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"Welcome to the Springwatch dogging special. As you join us, we're positioned in our hide beside a B-road in Berkshire, within sight of a busy lay-by known to be one of the area's most popular dogging spots," presenter Chris Packham yesterday told shocked viewers of the BBC's popular nature programme. "This is shaping up to be an extraordinary broadcast, isn't it Kate?" Crouching next to Packham in their hedgerow 'hide', his co-presenter Kate Humble was equally enthusiastic about the evening ahead. "Yes Chris, we're hoping to see some real wild action here today," she informed viewers. "As everyone knows, this is the time of year that impromptu outdoor sex really blossoms. The fine weather and warm temperatures tempt the usually shy and furtive doggers out of their cars, into the open. Sometimes even in daylight." However, her introduction was cut short by Packham. "Sorry, I'll have to stop you there Kate, as I've just had word that a car has been spotted turning into the lane," he announced, peering through a pair of powerful binoculars. "Yes, I can see him now. He's slowing down. Is he going to stop? I think he's about to pull into the lay-by – no, he's driving on. He seems confused. Something's spooked him – perhaps he's spotted one of our camera crews. Wait, wait. He's coming back, yes, he's pulling in! Perhaps we'll see some action now."
At this point, most viewers still believed that they were watching a nature programme. "I still hadn't twigged what was going on, even when they started filming this car, I still thought we were going to see some animal action," Sixty eight year old Bert Hoddocks, one of tens of viewers who phoned into the BBC to complain, later told a phone in on his local radio station. "They should have made it clearer what they were up to – I didn't know what 'dogging' was, I thought he said it was a 'doggie' special." Any doubts as to the programme's content were quickly dispelled by subsequent on-scree developments. "I don't know Chris, he seems to be on his own. Of course, we might witness some solo action if he's got some jazz mags with him. A bit disappointing if that's all we see, but better than nothing," whispered Humble, craning her neck for a better view of the car in question. "Hang on, another car is coming – they're slowing down. Yes, they're pulling up in front of the first one, and I think – yes, it is, it's definitely a female!" Astonished viewers then saw grainy footage of another vehicle pulling up in front of the first car. "Very promising Kate – let's hope she doesn't lose her nerve and bolt. I can see her looking round," enthused Packham, in hushed tones. "She seems reassured by the discarded, rain damaged porn magazines strewn in the hedgerow and the used condoms hanging from the trees. She's definitely interested. Oh yes! She's flashing her brake lights in the universally recognised mating signals of doggers the world over!"
A visibly excited Humble then began to describe the initial moves in the doggers' elaborate mating ritual. "Indeed Chris, and now the male is getting out of his car and approaching hers. I must say that he's a fine specimen, the best I've seen in a long time," she burbled over live footage of the lay by. "Oh! She's getting out too! Now they're both climbing onto the back seat of her vehicle! Let's go over to Bill Oddie, who's concealed in the lay-by's litter bin, for a blow-by-blow commentary on what's developing." With that the hidden cameras zoomed in on the woman's car as it began to bounce up and down, accompanied by the commentary of celebrity 'twitcher' and former one-third of The Goodies, Bill Oddie. "Oh yes, Kate! There's no messing about with this pair – they're straight down to it! In fact, it looks as if it might, quite literally, turn out to be blow-by-blow!" he cackled. "Oh, what a magnificent pair! And I've never seen one whipped out so quick! Go on, get in there! Fwooar! That's right mate, give 'em a squeeze! Oooh! Bloody hell missus!" As the commentary descended into an unintelligible mixture of wheezing and delighted chortling, as the screen continued to show graphic pictures of heaving buttocks and other body parts in the now violently shaking car, shocked viewers began inundating the BBC's phone lines with complaints, appalled by what they were seeing and hearing.
"I can't deny that was expecting to see some wild creatures, a few furry things and the like, but nothing like that," claimed Hoddocks. "I can tell you I was really shocked, I'd never seen stuff like that before – how she got her legs like that is beyond me! I suppose it was educational in some ways, but they really should give clear warnings before showing that sort of stuff – at my age I have to watch my heart." In the face of claims in this morning's tabloids that it had subjected viewers to what amounted to a live porn feed, the BBC has defended its decision to broadcast the dogging special edition. "We felt that it had real sociological value. Illicit outdoor sex is one of Britain's fastest growing past times," a spokesperson claimed. "Besides, everyone knows that the only reason people tune in to things like Springwatch is in the hope that they might see some animal sex, it's like a form of legitimate kinky porn they can justify watching. We just thought we'd try being honest about it for once." However, it appears that viewers didn't appreciate the gesture. "I won't deny I sometimes watch it to observe the mating rituals of wildlife – here in the town we don't get much," Hoddocks admitted during the radio phone-in. "But this was all too graphic and, well, dirty. I mean, there was stuff squirting everywhere and she was screaming so loudly I had to mute the volume, not to mention how hairy and pock-marked that blokes arse was, plus her legs were flabby. It just wasn't as neat and efficient as the animal sex we usually get on Springwatch."
Nonetheless, Hoddocks conceded that he did keep watching the programme to the very end. "I was going to switch over to Eastenders when the car windows started steaming up," he said. "But then they switched to infra red heat imaging cameras – I thought it all looked a lot better that way. It's somehow less objectionable if their genitals just flare red when they ejaculate." Many viewers expressed relief that presenter Chris Packham had kept his clothes on during the broadcast. "He does has form for getting his kit off," observed Hoddocks. "I won't forget that Countryfile presenters nude calender they did for charity – he was February, May, July, October and December! Each one was the same – he was starkers, apart from some poor animal he held in front of his privates, that owl in May looked really disturbed, except for October where he was provocatively cranking an apple press between his legs. Poor old John Craven only got the one month: March, where he was tastefully pictured looking over his shoulder, toward the camera, as he drove a tractor with just a discreet glimpse of bum cleavage." The BBC have denied the existence of any such official merchandising.


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BY Adrienne Stanley | Feb 04, 2016 10:56 AM EST
Lee Min Ho descends from buildings and transforms into a parkour, action star in photos from an upcoming commercial film (CF) for Eider.
On February 4, Eider released stills from the campaign, which depict the 28-year-old Hallyu star in daring scenes that were shot in various locations throughout Sydney, Australia.
According to a report published by Sports Korea, the ads will feature the "Gangnam 1970" actor with the members of a Sydney-based parkour team.
Lee will emphasize the discipline that is necessary for parkour, an extreme sport where athletes leap from the rooftops of urban buildings and run through concrete landscapes.
K-Drama fans will likely embrace the ads as Lee transforms into a sporty, metropolitan warrior, on-par with his portrayal of Lee Yoon Sung in the 2011 SBS hit, "City Hunter."
Lee has appeared as the spokesmodel for the French outdoors wear company since 2011, starring in memorable pictorials that have ranged from camping scenes to couples photos starring Yoona of Girls' Generation.
2015 served as a lucrative endorsement year for "The Heirs" actor, as he successfully served as the face of a historic campaign for the Korea Tourism Organization, drawing more than 20 million international YouTube viewers to the post-MERS ads.
He continues to transition from his image as a teen drama protagonist, embracing the persona of a blockbuster film hero for his upcoming Korean-Chinese co-production, "Bounty Hunters."
The popular actor recently completed his "talk concert" series, which reached audiences in Seoul and Japan.
While his next television role remains unknown, representatives for Lee recently his interest in the latest project from "City Hunter" director, Jin Hyuk, which features screenwriting by "My Love from the Star" creator, Park Ji Eun (Grace Park).
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Hello I hope you are all having a great weekend despite the weather!!! We had a great day yesterday we went bowling, came home ate cake and chinese and watched The Voice so many amazingly talented people on there. Georgina had a great day!!!
I had time to craft too so I made this card using Ballerina from Gr8 Crafts 4 U. She is coloured with pro and flex markers and I have used Websters pages DP's. I used a Martha stewart punch to make a trellis and added some flowers and a sentiment to embellish the trellis.
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"This started more than a decade-long illegal, covert operation in Central Asia by a small group in the US intent on furthering the oil industry and the Military Industrial Complex, using Turkish operatives, Saudi partners and Pakistani allies, furthering this objective in the name of Islam."
~ Sibel Edmonds.
Luke Ryland has done it again:
Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell on the Mike Malloy radio show, guest-hosted by Brad Friedman (audio, partial transcript).
In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, "all the way until that day of September 11."
These 'intimate relations' included using Bin Laden for 'operations' in Central Asia, including Xinjiang, China. These 'operations' involved using al Qaeda and the Taliban in the same manner "as we did during the Afghan and Soviet conflict," that is, fighting 'enemies' via proxies.
As Sibel has previously described, and as she reiterates in this latest interview, this process involved using Turkey (with assistance from 'actors from Pakistan, and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia') as a proxy, which in turn used Bin Laden and the Taliban and others as a proxy terrorist army.
Control of Central Asia
The goals of the American 'statesmen' directing these activities included control of Central Asia's vast energy supplies and new markets for military products.
The Americans had a problem, though. They needed to keep their fingerprints off these operations to avoid a) popular revolt in Central Asia ( Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan), and b) serious repercussions from China and Russia. They found an ingenious solution: Use their puppet-state Turkey as a proxy, and appeal to both pan-Turkic and pan-Islam sensibilities.
Turkey, a NATO ally, has a lot more credibility in the region than the US and, with the history of the Ottoman Empire, could appeal to pan-Turkic dreams of a wider sphere of influence. The majority of the Central Asian population shares the same heritage, language and religion as the Turks.
In turn, the Turks used the Taliban and al Qaeda, appealing to their dreams of a pan-Islamic caliphate (Presumably. Or maybe the Turks/US just paid very well.)
According to Sibel:
This started more than a decade-long illegal, covert operation in Central Asia by a small group in the US intent on furthering the oil industry and the Military Industrial Complex, using Turkish operatives, Saudi partners and Pakistani allies, furthering this objective in the name of Islam.
Sibel was recently asked to write about the recent situation with the Uighurs in Xinjiang, but she declined, apart from saying that "our fingerprint is all over it."
Of course, Sibel isn't the first or only person to recognize any of this. Eric Margolis, one of the best reporters in the West on matters of Central Asia, stated that the Uighurs in the training camps in Afghanistan up to 2001:
"were being trained by Bin Laden to go and fight the communist Chinese in Xinjiang, and this was not only with the knowledge, but with the support of the CIA, because they thought they might use them if war ever broke out with China."
And also that:
"Afghanistan was not a hotbed of terrorism, these were commando groups, guerrilla groups, being trained for specific purposes in Central Asia."
In a separate interview, Margolis said:
"That illustrates Henry Kissinger's bon mot that the only thing more dangerous than being America's enemy is being an ally, because these people were paid by the CIA, they were armed by the US, these Chinese Muslims from Xinjiang, the most-Western province.
The CIA was going to use them in the event of a war with China, or just to raise hell there, and they were trained and supported out of Afghanistan, some of them with Osama Bin Laden's collaboration. The Americans were up to their ears with this."
Read the whole piece at Against All Enemies.
The comment I have is to urge everyone to read The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski. The entire book is available for download here.
Brzezinski's thesis in the book would appear to be:
"For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained."--p. 38 of the online version.
Here's some reinforcement:
"It follows that America's primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that the global community has unhindered financial and economic access to it." --p. 148.
"Global community" means the corporate world and vermin like those at Goldman Sachs, naturally.
Then there are these interesting items:
"Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold."--p. 124.
"The world's energy consumption is bound to vastly increase over the next two or three decades. Estimates by the U.S. Department of energy anticipate that world demand will rise by more than 50 percent between 1993 and 2015, with the most significant increase in consumption occurring in the Far East. The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea." --p. 125.
Or how about this:
"In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms, determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian - and hence infidel - control." -- p. 133.
And abetted from the outside by the US, too. Instead of "infidel control", simply put a Turkish proxy in there like, say, Gülen schools, to educate the children of the upper classes so that they'll be good Muslims sufficiently under the control of the US.
Brzezinski's ideas about Uzbekistan are interesting:
"Uzbekistan is, in fact, the prime candidate for regional leadership in Central Asia." --p. 130.
"Uzbekistan, nationally the most vital and the most populous of the central Asian states, represents the major obstacle to any renewed Russian control over the region. Its independence is critical to the survival of the other Central Asian states, and it is the least vulnerable to Russian pressures." --p. 121.
Could control over Uzbekistan have been the reason for linking the Fethullahçı to the assassination attempt of Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov in 1999?
I wonder, too, if, at the time of writing this book, Brzezinski was anticipating the next "Pearl Harbor" in order to make an outright move to control an area he obviously believes is crucial to maintain US hegemony:
"The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. -- p. 24-25.
In light of the shock effect of the attacks of September 11, 2001, is this statement merely a coincidence?
Is it also coincidence that Brzezinski so glowingly endorsed Obama and that Obama now continues the war in Afghanistan and expands it to Pakistan?
And why did Obama lie about his relationship with Brzezinski?
Change you can believe in, all the way back to the Carter administration:
The CIA's proposal [to "slow down Soviet progress in Afghanistan but also help deflect some of the energy of Middle Eastern Muslims, inspired by the Iranian revolution"] found a sponsor in Carter's National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Polish émigré and fierce anticommunist hawk. Brzezinski, an academic who had done work for the CIA, believed the Afghan situation offered the United States a rare opportunity to frustrate the Soviet's expansionist goals in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He recommended covert assistance to the Islamic fighters. On July 3, 1979, President Carter signed a directive authorizing nonlethal support. On that same day, Brzezinski said he sent a note the president saying his actions would result in direct military intervention by the Soviets.
And it did.
Another thing . . . it's not just the Turks in Central Asia who are helping to achieve US domination of that vast region. Check the activities of MASHAV, including Israeli military activity, in Central Asia and you will see that the Iron Triangle--the US, Turkey, and Israel--is alive and well in the heart of the Eurasian landmass.
On a separate note, I'm happy to announce that I have been invited by Sibel Edmonds to contribute from time to time at her blog. But Sibel has the details on that and there should be something coming up fairly soon. I'll keep you posted.


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Year of inscription on the World Heritage List 1986
Criteria (i)(iii)(iv)
Year(s) of inscription on the List of World Heritage in Danger 1999-2006
Previous Committee Decisions see page https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/241/documents/
International Assistance
Requests approved: 0
(from 2001-2003)
Total amount approved: USD 92,370
For details, see page https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/241/assistance/
UNESCO Extra-budgetary Funds
Total amount provided to the property: Funding under the France-UNESCO Convention for French expert missions (2003, 2005 and 2006) for an amount of 14,000 Euros.
Previous monitoring missions
First World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS- reactive monitoring mission in 2000; expert technical assessment mission in 2001; World Heritage Centre and experts advisory missions in 2003 and 2004; World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS advisory mission in August 2005. Joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission in January 2007.
Factors affecting the property identified in previous reports
General threats:
a) Infrastructure construction in the vicinity of inscribed monuments;
b) Lack of management mechanism;
c) Lack of building and land-use regulations;
d) Tourism development pressures.
Specific threat:
e) Building of inappropriately situated bridges.
Illustrative material see page https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/241/
Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 2007
The State Party submitted a report to the World Heritage Centre on 27 January 2007 on the progress made on the implementation of the decision on Hampi taken by the World Heritage Committee at its 30th session (Vilnius, 2006).
a) Finalisation, official adoption and implementation of the Integrated Management Plan (IMP):
The report states that the IMP is in the final stages of completion. In order to ensure adequate implementation, it is being harmonised with the Master Plan that the Directorate of Town Planning, Government of Karnataka is now finalising. A sub-committee has been formed to address the immediate needs of the local population while the Master Plan is finalised.
b) Provision of adequate staffing and funding to the Hampi World Heritage Area Management Authority:
The State Party report also notes that while the technical staff of the Hampi World Heritage Area Management Authority (HWHAMA) presently only consists of a Conservation Architect, an Archaeologist and a Surveyor, the Government of Karnataka is seeking funds to provide additional staff, for activities identified on an annual basis.
c) Rehabilitation of the abandoned commercial complex-and-interpretation centre construction site and restoration of its former land-use:
The State Party report notes that the adjacent gravel terrain will be temporarily used to park heavy vehicles until a comprehensive eco-friendly plan for visitor circulation is completed and an alternate parking area behind the Public Works Department guest house and interpretation centre at Mayur Bhuvaneshwari complex is created. It also proposes that the remaining building platform be used for cultural events.
d) Establishment and official adoption of urban building regulations, as well as a heritage-based Master Plan and e) exertion of strict control over illegal construction in the core zone:
A Task Force has been formed to monitor unauthorised construction. The Task Force aims to ensure that violators are immediately fined and further illegal activity is stopped. Furthermore, a photographic database for Hampi Village has been completed and an accurate land survey on Virupapuragudda Island has been carried out by the revenue department, so as to limit encroachment. The partial demolition of the illegal commercial establishments in Hampi has been undertaken and a plan launched to step up security at the site. The final Master Plan will be finalized upon completion of necessary key base studies.
f) Official adoption of traffic regulations to ban heavy duty vehicular traffic from the World Heritage area and to submit these regulations to the World Heritage Centre:
The State Party report also states that the public has been notified of draft traffic regulations to limit heavy duty vehicular movement and that comments from the public are now awaited.
g) Reconsideration and adaptation of the design and dimensions of the Anegundi Bridge:
The Government of Karnataka has formulated a proposal based on the guidelines laid down by HWHAMA, aimed at respecting the visual integrity of the property, which include reducing the width of the carriage way of the bridge, ensuring that materials blend in with the environs, and maintaining the existing permanent barricade.
h) Addressing the statement of significance as an amendment to the finalised IMP by 1 February 2008:
The State Party notes that amendments to the statement of significance are being considered, and that to support this work, the cultural resources under the protection of the Department of Archaeology, Government of Karnataka, located within the Hampi World Heritage area, have been mapped and archival material related to the site is being compiled.
The State Party report also includes relevant information on complementary conservation, planning and management activities at the site, e.g. material conservation works, development of activities and materials for tourists, GIS mapping, architectural mapping of Virupaksha Bazaar, preparation of conservation reports for 56 monuments, strengthening of stakeholder consultation process, and improvements in site management and interpretation.
As requested by the World Heritage Committee, a joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission took place in January 2007.
The mission report examines the requests made by the World Heritage Committee at its 30th session (Vilnius, 2006) and information provided from the State Party. The conclusion stresses the positive progress made by the State Party in addressing the threats to the site, and it points out that the process for adequate management of this complex site is well underway and that a dynamic process has started. Substantial progress has been achieved in some respects, while in others, substantial progress can be expected to materialise in the next few months. In view of the great importance of Hampi as a model case for a complex heritage site and its management, it may also be counterproductive to rush certain activities at this stage. Instead, high priority should be given to implementing the most important components of the management system that has been defined in great detail in the IMP.
The most important of the mission's recommendations are:
(i) Acceleration of finalisation of the Integrated Management Plan and harmonisation of the Integrated Management Plan and the Master Plan;
(ii) Strengthen support and authority of the HWHAMA to ensure effective management of the site and enforcement of control of illegal construction;
(iii) Removal of all built elements remaining from the abandoned commercial/ interpretation centre, restoring its former land use, while permitting temporary parking until completion of the proposed visitors centre at Kamlapuram;
(iv) Acceleration of establishment and official adoption of urban building regulations and land use regulations, including completion of missing components within the Master Plan, with a general vision for the site, a tourism strategy, a transport and infrastructure strategy, a socio-economic survey of the core villages, and an environmental study;
(v) Acceleration of development of a fully coherent traffic management scheme linked to provisions of the IMP implementation and created on the basis of appropriately documented quantitative data, as part of a tourism and transport study;
(vi) Acceleration of development and adoption of an effective tourism strategy;
(vii) Preparation of a long-term solution for the Anegundi Bridge;
(viii) Formulate a statement of significance as an amendment to the finalised IMP;
(ix) Proposal for a boundary revision of the World Heritage property on the basis of the finalised IMP and Master Plan, for submission to the World Heritage Committee.
ICOMOS and the World Heritage Centre invite the State Party to implement these recommendations of the joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission.
Within the framework of the Retrospective Inventory project aimed at defining the boundaries of World Heritage sites, the World Heritage Centre has asked the State Party of India for the following information: confirmation of the limits of the site of Hampi, provision of a revised topographic or cadastral map indicating the complete boundary of the site and its buffer zone, and the area in hectares of the site and its buffer zone. This information has not yet been provided.
Analysis and Conclusions of the World Heritage Centre, ICOMOS and ICCROM
Decision Adopted: 31 COM 7B.81
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Document WHC-07/31.COM/7B.Add,
2. Recalling Decision 30 COM 7A.24, adopted at its 30th session (Vilnius, 2006),
3. Notes with satisfaction the substantial progress made by the State Party in strengthening management of the Hampi World Heritage property and in co-ordinating its innovative Integrated Management Plan with the Master Plan being developed for the property;
4. Requests the State Party to implement the full set of recommendations of the January 2007 joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission report, especially as these pertain to the finalisation and implementation of the Integrated Management Plan (IMP), and the role, authority and necessary reinforcement of staffing and funding of the Hampi World Heritage Area Management Authority;
5. Also requests the State Party, as stipulated by the Committee at its 30th session (Vilnius, 2006), to appropriately address the Statement of Outstanding Universal Value as an amendment to the finalised IMP and to report on its progress to the Committee by 1 February 2008;
6. Further requests the State Party to provide information to the World Heritage Centre on the limits and area of the World Heritage site of Hampi, as requested by the World Heritage Centre within the framework of the Retrospective Inventory project in 2006;
7. Finally requests the State Party to provide a report to the World Heritage Centre by 1 February 2008 concerning its progress in meeting the above-listed requests for examination by the Committee at its 32nd session in 2008.


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When God and The Devil Divided up the Dead/
In 'Pon my Honor, Carrie Melton attributes this story to the Knoxville News-Sentinel but gives no further citation. I tried to search their website for it without success.
As I said in last week's post I'm not prone to telling stories of haints but your response to The Logston Tide was overwhelming so I thought I'd share another of Mrs. Melton's stories from the section "I Wouldn't A-Believed Hit if I Hadn't Seen Hit Myself"
Once there was this here old man who was all crippled up with rheumatism. Fact is, he hadn't hardly walked a step in years, and the only way he had of getting around was having his boy carry him. The boy wasn't grown yet, but he could get his pa up on his back and tote him around the place anywhere the old man wanted to go. The old man was an ornery old cuss, just as cross and crabby with his old woman and the young'uns as he could be. His old woman would get so put out with him sometimes that she's just out and tell him that he was so mean that when he died God wouldn't have him and the devil wouldn't want him even if he did have to take him.
Come one fall and it was powerful hot weather…hot and dry. The old man got mighty tired of just setting in his chair all day long, doing nothing but sweating and cussing the flies and the heat. So, he got in the habit of having his boy tote him to different places around about in the cool of the evening.
Now, not far from where he lived there was a graveyard. It was off down in the woods like, and a lonesome place even in broad daylight. The boy didn't much fancy taking his pa there after dark, but for pure devilment on these hot, dry days the old man would make the boy tote him down to the graveyard might nigh ever evening.
It was powerful hot one day…much hotter than usual. The old man could hardly wait for dusky-dark to come and the air to cool off. It did seem like the graveyard was the coolest place to be found in such weather. And, too, it did pleasure the old man a sight to go set among the graves of his friends and kinfolks and to watch the starts and the lightning bugs come out. So, this time as soon as the old woman got supper on the table, the old man rushed the boy through eating so he could pack his pappy out to the graveyard. Much against his wishes, the boy got his pappy on his back and started off down the road to the graveyard. They had to go down the big road a-piece, then off to the right in the scope of woods.
It just happened that two of the neighbor boys had been pawpaw hunting that evening, and had stayed out later than they meant to, so dark had caught them on the way home. They decided to set down and divide their pawpaws there at the graveyard, for the road forked just beyond, and one went one way and the other went the other way.
As they went in the graveyard one boy was carrying the sack of pawpaws and the other one had his pockets full. Just to be a-doin', the boy with his pockets full stopped and laid a pawpaw on each gate post as he went in. Then the two boys walked on down in the graveyard a-piece and set down by two headstones that were close together. Then they started to divide up the pawpaws.
Now, the boy had toted his pa down to the graveyard gate, and since it was a right smart piece and the boy was tired, they stopped to rest. The boy set the old man down by one gate post while he leaned up against the other one. It was while they were resting that they heard talking coming from the graveyard. They were all ears, and this is what they heard.
"You take this 'un, and I'll take that 'un. You take this 'un, and I'll that that 'un." Then another voice said out loud and as plain as day, "Yes, and there's two down by the gate posts. You take one, and I'll take the othern."
At this the boy started over to pick up his pa and get out of there quick, but the old man beat him to it. He jumped up, shoved the boy out of his way and said, "Iffen you can't run, move over and let somebody run that can." And with that he took off down the road so fast that his shirt-tail fairly stood out in the wind behind him. He beat the boy home by a long shot, and purt night scared his old woman to death. She hadn't seen her old man walk a step in years, let alone run!
"Lord-a-mercy! What's the matter?" she yelled, thinking that the world was coming to an end.
"Hide me! Hide me quick, old woman," begged the old man. "We've just been down to the graveyard, and we heard God and the devil down there dividing up the dead. I plain as day heard the devil say that there was two down by the gate posts, and that he'd take one and God could have the othern. And, old woman, you know…good and well which one the devil was atter!"


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A World of Tile, as one of the nation's leading tile retailers, was experiencing a steady increase in business. World of Tile sought to enhance their current email capabilities as consumer demand rose, adhering to to the saying that, "In today's economy, you must adapt to the world of change in order to succeed." The company wanted assistance gaining a more robust and reliable emailing system, in order to send and receive emails without any complications.
World of Tile was using Media Temple web host engine for their primary email system before switching 65 employees to Google Apps. Media Temple was convenient, but only able to provide 25 gigabytes of memory space, being primarily a web hosting platform. In light of World of Tile's growth, Media Temple was neither robust nor scalable enough for their needs.With 14 store locations spread out over 3 different states, World of Tile demanded a better way to communicate and collaborate between remote stores and field employees.
SADA Systems collaborated with World of Tile to make the modification to Google Apps as seamless as possible. Google Apps provided a holistic set of tools that incorporates varied methods of real-time communication amongst employees, alongside a platform better suited for their business needs. SADA took on World of Tile's move to Google Apps, making it easy for World of Tile to shift from Media Temple without internal assistance. SADA's competitors had requested that World of Tile execute the switch themselves. SADA made sure World of Tile understood every aspect of the process in a step-by-step manner, ensuring that their daily operations would not be interrupted by the migration.
World of Tile is progressing towards a steady adoption of the entire suite of Google products, while enjoying the reliable and streamlined email storage that originally incited the switch. World of Tile no longer puts use into any third-party applications, solely relying on Google Apps for their company. World of Tile now receives excellent communication within the company's many branches. Google Chat helps employees stay in touch by the minute with ease, while the ability to see and share individual calendars greatly improves organization and coordination of important events amongst corporate employees. Following SADA's assistance, World of Tile experiences increased ease of essential business communication with Google Apps.
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very dissapointing. He starts with an expansive epic text shimmering in mythic ambiguities, a text that counsels against pinning itself in fixed images. And then proceeds to pin it down with hundreds of tiny discrete literal images.
very odd. strange thing to see after so many years absorbed in the TEXT a text that says, no pictures! so many years in playing with the wordplay, the resonance between words that weave the text together. the poetry, the mythic qualities. the epic qualities.
on the illustrations: i was dissapointed with the pedestrian imagiinations with the text. when i read torah, i perceive mythic stories with epic proportion. after all it starts with the creation of the then known universe and the interaction with the creator of that universe...
when i read the text, which is extremely terse, which calls out for expansion, as indeed the rabbis through the ages expanded it in countless midrashes, reading between the lines, i too expand the stories. so it is dissapointing to see no expansion here. he illustrates exactly what is in the text, he does not extrapolate. he does not draw out the connections between the stories (and indeed the connections carry out between stories throughout the whole old testament!).
And of course the ultimate insult to the text, is a literal reading of it. As it is written, the text is incomplete, full of ambiguities, mere suggestions in so many places. and the purpose of the text, in the jewish tradition is that we are called to go with those hints, to create our own connections, extrapolations. the text cries out for it, and the tradition is seeped in this activity. It is holy. But Crumb's illustrations rather than preserving these ambiguities, pins them down in fixed graphics.
Language is a much more powerful medium for creating ambiguities, holding paradox, multiple viewpoints in the mind. It takes extraordinary efforts i.e. M. C. Escher and Picasso (and these are rather trivial cases) to do this in graphics.
one thing that really bothered me was that he wasted a LOT of panels just drawing faces showing various facial expressions in response to the text. instead he could have drawn images of what the text suggests, he could have drawn out the messages behind the text, the connections with other parts of the story, played on the poetry of the text, more of the mythic elements.
it's so focused on the individuals, petty human stories, but the individuals also clearly 'stand for' archetypes and peoples. Israel is at the same time a person and the whole people israel themselves. Adam is at the same time an individual (not much of one) and all humanity. Moab son of Lot is at the same time the whole people, the Moabites whith much future roles to play in the story ahead...
another point on the literalism of his illustrations: he draws god as a bearded old man. Now as Elohim, say in the first creation story, Elohim is clearly a force of nature and not a personality for humans to respond to. and even as yhvh, a much more personal presence that humans relate to... the point of tora is that yhvh is a voice, a calling, not an experience you can pin down in a picture.
there are plenty of instances for Crumb to draw, where god comes down as a messanger, i.e. when he comes to Abraham to announce he will have a child, and then argue with him about destroying Sodom.
I mean, you've got to build up to the point in Exodus where yhvh is clearly a monstrous volcanic force to be wrestled with, who does NOT even show his face, even to Moses.
In all, the text has always struck me as WAY bigger than Crumb draws it.
on the plus side, focusing as he does on the characters, i did come to some new excitiing realizations about what was going on with these characters. they made many messes of their lives and their children's lives. finally culminating in the reconciliation and forgiveness that joseph finally performs, closing the story. an interesting message. with larger closings as the old testament goes on, culminating in the reconcilation of Moab and Israel in the story of Ruth.
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Each year, when it is time for the Derby, I am reminded of
how my grandparents enjoyed the celebration of this race – and how much I love the memories of my grandparents.
Mark and Peytie Scearce had a long and loving marriage,
and my grandfather was always looking for ways to surprise and delight Peytie. Nothing made him happier than seeing
my grandmother smile!
One year, Mark contacted a local artist named Eloise
Burnett (no relation to me) of Louisville, Kentucky. Her work has been displayed in The Speed Museum of Louisville, the Wakefield-Scearce Galleries in Shelbyville, Kentucky among many other places. Because Mark and Peytie were regular attendees of the Kentucky Derby, he asked Ms. Burnett if she would make a custom purse for Peytie – a one-of-a-kind purse that Peytie could carry in celebration of the Derby.
As you can see in the photos, the purse was so unique we haven't been able, in our research, to find another like it. Years ago, after my grandparents had passed away, my mother received a request to sell the purse to the Churchill Downs Museum, but she couldn't bear to part with this beautiful piece of history that never fails to remind us of how much we adored my grandparents. The purse is a reflection of how much character and charm they possessed.
Recently, when we pulled the purse out of storage, we found a personalized Churchill Downs Betting Book. Inside was the list of her top 6 horse choices for the 1976 race – the last Derby they attended together.
In this little walk down memory lane, I have also included a link below to an interesting article about my grandfather, Mark Scearce. He founded, along with Mark Wakefield, the world-renowned Wakefield-Scearce Galleries in 1947. Everyone who enjoys Derby history will find the story about my grandfather and the Julep Cups fascinating!
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Three primary factors you must consider include:
- Specific material characteristics
- Installation considerations
- Measurement needs
Lydia opens noting level characteristics for solids:
Solids, on the other hand, form piles. If a pipe or chute is sending granules into a vessel, the highest point will be directly under the pipe. The difference between the highest and lowest point in the vessel may be great, or it may be quite uniform, depending on the material and other factors.
The angle of repose or steepness of the pile determines when the solids material will fall down the sides:
Spherical plastic pellets will not pile up very high because they roll down the sides of their own hill. Other products, even if they aren't sticky, can form higher piles due to the particle shape or natural cohesiveness. Under most circumstances, few products have an angle of repose below 30 deg or above 45 deg. Even wet sand, if allowed to move freely, will not pile up steeper than 45 deg.
Three of the most common technologies for solids level measurement include:
- Guided-wave radar using a probe to direct the pulse travel
- Noncontacting radar
- Acoustic
Guided wave radar (GWR) measurement includes a rigid or flexible probe down which the radar signal travels until reflected back by the solids material. Lydia highlights some considerations when using GWR technology:
Some probes are made from flexible cable while others are rigid rods. Flexible probes are better for solids because when large amounts of material start moving, the forces can bend or even break a rigid probe due to the unevenness of movement, particularly when the vessel is filling or emptying.
Probes can be yanked out of the instrument housing, or worse, a well-reinforced probe can simply pull the top of the vessel down. But the tensile force can be calculated to avoid these situations. Depending on the material, frequent movement close to the probe can also cause abrasion and premature wear. Still, in the right application, a guided-wave radar instrument can be a very accurate and economical choice.
Noncontacting radar does not use the probe but rather an antenna to read the radar signals bouncing back off the surface. Accuracy:
…depends on the strength and repeatability of the return signal. The characteristics able to create a strong signal make for major differences between radar and acoustic methods. Radar instruments depend primarily on the dielectric constant (DC) of the material, while acoustic instruments depend on bulk density.
This measurement technology is good for production silos up to 20 meters tall, handles rapid level changes and is a good fit for narrow silos or where obstacles are present.
The angle of solid off which the radar signals reflect can pose a challenge:
…if the pulse hits a slope, part of it can be reflected to the side of the vessel and not captured… In most situations, enough of the signal is returned to get a usable measurement, but if the material has a low DC and a high angle of repose, it makes for a difficult combination. Special solids algorithms in the instruments and parabolic antennas can help with measurements in solids applications.
Acoustic 3D Solids Scanner level information:
…can create a topographical map of the surface inside the vessel. In very large vessels, individual pictures from multiple instruments can be knit together into a very precise larger image covering the surface of the material from wall-to-wall…
Acoustic level measurement is preferred when larger surface areas need to be measured or precise volume measurements are required.
Read the article for more on considerations in selecting the right measurement technology for your solids level measurement application. You can also connect and interact with other level measurement experts in the Level group of the Emerson Exchange 365 community.


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READING I: 1 Kings 11:4-13
RESPONSORIAL: Psalms 106:3-4, 35-36, 37 and 40
GOSPEL: Mark 7:24-30
Circle of Simon Vouet (1590-1649)
In our own lives we sometimes let so many things come between us and God: we get too involved in social issues for their own sake, we give way to temptation too easily, we allow ideas and attitudes into our minds that are not Christian. In other words - we seek our own ends rather than God's. God expects a faithful heart. He is a jealous God who wants us and our heart to be completely focused on him. So often we move him aside and every time we do, we always feel the pinch in some way because that is the nature of human beings, when we move away from God there is some part of our being that is effected by this act. And even being a wise king cannot protect us from this rule of human nature. Let us remember to pray to God to never let us stray from His love!


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[JURIST] British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende [official websites] Monday criticized efforts to create a new constitution [JURIST news archive] for the European Union [official website], saying in a joint press conference [transcript] in London that member states could be better served simply by amending existing treaties. Blair also expressed concern that an entirely new constitution might take power away from national governments and consolidate it into one "super state." Instead, Blair and Balkenende suggested a treaty to amend current agreements to clarify the division of powers between the European Commission (EC) [official website] and member states and to expand the role of national parliaments.
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Technopark Phase 3 – Status, New, Jobs & Updates
Technopark Phase 3 is the 3rd leg of development of Trivandrum's IT corridor. The two towers here, Ganga and Yamuna, were inaugurated in January 2014. The park is located 5-10 minutes away from the Technopark main campus and gained access to the newly built 6-lane national highway, by mid-2017. Technopark Phase 3 houses India's largest office building and the park spreads over 100 acres. Larsen and Toubro have revealed their plans to establish an IT-Residential park here in the near future. More investment by other companies in the park is also expected.
Technopark Phase 3, like Phase 1 and Phase 2, is classified as a Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Here, the buildings look striking; the two towers are cloaked in glass and slope to one side. The infrastructure, needless to say, is some of the best in the world.
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The park was presented the ICI (Indian Concrete Institute) award for Outstanding Concrete Structure, in 2013, and also the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (Gold rating) from the IGBC, the same year.
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Technopark Phase 3, with its green lawns and unique design, aims to make work a pleasurable experience. A new age shopping mall, multiplexes, and more are currently in the pipeline. A 15 thousand square feet wide food court is being built now. It will be able to serve 400 people at the same time.
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In a few years' time, Technopark is expected to create up to 2 lakh jobs in Technopark Phase 3. Technopark Phase 3 is easily approachable via the national highway (Trivandrum – Kollam) or via the Sreekaryam-CET-Kulathur road. The establishment of Phase 3 has already catalyzed the birth of many local businesses like restaurants and apartments in the Kazhakoottam-Kulathur area.
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Also, the construction industry in Trivandrum is booming and there are many apartments in Trivandrum technopark nearing handing over stage.
Technopark Phase 3 currently has its space being used by some of the big names in the IT realm of Trivandrum, such as QBurst and Allianz, and is expected to draw in more in the years to come.


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- We tried seven of the 11 new flavors Ben & Jerry's.
- There are three new flavors of pint slices, two new non-dairy flavors, three "lighter" flavors, and three truffle pint flavors.
- We were thoroughly impressed by the brand's creativity and the fact that their ingredients tasted real and delicious.
Ben & Jerry's has long been known for their creative flavors.
In recent years, the Vermont-based company has released ice cream cartons topped with a layer of chocolate, and delectable pint slices.
Now, Ben & Jerry's is announcing the launch of 11 new flavors for 2018.
INSIDER was lucky enough to try seven of the new flavors ahead of their launch.
Keep scrolling to see what we thought.
Moophoria is a line of "light" flavors that have fewer calories, less sugar, and 60 to 70% less fat than the brand's regular flavors.
The flavor pictured above is Chocolate Milk & Cookies, which is made of vanilla and chocolate ice cream swirled with chocolate chip cookies. It has 560 calories per pint and 140 calories per serving.
Ben & Jerry's says that, unlike other "light" or "diet" ice creams, Moophoria flavors aren't made with sugar alcohols or sugar substitutes, meaning that they won't have that odd, chemical-like aftertaste found in many other "healthy" ice creams.
The verdict? Ben & Jerry's lived up to their creative reputation with these delicious new flavors that we would totally buy for ourselves.
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This is Percy. My new plant.
We don't know what kind of plant it is, so I just decided to call him Percy. I have this thing that I always need to alliterate the name with the thing. Percy the Plant. Since this is the only living thing in our house, aside from Caleb and me, I decided he needed to make an appearance on the blog. My friend Katherine gave him too me and I was so excited that I left my purse at their house and got home and never even realized it. Thankfully my other friend Katherine brought it to me. Anyway, I have now successfully kept Percy alive for 10 days! I waited this long to make sure he would still be alive instead of introducing him the first day I got him only to have him die three days later. I'm not very good with plants. In China I had a baby cactus that I kept on the balcony off of my room. It died. How does someone kill a cactus? And one summer my sister Kristin asked me to water their plants while they were away, since I was planning on going over to lay out by the pool anyway. For some reason I thought it would be okay to water the plants with the pool water. The plants were all dead when they got home. But my days of plant killer are over. I'm turning over a new leaf (no pun intended) and will keep Percy alive!


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HAYWARD — For Vietnam War veteran Thomas Testerman, a letter he recently received from the Defense Department was a reminder of the mistreatment his generation of soldiers faced.
Landing in his mailbox two days before Veterans Day, the letter informed him that he owes nearly $500 because of checks the Social Security Administration mistakenly sent him in 1972. If Testerman does not pay or dispute the bill, the letter stated, deductions from his monthly military retirement checks will begin just days before Christmas.
"The disabled vets from my era have been putting up with this crap for decades now," he said. "It's not right what they're doing to these guys."
Testerman, 61, of Hayward, says he nearly died from a lengthy list of wartime wounds, including severe injuries to his bladder, pelvis and scalp, and fractures to a hip, knee, femur bone and two vertebrae. Testerman, the son of a war veteran, says he lives in constant pain and, though he stands on his own, sometimes he must use a cane to walk.
"On a pain scale of 1 to 10, I walk around every day with a 7 or 8," he said.
While he was recovering 41 years ago, the government began mailing the monthly disability checks that he still receives today. Social Security then sent him a couple of checks, which perplexed him. Though he cashed a couple of them, Testerman consulted his attorney, who said he was not eligible for the Social Security payments. On his lawyer's advice, Testerman stopped cashing the checks, mailing them back for several months until the agency stopped sending them.
"Since then, I have just received my military disability retirement pay, which is about $600 a month," he said.
It's been a moot issue for four decades — until two weeks ago.
Now, fighting the bill of $493.80 will involve engaging with a tangled web of government bureaucracy, Testerman said. The Department of Defense sent the recent letter, which directs Testerman to contact the Department of the Treasury if he has questions, even though the Social Security Administration is in charge of working with people on the amount allegedly owed.
Patricia Raymond, a Social Security Administration spokeswoman, said privacy laws prevent her from commenting on individual cases, but added that "our office makes every attempt to communicate with the public to answer their questions."
Testerman said he recently called a government hotline regarding the letter, and a Social Security representative told him, "If the law says we can take it (the money), we'll take it."
The Department of the Treasury is in charge of collecting "all nontax debt" that millions of people owe the U.S. government. That debt now totals about $1 trillion, agency officials said.
"There are many sympathetic situations and we balance working with people who need debt forgiven or a payment plan with working with people who can pay but are ignoring their obligations," said Ronda Kent, a Department of the Treasury official. "That's all to ensure that tax money is returned when appropriate so it can be spent on programs helping others who also have needs."
Testerman, a computer company employee, said he could afford to pay the bill, if necessary. But he worries if government agencies are making similar demands from many veterans in bad financial shape.
"If they're also doing this to younger vets, that's wrong," he said, his voice cracking with emotion. "It's as immoral as can be."
Mark Chandler — member of the Alameda County Veterans Affairs Commission, which assists local vets — said he objects to the letter's "adversarial" tone.
"Under the circumstances, they should bend a little in dealing with veterans' issues," said Chandler, who also served in Vietnam. "We need to help vets."
Treasury Department officials have urged Testerman to contact them with any questions. But he says that years of dealing with government bureaucracy has made him cynical.
"I'm not holding my breath," he said.
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Reuters is reporting that the Alberta Government will use drones to help narrow down the point of origin of the huge wildfire that has burned 157,000 hectares (387,000 acres) at Fort McMurray and forced the evacuation of the entire city of more than 80,000 residents.
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…Elevated Robotic Services, which has also deployed drones for mining and construction companies, has contracts with the Alberta government and insurance broker Hub International Ltd [HBINT.UL], said Mat Matthews, the Edmonton company's operations and safety manager.
The drones use cameras outfitted with infrared, ultraviolet and traditional optical cameras to pinpoint the hottest part of the fire and trace it to its source based on time, wind and other factors. The cameras will shoot about 800 images, which are then stitched together in a process called fire-mapping.
The work begins on Tuesday, coordinated with the other air traffic, including air tankers and helicopters.
The images, if successful, will zero down to a spot on the ground with about a 30-foot (9-meter) radius where the fire is believed to have started. From there, investigators will search on foot for the cause, such as a lightning strike or campfire.
Using the more traditional method of gathering images from helicopters, the fire's cause could be narrowed only to half an acre, a much larger area to search on the ground, said Ron Windmueller, owner of Droneology, which supplies equipment and other services to Elevated.
Downward wind from helicopter blades can disturb the scene, forcing the pilot to stay about 1,000 feet in the air. A drone can capture images from 100 feet.


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BAE Systems is one of the largest aerospace, defence and security companies in the world with a global presence and employing 87,000 people worldwide and with sales of €22B in 2012.
The Company has a comprehensive portfolio of products covering both the civil and military domains. The broad scope of its aircraft systems business covers everything from single modular items to the complete integration of cockpit and total aircraft equipment packages and mission systems, including: Digital Flight Control Systems, FADECs, Head Up and Head Down Displays, Helmet Mounted Displays, Navigation Systems, Countermeasures and Communications/Datalink technologies.
BAE Systems facility based in Rochester will be participating in the NIPSE project. This site has been at the forefront of the design, development and manufacture of high integrity avionic systems for more than 40 years. This is demonstrated by the range of equipment supplied for the world's aircraft platforms that include Boeing 777, Boeing 737 Next Generation, Gulfstream 1V/V, Embraer Legacy 450/550 business jet, Bombardier C Series and the Airbus single aisle aircraft family. Recently we were awarded the contract to supply the integrated Electronic Flight Control System for the new Boeing 777X aircraft.
BAE Systems has been part of wide number of European research programmes including HILAS, ALICIA, ACROSS, NEFS, AFLoNEXT. The experience gained in its current involvement in FP7 EU research projects such as PRIMAE and ACTUATION 2015, especially in the field of the packaging for the next generation of electronics and of electric actuator will be relevant to this study.
BAE Systems is responsible for WP4.1 and will perform trade studies to develop more integrated and innovative engine and nacelle control system architectures with the objective of reducing electronic equipment volume, interconnectivity and cost.
|John Clarkstone
Chief Systems Engineer. Over 35 years' experience in high integrity flight controls design. Worked on many programmes starting with Tornado Digital Autopilot, YF22 Digital Flight Control System, Boeing 777 Primary Flight Control Computer, Bombardier C Series secondary flight controls and F-22 (JSF) Active stick and throttle. More recently worked on the FP7 "Novel Electric Flap Systems" (NEFS). His expertise includes design for safety including compliance with ARP4754A, DO178B and DO254.
Robin Davies
Robin works as Chief Systems Engineer at BAE Systems and has a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined BAE Systems (then Marconi Avionics) in 1982, working for the 'Flight Automation Research Laboratory'. He worked as part of the data transmission team and specialised in fibre optic data communication systems. This included the development of an optically signalled flight control system (FCS) for an airship.
In 1992, Robin moved to the company's Flight System Division, where he worked on the Boeing 777 Primary Flight Computer programme and gained experience of high integrity system design and redundancy management. Subsequently, he moved to the company's Technology Group and worked on a number of EU part funded programs while also providing technical leadership for a number of flight control system bids and proposals. Currently, Robin is involved in the acquisition of electric actuation system technology via his role as work package leader in the Actuation 2015 programme. He is also a member of the EUROCAE Technical Advisory Committee.


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Lady Gaga has agreed to sit down for an interview with newsman Piers Morgan after he questioned her post traumatic stress disorder diagnosis claims.
The Born This Way singer went public with her health crisis during an interview on TV show Today earlier this month (Dec16), revealing she has suffered from the condition since being raped at the age of 19.
The 30-year-old also opened up more about her struggles with the disorder in a letter written on her Born This Way Foundation website, but over the weekend (10-11Dec16), outspoken Brit Morgan took to Twitter to question Lady Gaga's rape claims - and those of Madonna, who also maintains her PTSD issues were sparked by a sexual assault.
"I come from a big military family," he wrote on Saturday (10Dec16). "It angers me when celebrities start claiming PTSD about everything to promote themselves. Lady Gaga & Madonna have both made ALLEGATIONS of rape many years after the event. No police complaint, no charges, no court case."
"I don't think all claims of rape should be necessarily accepted as fact without proper criminal investigation, do you?," he continued.
"PTSD is a very serious affliction that has started to be flung around by a lot of celebrities," he wrote.
The 51-year-old was criticized for his remarks and Gaga has now responded to Morgan directly by offering to sit down with him to talk about her ordeal and the work that she has done to raise awareness.
"@piersmorgan I've work w/ our VP Joe Biden on helping educate people about why women don't report, would love to share it w/ you some time (sic)," she wrote on the social media site.
"@piersmorgan would also love to talk with you about PTSD, that it's not just a military disorder," she continued. "There is a mental health youth epidemic. @piersmorgan if anyone in your family suffers from it, I pray they have more good days than bad. It has affected me & my whole family."
Piers has agreed to set up the interview and is now praising the singer for reaching out to him.
"I rather admire @ladygaga for agreeing to an interview after my criticisms," he wrote. "Should be a fascinating debate."
However, she has warned him if he keeps attacking her over her claims she will cancel the sit down.
"@piersmorgan if you continue to shame me in the process of kindly agreeing to interview w/ u (with you) I'll happily do the interview with someone else," she added.
Madonna, who opened up about her alleged rape ordeal in 2013, has yet to respond to Piers, her longtime nemesis.
Gaga's response comes days after she ended her feud with Madonna by praising the female empowerment speech she gave at the Billboard Women in Music Awards on Friday (09Dec16).
"@Madonna your speech at the Billboard Music Awards was inspiring," she wrote. "You're so brave & strong. Thanks for being that for us girls we need that."
Madonna has yet to respond to Gaga's words of support.


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When I first started my business 16 years ago, I can tell you I did not do things the easy way. I found I was giving away free advice, services, working all the time and my rate per hour did not support what I wanted to make in a year. I was hungry and did anything to get the business in the door. That came with a price. I found I was not attracting the type of client I wanted to have. I would rush in to fix the problem, but would find myself in the heat of their drama. These clients would be so happy that their issue was resolved and then would begin to nickel and dime me about how much I charged for my services. I learned all business is not good business.
So how do you protect yourself from these types of clients? Learning how to say NO! Not all business is good business. Putting boundaries together and executing them was one of the hardest lessons I have learned. It is okay to say no. Your client's emergency is not your emergency. I started to ask more in-depth questions in my interview process. Instead of the client just interviewing me, I would interview the client to see if they were the type of client I wanted to have. I changed my perspective in my sales process in order to find the right client.
In my initial sales meeting I would ask some of the following questions:
- Are you presently working with a bookkeeper?
- If you could re-write how your current bookkeeping services are being done what would you change?
- What is the company structure and how do you pay yourself?
- What are your goals and objectives for your business?
The more I got the client to open up to me, the more I learned about what some of the real key issues were. I started listening to the client instead of selling my services first. Things like money issues became red flags and if they went through several bookkeepers, the reasons just unfolded. As a business owner it is sometimes hard to juggle the multitude of hats we wear in the business. Our personal feeling of doing a good job and wanting to help fix the business owner problems often gets in the way of our own business objectives. So next time when you are bringing in a new client, take more time to interview the client and know it is okay to say NO.


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I just wrote a huge blog on resolutions, read through it, highlighted it and deleted it, because.. really, who cares? No one sticks to them anyway.. And why would you want to read about mine. I do love that the new year can be a start of a new chapter if you want it to be, or if you plan on living your same simple life like I plan to here are a few tips that I live by:
Advice for the New Year and every year:
Get up a few minutes earlier and sit down to have your coffee, or breakfast. Not feeling like you're in a crazy rush can set the tone for your entire day. Having just a few minutes to actually enjoy your day in the morning can make a world of difference. Try it and see.
Make your bed! It doesn't have to be perfect, but if you accomplish one thing right off the bat your mind will be programed to want to accomplish more.. plus it will make it that much better to crawl into bed at night.
Keep moving.. I admit it .. I hate exercising. It's all fun and games when you're young and can eat an entire quickie mart with no consequences, but face it you're a year older. I'm not saying join your nearest crossfit team, but perhaps park in that furthest stall, take the stairs instead of the escalator, or my favorite slap on your favorite jam and just dance .. just a few minutes a day adds up, and can keep you feeling bikini confident without setting aside hours for a workout that in reality you're probably gonna skip anyway.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Rhenium and Technetium
Description: Article describing the discovery of rhenium and technetium by Walter Karl Friedrich Noddack and Ida Eva Noddack-Tacke. Information regarding pertinent locations is included.
Date: Winter 2013
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences


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There are lots of technological advancements and breakthroughs in science which make life worth living in the lives of human being. It also bridges the gap between borders and boundaries caused by multicultural diversities, cultures and beliefs among individuals.
There are relationships which were nurtured and developed because of technological advancements as well. Technology has lots of benefits and sometimes we tend to take for granted its not so good effects in our lives.
Social media is one of the greatest discoveries in technological world. It's so big and vast that men are blinded with lots of things in the real world.
Here are common effects of social media in relationship which most couple fails to recognize.
Social Media Makes You Jealous
You may not notice it, but social media tends to steal the joy in your heart. It makes you jealous of what's happening in the lives of other people.
So when you feel like negativity starts to creep in get rid of your social media. Turn off your computer or log out right away.
You will never the happiness that you may feel the moment that you turn them off.
The Longer You Stay The Longer You Feel Sad
This is actually true among those people who keep on investing their time on social media. Even when they don't need to, they just have that impulse to visit their social media anyway.
The longer time you spend in your facebook the sadder you become. Because you may feel you are unlucky enough because your friends get to visit another country abroad, and you are just bound to stay at home.
This is just an example on how social media makes you feel sad. You become depressed and lots of negative things might be running in your mind.
Social Media Makes You Someone Whom You're Not
Social media actually makes you someone whom you're not. Makes your pretend and desire things which are not for you.
Worse, it could even lead you to do the things which you not suppose to do.
Make sure that you do not lose your senses in social media sites. You do not lose yourself just to fit in this so called universe.
This world might sway you if you will not stand your ground. Social media remains to be neutral unless you use it in good or bad which make it good or bad.
Social Media Makes Can Be A Waste Of Time
Consider the time that you are spending on your social media. Calculate the number of hours you should be doing something instead of browsing and checking new feeds which are not even helpful.
Time is evil and if you will not make use of your time wisely. You might get lured and pursed by worldly pleasures.
It's time to step up and go out of the real battlefield; the people around you.
It's not something that you do big; it's in little encouragement that you speak words which bring life and healing. Which could improve your overall health as well.
Important Factors
Social media can be very helpful, but you have to maintain balance in using them. You cannot deny the fact that it can steal your happiness.
When you feel like it doesn't feel good anymore, log out and get out. Breathe some fresh air and do some walking instead.
Know its pros and cons and know yourself exactly. This is just a guide but it's still up to you.
There are some fights in this world which are not worth fighting and social media websites is something that can be put aside instead.


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I am a coffee loving fiction writer. I am enamored of a great cup of coffee. I write for several local magazines and always end up reviewing coffee shops. So I thought, why not start a blog dedicated to my love of the roasted bean. I thought it would be fun to have a place to talk about the pros and cons of the cafe's I've been to and at the same time, give me an excuse to try even more. The places I choose are usualy on a whim, no one pays me to reveiw them, I do it for myself, for my friends, and in an effort to find a great cappuccino.
My biggest passion when it comes to coffee is the Italian Cappuccino. That's what I hold my standards to when I talk about the capus I drink.
I live in Boise, but my travels take me to Rome, Florence, California and beyond. So eventually, I'll get around to my favorites in those areas too.
This is my pet project, my just for fun. If you like my writing style, come check out more of my every day meandering at Nicolesharpwrites.com.


text: KIRKUS REVIEW Ignoring a big dragon's repeated complaints, one, two, three…up to ten little dragons make increasing amounts of sleep-preventing noise in this bouncy counting rhyme. Using a flat silkscreen style for his digitally created cartoon scenes, Long supplies a swelling band of spiky, pop-eyed youngsters with toys and musical instruments, along with such modern noisemakers as a flat-screen television, to keep the increasingly irritated parent (or maybe older sib?) wakeful. Modeled on "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" and like chestnuts, the written narrative offers both a reasonably regular cadence and some deft alliteration: "Three dancing dragons learn to tap, tap, tap. / One groggy dragon groans, 'I want to nap!' " At last the miscreants tumble into bed themselves—only to find the tables turned by their larger cavemate's spread-filling snores. A lighthearted take on a topic of common domestic interest, equally suited to sharing one on one or with a larger audience. (Picture book. 5-7) Pub Date: Aug. 1st, 2010ISBN: 970-0-545-16557-0Page count: 32ppPublisher: Orchard/ScholasticReview Posted Online: July 1st, 2010Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1st, 2010


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Middle Schools
Buckingham Middle School
Buckingham County Public Schools, Buckingham, Virginia
Buckingham Middle School replaced an existing middle school and is designed to accommodate 650 students with the capability to expand up to 850 students in the future. The building is organized around a central spine corridor, which serves all of the academic program spaces. The spine begins at the "public" spaces on the north of the building. The main entry is located between the gymnasium/commons and the academic wings, which allows the academic portions to be easily closed off for after-hours events. One of the goals for this project was to enhance the amenities available to the Buckingham County community as a whole and to include features that can be shared by the high school and middle school. These shared features include competition baseball and softball fields, as well as a large gymnasium.


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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 184.108.40.206
While this site by itself is not a terrible problem, I do have sites registered through this registrar that are due in June 08. Steps taken: obviously, contacting the registrar. Months of emails completely ignored, albeit the tone of the emails grew consistantly more agitated as time passed, but in no way crossed the bounds of civility. Provided the transaction ID proving that payment went through, but still strict silence from the registrar. Also mentioned that even if payment was not received to please provide the authorization code to transfer the domain to another registrar. And cited the non-payment ICANN statement in the recent WW post. Again with no response. Contacted PayPal. Response: claims made on non-physical goods are not within their perview. Contacted ICANN -- waiting their reply.
What recourse does a person have if a registrar suddenly decides to not cooperate? It's not a question of wanting to scam anyone -- the payment for the domain was made in time of its renewal, I'm not looking to fool anyone here, just looking for the domain that has been renewed for the past 5 years and wondering why this year there is a problem. I provided them with the transaction ID so they could check up on it, to make sure that the payment went through. Their silence is a bit suspect, but something to be brushed under the mats so long as the control of the domain purchased was given back. I realize this is a bizare situation; at the same time does anyone have any suggestions?
Registrar Contact Information:
Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com
Phone: 1 832 295 1535
Email: email@example.com
There is more information you ought to read about them here [internic.net].
Hopefully after you explain the situation, they will be able to assist you.
[edited by: Laker at 2:20 am (utc) on April 21, 2008]
Will reply in the morning, received a message that the call could not go through.
Many thanks, Laker!


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Portobello Tacos/
Did you know that portobello mushrooms have a steak-like taste? That is why you can chop them up and make fajitas out of them! The perfect vegetarian, clean-eating, easy and elegant entertaining food!
10 potobello mushrooms
1 green bell pepper and 6 mini hot peppers
1 onion
1 tablespoon taco seasoning (see below)
Juice of 1 lime
1 tablespoon olive oil
6 corn tortillas
Taco seasoning, or make your own with ingredients below:
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 1/2 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon. oregano
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon. paprika
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- Trim stems of mushrooms, wipe tops clean. Cut into about 1/3 inch thick slices
- Thinly slice peppers and onion
- Combine taco seasoning ingredients in a bowl
- In a large skillet over medium heat, add olive oil, peppers and onions. Cook about 2 minutes
- Add mushrooms and taco seasoning.
- Stirring occasionally, cook another 7-8 minutes or until softened. Add lime juice, season with salt and pepper and turn off heat.
- Spoon the fajita mixture into the center of tortillas, and serve with toppings of choice (avocado, sour cream, cheese!).


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Radiant Birthday 18th Tableware
Create a stunning, multicoloured display for any 18th Birthday celebrations with this Radiant 18th Birthday tableware. Featuring a fun multicoloured pattern with vibrant stripes, stars and a bold 'Happy Birthday' message. This full range will be perfect for creating fun colour popping displays at any eighteenth birthday celebration and includes a tablecover, cups, plates and napkins all featuring this fun matching design. We also have a fantastic host of matching party items including candles, invitations, balloons, posters and banners too!


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This article provides full details about Atlantic broadband customer service contact so that you can contact them if you have any issue regarding internet connection/services or you want a new broadband connection. It is a complete solutions to all your broadband connections. The official contact details of Atlantic Broadband includes Office address, customer service phone number, toll free helpline number and email id. To know more about internet plans offered by Atlantic you must visit the official website of Atlantic Broadband.
About Atlantic Broadband – Atlantic Broadband is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cogeco Cable Inc.. Atlantic Broadband is headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is the 12th largest cable operator in the United States. Atlantic Broadband is based on the service given to large number of television customers. The company currently provides TV, Internet and Phone services to approximately 246,000 television service customers.
Atlantic Broadband is located in five operating regions: western Pennsylvania, Miami Beach, Maryland/Delaware, Aiken, S.C. and eastern Connecticut. Here in this post we have shared official contact details of Atlantic Broadband that includes office address, office phone number, toll free helpline number and email id. If you have any query regarding internet services offered by Atlantic Broadband than kindly contact them on the above provided details.
Atlantic Broadband Customer Service Number, Toll Free Hotline ,Office Address
Customer Service Number : 877-435-2227, 1–888-536-9600
Customer Service Email ID: email@example.com
We have collected necessary details about customer service contact details of Atlantic Broadband that includes Atlantic Broadband customer service number and office phone number. If you need any information regarding broadband services offered by Atlantic Broadband than call on their customer service phone number to talk to their support executives.
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Headquarters Office Address : Atlantic Broadband Corporate Office
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Phone Number: +1-617-786-8800
Fax Number: +1-617-786-8803
Headquarters Office Email ID: firstname.lastname@example.com
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"In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and – snap!– the job's a game!" – Mary Poppins
For Elizabeth Stevens, her love of all things Disney became just that… a game. As a military wife and mother of two, Elizabeth knows what it is like to be running kids between church classes, soccer and swim lessons. Oh, and let's not forget the 101 runs to the grocery store, athletic store and the Disney Store that occur during the week. In the midst of all the hustle and bustle, Elizabeth has always found great joy in planning Disney vacations for her family and friends. After planning so many trips, it was time Elizabeth made that fun a job.
As a member of the military community, Elizabeth knows how important it is for the entire family to regroup and de-stress after a deployment. Upon her husband's most recent return from combat, a Disney Cruise was just the answer. "The cruise was so relaxing! There is something for everyone. We spent time together as a family, but the kids loved the Oceaneer's Club so much, there was time for me to spend time in the spa, and my husband got to practice his golf swing on the virtual sports simulators."
Some of Elizabeth's most cherished memories are of family trips to Disney during the fall. Halloween in the Magic Kingdom can make any person giddy. Seeing the amazing decorations, taking pictures with all the characters dressed in their Halloween costumes, and seeing the Headless Horseman ride down Main Street USA make Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party a must-do on any bucket list.
Elizabeth's favorite tip for families visiting the Magic Kingdom for the first time: Don't forget to stop by Sleepy Hollow for a Nutella and Fresh Fruit Waffle Sandwich!
To contact Elizabeth, email her at email@example.com or call her at 405-694-9387.


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The four day long event CII Coolex 2015 showcasing Air Conditioners and refrigerators organised by the CII, Northern Region was held in Lucknow & Chandigarh in April 2015. The event held every year offers cool deals and attractive financing options for buyers.
Voltas UPBG division participated in Coolex with its entire range of products being showcased at the venue ranging from AC's , water dispensers, water coolers and commercial refrigeration. A sizeable audience turned out to experience the new range of products


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