by the parallels between the dating markets and labor markets. Vogt opened up his Ok Cupid profile to let Oyer dissect and, theoretically, improve it.
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"It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea..." Edgar Allan Poe
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A teacher in Atlanta asked her students to write the words to their favorite Christmas Carols. These, as shared by Misscellania are some of the more humorous lines she received:
Deck the Halls with Buddy Holly
We three kings of porridge and tar
On the first day of Christmas my tulip gave to me
Later on we'll perspire, as we dream by the fire.
He's makin a list, chicken and rice.
Noel. Noel, Barney's the king of Israel.
With the jelly toast proclaim
Olive, the other reindeer.
Frosty the Snowman is a ferret elf, I say
Sleep in heavenly peas
In the meadow we can build a snowman, Then pretend that he is sparse and brown
You'll go down in listerine
Oh, what fun it is to ride with one horse, soap and hay
O come, froggy faithful
You'll tell Carol, "Be a skunk, I require"
Great. Now these will be stuck in my head all day.
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A top aide to state Sen. Lisa Boscola of Northampton County said yesterday he had submitted his resignation because of his profanity-laced remarks on a blog about U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent and a potential Democratic challenger.
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Frank Cornelious "Cracker" Claxton, a resident of Hood River, passed away Dec. 7, 2015, in The Dalles, Ore., with family and friends by his side. He was born Aug. 25, 1949, in Levant, Maine, to Jearold Clap Claxton and Erma Isabella Taylor. Frank is survived by his wife Janice Carol Claxton, daughter Paula Maxine Edwards and son Christopher Claxton, three grandchildren, Dylan and Shelby Edwards and Josee ReAnn Claxton, sisters Diane Boyle (husband John), Sherrie Beeman of Maine and Tanya Bosford (husband Kenny) of Hillsboro, Ore., and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Steve Claxton and Jearold, both of whom served in the military.
Frank joined the Army on Jan. 4, 1967. He went to Texas, where he met his lifelong friend, John Case, from Nebraska. The two then went to Korea for a year. When they came back to the States, John went home and Frank came to Hood River to see his sister Diane. There he met Janice. He was then stationed in Germany for six months before getting orders to go to Vietnam. There he and John Case met up once again. He was able to get a short leave and come back to Hood River to marry Janice on June 6, 1969, before returning to Vietnam. He was discharged from the United States Army, Dec. 28, 1969, at Fort Lewis, Wash.
The following spring after returning home, Frank started logging timber, running heavy equipment, learning to fall trees, driving dump trucks and paving roads, among other jobs. He told Janice not long before he passed away that his favorite job was logging timber. He also loved teasing his father-in-law, "PA," Carl Carter. He enjoyed socializing, drinking beer, playing cards, dominos, dice, listening to music, fishing, working in the garden and he loved his family. The last two years of his life, he enjoyed watching TV, Sunday football, Nascar and visiting family and friends. He also especially loved spending time with the family dog, Gibbs.
The Claxton family would like to thank Hospice of the Heart for helping during the last months of Frank's life.
A Graveside service will be held at Pine Grove Cemetery, 2687 VanHorn Drive, on Friday March 11, at 1 p.m. A reception in Frank (Cracker's) honor will follow at The Dalles Eagles Lodge from 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson's Tribute Center (Funerals • Receptions • Cremations), 1401 Belmont Avenue, Hood River, Oregon 97031.
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Reginald Nelson Lavong, 84, a radio broadcasting pioneer and station owner, 84, died Sept. 19.
Mr. Lavong was an on-air personality who went on to own WHAT-AM (1340) and was one of the first black men to be part owner of a television station. His deep love of music led him to work in the music industry before he eventually returned to radio in Philadelphia.
Affectionately and professionally known as Reggie, Mr. Lavong was born in Gainesville, Fla., in 1933. Following the death of his mother, Honey Nelson, when he was 2 years old, he was adopted by cousin Mae Lavong, who raised him in Brooklyn with her husband, Walter. Mr. Lavong would begin his long relationship with Philadelphia when he arrived to attend Temple University.
During his time at Temple, Mr. Lavong became involved with the school's station, WRTI, as an announcer. That experience led to his first broadcasting job, at a small commercial station in Vineland, N.J., while he was a junior in college.
"My father was very determined," said his son Daryl Lavong. "When he wanted to do something, he went fully into doing it."
After Temple, Mr. Lavong met and married Joyce Hightower, who passed away in 2013.
Mr. Lavong worked at radio stations geared to black audiences throughout his career, including ones in Norfolk, Va.; Wilmington; Chicago; and New York. "One of the big things he talked about was his flexibility," Daryl Lavong said of his father's career. "He did jazz and R&B, but he also did country. He did all different genres because he could adjust his voice and style to fit whatever he needed it to."
In 1964, Mr. Lavong partnered with fellow radio personality Georgie Woods to become part owners of WPHL-17 (along with Aaron Katz and Leonard Stevens), making them the first two African American men in the United States to co-own a TV station.
Around that time, Mr. Lavong became involved in the civil rights movement, and worked with leaders such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, who the Lavong family lived near when Mr. Lavong worked at New York-area radio stations. Mr. Lavong also produced his own music that complemented the civil rights movement's message with "Skin Deep," a spoken-word track backed by the Shiloh Pentecostal Choir.
"Yes I'm black/God made me this way/And beneath this skin of mine/I'm as good as any man/No matter what they say," Mr. Lavong says on the track. His son called the project Mr. Lavong's way of "using his talents to say something."
In 1969, he moved his family to California to pursue a position at Capitol Records, serving as the company's first African American executive. Mr. Lavong headed up the label's international R&B arm, and handled sales, promotion, and distribution of records in that genre from Capitol and smaller labels. Mr. Lavong continued his work in the recording industry for a number of years, first moving to Island Records in 1972 to help run the label's R&B and jazz departments, and later to Rollers Production Co., a subsidiary of MCA Records, where he was an executive vice president.
"Everything he did, he did it because he wanted people to know, 'Hey, you can achieve these things,'" Daryl Lavong said. "There are people that looked at him and said, 'If he can do it, I can do it.'"
In 1976, Mr. Lavong returned to Philadelphia to purchase WHAT with partner and current Mann Center board member Miller Parker. With that purchase, Mr. Lavong established the first all African American talk-radio station, and included personalities such as Woods, Reggie Bryant, and Mary Mason in the station's roster.
As Daryl Lavong explained, his father saw purchasing WHAT as an opportunity to "get to the next level," rather than simply "being first."
"He wanted to challenge himself in whatever he did," the son said. "He wanted to do more, and we wanted to get more, and he took the opportunities when he saw them."
Another opportunity came in 1989, when Mr. Lavong sold WHAT to former WDAS general manager Cody Anderson. The station maintained its African American talk-radio format until 2007, when Anderson sold the company to Marconi Broadcasting. Formerly known as "the Voice of the African American Community," the station now has a Spanish-language focus.
In addition to his work in radio and music, Mr. Lavong owned several local companies outside the information industry, including a small candy store and a taxi and limousine service. After he sold WHAT, Mr. Lavong turned his attention to another career: He became a stockbroker.
He studied for and passed the Series 7 Exam, then landed a job at Shearson Lehman Bros., where he worked for a number of years out of Philadelphia.
"Those types of things were the challenges that he took," Daryl Lavong said. "He was a man who wanted to be seen as equal, and wanted to be looked at as someone who was just a talented person who performed whatever he did to the best of his ability. He may have had to go around the block, but nothing ever stopped him from doing what he wanted to do."
Services were held this week at St. Helena Church in Blue Bell. Mr. Lavong is survived by his four children — Reggie, Daryl, April, and Jocelyn — seven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.


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Susan Beth Pfeffer's The Dead and the Gone
The second book in Pfeffer's disaster trilogy is, in some ways, even grimmer than the first. It starts off slowly, since readers of the first one are familiar with the moon-related chaos, but things pick up soon enough as we watch main character Alex struggle to keep his two younger sisters and himself alive when their parents don't return. Devout Catholics, they're helped along by the Church, but even the Church's resources can't save everyone. I find the portrayal of religion in these books interesting; the only church figure in the first book is a total asshole of an evangelical, but the Catholic authorities in this one are pretty cool and their faith is something that helps sustain the characters. Anyway, like I said, these books are grim; I had to take frequent breaks to watch cartoons or play bejeweled. Which, frankly, speaks to the power of the story. And my own sheltered life. A.


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Time, many know, is a precious gift that many say to use wisely. so volunteering your time to help the children of the future seemed more than time well spent by a local man at the Boys and Girls Club in Chicopee.
What started as a weekly business meeting turned into sentimental time for Bert Gardner.
After helping with the architecture and building aspect of the Boys and Girls Club's new gym years ago, being around the kids sparked something new for him.
"I never had a club in the town I grew up in, so I wasn't quite familiar with the Boys and Girls Club. but through that process, I saw a lot and the impact and what they do here, so at the end of the job, the executive director asked if I would join the board. It was easy," Gardner explained.
It was easy for Gardner to commit to a selfless act and continue doing so for almost a decade
"I believe if you say yes, you're agreeing to do something, you have to do it just like it was a career you were doing," Gardner explained.
It's that commitment level that has the Boys and Girls Club of Chicopee more than happy to have Gardner on their team and these children an exceptional role model.
"Bert's been able to spend time in the club with the kids, not just board meetings or coming to a committee meeting and Bert's an architect. He's spent time with our Youth of the Year, who plans on going to college to be an architect, so he's been to connect with members on different levels, but a lot around what he's passionate about, and it's great for kids to be able to find positive role models like Bert that help the kids realize their dreams can become e a reality," said Jason Reed with the Boys and Girls Club.
As a board board member, Reed said that Gardner is the level of volunteer that sets the bar at an all time high.
"Bert's the epitome of what we expect our board members to be. He's an advocate for the organization. He's an ambassador, goes into the community for us and helps make sure the staff can deliver on our mission to help the kids and we do," Reed added.
It's a mission Gardner said he sees carried out by all the volunteers at the club.
The Boys and Girls Club has a staff dedicated to the future success of local kids and it's one staff that Gardner couldn't be happier to support.
"The relationship they have with the people here that work with them and care about them, makes a difference," Gardner explained.
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Currently developing a 110-page multisite for a Danish political party and have a few questions that I was wondering if you could help me out with:
Firstly, I want to generate a pagelist like this:
- Bloguniverse (custom page type) - *Page in pagelist 1 - *Page in pagelist 2 - Blog (Simply Blog page type) - Blog entry 1 with sidebar of two pagelists that display: Pages with * & Latest 3 blog entries - Blog entry 2 with same sidebar
And I want it to happen without needing an editor to mess with the pagelists. For this to work, I need to develop one (or two) custom templates, right? That are hardcoded to traverse up the tree (find parents' parent) and find all children or something like that. Am I on the right track?
Also, to make this more efficient (both resource & UX-wise), shouldn't I implement them as section-wide pages, as described here:http://concrete5tricks.com/blog/sectionwide-areas/?... There are other places where section-wide areas make sense. Or maybe global areas if I make more page types/templates - so instead of a page type called "person" I'd have one for each "person type" (Senator, Rep, etc.) with same layout, but a global area as a sidebar. I assume I just have to pick a solution and stay with it, but off-hand I see more benefits of implementing section-wide areas. Do you agree?
On that note, I'm having difficulties adding a new page template in 5.7 - I make a page_template_name.php file in Elemental, but it doesn't show up under Elementals "Page Templates" under "Themes". It works flawlessly on my 5.8 beta though, so I don't know if there's a different thing I should be doing it in 5.7, it seems like a trivial thing, but I get no error message, and I seem to be doing everything right, so I'm stumped. Any ideas?
Thank you all in advance!
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2. Both solutions are good. Which is better depends, what do you want to put in that global/section-wide area.
If you have to create pages for multiple senators/reps and every senator/rep has different content I would go for those "secion-wide areas" (for example: every senator has it's own portrait photo on his personal pages)
Global areas would be ok, if there was only one senator/one rep etc. or every senator/rep has the same content in global area (for example: logo of party/recent site-wide news etc.).
For those examples I assumed every senator's page would have child pages like "Gallery", "About" or similar.
3. Are you trying to modify core elemental theme or one from marketplace?
1. Perfect, just wanted to make sure I was on the right track. I've modified my description of it, I know it wasn't that great, but I think I know how to accomplish what I want to now, so thanks!
2. Yes, I think section-wide areas might be good. I'm in doubt about one thing though - so say I want the same section-wide sidebar for 10 "senators", with the same lists - except a CSS .class change that highlights current page. I assume since the section-wide sidebar runs the same view.php-file, the "current" page changes as well. Instead of asking you, I should try that out. I'm gonna go do that.
3. Yes, core Elemental theme - just for now, to test it out, while we're working on a c5-theme from scratch. HTML/CSS/JS is almost finished and we're converting it to a custom theme next week. When I modify 5.8 core Elemental theme, it shows up in 'Page Templates' instantly.
Thanks again!
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3. I have never used concrete5 core theme, because I made my own basic/reusable theme. But I think I read somewhere on forums, that core template have some quirks/problems (like you need to create another template file in core folder (which of course is bad idea). But don't trust me on that for 100%.
3. I tried making a basic theme and that fixed things, so you were right about it being a stock theme problem - thanks!


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Pictured is the Walter O. Salmon house, designed by Walter Burley Griffin and built in 1912. On Saturday WRBN members were treated to a private tour of the home. (To view more Griffin homes, click here.) We all had a great time seeing the Garlows in Chatham, visiting the Ridge Historical Society and chowing down at Top Notch Beef Burger in Beverly.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
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First and foremost, may Trayvon Martin rest in Peace, and God Bless his family, friends, and loved ones through these trying times.
This is an "emergency blog" in the aftermath of the Zimmerman, Martin trial. There are so many mixed views on what happened that day between these two individuals. The most honest opinion expressed is that "nobody knows what happened between Zimmerman and Trayvon except those two men and God."
This should be a lesson to the African American community that we need to be more conscious of our decisions and raising our youth. Although it's very unfortunate the Death of Trayvon Martin, there are countless murders within the Black Community where young Black Men and Women are also killing other Black Men and Women. These unfortunate murders in the Black Community are not as often televised, and many of these murders have been unsolved! Is this an issue that we should protest as well? Should we protest against our own communities? Or should we be more conscious of how we raise our sons and daughters? Something to think about.
We all know that the Black Community is strong, powerful, rich, and talented. However, there is a percentage of the young Black Community that is often unfortunately stereotyped because of our dominant, sometimes violent history that you hear about in the media and on the radio. Unfortunately, the lyrical content in rap music still doesn't help get rid of the stereotypes placed upon young black men. Maybe Zimmerman listen to rap music or watched Menace to Society a few times too many. Something else to think about.
Point being, the Black Community should not only mourn the senseless death of Trayvon Martin, but also mourn all the young family, friends, and loved ones that you have lost just within the last 5 years. Let's be more conscious of how we raise our sons and daughters before it's too late. It's already been proven that there are limited options for the young Black Youth throughout the United States, and they will forever be faced with opposition.
There is always a way to rise above young men and women. Be respectful to everyone no matter what race, standard of living, or neighborhood they're from. Respect will go a long ways, and this should be the moral to the Trayvon and Zimmerman story. R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Trayvon should have respected Mr. Zimmerman, and Mr Zimmerman should have Respected Mr. Trayvon Martin. Case Closed.
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Melissa King, the former Miss Delaware and one-off pornography actress, hit the town Thursday night dressed in the devil number pictured above. It's safe to assume she was headed for a Halloween costume party, although it wouldn't be an enormous shocker if she has simply embraced the role of campus villain, and dresses the part to appease the University of Arkansas community.
It's hard to say she didn't wear it well, though.
According to a tipster, and corroborated by numerous references to the incident on Twitter, King was involved in a little scuffle with another female Thursday night. The other girl threw a drink in King's face, badly burning her eyes, for reasons unknown. According to a tweet by King early Friday morning, however, she seems to think it was simply because of who she is.
If you want someone to throw a drink on you just BECAUSE YOU'RE MELISSA KING, come talk to me…..
— Melissa King (@Melissa_M_King) October 25, 2013
King responded by smashing a beer bottle over the head of the girl who threw a drink in her face. Per other sources very close to the altercation, multiple other girls then approached and surrounded Melissa King, threatening her while holding empty beer bottles. It is unknown at this time how the incident concluded.
I reached out to King to provide her the opportunity to share her side of the story, but per her attorney's wishes, she is withholding comment.
"I just talked to my lawyer. I'm advised to not respond about it, sorry."
Information is limited at this time, but I will fill in details as they become available.
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How Krone is running its own race
Not even the triple threat of a 'hard Brexit', rising raw material prices and a federal election can cloud Bernard Krone's optimistic take on the future of German trailer manufacturing.
Until recently, the consensus view among economists was that Donald Trump's economic stimulus package would help the US outstrip the rest of the developed world in 2017 – regardless of his controversial social media antics. But the 'Trump bump' has so far proved surprisingly feeble. Instead, the economic story of the year has been the slow and steady revival of the Eurozone.
According to Peter Praet, Chief Economist at the European Central Bank, economic growth in the single currency area was more than twice as fast in the first quarter of 2017 than in the US and has "shown a remarkable resilience" to external shocks – prompting experts to raise the continent's growth forecast from 1.4 per cent last summer to more than 1.7 per cent in June.
Regardless of whether the recovery is just a pleasant blip, as the Financial Times cautioned, or more deeply rooted and self-sustaining, one company that has seemingly anticipated the signs of the time is German OEM, KRONE Commercial Vehicle SE.
Unfazed by political turf wars in the UK and neighbouring France – and with a refreshingly indifferent attitude towards the competition – the company has set its own pace for much of 2016-17 and is now benefitting from a finely balanced product portfolio, future-proof processes and a strong project pipeline.
Leading the business is 39-year-old Bernard Krone, who took the reins from his father, also named Bernard, in 2010 when he was only 33 years of age. Inspired by the hands-on family motto – while many wait for the times to change, Krone takes action – he set a complex corporate evolution process in motion that not only ensured Krone's survival in the aftermath of the GFC, but also helped the company's ailing trailer manufacturing division bounce back in record time.
As such, finding Krone in a strong position while many businesses are still trying to predict just where European manufacturing is headed doesn't come as a big surprise, he told Global Trailer magazine.
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Men wear skirts, people love to chew betel leaves, whistling to call beer are a few in many interesting facts you probably didn't know about Myanmar.
Celebrate New Year with Water Festival in April
Burmese people often hold the Water Festival to greet the New Year's Eve in mid-April every year. New Year Festival is called "Thingyan" by local people. Similar to other neighboring countries like Thailand and Cambodia, in the festival, people also splash water on each other with the hope of washing away all the unlucky things and wishing a happy new year.
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With coastline stretching more than 2,000km and has not been exploited too much, the beaches in Myanmar still preserve its pristine beauty. Traveling to Myanmar in summer, maybe there is nothing more comfortable than relax at one of the charming beaches in Bengal Bay.
One of the most wonderful beaches in Burma must be mentioned is Ngapali Beach, just 45-minute drive from Yangon. Here you will find many resorts with high quality services and facilities to take a rest after a long day exploring the city. In addition to swimming, walking, admiring the natural beauty, visitors can also take part in a lot of exciting activities such as visiting fishing villages, exploring countryside areas by bicycle, taking a boat tour to the off-coast islands or playing beach sports like volleyball, golf and so on.
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I know, I'm lame. I have no clue about dating etiquette. Hence why I'm always asking other people. Maybe guys have the wrong impression of me as I do KT (but hopefully it's not as severe :-S).
Waiting for the door bell
KT missed some manners because he never gave me an idea of when he thought he would arrive at my place. I assumed we were aiming for 7pm if all went well for him at work. I scurried around to tidy up my place a bit. I purposely left some random piles of stuff because I wanted him to see how I normally live - i.e. cluttered. Unfortunately, that also meant I discovered an unwelcome pile of tiny black dots in my extra bedroom. It freaks me out because it means I have pests of some kind... probably termites. :(( Yech!
As the time passed, I didn't know what to do with myself. I put on some music and went upstairs to fold the laundry that had been sitting on the floor since Monday. When I noticed it was 7:20pm I began to wonder why he had't at least called to tell me he was running late. At 7:30pm, I tried calling his cell phone but without even one ring it immediately directed me to voicemail. I hung up without leaving a message and remember thinking "his seminar couldn't run this late?"
I was getting cold and sad, not a good combination. I wanted to nap on the couch but knew feeling groggy wouldn't be a good way to answer the door. The clock read 7:50pm and I was feeling very upset. I couldn't help think that maybe I'd been stood up. At what point do I drive myself to the theatre? But I also know he's not that type of person. Still it was very frustrating to be able to do nothing. This time when I called and got his voicemail, I left a message. "Hi, I know you said your seminar might run a little late. Give me a call as soon as you can and let me know where you are." I felt totally dejected.
Finally, a little after 8pm, the door bell rang. There he was, new hair cut and all, wearing his waterproof jacket. He was wearing a blue, vertical striped shirt with a black t-shirt just peeking out over an upper button. His bottom half was black with a noticeable rectangle, silver buckle. He immediately apologized and said that his phone wasn't working. He was worried that perhaps he forgot to pay the bill and they'd disconnected his service. I invited him to come inside.
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Sushi Dinner
KT was still fumbling with his phone as we parked at the restaurant. Since his phone hadn't been working for several hours he was concerned his parents or someone else would be concerned. They had driven down to Sdo to visit his younger brother. He turned his phone off and on to get it to work again.
After being seated, he looked a bit anxious. He then apologized and said he needed to make one quick call to his brother to check that his parents had arrived safely. I browsed the sushi menu to keep myself busy and not appear too nosy. Basically, he said his to his brother and asked if his parents made it to his place. Then his brother must have asked if he wanted to talk to the parents. KT hesitated and then said, "sure, put them on."
At first, KT, I presume, was speaking in Fuj because it sounded totally different that anything I had heard. I wish he had spoken longer because I liked the sounds and was very intrigued by it. The small bit I heard seemed like pleasant beeps if that makes any sense. Then there was a switch to Mandarin. He said "hao" a couple times and then some English "I'll take care of that" and "okay" before hanging up.
He quickly explained that the first person he spoke to was Dad. His dad was all excited about the 6-cylinder car rental they had been given. KT showed that same expression adult kids all have when we know we have to let our parents talk even though it's not really something we need to listen to but we want them to be happy. :)
We were careful not to order too much. We've always had a large amount of leftovers from dinner. I told KT that I'd rather undereat than overorder, especially since we were going dancing, and he was in agreement. I learned that he does not like unagi (more for me ;)). So we ordered a nigiri sampler and some extra hamachi and maguro nigiri.
The conversation seemed a little winded. Somehow it just didn't feel so intimate this time. Plus, every so often he make some wincing faces. When I asked what was wrong, he paused, searching for the appropriate words, and vaguely expressed that he might be feeling some discomfort. (Obviously, he learned from last week to limit the level of detail. ;))He reasoned that being a doctor you can pick up some strange things from your patients. My mind experienced a large "UGH" and I just couldn't help think this relationship is jinxed.
We covered some fairly esoteric and dry topics (to the average person). We started talking about pharmaceutical sales reps and the perks he used to get from them. The industry has been forced to change many of their practices the past few years. (You know he never really asks me about my work.) And then in talking about his HMO, KT mentioned the formulary policies and how they don't always encourage the use of the most effective drug versus the most cost-efficient drug, an example being Allegra or Zyrtec versus Claritin. When Claritin became an over-the-counter medication, the physicians were directed to move allergy prescriptions to this to reduce costs even though many felt it was not very effective. Then, once Allegra became generic, they were all told to move patients to this drug because it was better than Claritin. I started bringing up how it will be interesting to see his organization's reaction to when blockbuster drugs like Zoloft and Plavix lose patent protection in the coming years. Yeah, okay, I know, say what? ;)
He was a trooper and ate dinner. I couldn't help point out that he would take his nigiri apart, eating the rice first and then the fish slice. When I asked him about it, he said that he was afraid of it falling apart if he tried to take a bit of it together. (Was he trying to not look sloppy in front of me?) At the end, I asked him how he was feeling, and he thought maybe his stomach just needed a little food.
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The clock read 9:10pm (the show started around 9pm), so we asked for the bill. KT pulled out his wallet and produced a $20. I looked over and asked, "you got it?" He nodded and then pulled out a few $1 bills to cover the tip. He seemed very surprised and proud to have the exact change for the evening.
Going to the Theatre
On the drive up to RWC, we chatted about friends. I was telling KT that I might be doing a little swing dancing to 80s music with my friend. He said something like, "sure, go for it," as if I was asking for permission to dance with another man. We talked a little about hiking and he was telling me about the places where he liked to go when he was in med school. I then asked if he liked to go camping. He said while his friends have talked about, they've never gone.
That kind of gave me the opportunity to ask something that I've always forgotten. I was curious to know who his friends are. He said there are people from residency. His church group is nice but younger crowd. He also has friends from high school, but most of them are married. He had some good friends in college but he commented that they kind of went their own ways with their studies and lost touch.
He talked about one friend in particular who is very social. One night he'll go play board games (I think) with the Catholic group. KT made some comment about how his friend says that board games are for the Christian right because it's the only wholesome thing to do. The following night, this guy will go out and party and drink heavily. This seemed amusing to KT. I'm not sure if he felt caught somewhere in between about how to be social, how to be cool. I made it pretty clear that I thought playing board games is fine because that's what me and my friends like to do.
Somehow we got on the topic of my friends. I mentioned an interesting fact that even though many of my friends also went to EB, we didn't know each other from school. He thought that was interesting. In fact, I met most of my current close friends from one "seed" - my good friend from high school roomming with a Kata. Amazing how things happen like that.
As we approached the main street area, KT asked me if I've ever gone to karaoke.
"Sure, you me those little booths you can rent for the evening? My friend is Korean and she's taken me a few times when I visited LA. There's some in Clar right?" (Gosh I babble too long don't I?)
"Yeah, there's that. There's also a Chinese one that opened in Teo. Do you like singing?"
"Oh yeah," I confessed, "I'm one of those people you'll see driving along singing to the music."
"Ah, then we really need to take you out for some karaoke." (Aww, is he thinking about where to take me for a future date? ;))
And I had to keep going for some silly reason, "yeah, I also have Karaoke Revolution for PS2." (Come on, ask HIM a question will you?)
We parked pretty easily in a lot across the way from the theatre. There's some major construction going on in the local downtown. It's clear the city is trying to revitalize the sleepy little mainstreet. It should be a nice place to hang out when it's all done. It's must have been around 9:30pm as we walked toward the theatre.
As we came around one corner, the people walking towards us seemed familiar to me. Half the group I expected to see on the dance floor was leaving? TJ was the first to notice me and say "hey." As if everyone else had been in soft focus, I suddenly recognized their faces - Ig, Em, Ma, and Wand. I told TJ how disappointed I was that we wouldn't get to dance! They told us how they couldn't get tickets for the show and were headed over to TJ's to hang out. Ma then extended his hand out and introduced himself to KT. I felt bad about missing that one. I followed up by introducing him to the rest of the people in the group. I asked Ma about the new house and he commented how they're still cleaning up the water in the garage. (I can't help wonder how curious TJ was to know who I was with. We don't talk to often anymore, so I'm sure it was news to him. :))
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Sunday morning is in full swing at my home. It seems like the kids are everywhere! Everyone is having a relaxing morning.
Not much in our plans for the day . . . Praise the Lord!
The winds have died down a bit, so maybe we will spend a bit of time outside. I hope to get some wonderful family pictures today and tomorrow.
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What we did Thursday was slaughtering. What we did yesterday was butchering. What we did last night was eat slow cooked barbeque ribs with slaw and fries. Mmmmm.
Which got me to thinking, what would I compare that meal to? The bought out meal? How much do decent ribs cost in the store? How about factoryfarm-free ribs at the healthier-than-thou store? None of those really compare, not really.
They certainly do not compare in more than one or two aspects at most, and there are literally thousands of aspects to it all. Sort of like phytochemicals in broccoli. Like simple organisms in healthy, more organic than organic, alive soil – understand as much of it as can be understood and it is but a fraction of what is really going on there.
So then I was milking the cow and I was wondering if she is pregnant or not. It is ridiculous not to know now just six weeks or so before she is due, but I have no other cows to compare her to. I think she looks pregnant. I remember that it seemed obvious when we bought her that she was pregnant and we bought her about a month before she calved. But now I see her every day, I tuck myself in behind her abdomen, head resting on her flank to milk, twice a day, every day. And once, when I was a little girl, I got a pony and we fed her too much and she got so fat we thought she was pregnant. There is a photograph of me in little red rubber boots kneeling in the snow trying to listen for a second heartbeat of a foal with a stethoscope – the family's best friend was a doctor and she had listened before me. I must have been four. Maybe five. Probably four. She wasn't pregnant, just fat.
Anyway, I don't have anything to compare that cow to. So I doubt and wonder and question even as I think, yeah, I'm pretty sure she's pregnant.
While we were scraping that pig, I looked at my hands. The fingers were bright red and swollen from the hot water and cold wind and work of pulling out the bristles. And I thought of my mother's hands, and I thought about what it is that we consider beautiful. And why. It isn't red, swollen, winter-cracked, strong, broken-nailed hands, that's for sure. No one dreams of those hands caressing them, although those hands dream of a lot of different things. No, the societal image of beauty, especially for women, is almost always of something useless, without use, that is possible only because someone else is enslaved doing the work of the world that results in food and cracked hands. My grandmother always wore a bonnet outside, a grand contraption that every woman of her era wore, so she wouldn't get sun on her face because in her day sun darkened skin was a sign of someone who had to work in the sun and it was prestigious to not have to do that work so even people who did do that work tried to pretend that they did not. Then my mother would lay in the sun to darken her skin because by her time it was prestigious to have the leisure time free to get out in the sun and bake. Long nails are that kind of symbol to me, a symbol of no real work to do.
And what does doing no real work mean? That someone else is doing it. Someone else is slaughtering the pig, growing the carrot, caring for the baby, sweeping the floor, building the floor, whatever. The whole movement toward what is euphemistically called "social justice" has been only a movement toward enslaving someone ELSE. Women who don't want to fetch coffee for some man only want someone else to be fetching their coffee for them, not for no one to be fetching anyone's coffee. I don't mind washing my dishes because I am not wanting someone else to have to be washing them. However, I do sometimes observe that I am the only person in the household capable of picking up towels after a bath and this fact does baffle me and sometimes irritates me but I'm not wanting them to pick up my towels.
I remembered vaguely back to a sociology class, and while I don't remember the language used to describe it, I remember the concept that a people can be very poor but content so long as they are comparing themselves only to themselves. When other societies, or another society's money, comes in, even when the people in question technically have more than before, they see themselves as worse off, way worse off than what/who they are comparing themselves to, and this can lead to revolution, unrest, all that jazz. So what we compare ourselves to is important. If we all lived today like the wealthy did in 1950, well, you can do that on very little money. People on food stamps wouldn't demand steak and frozen pizza. Health insurance wouldn't cover hangnails. Etc.
So I try to compare myself only with my own ideals. Is the work I am doing "important"? Am I "beautiful"? Is the life I am living worthwile, what John Holt called A Life Worth Living? Is it a life with something to pass on to my children and their children's children?
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Often found growing in rocky or gravelly limestone soil in open areas, limestone hills and bluffs the Texas Stitchwort bloom from late spring into the summer. The plant, ranging in height from 4 inches to 12 inches, produces numerous 3/8 inch white flowers with five petals and prominent stamens. The Texas Stitchwort is highly visible against the barren rocks on which they usually grow and easily identified.
A native plant and a member of the Pink or Carnation (Caryophyllaceae) family, it is found in the central United States.
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Of course lots more here and you may have already heard. We got some proper spring colour today on the East Yorkshire Coast:
More (nicer) photos and news on the Flamborough Bird Obs website
Of course lots more here and you may have already heard. We got some proper spring colour today on the East Yorkshire Coast:
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Hi Martin,
I wondered if you could give me your opinion on a Grasshopper Warbler that I caught recently (25th April 2014). It was extremely pale as you can see and to put it simply I don't know if it could be a contender for straminea or if it could be just an exceptionally and unusually pale naevia. There is very little in the way of photos on the web and certainly nothing quite as olive-grey as my bird. I have read the paper from the BBRC files and previous posts on Birding Frontiers and only eastern birds seem to have grey forms.
I have caught a number of Groppers this spring and most have been the normal olive or olive brown variety but this bird made me check it was actually a Gropper as it looked so different. I am now aware of the structural difference that may exist in a few examples but there is nothing to help us there. The wing length was 64mm so it wasn't particularly small
I have my own blog and you can view that here http://two-in-a-bush.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/what-gropper.html
What do you think?
Kind Regards, Peter Alker
Over to you guys. It's a remarkable looking bird which would presumably be quite eye-catching in the field. Below the first photos is an 'ordinary' Grasshopper Warbler (also on Peter's blog). All the other shots are of this pale, short-winged bird. All photos by Peter. For more see his blog >>> HERE <<<
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I suppose if you were a off-the-beaten track male Pallid harrier with no females (or other males) around you go for the next best thing… Pallid Harrier is classified as near threatened globally and recent expansion in toward western Europe perhaps the species response/ reaction to factors affecting the population elsewhere.
Ever hear of this pairing before? If it all works out for the couple, Offspring could make an interesting ID challenge somewhere this autumn…
Found yesterday by Sue Hepton. More details and more photos
2 of Ian Smith's photos which show a 1st summer male with its worn brown wings and tail which would be blacker, fringed pale and fresher looking in adult male. Also less colour below than adult male.
Colour of underparts too orangey for Eastern, white malar stripe looks on short side (extending apparently to juts below eye) though rather thick looking. Pattern of white in second outermost tail feather is essentially white tipped lacking more obvious white notch of Eastern
Here are photos of 1st summer female eastern at Spurn from 2012 (found by Ian Smith!)
At the time this bird wasn't identified further than generic 'Subalpine warbler'. However Adam Hutt got photos of the tail and the pattern, though weakly developed (probably retained juvenile tail feathers) is of an Eastern Subalpine Warbler. Here's the tail of the May 2011 bird:
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All the above were taken using a Panasonic GH3 with a 20mm pancake lens through a Swarovski 80 scope with a 30x wide angle lens. All in all Georgia was a great trip with lots of great birds and visible migration, some cracking scenery and hospitable people. I would thoroughly recommend the place. ————–
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With grateful thanks to Martin Cade, Brett Spencer and Graham Walbridge for open and very helpful discussion. To Magnus Hellström, Ben Sheldon and Brian Small for excellent input and to Ken Tucker and Debbie Saunders for photos.
Age and Sex
If possible first stage is to age and sex the bird as certain characters are related/relevant to these specifics. I haven't found it easy to age (first summer males are the easiest). I couldn't immediately see any obvious moult contrast and wear looks even so overall feel for me is probably an adult, though not 100% sure. If a first winter then the white primary patch is huge and would surely indicate that it's obviously not a Pied Flycatcher and probably a Collared etc.
Magnus Hellström adds more on visible moult contrast:
"The bird does show several moult contrasts, in the greater coverts (approx three outermost are not moulted), in the median coverts (hard to see) and most likely also in the secondaries (the innermost S6, just visible under the longest tertial, seems moulted, which is not uncommon). But most of these contrasts probably comes from the partial pre-breeding moult, which both age classes have. So (just as in the Wagtails I wrote about) the presence of the contrast does not help ageing. You have to make an assessment of the wear in the feathers that was not included in the winter moult – are they moderately or heavily worn!? This is sometimes tough, even with the bird in your hand."
The sex if the bird is so far a little disputatious. Some originally thought it was what's called a 'brown male' which occur more commonly in central and Western Europe. They are greyish-brown above and not black like normal males. They normally show a white forehead spot(s) black rump/upper tale coverts and wholly white looking inner greater coverts. Some have blacker wings and tail. This bird on several photos has greyish rump and upper tail coverts, same colour as rest of upperparts. No white 'male' patch on forehead (typical insignificant female buffy patch) and white fringed (not wholly white) inner greater coverts. The wings and tail are not black and at least 1-2 median coverts have white tips. Some 'brown males' can have such a pattern in the greater coverts and similar forehead pattern. However they are described as 'very rare'. No black in rump, uppertail coverts, wings or tail, indicate it's most likely a female.
Most female like male 'brown' Pied Flycatcher are also described as having small white primary patches and normal amount of white on the tertials.
What species?
Having attempted to age and sex it I think it's a female and probably an adult. There are several quite well known features to focus in on. These are chiefly the pattern of white in the primary patch and the amount of white in the tail. On this bird the white primary patch is clearly longer than the primary coverts and appears to reach to P4 (just about on perched shots and in flight shot). The tail pattern appears to show white extending right to the tip of the tail (T6 and T5 overlapping) and a white line on the outer web with T4. The tail pattern as interpreted with the photos fits Collared better than Pied (though it's a pretty soft feature with much overlap). Both of those features are good for Collared and in combination seem to be at least are rare/ very rare in Pied. Furthermore if it is a female the amount (and pattern) of white in the tertials is probably too much for female Pied but OK for Collared.
Nape and rump feathers. Some have commented on seeing a paler collar or paler nape area. I'm not confident about this enough to comment.
So why not a Collared? I agree and defer with those with much more expertise in this area that "it doesn't feel Collared-like to me in general plumage tone" (Ben Sheldon) or "In the best of worlds, I would have wished for a (slightly) better primary patch combined with a paler and colder grey ground colour above" (Magnus Hellström). Martin Cade also heard a typical Pied Flycatcher call coming from the vicinity of the bird, if not seeing and hearing it call simultaneously. FYI hybrids can give calls of one parent species or the other or both call types from same bird.
Tricky Flycatchers are identified using the fullest set of characters. I think it's an adult female showing some characters of Collared Flycatcher. That might mean that it is one. Maybe it's a hybrid. The issue of the southern Atlas and Iberian Flycatcher is real and exposes our ignorance too! You could call it just a Pied but for me the full set of characters doesn't allow you to do that. 🙂 . That would be shoehorning it for the sake of not leaving it up in the air. However these are the ones we learn most from! As ever have a look for yourself and contribute if you know stuff that will help.
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Be great to hear if you disagree and why, giving examples where these set of features has been found in Pied.
Have a look at this bird which looks VERY similar and ID was left unresolved (thanks to Brett S.)


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Today I finally acknowledged something that has been going on. My mood is not right. I think I have Postpartum Depression.
It is very hard for me to acknowledge this. As a mental health professional, I know all of the causes and the treatments. I know that the people who come into my office often struggle to just make it through the day. I know that this is not weakness on their parts, that this is not how they would live if they had a choice. I know I have no choice in this...and yet...
The depression is steadily growing worse. It is not particularly disabling yet in that I am still able to function. I feel nothing though. I see my kids laugh, I play with them, I talk and laugh with my husband....all the while I feel dead on the inside. I have no motivation to clean my house, to exercise, to make sure my family is taken care of and eating their veggies, etc. Just tonight my husband and daughter went outside to practice hurdles for track and I had no desire to join them or watch. I even told Elizabeth that I did not want to go outside with them. I could happily sleep for hours on end and still be tired. I feel listless, overwhelmed, and yet so very very ice cold all at once.
I must be very good at hiding this because Charles almost fell over when I told him. He asked why I had not mentioned this before. I say it is because I thought it would go away. And I truly did, she who should know better. I thought that it was due to sleep deprivation. But wait...Charlie basically sleeps through the night. I thought I was being over dramatic. Then why is it getting worse? I still laugh, right? I still get out of bed and get the kids to school, go to work, maintain my hygiene. Why do I need to FEEL? I am certainly not ACTING depressed. But inside is a different story.
Inside I am screaming. I know there is something wrong. Just a few weeks ago, I was ok. I did not even get the baby blues too terribly badly this time around. I thought I was out of the woods. Not so much. Inside there is ice surrounding what used to be the warmest parts of my heart. I still love my family and I am NOT having thoughts of hurting them or myself...I know enough to make sure that this never ever goes that far. But what kills me is that I feel nothing now, and while I intellectually know that this should bug me...really, it does not. And that is not fair to my children, my husband, or me. I refuse to live my life like this when a few short weeks ago Elizabeth's accomplishments at school made me burst with pride; Alexis's antics made me laugh; Charlie's smile made me into a pile of mush, and Charles's touch never failed to turn me on. Now, I lack even the motivation to pursue the things that I know used to bring me joy.
That is not life. I saw how good things could be, and I am not going to let my brain's screwed up biochemistry take that from me. So I will get over myself and drag my ass to the doctor's. I will go on antidepressants. I will go to therapy if needed. I will not do that to my children or my husband. I WILL live life.
This will not beat me.