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Many of the designs I create are inspired or based in music. Lately, I have been creating an ongoing series of designs based on the great composers. The design series is nowhere near done (so many great composers!), and I'll be posting new designs and keeping this post up to date as I do. Classical music is specially important for me. I have been playing the piano for more than 8 years now, and it is a constant source of joy in my life.
Without further ado, here are the great composer designs 🙂
Feel free to check out my Zazzle Store, to see more designs. Remember to share if you like them!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Poster by Cesar_Padilla
Shop for Wolfgang Posters online at Zazzle.com
This design features a bit of typography inspiration and a vectorized portrait of the great Austrian composer. I wanted to create a design that was bold, and would look nice on a poster, t-shirt, or any objetct, not the classic, toned-down imagery that sometimes is used for Mozart art. The composer's name is written in 6 lines of text, in blue and red. The portrait of Mozart sits on the background, in a dark gray tone. This combination creates a balanced, bold effect.
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Ludwig van Beethoven in neon typography design Photo Print by Cesar_Padilla
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Another one of the great composers, whose music still influences us, hundreds of years after he passed away. The design also features Beethoven's portrait in the background, with bold lettering in multiple lines sitting on the foreground. But this design features typographical and stylistic choices that are very different from Mozart's design. The design looks great both on white and black backgrounds, in a wide variety of products.
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Johann Sebastian Bach portrait and red letters Photo Print by Cesar_Padilla
See other Johann sebastian bach Photography at zazzle
Bach is too often portrayed in a serious, formal and anticuated fashion. Except of course when he is the subject of puns like "I'll be Bach", or "Bach to the future". I wanted to create a design that would make this great composer look cool, great and inspire people to wear their love for him on their sleeve, with no puns or jokes, this time. The black portrait of Bach in the background creates a bold and powerful contrast against his name, written in red in front.
Frédéric Chopin:
Frédéric Chopin portrait Poster by Cesar_Padilla
Look at more Poster templates and designs online at Zazzle
Chopin is perhaps my favorite of the great composers. This is a difficult question of course, but his deeply moving and incredibly beautiful works for piano are something which I cannot stop listening. I created a more toned down, and subdued, design, for this great Polish master. It features Chopin's portrait and his name writtten in elegant blue letters underneath. A great choice for a t-shirt or a music room.
Additional Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Design:
I wanted to keep creating designs based on other great composers, but I had to share this one first. Another design based on the great Mozart. It is a humorous take on the pop culture phenomenon of taking sides whenever a movie, show, or event features 2 clashing characters (Captain America vrs IronMan). Well, Mozart really has no specific nemesis (Salieri, perhaps?) but I still wanted to create a design that boldly stated that I was in his team, so there. The design features the Austrian flag's colors, and looks great on a black background, although you can modify the products in the Zazzle store to have any background color that you like (for most of them).
What did you think of the great composer's design series? Please share if you liked it!


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We are super thrilled to have two weddings featured in Hawaii Bride & Groom! Carisse and Todd's modern glam wedding was held at the gorgeous Lanikuhonua, and Monica and Joe's organic vintage glam wedding took place at the historic Laniakea in downtown Honolulu. Both were such unique and memorable weddings for us!

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Ang importante dyan makita yung body ng plane.. Mababaliw ka talaga pag di mo makita at least yung wreckage (most especially kung relative ka ng mga passengers)...
Ang valid argument kasi at this point, walang kwenta ang lahat ng available technologies sa paghahanap ng nawawalang eroplano..
pwede kaya military mishap ito.. diba masyado active ang china sa pambubully nila sa parte na yan ng SCS/WPS?
ang lumalabas na balita kasi ngayon eh nag-disintegrate daw ang plane in the air..
surface-to-air missile are known to shred planes..
^pero kahit paano may debris pa rin yan like fragments ng eroplano, luggages and human body parts, 35000ft is not "outer space" enough para madisintegrate sa atmosphere yung debris unless anti-matter yung pinangtesting sa MAS plane..
teka... di kaya?
two top spies wants to call it quits but their handlers will only allow it if they are dead.
so ...... they staged a plane crash which will cover up their retirement. it is doubtful that the recovery team could fully account a complete body count because of the unpredictable conditions.
the Vietnamese calls the South China Sea as the EAST SEA. Filipinos calls the South China Sea as the West Philippine Sea.
Missile downed Malaysia Airlines jet? Follows near miss by North Korean rocket last week
By Aaron Klein
Posted on March 9, 2014 at 2:42 PM EST
TEL AVIV Just eight days after a terrorist attack in the city of Kunming dubbed Chinas September 11th, a Malaysia Airlines flight carrying mostly Chinese passengers disappeared over the South China Sea.
While the international probe is in its early stages and questions are being raised about the prospect of terrorism, investigators would be wise to thoroughly examine the possibility of a missile attack in light of recent information about the global proliferation of such projectiles capable of downing civilian airliners.
Further, China has issued a series of warnings about North Korean missiles, including one that crossed paths with a Chinese airliner carrying 220 people just last week.
On Friday, China complained to North Korea when one of its missiles came dangerously close to a civilian jet last Tuesday. The airplane had departed Tokyos Narita airport en route to the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang.
One day earlier, South Koreas defense ministry released a statement saying the Chinese civilian plane had passed as the ballistic missile (from North Korea) was in the course of descending.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters, On this issue, we have already contacted the North Korean side to convey our deep concern.
If any country is to hold training or exercises, it should take measures in accordance with international practice to ensure the safety of civil [facilities] in relevant airspace and maritime space, said Qin.
Qin said the jet was flying over international waters at an altitude of 10,000 meters, or 32,800 feet.
The rocket could have hit the plane on its way down, he said. North Korea had not given any warning. It was an unexpected and immoral act that goes against international norms.
One week earlier, North Korea reportedly test-fired two short range missiles into the sea.
The Malaysian Airlines flight reportedly lost contact with air traffic controllers some 2 hours after departing Kuala Lumpur, when the plane was about one third of the way into the trip.
Vietnamese searchers said they found possible aircraft debris, including part of a door, that could be from the missing flight. Those fragments were reportedly located about 65 miles south-southwest of Vietnams Tho Chu island. The distance from that area to North Korea is about 2,600 miles.
North Korean missile capabilities are said to include the Musadan missile, with a range of about 2,485 miles; the 4,000-mile range Taepodong-2; and a claimed long-range UNHA-3 missile. None of those missiles were reportedly tested in public.
In January, former CIA Director David Petraeus warned of a nightmare scenario in which the proliferation of missiles could provide terrorists the ability to shoot down passenger airplanes.
The largest terrorist looting of Man-Portable-Air-Defense-Systems, or MANPADS reportedly took place immediately after the U.S.-NATO military campaign that helped to end Moammar Gadhafis rule in Libya.
Gadhafi had hoarded Africas biggest known reserve of MANPADS, with his stock said to number between 15,000 and 20,000. Many of the missiles were stolen by militias fighting in Libya, including those backed by the U.S. their anti-Gadhafi efforts.
Last week there were unverified claims some MANPADS went missing in Ukraine.
Last April, the United Nations released a report revealing that weapons from Libya to extremists were proliferating at an alarming rate, fueling conflicts in Mali, Syria, Gaza and elsewhere.
Most MANPADS are designed to down a low-flying aircraft. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, however, reportedly disappeared from radar while flying at cruising altitude in fine weather.
The details surrounding the fate of the Malaysia Airlines flight could take months or even years to fully emerge. While it is too early to jump to conclusions and the possibilities will evolve along with the investigation, some reports about the flight are technically consistent with a potential missile strike.
Reuters has exclusively quoted a senior source inside the probe saying they were narrowing the focus of the investigation to the possibility the aircraft disintegrated mid-flight.
Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told reporters the airline had no indication of any distress signal from the pilot, with CBS News reporting this suggested that whatever happened to the plane occurred quickly and possibly catastrophically.
Other reports say radar tracking the flight indicated the pilot may have turned back from its path to Beijing before disappearing. It was unclear how quickly the airplane did an about face or why the pilot may have decided to reverse course.
Meanwhile, international intelligence agencies have joined the investigation amid news that two passengers boarded the jet using stolen passports, raising terrorism concerns.
Nightmare threat targets passenger aircraft
At a conference in Tel Aviv in January, Petraeus warned of a nightmare scenario in which missile proliferation could provide terrorists the capability to shoot down a civilian airliner.
Petraeus was speaking at the annual conference of the Institute for National Security Studies, a think-tank at Tel Aviv University.
He referred to a video posted on YouTube by the Sinai-based Ansar Jerusalem jihadist group, which claimed it had fired a surface-to-air missile at an Egyptian helicopter.
I mean, shooting down a helicopter with an apparent shoulder-fired missile is a big deal, Petraeus said.
As you know, that was always our worst nightmare, that a civilian airliner would be shot down by one. Which is why we were so concerned when they moved around, he said.
The MANPADS didnt just move around. Thousands were looted when Gadhafis reserves were unprotected following the NATO campaign there in 2011.
At the time, CBS News reported the U.S. was unable to secure thousands of MANPADS.
CBS quoted a well-placed source divulging that hundreds of missiles were tracked going to the group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, AQIM, the al-Qaida franchise based in Algeria that is now considered to be one of the gravest threats to the U.S.
It's just gotten weirder.
Reports say the oil slick analysis is not jet fuel.
Floating yellow debris initially thought to be a raft, is not.
Where the hell is that plane?
Still, it is incomprehensible that not a single piece of non-metallic items that could float is found. They maybe scattered at a wide area but currents tend to "accumulate" them into floating streaks of debris. There has to be something that will show the plane and passengers existed! Nothing vanishes that way without any trace.Official: Malaysian Jet May Have Disintegrated.
A senior source involved in preliminary investigations in Malaysia said the failure to find any debris indicated the plane may have broken up mid-flight, which could disperse wreckage over a very wide area.
"The fact that we are unable to find any debris so far appears to indicate that the aircraft is likely to have disintegrated at around 35,000 feet," said the source.
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bermuda triangle....
Could it be biblical? Or the plane might have entered another dimension?
teka, what if we looked west? hanggang san ba aabutin ng 7hrs of jetfuel kapag tinahak ang pa-west?
Source LinkTwo individuals in Kelantan today claimed they saw an aircraft flying overhead in the early hours of Saturday around the time flight MH370 fell off the radar. In Ketereh, a businessman said he saw a bright light believed to be an aircraft at about 1.45am, descending towards the South China Sea. While a fisherman said he spotted an aircraft flying very low about 10 nautical miles off Kuala Besar, heading towards Thailand.
29-year-old Akif Fathi Abdul Hadi lodged a report on what he saw that night with the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency MMEA in Tok Bali, Pasir Puteh this morning. The businessman said he was in the compound of his home when he saw the bright white light similar to the ones used by airplanes during night flights. He also said the aircraft was moving towards the sea towards Bachok which was unusual as aircraft flying over the area would usually head towards the other direction.
Akif Fathi added he watched the light's movement for about five minutes, before realising that it was descending. The businessman said he lodged a report with the MMEA after consulting his family. Meanwhile fisherman Azid Ibrahim said it was common to see aircrafts flying over Kuala Besar which is one of his favourite fishing spots. However, a particular aircraft caught his attention that night because it was flying very low compared to others. The aircraft, he said was heading towards Thailand. Azid then lodged a police report on his friend's advise. The fisherman was met after bringing police officials to the fishing site where he spotted the aircraft. -
gosh! the latest news, wala pa rin talaga silang makitang trace!
even US spy satellite camera showed, there is no evidence of explosion that happened if it disentigrated in the mid-air! kaloka! maaring ito na ang sinasabing ALIEN invasion!
gosh! sana mahanap na ang reason kung bakit nangyari ito! nakakatakot na uli sumakay ng eroplano!
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So the plane is still,
but seriously, just thinking about it always makes me creeped out. It just feels frightening for a modern plane and with the technology today. With this bizarre incident reminds me of "The Twilight Zone". I mean could it really be possible. Time slip? Alien Abduction?


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Ben Franklin Essay, Research Paper
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing". America
has never forgotten Benjamin Franklin because he did both. He lived these
words of wisdom by writing as much as he could and by doing even more.
He became famous for being a scientist, an inventor, a statesman, a printer, a
philosopher, a musician, and an economist. Benjamin Franklin is most
famous for his experiment and research in the field of electricity. He also
observed and made discoveries in storms and weather.
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on Jan. 17, 1706. His father,
Josiah, was a poor soap & candlemaker. His mother, Abiah, was Josiah's
second wife. Benjamin was the youngest son and the
15th of 17 children.
At the age of 10 Benjamin began to help in his father's shop, cutting
candlewicks and filling molds. Although he went to school only two years,
Ben was fond of books and spent much of his spare time reading. He also
became an expert swimmer. One of his first inventions was a set of paddles to
give him greater swimming speed.
Benjamin Franklin was an active inventor all his life. One of his most
famous inventions was the Franklin stove. In his time houses were poorly
heated by open fireplaces. Franklin s stove was put in the fireplace, but its
grate extended out into the room. This heater cast warmth in all directions. As
Franklin said, the stove prevented a person "being scorched before, and, as it
were, froze behind".
The Governor of Pennsylvania wanted Ben Franklin to patent his
invention, but Ben Franklin refused. He wanted the stoves to be cheap and
inexpensive so even poor people could afford to purchase
and use his stoves. For more than a hundred years the Franklin stove brought
comfort to thousands of families. Franklin didn t even patent any of his
Benjamin Franklin made many scientific discoveries in his time. Ben
Franklin was what some would call an out doors man that s why most of his
discoveries had to do with nature.
In 1743, Ben observed that northeast storms begin in the southwest. He
thought it was odd that storms travel in an opposite direction to their winds.
He predicted that a storm's course could be plotted. Ben rode a horse through
a storm and chased a whirlwind three-quarters of a mile in order to learn more
about storms. So, in a way, Ben was a weatherman. He even printed weather
forecasts in his almanac. Today s meteorologists don't chase storms on
horseback, but they do continue to plot the course of storms.
Ben Franklin spent a lot of his time sailing to Europe across the
Atlantic Ocean, he became very interested in ocean currents. Ben was one of
the first people to chart the Gulf Stream. He measured its temperature on each
of his eight voyages and was able to chart the Stream in detail.
Whenever people hear the name Benjamin Franklin the first thing that
usually comes to mind is his famous lightning experiment with the kite and
the key. Ben suspected that lightning was an electrical current in nature, and
he wanted to see if he was right. One way to test his idea would be to see if
the lightning would pass through metal. He decided to use a metal key and a
child s kite to get the key up near the lightning. His experiment proved that
lightning is really a stream of electrified air, known today as plasma.
In conclusion Benjamin Franklin was a man who changed the world of
science and the way people think about it. He accomplished many feats and
invented things to help the average person, this makes Mr. Benjamin Franklin
one most important scientists in history.
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Breakin' Out: Tinchy Stryder and alcohol ban at festival
Rapper Tinchy Stryder is to headline a new alcohol-free music festival in Monmouthshire which aims to help people battling addiction.
Breakin' Out Festival in Abergavenny in September is organised by Sharon Lewis, a recovered drug and alcohol addict.
A website offering support on addiction and other issues such as bullying, self-harm and eating disorders will also be launched at the event.
Ms Lewis, 36, said the drink ban was a vital part of the festival's message.
"Our message is prevention rather than cure," she said.
"Kids idolise celebrity and we want to use celebrity to relay a positive message that these kind of things aren't cool.
"This is unique, it's not a normal festival."
Bottle of cider
The festival, which has Monmouthshire council among its sponsors, will take place on 8 September.
Other music stars including Skepta and Chipmunk who are performing will also raise awareness of the support on offer through the beenthereb4 website.
Tinchy Stryder said: "I'm really looking forward to partying with Wales at this event, it seems like a great idea of a way to highlight the issue of addiction and show we can have a ball without alcohol. I need everyone coming to prove me right and go wild"
Ms Lewis said the event could help people who are facing alcohol and drug problems.
Fully recovered from a cocaine and drink addiction for three years, she said drinking two bottles of wine and a bottle of cider was once part of her daily routine.
"It was embarrassing to be buying drink at eight in the morning," she added.
"I used to tell the man in the shop I was going to a christening and I'd alternate which off-licences I'd use.
"Being an alcoholic is a 24-hour job and I did a lot of damage to others.
"I hurt family and friends and put others at risk by drink driving. I worked out that my addictions cost the government over £50,000."
Former addicts
A wristband promoting the launch of the new website will be handed out to festival-goers.
Anyone attempting to bring alcohol into the festival will be searched and asked to dispose of it, but Ms Lewis said they will still be admitted.
"Some of them are the 'mini-me's' and I want them there," she said.
"We want to chat to them and find out if there are any issues behind what they are trying to do."
Some artists will also take part in question and answer sessions on battling addiction.
Ms Lewis said the beenthereb4 website will connect those suffering with an addiction, or fearful of developing one, with someone who has already battled similar issues.
"Only people who have been through it really know what it's like," added Ms Lewis, who is organising the festival on a voluntary basis.


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by Anthony Wright
When it comes to litigation, attorneys are aware that metadata, or data about data, is collected with electronically stored information and that it can be used to support the data. Now, more lawyers are getting savvier with metadata – harnessing the power of that detailed information and using it to win a case.
When metadata has been forensically analyzed, it can yield fruitful information, such as document history and revision timelines, and can be used to show a person's knowledge and intent.
Metadata can show if someone has accessed a file, how often and when it was looked at, if it was modified and how, if it was saved as a new version and more. While this kind of embedded document metadata is common these days, forensic analysis of files can include many more fields – into the hundreds – as well as file logs and histories. The results from this kind of analysis can be used to recover temporary versions of documents that were thought to be deleted or, thanks to mobile devices, provide information about the location(s) where the file was created or accessed. A forensic specialist can understand the metadata in context and point to fact-specific activities that occurred, providing strong circumstantial evidence to support a case.
In addition to embedded metadata that is contained within files themselves, file systems also have metadata in that they track when a file was created, accessed and modified. For example, by examining a computer's file system metadata and other activity artifacts, we could show that "Mark" accessed a computer at 11:22 and logged off at 11:39. The file system's metadata could show that a flash drive was connected to that computer at 11:24 and removed at 11:38. And it could show that certain files were accessed from an external device between 11:25 to 11:37. This is circumstantial evidence that Mark copied files to the flash drive from that computer during that time. And it is a result of the system's metadata and access logs having changed, even though the file-based metadata did not. For example, you can view the metadata of a Word document by clicking the "File" header and then selecting "Info" on the top left; the created date would not change when you move the file to an external drive or server, but the file system created date will change to when the move occurred.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34(b)(2)(E)(ii) notes that "if a request does not specify a form for producing electronically stored information, a party must produce it in a form or forms in which it is ordinarily maintained or in a reasonably usable form or forms." This means that the party could give you files as tiffs or PDFs, which is typical, but they would not include the documents' rich metadata. In certain scenarios, it can be good to specifically request native files so you have the detailed information that could provide the smoking gun.
Once you have the metadata, it's important to understand what filtering strategies could do to it. For example, the date filtering tool could miss certain digital files due to differences between the file's embedded metadata and its file system timestamp metadata. Let's say Sally creates a file on Sept. 14 and works in that file until Nov. 2. When she knows she is done using that file, she copies it to the company server on Jan. 1 and deletes the original from her computer. If a search request comes through that next April requesting all files created the year prior, this document will not be included in the results. The copy on the server will show a creation date of Jan. 1, so that document may be completely overlooked, even though its contents could be material to the case. The good news is that newer tools are addressing these kinds of filtering flaws. It is also important to configure filtering tools to take into account document embedded metadata, which, as our examples above show, can often be different from file system metadata.
As attorneys more fully grasp the value of metadata and how they can use its information, they will be able to make more intelligent decisions about their cases' electronic documents. You may not need to access metadata for every matter, but it's important to be in the habit of asking for the native files so you have that information at your fingertips when you need it.


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Our spectacular location on Lake Tarleton allows us to take a variety of trips around the lake. There are shores to explore after just a short hike or paddle in a canoe or kayak.
Click on any of the images to enlarge
White Sands
This beach is named for its bright, white sand under the water and is just a short distance from camp. It can be reached using the Lakeside Trail or canoeing or kayaking. Water football and keep-away games are great afternoon fun in this shallow, sandy water.
Sunset Point
This campsite is a short hike on the Lakeside Trail or an easy canoe paddle across Lake Tarleton. Sunset Point is often the first overnight trip for our younger campers. The trip leaves just after dinner. Boys arrive at the campsite, set up tents, enjoy the sunset, roast marshmallows, head to bed, and return for breakfast at camp the next morning.
Pirate's Cove
Just beyond Sunset Point, Pirate's Cove is the site of many a snorkeling trip. Snorkelers dive for a sunken treasure chest. The chest is discovered almost every summer by at least one lucky camper!
Blueberry Island
Often the destination of kayaking clinics during the third or fourth lesson, boys explore this small island on the northwestern end of Lake Tarleton. Blueberries do grow on the island, and the loon family lives on a nearby shore. Boys also paddle to this island with counselors in the evenings to watch the sun set.
Rope Swing
Directly across Lake Tarleton from the Kingswood waterfront is a trail to three sturdy rope swings tied to enormous trees along the shoreline. Hot summer afternoons can mean a kayaking adventure or a hike across the lake to any of these enjoyable spots.


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Developed in collaboration with PlatinumGames Inc., NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S, and A2, and their ferocious battle to reclaim a machine-driven dystopia abandoned by humankind and overrun by machine lifeforms.
Those who pre-purchase the Steam® Day One Edition will receive an exclusive "Valve Character Accessory," as well as other Day One Edition bonus content, including the Machine Mask Accessory, Grimoire Weiss Pod, Retro Grey Pod Skin, Retry Red Pod Skin, and Cardboard Pod Skin. Fans can pre-purchase now on Steam.
NieR: Automata will be available for the PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system on March 7, and will be available on Steam globally on March 17.
Related: NieR: Automata New Extended Length Uninterrupted Gameplay Video Highlights RPG Elements


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By: Jacqueline L. Weaver
In February 2011, at the invitation of Professor Alastair Lucas at the University of Calgary, I spoke on the U of C campus about the causes and consequences of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as of that date. That invitation led me on a three-year journey that culminated in two lengthy articles, just published in the Houston Journal of International Law, seeking to assess what has changed in offshore safety in the Gulf since the blowout (see "Offshore Safety in the Wake of the Macondo Disaster: Business as Usual or Sea Change?", (2014) 36 Houston J. Int'l L. 148 (Part One) and "Offshore Safety in the Wake of the Macondo Disaster: the Role of the Regulator" (2014) 36 Houston J. Int'l L. 380 (Part Two)). This brief post summarizes my main findings on the state of safety in the Gulf today. I am deeply grateful for the "push" that the U of C Law School gave me with its invitation to speak and its gracious hospitality during my visit there.
April 20th marks the fourth anniversary of the Macondo well blowout in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven workers died and almost 5 million barrels of oil poured into the Gulf during the next 87 days. Yet the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history failed to trigger any changes by the U.S. Congress in safety or environmental laws offshore. Drilling activity in the Gulf today surpasses that in April 2010. It is time to ask: Is drilling in the Gulf safer now than it was pre-Macondo?
One is tempted to answer with the quip of a popular Russian comedian after the fall of the Soviet Union: "Much has changed, but nothing has happened. Or is it that much has happened but nothing has changed?"
In reality, much has happened. Several new entities exist, some created literally overnight in the wake of the Macondo disaster, with acronyms such as BSEE, COS, and MWCC. Have they made the Gulf safer now?
Three changes to business as usual are easy to identify. First is a tsunami of invention, such as new capping stacks for subsea intervention and containment. The MWCC is the Marine Well Containment Company, quickly formed with $1 billion in funding from four major oil companies to develop capping stack technology. Industry has also developed better blowout preventers tested in better labs, better clean-up techniques and drones and sensors to monitor well conditions in real-time, and better algorithms in drilling software programs. Operators can now bring pre-positioned capping stacks to the scene of a blowout in days, not weeks. BP can pack a containment device into seven large planes and fly it anywhere in the world.
Second is industry and regulator recognition that complacency kills. Industry and government both assumed that because no Macondo-like disaster had ever occurred in the Gulf, all was fine. Yet, this very complacency is a root cause of accidents, as experts in safety management know. Few workers ever experience a serious workplace incident. After a frightening event, stronger safety controls are heeded for a time, but then time dims the memory of the event. Cutting corners here and there saves time and money and has no obvious consequence. Complacency sets in and the system drifts into an unsafe state. Macondo-like disasters are high-consequence, low-frequency events, but they are highly probable because complacent managers do not notice the drift.
Third is the quick adoption of a Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS) requirement as a new regulation offshore, adopted in a seeming nano-second after industry had lobbied against even a modest version of it for years. The SEMS rule is the mechanism to prevent workers and management from becoming complacent. It institutionalizes planning, procedures and training that keep safety always in mind.
Much has happened, indeed, but is offshore drilling in the Gulf really safer now? All three of these changes require an effective and competent regulator to assure that the operators' SEMS plans are actually put into practice to prevent the drift into complacency and also to assure that the Best Available and Safest Technology, or BAST, is used offshore, as required by statute.
The new offshore safety regulator is BSEE, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. BSEE's own website acknowledges that the agency must undergo a total human capital transformation before it can perform its tasks adequately. Its predecessor agency was starved of funds for years and lacked the technical staff that could keep up with operators as they pushed into the deep waters of the Gulf. BSEE must become an expert agency that can develop protocols for determining BAST, not only in the Gulf but in the far harsher Arctic. And it must develop the ability to assess the audits submitted by operators to BSEE, audits that seek to assure the SEMS plans are being implemented. BSEE must also become a data-rich agency, able to analyze "near misses" offshore and to share "lessons learned" from them with the offshore industry and with the public that BSEE serves. To date, BSEE has only taken "first steps" toward these essential tasks. The acute shortage of trained professionals is stunting its growth.
Meanwhile, meet the Center for Offshore Safety, or COS. Created by the large operators in the Gulf in early 2011, this Center's mission is to "promote the highest level of safety" for offshore operations through "leadership and effective management systems." The Center created standardized documents that operators can use to do a thorough SEMS audit. Then COS built a process for certifying expert auditors who could do rigorous assessments of operators' SEMS programs. BSEE then embraced the audit system created by COS and formally incorporated the COS audit protocols into the new SEMS rule.
The SEMS auditing system in use in the Gulf today is almost wholly a construct of the offshore industry itself. It is fair to say that COS has been and still is the dominant player in raising safety standards offshore today. It has created the audit system that operators must use in the Gulf of Mexico, a system based almost entirely on its parent API's Recommended Practice 75 and on its newly created COS audit protocols.
The SEMS regulatory framework looks like "industry self-regulation through third-party audits." The use of third?party verification (3PV) privatizes the verification process by requiring companies to hire independent auditors to determine compliance. The system can be simultaneously criticized for allowing too much industry self-regulation and for allowing operators to outsource their SEMS audits to third-party consultants rather than take responsibility for regulating themselves internally. The new agency, BSEE, does not conduct the audits and is left outside the "learning loop."
Suppose now that an offshore deepwater operator has received a COS certificate, privately issued by COS to a member company as a sort of "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" that indicates successful SEMS compliance. Suppose, then, that this operator has a Macondo-like incident. Will COS be in the hot seat at subsequent congressional hearings as the dominant player in the offshore safety regime? Or will BSEE be faulted as having allowed regulation to be outsourced to COS and to third-party providers? COS and BSEE are allied in the need to assure this new SEMS system works well.
An under-resourced regulator is a non-trivial safety risk for industry. Industry's own European trade association, the OGP, has warned its members that if a regulator is not providing robust oversight, then "an important piece of the technical assurance process may be missing. This is a 'weak signal' that should lead the OGP member to carry out a more extensive self-audit to compensate for the lack of competent oversight."
Message to U.S. politicians and industry lobbyists: Pay heed to the "weak signals" that you create when an anti-government ideology trumps sound regulation. A good regulator can be industry's best friend. That is the ultimate lesson of Macondo, four years out.
Jacqueline L. Weaver is the A.A. White Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. The University of Calgary Faculty of Law partners with the University of Houston Law Center to offer a joint JD through the International Energy Lawyers Program.


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Short Selling Regulation Made More Robust via Reporting Implementation
This means that, those who have reportable short positions as at Friday, 22 June must report to the SFC by the following Tuesday, 26 June.
"We already have in place a number of measures to regulate appropriately short selling activities," said Mr Ashley Alder, the SFC's Chief Executive Officer. "Short position reporting will now enable us to monitor more closely short selling activities. This will give us more visibility of short selling activities overall, help us detect unusual or abnormal trading pattern and thereby allow us to better determine how to respond as the securities market regulator."
Short selling can facilitate efficient price discovery process. However, in order to limit activity that may affect the orderly functioning or stability of the market, restrictions of short selling are in place in most jurisdictions.
Hong Kong's existing short selling regulations have the following main features:
* "Naked" short selling is prohibited, which means short sellers need to arrange to borrow stocks before they execute short sales.
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5 Minutes Daily Program to Stress Management
We all have this favorite expression when it comes to being stressed out, and I wouldn't bother naming all of them since it may also vary in different languages. But when it comes down to it, I think that it is how we work or even relax, for that matter that triggers stress. Ever been stressed even when you're well relaxed and bored? I know I have.
Since Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. is unavoidable in life, it is important to find ways to decrease and prevent stressful incidents and decrease negative reactions to stress. Here are some of the things that can be done by just remembering it, since life is basically a routine to follow like brushing your teeth or eating breakfast. You can do a few of them in a longer span of time, but as they say-- every minute counts.
Managing time
Time management skills can allow you more time with your family and friends and possibly increase your performance and productivity. This will help reduce your stress.
To improve your time management:
� Save time by focusing and concentrating, delegating, and scheduling time for yourself.
� Keep a record of how you spend your time, including work, family, and leisure time.
� Prioritize your time by rating tasks by importance and urgency. Redirect your time to those activities that are important and meaningful to you.
� Manage your commitments by not over- or undercommitting. Don't commit to what is not important to you.
� Deal with procrastination by using a day planner, breaking large projects into smaller ones, and setting short-term deadlines.
� Examine your beliefs to reduce conflict between what you believe and what your life is like.
Build healthy coping strategies
It is important that you identify your coping strategies. One way to do this is by recording the stressful event, your reaction, and how you cope in a stress journal. With this information, you can work to change unhealthy coping strategies into healthy ones-those that help you focus on the positive and what you can change or control in your life.
Some behaviors and lifestyle choices affect your stress level. They may not cause stress directly, but they can interfere with the ways your body seeks relief from stress. Try to:
� Balance personal, work, and family needs and obligations.
� Have a sense of purpose in life.
� Get enough sleep, since your body recovers from the stresses of the day while you are sleeping.
� Eat a balanced diet for a nutritional defense against stress.
� Get moderate exercise throughout the week.
� Limit your consumption of alcohol.
� Don't smoke.
Social support
Social support is a major factor in how we experience stress. Social support is the positive support you receive from family, friends, and the community. It is the knowledge that you are cared for, loved, esteemed, and valued. More and more research indicates a strong relationship between social support and better mental and physical health.
Changing thinking
When an event triggers negative thoughts, you may experience fear, insecurity, anxiety, depression, rage, guilt, and a sense of worthlessness or powerlessness. These emotions trigger the body's stress, just as an actual threat does. Dealing with your negative thoughts and how you see things can help reduce stress.
� Thought-stopping helps you stop a negative thought to help eliminate stress.
� Disproving irrational thoughts helps you to avoid exaggerating the negative thought, anticipating the worst, and interpreting an event incorrectly.
� Problem solving helps you identify all aspects of a stressful event and find ways to deal with it.
� Changing your communication style helps you communicate in a way that makes your views known without making others feel put down, hostile, or intimidated. This reduces the stress that comes from poor communication. Use the assertiveness ladder to improve your communication style.
Even writers like me can get stressed even though we're just using our hands to do the talking, but having to sit for 7 or 8 hours is already stressful enough and have our own way to relieve stress. Whether you're the mail guy, the CEO, or probably the average working parent, stress is one unwanted visitor you would love to boot out of your homes, especially your life.
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December 15, 1836 — The U.S. Patent Office, then located at the Blodgett's Hotel in Washington, D.C., was consumed by fire today — making itthe first of several disastrous fires the organization has had in its history.
Historians explain that an initial investigation considered the possibility of arson due to suspected corruption in the Post Office, which shared the same building, but it was later ruled out. The cause was ultimately determined to be accidental. This event is considered to be a turning point in the history of the Patent Office.
Local fire suppression efforts were incapable of preventing the damage due to lack of fire personnel and old equipment. Many patent documents and models from the preceding three decades were irretrievably lost.
As a result of the fire, Congress and the newly legally revamped Patent Office changed the way it handled its recordkeeping, assigning numbers to patents and requiring multiple copies of supporting documentation.
In the 46 years prior to the fire, the United States government had issued about 10,000 patents. Congress acted to restore those records that could be reconstructed from private files and reproduce models, which were deemed the most valuable and interesting.
Patents whose records were not restored were cancelled. There were a total of 2,845 patents restored. Today, there are more than 50 million paper patent documents stored at USPTO, and available to the public.
Sources: uspto.gov, wikipedia/1836_U.S._Patent_Office_fire
Words of Wisdom for December 15, 2016
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
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Discussion in 'UPS Discussions' started by laffter, Nov 10, 2014.
So much to say,here. Dont want to be in the mod queue,line.
Is that the Wilshire/Vermont metro station?
I got dueces?
Two,cans of peaches.
A thread entitled 'hehe' by a guy named laffter. Who would have thought
Cant you read Ive....the sign says "no dogs allowed in farmer's market."
Refused- didn't want.
I dont think,she was even wearing any socks!
Either or.
A milf and a gilf
They all need some love.
Them 2 were obviously shopping for clam.
Those are some nice looking mushrooms. Maybe she is looking for a fungi.
The one on the right, good luck with that one.
I didn't know people still wore jorts.
Can you ask her where I can get a shirt?
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We have a HUGE collection of LEGOs, and it just continues to grow. From Ethan's many LEGO systems (most of them from his much older cousins) to Mia's growing collection including her favorite yellow LEGO® Classic box of them to the big "bag" of LEGOs that the kids drag out at least once a week, we are definitely a LEGO lovin' family!
I love that the kids can either follow instructions to build something they love, like a princess castle.
And I also appreciate that LEGOs are perfect for boosting creativity and unstructured play – they can build anything they set their minds to! Ethan loves to build and create strictly using his imagination! He has a "war" that sits on his desk in his room and the battle changes daily. He's created a movie theater for his LEGO friends so they could watch videos with him. He even has a LEGO light cover that he decorates and changes weekly.
Getting Creative With LEGO Classic
The reason why LEGOs are so much fun for kids and adults alike is because although the kits come with easy-to-follow instructions, a big pile of LEGOs is a "no instructions necessary" experience. All you need is to use your imagination! The possibilities of open-ended building inspires endless play, especially if the three kids are all building together.
Keeping the kids busy during the summer can be challenging. Before noon, I've usually already heard "I'm bored" at least once from each kid! My favorite go-to when the kids say it is to tell them to go play with their LEGOs. Most of the time, that will keep them busy for hours. Literally.
If you are just starting out with LEGOs, LEGO® Classic is the perfect place to start because it helps develop your child's creative skills. Each set includes classic LEGO bricks and a mix of special pieces so kids will have everything needed to build. Imaginative building play is easy with the bright, colorful and versatile LEGO bricks. Houses, vehicles and animals are all possible with LEGO Classic! And because LEGO Classic spans so many different age groups, there's fun for all the family and imagination for every generation.
While LEGO Classic does come with ideas, to help your little ones get started, you can find even more inspiration here.
Recently, LEGO Systems and world-renowned improv group, The Upright Citizens Brigade, wanted to show everybody that all you need is a few bricks for hours of fun, inspiration and "out of the box thinking." They encourage kids, parents and families to let your creative juices flow.
Your child can get started just by asking him or her a simple question! Why? Because the bricks tell a story. Ask your child a question and have them build the answer. Ask them to share the story out loud (even if they're building by themselves) because the act of snapping bricks together helps the builder come to decisions and formulate ideas faster and more clearly. You'll find if you set out to build an answer to a question that the building flows easily and you'll be amazed with your child's skills and insights.
I asked Mia what her best part of summer has been so far. We had recently went whale watching and so she built the sun and the sun's rays shining down on the ocean!
I asked Lila what she's looking forward to after school starts and she built a quad because she wants to go camping in the desert so that daddy can take her for a ride!
A few months ago, I told Ethan I needed a pen holder for my desk, so he created one and surprised me with it!
There are ten LEGO sets, ranging from $16.99 to $59.99, that make the perfect solution for gift-givers or for families looking to add to an existing LEGO collection or inspire their child to try building. It's really a great gift for the entire family!
And visit the Upright Citizen Brigade LEGO video on YouTube. They were asked to improv with LEGOs and it's a very silly and fun minute to watch!
And if your kids love LEGOs as much as mine do, check out these fun facts about Legos.
Ever wonder how LEGOs are made? My kids did, so I wrote about how LEGOs are made…it even includes a video of the process!
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Flip Cup Drinking Game
What You Need To Play the Flip Cup Drinking Game
- A Cup
Flip Cup Drinking Game Instructions
Players divide into 2 teams and line up on opposite sides of a table. Each player is given a cup filled halfway with beer. When the game begins, the first 2 players from each team race to be the first to drink his entire cup of beer and flip his cup upside down. When player 1 flips his cup, player 2 races to do the same and so on. The first team to finish flipping all its cups wins.
How to Flip
After drinking your beer, put your cup at the end of the table so half is hanging off. Tap the bottom of the cup upwards and try to make the cup land perfectly upside down.
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Google has not revealed details about the Panda penalty algorithm, that began in 2011, with the last update 4.2 implemented in mid July 2015. But various snippets have leaked out via interviews, hangouts, patent applications, etc. This is a useful compilation of these revelations.
I wonder how much weight is put on the first time the Google bot crawls a new page and the decision whether it should be indexed and cached. Google does not index all pages. Various tests are applied to make this decision. I wonder whether this is important for Panda's view about the quality of the site.
I skimmed the article and made a mental note of such items such as spammy,spun and duplicated articles. Many of us have reported these time and time again...lately google seems to be ignoring some complaints.
it makes sense that some sites are not indexed on the first pages or de- indexed altogether as many have suspected...
This is juicy info and everyone should take the time to disseminate it.
Citing your sources seems to take on importance, in addition to narrowing down the title to avoid a broad generic term. Nothing on this list surprises me and does give us more guidance than in the past. Thanks for posting this article.
Thanks for the information.
This should help our HP clone site problems:
"Clone sites are a strong panda factor (JM, Mar 10, 2014) — Don't forget Google's canonicalization algo will auto-301 sufficiently identical sites to a single site whether you want them to or not, SER, Feb 25, 2014."
Thanks for the info, janderson. Interesting and a lot to think about in terms of how this may be applied to our site. I did look at the lists and wish specific examples were given on the "not to do" list. For example, what does it mean to not use "generic" words in a url. Do they mean articles on specific apples should specifically use "gala" etc in the url and not apples?
It means all the people begging admin to change the text on the opening page need to read that article and redo all their word suggestions because they are potently generic.
I don't get what you are saying here. Please give a concrete example. Thanks.
I think it means to narrow down your titles. An example in the article explains it, but I forgot what the example is. An example might be not " Best Vitamins". but "What are the Best Vitamins for Healthy Bones as Approved by Consumer Lab," and it also says need credentials for health articles. This is just my opinion.
You can 'narrow down your titles' to make them more specific, but that takes more words, and excess words are truncated in the search results..so..it's a matter of "you can't have it both ways!"
So make up your damned mind, Google!
I particularly like this part:
"The proportion of various types of content on the page expressed as a ratio and compared to other known high quality pages. -- The specific example of this technique given is 'a web page providing 99% hyperlinks and 1% plain text is more likely to be a low-quality web page than a web page providing 50% hyperlinks and 50% plain text' but there are likely a number of different content types that could be examined in this manner"
I'm assuming this is why HubPages limits the number of outgoing links, but based on the example above, they're being far more conservative than they need to be!
Also this:
"ANY Affiliate or "monetized links" or "sneaky redirects" to affiliate sites (that are not nofollowed or cloaked)
So, affiliate links are OK if they are nofollowed.
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Over 40 years ago, George Romney, then governor of Michigan, began a political tradition by releasing his tax returns for the 12 previous years during his bid for the presidency in 1968. His motive was simple, according to Vice-President Joe Biden: "When [Mitt Romney's] father, George Romney, was a presidential candidate, he released 12 years of tax returns because, as he said, 'One year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show.'"
In a bit of sweet irony, Mitt Romney is undoing the old adage of "like father, like son" by refusing to release his tax reports dating before 2010. In an interview with Fox News, the Republican candidate motivated his decision with a little history lesson. "John McCain ran for president and released two years of tax returns," he recounted. "John Kerry ran for president and you know his wife who has hundreds of millions of dollars. She never released her tax returns and somehow this wasn't an issue."
Then again, neither McCain nor Kerry were suspected of tax evasion and funneling money into offshore accounts. Furthermore, neither of those men put such a heavy emphasis on righting the economy and creating jobs as Romney has. And finally, neither of those men emphasized their past corporate successes, such as Romney has done with Bain Capital, in order to prove they were qualified to "fix the economy." If George Romney set a precedent in 1968 by releasing 12 years worth of tax returns, it was to force candidates like his son to lay out all their cards for all to see.
Ever elusive, the Romney campaign retorted that Obama's insistence on Romney's tax returns and the candidate's role three years after he left Bain Capital in 1999 are "distractions" by the Democrats. Romney, they say, intends to remain focused on the economy and jobs, as always.
The economy and job creation may be crucial issues in the United States today, but can Americans vote for a man who remains adamant on keeping his own business transactions in the dark? If there is something unlawful about Romney's tax filings, the American people have a right to know before they possibly elect him to lead an economic recovery.
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My name is Ted Tenold and since 1996 I have been working as a polisher of traditional Japanese swords, both antique and contemporary, and works of modern Western smiths who make swords inspired by the Japanese tradition. Japanese sword restoration is however, my primary focus. The above picture is me working. I'm a little older and a lot grayer now.
My pursuit of this craft began with a humble awareness of my own ignorance and I polished only Japanese inspired works by American smiths such as Bob Engnath and Howard Clark. My interest has always been in traditional Japanese swords, but I knew it was best to avoid polishing antique swords without proper training in traditional polishing. Modern swords had few of the considerations that antiques carry with regard to conservation issues. As a martial artist, I also found that there were few reasonable options for those involved in Japanese sword arts to utilize in their practice without either implementing something cheap and dangerously unpredictable, or an antique that could be damaged if used in the rigors of their practice. Therefore, providing these folks with proper swords to carry on their arts without potential loss of art swords was a warm compromise with my desire to polish. In the meantime, I pursued an avenue to learn the traditional craft of polishing art swords I was so passionate about.
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(2017/Migraine) full color sleeve (artwork by Johnny Montezuma), big centerhole, limited (500) hand numbered copies. - The band had a bit of a clubhit not long ago, with their O-HA Records 45' 'Moonshine Truck'. Well, the success came a bit out of the blue and the...
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(O-HA- Records) The Royal Flush come from Switzerland. These four guys are on the track for quite a while. The bassist is a well known Swiss Rockabilly-Promoter. 'Moonshine Truck' comes close to the very, very early WILD Records material, a great moving dancefloor...
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13 Reasons "Orange Is The New Black" Star Ruby Rose Is The Most Amazing Person In The World
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#cosmopolitan that look when you enjoying your coffee but you see people talking about you and judging you.
A photo posted by Ruby Rose (@rubyrose) on
Jordan is the founder of RecentlyHeard.com. He is also a writer, graphic designer, and pop culture freak of nature. When he's not tweeting about chocolate, he can be found working in public relations and social media. He lives in Toronto, Canada.


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Moreover, administrator accounts have the same basic capabilities as standard user accounts, including their own Home folder, backgrounds, and preferences, as well as their own iTunes and Photo libraries, Safari bookmarks, iChat or Messages accounts and buddies, and Address Book/Contacts. In addition to all these an administrator account has elevated privilege levels also that allow the user to drag their mac the way they want. Administrators have the authority to change the system preferences that control how the Mac works and feels, and perform many special tasks that standard user accounts aren't allowed to perform.
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How To Add Multiple Administrator Account On Mac :
Step 1: Tap on Apple logo at top left corner and hit on System Preferences.
Step 2: Now tap on Users & Groups and hit on lock button present at bottom left corner.
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Step 3: A pop-up will appear, fill in with the required password and click Unlock. Now tap on "+" button present above lock button.
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The blade features an aesthetically pleasing and exceptionally well executed combination of geometric and floral engraving.
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Though we won't be so bold as to claim that it is unique, American silver wine trolleys from the mid 19th century are most certainly scarce...
Her great great great grandfather, Henry Ritch, was among the original settlers of Greenwich, CT, having received a grant of three acres there on May 19th, 1686...
Over the years, we've bought and sold many King and King's variant items in coin silver, but this is a particularly fine example in terms of form, quality, and condition.
Though this mark would appear to be previously unpublished, we are attributing it to Horace, since the only other possible firm might have belonged to Hiram Hotchkiss, who would have been ten or twenty years old when Fiddle Thread was in the height of its popularity.
Marked only "coin," back in the day we would have hastened to read through many musty issues of "Silver Magazine" in order to find the maker of this fine ladle, but now, in our dotage, we will leave this task to you, dear reader.
Maltby Pelletreau was the second generation of this illustrious silversmithing family. His partnership with Bennett and Cook lasted only three years, so the date range for this item is pleasantly narrow...
One would be hard-pressed indeed to find a better set of dinner forks.
Leveridge was part of a prominent New York family, many of whom were attorneys. His grandfather John William Chase Leveridge (please see fourth photo) served in the war of 1812, and upon his death in 1886 was the oldest living lawyer in the city...
This spoon is not monogrammed and does not appear ever to have been, which is most unusual for early American silver.
Faithful readers of our little web page know we never tire of mentioning that Burt was a substantial and by all reports jovial fellow who weighed three hundred and eighty pounds.
Come ye citizens of Portsmouth and reclaim thy heritage!!
These are substantial and well made spoons, weighing in at 4.69 oz. Troy, the lot. The overall condition is excellent. Whether any of this lends them a premium over the silver value, or whether they'll be swallowed up by the smelter's gaping maw remains to be seen...
In an attempt to distinguish this ladle from its peers, we'll mention that the bowl has a slight boat shape when viewed head on, as you may see in photo number four.
French silver from this period is quite scarce. Price is for the total of eight pieces.


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For over 40 years, Douglas Stevenson has been on the cutting edge of alternative lifestyle and technology.
Although his work has taken him around the world, home base is a log cabin out in the woods, surrounded by nature.
Douglas atop a volcano in Bali Indonesia.
Douglas is the media interface and principal spokesperson for The Farm, once the world's largest a hippie commune, now the most famous intentional community in the world, a living example and model for a sustainable lifestyle.
His interviews have appeared in countless newspaper and magazine articles, documentaries and TV news programs such as CNN's Making It In America, American Journey, and United Shades of America.
Douglas Stevenson became a member of The Farm Community in 1973, arriving with his high school sweetheart Deborah Flowers when they were both 19.
Douglas first served with Plenty International, The Farm Community's relief and development nonprofit, as an ambulance driver and radio communications technician in support of 4000 Native Americans on a cross-country march to Washington DC in 1978 known as The Longest Walk.
Douglas, Deborah and their children spent 2 years in Guatemala ('78-'80), again with Plenty International, doing relief work after a devastating earthquake.
Douglas served as a radio technician for the group of volunteers, providing the daily communications link back to The Farm in Tennessee and to family across the U.S.
In 1981 he started Village Media, a small business that provides video, web and other communications services for companies and nonprofits throughout the U.S.
In the early 80's the company specialized in tower installations and satellite systems. Douglas helped to educate others in the new consumer and commercial satellite technology as a monthly contributing writer for Satellite Retailer Magazine. The company's work encompassed private cable systems and video communications networks for Motorola in Chicago and state-wide installations for Bell South in Tennessee, and Sprint in Florida.
In 1990 he spent three months in Nigeria installing a 60 foot satellite systems for a television station and a 30 foot system for a hotel.
Next Village Media moved into video production. The company produced hundreds of TV commercials and its Discover Nashville channel appeared in motel rooms all across Nashville and the surrounding area. Video work sent Douglas to former Soviet Republic of Belarus, down to New Orleans after Katrina and to New Zealand to video a $10 million dollar wedding.
Douglas was the first westerner to video inside the "clean-room" of an electronics manufacturing facility in Belarus that made components for Russian spy satellites.
Douglas is also a published author with three books, Creating PC Video, and over 1000 articles that have appeared in a variety of national and international newsstand magazines.
Ready for a change, in 2000 Douglas and Deborah became active again in the nonprofit sector, once more serving as volunteers for Plenty International, this time in Belize.
Deborah taught midwifery to Mayan women from 10 villages scattered throughout the mountainous region.
Douglas provided marketing and promotional assistance to a Mayan village Eco-tourism association.
In 2002 Douglas became a founding member of PeaceRoots Alliance, lending his expertise in communications to develop a national billboard campaign.
In 2004 Douglas became the president of the board for Swan Conservation Trust, a nonprofit land trust, signing the note that established the 1400 acre Big Swan Headwaters Preserve.
He turned his marketing skills turned to fundraising, managing a capital campaign that has raised over a million dollars for the purchase of the land.
Since 2001 Douglas has been the host of Green Life Retreats, with educational workshops, conferences, small festivals and other events promoting a Green Lifestyle, combining technology and respect for nature, sustainability and community.
Douglas is also a singer/songwriter, performing professionally for over 45 years in many different genres, including folk, country, bluegrass and rock.
He uses music to spread a message of hope and celebration.


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What'd Dabo Swinney say ahead of Georgia Tech game?
Clemson (3-0) coach Dabo Swinney participated in the weekly ACC teleconference on Wednesday ahead of Thursday's game against Georgia Tech (3-0, 1-0 ACC) at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
Here's what he had to say, courtesy of the ACC:
Opening statement: We're excited about starting ACC play. First conference game on the road. Going to be a tough challenge for us. We've had a short week coming off a game on Saturday. Been a mad dash around here Sunday, Monday, Tuesday to get ready to travel today. We'll be leaving here in a little bit, heading to Atlanta.
But we're looking forward to it. Georgia Tech is always an incredibly difficult team to prepare for and play, especially down there. A place that we have not fared very well as of late. We're looking forward to have an opportunity tomorrow night to see if we can find a way to get off to a good start in conference play. Looking forward to it.
Q. As far as Georgia Tech goes, what can you say about Dedrick Mills? He was held out of the second game of the season. In the other two he's been very effective. Last one three touchdowns.
A: Well, I mean, it's not just him. I mean, first of all, it all starts with their quarterback, Justin Thomas. He's the heart of that group, really knows what he's doing, has great feel for the nuances of their offense, and everything else flows off of that.
I'm impressed with their main two-wide outs they have out there, 83 and 2. All of their A and D backs, all those guys can play. They'll rotate them in there.
It comes down to being very disciplined, trying to win at the point of attack. If they can block us with any type of consistency, it's a long night for the Tigers.
We have to disrupt them at the line of scrimmage and be very disciplined with our keys and then tackling. They break a lot of tackles because they create a lot of space tackles out on the perimeter, a lot of crack blocks, things like that.
It's just a big challenge to really defend all of them, certainly not just one guy.
Q. We've seen a lot of guys dropping the ball before they get to the goal line. When it happened to you guys, what happened to you? What is your response in the moment when it's happening and what is your message to the team after that?
A: It's really just unbelievable that it happened more than one time. I mean, unbelievable to see so many of those same plays.
I don't remember being a part of that. But we coach our guys to give the ball to the ref, we always have. It was a great play. My immediate reaction was, I cannot believe you just did that. When he came off the field, I told him, first of all, Great play, great run, outstanding. But you're going to be a SportsCenter highlight for the rest of your life because you're not doing what we're coaching you to do. You're supposed to hand the ball to the ref.
He felt terrible. I didn't really have to say anything. He felt terrible. He'll never make that mistake again, I guarantee you that.
It's disappointing. Anytime you have the opportunity to put points on the board, especially to take a kickback to the house, it's just so much energy and excitement. So it was very deflating in that moment.
The other thing for me is I was arguing that it should have been our ball at the one yard line because I felt they called it a touchdown, blew the whistle, so now it's a dead ball. I didn't think you could award a dead ball to the other team.
That's how it turned out. I can't remember which game it was, they actually did do that, gave them the ball at the one. I was just fighting for anything at the moment.
But we didn't deserve it, to be honest with you. Should never be in that situation.
Q. On offense, blocking scheme, especially with the wideouts trying to get in there through your legs is very unique. Can you prepare for that on a short week?
A: We do the best we can. It's a very difficult team to prepare for on a normal week. It definitely makes things even more challenging.
But we try to spend a little time on the option, on Georgia Tech in particular, really all year from a defensive standpoint just because they are so different from anything else that we see. We play them every year. It's something that we do work on.
It's hard to simulate the real deal. That's why they're a challenge for everybody they play. But we've done the best that we could do. I think we've prepared well on a short week. They've had a short amount of time, as well, to get ready for what we do. We'll find out tomorrow night.
Q. Normally a Paul Johnson coached team is going to score points. Is this a game you're looking at you're going to have to go in and out-score them?
A: Well, I hope not. I mean, I definitely think it's really difficult to keep them out of the end zone. They're a four-down team really goal line to goal line. If you give them any fourth-and-shorts, they go for it, more successful than not.
I think the big thing for us is we got to try to create a couple turnovers. I think that's critical, try to steal a couple of possessions. The nature of what they do, they limit you with your possessions. If we could steal a couple turnovers, then when they do drive the ball, get down in that scoring territory, if we can make them settle for field goals. Those are huge. That's almost like a stop with them.
But I hope we can play a complete game, and our defense can be disruptive, create turnovers, and offensively we can move the ball effectively, and special teams make an impact in the game in a positive way. That's what we're envisioning. That's what we want to do.
Q. You mentioned the Cal-Texas game where the same play was called absolutely opposite. Is there a concern among the coaches right now the way the officiating is going, especially with all the contact they're allowing in the secondary right now?
A: Not really for me. I have great respect for the officials and the job they do. At the end of the day they're not robots, they're humans. I think all that stuff, we have some go against us, we have some go for us. I just think it's a part of the game. You got to play through it.
I think the bigger concern to me is not necessarily our officials, there's always going to be that human element there, but it's the replay. It's making sure if we're going to have replay that we get that right. I think that's the big thing to me that's more of a concern.
Q. In terms of finding things out about yourselves, any certain area of improvement you think you saw last week, but because of who you played you'll get a better sense of whether that was true or not this week?
A: Well, to me, always talk to our guys, it shouldn't matter who we play, it's about how we play. Regardless of who we played, I just loved how we played last week. Yes, we should dominate that opponent, and we did. You look around and you see games like that, teams play sloppy and things like that. We really played a clean ballgame last week. I was really pleased with that.
Offensively it started in the fourth quarter of the Troy game. Last three possessions of the Troy game, touchdown, touchdown, field goal. Then game. We won 10 straight possessions of scoring drives.
I think that has really given us a good confidence boost and kind of got our momentum going like we needed to offensively, got the rhythm that we needed. And then, you know, defensively we've been pretty consistent for three games. This is a different type of a challenge, for sure, for our defense.
Main thing is just continuing to improve. We're just picking up where we left off Saturday. That's playing with all three phases, playing with high execution in all three phases, with great effort, toughness and poise all throughout. That's what I saw last week, and that's what I'm looking for us to win to do.
Q. Thinking of execution, last week I want to ask you why the offense was sputtering. You talked about dropped passes. You had eight incompletions Saturday. I assume that was one of the areas where you really improved.
A: Oh, yeah, no question. The first two games, that was an Achilles' heel for us. Everybody wants to know what's wrong with offense. We're a team that throws the football. If we don't catch it, it really makes it difficult.
We had 12 drops in the first two games, eight in the Troy game. It was just completely deflating to everyone offensively. Last week, as you mentioned, 27 of 35 I believe. Deshaun was 12 of 13, 80%. We just got back to pitching and catching like we're capable of. That affects everything. The first downs, the third downs, the energy.
Like I said, we scored seven straight possessions in a row to start the game. It all goes back to making the plays that are there. That's how we have to play. That's what we're capable of doing.
Q. We were talking about strange plays and officiating. Have you ever seen a play like the kickoff where the guy caught it and turned to toss it to the ref?
A: First time I've been a part of that. Man, the one thing that we coach, we coach our kickoff coverage to cover through the goal line. Even if it's a touchback, cover through the goal line. That's the mentality we want to create.
Man, it's great to see those guys get rewarded for that. It was such a teachable moment for us on both sides. Okay, this is why you cover through the goal line, number one. Then number two, for our returners, you can't just walk, start walking out and flip the ball down. You got to take a knee and hand the ball to the ref.
Just a good, teachable moment for both sides there. But I've never seen that.


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Weee!zie 333
Tag Line
She's movin' on up to the INside, its #333 WEEE!zie!
Why this derby name and number?
My real name is Louise, so Weezie has always been a nickname. #333 because I'm only half evil.
What is your hometown?
Schaumburg, IL
What position(s) do you play?
Blocker and jammer
How long have you been playing derby?
This will be my first full season playing derby!
Current Occupation?
Assistant to a real estate agent
Who is your derby wife?
Position open :)
Drink of Choice?
Soda, not pop
How did you get into Derby?
I always enjoyed skating and when I saw that there was a local derby fitness class I just had to try it. The rest just kind of happened.
Weapon of Choice?
Colt Python from the original Resident Evil
Favorite Movie?
Non-Derby Hobbies?
Video games, attempting to be crafty, general awesomeness
Favorite song(s) to skate to?
Diamond Girl by Stevie B
Words of Advice?
Ask and you shall receive.
If you could have one superhero power what would it be?
Shape shifting. Hilarity would ensue.
If you weren't playing roller derby what would you be doing?
Working on being the best couch potato I could be
Favorite Quote?
"Never never never give up."
Any last words?
Everybody wang chung tonight.


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Sleeping hours don't count...
And if u heard a song being played by someone else doesn't count as well...
I mean for how long have u gone widout playin a song (or a full album) or turn on yer radio?
Most Helpful Girl
probably 2 week :O !
pretty much... i honestly couldn't do it...
Most Helpful Guy
Sometimes I don't listen to music during work... but that was because I was looking for the right type of music and just NOTHING SOUNDED RIGHT
It's an annoying feeling. When you're looking for music, and you just can't find the music you want to listen to.
But just yesterday I finally found it.
music actually helps u to concentrate in work for some reason...
Which is exactly why I am listening to this song right now while i'm at work! :D


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Conjoint Tendon
Formerly referred to as the inguinal aponeurotic falx, the conjoint tendon is a structure located at the bottom section of the internal abdominal oblique's common aponeurosis and the Transversus Abdominis, when it enters into the crest of the pectineal line and the pubis, just behind the shallow inguinal ring. It is normally conjoint with the internal oblique abdominal muscle tendon, but it is also possible for them to be detached. The conjoint tendon forms the medial section of the inguinal canal's posterior wall.
The conjoint tendon acts as a protective layer to that section of the abdominal wall which is usually weak. Weakening or defects of the conjoint tendon can trigger or aggravate a direct inguinal hernia.
Direct inguinal hernia tends to project out from the Hesselbach's triangle, bordered within the inferior epigastric vein and artery, the rectus abdominus, and the inguinal ligament, superolaterally, medially, and inferiorly respectively. This is different from an indirect inguinal hernia which laterally projects out from the inferior epigastric artery and typically occurs due to problems in closing of the deep inguinal ring during the embryonic stage.
Conjoint tendon: Structure and Functions
The conjoint tendon can be describe as a layer of connective tissue which connects the pelvis to the transversus abdominis, the deepest of the 4 muscles of the abdomen. The name gets its origin from its structure which is often conjoined or continuous with eth internal oblique tendon, another important muscle in the abdomen. The muscles of the abdomen tend to end just above the pelvis' pubic crest. The conjoint tendon in association with the tendons of the external oblique muscles and the rectus abdominus form a continued part of the fibrous tissue that connects the pelvis to the abdominal wall and thus protects the internal organs. It also forms a part of the inguinal canal's upper border.
The conjoint tendon is a paired bodily structure which begins on both sides of the lower abdomen at the lower section of the transversus abdominus muscle. It occurs slightly inside and runs almost parallel to the inguinal ligament, a strap of connective tissue which stretches diagonally from the iliac crest present on the upper part of each hip bone towards the middle of the pubic bone. The conjoint tendon was previously considered as aponeurotic due to the presence of all of transversus abdominis muscle fibers that finish as a band of connective tissue referred to as an aponeurosis. This aponeurosis runs down the midline of the muscled abdomen and forms the inside or medial border of the muscle and tapers near the end point of the muscle at the pelvis, eventually inserting into the tendon.
Due to the curved shape of the tendon, the conjoint tendon was also previously considered as 'falx,' a Latin word which means sickle. The tendon combines with fibers from the lower part of the internal oblique muscle and as it descends it bends inwards, obliquely crossing toward the pubic bone. It inserts next to the crest of the pubis, the onward-extending curve occurring on both pubic bones where they connect ion the center to form a joint called the pubic symphysis. The conjoint tendon also connects to the pectineal line which is a ridge present along the public bone's upper border.
The conjoint tendon is one of the many fibrous tissues that fill up the space present in the pelvis' anterior wall and its main function it to protect the soft tissue and organs occurring inside the area. However, the tendon also features a weak spot on the abdominal wall called Hesselbech's triangle, thereby increasing the risk to the development of a direct inguinal hernia.
Symptoms of direct inguinal hernia
Some of the signs and symptoms of direct inguinal hernia associated with the conjoint tendon are as follows:
- Pain in the abdomen flanks/sides
- Pain in lower abdomen
- Pain in groin.
- Inflammation of muscles and joints of the upper thighs and lower abdomen.
- Testicle pain in affected men
- Severe and prolonged pain when sneezing, coughing, or engaging in physical strenuous activities and sports.
Treatment of direct inguinal hernia
Treatment of direct inguinal hernia associated with conjoint tendon is dependent on the severity of the condition.
- Pain killers and other medications may be given for pain alleviation.
- Patient will be advised bed rest for about 4 weeks without any strenuous physical activity. It is followed by physical therapy which involves stretching of the lower extremity and lower abdominal muscles, strengthening of the main core muscles, and increasing flexibility of the tendons. Physical therapy is mainly aimed at correcting the imbalance between the muscles that drive into the pubic bone.
- In severe cases, surgery may be required. Surgery is followed by an extensive rehabilitation process. Recovery is dependent on the severity of the condition and the patient's response to the surgery and ensuing physical therapy.