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New way forward for planning in Leeds
Leeds is looking to find a new, more effective way forward for how it deals with major planning applications.
At a meeting of the council's general purposes committee today, members discussed wide-ranging changes to how planning business is done in Leeds with the aim of recommending a new way forward to full council in September.
With the recent changes to the context of planning, which now include more engagement and influence from local communities when forming development, Leeds has decided to take a look at its planning procedures.
In order to bring the planning process right up to date, a cross party working group was created. They suggested that the council need to be able to make timely and effective decisions and ensure there is a significant amount of local involvement in this process while remaining consistent with applications made across the city.
The group has recommended that a new strategic city wide panel with members from all political groups is formed, with more rights of access for local ward members and communities, where appropriate, for providing the platform to transform ambitious housing growth targets and dealing with big infrastructure projects.
Leader of Leeds City Council Cllr Keith Wakefield, who chairs the general purposes committee, said:
"We are at the threshold of introducing as new 15 year planning core strategy, which has the ability to transform this city. We need to ensure the changes are for the better. We need to invest in major new transport infrastructure, bring decent and affordable homes to people and generate jobs and long term employment opportunities through this process.
"We intend to balance the sense of strategic vision with the need to give a real voice of localism to people in this city.
"The council's influential general purposes committee today agreed to recommend to the full council in two weeks' time to set up a new strategic city wide panel with members from all political groups from across the city; with more rights of access for local ward members were accepted as providing the platform to transform ambitious housing growth targets and dealing with big infrastructure projects."
Councillor Peter Gruen; the executive member for neighbourhoods, planning and support services, welcomed the decision of general purposes committee and said:
"We all know that for us to meet our ambitions as a city we need to have a planning decision-making framework, which balances the need for timely decisions and good business relationships with developers; with the absolute guarantee that local ward members and communities have an in-depth involvement in projects as they develop.
"We need to generate real confidence on both sides of the planning system that investing in Leeds is worthwhile and that, as we provide new homes for local people, we will also pay huge regard to community identities and address their fears and anxieties."
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We had a potluck! I got to use some of my weavings as table coverings, and baked a ton of cookies using the macadamia nuts we brought back from Hawaii.
Back in the studio, got my loom warped for rugs!
Friday was my birthday, my husband baked me a sprinkle cake!
It's a good start to fall around here, I'm excited to get started on my rugs, and enjoy some of the crisp Portland weather before the rainy season officially hits. I'm taking a shibori dyeing class in a few weeks, which sounds incredible. I'll be sure to have some photos to share, we're indigo dyeing scarves to learn the technique.

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Michelle Chatman writes for Anthropology News this month in a piece called I Still Got Joy. This article and video encompass AN's theme this month of Health, Happiness and Well Being by highlighting strength and resilience of black women who face breast cancer. Click here to read the entire piece and view the video. Below is an excerpt:
Black Women's Strength and Resilience after Breast Cancer
The African American spiritual song, "I Still Got Joy," sings of resilience in the face of challenges like breast cancer. Despite advancements in medical technology that have improved treatment and survivorship outcomes of cancer patients, African Americans still face a disproportionately high breast cancer mortality rate—almost 39% higher than that of white women, according to the American Cancer Society. The socioeconomic challenges associated with the lack of access to breast cancer care have been widely noted. Less understood however, are the psychosocial barriers that Black women face as they manage their breast cancer diagnosis and undergo treatment and seek out support. I led a study to help address this gap in our knowledge.
To read the entire article by Chatman, click here.


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Executive Space Courses
The Executive Space Course, taught in English, provides an overview of space and of space-related subjects for professionals of diverse backgrounds, including marketing, finance, law, and contracts management.
Providing them with a better understanding of space technology and business, professionals leave with the knowledge and skills that will enable them to communicate more effectively with their technical colleagues.
The course also provides its participants with exposure to a unique interdisciplinary, international and intercultural learning environment.
For more information on the program, click here to download the brochure.
Inaugurated in September 2002, the ISU Central Campus Facility is a custom-built facility, whose auditoria and classrooms boast the latest in IT equipment and audiovisual teaching aids.
Executive Space Course participants will also benefit from the ISU Library's impressive collection of space reference material and access to the IT labs. Click here to view the ISU facilities.
Venue: ISU Central Campus near the beautiful city of Strasbourg , in Alsace, France, in the very heart of Europe. Click here to access the maps.
Accomodation: a block of rooms at a special ISU rate is reserved at the Holiday Inn Illkirch Graffenstaden located adjacent to the ISU Campus.
Class size is strictly limited. Register early to reserve your place on the Executive Space Course. Registration will be complete through the payment of a 500€ deposit to the Finance Unit before 20 March 2020. The payment of the remaining fees is due no later than 3 April 2020.
3750€ (US$4450), which includes the course fee, all course materials, all lunches, a reception and two evening meals.
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A cancellation fee of 500€ will not be refunded nor deferred for a next program when the cancellation occurs less than 10 working days prior to the start of the program, unless there is a valid reason, as listed below, in which case the above policy will apply.
Valid reasons accepted by ISU for cancellation of participation: Medical issues, Family death, Visa issues, Job issues.


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Name: Andrew
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"It is very hard to remember that events now long in the past were once in the future."
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The downtown mural will be erected from the outside in. The panels will begin with the earliest period (pre-Spanish incursion) and latest period (today's issues, conflicts, and events), working its way to the middle (the turn of the century 1880-1912). Therefore we will skip back and forth in order to describe what the public will be viewing, albeit out of a traditional timeline sequence.
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What I've Been Reading, 18-month Edition
Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker. A great, highly detailed book, even epic, book about Robert Moses and city government.
John Darwin, Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain.
Antony Beevor, The Second World War. Comprehensive history of the second world war. The one book to read about WWII.
Paul Kennedy, Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War. A look at the logistical and engineering challenges behind the WWII.
Ian W. Toll, Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942. From Pearl Harbor to Midway, how the unready US Navy learned how to fight:
The interior of the Enterprise was a warren of metallic corridors connected by hatches, lit with harsh electric overhead lights and lined with cables, air ducts, and piping. Before December 7, most of those internal spaces had been painted white or gray, but now that the Japanese attack had dramatized the flammability of paint, working parties were put to the tedious work of chipping it all away, inch by square inch, with iron scrapers. They tore up the linoleum tiles and scraped smooth the steel underneath. They worked in the sweltering, airless heat— exacerbated by the wartime requirement of keeping the watertight doors and hatches dogged down— and found that they sweated through their uniforms so quickly they might as well strip them off and work in their underwear. It was brutal, hateful, thankless work—" a labor of the damned," one wrote.
Greg Woolf, Rome: An Empire's Story.
Jonathan Steinberg, Bismark: A Life. Only read the first third - too dull even for me.
Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son. By far the best book I've read this year, and deserved winner of the Tournament of Books.
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl. A solid page turner. Also from the ToB.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars. A very good YA novel that I only picked up because of its strong showing in the ToB.
Iain M. Banks - Culture novels: Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, The Hydrogen Sonata, and The Player of Games. I had only recently heard of Iain M. Banks and the Culture novels. I started with Consider Phlebas, which is by far the weakest. Banks lets his tendency toward grotesquery for its own sake get away from him. If I hadn't heard such universally great things about the rest, I would have stopped. I'm glad I didn't. The Player of Games is excellent, and The Hydrogen Sonata is solid as well. I did not care for Use of Weapons - I couldn't buy into the central conceit or the protagonist.
John Scalzi - The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, Zoe's Tale. Quick, easy, and disposable science-fiction reads. Zoe's Tale is especially forgettable - it's a straight (and weak) retelling of The Last Colony, with only a few new scenes.
James Clavell, Shogun.
Frank Herbert, Dune. I finally read the classic. It's earned its reputation.
Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln. Despite the good press, I couldn't get into it and stopped about a quarter of the way through.
Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End. Strangely relevant given the recent revelations about the NSA.
Audur Ava Olafsdottir, The Greenhouse.
Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312. As a big fan of the Red Mars series, I was excited to read this sort-of-sequel. But the book coyly (and disappointingly) refuses to mention anything directly about them. Forgettable and poorly constructed.


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Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez, who already faces a murder charge in a man's shooting death last year, was indicted Thursday on new murder charges in an unrelated 2012 double slaying in Boston. (May 15) AP
What's next for former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez, who now faces charges in three murders after Thursday's indictment in a July 16, 2012, slaying of two Boston men?
Suffolk County (Mass.) District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said a grand jury returned indictments on two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado.
Conley identified Hernandez as "the principal, the shooter, the person responsible for taking the two lives." Hernandez, 24, could be arraigned as early as next week in Boston.
GANGSTER? Expert says Hernandez doesn't fit serial killer profile
He is in jail awaiting trial on a separate first-degree murder charge — the 2013 shooting death of Odin Lloyd, whose bullet-ridden body was found June 17 near Hernandez's North Attleborough, Mass. home.
The Lloyd case is expected to proceed to trial first.
"The other case will get to fruition sooner than this one," Suffolk University law professor Chris Dearborn, a former defense attorney and public defender, told USA TODAY Sports. "Two separate murder cases. My only advice to the general public and a potential jury pool is don't prejudge.
"The arraignment will be huge — are there smoking guns in this case, or do they just have a lot of circumstantial evidence?"
Conley said de Abreu and Furtado were gunned down as they sat in a car at a traffic light in Boston's South End after a chance encounter with Hernandez inside a nightclub. Hernandez followed behind in an SUV, then pulled up along the passenger's side of the victims' car and fired a .38 Smith & Wesson revolver multiple times.
"For us, this case was not about Aaron Hernandez," Conley said. "This case was about two victims, who were stalked, ambushed and senselessly murdered on the streets of the city they called home."
Conley said investigators recovered the murder weapon and the car Hernandez was driving.
Hernandez's counsel, Charles W. Rankin and James L. Sultan, released a statement in his defense.
"It is one thing to make allegations at a press conference and another to prove them in a court of law. Unlike the district attorney, we are not going to try this case in the media. Under our system of justice, Aaron Hernandez is innocent of these charges, and he looks forward to his day in court."
Conley had no comment when asked if there was a connection between the double murder and the Odin slaying.
"In theory, this allows them to have some information to be put in the Odin Lloyd murder case as a motive," Dearborn said. "Because obviously, they've tried to connect the dots between the two cases all along. What I found interesting is they aren't very specific about the connection between the car and the weapon.
"With the Odin Lloyd case, we saw how the case started to unravel; witnesses they were going to use weren't good; everything was circumstantial," Dearborn added. "Until we see exactly what they actually have through the documents, I am cynically speculating that it is going to be circumstantial."
Dearborn said there is risk of prejudicing the Lloyd trial if the cases are not presented independent of each other.
"The general rule in criminal cases is that prior bad acts can't come into evidence," Dearborn said. "Because what you don't want somebody to do is make a decision based on some other incident. You want them to judge what happened on a given day in and of itself.
"So the DA's office in Bristol County is going to try to get in this information as being relative to motive in the Odin Lloyd case. And what you don't want to have happen is someone tell a potential juror, 'Hey, maybe he did this one. What a coincidence that he maybe did two different killings. So he must be guilty of everything, right?'
"That is why the law is very direct on the introduction of what they call misconduct or prior bad actions."
A month after the 2012 alleged murders, Hernandez signed a $40 million contract, played in 10 games, catching 51 passes with five touchdowns.


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Big Brother is watching you, and soon he will be seeing a lot more of what you do.
The Gastonia City Council plans to spend $188,000 to equip more police cars with video cameras, bringing Big Brother viewing to more than half of the police department�s marked patrol cars.
North Carolina is doing the same. Legislators like the idea, so the State Highway Patrol expects to have wireless video cameras in all its cars within a year. South Carolina state officers already patrol in cars fully equipped with video cameras.
As you would predict, police like the idea of recording what they can see from their patrol cars. So does Gaston County District Attorney Locke Bell, a strong supporter of putting cameras in police cars.
Indeed, there is value.
The cameras can provide helpful evidence in court, accurately showing what happened rather than leaving a judge or jury to decide who is telling the truth in cases of conflicting testimony.
Recollections can be wrong. A person who believes he or she is telling the truth can be the victim of an inaccurate memory formed during a time of high emotion, excitement, danger or fear.
Lies can be told, too, even by the uniformed men and women who are sworn to protect and serve. Just last month, a police officer at UNCC admitted she lied on the witness stand in a drunken driver case.
Recordings also can expose mistakes by a police officer, or in a worse-case scenario, police abuse. The cameras do not differentiate in whose behavior they are capturing.
But while there is much to be gained from expanded use of cameras in police cars, there is reason for concern anytime an arm of government collects information about the public.
Freedom can slip away slowly, particularly in the name of protection. What seems like a good thing can turn bad when authorities are the exclusive holders of information.
The new cameras being placed in Gastonia police cars, according to city officials, make it easier for officers to download daily recordings. Some information, the officials claim, will be disposed of while other data will be stored for investigations and trials.
New technology almost always comes with new challenges. The challenge of police collecting much more information will be in determining what to keep and what to delete, who will make the determination of what stays and what goes, and what happens to information that is deemed disposable.
One way to safeguard the freedom of law-abiding people and to protect those who stand accused is to ensure that recorded information is available to the public in the same way that information collected in age-old methods is available.
There are obvious benefits to new ways in which Big Brother watches, but the best protection from abuse is for the public to keep its own watchful eye on Big Brother.


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Sunday's show: A 'smashing success' for Tennyson Center
There may have been some who said it couldn't be done, but the six Denver-area businesspeople who met while volunteering at the annual Thanksgiving Day feast put on by Rosa Linda's Cafe were certain that while time might not be on their side, they could indeed conduct a successful Christmas toy drive for the children at Tennyson Center.
Not just any toy drive, though. This one would be an extravaganza … an event that would include a holiday fashion show with food, music and plenty of other entertainment.
In roughly one month, Gabriela Martinez of Gabriela Designs; Michelann "Micaela" Cordero, chief executive officer at MC Bilingual Business Development; Cedric Pride, CEO of Cedric Pride Entertainment; Deb Tasayco, CEO of SBO Mix & Mingle; Lidia Ortiz, a marketing consultant and real estate investor; and Ana Varela-Astacio, whose former husband, Pedro Astacio, had played for the Colorado Rockies, organized a happening that was successful even beyond their wildest dreams.
"It was a smashing success," Cordero says of the event that started at 4 p.m. Sunday at Paxia Alta Cocina Mexican Restaurant, 4001 Tejon St. "We collected hundreds of toys, along with some very generous monetary donations." Cordero and her partners caravaned to Tennyson Center this morning, and were met by KHOW's Peter Boyles, who was broadcasting live from the center and invited Cordero to share the story with his listeners.
A story that involved some last-minute scrambling and more than one lucky break.
Cordero noted that she had volunteered — along with 700 others — at the Sam Sandos Christmas Basket Program at North High School the day before her show, distributing ingredients for 2,500 dinners to those who otherwise might not enjoy a holiday meal. State Rep. Crisanta Duran and Denver City Councilman Paul Lopez also were volunteering there, and Cordero got them to agree to model on Sunday night.
Sunday's show was so successful that the organizers said they will do it again next year. And the best part, everyone agreed, was being able to "bring some joy into a lot of little hearts at Tennyson."
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Law and Gospel: Part 1
For centuries, Reformational Theologians have rightly noted that in the Bible God speaks two fundamentally different words: law and gospel. The law is God's word of demand, the gospel is God's word of deliverance. The law tells us what to do, the gospel tells us what God has done. So, when we speak of the distinction between law and gospel we are referring to different speech acts–or what linguist John Austin calls "illocutionary stances"–that run throughout the whole Bible. Everything in both the Old Testament and the New Testament is either in the form of an obligatory imperative or a declaratory indicative. "Hence," wrote Martin Luther, "whoever knows well this art of distinguishing between the law and the gospel, him place at the head and call him a doctor of Holy Scripture."
This may seem like a distinction that would fascinate only the theologian or linguist. But, believe it or not, every ounce of confusion regarding justification, sanctification, the human condition, God's grace, how God relates to us, the nature of the Christian life, and so on, is due to our failure to properly distinguish between the law and the gospel.
Ignorance of this distinction between Law and Gospel is one of the principal sources of the abuses which corrupted and still corrupt Christianity. (Theodore Beza)
Virtually the whole of the scriptures and the understanding of the whole of theology–the entire Christian life, even–depends upon the true understanding of the law and the gospel. (Martin Luther)
Obviously, both God's law and God's gospel come from God which means both are good. But, both do very different things. Serious life confusion happens when we fail to understand their distinct "job descriptions." We'll wrongly depend on the law to do what only the gospel can do, and vice versa. As Mike Horton says, "Where the law pronounces us all 'guilty before God' (Rom 3:19-20), the gospel announces 'God's gift of righteousness through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus' (vv 21-31). The law is unyielding. It commands, but doesn't give. The law says, "Do!", but the gospel says, "Done!"
So, I'm going to be doing a series of posts that will spell out this distinction and hopefully explain why it's so important. If we are ever going to experience the unconditional freedom that Jesus paid so dearly to secure for sinners like me, we must have a clear understanding of this crucial distinction.
To get things started I thought I would post this poetic and helpful hymn from Ralph Erskine where the job descriptions of both the law and the gospel are clearly spelled out and distinguished. Enjoy…
The law supposing I have all,
Does ever for perfection call;
The gospel suits my total want,
And all the law can seek does grant.
The law could promise life to me,
If my obedience perfect be;
But grace does promise life upon
My Lord's obedience alone.
The law says, Do, and life you'll win;
But grace says, Live, for all is done;
The former cannot ease my grief,
The latter yields me full relief.
The law will not abate a mite,
The gospel all the sum will quit;
There God in thret'nings is array'd
But here in promises display'd.
The law excludes not boasting vain,
But rather feeds it to my bane;
But gospel grace allows no boasts,
Save in the King, the Lord of Hosts.
Lo! in the law Jehovah dwells,
But Jesus is conceal'd;
Whereas the gospel's nothing else
But Jesus Christ reveal'd.


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Stock up on a variety of breakfast items, beverages, snacks, frozen entrées and more, any time—all on the honor system.
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Visit downtown Austin's famous 6th Street or 2nd St Warehouse District, shop nearby at South Park Meadows and Barton Creek Mall or take a short drive to the San Marcos Outlet Center. There's plenty to do in Live Music Capital of the World. We are also close to area attractions like the Texas State Capitol, University of Texas at Austin and Zilker Park so you stay and explore local destinations.
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If you've never owned a spa, you won't believe how easily it melts your cares away after a hard day. In home hot tubs and saunas aren't just for the rich. Thanks to Sam's Club's pricing, you can own one at a very reasonable price.
Sam's Club spas aren't hard to set up either. Sam's Club offers plug 'n play spas where all you have to do is fill it up, plug it in and you're ready to go. These spas seat up to four people comfortably and feature a thermal friction heating system. They are perfect for any backyard, are designed to be energy efficient. You'll look forward to using it all the time.
A roomy sauna from Sam's Club can be set up just about anywhere, and can provide myriad health benefits including stress reduction, relief from joint pain and removal of body toxins.
Don't deny yourself any longer. Pick out a great spa or sauna from Sam's Club today.


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Ear-Lings: Beaded Headbands with Antje GillinghamI'm going to be perfectly honest! I look hideous in hats—any size, any shape, any color—but my ears freeze instantly at the mere thought of cold weather. This means I need something to cover them! Enter the ear-warming headband! It's compact, quick to put on and most importantly: No Bad Hat Hair Day!! Ahhh- the perfect cold weather accessory. Let's combine it with cables, the queens of texture and beads, those wonderful sparkly pieces of glass, and create a one of a kind beaded cabled headband! We'll fearlessly knit with beads, cable without cable needles and practice the three-needle bind off. Join me for this fun, quick, little project with amazing ear warming power!
SuppliesApproximately 100 yds of a light-colored (solid or variegated), #4 (worsted-weight) yarn, a small amount of #4 (worsted-weight) practice yarn, 4.5 or 5mm/US 7 or 8 straight and circular needle, 4mm/G crochet hook, 1mm/12 steel crochet hook, cable needle, 30 No. 5 glass beads.
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Clare emailed a while back, asking if there were any reading groups in Blackheath. I knew that there was one based at the library, but couldn't remember the details. As I went to renew a book a few days ago, sure enough on the counter was all the information that you would need –
There's a book club held at the library on the first Thursday of each month, between 6.30pm-7.30pm. Last month they were reading Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.
This contradicts what is written on Greenwich council's page about reading groups – they claim that it is held at 7pm on the occasional Monday. Lewisham's effort mentions a reading group, but doesn't say when it is… At least it doesn't send you there on the wrong day!
So, if you do go along, please let me know how it is, how many people are there, and whether the first Thursday of the month is the right date!


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A number of Chicago taxi and limousine companies filed a lawsuit (below) today against Uber, the request-a-ride company that lets you e-hail and pay for a car with your smartphone.
In April, the San Francisco startup expanded its service in Chicago from black cars to include taxis as well. (Uber's recent attempt to expand from black cars to yellow taxis in New York City were swatted down last month by the Taxi and Limousine Commission.)
Although Uber's brash tactics and outspoken CEO, Travis Kalanick, have rankled city governments and competitors–the complaint even features a screengrab of a contentious tweet from Mr. Kalanick and references his open criticism of "of any regulation in general"–this marks the first time a taxi or limousine company has filed a suit against Uber.
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text: 23 Oct 2014 12:00 Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will increase the frequency of its new service to Dallas/Fort Worth in the United States to daily from 16 April 2015, to meet flourishing demand from business and leisure travellers on the ultra-long-haul route. Dallas/Fort Worth, located in the state of Texas, will be introduced into Etihad Airways' global route network on 3 December 2014 with an initial three flights per week service, prior to the upgrade. It is the airline's sixth route in the United States, alongside New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, which launches on 18 November 2014.A Boeing 777-200LR aircraft will be operated on the route, offering a total of eight seats in First Class, 40 seats in Business Class, and 177 seats in Economy Class.The increased frequency will lead to enhanced travel connections between the United States and key markets worldwide, including the GCC region and 12 cities served by Etihad Airways and its partner Jet Airways across India, such as Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai.Etihad Airways also plans to offer convenient connections with its codeshare partner American Airlines on a number of domestic routes from Dallas/Fort Worth to major centres across the US.James Hogan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Airways, said: "Our Dallas/Fort Worth service was announced at the end of last year and the market response has been extremely strong. To meet the needs of travellers flying into and out of Texas, we will increase our frequency sooner than expected on the route, with daily flights commencing from April 2015."Our service offering will be enhanced as a result, with the convenience of a more frequent operation and improved connections for guests in both directions, through Etihad Airways' fast-growing international network and the networks of our airline partners, such as Jet Airways in India and American Airlines, which has its largest hub at Dallas/Fort Worth."The increased frequency also reinforces our commitment to the United States and will strengthen the country's deep commercial and bilateral ties with the United Arab Emirates."Sean Donohue, CEO of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, said: "DFW Airport welcomes the news that Etihad Airways will be expanding to a daily service between DFW and Abu Dhabi next April, just a few months after their planned start date in December of this year."With over 62 million customers a year who travel through DFW, the daily flights will be appealing to both business and leisure customers and today's announcement is an important commitment to markets served by our two global hub airports. As the fastest growing region in the United States, the DFW region is a strong regional and connecting market and the increase in service will provide customers with even more options."The airline's daily flights to and from Dallas/Fort Worth can be booked from today on www.etihad.com, through Etihad Airways' Contact Centres, or via travel agents. Kontakt Als internationale Fluggesellschaft bieten wir wahre globale Präsenz. Erfahren Sie hier, wie Sie mit dem nächstgelegenen Etihad Büro in Verbindung treten können.Kontaktdaten anzeigen Ihre Meinung Wenn Sie uns einen Kommentar, ein Lob oder eine Beschwerde schicken möchten oder auch nur eine Frage an uns haben, klicken Sie bitte hier Klicken Sie auf "Gefällt mir" Besuchen Sie unsere Facebook-Seite! Folgen Sie uns auf YouTube Besuchen Sie unseren YouTube-Kanal! Folgen Sie uns Etihad Airways | Etihad Deals | Etihad Hilfe | Etihad Prämien


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Hi All, I am new to this forum, but have lots of MC hours on our 94 205 with an LT-1. It started life with all kinds of cooling system issues, I am surprised I didn't melt it down before I got a handle on things. Way back when, I discovered a fatal flaw in how the engine was applied. I alerted Indmar and MasterCraft, they sent out a service bulletin incorporating the fix I came up with.
With my fix, the engine temp stays absolutely constant within a few degrees, from idle to full throttle. If there is residual interest in this motor or the fix, let me know, and I will take time top post pictures and a scan of the MasterCraft service bulletin (to prove that my info is good). I also have a trick for the heater source and return that I can't take credit for, but perfects the heater. I can share that one, too.
Reply to my post if interested!
to start off you might want to become a full member of team talk before you go "claiming" you came up with "the fix"
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Was the trick to change the impeller?
Lots of power is good, more is better, too much is just right.
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I would certainly like to see the service bulletin, post it up.
+1 for wanting to see it. I've got the same boat. Please become a member and give the description / pictures.
I've had no real issues, but I'd like to add a heater someday, and the temp always seems shaky the 1st few outings of the year, maybe the thermostats just need to get used to working again...
I have a 1997 LT1 .... 730 hours ... no over heating problems?
The heater doesn't stay warm unless the boat is running @ speed. Do you have a fix for that?
First off, I just posted my first post today, to see if I had any options for fixing a seam in my observer seat. I started reading some unrelated posts and thought maybe I could be a positive contributor. I don't even know how to sign up to be a full team member. Is ignorant instant sarcasm and skepticism how some of this group treats someone offering a great tip? Gee, maybe I don't want to sign up...
Anyone who doesn't know that LT-1's doesn't know what they don't know. The LT-1 has aluminum heads, reverse cooling, and a cam driven water pump (you knew that, right?). That caused a big problem. It was addressed in the June 1996 Service Bulletin that was generated after my disclosure to MasterCraft and Indmar. Does anyone remember MasterCraft's Nathan Long? I sent him the fix initially. He got Indmar's Alan Tehan in touch with me. Is he still around? He flew in from Indiana and rode around in my boat. He also did some altitude tweaking on my EFI calibrations. Still thinking I'm making something up? I am, after all, just a dumb mechanical engineer.
The overheating problem has to do with aerated intake water and steam in the heads. Wanna know more? Tell me how to fully sign up. If your boat doesn't do it, it may have been built after the bulletin, and had the modification done at the factory.
Yes, I have a fix that will make the heater work full temperature at idle. Absolutely, positively. You will love it. It's a simple plumbing routing. We used to ski mostly in the off season, which meant the water was usually 50 degrees and below. I have wakeboarded while it was snowing, one day we waterskied in the morning and snow skied that afternoon. My family was on the evening news weather for being crazy. Anyway, when it's that cold, you want a heater working full time. Yes, I can show that trick too. But again, I didn't come up with that one. Another LT-1 owner discovered the right plumbing to do it. I showed him how to keep from cooking his motor (the service bulletin topic).
So, if you want more, help me out to get fully registered or whatever. But please knock off with the doubt.
First of all, we all on here like to have a little fun with EVERYBODY that shows up here. I didn't see ANYBODY doubt what you said, they just said they'd like to see MORE. personally, I don't have an LT-1, so no, I wouldn't know that it has aluminum heads, reverse cooling , and a cam driven water pump. So I've got NO dog in that fight.
Secondly, IF you are a mechanical engineer, you should be able to figure out a simple process for signing up on here. Its NOT hard.
We welcome EVERYBODY, (with the exception of a select few)( and you're NOT in that select few, BTW) to this board! I suggest that you thicken up your skin just a wee bit, join, and have fun like the rest of us do on here. We always like to hear from people that know what they are talking about, even IF we do rag you a little bit.
BTW, what year is your boat? Skidog
I remember Nathan and it was Alan who developed the training courses, among other things. If it was the bleeder lines or the holes in the thermostat, they were in place before I started working on these.
Welcome to Team MasterCraft but,
You have basically walked into a room full of people who were in the middle of several conversations, without bothering to introduce yourself before saying that you're not sure you like being here. This is your second post, right? No offense, but it was kind of an awkward entry. I don't think anyone will have a problem with knowing about your fix for the LT-1 but to come in, claim that you fixed it without providing anything to support it doesn't really make it so, even if it's absolutely true. I don't know why you would expect total strangers to believe what anyone says just because they say it's true. I doubt you would do this, especially considering your field. You work in a field that would never accept someone's word for any kind of claim without proof, right?
It would be better to get to know the people here before you tell them to not doubt your qualifications and FYI, you're not the only engineer here. We have all kinds of people, from all walks of life and while we may toss odd comments around, the vast majority are good natured. Sure, we have some who don't get along but if we all sat here singing Kumbaya, it would be a really boring place, IMO.
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For reference, this is an extension of my initial post to the foundation mailing list discussion initiated by Thierry Carrez. I thought that I could be a little clearer here in what I really think about the subject of Core and interoperability in OpenStack. Having been part of the defcore committee until the end of January, I must say that… Read more →


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The intent of this writing is not to make you an expert in cabling. The intent is to provide you with the necessary reference information, tips, and recommendations for you to wisely use cabling. There is no, repeat.....no substitute for hands on experience with cabling.
Please carefully read all of this information before you attempt your cabling efforts. Experience is a great teacher, so don't be afraid or discouraged if you mix up wiring patterns or do not suitably terminate a connection with the proper amount of pressure on a wire connector as you begin your cabling efforts.
A wire is a single conductor. A cable is a group of two or more insulated conductors. Category 5 cable is available in many forms. The cable is solid core 24-AWG. 8 separately jacketed wires, twisted in pairs, making 4 pairs all contained within a protective jacket. The jacket wrapping around the cable is either Plenum or Non-Plenum. Plenum cable is rated for a fire hazard area. Category 5 cabling is often rated as low-voltage, meaning you do not need a license to install the cable. Please contact your local fire authority for more information.
Proper cable grounding is essential for safety. The assumption the cable carries a low amount of voltage is true, but it also carries enough capability to damage the equipment connected together via your cable and you.....the cabling person. The differences between surge-suppression and transient-voltage-suppression cannot be stated enough. Please contact your local fire authority for more information.
Category 5 cable is installed in either electrical conduit, cable trays, or J-Hooks. Cable must, must, must be properly supported to prevent stretching the copper wire and cause small breaks in the wire. Small wire breaks cause for performance issues in quality-of-service, and lead to a complete breakage in one or more wires. Cable is laid out in a pattern of either a main distribution frame or an intermediate distribution frame.
Properly installed cable is then connected with some type of registered jack -and- plug. This end result is called a cable termination or a wire termination.
All cabling must have continuity all of the time. A simple cable tester is probably the most manageable continuity tester there is after cable has been terminated with a registered jack and plug to determine if you have continuity. If you have nothing else to test with, connecting two bare wires together with a wire nut on one end, then testing the other ends with a multi-meter is always an option. This is quite valuable after cable has been laid in place and you want to know if it has continuity before terminating the cable.
Whatever you do, always install your cable as required by your fire authority and always, always, always properly support your cable with either electrical conduit, cable trays, or J-Hooks. Suffice it to say, cable that is not properly supported will eventually have small cracks in the wire, resulting in a quality-of-service loss, progressing to intermittent continuity problems, and ultimately completely break the wire somewhere within the cable jacket.
Power over Ethernet is quite possibly the best thing to come along to the Information Technology world of hardware since the 1980's. Literally, it is that wonderful! The essence of PoE is you can use cable that is rated as low-voltage to power a multitude of PoE hardware devices. The list of what is capable of PoE is constantly growing. Here are some common PoE terms to understand.
The PSE is the network PoE element that inserts power onto a Category 5 cable. It may be an endspan device, such as a PoE-enabled data network switch, or a midspan device located between the data network switch and the Powered Device (PD).
A PD is the PoE capable device that receives power over Category 5 cable. It could be a PoE-enabled IP telephone, a Wireless Access Point, an IP enabled HVAC thermostat, any other IP device that needs electrical power.
A midspan device is a PSE that inserts power onto the Category 5 cable. It is situated between the data network switch and the PD. Typically, midspan devices are added to existing networks to allow the use of PoE-enabled PD's.
An endspan device is typically a data network switch that incorporates PoE capabilities. Endspan devices often are implemented when a new network is created, to avoid adding both midspan devices and a data network switch.
Now, should you need or want to move a device such as a Wireless Access Point, an IP telephone, or an HVAC sensor to another location.....imagine how nice it would be to not have to juggle the powering of that device. There are many combination options available for PoE capable hardware.
Pressing onward, imagine a device is locked up and you need to power the device off and then turn it back on. Walking to that device could be a hassle, and could require opening a lot of access panels. Using PoE, you can turn off the power over your data network and then turn it back on.
The thing for you with PoE is you need to determine how much electrical power you need. This amount will tell you what specification you need to comply with. The manufacturer of the PoE device will tell you what standards they are compatible with. From there, buy the PoE supply. Your selection is either a simple single-port power injector (Midspan), or a rack-mounted midspan power injector, or buy new data network switches that have PoE built-in as an integrated feature (Endspan). Count the cost and choose as best suits you.
The biggest benefit of PoE is you have the ability to have a better handle on your surge-suppression and transient-voltage-suppression efforts. This is because you so chose to install your cabling as recommended. Running a wire as an extension off of an HVAC unit, or a wall outlet, to supply electricity to power the PoE capable hardware, without also providing proper protection for that PoE hardware, is absolutely and positively nothing but trouble. That trouble often shows up as electrical damage in the form of peculiar performance of the hardware, or even hardware failure.
Here is a strong and simple example of why powering your IP enabled thermostat device from an HVAC unit is a bad idea.
The drain line on the HVAC unit somehow gets blocked. This triggers the float switch to prevent flooding and that powers down the whole system. The thermostat has then been turned off due to the absence of power to the thermostat. The same is true if you power your IP enabled thermostat device from your HVAC and not PoE. That means you will be unable to access your IP enabled thermostat device from your data network.
You can also hook your float switch to your IP enabled thermostat device, as an external information sensor, and know when that float switch is activated via Remote Monitoring. Power over Ethernet is a really.....really.....good idea.
Whatever you do, always use cable safely. Please contact your local fire authority for more information.
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As one of the most frequently-used spaces in your home, your bathroom sees a lot of action on a daily basis and will probably need to be freshened up more frequently than other rooms. With the high levels of moisture that are prevalent in the space, mildew and other unsightly substances can start to form on your shower stalls and glass surfaces if you're not careful. Cleaning your bathroom is likely one of the least enjoyable aspects of owning a home, so any way that you can prolong the process while still keeping your washroom looking great will probably be a relief. Here are a few tips and tricks that could help you put off the inevitable cleaning a bit longer.
1. Shower stalls. Mildew has a habit of forming between the grout lines of tile inside of your shower or bathtub, as well as on glass doors and other surfaces. TLC.com suggests wiping down both your shower doors and your walls with a dry towel after each shower to reduce the chance of this substance forming over time. Additionally, it's also wise to keep your shower curtain or door open after your shower to let cool air circulate and reduce the chances of mildew formation.
2. Mirrors. A fogged-up mirror can be a real pain in the morning, and you can only make it worse when you're in a hurry and wipe it off with the palm of your hand. This will inevitably lead to streaks and unsightly watermarks that will force to you clean them off far sooner than usual. One way to solve this problem is to install a mirror defogger - this device comes with a self-adhesive backing that can attach to any wall hung mirror in minutes. It will provide a source of radiant heat that will spread evenly across the mirror's surface and give you a clear mirror to work with each morning.
3. Toilets. Your commode can be a stubborn device to clean, but this is one of the chief areas where dirt and grime can build up over time. Before you go to bed, sprinkle a bit of powdered soap or a similar cleaning agent around the perimeter of the bowl and let it sit overnight. In the morning when you flush the toilet, you can watch those stubborn stains wash away and gain the satisfaction of knowing that you've put off the regular bathroom cleaning for just a bit longer!
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Christie's pain is Walker's gain
As Chris Christie's star falls, the party is giving a second look to another brash blue-state governor who stared down unions at home: Scott Walker.
Republican strategists say no one is in a better position to get a boost from the Christie Bridgegate scandal than Walker, who stepped into the national spotlight in 2011 when he won a union-fueled recall election in Wisconsin.
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In conversations about the 2016 field with Republican strategists, operatives and donors in the weeks since the scandal first gripped the Christie administration, many volunteered Walker as the potential candidate they plan to watch and, unprompted, said he is getting renewed attention in conservative circles.
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Now that the chattering class is back talking Walker up, it could create the kind of buzz that catapults the Midwesterner to the top of a field that is only widening as Christie stumbles.
"I've heard of a lot of interest in Walker," said veteran Republican strategist Charlie Black, who served as chief adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) during his 2008 presidential bid. Black also predicted that if Walker wins reelection this year he'll "have a great record not only in Wisconsin but a great electoral record having won three times in fives years in a blue state."
While Beltway interest alone won't crown Walker the Republican front-runner, it could still be helpful if he decides to run.
"Chris Christie took a big fall after Bridgegate. It makes sense that Scott Walker's stock would rise," Ron Bonjean, a GOP strategist and Wisconsin native, said of the growing Walker talk. "I think he has as excellent a chance as anyone else in the GOP primary at this point."
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Walker's reputation is as a conservative's conservative who can still win over moderates. That's an attractive combination for party insiders who need a candidate who can survive a GOP primary and still pivot to the national stage with broad appeal.
"Many are looking at Walker because he has won in a blue state not through accommodation but by promoting and enacting policies consistent with conservative principles," said Kevin Madden, a former aide to Mitt Romney during his 2012 presidential bid.
Many Republicans insiders expect Washington dysfunction to become at least one theme in the next presidential election, making outsiders a good bet, they say. Govs. Rick Perry, John Kasich and Susana Martinez and former Gov. Jeb Bush have all been floated as possible contenders.
And many in the Republican Party have always believed governors make strong candidates.
"Four of the last five men to win the White House — [Barack] Obama, George W. Bush, [Bill] Clinton and [Ronald] Reagan – all ran as outsiders, railing against Washington's incestuous inefficiency, and given public perceptions about Washington, only a political masochist would seek the inside track," said Bruce Mehlman of Mehlman Vogel & Castagnetti and a former George W. Bush administration official.
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Lisa Camooso Miller, a former Republican National Committee spokeswoman, agreed.
"The Republican power base is in the states, and if history is any judge, that's where our next president will originate," said Miller, explaining the dominant wisdom in the party.
Black said governors have an extra leg up on other kinds of outsiders, since they've run something.
"People look at governors as executives and people who have managed things. The credentials are similar for what people have in mind for a president more so than a senator," Black said.
The talk about Walker is also a reminder of how wide open the 2016 field remains, an unusual situation for a party that has turned to an heir apparent in the past two cycles. McCain won the primary in 2008, after losing to Bush ahead of the 2000 election. Romney was the runner-up to McCain in 2008, which made him the go-to candidate in 2012.
The RNC recently sent out a 2016 presidential straw poll to supporters with more than 30 possible candidates. And several lawmakers, including Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas, and even fellow Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin are flirting with running for the White House.
"There are no front-runners. There are six to 10 really good candidates," said former Speaker Newt Gingrich, a former presidential candidate who now co-hosts CNN's "Crossfire," name-checking several governors such as Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and John Kasich of Ohio as possible candidates. "I think we'll have a very broad campaign group."


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Congratulation to Rich Ferguson, creator of iTricks' Trick of the Year for 2008.
In a final four fight to the death, Tagged took on Branded by Tim Trono. Also in the first round, Richard Sanders' Extreme Burn beat out Wayne Houchin's Thread. That led to a final round between Tagged and Extreme Burn. In a breakneck race, Tagged won 56 percent of the vote, leading Ferguson's effect to win the title.
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For long-running talk show The View, the last year has seen an awful lot of moving in and out of its co-hosts. First, Meredith Vieira exited to take over hosting duties on Today. Then Star Jones left after her contract wasn't renewed, and also because the woman hired to replace Meredith, comic Rosie O'Donnell, had feuded publicly with Star. Of course, Rosie's tenure on the hit show would be both controversial and brief, as she left after less than a year, citing problems with the show's lone conservative co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck. And now it's time for Elisabeth to say goodbye — at least for a little while.
The 30-year-old co-host is expecting her second child with hubby, former NFL quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, later this year and will be going on maternity leave beginning either Nov. 8 or Nov. 9. However, the online rumor mill has gone into overdrive recently with claims that either Elisabeth will not return from maternity leave or the show will quietly ask her to not return.
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Life after the fire
A crew devastated: When 9 Prineville Hotshots were killed in the South Canyon Fire in Colorado, the remaining 11 coped with the pain, went back to work or moved on
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The Prineville Hotshots visited Crater Lake National Park on a day off from firefighting on July 4, 1994 — just two days before nine of them would be among 14 firefighters to perish in the South Canyon Fire.
After losing nine friends and co-workers to a wildfire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain in summer 1994, the remaining 11 Prineville Hotshots faced a difficult choice — return to work or quit fighting fires.
Their bosses said they would give them all the time they needed to make the choice. Alex Robertson, who ran a chain saw in the crew, chose to return to the fire line that same summer, as did the majority of his fellow hotshots.
"I didn't have anything else to do," said Robertson, 43, now deputy fire staff officer for Central Oregon Fire Management Services, which coordinates firefighting on the Deschutes and Ochoco national forests, the Crooked River National Grassland, and Prineville District of the Bureau of Land Management. "It's the middle of July, fire season. So I came back."
Initially all but one of the 11 surviving hotshots returned to being a firefighter, Robertson said. Over time many of them went on to different jobs.
Kim (Valentine) Lightley, 43, another of the Prineville Hotshots in 1994, was the one who decided right away to stop fighting fires. She was one of five women on the crew and the only one who survived, leaving her wondering why she made it through the fire and they didn't. She now lives in Powell Butte and works as a research chemist, but travels the country to give talks to firefighters and their families about coping with the stress of traumatic experiences.
"I've had 20 years to think about that decision (to leave firefighting)," she told a room full of fire officials and firefighters in Prineville this spring.
In an article for Two More Chains, a quarterly newsletter for firefighters put out by the federal Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center, she explained why she decided not to return to the hotshot crew.
"I was in a lot of grief at that time. It was terribly painful. To have something like this happen pretty much stabbed me in the heart. So I decided not to return that summer," she said.
The blowup of the South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado on July 6, 1994, killed 14 firefighters — nine Prineville Hotshots and five other firefighters. Firefighters earn the title hotshot when they've proved themselves as some of the best of the best — the crews are the elite of the wildland firefighting world.
Shocked by the loss of nearly half the 20-person Prineville Hotshots crew, fire officials at the Ochoco National Forest initially decided to have the entire firefighting force take a break immediately following the South Canyon Fire.
"The whole forest was grieving, simultaneous," Kevin Donham, a former fire management officer with the Ochoco National Forest said at the same gathering as Lightley's talk.
Fire crews from the Deschutes National Forest, Oregon Department of Forestry and the Jefferson County Fire Department all offered to respond to fires on the Ochoco during the "stand-down," as Donham called it.
Alex Robertson is one of 11 surviving members of the Prineville Hotshots who were at the South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain.
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"I think people needed some time to absorb what had happened," said Patrick Lair, spokesman for the Ochoco National Forest.
But about a week after the fire the Ochoco returned its fire crews to duty. The Prineville Hotshots eventually returned to work and joined with the 20-person Redmond Hotshots for the rest of the fire season, working as a 30-person crew. Officials combined the two crews in part because of the depleted numbers of the Prineville Hotshots and in part to keep them away from curious media.
Robertson said he came back to work around July 15, 1994, after having gone to eight of the nine funerals around Oregon for his co-workers. The last funeral was held later.
The fallen hotshots were much more than just co-workers.
Lightley called them "beloved brothers and sisters," in the newsletter article.
A hotshot fire crew is like a family, Robertson said. During fire season the job consumes a firefighter's life, with work and downtime spent with fellow crew members.
"You are always together," he said.
Being a hotshot can also become part of a person's identity outside the fire season.
"I was one of the geeks at college who wore her (firefighting) boots in the winter because I didn't want my calluses to go away," Lightley said.
After leaving the Prineville Hotshots, Lightley stayed with the U.S. Forest Service for summer 1994.
First she was on a fish survey crew, she wrote in the article. She had a biology degree so the district managers thought it might be a good fit. It wasn't.
"So they put me on this crew and we would go out and shock fish," Lightley wrote in the article. "... And they wouldn't come back to life. There was a lot of death going on. So I didn't last too long on the fish crew."
Next she was stationed at a fire lookout. Earlier in her career she'd enjoyed "relief" stints, or temporary assignments at lookouts. This also backfired.
"I took my dog with me," she said in the article. "We sat up on that butte for two months. There was a lot of isolation. I went hours and days without speaking to people. No human interaction happened. Looking back now, that may have been the catalyst to my (post-traumatic stress disorder)."
Over the year following the South Canyon Fire, Lightley wrote in the newsletter article, she had an ongoing compulsion to visit the graves of her fellow hotshots.
"That's where I could let down my guard and sob," she said. "I was carrying around a fake smile — so folks didn't know I was in so much pain. I had a lot of survivor's guilt. I believed 100 percent that I should have died on that mountain with my friends."
The Prineville Hotshots logo today, with nine stars representing the nine hotshots killed in the South Canyon Fire.
Courtesy Ochoco National Forest
Along with the bond they share with one another, hotshots often feel a bond with their tool, Robertson said. Some of the tools are unique to the work and have names like Pulaski, an ax with a digging blade on the back of the head. Others are familiar tools, particularly chain saws.
The tools are what make a firefighter valuable as a member of the team. Throughout the season firefighters are tasked with the care of their tool. They'll sharpen them, smooth out the handle — make the tool theirs.
Some firefighters even give their tools names. Robertson called his chain saw the "Screaming Banshee," and etched the nickname on the side of it for easy identification.
In the chaos of the South Canyon Fire blowup on Storm King Mountain, Robertson ditched the saw, tossing it onto a pile of other chain saws. As he fled from the surge of flames, the saws exploded. He spent 13 years on a hotshot crew and it's the only time he ever left a tool behind.
Following the South Canyon Fire, officials at the Ochoco National Forest considered not having the stand-down, debated disbanding the hotshots and having them put their tools away for good. They were concerned the name "Prineville Hotshots" would carry with it too much pain. Ultimately, they decided to keep the name and the crew and not to let tragedy end the tradition of the unit that started in 1980.
The Prineville Hotshots symbol — seen on the side of their helmets, on crew shirts and on the back of their transport truck — today centers around the image of a coyote jumping over a flame. Over it there are now nine stars, each representing one of the firefighters who died in the South Canyon Fire. The crew also still wears blue helmets as they did on the South Canyon Fire.
In 1994 Eric Miller was just starting his career as a firefighter, working on a private company's engine crew out of Bend. Now he's the superintendent for the Prineville Hotshots, having taken the post only weeks ago.
Like many hotshots around the country, Miller has visited Storm King Mountain and walked the trail.
The granite cross on Storm King Moutain marking where Tami Bickett died on July 6, 1994, in the South Canyon Fire.
Courtesy Dale Shrull / Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
"You don't think that something like this can happen to what everybody considers the most prepared, the most highly trained ... the elite firefighters," he said.
Robertson, one of the survivors of the South Canyon Fire, has been back to Storm King Mountain almost 20 times, the first time in fall 1994. He now goes each May as part of a training led by the Redding Hotshots out of Northern California. People ask him whether it's hard to go back.
His reply may surprise them.
"It's my best week of the year, to be on that hill, to be on that ground," he said. When he's there he's with 80 or so people, to learn from the fatal fire.
He and Lightley plan to be there Sunday, along with many of the other survivors and friends and family of the fallen, as part of a 20th anniversary event commemorating the South Canyon Fire.
Robertson said he plans to bring his wife and two boys, ages 10 and 12. They've been there before, but this will likely be the first year they understand what their dad lived through. He wants to make sure his kids know that although he still fights fire, he's now working with management teams at a fire camp — a phone his main tool.
"I'm not the guy on the hill digging line and running a chain saw anymore," Robertson said.
Lightley said it took her 17 years before she revisited Storm King Mountain.
But she hasn't walked down the east-side drainage where she, Robertson and others fled from the fire and to safety. She plans on going down it this time.
"It's kind of my own need to get down that east drainage again," she said.
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Trading is all about Volatility: the Media is all about liesVolatility readings have shot to a new high; 2018 has been a very active year as far as this indicator goes. This indicator has provided and continues to provide (advance) warning that traders should be prepared to deal with a more volatile market. Volatility is a terrible thing, only if one allows one's emotions to do the talking; otherwise, it should be viewed through a positive lens as it keeps the masses uncertain.
On Monday (Dec 24), we had the worst Christmas Eve session in history. On Wednesday, another milestone was achieved; the Dow experienced its largest one day point gain ever. On Thursday, we set another record; the markets experienced the largest intraday reversal in over ten years. Such moves confirm uncertainty is at the helm and bull markets have never ended on a note of uncertainty.
Extreme Uncertainty should be viewed through a bullish lensThis market is not only experiencing an extended bout of volatility, but it is going through a bipolar phase as politics is being used as a weapon to move the markets. Without getting into details, politics (as politics, unless it's related to the markets, is beyond the scope of this publication) is being used in a wicked manner to turn the masses on each other and to whip the markets. Whether you love or hate Trump, one thing stands out like a sore thumb; the media have never attacked a sitting president in such an aggressive manner. Trump has probably been attacked more than the last four presidents combined. Indirectly, this is having a significant impact on the markets.
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I would like to clone the EHX Electric Mistress (Same as Memory Man/ Hog/ Hot Tubes), but I cannot find any available unit in my country (Argentina) in order to get chassis' dimmensions.
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Annual to tree
Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual to shrubs; cotyledons generally petioled, withering early
Stem generally erect
Leaves palmately compound in CA, generally cauline; stipules fused to petiole; leaflets 317, generally oblanceolate, entire
Inflorescence: raceme; flowers spiraled or whorled; bracts generally deciduous
Flower: calyx 2-lipped, lobes entire or toothed, generally appendaged between lobes; banner centrally grooved, sides reflexed, wing tips slightly fused, keel generally pointed; stamens 10, filaments fused, 5 long with short anthers, 5 short with long anthers; style brushy
Fruit dehiscent, generally oblong
Seeds 212, generally smooth
Species in genus: ± 200 species: especially w North America, w South America to e US, also tropical South America, Medit
Etymology: (Latin: wolf, from mistaken idea that plants rob soil of nutrients)
Some cultivated for fodder, green manure, edible seed, ornamental; some naturalized from CA in e North America, South America, Australia, s Africa;
some (e.g. L. arboreus, L. latifolius, L. leucophyllus ) have alkaloids (especially in seeds, fruits, young herbage) TOXIC to livestock (especially sheep)
Reference: [Barneby 1989 Intermountain Flora 3(B):237267]
Infl length does not include peduncle
Horticultural information: Many lupine taxa need seed pre-treatment (scarification, stratification, inoculation) for successful germination.
Perennial 215 dm, green, glabrous or sparsely hairy
Stem erect, stout
Leaves basal and cauline; stipules 530 mm; petioles 345 cm, upper shorter; leaflets 517, 40150 mm
Inflorescence 640 cm, open; peduncle 313 cm; pedicel 315 mm; flowers ± whorled; bracts 711 mm, deciduous
Flower 915 mm; calyx lips entire, upper lip 47 mm, lower lip 47 mm; petals violet to lavender to pink to white, banner back glabrous, patch yellow to white sometimes turning red-purple, keel upcurved, generally glabrous
Fruit 2.54 cm, hairy
Seeds 39
Chromosomes: 2n=48
Ecology: Moist areas to bogs
Elevation: < 3000 m.
Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, Cascade Range, High Sierra Nevada, Central Coast, San Francisco Bay Area, Outer South Coast Ranges, San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, Great Basin Floristic Province
Distribution outside California: to British Columbia, also in Idaho, Nevada
Leaf: leaflets 917, glabrous above, ± strigose below
Habitats of sp.
Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, Central Coast, San Francisco Bay Area, Outer South Coast Ranges
Distribution outside California: to British Columbia
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I need to invert a Hessian matrix to calculate the covariance matrix. The matrices are fairly large, typical sizes are (300x300), or values of that order. In general, the Hessian is very ill-conditioned. The covariance matrix (in this case, the inverse of the Hessian) will have a blocky structure (blocks of elements around the main diagonal). I have tried to do an SVD of the Hessian, and invert it, but I am at a loss of where to cut the singular values. If I cut very early, I have what looks like a smoothed version of the covariances. If I cut too lates, it's just noise.
All my "clever" :) processing is to truncate the svd at some level, reconstruct the truncated Hessian and invert it. I don't know whether there are any more robust ways of going about this, and that do not involve trial and error in terms of truncating the matrix.


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Just an Idea I Had Today
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
So we're mostly moved in here in beautiful northern California, and my new job is going well, thanks for asking. Today, on the drive into the office, I was listening to J.B. Blake's awesome soundtrack he made for DC vs Marvel, and I thought (as I often do when I listen to his awesome album) about how I wish we could actually, y'know, finish the game.
(Trolls, start your engines...)
Yeah, I know. I wish we'd gotten it done a long time ago too, back when the fire and the enthusiasm (and the spare time!) were flowing freely. I can't help that now; what's past is water under the bridge. What I can do, though, is try and find a way forward, and another old idea came back to me:
DC Super Heroes
I'm not sure if I've ever publicly talked about this, or if it was always just a topic of private conversation among my fellow Scruffy Dragons. The idea was this: "Marvel Versus Capcom 3" didn't just spring, fully formed, from Capcom's skunkworks. In fact, even the first MvC was the culmination of many years' effort, and many games: X-Men: Children of the Atom, Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men vs Street Fighter, and Marvel vs Street Fighter. Not to mention the Capcom fighters! Yes, there were a few new characters and new mechanics introduced in MvC, but a lot of the content was carried over from previous games. So my thought went, why not do the same with our project? DC vs Marvel was always an audacious plan, and history has proven it to be more elusive than Duke Nukem Forever (a game that I never thought I'd mention on this blog, but there you go) -- why not start smaller? Especially given all of the DC-focused work that myself, my fellow Dragons, and others in the MUGEN community have produced over the years, it's actually pretty surprising that nobody's done this yet.
The original Marvel Super Heroes (hereafter MSH) had 10 playable characters (6 heroes and 4 villains), a sub-boss (Dr. Doom), and a main boss (Thanos). If anyone wanted to do this (I'm not sure anyone ever did), you could re-create that game by:
- creating a screenpack
- creating (or getting permission to use other creators' versions) the 12 characters
- creating 12 stages (one per character)
- making 10 simple game ending animations (one per playable character)
- modifying the 12 characters to add support for the Infinity Gems mechanic that's unique to the game
Okay, not exactly the work of a lazy Saturday afternoon, but for some reason, that feels a little more doable to me. A DC analogue might look something like this:
- Premise:
- storyline loosely based on JLA: Rock of Ages
- Playable characters (heroes):
- Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, & Plastic Man
- Playable characters (villains):
- Parasite, Etrigan, Lobo, Mongul
- Bosses:
- Lex Luthor and Darkseid
What's interesting about this roster is that it's almost all done already. The Flash and Plastic Man betas need to be finished, and Parasite needs to be cleaned up (the version for a closed-roster game like this would naturally only include power sets for the other 11 characters on the roster). That just leaves coming up with a good unifying game mechanic to bring these 12 characters together, making a screenpack, then making sure the characters all have stages & logical endings that fit in with the overarching storyline of the game (Grant Morrison's JLA comic had some good world-shattering story arcs that could work. I like Rock of Ages, and it has the benefit of having the bad guys that already exist for MUGEN: Luthor and Darkseid.
Also -- I remember now -- we actually did talk about this as a team a while ago, and DNGR made a screenpack for us and everything. We even had a video showing it off as part of Scruffyversary that year, and had grand plans. Unfortunately, the team was already kind of semi-retiring at the time, so that never went anywhere.
So am I actually going to do this now? What's different this time?
I don't know. I'd need to get buy-in from the creators of the characters that I didn't make (Magus, Alucard, Loganir, Mambojambo, and Wucash), not all of whom are still around anymore, and not all of whom even seem to like each other much anymore. -_- Plus, I'd need to either make my own screenpack, or use DNGR's. Still seems like a lot of work...
But maybe it's a small enough project that it could be done by one person with a vision.
We'll see.
Labels: DC vs Marvel, Meta
Sunday, June 23, 2013Nothing new to say because we're in the middle of executing a 3000-mile move from the U.S. East Coast to the West Coast. Should have plenty to say next week, if I get the down time I'm expecting.
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You'll never see him coming.
Saturday, June 15, 2013
The eagle-eyed among my readers may have noticed that I created new projects this week on my Github page for Mandarin and Sinestro. The even more watchful may have noticed in a feed reader that I just created 19 issues on the Mandarin project.
Yes, that means I'm working on him.
I felt like it was his turn.
Labels: Mandarin
Getting tired of Parasite posts?
Friday, June 07, 2013
One more post on Parasite, then I think I can move on and start talking about something else again. Promise.
This week I've been looking around the community, downloading a ton of Marvel/DC characters, and trying to figure out which, if any, to support in Parasite's power system. I've got a long text file with all of my notes, but I haven't made any long-term plans yet, because really, there's plenty still do with with the half-finished power sets he's already got. <_<
I am starting to get comfortable with the idea of certain classes of power sets -- for example, right now he has separate power sets for Plastic Man and Mr. Fantastic, who basically have exactly the same powers, and there are places all over the code base that have to change if I ever add a third "stretchy character" power set, since it affects all of his basic attacks. Right now he only has one super-speedster power set, for Flash, and adding support for new speedsters like Quicksilver and Jay Garrick should be as simple as adding their names to the state controller that grants that one.
On the other hand... there may be times when otherwise-similar characters have a signature move (Hulk and Thing are very similar, for example, but Thing doesn't ever do the Thunder Clap that's such a common Hulk visual), or a particular passive (Ice can wall-jump, for example, but Iceman can't), and if we lump all "Hulking characters" and "Ice characters" into single power sets, we lose those distinctions. I don't know, maybe that's okay.
Needless to say, I'm still of two minds about the long-term plan. The short term plan is the same, though -- 30 power sets for DC, 30 for Marvel, all with finished, non-buggy moves. That'll keep me plenty busy for a while.
Of course, I also just added a Cable power set, because I thought it would be pretty easy to code (and it was):
On another topic...
I've been using Github for several years now to host my open-source code (mostly web stuff), and a few years ago, I stuffed a couple of my MUGEN projects in a single Github project (which, in retrospect, was a pretty dumb idea), but never really used it. These days, I'm on different machines all the time -- my Windows7 laptop at home, my MacBook at work, and my Windows PC when I need to use a mouse (it's slower than the laptop, but better for sprite editing and that kind of thing). I've been using Dropbox to keep my MUGEN projects in sync across all those devices, and it works well enough, but is kind of a pain for other reasons: most of the time when I'm working on a character on my laptop, it's code-only, and the code of a character takes up a LOT less space than the entirety of one of my WIP folders (which are full of sprite rips, half-finished edits, sound rips, reference videos, etc), so putting everything in Dropbox is a bit of a waste, and a drain on performance when all that stuff has to get synced across all my devices, even though I never actually need it on most. So, long story short, I've come back around to the idea of hosting my MUGEN work on Github. I put Parasite up there a few days ago, and plan to do the same with my other unfinished characters like Sinestro and Mandarin. So expect more on that soon.
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There are HOW many Capcom-original Marvel characters?!?
Friday, May 31, 2013
So last week, in talking about the long-term plan for Parasite's stolen-power moves, I said I was planning to support:
… a plurality of DC and Marvel heavy-hitters, hopefully all Capcom-produced Marvel characters and all the great MUGEN-only ones. Then I'll do like TwinImage suggested, and implement a handful of generic power sets for all other characters he might encounter, including things like strength, speed, super-armor, etc.
Seems reasonable, right?
Earlier this week I actually sat down and compiled the rosters of all the Capcom-produced fighting games with Marvel characters, and guess what I learned?
All Capcom Marvel characters (to eventually support...? Eeek!)
- X-Men:Children of the Atom
- Cyclops, Psylocke, Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Iceman, Omega Red, Sentinel, Spiral, Silver Samurai, Juggernaut, Magneto
- Marvel Super Heroes
- Hulk, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Psylocke, Magneto, Shuma-Gorath, Blackheart, Juggernaut, Dr. Doom, Thanos
- X-Men vs Street Fighter
- Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, Gambit, Storm, Sabretooth, Juggernaut, Magneto, Apocalypse
- Marvel Superheroes vs Street Fighter
- Cyclops, Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Hulk, Shuma-Gorath, Blackheart, Omega Red, Apocalypse
- Marvel vs Capcom
- Captain America, Gambit, Hulk, Spider-Man, Venom, War Machine, Wolverine, Onslaught
- Marvel vs Capcom 2
- Cyclops, Doctor Doom, Sentinel, Blackheart, Captain America, Gambit, Hulk, Iceman, Iron Man, Juggernaut, Magneto, Silver Samurai, Omega Red, War Machine, Rogue, Sabretooth, Colossus, Shuma-Gorath, Wolverine, Cable, Storm, Thanos, Psylocke, Spider-Man, Marrow, Wolverine (Bone Claws), Spiral, Venom
- Marvel vs Capcom 3
- Deadpool, Doctor Strange, Dormammu, Galactus, Ghost Rider, Hawkeye, Iron Fist, MODOK, Nova, Phoenix, Rocket Raccoon, She-Hulk, Super-Skrull, Taskmaster, Thor, X-23
So then I filtered through all of that and got a single list of all Capcom-created Marvel characters:
- !Apocalypse
- *Blackheart
- *Cable
- #Captain America
- *Colossus
- #Cyclops
- #Deadpool
- Doctor Strange
- Dormammu
- #Dr. Doom
- !Galactus
- *Gambit
- #Ghost Rider
- Hawkeye
- #Hulk
- #Iceman
- Iron Fist
- #Iron Man
- #Juggernaut
- *Magneto
- #Marrow
- Nova
- #Omega Red
- !Onslaught
- *Phoenix
- *Psylocke
- Rocket Raccoon
- @Rogue
- Sabretooth
- *Sentinel
- *She-Hulk
- *Shuma-Gorath
- *Silver Samurai
- #Spider-Man
- #Spiral
- #Storm
- $Super-Skrull
- Taskmaster
- #Thanos
- #Thor
- #Venom
- %War Machine
- #Wolverine
That's a big list!
Looking over this list, I had several observations:
- # – These are the ones I support already; 18 out of 45... :-P
- * – I've had tentative plans to support these ones in the future, and in many cases have ripped sprites / drawn (or been given) power set icons, etc
- ! – These ones are huge boss characters; maybe I won't support them, since even though they may be playable, they're not going to be common
- $ – Super-Skrull I can kind of punt on, and just cough up a random FF-based power set ;)
- % – War Machine is more or less just a copy of Iron Man, so maybe I can cheat and use the same power set for both...?
- ^ – X-23, I might be able to get away with just treating like Wolverine... #maybenot
- @ – ... and then there's Rogue. I really have no idea how to deal with the Rogues out there, since, as a power-drainer herself, she doesn't have many original attacks. Ranked easiest to hardest, here are my options:
- ignore her / treat her like an unpowered opponent (i.e. just get a random health/power boost)
- treat her like my MarvelTemplate character, and get a random Marvel power set
- create a custom power set based on her few non-stolen moves
- try and figure out what power set she's got and copy it (ugh, HARD)
This week, I went ahead and added support for Super Skrull, giving up a random power set from one of the Fantastic Four:
Even with all of these caveats and special-cases, that leaves me with more power sets to add than I a) have room for in my power-stealing code, and b) have time to actually implement! Plus, it completely leaves out any of the other community-created Marvel characters that I'd like to support, like Luke Cage, Scarlet Witch, Wasp, Giant Man, etc.
So I guess I'm going to have to think long & hard about this.
Meanwhile, there's plenty to fix in the power sets he already has! Guess that means it's time to get back to work!
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Powerset Drain
Friday, May 24, 2013
Last week, I asked for ideas on new power sets to give to Parasite, and you guys came through, thanks!
Two commenters, one anonymous and one my friend TwinImage, pointed out that I can't keep adding power sets forever, or else Parasite will never be "done". They're both right, but I don't want to pull out all the power sets I've put in, because I've grown quite attached to some of them. I think what I'm going to end up doing is this: I'll provide complete support for a plurality of DC and Marvel heavy-hitters, hopefully all Capcom-produced Marvel characters and all the great MUGEN-only ones. Then I'll do like TwinImage suggested, and implement a handful of generic power sets for all other characters he might encounter, including things like strength, speed, super-armor, etc.
I'd hoped to have some screenshots of new stuff to show this week, but I've been working out of town, and MUGEN doesn't work on my Mac. So next week, we'll see what we see.
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Parasite says, "What's new on the menu?"
Friday, May 17, 2013
Someone mentioned last week in the comments to my previous post that they're excited to see if I add support for any new DC/Marvel characters to Parasite. At first, I kind of mentally resisted the idea, thinking that I had a huge list of buggy & incomplete moves to finish before I think about anything new.
And that's true. BUT...
This isn't a promise that I'm going to actually implement any new power sets, but I'm asking you all to comment below: what's new and cool in the past few years in the DC/Marvel MUGEN world? Also, what characters have you downloaded that you think Parasite should already support, and doesn't? (for example, I'm pretty sure if I tried to power drain Verz & Loganir's new Astonishing Cyclops that I wouldn't actually get a Cyclops power set in return)
As a reminder, here's his current 60 power sets (30 DC, 30 Marvel):
Parasite's power sets
|Captain America
|Savage Hulk
|Wonder Woman
|Iron Man
|Plastic Man
|Lex Luthor
|Dr. Doom
|Ghost Rider
|Strong Guy
|Mr. Fantastic
|Poison Ivy
|Invisible Woman
|The Atom
|The Thing
|Martian Manhunter
|Human Torch
|Shazam/Captain Marvel
|Silver Surfer
|Red Lantern (Atrocitus)
|Agent Orange (Larfleeze)
|Omega Red
|Indigo Lantern
|Star Sapphire
|Black Lantern
I've got room for 20 more from each side (not that I'm going to tackle 40 more, sheesh), so let the suggestions fly!
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