text:
zh-CN:Bumblebee From Bumblebee's FAQ:
"Bumblebee is an effort to make NVIDIA Optimus enabled laptops work in GNU/Linux systems. Such feature involves two graphics cards with two different power consumption profiles plugged in a layered way sharing a single framebuffer."
- 1 Bumblebee: Optimus for Linux
- 2 Installation
- 3 Start Bumblebee
- 4 Usage
- 5 Configuration
- 5.1 Optimizing Speed when using VirtualGL as bridge
- 5.2 Power Management
- 5.3 Multiple monitors
- 6 Switch Between Discrete and Integrated Like Windows
- 7 CUDA Without Bumblebee
- 8 Troubleshooting
- 8.1 [VGL] ERROR: Could not open display :8
- 8.2 [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU
- 8.3 ERROR: ld.so: object 'libdlfaker.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored
- 8.4 Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server
- 8.5 Video tearing
- 8.6 Bumblebee can't connect to socket
- 9 Important Links
Bumblebee: Optimus for Linux
Optimus Technology is an hybrid graphics implementation without a hardware multiplexer. The integrated GPU manages the display while the dedicated GPU manages the most demanding rendering and ships the work to the integrated GPU to be displayed. When the laptop is running on battery supply, the dedicated GPU is turned off to save power and prolong the battery life.
Bumblebee is a software implementation comprising of two parts:
- Render programs off-screen on the dedicated video card and display it on the screen using the integrated video card. This bridge is provided by VirtualGL or primus (read further) and connects to a X server started for the discrete video card.
- Disable the dedicated video card when it is not in use (see the #Power Management section)
It tries to mimic the Optimus technology behavior; using the dedicated GPU for rendering when needed and power it down when not in use. The present releases only support rendering on-demand, automatically starting a program with the discrete video card based on workload is not implemented.
Before installing Bumblebee check your BIOS and activate Optimus (older laptops call it "switchable graphics") if possible (BIOS doesn't have to provide this option), and install the intel driver for the secondary on board graphics card.
Several packages are available for a complete setup:
- bumblebee (or bumblebee-gitAUR) - the main package providing the daemon and client programs.
- (optional) bbswitch (or bbswitch-dkmsAUR) - recommended for saving power by disable the Nvidia card.
- (optional) If you want more than just saving power, that is rendering programs on the discrete Nvidia card you also need:
- a driver for the Nvidia card. The open-source nouveau driver or the more closed-source nvidia driver. See the subsection.
- a render/display bridge. Two packages are currently available for that, primus (or primus-gitAUR) and virtualgl. Only one of them is necessary, but installing them side-by-side does not hurt.
primusrun instead of
optirun if you decide to use Primus render bridge.
Installing Bumblebee with Intel / Nvidia
- Install intel-dri, xf86-video-intel, bumblebee and nvidia.
# pacman -S intel-dri xf86-video-intel bumblebee nvidia
If you want to run 32-bit applications (like games with wine) on a 64-bit system you need the lib32-nvidia-utils package too.
# pacman -S lib32-nvidia-utils
Installing Bumblebee with Intel / Nouveau
Install nouveau and required packages first:
# pacman -S xf86-video-nouveau nouveau-dri mesa
- xf86-video-nouveau experimental 3D acceleration driver
- nouveau-dri Mesa classic DRI + Gallium3D drivers
- mesa Mesa 3-D graphics libraries
Start Bumblebee
In order to use Bumblebee it is necessary add yourself (and other users) to the bumblebee group:
# gpasswd -a $USER bumblebee
$USER is the login name of the user to be added. Then log off and on again to apply the group changes.
To start bumblebee automatically at startup, enable
bumblebeed service:
# systemctl enable bumblebeed
Finished - reboot system and use the shell program
optirun for Optimus NVIDIA rendering!
If you simply wish to disable your nvidia card, this should be all that is needed, apart from having
bbswitch installed. The bumblebeed daemon will, by default, instruct bbswitch to turn off the card when it starts. See also the power management section below.
The command line programm
optirun shipped with Bumblebee is your best friend
for running applications on your Optimus NVIDIA card.
Test Bumblebee if it works with your Optimus system:
$ optirun glxgears -info
If it succeeds and the terminal you are running from mentions something about your NVIDIA - Optimus with Bumblebee is working!
General Usage:
$ optirun [options] <application> [application-parameters]
Some Examples:
Start Windows applications with Optimus:
$ optirun wine <windows application>.exe
Use NVIDIA Settings with Optimus:
$ optirun -b none nvidia-settings -c :8
For a list of options for
optirun view its manual page:
$ man optirun
A new program is soon becoming the default choice because of better performance, namely
primus. Currently you need to run this program separately (it does not accept options
optirun), but in the future it will be started by optirun. Usage:
$ primusrun glxgears
You can configure the behaviour of Bumblebee to fit your needs. Fine tuning like speed optimization, power management and other stuff can be configured in
Optimizing Speed when using VirtualGL as bridge
Bumblebee renders frames for your Optimus NVIDIA card in an invisible X Server with VirtualGL and transports them back to your visible X Server.
Frames will be compressed before they are transported - this saves bandwidth and can be used for speed-up optimization of bumblebee:
To use an other compression method for a single application:
$ optirun -c <compress-method> application
The method of compres will affect performance in the GPU/GPU usage. Compressed methods (such as
jpeg) will load the CPU the most but will load GPU the minimum necessary; uncompressed methods loads the most on GPU and the CPU will have the minimum load possible.
Compressed Methods are:
Uncompressed Methods are:
To use a standard compression for all applications set the
VGLTransport to
<compress-method> in
[...] [optirun] VGLTransport=proxy [...]
You can also play with the way VirtualGL reads back the pixels from your graphic card. Setting
VGL_READBACK environment variable to
pbo should increase the performance. Compare these two:
# PBO should be faster. VGL_READBACK=pbo optirun glxspheres # The default value is sync. VGL_READBACK=sync optirun glxspheres
Power Management
The goal of power management feature is to turn off the NVIDIA card when it is not used by bumblebee any more. If bbswitch is installed, it will be detected automatically when the Bumblebee daemon starts. No additional configuration is necessary.
Default power state of NVIDIA card using bbswitch
The default behavior of bbswitch is to leave the card power state unchanged.
bumblebeed does disable
the card when started, so the following is only necessary if you use bbswitch without bumblebeed.
load_state and
unload_state module options according to your needs (see bbswitch documentation).
options bbswitch load_state=0 unload_state=1
Enable NVIDIA card during shutdown
The NVIDIA card may not correctly initialize during boot if the card was powered off when the system was last shutdown. One option is to set
TurnCardOffAtExit=false in
/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf, however this will enable the card everytime you stop the Bumblebee daemon, even if done manually. To ensure that the NVIDIA card is always powered on during shutdown, add the following hook function (if using bbswitch):
nvidia_card_enable() { BBSWITCH=/proc/acpi/bbswitch stat_busy "Enabling NVIDIA GPU" if [ -w ${BBSWITCH} ]; then echo ON > ${BBSWITCH} stat_done else stat_fail fi } add_hook shutdown_poweroff nvidia_card_enable
Multiple monitors
Outputs wired to the intel chip
If the port (DisplayPort / HDMI / VGA) is wired to the Intel chip, you can set up multiple monitors with xorg.conf. Set them to use the Intel card, but Bumblebee can still use the NVIDIA card. One example configuration is below for two identical screens with 1080p resolution and using the HDMI out.
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "intelgpu0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1980x1080_60.00" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "intelgpu1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1980x1080_60.00" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Option "Enable" "true" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" Option "Enable" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "intelgpu0" Driver "intel" Option "XvMC" "true" Option "UseEvents" "true" Option "AccelMethod" "UXA" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "intelgpu1" Driver "intel" Option "XvMC" "true" Option "UseEvents" "true" Option "AccelMethod" "UXA" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "nvidiagpu1" Driver "nvidia" BusID "PCI:0:1:0" EndSection
You need to probably change the BusID for both the Intel and the Nvidia card.
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
The BusID is 0:2:0
Output wired to the nvidia chip
On some notebooks, the digital Video Output (Hdmi or Displayport) is hardwired to the Nvidia chip. If you want to use all the displays on such a system simultaniously, you have to run 2 X Servers. The first will be using the Intel driver for the notebooks panel and a display connected on VGA. The second will be started through optirun on the nvidia card, and drives the digital display.
There are currently several instructions on the web how such a setup can be made to work. One can be found on the bumblebee wiki page.
xf86-video-intel-virtual-crtc and hybrid-screenclone
This method uses a patched intel driver, which is extended to have a VIRTUAL Display, and the program hybrid-screenclone which is used to copy the display over from the virtual display to a second X Server which is running on the nvidia card using Optirun. Credit goes to Triple-head monitors on a Thinkpad T520 which has a detailed explanation on how this is done on a Ubuntu system.
For simplicity, DP is used below to refer to the Digital Output (DisplayPort). The instructions should be the same if the notebook has a Hdmi port instead.
- Set system to use Nvidia-card exclusively, test DP/Monitor combination and generate xorg.nvidia.conf. This step is not required, but recommended if your system Bios has an option to switch the graphics into Nvidia-only mode. To do this, first uninstall the bumblebee package and install just the nvidia driver. Then reboot, enter the Bios and switch the Graphics to Nvidia-only. When back in Arch, connect you Monitor on DP and use startx to test if it is working in principle. Use Xorg -configure to generate an xorg.conf file for your nvidia card. This will come in handy further down below.
- Reinstall bumlbebee & bbswitch, reboot and set the system Gfx back to Hybrid in the Bios.
- Install xf86-video-intel-virtual-crtcAUR, and replace your xf86-video-intel package with it
- Download hybrid-screenclone and build it using "make".
- Change these bumblebee.conf Settings
KeepUnusedXServer=true Driver=nvidia
- Copy the xorg.conf generated in Step 1 to
/etc/X11/xorg.nvidia.conf). In the [driver-nvidia] section of
bumblebee.conf, change
XorgConfFileto point to it.
- Test if your
/etc/X11/xorg.nvidia.confis working with
startx -- -config /etc/X11/xorg.nvidia.conf
- In order for your DP Monitor to show up with the correct resolution in your VIRTUAL Display you might have to edit the Monitor section in your
/etc/xorg.nvidia.conf. Since this is extra work, you could try to continue with your auto-generated file. Come back to this step in the instructions if you find that the resolution of the VIRTUAL Display as shown by xrandr is not correct.
- First you have to generate a Modeline. You can use the tool amlc, which will genearte a Modeline if you input a few basic parameters.
- Example: 24" 1920x1080 Monitor
- start the tool with
amlc -c
Monitor Identifier: Samsung 2494 Aspect Ratio: 2 physical size[cm]: 60 Ideal refresh rate, in Hz: 60 min HSync, kHz: 40 max HSync, kHz: 90 min VSync, Hz: 50 max VSync, Hz: 70 max pixel Clock, MHz: 400
This is the Monitor section which
amlc generated for this input:
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Samsung 2494" ModelName "Generated by Another Modeline Calculator" HorizSync 40-90 VertRefresh 50-70 DisplaySize 532 299 # Aspect ratio 1.778:1 # Custom modes Modeline "1920x1080" 174.83 1920 2056 2248 2536 1080 1081 1084 1149 # 174.83 MHz, 68.94 kHz, 60.00 Hz EndSection # Samsung 2494
Change your
xorg.nvidia.conf to include this Monitor section. You can also trim down your file so that it only contains ServerLayout, Monitor, Device and Screen sections. For reference, here is mine:
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Nvidia DP" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Samsung 2494" ModelName "Generated by Another Modeline Calculator" HorizSync 40-90 VertRefresh 50-70 DisplaySize 532 299 # Aspect ratio 1.778:1 # Custom modes Modeline "1920x1080" 174.83 1920 2056 2248 2536 1080 1081 1084 1149 # 174.83 MHz, 68.94 kHz, 60.00 Hz EndSection # Samsung 2494 Section "Device" Identifier "DiscreteNvidia" Driver "nvidia" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "DiscreteNvidia" Monitor "Samsung 2494" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
- plug in both external monitors and startx. Look at your
/var/log/Xorg.0.log. Check that your VGA Monitor is detected with the correct Modes there. You should also see a VIRTUAL output with modes show up.
- run
xrandrand three displays should be listed there, along with the supported modes.
- If the listed Modelines for your VIRTUAL display doesn't have your Monitors native resolution, make note of the exact output name. For me that is
VIRTUAL1. Then have a look again in the Xorg.0.log file. You should see a message: "Output VIRTUAL1 has no monitor section" there. We will change this by putting a file with the needed Monitor section into
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Exit and Restart X afterward.
Section "Monitor" Identifier "VIRTUAL1" ModelName "Generated by Another Modeline Calculator" HorizSync 40-90 VertRefresh 50-70 DisplaySize 532 299 # Aspect ratio 1.778:1 # Custom modes Modeline "1920x1080" 174.83 1920 2056 2248 2536 1080 1081 1084 1149 # 174.83 MHz, 68.94 kHz, 60.00 Hz EndSection # Samsung 2494
- Turn the nvidia card on by running:
sudo tee /proc/acpi/bbswitch <<< ON
- Start another X server for the DisplayPort monitor:
sudo optirun true
- Check the log of the second X server in
- Run xrandr to set up the VIRTUAL display to be the right size and placement.
xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --rotate normal --pos 0x0 --output VIRTUAL1 --mode 1920x1080 --right-of VGA1 --output LVDS1 --auto --rotate normal --right-of VIRTUAL1
- Take note of the position of the VIRTUAL display in the list of Outputs as shown by xrandr. The counting starts from zero, i.e. if it is the third display shown, you would specify
-x 2as parameter to
- Clone the contents of the VIRTUAL display onto the X server created by bumblebee, which is connected to the DisplayPort monitor via the Nvidia chip:
screenclone -d :8 -x 2
Thats it, all three displays should be up and running now.
Switch Between Discrete and Integrated Like Windows
In Windows, the way that Optimus works is Nvidia has a whitelist of applications that require Optimus for, and you can add applications to this whitelist as needed. When you launch the application, it automatically decides which card to use.
To mimic this behavior in Linux, you can use libgl-switcheroo-gitAUR. After installing, you can add the below in your .xprofile.
mkdir -p /tmp/libgl-switcheroo-$USER/fs gtkglswitch & libgl-switcheroo /tmp/libgl-switcheroo-$USER/fs &
To enable this, you must add the below to the shell that you intend to launch applications from (I simply added it to the .xprofile file)
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/libgl-switcheroo-$USER/fs/\$LIB${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+:}$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Once this has all been done, every application you launch from this shell will pop up a GTK window asking which card you want to run it with (you can also add an application to the whitelist in the configuration). The configuration is located in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/libgl-switcheroo.conf, usually
CUDA Without Bumblebee
This is not well documented, but you do not need Bumblebee to use CUDA and it may work even on machines where optirun fails. For a guide on how to get it working with the Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 (which uses the GeForce 660M), see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_IdeaPad_Y580#NVIDIA_Card. Those instructions are very likely to work with other machines (except for the acpi-handle-hack part, which may not be necessary).
[VGL] ERROR: Could not open display :8
There is a known problem with some wine applications that fork and kill the parent process without keeping track of it (for example the free to play online game "Runes of Magic")
This is a known problem with VirtualGL. As of bumblebee 3.1, so long as you have it installed, you can use Primus as your render bridge:
$ optirun -b primus wine <windows program>.exe
If this does not work, an alternative walkaround for this problem is:
$ optirun bash $ optirun wine <windows program>.exe
If using NVIDIA drivers a fix for this problem is to edit
/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia and change Option
ConnectedMonitor to
[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU
No devices detected.
In some instances, running optirun will return:
[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) No devices detected. [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
In this case, you will need to move the file
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf to somewhere else. Restart the bumblebeed daemon, and it should work. If you do need to change some features on Intel module, a workaround is to move your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf to
It could be also necessary to comment the driver line in
If you're using the nouveau driver you could try switching to the nVidia driver.
You might need to define the nvidia card somewhere (e.g. file
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d), and remember to change the BusID using lspci.
Section "Device" Identifier "nvidiagpu1" Driver "nvidia" BusID "PCI:0:1:0" EndSection
NVIDIA(0): Failed to assign any connected display devices to X screen 0
If the console output is:
[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to assign any connected display devices to X screen 0 [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
You can change this line in
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libdlfaker.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored
You probably want to start a 32-bit application with bumblebee on a 64-bit system. See the "Note" box in #Installation.
KeepUnusedXServer in
/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf from
false to
true. Your program forks into background and bumblebee don't know anything about it.
Video tearing
Video tearing is a somewhat common problem on Bumblebee. To fix it, you need to enable vsync. It should be enabled by default on the Intel card, but verify that from Xorg logs. To check whether or not it is enabled for nvidia, run:
$ optirun nvidia-settings -c :8
X Server XVideo Settings -> Sync to VBlank and
OpenGL Settings -> Sync to VBlank should both be enabled. The Intel card has in general less tearing, so use it for video playback. Especially use VA-API for video decoding (e.g.
mplayer-vaapi and with
-vsync parameter).
Refer to the Intel article on how to fix tearing on the Intel card.
If it is still not fixed, try to disable compositing from your desktop environment. Try also disabling triple buffering.
Bumblebee can't connect to socket
You might get something like:
$ optirun glxspheres
[ 1648.179533] [ERROR]You've no permission to communicate with the Bumblebee daemon. Try adding yourself to the 'bumblebee' group [ 1648.179628] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?
If you are already in the
bumblebee group (
$ groups | grep bumblebee), you may try removing the socket
Important Links
Join us at #bumblebee at freenode.net


text:
Old Homosassa SmokeHouse Phone : 352-634-0168
By Rocio Moreno
This is a Smokehouse and catering company that features smoke mullet, Salmon, and other fish, barbeque ribs, chicken , Pulled Pork, 3 types of dips,: Fish and crab dips, mullet and mahi-mahi, potato salad, cole slaw, barbecued beans and orzo pasta salad. Everything is cooked and smoked each day and is always fresh.
Ours bussines offer custom smoking, customers can bring in their meat or fish and I will custom smoke it to their liking. Old Homosassa Smokehouse is located at 10844 West Yule Dr. in Old Homosassa.
Located across the street from Homosassa Elementary.
Hours: Wednesday to Friday 12:am to 8 pm, Saturday 11 am to 8 pm, Sunday 11,30 am to 7 pm
E-Mail firstname.lastname@example.com
© Copyright Alejandro Moreno - 2/4/2009

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Haven had, and to an extent still has, a system like this. It totally falls apart with more than three people in a fight-- and if you have more than 5 to 7, you won't get a turn for a solid ten minutes.shezzarine wrote:I remember something akin to a turn based system from a MUD someone here was running (I think it was called Songs of Albion?) which required an emoted action before the combat roll went through. The slower pace was offset by generally higher damage each round. Or that's how it was pitched/explained to me, as I never went through it myself, but it sounded alright.
One time, there was a fight with something like twelve to fifteen people in it. The fight took three hours, no exaggerations.


text:
Rivals in rum revival
IPSWICH – The smell of molasses turning into rum is once again wafting from North Shore distilleries, much as it did from Medford to Newburyport during Colonial days and the Revolutionary War
But tapping into the region's historic ties to the favorite drink of sailors is proving to be as much of an art as crafting a fine beverage. The past wasn't ideal, it turns out, and harking back to it requires strategic finesse.
Three new craft distilleries have revived rum-making in the region within the past five years. Ryan & Wood makes Folly Cove Rum along with whiskey, gin, and vodka in Gloucester. Ipswich is home to two operations: Turkey Shore Distilleries, which makes a line of Old Ipswich rums, and Privateer International, which sells two rums under the Privateer label.
Entrepreneurs behind these ventures celebrate – though only to a point — the region's rum-soaked heritage. In the 1700s, New England was a world leader in rum production. Hundreds of coastal distilleries made it from the same three ingredients as are used today: molasses, water, and yeast. Medford, with its Mystic River access and sources of fresh spring water, led the industry in producing rum for local consumption and export.
Today's resurgence rides the coattails of a beer microbrewing boom and exploits friendly state laws, which let craft distillers sell directly to package stores and restaurants. Reclaiming history is part of the charm that fuels sales, but there's one problem: Colonial New England rum was famously cheap, and for good reason: It tasted terrible.
"I don't say that I am making a traditional New England rum because, in fact, it was a commodity. It wasn't good," said Bob Ryan, president and plant manager for Ryan & Wood. "If you had a bottle of rum that had survived 200 years and you took a taste of it, you'd probably call your lawyer and say, 'Someone is poisoning me.' "
Then there's the slave trade: New England-made rum was often traded for West African slaves. That unsavory link to a dark past need not hamper local rum's future, especially if producers are able to tell a more positive story, according to Wayne Curtis, author of "And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails.''
"Each of them has to come up with a different product, a different taste, or a different story" from the mass-produced rums, Curtis said. "It seems a lot of the stories that [North Shore distillers] are telling are local. They're capitalizing on a locavore movement."
To build on the saleable parts of rum's heritage in the region, distillers are framing their stories selectively. And the tales are flowing as freely as the rum, with help from some local boosters.
In downtown Ipswich, local rum lore has a new platform at Salt Kitchen and Rum Bar, which opened in February. Waiters and bartenders personalize local rums on the menu. One night, a Salt bartender casually informed a patron that the person sitting nearby was Privateer master distiller Maggie Campbell, who enthusiastically explained the process. Waiters also explain how Turkey Shore proprietor Mathew Perry grew up beside an Ipswich River wharf, where workers unloaded molasses for local rum-making more than 200 years ago.
"We educate the staff enough so that [local distillers'] stories become their stories," said Salt owner Dave Gillis.
A short drive from Salt, Perry's operation hums away in an industrial park. It is so close to Ipswich Ale's plant that the microbrewery's excess steam, piped through a wall, helps power Turkey Shore's pot-bellied copper still. A giant molasses storage tank takes up one corner of the space. Steel-hooped, rum-filled oak barrels, lying on their sides, fill another corner. In between, a still with a pointy spout turns fermented molasses into booze.
A former high school history teacher, Perry was quick to note how his still's relatively inefficient design reflects those used in simpler times. It eliminates more unwanted elements, he said, than do cylindrical units used in large-scale rum operations.
The North Shore's climate helps producers turn out unique tastes, distillers say. As rum ages some 18 months in oak barrels, seasonal temperature changes cause liquid to move in and out of the wood. In hot climates, by contrast, there's minimal contraction/expansion and therefore fewer opportunities to release flavor.
"Now at the end of winter, we're getting into our rum-dumping phase before the temperature starts rising and that distillate goes back into the wood," said Ryan, who cultivates caramel and butterscotch notes in his rum. "If it starts expanding back into the wood, we might have lost our peak of flavor."
Another local advantage: the coastal environment. The process of making rum still holds some mystery, Curtis said, including how natural yeasts – which vary from one region to another – affect the spirit's characteristics. Kathy Ryan, who oversees the blending process at Ryan & Wood, said minerals in Gloucester's water help the fermentation process. And Campbell, who relocated to Ipswich last year from the craft distilling mecca of Denver, loves working alongside a salt marsh.
"We get this beautiful, salty, briny quality in here," Campbell said inside Privateer's 10,000-square-foot plant. "When barrels respirate, they soak up that salty air. When you put [that rum] in your mouth, it just starts watering instantly."
The region's long history is another asset, one that producers invoke discreetly. Privateer co-founder Andrew Cabot proudly tells how his namesake ancestor of six generations prior was both a rum-maker and a patriot. His Beverly-based privateer vessel helped colonists defeat the British by capturing commercial loot, Cabot explains. Recreating his ancestor's rum, however, is not on today's agenda.
"We're doing something that they could have done back in the day," said Cabot, a former high-tech entrepreneur. "But the motivation in the industrial Northeast was to produce a lot, cheaply and fast. That's not our motivation. We're trying to make less and make it better."
Bob Ryan and his family, meanwhile, draw upon more recent history. The name Folly Cove Rum refers to a local inlet where Prohibition-era rumrunners from the Atlantic Maritimes used to drop their hooch. It conjures images of getting rum past hurdles to those who can appreciate it. Today, that might mean carving out a market niche that alcohol conglomerates can't touch.
The target consumer for North Shore rum "wants to know that it's an artisan rum, produced in small batches, and has an aura about it," said Ipswich resident Joseph Carlin, author of "Cocktails: A Global History.'' He notes that cocktail recipes in Colonial times insisted on Caribbean rums because the quality was superior to New England's.
But those days are gone.
"Local rum distillers today are trying to outdo one another," Carlin said, "in producing the finest rums possible.''
G. Jeffrey MacDonald can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Tooling Article
Turret-Press Tools Create Works of Art
The Kansas City fabrication shop, filling three buildings, boasts turret punch presses, press brakes, a waterjet cutter and CNC routers to cut and shape material from 0.010 to 6 in. thick. Materials include stainless steel, copper, brass, aluminum and zinc alloys, with some material precolored. No production work here, as all jobs are custom, and usually each panel in a job—with jobs typically consisting of thousands of panels—is unique.
Obviously, exterior architectural products demand blemish-free surfaces, so A. Zahner must be careful to avoid marring costly material during production. That is the main reason why the company, according to Scott Hidy, A. Zahner production manager, began about 12 years ago purchasing Wilson Wheel turret-press tooling from Wilson Tool International, White Bear Lake, MN. The Wilson Wheel line includes the Rolling Shear, Rolling Rib, Rolling Offset and Rolling Pincher. The tools provide high-speed production of slits, ribs and offsets on a range of materials, according to Wilson Tool officials, and produce no burrs or nibble marks.
The Proof is in the Cladding
The tools have paid off for A. Zahner on a number of jobs, according to Hidy, who provided a host of examples. For one, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, A. Zahner fabricated the entire exterior envelope: the roof, walls and glazing systems. The company spent one year designing the complete system, including producing parametric 3D computer models of each component prior to fabrication.
"The de Young project was one that really benefitted from us using the Rolling Pincher," he says. The museum boasts 1.1 million lb. of copper, a hefty portion of that in the exterior architectural panels. "Each panel was different, and the job included more than 9000 panels (totaling approximately 220,000 sq. ft.), not including those for the roof. Some of the 0.062-in.-thick panels tapered and had special embosses to form a design meant to shade the ground underneath like the canopy of a tree. Being that the panels were unique, tapered and embossed, shearing would have been difficult. Instead, after embossing the panels we cut them using the Rolling Pincher, which allowed us to fit them together perfectly, as each individually numbered panel had to go in a specific spot and fit flawlessly with the panels around it."
|The exterior of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum boasts more than 1.5 million lb. of copper, including detailed architectural panels fabricated by A. Zahner on turret presses using unique tooling.
"The panels comprised five different materials, including aluminum and colored stainless steel, with the exterior of the building an intricate assembly of panels," Hidy explains. "Again, each panel was shaped differently, and the Wilson Wheel family of press tooling helped define a lot of edges without leaving nibble marks or other visible imperfections that we would have had to file afterward."
The abundance of artistic and decorative work undertaken by A. Zahner also benefits from use of the turret-press tooling.
"Being able to place ribs in material to make a design is a great help to us," says Hidy. "We did a job just across the street from us here in Kansas City, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, where the copper exterior was supposed to resemble strokes from an artist's paintbrush. We used the Rolling Rib tool and that turned out very well." MF
See also: Impax Tooling Solutions, A Div. of Wilson Tool International
Related Enterprise Zones: Fabrication, Tool & Die
Reader Comments
There are no comments posted at this time.


text:
Love Statement Paw NecklaceNext Product
Next Amy
Nail your fashion win, no matter the dress code, with our Love Statement Paw Necklace. Combine it with your favorite dress, be a star at every party or spice up your work outfit. We are here to help you define yourself.
Length: 52 cm
Pendant size: 2.5 x 3.2 cm
Style: Statement Love Paw Print Dog Cat Animal Crystal Metal Silver Plated Luxury Chain Pendant Heart Necklace
FREE Worldwide Shipping - No Minimum Purchase
Most of our items are ready to ship within 3-7 business days of your purchase and are shipped from our distribution centers in USA, Europe and China (we do not ship on the weekends or holidays). Orders are sent using United States Postal Services (USPS), ePacket China Post or Standard International Shipping. Shipping times vary, but most orders arrive within 7-15 business days - certain countries may take slightly longer.
Returns Policy - 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
When you're happy — we're happy. If you aren't 100% satisfied with your Next Amy purchase, let us know! We love hearing your feedback — the good and the bad — we're always looking for new ways to improve.
If, for any reason, you are unhappy with your purchase, please do get in touch with us. If your item(s) is damaged, not as described or you simply would like to return it, a refund is available within 15 days from the day you receive the item(s).


text:
Search Taichi Fighter posts
Recent Posts
- Talks on Yang Family Taijiquan with Fu Zhongwen and James Fu
- 18 Taiji Qigong Shi Ba Si
- Protected: Foundations OM: Diagnosis and Internal Medicine in TCM
- Tai Chi Fighter Essential Links
- Protected: Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan forms
- Protected: 12 channels, 2 vessels, and extraordinary points in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
- List of recommended Taijiquan instructors
- Taiji "Heng Ha" breathing gong or the "Yang Taiji Neigong: Ba Dua Jin"
- Jinji Duli- "Rooster on One Leg" by Sun Jian-Yu interviewed by Bradford Tyrey
- San-t'i shi explained by Sun Jian-Yun, interviewed by Bradford Tyrey
- Taiji Da Shou: 5 Hammers (punches) of Yang Taijiquan Gong fu
- Protected: Just for Women- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) seminar/class notes
- Yongnian Taijiquan interview: Fu Sheng Yuan, James Fu, Paul Brown, and Damon Bramich
- Xianhao Cheng: Philadelphia PA area Yang Taijiquan teacher.
- TCM for Allergies: seminar notes
- Capitol Hill Tai Chi- Washington DC, Dr. David Walls-Kaufman
- Daniel Phister on Tai Chi Chuan
- Dc-Athlete.com – David Carter
- Pug Ugly boxing- Wilson talks Boxing
- Rum soaked fist- old Emptyflower Forum
- Tai Chi Fighter (my homepage)
- Thai boxing, MMA, Boxing, Taijiquan Training Blog and more
- Wilson Pitts- Taijicoach
tag cloud10 essence of yang taijiquan with images 18 taiji qigong 88 two person set Add new tag ben lo lineage bradford tyrey cancer and accupunture cancer exercises Cancer healing cancer help cancer rehabilitation Cancer treatment carderock cheng man ching lineage david chen david walls-kaufman Eastern medicine and cancer fight cancer fight cancer with qigong fighting with tai chi fleming park baguazhang goulin qigong guo lin chi kung hepatitis healing jenny tang joanne chen julian chu koulin chi kung koulin qigong paul ramos principles of combat quo lin qigong shanghai wushu tai chi combat tai chi fa jing tai chi fighter tai chi in the park tai chi principles tai chi with william cc chen taiji qigong walking qigong warren conner weiqi he wilson pitts wudang sword
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Protected: 12 channels, 2 vessels, and extraordinary points in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Posted in Health/Qigong/Healing, TCM, Massage and Dietary therapy Tagged 12 channels actions, 14 meridians of chinese medicine, study of channels and collaterals, TCM channels study guid Enter your password to view comments.


text:
GLADSTONE GROW OP 2015 / culture of landscape
16-26 April, 2015. The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
CALL for SUBMISSIONS
Application Deadline: Friday 26 September 2014
Toronto's Gladstone Hotel is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Gladstone Grow Op, a ten day exhibition celebrating innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape, gardens, art and place making under the theme: culture of landscape. Grow Op 2015 will facilitate a cross-disciplinary forum across a broad range of creative practices within the vibrant setting of Toronto's West Queen West neighbourhood.
Grow Op 2015 seeks proposals from across North America ranging from horticultural initiatives to experimental and innovative landscape, art and community engagement projects. We seek proposals from individuals and/or new and existing collectives whose work engages with landscape, place and/or the natural world with the ultimate goal of creating an immersive exhibition that is both provocative and boundary pushing. Grow Op 2015 offers an exciting venue to engage a large audience in a dialogue about the qualities and meaning behind the designed landscape both in the private garden and in our civic spaces.
Grow Op explores new territories and seeks to uncover new ways of expression and meaning through proposals that represent a wide range of approaches from the prosaic to the poetic, the elemental to the ephemeral. The use of plant material is not a specific requirement. Submissions are encouraged from a wide variety of creative practitioners including the following:
fabricators, craftspeople, urbanists/planners, historians, arborists, agriculturalists, landscape architects, cooks, ecologists, botanists, horticulturists, visual artists, performance artists, musicians, filmmakers, scientists, sound artists, ardeners, writers, poets, designers
Keywords to consider: immersive, site-specific, participatory, ephemeral, spatial, interactive, performative, sensory.
Visit our website for photos from past Grow Op exhibitions and to download the show catalogues.
Grow Op Spaces
Grow Op 2015 will provide the opportunity for participants to inhabit the Gladstone Hotel and its environs at a variety of scales, from adventitious niches to feature rooms to offsite work. We ask that candidates be specific about the location of their proposal and to consider the list of Grow Op 2015 Events (described below) as possibilities for engagement. If possible, candidates should visit the hotel to explore the interior and other spaces in the vicinity of the hotel. Please visit our artist pages to find out more about our exhibition spaces.
There are many ways to participate:
1. Room Installations
Room installations invite participants to design immersive projects in the various studio spaces in the 2nd floor Gladstone Gallery.
2. Site-Specific Public Space Installations/Projects – Onsite
Hotel interior spaces include: Public spaces in the 1st floor lobby, Queen Street windows/façade, 2nd floor gallery walls and open areas including balcony, green roof, and stairwells, the Ballroom, bar area for Opening night/Media reception, Art café, etc.
3. Site-Specific Public Space Installations/Projects – Offsite
Exterior spaces include: Vertical walls of hotel, first floor green roof (south side), Hotel entry, Dufferin Amphitheatre (north side of Queen Street, west of Dufferin), public lands by tracks on south side of Queen, TTC shelter (at hotel entrance) and others. City permits will be required for temporary constructed installations on public property. The process takes time and should be initiated immediately upon acceptance to the show. Consideration of how offsite work integrates into the main 2nd floor gallery space and contributes to the hotel visitor experience is encouraged.
Participants are welcome to propose projects for sites that are not outlined in the proposal.
4. Public Programming
Proposals that emphasize and explore the show theme 'culture of landscape' are welcome as integrated events, lectures, performances, tours, etc. These may occur on one evening, focus on a school group audience during the weekdays, or take place over the course of the 10 day exhibition.
Grow Op 2015 Events
The following scheduled Grow Op 2015 events should be considered as opportunities for artwork proposals.
Equinosh – A Tale of Two Counties. Hotel Ballroom
A dinner party hosted by Grow Op and the Gladstone Hotel will be integrated within the spatially dynamic elements of the exhibition, creating a richly layered and immersive environment for the evening of Friday April 25, 2015. Proposal concepts specific to this program may range from the construction of a table(s) occupying, to edible art and/or performance and sound pieces. The work may be installed just for the dinner or be integrated into the space for the duration of the show.
Grow Op Talks
Guest speakers and talks by the show participants contribute to the overall experience of the artwork and offer a broader discussion of the theme, a culture of landscape. Proposals encouraged.
Grow Op Kids
Educational and entertaining daytime programming that engage families or schools. Proposals encouraged.
Grow Op 2015 Dates + Details
Submission deadline 26 September 2014
Participants announced October 2014
All participants meeting Wednesday November 2014, 6pm
Individual consultations Early Feb 2015
Construction drawing/details 15 Feb 2015
All participants meeting mid March 2015
Installation 12-15 April 2015
Exhibition 16 – 26 April 2015
Media preview Thursday 16 April 2015 (4pm-7pm)
Opening reception Friday 17 April 2015 (7-10pm)
Equinosh Friday 24 April
Strike/Remove all materials Sunday 26 April 2015 (5-10pm)
Please submit hardcopy (CD or flash drive) or electronic submissions in PDF file format, as specified below, no later than 5pm on Friday 26 September, 2015. For electronic submissions, please compress files to ensure receipt.
Submissions should be submitted to email@example.com Subject: Grow Op 2015 and must include:
- Completion of the submission form here
- CV, as a collective or for each member of the team, including the contact information (email and phone number) for all members of the team. Please specify the primary contact person.
- 150-word bio for the artist/designer/team describing your practice.
- 2 – 5 previous projects. Submitted as one combined PDF, one project per page including text and image(s).
- A one-page Expression of Interest statement on why you want to participate in Grow Op 2015, your intended conceptual approach, including a brief description of the concept, physical form, scale and materiality as well as the preferred location. Physical models and/or digital visualizations are welcome but not required. Indicate clearly if you are applying for a room installation or public space project.
Submission files must be labeled and submitted as follows:
Please note:
- All successful candidates will be required to submit construction and installation details, their material list and any permit details (as required) by 15 February 2015. These details will be reviewed with each participant during individually scheduled meetings with the curator and hotel Artistic Director.
- Submissions are not returned following adjudication
- All participants will be responsible for monitoring their exhibits and making sure they are working during exhibition hours for the run of the exhibition or provide simple instructions on how to turn work on. All artists are required to present at VIP preview, tours, opening and programs to engage with the public
- Participants are required to install and strike their own projects and remove all garbage from the hotel.
- Participants must sign a contract as an agreement to participate and to adhere to heritage guidelines for installation conduct to preserve the integrity of the hotel.
Why Exhibit at The Gladstone Hotel?
- The Gladstone Hotel is one of the most respected art, design & cultural hubs in Toronto.
- Many of our exhibitors have been featured by The Globe & Mail, The National Post, CBC, Toronto Star, The Torontoist, View on Canadian Art (VoCA), Breakfast Television, Toronto Life Magazine, NOW Magazine, AZURE Magazine, Design Boom, Huffington Post, Canadian Art and many more.
- We provide the opportunity to network with the media, curators, gallerists, collectors, artists, designers and members of the general public.
- We provide the opportunity for exhibitors here to receive special rates at the hotel.
- We provide alternative exhibition spaces that are optimal for independent and emerging designers with a range of design/art sensibilities including political, commercial and strictly aesthetic perspectives.
- We provide exclusivity – This is not a trade show. The unique exhibition setting of the art hotel, and the size, focus and mandate of the event provides every participant with the opportunity to be prominently featured in the show.
Grow Op 2015 Fees
Fees to participate are as follows and will be required once the Jury has made its final selections. There is no proposal submission fee.
Room Installations $350 + HST
Site-Specific Public Space Installations/Projects $100 + HST
Please submit proposals by email, mail, courier or by hand by 5pm on Friday 26 September to:
EMAIL Victoria Taylor, Curator / email@example.com Subject: Grow Op 2015
MAIL Grow Op 2015
c/o Britt Welter-Nolan
Managing Director – Artistic Projects
The Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St W, Toronto ON M6J 1J6
Grow Op 2015 Jury: Victoria Taylor, Marjorie Harris, Andrew Jones, David Young, Andrea Mantin, Netami Stuart, Lorraine Johnson, Emily Hogg and Duncan Alexander Forbes.
For all curatorial questions please contact:
Victoria Taylor, Curator Grow Op
For questions related to the Hotel or installation logistics please contact:
Britt Welter-Nolan, Managing Director – Artistic Projects, The Gladstone Hotel
416.531.4635 ext 7105 / email@example.com


text:
Does anyone know how many Float kits were sold with the Lazairs?
I do not think I have ever seen any floats for sale, and I do live right by Lake Elsinore in CA, which is a lot closer than the 90 miles I drive to go flying right now.
Anyone know how a float equipt Lazair performs with 185's?
The Mono float seems like a great light option, what kind of float is that?
Are you running 185's?


text:
Acrodea and Bandai Networks release Game SDK X-Forge 2007 for handheld devices
Acrodea and Bandai Networks have announced the release of X-Forge 2007, a game development environment for handheld devices. Leading the mobile games market, the newly released X-Forge 2007 SDK (software development kit) offers the first compatibility for Open GL®ES 2.0, and supports programmable shaders and scene graphs. X-Forge 2007 delivers compatibility with OpenKODE as set forth by the Khronos Group, and supports the de facto standard 3D graphics API sets OpenGL ES 1.0/1.1/2.0.


text:
I'm Tai Fenix Kulystin a queer fat trans genderqueer polyamorous switch.
Pronouns: they/them or any gender neutral .
I started this blog in 2007 as my personal exploration of all aspects of my life and relationships, including gender, sexuality, spirituality, kink, polyamory, and pleasure.
Powered by WordPress & Theme by Anders Norén


text:
50 Cent Sued Over Infringing Sample; When Will Hip-Hop's Stars Speak Up About Copyright?
from the now-would-be-a-good-time deptThe folks at dajaz1, who know better than anyone how copyright stifles culture and free speech, send in the news that Robert Poindexter of The Persuaders is suing 50 Cent for copyright infringement over a sample on a free album he released in 2009. This is likely to end in settlement, with a payout to Poindexter, because 50 Cent isn't offering any defense beyond the fact that the album was free. Unfortunately, this carries little to no legal weight. The courts have been unkind to sampled music over the years, as detailed in the excerpt we posted (part 1 and part 2) from this month's book club feature, Copyfraud. But, as dajaz1 explains quite clearly, sampling and remixing on free albums and mixtapes has always been an essential part of hip-hop, and is even embraced by labels:
This has been happening for many years on mixtapes and it's quite common so 50′s attitude on this not shocking. Its the same attitude of every artist in urban music and it's been like that from jump. In fact that's why mixtapes are given away for free and not sold commercially. To put a bar code on a tape or sell it commercially violates many laws, but to give it away for free under the guise of "promotional use" has been the name of the game for decades and largely considered ok. This type of stuff is why these labels suddenly calling websites like us "rogue" for releasing them or trying to shut people down or put them in jail for making, releasing, or offering them for download has always been ridiculous. The attitude 50 is taking here is the same one every urban artist operates under and the promotional department of the major labels have been looking the other way on for years. Hell the major labels have been active participants. If you can't clear the song you throw it out on a mixtape, or for free to radio mixshows and the blogs/internet as a freestyle/remix. Every major label artist that has made it in the rap genre has utilized these tactics so a loss in this case could be devastating not only to rap as a genre but the labels as well.
This is just another example of how copyright is totally out of sync with reality. This kind of activity is indispensable to culture, and it doesn't stop no matter what the law says—but it does get stifled, and driven underground, which is the opposite of what copyright is supposed to accomplish. As the chapter we posted from Copyfraud notes, several albums that are widely considered to be classics and important moments in music history (like Paul's Boutique or It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back) would be almost impossible to legally release today. Meanwhile, highly acclaimed mashups like The Grey Album are praised by the musicians whose work has been mashed, but are technically illegal and exist only as bootlegs by the grace (read: fear of bad publicity) of the record labels.
The big question is: can artists like 50 Cent do something about this? Hip-hop is one of the most popular and influential genres of music in the world, and its superstars command huge audiences. Most hip-hop fans don't realize that the genre is a legal minefield that exists because most artists cross their fingers and ignore the law entirely, while a rich few pay obscene royalties and settlement fees. Someone like 50 Cent is in the perfect position to raise more awareness of broken copyright law, and I hope that this attack on the lifeblood of hip-hop culture spurs him to do so.
Filed Under: 50 cent, book club, copyfraud, dajaz1, mixtape, sampling


text:
Images via fashiongonerogue
Vogue China pays tribute to the Danish model Freja in their August issue featuring model Tao Okamoto, photographed by Lachlan Bailey. Beautiful girl imitates another beautiful girl minus the tattoos, funny concept, but I think she works it.
Anyway, have a lovely Thursday noon, I'm running a bit late as usual, gotta catch a flight, decided in the last minute (as usual) to spend my weekend in Switzerland, see you there!


text:
Mars Science Laboratory, a one-ton chemistry lab on wheels set for launch Saturday morning from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is geared for a unique mission.
Think "extraterrestrial real-estate appraisal," says Pamela Conrad, an astrobiologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
We're not quite ready to hunt for life itself yet, and the MSL rover isn't designed to do so, say researchers taking part in the $2.5-billion mission to the red planet.
But after a decade of "following the water" – a necessary ingredient for life as researchers currently understand it – planetary scientists are moving to take the next critical step: see if water co-existed with other critical environmental conditions that could have allowed simple forms of life to emerge.
Organisms on Earth take the forms they do because they are adapted to their environments, MSL researchers explain. If humans eventually hunt for evidence of life itself on the Red Planet, or anywhere else, for that matter, knowing something about the environment organisms inhabit will yield clues about what the organisms were or are like.
"If a Tim Allen, 'Galaxy Quest,' alien rock creature were to come up and bang us on the head, we don't want to ignore it. That would be the 'Ah ha!' moment we'd regret having missed," says Steve Brenner, director of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Fla.
For Mars, the incremental Holy Grail is finding organic carbon, the stuff of complex molecules that form the building blocks for life, according to John Grotzinger, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., and the mission's project scientist.
"It's a long shot, but we're going to try," he said during a prelaunch briefing this week..
Meteorites deposit organic compounds on the Martian surface all the time, but today's conditions are so harsh that the compounds are quickly destroyed, he explains.
Finding organic carbon captured in the layered rocks that the rover Curiosity will explore would indicate that at the time the layers were deposited, conditions on the surface at that location could well have been far more benign, allowing organic compounds to exist at the surface.
Set for launch at 10:02 a.m. Eastern Standard Time Saturday, Curiosity holds a TripTik that sets the rover into Mars' Gale Crater next August.
The oversized ding in Mars' crust is 96 miles across, about 3 miles deep, and sports a gently sloping mountain in its center that rises to a height comparable to California's Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48 states.
Some researchers crudely estimate the impact crater's age at between 3.5 billion and 3.8 billion years old.
After peering at images and sifting through mineral-composition data gathered from various orbiters circling Mars, mission planners settled on the crater and the mountain that vaults from its center because the crater walls and outcrops on the mountain's slopes bear Grand Canyon-like bands of different rock layers.
Clays are abundant at the mountain's base, testifying to a prolonged wet environment, Dr. Grotzinger explains. Higher up the slope, rock types change to minerals, such as sulfates, that form through evaporation, suggesting a transition from wet to periodically wet. Finally, these minerals give way to those that don't need water to form, pointing to the final shift to the kind of conditions Mar's exhibits today.
If all goes well, Curiosity will spend at least 98 weeks (one Martian year) exploring Gale Crater with a suite of 10 instruments that gather weather data and sample the atmosphere's chemistry, snap pictures, zap rocks with lasers, drill into rocks, and analyze the drilling samples.
In addition, instruments will measure the different isotopes of chemical elements found in the samples as well as in the atmosphere for clues about changes in the atmosphere's composition over Mars' history. Researchers will hunt for methane in Mars' atmosphere.
Ground-based observations as well as tantalizing hints from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter have suggested that methane is present, at least temporarily. Termites, cows, and rice paddies give off methane; so do hydrothermal vents. So the source could be biological or geological. Curiosity has the ability to tell the difference.
Researchers say Curiosity's travels at Mars seem glacial at times. It might take a couple of weeks to finish gathering and analyzing samples at one spot, then identify and travel to the next.
As the rover moves, cameras atop a seven-foot-tall mast will take images of a proposed new spot at increasing levels of detail.
Once Curiosity approaches to within about 30 feet of a feature scientists find interesting, a laser atop the mast will zap a pin-head-sized spot on the rock, turning its minerals into a puff of hot, electrically charges gas that an on-board spectrometer can analyze for its chemical make-up.
Researches also can use the laser as a dust brush, sending pulses that can clear surface dust to expose the rock underneath.
Each of these steps allows scientists to pause and ask: Do we still want to look even more closely at this feature?
If the composition the spectrometer identifies looks interesting, the rover will pull within its arm's reach, drilling will begin, and the rover's internal chemistry labs will turn dust into data.
Finding organic carbon would be only the beginning of a debate on its source – delivered raw and preserved, or processed through a living organism? That question could only be answered by bringing samples back to Earth, where more-capable labs could settle the question.
And if Curiosity digs up no organic carbon? A disappointment, perhaps, but it would hardly close the door on Mars as once hospitable for life. Researchers point to mineral evidence of ancient life on Earth – layered, mineralized byproducts of microbial life in rocks that nevertheless contain no organic carbon.
During Curiosity's initial 98 months on the Martian surface, the rover will climb only about the first 1,300 feet of the mountain's height. But if the rover holds out, the researchers don't get bored, and extended-mission money is available, the rover could reach the summit, following "an appropriately circuitous route," Grotzinger says.
For Curiosity, it would represent a retirement spot with an out-of-this-world view.


text:
An investigation of the cuboid shape and it's significance in conspiracy theory and the occult using synchromystic references in pop culture. Included we see more speculation and verification involving the 9/11 mega-ritual and the occult purpose of the Freedom Tower.
This piece would not exist without the work of Ben Fairhall. I highly recommend the man's work; he also just did a great interview with Greg from the Occult of Personality.
Things are getting interesting indeed...
The Purple Sage opened his mouth and moved his tongue and so spate to them and he said: The Earth quakes and the Heavens raffle; the beasts of nature flock together and the nations of men flock apart; volcanoes usher up heat while elsewhere water becomes ice and melts; and then on other days it just rains.
Indeed do many things come to pass.
-Lord Omar Khayaam Ravenhurst, K.S.C,"The Book of Predications," The Honest Book of Truth
Some extra material related to this post from Mark Leclair at The Wrong Way Wizard
Also a fascinating sync pointed out by Ben Fairhall related to this post and more.


text: Try this: http://hpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=ODYSSEY 73, Drew KO4MA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Leikhim" <rhyolite at nettally.com> To: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>; <rwmcgwier at gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:55 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] [hpsdr-dev] Odyssey Siren A success Is there a website where this experiement is described? I tried TAPR but couldn't find anything. -----Original Message----- From: Robert McGwier [mailto:rwmcgwier at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:36 PM To: High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List Cc: amsat bb Subject: [hpsdr-dev] Odyssey Siren A success We had a complete breakthrough on the Odyssey Siren in the past two weeks. It will be used in Suitsat 2, in a terrestrial linear repeater experiment by Viktor Kudielka OE1VKW and friends, who supported its development, and we are already leaping all over the place to applications. Frank Brickle and I will be doing our SDR code on it over the next several days. The board as shown in the schematic needs some modifications to fix the 3 - ish volt power supply for the Codec and a modified oscillator circuit but we are certain it will all work now. On the 10.7 MHz IF, I measured 0 dBm max into a 50 ohm load and less than -120 dBm MDS and > 80 dB dynamic range. This is with a BOM of < $50 in parts and about a $20 dsp pic chip! Yesterday in Rick's lab, with W2GPS, K3IO, we made the above measurements, hacked on code and turn the thing into a bent pipe transponder. I also did the hilbert transform to make it an inverting transponder. It all worked perfectly. http://www.cnssys.com/~w2gps/amsat_files/suitsat/ has detected audio in an SDR-IQ SDR as well as captured IF from the SDR-IQ of the transponder. We have to balanced for image and do DC offset correction but the thing works and sounds great as you can hear for yourself! 73's Bob N4HY -- Joe Leikhim K4SAT "The RFI-EMI-GUY"© "Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." "Follow The Money" ;-P _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb


text:
Peabody police
Dec. 4: Police opened two cases of individuals in violation of the city's inoperable vehicle ordinance.
Dec. 5: A case of animal cruelty was opened and an individual was fined for not having shots and tags for a pet.
Friday: Officers took a report of burglary and theft; the case is under investigation. Two juveniles were taken into police protective custody pending court proceedings.
Last modified Dec. 12, 2012
© 2019 HOCH PUBLISHING | Marion County Record | Hillsboro Star-Journal | Peabody Gazette-Bulletin | Checkerboard


text:
The tale told by former Los Angeles Times reporters Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer in "The Hunt for KSM," the story of the pursuit, capture and interrogation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of9/11, at times so resembles something straight out of "24" or the Bourne movies that the authors have to keep reminding the reader that this is for real. On the one hand, "The Hunt for KSM" is a flat-out thriller. On the other, it lays out aspects of our factual contemporary world that are far more ambiguous, internecine and dangerous than anything Hollywood dare contemplate.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was born in 1965, in Kuwait, to an immigrant family on the wrong side of the caste system. At school he excelled at science and got the chance to study engineering at a small college in Murfreesboro, N.C. While there he endured minor hazing and began to indulge a hatred of America. In Afghanistan he became an Arab jihadi, fighting to defeat the occupying Soviet army. He was, McDermott and Meyer write, "an adept and relentless networker with a gift for small talk." He had a reputation as a charmer, and as a prankster. His nephew Ramzi Yousef was behind the first attempt to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993.
This is where tragic irony and huge historical dimension take over what is an otherwise familiar template, that of the smart and angry young man given fanatical purpose by Islamic extremism. FBI agents in the New York field office were tracking KSM from 1993. In Manila, he plotted to assassinate Pope John Paul II and former President Bill Clinton. Another operation involved the simultaneous hijacking of multiple American airliners as they flew over the Pacific. Yet KSM was regarded as a terrorist for hire, not a part of the growing Al Qaeda threat. When9/11 occurred, at first nobody looked in his direction even though he was the mastermind who conceived and orchestrated that terrible attack. The realization of his connection to Al Qaeda didn't occur until 2002 and was then a moment of drama and almost panic. The president was informed at once, satellites were retasked, and an all-out manhunt ensued.
The search led to teeming Karachi, Pakistan, where American agents suffered from a surfeit of leads. High-tech surveillance and teams of Navy SEALS matter little unless you know where to look, and suddenly the man who'd been nowhere for a decade had a massive bounty on his head and was seemingly everywhere.
"If you were on the ground and asked, you could collect an address for KSM from almost every person you talked to," the authors write. "He was here in Defence, in a mansion. It was an apartment in Sharifabad, a mud hut in the swamp flats of Korangi, in the Baluch colony of Lyari, in a third-floor walk-up in that Arab neighborhood full of money changers and bucket shops. A man who was arrested had a phone number for Mohammed that was traced to the other end of town, a middle-class preserve and single-family homes with clean modern lines, behind pale stucco walls."
It didn't help that the CIA and the FBI were as usual at loggerheads. McDermott and Meyer note, repeatedly and crucially, that the agencies have dueling agendas. Simply put, the CIA's goal is prevention while the FBI is about investigation and the preparation of cases for trial. Both agencies missed chances to capture Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and perhaps prevent 9/11 and yet, in Pakistan in 2002 and 2003, they were still stepping on each other's toes. McDermott and Meyer, whose sources come principally from within the FBI, point the finger at CIA intransigence and arrogance.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed evaded capture by lying low, not using electronics, and trusting instead in personal couriers. "He stayed on the ground, in the very human muck that was Pakistan," write McDermott and Meyer. "So in the end it was almost inevitable that it was a human who would betray him." The CIA grabbed KSM unawares and in his pajamas.
"KSM was held in Pakistani custody for three days. He was then transferred to U.S. control and taken on a three-year tour of the secret prisons the CIA had established in Asia, Africa, and eastern Europe, most of it blindfolded," the authors write. Dark arts, indeed: "He was hog-tied, stripped naked, photographed, hooded, beaten, kicked, suffocated, exposed to extreme cold and noise, denied food and sleep, sedated with anal suppositories, placed in diapers, and hung by his wrists until they bled." When inquisitors threatened to track down his female relatives and have them raped, KSM merely shrugged, "saying, in effect, Really? Is that the best you can do."
KSM talked, and talked, and talked, and it became apparent to his interrogators that he was talking too much. Some Al Qaeda networks were rolled up, but many leads were false. "He had us chasing the geese in Central Park because he said some of them had explosives stuffed up their ass," one counterterrorism source told McDermott and Meyer.
Frank Pellegrino, the dogged and quirky FBI guy who had pursued KSM across the globe since the early 1990s and who knew more about him than anybody, was not allowed to go near him until early 2007. The moment seems to come straight out of John le Carre. The antagonists face each other across a government-issue table at Guantanamo and trade stories of near misses. "Pellegrino thought KSM might be the kind of guy you could sit down and have a beer with, if he hadn't been one of the worst mass murderers in American history," note McDermott and Meyer.
On Saturday, KSM remained silent at a 13-hour hearing before a military commission in Guantanamo for himself and four other defendants on charges stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks. The charges could carry the death penalty for the five defendants. The hearing came just more than a year after the Obama administration abandoned efforts to try KSM and his co-conspirators before a civilian court.
Investigators believe parts of KSM's networks remain in place, waiting for another day. As McDermott and Meyer point out, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's hovering presence and the long uncertainty about what to do with him have become metaphors for our general anxiety concerning the war with Islamic terrorism. We wish it was over; we know it isn't.
Rayner is the author, most recently, of "A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age."


text:
2012 was an amazing year, we are so blessed to meet and work with so many great people. Telling your stories is what we love to do and we are overwhelmed with the joy all of you have brought to our lives.
We traveled to nine countries filming and teaching, Turks and Caicos, Australia, New Caledonia, Brazil, Thailand, UK, Italy, India and Costa Rica. We are inspired by new places, people, landscapes and architecture all of which breathes life into our work.
We started our new commercial venture The Delivery Men which has been a huge success! We worked with some awesome companies - Jump Shot, I/O Denim, Hansar Hotels, The Andy Roddick Foundation and Panasonic to name a few. We are loving this new creative outlet and can't wait to see where it takes us.
2013 is already looking like another amazing year, we are ready for the ride and hope you are too!


text:
About Legend of the Green Dragon Core Engine
| Log in to see your Ye Olde Mail |
Petition for Help
About LoGD
ame Setup Info
odule Info
icense Info
taff List
Login page
gin Page
Legend of the Green Dragon
By Eric Stevens & JT Traub
LoGD version 3.0.0 IDMarinas Edition
MightyE tells you, "
Legend of the Green Dragon is a remake of and homage to the classic BBS Door game, Legend of the Red Dragon (aka LoRD) by
Seth Able Robinson
LoRD is now owned by Gameport (
), and they retain exclusive rights to the LoRD name and game. That's why all content in Legend of the Green Dragon is new, with only a very few nods to the original game, such as the buxom barmaid, Violet, and the handsome bard, Seth.
Although serious effort was made to preserve the original feel of the game, numerous departures were taken from the original game to enhance playability, and to adapt it to the web.
LoGD (after version 0.9.7) is released under a
Creative Commons License
, which essentially means that the source code to the game, and all derivatives of the game must remain open and available upon request. Version 0.9.7 and before are still available under the
GNU General Public License
though 0.9.7 will be the last release under that license. To use any of the new features requires using the 1.0.0 code. You may explicitly not place code from versions after 0.9.7 into 0.9.7 and release the combined derivative work under the GPL.
You may download the latest official version of LoGD at
and you can play the Classic version at
You should attempt to use this code only if you are comfortable with PHP and MySQL and willing to manually keep your code up to date.
Additionally, there is an active modder community located at
which may help you find additional features which you may wish to add to your game. For these additional features you will find active support within the DragonPrime community.
LoGD is programmed in PHP with a MySQL backend. It is known to run on Windows and Linux with appropriate setups. The core code has been actively written by Eric Stevens and JT Traub, with some pieces by other authors (denoted in the source at these locations), and the code has been released under a
Creative Commons License
. Users of the source are bound to the terms therein.
The DragonPrime Development Team took over responsibility for code development on January 1
, 2006 and continues to maintain and add to features of the core code.
Users of the source are free to view and modify the source, but original copyright information, and original text from the about page must be preserved, though they may be added to.
We hope you enjoy the game!
IDMarinas edition
By Iván Diaz (
IDMarinas Edition
This version is a forked version of 1.1.2 Dragonprime Edition and has code of +nb Edition by Oliver Brender (
NB Core
Is a update the core of the game to better adapt to the current times, it is only a set-up of the core of the game and some improvements. For example, the template system has been changed and the database connection script has been updated. If you want use this core, you need to be aware:
PHP 5.6 is a minimum requirement
PHP 7. * 100% compatibility is not guaranteed, but there may not be many problems
Came with others dependencies that need install.
More information of requirement and dependencies
For the download of this version please go to
LOTGD - Game
where the latest development version (daily snapshots) and stable versions are hosted.
I do not ship modules with it, most modules from 1.x.x DP Editions will work. However there is no guarantee... test them.
In this other repository
LOTGD - Modules
you can find all modules that I use in my version of game. This modules are an adaptation of modules create by others to work in my version.
Online Staff
(0 Staff Member):
Characters Online
(0 Players):
Fund drive: 0% (€0/€5)
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons License
Game Design and Code: Copyright © 2002-2005, Eric Stevens & JT Traub, © 2006-2007, Dragonprime Development Team, © 2015-2017 IDMarinas remodelling and enhancing
Design: Jade Template © Josh Canning 2004 of
View PHP Source
Version: 3.0.0 IDMarinas Edition
(Page gen: 0.048s / 48 queries (0.022s Ave: 0.048s - 0.048/1)


text:
What does "kia ora" mean?
A brief explanation of what the expression "Kia Ora" actually means.
New Zealand has been an inhabited island for thousands of years, but perhaps the most known aboriginals are called the Māori. The Māori were polynesians, who migrated towards New Zealand and over a period of time developed their own language and cultural practises. The first settlers are thought to have landed somewhere around 1300 CE.
"Kia Ora" is an expression in the Māori language, and simple means "hello". Literally translated it has a meaning of "be well or healthy". These days you see and hear "kia ora" all over the New Zealand, and it is considered one of the most important words every kiwi should know. The Māori from the Pacific Island Cook have a similar word "kia orana" with an equal meaning.
The introduction of Maori words and phrases is relatively a new practive in New Zealand. In fact, the Māori words were considered of "lesser value", and this mindset only started changing from mid 1980's onwards. These days you see the cheerful expression everywhere, even the national airline, Air New Zealand, uses the word as the name for their inflight magazine.


text:
VirtualBox is great piece of software for virtualization. I like it more than VMWare or VirtualPC. The downside of it is its lack of easy cloning or copying capabilities. There are none. And because everything in VirtualBox has UUID (guid), pure file copy does not work well.
All advices I have seen were about: create the new virtual machine manually, clone HDD .vdi file with VBoxManage clonevdi command and attach it to the newly created virtual machine. Manually!?
That's why I've created a simple Python script that cares about exporting and importing virtual machines (Thanks for the VirtualBox 3 SDK!). When exporting, you can select the virtual machine and snapshot you want to export:
The exported machines are stored in exp folder at the script file. The time stamp is added to the machine name for unique identification. When importing, you are offered with the saved virtual machines and you simply choose one. Of course you can copy the exported machine to different computer (having the same VirtualBox versions is recommended).
The script is very simple and targeted to my needs. That means it exports only primary HDD and network adapter 0. It does not export CD/DVD-ROM, Floppy nor Serial ports.
Try it and let me know whether it's helpful: download script (it requires ConfigObj 4).
Update 1. 10. 2009: I struggled running the script on my new Win 7 64-bit system. It complained class is not registered for VirtualBox.Session. The reason was mixing 32-bit and 64-bit programs - see the explanation. If you use 64-bit OS, you have to have installed 64-bit version of Python and pywin32!
Update 11. 11. 2009: I have updated the script to better serve my needs. For example, when restoring virtual machine, you can enter a new name for it. Be carefull when restoring one saved machine to two new ones as you have to chagne MAC address manually.
Unfortunately, the old config file is not compactible with the new version. But I think you can guess from the Python exception what is wrong with the config file and fix it. The old version is still available.
Update 29. 12. 2009: When I upgraded to VirtualBox 3.1, I received KeyError when I run my script ({2158464A-F706-414B-A8C4-FB589DFC6B62}). To get rid of it, delete all from from \Python26\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\ except __init__.py.


text:
Gilmorebank.net is using 3 services which we detected on its website. The major ones are Hanaro Telecom for hosting the website, hosting.co.kr for DNS management and megazone corp. dba hosting.kr as Registrar The site was online when this report was compiled on 10 July 2016 18:59. gilmorebank.net is hosted in Korea, Republic of and owned by Kim Pill Sue ().
After checking the site records, we found that it is 3 years 5 months old and will expire on 20 March 2017. For more registration details, refer to this section. We didn't find any SSL certificate present on the website which is bad for users privacy. Homepage is in Korean and contain 4 external links.
Services used by gilmorebank.netFind what are the main services utilised by gilmorebank.net.
Server Tech Apache
Compression Algo -
Generator -
SSL Certificate -
Hosting Account Hanaro Telecom
DNS Served by hosting.co.kr
Google Analytics Absent
External Links 4
Language Korean
Origin country Korea, Republic of
Primary IP Address 18.104.22.168
Owner Country -
Email server -
Registration MetadataRegistration details tell about a website past and future. The information is critical for websites assessment.
Kim Pill Sue
Kim Pill Sue
20 March 2016
Website Registered
21 March 2016
20 March 2017
Domain Expiration
Complete registration information text
Domain Name: GILMOREBANK.NET Registrar: MEGAZONE CORP. DBA HOSTING.KR Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1489 Whois Server: whois.hosting.kr Referral URL: Name Server: NS1.HOSTING.CO.KR Name Server: NS2.HOSTING.CO.KR Status: ok Updated Date: 20-mar-2016 Creation Date: 20-mar-2016 Expiration Date: 20-mar-2017 Domain Name: gilmorebank.net Registry Domain ID: Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.hosting.kr Registrar URL: Updated Date: 21-Mar-2016 Creation Date: 20-Mar-2016 Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 20-Mar-2017 Registrar: Megazone Corp., dba HOSTING.KR Registrar IANA ID: 1489 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +82.16447378 Reseller: Domain Status: Privacy Protect Registry Registrant ID: Registrant Name: Kim Pill Sue Registrant Organization: Kim Pill Sue Registrant Street: Registrant City: Registrant State/Province: Registrant Postal Code: Registrant Country: Registrant Phone: Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: Registry Admin ID: Admin Name: Kim Pill Sue Admin Organization: Kim Pill Sue Admin Street: Admin City: Admin State/Province: Admin Postal Code: Admin Country: Admin Phone: Admin Phone Ext: Admin Fax: Admin Fax Ext: Admin Email: Registry Tech ID: Tech Name: Kim Pill Sue Tech Organization: Kim Pill Sue Tech Street: Tech City: Tech State/Province: Tech Postal Code: Tech Country: Tech Phone: Tech Phone Ext: Tech Fax: Tech Fax Ext: Tech Email: Name Server: ns1.hosting.co.kr Name Server: ns2.hosting.co.kr Name Server: Name Server: Name Server: DNSSEC: unsigned Welcome to Megazone Corp. dba hosting.kr WHOIS data service. Megazone Corp. is Domain & Hosting provider, very huge web agency Company, No. 1 in Korea and operating "Online Marketing & Promotion", "3D & Motion", "eCommerce" and "Web Portal Service". We offer all service regarding Information Technical and we have many experience for domain & hosting and web agency solution. If you want to find partner of IT industry, contact Megazone Corp. dba hosting.kr. We are creating high value service and low in price for domain & hosting providing. Obtain good service for domain name registration, transfer or renewal with any hosting package with Thank you for finding domain name of hosting.kr


text:
We offer a Free quote and UK design service, get in touch today.
If your flight has been delayed for more than 3 hours you have a right to claim compensation and get what you are owed.
As specialists we are able to carry out the claim for you and give you all the necessary advice to make sure the job is carried out effectively.
You should always seek help when your flight has been delayed or cancelled as you are entitled to make a claim.
You may be entitled to flight delay compensation if you've experienced a delayed or cancelled flight. Passangers are entitled to make a claim if their holiday or trip has been postponed due to the airline they're flying with. If you are setback for 3 hours or more, according to the EU law you are entitled to up to €600. However, some airlines will refuse to pay what they owe, which is why we are here to support you get what you deserve. Our team have years on experience handling claims and compensation, meaning you do not have to worry about getting what you're owed.
To find out more information regarding the flight delay compensation that we can support you with, contact our specialist team today. We are more than happy to answer all your questions and give you all the details you will need to get you on the right track. Just fill in the contact form provided above and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
It can be very frustrating waiting for a flight if it does not take off when expected. Whether you're waiting to leave the country or coming home from a holiday, you are entitled to make a claim if you've been setback for longer than 3 hours. You might not be sure on the best ways to go about making a claim as you may not know who to talk to and what actions need to be made. This is why we are here to get you what you deserve and carry out the process for you. Whether your delayed flight was one week or one year ago, you can make a claim from up to six years, which means it is always best to consider all the flights you have been on in the recent years.
Some airlines may not accept the claims and not give delay compensation due to 'extraordinary circumstances' such as weather conditions and airline strikes. Under these circumstances you may not be able to gain money back as the situation is out of their control. However you'll still be entitled to passenger care from the airline who must provide you with; accommodation, meals, refreshments and transport to and from the accommodation. If you feel this is something that you're eligible for, get in touch with us today. We also provide help with claims for road accidents - http://www.the-claims-services.co.uk/accident/road/ if this is of interest as well. Our experts can look at your case and see how we could help you and find a solution to your flight delayed compensation.
If you travel with an EU based airline or from an EU airport, then you'll be protected by the denied boarding regulation. This means that under obligation, airlines must support and assist you to get a refund or find you an alternative flight. However if you're not flying with an EU airline you may not get the same support as they are not under the same regulations. Our job is to help you get what you're owed and make the airline responsible for the cancelled flights.
It can be very aggravating having to rearrange your plans and make a claim, especially if it is a last minute cancellation. This is why we help make the process easier for you and get you exactly what you deserve. To speak to one of flight delay compensation our experts POSTCODE] today, simply fill out the contact form above and we will be back in touch as soon as with more information. We are happy to do all the hard work for you and find you the results that you're happy with.
Everyone near me wants what is owed to them when their flight has been delayed for a long time. As a claims service company closest to you, our aim is to get you compensation that you deserve. It is much harder to claim money back from delayed flights than cancelled flights as there are many 'extraordinary circumstances' that usually cause the delays. However you can challenge your airline if you dont believe the reasons comply with the 'extraordinary circumstances'.
Let us know the reason for the delayed flight and we can see whether you'll be entitled to money back. Our specialist team understand when you can and cannot claim delay compensation so it also best to contact us if you're unsure. Visit this page - http://www.the-claims-services.co.uk/ to find out more about all the services we offer. We may make the whole process very easy for you as we can handle all aspects of the claim. Fill in the contact form provided and we will get back to you shortly with more information.
Not only will you be able to make a claim for your flight but also on the accommodation, meals, refreshments and phone calls made whilst you wait for your flight. By obligation your airline must provide you each of these necessary categories to make sure that you are cared for during your wait. If they do not sort out all this out for you at the time you're entitled to claim back expenses. To do this you will need to have saved every receipt from what you have bought which can be sent to the airline who can then reimburse you. We may help you carry out this claim as it can be a time consuming process that you will want sorted out quickly.
Get in touch with us today if you'd like some support making a claim. As experts we are able to give you all the advice you will need to make a successful claim and get back what you are owed. We can answer any questions and ensure that you're being treated correctly during the flight delay compensation process . Just fill out the contact form provided and we will get back in touch as soon as possible answering all your queries.


text:
Science Friday® is produced by the Science Friday Initiative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Science Friday® and SciFri® are registered service marks of Science Friday, Inc. Site design by Pentagram; engineering by Mediapolis.
|The crash of an unmanned Russian cargo rocket has NASA considering evacuating the International Space Station. With the shuttles retired, the station relies on Russian rockets to bring astronauts and supplies. Reporter Mark Carreau discusses the future of the space station which has been constantly manned since 2000.


text:
Paul Smith Spring 2013 | Pictures
Paul Smith Spring 2013
Paul Smith Spring 2013
It's a set of tailored separates with an optimistic twist at Paul Smith, thanks to primary brights and playful colorblocking. As far as silhouettes, the lineup stays pretty classic, but gets a fresh update in the details, be it a slit to modernize (and sexy up) a pleated skirt or a set of cooler, younger-feeling shorts suits. What really makes the difference is the color story — striping and colorblocking that give the collection's breezy shirt dresses, trousers, and blazers a sporty, upbeat edge with their polish.
- Trends: Colorblocking, lace, slits, pleats.
- Colors: Deep red, mustard yellow, gray, black, white, navy, hunter green.
- Key Piece: The lace and colorblocked, pleated shirt dress.
- Accessories: Ankle-strap heels, buckled brogues, mirrored sunglasses, colorblocked satchels.
- Who Should Wear It: The polished, preppy set; we could see Miranda Kerr in these button-ups and sleek trousers.


text:
Gorgeous Fluorescent Light Fittings 95 Fluorescent Light Fittings 5ft Twin Ft Baton Fix Surface
Fluorescent Light Fittings is another of the interior ideas, that you can use for your Fluorescent Lights. There are a many pictures, that have been posted on Thursday 27th, April 2017 05:40:38: AM, which you can ideas as a consideration in the content Gallery of Fluorescent Light Fittings.
So, if you are interested by the ideas of the content Fluorescent Light Fittings, please share with your friends.
There are images in this Fluorescent Light Fittings digital imageries, click thumbnail below to view the large version of other photographs.


text:
Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, March 03, 2006
Looking at Girls
Over at Illustration Art Blog, David Apatoff has posted a wonderful tribute to Playboy cartoonist/painter Erich Sokol's work. David has a real knack for locating the perfect quote to drive home a point and he's found a great one for his Sokol post that I'm going to outright steal:
'John Ciardi once said, "Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea." '
When you strip away the trappings of genre fiction, be they spy novels, hard-boiled detectives, westerns or whatever else, what becomes clear is that Robert McGinnis is a painter who never stopped looking at girls.
Now, some might retort that McGinnis' problem is that he never looked at girls closely enough (or perhaps he's been looking at them through one of those elongating fun-house mirrors). But setting aside matters of personal taste, there's no denying that McGinnis loves women.
I'm still no closer to understanding why Robert McGinnis has achieved popularity far beyond so many of his contemporaries who share his passion for the female form. The answer to that question no doubt lies beyond the realm of objective analysis. People like certain works of art because... they like them.
Art's like that.
A final thanks to TI list member Ken Steacy for supplying this week's images. Be sure to check out Ken's new site for an incredible selection of art and sketch books by current and vintage illustrators.
2 comments:
Leif, I can see it now... there's a great market out there for a book about illustrators, organized by each illustrator's fixation on a different female body type. McGinnis with his weird, elongated figures-- Frazetta with his obsession with immense posteriors--Henry Raleigh with his unnatural emphasis on bare shoulders and backs (showing the "debutante slouch")-- Jeff Jones' fascination with women in advanced stages of pregnancy-- Maxfield Parrish's boyish looking nymphettes-- every male illustrator seemed to see the female form through the lens of his own personal predilections, and to paint them again and again that way.ReplyDelete
I suppose it's no coincidence that for much of the 20th century, art was the only quasi-legitimate profession where a guy could look at naked girls all day long.
Back to this book, I tell you, it would sell a million copies. And you're just the man to do it!
I think I have one of the carson brown pics by Robert McGinnis, here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkvision/99072705/in/set-919339/ReplyDelete


text:
The ability to execute a beguiling piece of skill that would earn applause from David Copperfield and reduce your opponent to a quivering wreck is a talent only the finest of players possess.
Confidence, technical ability and decision-making are the qualities a menacing raider needs to have in their armoury.
More after the break
Hard work in training can hone this skills and we have just the drills to help you fine tune your dribbling technique.
Alfred Galustian, head of Coerver Coaching, who has worked with Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and the world renowned French football academy, Clairefontaine, has delivered a series of one v one training drills exclusively for FourFourTwo Performance.
Here's the final installment in our three part series.
For more technical advice visit Coerver Coaching on YouTube and facebook.
Staines Town Academy demonstrated the drills.


text:
Servicios Personalizados
Links relacionados
- Citado por Google
- Similares en Google
SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
versión On-line ISSN 2078-5135
versión impresa ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.99 no.7 Cape Town jul. 2009
McCord Hospital: a century of footprints on the sands of time
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
Longfellow: 'A Psalm of Life'
I was 18 and in my last year of high school when I first set foot in McCord Zulu Hospital, as it was then known, and met with the superintendent, Dr Alan B Taylor. Tall, big, warm and grandfatherly, Dr Taylor was affectionately nicknamed 'Simotoza' by the McCord community, a made-up Zulu word that connotes something soft and huggable like a teddy bear. I was looking for a job, and he promptly hired me as a clerk and switchboard operator, and was later to help me get into medical school. I was assigned accommodation in the staff quarters, the first time I had ever had a room all to myself.
But that was not all. McCord was a uniquely safe and affirming place an island of human sanity in the midst of an otherwise bizarrely insane universe under the thumb of Hendrik Verwoerd and John Vorster. Dr Taylor was in every sense a passive resistance warrior who consistently sought to defy and frustrate apartheid conventions. For example, he spurned the traditional practice of differential pay for doctors based on skin colour, and instead pooled the subsidy the government provided for salaries and divided it equally among all interns, black and white.
McCord enjoyed a reputation as a caring place, and became a magnet for progressive young doctors seeking to work in a space unencumbered by either racism or condescending paternalism. Dr Taylor retired in the late 1960s, but McCord has survived and blossomed, and has retained and enhanced its reputation thanks to the inspired leadership of his successors, including the present incumbent, Dr Helga Holtz, under whom McCord has become a leading centre for HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and research.
McCord Hospital is currently celebrating 100 years of sterling service to the community. It first opened its doors on 1 May 1909 when Dr James B and Mrs Margaret McCord established a mission nursing home in the greater Durban area under the auspices of the American Board for Foreign Missions. In 1929 a young Dr Alan B Taylor, fresh from the USA, took over and led the hospital's subsequent dramatic development in diagnostic and therapeutic capacity. Over the years, as Durban expanded, a wealthy white suburb mushroomed all around this black hospital, something that would later lead to running battles with government, including threats of closure and severe restrictions on physical expansion.
Since its founding McCord Hospital has been a key pioneer and significant player in the training of health professionals, particularly from disadvantaged communities. Margaret McCord established the first nursing school for black women in what was then the Natal Colony, with the first cohort of four nurses graduating in 1914. However, there being no provision in the colonial set-up for the registration of black professional nurses, these proud graduates remained uncertified.
Few will be aware of the McCord origins of UKZN's Nelson Mandela School of Medicine. Until the 1950s, there were virtually no opportunities for black aspirant doctors to access medical training in South Africa (Wits and UCT admitted less than a handful of students of colour). What few black doctors there were mostly graduated from Edinburgh. In the late 1940s Dr Taylor began teaching a class of bright young men at McCord to become doctors, until he was alerted to the statutory requirements that medical training be located in a university and the curriculum be approved by the Medical and Dental Council. The McCord 'medical school' was illegal, and was ordered to close. That set him on a course to lobby for the creation of a medical school at the University of Natal that would admit black students. The government finally relented, and the medical school was inaugurated with Dr Taylor as the founding dean. The school's first campus, accommodated in abandoned military barracks at Wentworth, was named the Alan Taylor Residence.
For over 30 years until the 1980s this campus came to serve as the university's sole residence for all 'non-European' students irrespective of faculty. Its vibrancy made it the epicentre of anti-apartheid student activism that gave birth to the Black Consciousness Movement led by Steve Biko. Generations of today's medical and other professionals honed their talents at Alan Taylor Residence, including many now serving in senior positions in government, academia, the judiciary and civil society.
In 1963, in my third year of medicine, I was arrested and jailed for 6 months. Dr Taylor was instrumental in my release on bail, thus setting me on the long 30-year walk to the editorship of the SAMJ.
Daniel J Ncayiyana


text:
Lets wrap up the week by sharing a little more about ourselves, beyond the chronic illness we or our loved ones live with. Share an interest, hobby, passion, something that is YOU. If you want to explore how it relates to or helps with diabetes you can. Or let it be a part of you that is completely separate from diabetes, because there is more to life than just diabetes! (This topic is a suggestion from the 2016 #DBlogWeek survey.)
A late post for the final day of DBlogWeek I'm afraid as real life (or adulting as I now call it) got in the way... So here goes, a few things that are me:
- I married a hot farmer almost a year ago, whom I love more than anything
- I love tea, Earl Grey if I would like to feel a little posh
- I love dogs, and I do go high pitched and squeaky if I see a puppy
- I can crochet thanks to my Mama, blankets only but am planning to try other patterns when I have a bit more time
- I love trips to the seaside and the zoo
- I am bossy and stubborn
- I love all things Disney and want to go back to Disneyland Florida for my 30th birthday
- Sometimes I snort when I laugh
- I love a good boxset or Netflix binge
- I love pyjamas
- I find baking very relaxing, but I can't decorate a cake for shit. Looks like a toddlers done it!
- I enjoy going to comedy gigs - I've been to see Bill Bailey, John Bishop, Lee Evans, Ross Noble, Dara O'Briairn to name a few
- I love having games nights with friends