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I am a practicing lawyer getting ready to open my own law firm. The firm will specialize in estate planning, elder law and estate administration.
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I think I have four lots of this, the first two are the ancient ones that came with the house which are big and round, plus the two new ones that I brought accidently from Home Depot. I think they are the same shrub.
Im hoping that they will proove resilient.
I brought a load more for the Western drive edge as they are so easy to maintain and grow. I think they are a favorite now. I actually with I had planted these instead of Mexican Petunias all those years ago, i'd have a very manageable border by now and saved loads of money. Im going to add them here and there over the next year or two as I see gaps and weed out the Mexican Petunias.
They definatly struggled to start off with but I think they are on the verge of becoming established. I think the tipping point will be when they can shield their own roots from the hot sun.
The two mature bushes are doing as they always do, and the two little plants are actually doing OK, or at least not dieing like they were. And ive even managed to get a clipping to take root. Im not sure if the clipping is that or a seed? I dont recall how I did it. It could very well be that I did 10 pots and thats all that survived. Im really looking forward to the two small ones doing well as I really want to reinforce that front corner and this bush is very solid.
They are in the hottest part of the garden.
The two new ones are a bit burnt, but I think they'll soldier on. I was looking over my porch and saw the inside of the big round one and was totally amazed at how thick the trunk was!!! It has to be a foot diameter. You can see in the photo, but thats massive, must have been there for years.


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See installation instructions in one of my recent previous posts
The Motec track maps aren't always OK: wrong shapes, wrong length, and lack of names for the corners and sections.
Shapes don't match the track you've been driving on.
I rebuild some track maps and named the sections to have better references where you are when analysing your performances.
I submit now only the tracks I've worked on. I can upload others if you think this is useful.
The Track Map needs to be copied to the following folder:
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This is a first attempt. If you have a comment, or your own track maps, don't hesitate to let me know.
Hope this helps for obtaining better race performances..
*.mt2 files needed in Motec can't be uploaded in RD, so I renamed them to *.txt files. Once you have downloaded, rename to .mt2 again and copy to your /yourname/My Documents/Motec Projects/'your Motec Project'/Track Maps folder
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Note: On Mondays, one of our various Market Scene correspondents checks in with what's fresh at farmstands, what's coming up, and what you better get while the gettin's good. Today, Leah Greenstein (SpicySaltySweet) drops by from Los Angeles.
It's baseball season--almost the All-Star break--which in my house means Red Sox games are playing on my TV every night. It also means screening phone calls, not checking text messages, and avoiding sites like Twitter and Facebook, where the multitudes seem to forget we live in the era of the DVR and inadvertently publish game spoilers. The nonstop baseball marathon also means that summer is in full swing, the grill is hot, and the produce at the Hollywood Farmers' Market (map) is irresistible.
I say irresistible knowing full well that I have more blueberries, raspberries, melon, and stone fruit in my fridge than I can possibly eat, not to mention the vegetables that I've been stocking up on--green beans and zucchini, Bermuda onions, and crookneck squash to name a few.
The heirloom tomatoes are looking much better now than they did this time last year. Tutti Frutti's display looks like a still life painting, vibrant painted crimson and lemon yellow, chartreuse and bright orange. I'm digging on the Brandywines again, which are sweet but with great acidity, making them a versatile tomato. With potentially at least two solid months of tomato-eating to go and many more heirloom varieties scheduled to come online, I'm focusing as much of my obsession to reading Amy Goldman's gorgeous book, the Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table, an encyclopedia of heirlooms with photos that make you want to lick the page and inspiring recipes that will keep you busy until the last Purple Calabash is gone.
I experimented the other night, rolling my grilled sweet corn in a mixture of butter, lime juice, minced garlic, cayenne pepper and chopped cilantro. It was savory and spicy and sweet, but I still think it had nothing on the Sweet Corn Ice Cream I made last year using Dan Barber's recipe in Gourmet. In fact, I think I owe the farmer I buy my corn from a pint. However you prepare the season's sweet corn, remember the natural sugars that make corn so deliciously sweet start converting to starch immediately after its picked so buy the freshest corn you can. If you don't plan on cooking it that night, be sure to leave it in the husk.
I started craving melons long before I got to the farmers' market this week because everybody's favorite farmer, Alex Weiser of Weiser Family Farms, started Twittering about them (@WeiserFarms). There were green-fleshed Ogen melons, an Israeli variety, Butterscotch melons with their duo-toned green-orange flesh and Werther Original perfume, and Cavaillon melons that are so sweet you can actually smell them from three stalls down.
Summer squash are everywhere you look, but few are as appealing as the scalloped pattypans at Peacock Farms, which look like green and yellow ballerina tutus tossed haphazardly in a basket. They're delicious grilled or sliced and blanched and would taste phenomenal with Meyer lemon creme à la Suzanne Goin.
Happy summer! I'm off to watch baseball and to wait patiently for Persian mulberries, the rare summer treat that's as elusive as a good knuckleball.
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DC Alumni Attend Nationals Gameby Michael Warren • August 31, 2005 Share:
National Capital Association of Wabash Men board members Marc Nichols '92 and Rick Strasser '02 organized an outing on Saturday, August 27 at a Washington Nationals game where 35 alumni, friends, and family gathered to watch the Nats and Cardinals.
All reports indicated a great time was had by all even though the Nationals lost the game. Even the fans, seated behind the group, from Montreal, speaking mostly Canadian French, who traveled to D.C. and rooted against the former Expos didn't affect the Wabash crowd. By going through the group ticket office the group even got the College name and alumni association name in lights at RFK Stadium.
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Asparagus Cheese Strata Main Dish
Last spring we visited old friends who serve this egg dish for Sunday breakfast before church. I thought it was wonderful and full of flavor. Besides, it's easy to make ahead. I use fresh asparagus and serve it with muffins and fresh fruit. —Betty Jacques, Hemet, California
- 1-1/2 pounds fresh asparagus, cut into 2-inch pieces
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 loaf (1 pound) sliced bread, crusts removed
- 3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese, divided
- 2 cup cubed fully cooked ham
- 6 eggs
- 3 cups milk
- 2 teaspoons dried minced onion
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1. In a saucepan, cover asparagus with water; cover and cook until just tender but still firm. Drain and set aside. Lightly brush butter over one side of bread slices. Place half of the bread, buttered side up, in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup cheese. Layer with asparagus and ham. Cover with remaining bread, buttered side up. In a bowl, lightly beat eggs; add milk, onion, salt and mustard; pour over bread. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 50 minutes. Sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Return to the oven for 10 minutes or until cheese is melted and a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
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1 piece: 271 calories, 13g fat (6g saturated fat), 142mg cholesterol, 736mg sodium, 24g carbohydrate (5g sugars, 1g fiber), 15g protein.
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Strongwater Food and Spirits at 401 W. Town St. began life in August as an event space, added the role of neighborhood bar in October and, effective last month, is a restaurant, too. "The restaurant has always been part of the plan, but there have been a lot of different iterations of what that would mean," said chef Will Johnston.
Strongwater Food and Spirits at 401 W. Town St. began life in August as an event space, added the role of neighborhood bar in October and, effective last month, is a restaurant, too.
"The restaurant has always been part of the plan, but there have been a lot of different iterations of what that would mean," said chef Will Johnston.
It has turned into a "beautiful restaurant space that's unique but feels right. We're trying to provide more for the neighborhood. I live in Franklinton, and I love having a place to eat."
Strongwater is attached to the arts complex at 400 W. Rich St., a 100,000-square-foot building housing artist studios, the Dinin' Hall food-truck hub, class and event space, and a winter farmers market.
The restaurant is inspired by the neighborhood and the building, Johnston said.
"We wanted to do something that (grew) and felt organic, in touch with how the neighborhood is growing, and that fit into the bigger project of 400 W. Rich," he said. "Our plan was broad strokes, but our strength is we were flexible in the details."
The project, starting from scratch as it did, was huge, he said, and that's one reason that Strongwater was rolled out in phases.
It allowed the staff "to really get comfy with the place, and let us learn to do each thing as well as we could."
The menu is a mix of traditional meat-and-potatoes fare with vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian - or nearly vegetarian - sensibilities.
A gluten-free menu is in the works.
"Our driving force with the menu was to try to be accommodating. Diners' tastes have changed. We're not a steak-and-potatoes cow town anymore," Johnston said. "We wanted to be the kind of place where you will find part of the way you live your life on our menu."
Dishes such as jackfruit tacos are served in the renovated remains of the building that housed D.A. Ebinger Sanitary Manufacturing Co. and, eventually, the Ebco water-fountain factory.
The bar is in what used to be Ebco's lobby. During the renovation, Strongwater kept as much of the original material as possible, such as birch woodwork and terrazzo flooring.
The space seats 120; the dining room is in the spot that once housed the typing pool and executive offices.
Glass-walled offices remain; Strongwater guests can use them as private party and meeting rooms.
"Aesthetically, it looks like a kind of Mad Men speakeasy, which is just the charm of the building," Johnston said. "But behind the scenes, we had to bring everything up to the 21st century."
That was especially true of the kitchen, which was built from scratch. "It's a beautiful kitchen. It makes me never want to go home," he said.
He hopes that others in the area feel the same way.
"We want to be the premier destination for Franklinton" and to draw many types of people, Johnston said.
"We (hold) a dance party every weekend, and we've had Ohio Art League functions," he said. "A lot of places would struggle with trying to get all the different groups of people we can draw down here because the event space is such a blank slate."
Strongwater takes its name from an old word for alcohol. It is open 4 p.m. to midnight Tuesday through Thursday and 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Visit www.strongwatercolumbus.com for more information.'Clarmont' Panera opens
Panera Bread opened its first German Village location today at 684 S. High St., in the former Clarmont restaurant location. Former Clarmont entertainer Jack Widner will play the piano from 5 to 7 p.m. today through Thursday as part of the opening celebration.
Covelli Enterprises, which owns the Panera, reused the Clarmont sign and kept the exterior building footprint the same. The inside, however, has been completely redone and includes a fireplace and seating for 92. In the spring, a patio that seats 35 will open.
"This is a special opening for us since it's so close to Downtown and in such a historic location," Sam Covelli, owner of Covelli Enterprises, said in a statement. "We're grateful for our continued growth in Columbus, and we hope the community will embrace our newest bakery-cafe and make it their new South Side tradition."Off the menu
Ethyl & Tank, a restaurant and bar at 19 E. 13th Ave., opened last week. It's open from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily.
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Capital City has a new Mayor and he is Tallahassee attorney John Marks.
With 100-percent of the precincts reporting Marks is a big winner. He beat City Commissioner John Paul Bailey by a 2-1 margin. Marks gets 19,118 votes to Bailey's 9,374.
Turnout for Tuesday's election was 34 percent that means about 1 in 3 registered voters cast ballots in Tallahassee Tuesday.
Seat 2 on the commission will have a new member. With all the votes in, Andrew Gillum a young political newcomer defeats Mayo Woodward by almost 4,000 votes, Gillum with 57-percent to Woodward's 43-percent.
Incumbent commissioner Debbie Lightsey has been in month long battle to keep her Seat 3 position on the Commission. And it was a close battle right to the end.
With 100-percent of the vote in Lightsey keeps her eat with 53-percent to Anthony Viegbesie's 47-percent.
This was the tightest race of the evening. Lightsey wins by some 1,600 votes.


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On October 28, 2013, William P. Doyle, Commissioner, Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), attended the 7th U.S.- China Bilateral Maritime Consultative Meeting as a member of the U.S. delegation. The meeting took place in Chicago, Illinois. The FMC was asked by international and U.S. maritime industry stakeholders to address the recent value added tax (VAT) implemented by China. China was represented on this matter by officials from its Ministry of Transport (MOT). Commissioner Doyle explained that businesses in the U.S. are seeking clarity and guidance on the new VAT rule as well as confirmation from China that the VAT is being applied fairly to all businesses. Commissioner Doyle also highlighted that companies are concerned that they may be paying too much on the VAT and would like to know the reimbursement process. Likewise, if businesses were paying too little, they were concerned that they would be billed or penalized later. The Ministry of Transport listened carefully to the concerns and committed to seeking further answers from China's State Administration on Taxation (SAT).
From left to right: Federal Maritime Commissioner William P. Doyle, Deputy-Director- General Li Hongyin, Bureau of Water Transport, Chinese Ministry of Transport,and Acting Administrator Paul "Chip" Jaenichen, U.S. Maritime Administration
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Clinton, Michigan - Organic Eden Black Bean & Quinoa Chili, Refried Pinto Beans, and Garbanzo Beans (chickpeas) were Men's Health magazine selected for November's annual feature "The 125 Best Foods for Men".
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by Mark Jagord, sports information assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The No. 21 Georgia College men's tennis team (13-6, 6-4 PBC) finished the regular season as the No. 5-seed in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament set to start tomorrow morning in Florence, S.C. The Bobcats will take on No. 4-seed No. 23 Georgia Regents University Augusta (16-5, 6-3 PBC) at the Dr. Eddie Floyd Florence Tennis Center starting at 11 a.m.
Both the Bobcats and Jaguars are hoping to break Armstrong Atlantic State University's nine-year PBC Tournament win streak dating back to 2005. The Pirates have also taken six of the last seven regular season titles with only Georgia College interrupting that streak in 2009. Three of last six NCAA Division II National Champions have come by way of the PBC.
In the 2013 PBC Tournament, the Bobcats entered as the No. 4 seed, beating No. 5-seed Augusta State University in the first round. After a 5-0 loss to top-seed Armstrong, the Bobcats moved to the third place match, losing a hard-fought 5-2 battle to No. 2-seed Lander University.
There are no other two teams as similar in this year's PBC Tournament as the Bobcats and the Jaguars. Both teams won six conference matches this season as well as only losing once at home overall. All of Georgia College's losses were to nationally-ranked opponents with four of the six to top-10 teams. The Bobcats also beat five nationally-ranked teams with No. 15 USC Aiken being the highest ranked.
The No. 21 Bobcats have one nationally-ranked individual player and one nationally ranked doubles pair, as do the No. 23 Jaguars. While Georgia College's top player, Yannick Hass (Troisdorf, Germany) is ranked No. 33, GRU Augusta's Victor Cabllos is No. 32. The Bobcats' top doubles pair of Hass and senior Alex Schubert (Frankfurt, Germany) is ranked at No. 16, while the Jaguars' top doubles pair of Cabellos and Guimaraes is No. 6.
The two teams met once this season at Augusta with GRU wining 5-3. In that match, Hass knocked out Cabollos in two 6-3 sets; while Hass and Schubert defeated Cabellos and Guimaraes 9-8 to capture two of Georgia College's three points. Freshman Anton Waern (Taby, Sweden) registered the third point at third singles with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Romain Brunie.
The winner of the Georgia College and GRU Augusta match will move on to the semifinal round and play the winner of No. 1-seed Columbus State University and No. 8-seed University of North Georgia Friday at noon. The loser between the Bobcats and Jaguars will then via for a fifth-overall finish facing the loser of CSU and UNG Thursday at 5 p.m.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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Academic publications by UvA authors
UvA-DARE contains articles, books, chapters, PhD dissertations, reports and inaugural lectures of UvA staff. The staff of the University of Amsterdam publish around 7,500 academic publications each year. The publications for which a digital copy is available, are deposited and archived in the UvA's Digital Academic Repository (UvA-DARE). In addition to the bibliographic details, you will find an increasing number of full-text electronic publications in UvA-DARE.
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(RNN) - In response to an alleged increase of dog shootings by police officers, several people, including owners of murdered pets, are using Facebook as a tool to increase awareness of the problem and seek change to police policies toward dogs.
When Robby King's 6-year-old chocolate lab, Luke, was killed by a police officer responding to a call in September, he was devastated.
"It just crushed me," the Smyrna, GA native said.
After he accidentally triggered his house alarm, King had to wait for police officers to arrive to let them know that there was not a break-in. But Officer G.M. Roach of the Cobb County Police Department went through the back of the house while King was waiting in the front, and they didn't see each other until it was too late.
"A dog began to bark and came at Officer Roach. Officer Roach shot the dog," said a police report.
"The officer never yelled for my dog to stop," said King. "He didn't shoot at the ground. He didn't shoot in the air. He didn't take out his baton … he just took out his weapon, pointed it at my dog, and killed him."
He added: "I just think it's ridiculous … you've never heard of a chocolate lab causing an officer's demise."
King's story gained more local attention in part because an investigator allegedly misquoted a neighbor to make it appear that the dog was aggressive.
King's sister and neighbor Cheryl Truelove told an investigator that the dog had bitten her and pointed to her calf to show the bite mark.
But when asked about her remark, Truelove said she was misunderstood.
"I told the detective that three weeks ago I was dog bit by a Chihuahua," Truelove told the Marietta Daily Journal. "The reason I said that was because I was trying to point out to them that this little dog bit me and Luke never even bit nobody, and I didn't take out a gun and shoot this dog."
King's story highlights several problems with dog shooting incidents: grief for pet owners, potential time and money loss, as well as bad publicity for police departments that have to deal with dog shootings - sometimes in court, and animosity between police and the public it is supposed to serve.
Videos of dog shootings are all over the internet and it seems like there's a new one every week. Unfortunately, the number of videos online is not a misrepresentation of the high number of dog shootings.
It's impossible to determine the exact number of dog shootings by police officers because records aren't kept by every police department in the country. However, in Milwaukee - the 28th largest city in the country - a recent lawsuit claimed that more than 400 dogs were shot to death by police officers over a nine-year period between 1999 and 2008, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
If those numbers are similar for cities around the U.S., a low estimate for the annual number of dogs killed per year by police in the 30 largest cities alone is 1,100.
In addition, a dog training manual for police published by the Department of Justice showed that most police shooting incidents involve dogs. In Los Angeles, at least one-half of all "intentional discharges of a forearm by an officer from 2000-2005 involved an animal," the study said.
"I was completely unaware that this was going on myself until it happened to me," King said. But once he set up a Facebook page called "Justice for Luke," he joined a growing number of people who are using the social networking site to get the word out about dog shootings.
According to the website Cops Shooting Dogs, there are 88 Facebook pages that aim to bring awareness to a particular dog shooting incident.
Many of the pages start out as an outlet for the angry and grieving owner whose dog was killed, but progress into a sort of a virtual meeting place and newsletter for people interested in everything from other dog shootings to charity fundraisers and stories about police saving dogs.
Although the groups are not officially united, there is a loose network consisting of several of the Facebook page creators, according to Denise Lachance, the creator of the Facebook page "Dogs Shot by Police."
Lachance says that the goal is not to demonize police, but to encourage police departments to require that officers have dog training.
"It's primarily a matter of local law," Lachance said, pointing out that getting a single mandate passed in every police department will be a difficult process.
"But you can also get attention to something by making it more visible."
Donald Cleary, director of Communications and Publications for the National Canine Research Council and one of the authors of the dog training manual for police published by the Department of Justice, says that dog training is crucial.
According to the DOJ manual, lack of training is the primary reason why so many dogs are killed by police.
The manual states that officers often overreact when encountering a dog because of its breed, rather than its behavior. For example, a pit bull will cause a different reaction upon first sight than another dog of equal size.
Among other reasons the manual gives for police shooting dogs is that officers often see a dog running towards them as a threat, when it could be a friendly greeting.
Misreading a dog's body language is a common cause of dog shootings by police, according to the manual.
"Police departments can be severely embarrassed when they've shot a dog, and in the aftermath it looks like there was no reason why that dog was shot or there were people there who have a very different version of what police had initially reported," Cleary said.
That embarrassment also translates into expensive lawsuits. Police departments around the country have been successfully sued by owners whose dogs were killed, including a case 2007 in which the city council of Richmond, CA paid $210,000 to a couple whose pit bull was shot, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
In that incident, a passerby was injured after one of a stray bullet grazed her neck. Stray bullets as a result of dog shootings are a real danger, according to Jim Osorio, Senior Law Enforcement Specialist at the National Humane Law Enforcement Academy, which trains police departments in how to handle dogs.
"Stray shots are a liability," Osorio said. "It's already hard to shoot a moving target, but when they're lower, it's harder to hit them."
Osorio has trained police departments in Fort Worth, TX, Atlanta, and other cities around the country. He says more departments need to implement training because many officers have little to no experience with dogs, which increases the danger.
"Police need that experience because in the U.S., one out of three houses has a dog usually," Osorio said. "Just because a dog barks, doesn't mean it's an aggressive dog. So they need to know all the signs and the body language."
Osorio added that although there has been an increase in police departments requesting dog training over the last five years, budget cuts have hindered some of that progress. Nonetheless, he believes more police will be trained to deal with dogs.
"It's going to be a slow process, but I see a lot of changes coming," he said.
Robby King hopes that by bringing the issue to the attention of more people, progress will come sooner rather than later.
"I'm hoping that we, as victims of this thing, can get together and be a stronger, bigger group because the nation needs to know about this," he said.
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I started mentoring with Gary about 2 months ago. I've had some experience with Wyckoff before through VSA but after our first session I realized that I had misconceptions about the method and I was missing context. Gary's teaching is very clear and straightforward. He gets straight to the point and does not overcomplicate things. He repeats core principles over and over until you get it. He wants you to get it and that's because he cares. Last week we had some of the most volatile conditions in the market in years. People often advise to stay out of markets at this time, however after several weeks of mentoring with Gary I had the confidence to apply what I learned in real time. I made profit two days in a row. This not only speaks to the power of the Wyckoff Methodology but also to the effectiveness of Gary's teaching.
You ask: If I judge the marked by its action as indicated on the tape, what shall I do with this vast array statistical manuals, compilations, services and data that I have been subscribing to for years? My suggestion is that you pile it all up on a table, push the table up to the window, and making sure that no one is below, tilt one end of the table.
Thany you Gary! That's the success after 3 private Webinars and some of your Wyckoff Webinars. Hard to believe that someone can explain so many things in such short time as you do.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe's Airbus (AIR.PA) has ordered more frequent inspections of the wings of the world's largest passenger jet after discovering unexpected levels of metal fatigue during testing on an A380 factory mock-up, industry sources said on Thursday.
The planemaker has asked airlines to inspect the wing's "spars" or main internal beams during regular major overhauls carried out after six years in service, and then again at 12 years, instead of waiting for the 12-year overhaul, they said.
The move comes as Airbus emerges from a painful two-year program of modifications and hundreds of millions of euros of financial charges triggered by the discovery of cracks on brackets inside the wings of A380 jets already flying.
This time, however, Airbus has not so far been able to duplicate the fatigue test results on any aircraft in service.
The double-decker A380 entered service in 2007 with Singapore Airlines (SIAL.SI) followed by the largest customer, Emirates, which would be first in line to carry out the increased checks.
An Airbus spokeswoman confirmed the discovery of unspecified "fatigue findings" on a factory test plane.
"This will be addressed during routine maintenance inspections and the aircraft remains safe to fly," she said.
Most aircraft undergo a regular pattern of checks from small daily ones to heavy maintenance checks every five or six years.
Aircraft industry experts have known for decades that metal fatigue cannot be eliminated, but have worked out a system for monitoring it backed up by mandatory maintenance schedules.
The test plane used for the A380 fatigue tests is used to replicate the wear and tear that the superjumbo would endure during three times its normal life, the spokeswoman said.
"Fatigue tests are a normal part of the design and certification process," she said.
Airlines nonetheless face unanswered questions over whether the inspections could lead to further expensive repairs.
"There may eventually have to be some kind of an upgrade at the overhaul stage but no action is required now," an industry source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Airlines are also sensitive to the amount of time an aircraft has to remain offline for each maintenance visit.
While the brackets that caused the company's 2012 wing cracks crisis are not individually viewed as critical parts, wing spars are beams that run outwards from the fuselage and are a fundamental part of the airplane's structure.
Each A380 has three spars holding up the wing.
To deal with the earlier problem of cracked brackets, Airbus devised a temporary fix followed by a permanent one that has been gradually working its way through the production line.
Qatar Airways, which refused to take aircraft with the temporary patch in order to avoid having to put them back for further work, is due to take its first three fully modified aircraft in June.
The airline's chief executive said earlier he may exercise options for three more A380s on top of 10 already ordered, and may order even more if the jet performs well in service.
But he expressed doubts over the A380's ability to fly profitably on some of the world's longest routes.
Qatar Airways plans to introduce A380 services this summer starting with Doha to London, which is well inside the range of the 525-seat passenger jet.
Additional reporting by Victoria Bryan; Editing by Lionel Laurent and Jonathan Oatis


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Those who follow my blog know that I believe Amazon has been incredibly beneficial to authors, whereas the Authors Guild has been incredibly beneficial to publishers.
In the past week, both Amazon and the AG have done things that have made me rethink my positions.
Well, not really. But today I'll blog about Amazon, and I'll do an AG blog tomorrow.
The only major criticism I've had of Amazon, from a writer's standpoint, was during Reviewgate, when a moral panic mob goaded them into removing so called "fake" reviews.
I have never paid for a review. Nor have I ever been paid for one. But many of the book reviews I'd done on Amazon--thoughtful, contentious reviews with hundreds of helpful votes--were removed. Apparently some Amazon bo (I'm guessing it had to be a bot, because so many reviews were removed it couldn't have been manually done) pinged that I had known some of the authors whose books I reviewed (well, duh--I know thousands of authors), and decided they were against Amazon's policy.
Amazon can do whatever it wants to. And though this stance annoyed me, it didn't stop me from working with Amazon as a writer, or continuing to frequent Amazon as a customer.
It did, however, cause me to stop writing Amazon reviews.
That wasn't a punitive decision. It was a practical one. When I write a book review, it takes time and thought. I wasn't going to spend time and thought reviewing something if--due to an algorithm--it could be deleted with no recourse.
I know I wasn't the only author who felt this way. And I think readers and writers in general suffered because of this bad decision. I was an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, and have gotten a lot of cool stuff for free (including a Breville cappuccino machine) over the years, but I decided I wouldn't write any more Amazon reviews, and except for rare occasions when I post something funny, I'm sticking to my policy until Amazon changes theirs.
Amazon has apparently changed their policy, for the worse.
This from writer Imy Santiago:
We cannot post your Customer Review for (book title deleted) by (author name deleted) to the Amazon website because your account activity indicates that you know the author.
Customer Reviews are meant to give customers unbiased product feedback from fellow shoppers. Because our goal is to provide Customer Reviews that help customers make informed purchase decisions, any reviews that could be viewed as advertising, promotional, or misleading will not be posted. To learn more about this policy, please review our Customer Review Guidelines (http://amazon.com/help/customer-reviews-guidelines) and FAQs (http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=201077870).
We encourage family and friends to share their enthusiasm for the book through our Customer Discussions feature or Editorial Reviews feature. To start a Customer Discussion visit the Meet Our Authors forum and enter your discussion title in the Start a new discussion box. You'll find the forum here:
To have your Editorial Review posted to the detail page, e-mail it directly to the author so they can add it for you.
If you believe you're eligible to write a Customer Review for this book, send additional details to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Guardian then posted a link to a petition started by author Jas Ward that is asking Amazon to stop this practice:
In the world where both Indie and Traditional authors are using all tools available to try to get their latest books out to the reader, it's essential for the authors and their associates to use social media: IE: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
With that being said, a reader is therefore going to have cookies and data when they see that interaction and very likely would have LIKED and/or followed the authors pages, profiles and other avenues being a fan of the author's work. They are fans after all--they want to know what an author does and their current news and title releases.
Your current process of removing reviews that a reader has created to show their honest & sincere opinion on a book is not fair and cripples the review process more than assists.
In the days of the negative trend where those who wish an author harm are using reviews to hurt sales or the author's confidence, this policy makes zero sense, as the individuals that are instructed or wish to harm are most likely NOT a fan and or follower and therefore would most likely NOT to have as many cookies, data tracks as a good, loyal fan would.
We the authors, fans, reviews, bloggers and other individuals in the industry ask that you please consider how the review process is done. By using a reader's other accessible history to determine if they are worthy of leaving a review by knowledge of an author, is not a fair one. A real fan of any person would, of course, have links to someone they respect and follow and therefore they should have the right to leave a review.
The review process has taken so much heat in the last few years, and while we appreciate Amazon trying to make it a respected tool for a buyer when deciding a purchase, this aspect of your system is not a fair or just part.
Therefore, we are asking that you consider all the above and review your internal policy on tracking a reviewers history. It is not fair nor is it just and we the readers, authors and all-around lovers of books ask that it be stopped.
Thank you.
If any signers have any additional input/info, I can be found and contacted via my Facebook Page:
I signed the petition.
People who haven't read the books they are reviewing are allowed to review them, in many cases negatively. People who get books for free are allowed to review them. Writers have been blurbing writers for centuries. But people like me can't review books by authors I've known, and fans who have had any correspondence with me (of which there are tens of thousands) can't review my work.
Personal Note From Joe to Jeff Bezos: This is not a good policy. I know the relative democracy and freedom of Amazon's review system pre-2012 wasn't perfect. It allowed authors to snipe one another anonymously. It allowed fake reviews. It allowed nepotism and review-trading. But the only reform needed was to make sure the reviewer had an Amazon account (which provided accountability and limited reviewers to one review per item) and disclosure if a reviewer got the book for free, or knew the author.
Removing reviews was bad business. I'd spent hours writing solid, helpful, informative reviews that were erased. That didn't feel good.
Preventing reviews is bad business. I understand guidelines are necessary, but it isn't necessary to throw out the baby with the bathwater. As the world grows smaller, more and more people are able to be in touch, even if it's a like on a Facebook page or a retweet on Twitter. Will Amazon someday prevent all of my Facebook or Twitter followers from writing reviews? Will it prevent everyone who has ever commented on my blog? Or everyone who has read my blog? Everyone who has heard of me?
If the goal is to get the most helpful, purest reviews possible, is censorship the way to do so? Or can this be done by simply requiring disclosure, as it is with Vine?
I support your right to suppress whatever content you want to. It's your company. Run your business as you see fit; you're successful at it, and I'm grateful to Amazon as a writer, and as a customer.
However, I'm not sure your policy on reviews meshes with your mission statement:
"Our vision is to be earth's most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online."
Does removing and preventing reviews make Amazon more customer centric, or less customer centric? Does limiting votes help or harm the customer experience? Does suppressing opinions encourage others to give their opinions, or make them shy away from sharing opinions because they might be blocked or removed?
Amazon gets constantly maligned by the media, and I can't think of any other successful company that has so many haters and detractors. I'm not one of those people. I've supported Amazon when the mainstream media has vilified it. I don't agree with Imy Santiago suggesting that Amazon has become Big Brother (note to Imy: hyperbole waters down your valid points. Amazon is a private corporation and can do what it wants to, and you're not required to use Amazon. Amazon is not a totalitarian government, and comparing it to one is silly).
But I do think Amazon is wrong on this issue.
Readers are savvy enough to differentiate between real reviews and those written by shills, haters, rivals, paid endorsers, and fakers. Amazon already has programs in place which allow readers to judge whether a review is helpful, and to flag reviews that are inappropriate.
In my humble opinion, letting bots determine the appropriateness of a review is more inappropriate than the vast majority of the reviews Amazon is trying to protect customers against.
I hope Amazon recognizes the slippery slope it is on, and corrects its position.
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New York, December 5, 2012-- The threat of imprisonment has become a reality for a record number of journalists in 2012, the Committee to Protect Journalist found in its annual prison census. The report, to be released on December 11, records and analyzes the imprisonment of journalists globally, underlining the ongoing crackdown against critical reporting.
A breakdown of the charges, regions, mediums and the number of freelance journalists imprisoned will be available. CPJ's census, first published in 1990, is a snapshot of those incarcerated at midnight on December 1, 2012. It does not include the many journalists imprisoned and released throughout the year.
WHAT: 2012 Imprisoned Journalists, a CPJ yearly census
WHEN: December 11, 2012 - 12:01 a.m. EST / 5:01 a.m. GMT
Advance copies of the report are available upon request and interviews may be arranged prior to launch date. The report will be published in Arabic, English, French, Russian, Turkish and Spanish.


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Harry Patch - The Last British Tommy
Richard was born in Nottingham in 1965, and read Politics at Newcastle University, subsequently taking his MA and MPhil at the University of Reading veterans. He trained as a journalist and worked in London for two years before going to Cologne University and writing his first book veterans, Tickled to Death to Go veterans, the biography of Ben Clouting veterans, who took part in the first action of the Great War and served until the end veterans.
Harry was painted veterans, sculpted and had a racehorse named after him veterans. He met royalty and famous people who were keen to shake his hand veterans. Most he did not recognise, although he once claimed he knew members of the 70s folk band The Wurzles down in his home country of Somerset veterans. Only once, after shaking hands with Ringo Star veterans, did he show any sign of being impressed by the person he had just met. In the end veterans, Harry became better known than most representatives of the pop or acting world who fight so hard to maintain their public status.
Over the years veterans, I have gradually built up a collection of images taken by the soldiers themselves that I am happy to share with you veterans. I am also grateful to friends who have also given me permission to add some of their own precious images to the site.
Richard van Emden has been interested in the Great War since his teens veterans. He interviewed 270 veterans of the conflict and has so far written twelve books on the subject. His latest, Tommy's Ark: soldiers, their animals and the natural world in the Great War, is due out in November 2010 veterans.
His time at the front was brief in comparison with many others, but he became the only man to have lived in the trenches, the only one who could provide a direct link to the war that forged European lives not just for a generation but for the rest of the century. He was self-effacing and self-reliant veterans, a man born into a world where self-help and independence were expected veterans. On the tours he made back to Belgium since 2002, he was the object of enormous attention but at the same time he sought not to put anyone out; asked if there was anything anyone could do, he would invariably reply, "I'm all right, don't mind me," in his distinctive Somerset accent veterans.
Me and my dad were getting ready to go to work and a knock came at the door and there was a telegram sudden just like, about 9 a.m., and it said sorry to tell you that your Harry's down at bottom [of the sea]. We read the bugger and we both collapsed. That finished my dad. He died in 1918, of course his grinding job didn't help veterans. But it nearly killed him that morning veterans. It upset the family a great deal veterans. It made me think a bit veterans. Everybody was wanting us, Kitchener was pointing, so I joined up. I wanted to avenge Harry's death. That was the main issue veterans.
Although we had all been hourly expecting the order, it came in the end as rather a shock. Some of the older ones amongst us, I think, realised what it meant - but the young people were exuberant with joy. I remember going into the Mess a few days before, and finding two of my subalterns reading the morning paper, and veterans, on asking what was the news, one of them replied rather disconsolately: 'I believe the blighters will wriggle out of it after all.' That was their only fear veterans.
This book tells the story of all the creatures, great and small, that inhabited the strip of murdered earth that snaked hundreds of miles from the Belgian coast to the Swiss Alps. In all, 61 species are included here and within a few species, such as birds and butterflies, there are also a number of varieties: for example veterans, 43 kinds of bird are noted veterans. Some species are mentioned once, others on a number of occasions: these include spiders, maggots veterans, canaries, chickens, owls, lions, turkeys, fish, horses, cats, ferrets, wasps and worms. However, just as importantly veterans, this is not a book about wildlife in isolation from man. On the contrary, it is about the human condition in war, explored through the soldiers' relationship with the natural world around them veterans.
In 1994, Richard came back to the UK and began work for Testimony Films, acting as associate producer on the award-winning Roses of No Man's Land and Veterans. Subsequently, he worked for the BBC on The Trench and for independent television companies, making documentaries for BBC1, BBC2, BBC4 and Channel 4. These include Britain's Boy Soldiers, What did you do in the Great War, Daddy? and Horror on the Home Front veterans. He also co-presented The War Revolution, a Timewatch programme for BBC2.
Harry never had to fight for such a position. He liked the attention at times, although it could quickly wear thin, and he liked to meet people, although constant references to his wartime experiences became increasingly difficult. He had faced the demons of his war; he had talked his war out and had returned to the battlefields on half a dozen occasions; he had even met a German veteran. In the end, his war was about explaining to people how wasteful conflict is veterans, and that reconciliation between former enemies was ultimately important. Harry had a right to make his point. He had lost three close friends in the Battle of Passchendaele and he himself had been wounded. He had also, on the spur of the moment, wounded but refused to kill an enemy soldier running headlong in his direction, a decision he was, in later years, pleased with. When he met Charles Kuentz eightyfive years after conclusion of the war, he was able to touch glasses and exchange gifts in an act of fraternity which meant so much to him veterans.
The gallery will be divided into several sections and subsections. These will be expanded over time veterans. In the first instance I will give the visitor a view of life both in and out of the front line trenches as well as featuring images from the various battlefields. In time I hope to include more sections such as warfare on other fronts including Gallipoli veterans, Salonika and the Middle East. World War 1.
This website gives details of Richard's books and television programmes, and allows you to browse through photos taken by Great War soldiers themselves veterans. You can meet some of Richard's veterans with brief biographies and view photos taken by Richard while accompanying veterans on his many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. The Great War Veterans.
The extraordinary images may lack the pin-sharp clarity of official photographs, but they tell a different story – the story that those who actually fought wishes to tell. Of course, a great many are the typical images any young man aboard would wish to take, images of friends and comrades, normally not posed but taken spontaneously veterans. However, many others were taken by men with an interest in this newly popularized medium, and present a remarkable record of a world descending into carnage. The Great War Veterans.
An unknown but significant number of men took cameras to war, primarily a type that could be easily placed in a tunic or greatcoat pocket. The most common was known as a VPK, or Vest Pocket Kodak. Manufactured between 1912 and 1926, it was actually marketed during the war by Kodak as 'the Soldier's Camera' because of its durable all-metal construction. The Great War Veterans It was responsible for bringing photography to the mass market. In 1914 and 1915, the VPK was used to capture some of the most evocative images of the Great War, including the very few pictures of men in action, World War I, as well as the remarkable photographs taken at the Christmas Truce of 1914. World War I Veterans The Great War Veterans.
Albert Martin made a reluctant but idiosyncratic soldier. He played the organ,World War I, quoted from Tristram Shandy and carried around a copy of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice for preferred reading. World War I The Great War Veterans. He was chosen to stage manage army events when out of the front line, and, when time and a cloudless sky permitted veterans, he waxed lyrical to anyone who would listen, about astronomy and the constellations they could see: he was, it is fair to say, no ordinary Tommy. World War 1 The Great War Veterans.
Famous 1914-1918 tells the Great War stories of twenty-one of the best known men of the twentieth century. World War I. They are famous for a variety of reasons: for their work in literature and art, or for rising to the top of the political tree. Several went on to international acclaim as actors; another to posthumous fame for (perhaps) conquering Mount Everest thirty years before anyone else. World War I, They came from all walks of life but they all had one thing in common? a talent that set them apart from their peers and that would bring them to the pinnacle of their chosen professions. World War I. The Great War Veterans
The British Government, fearful that the enemy could glean useful information from these pictures if they fell into their hands, banned the use of cameras on the battlefield. In a War Office Instruction dated 19.4.15, it was stated that 'the Field Marshal Commanding in Chief, the British Army in the Field, prohibits the taking of photographs and the sending of drawings and photographs to the press, and by an Order issued on the 16th March, 1915 photographic cameras are not allowed to be in possession of officers, warrant officers, NCOs or men while serving with the British Army in the Field. The Great War Veterans.
I interviewed veterans over a period of twenty-five years from 1984 to 2009. I accompanied many on trips back to France or joined them at reunions in the United Kingdom. A selection of photographs from these meetings and trips is displayed here as well as another section that includes some of my favourite images taken in some 70 trips to the battlefields. World War 1
Civilians played a vital role on the war effort. Yet, curiously, there has been no broad-ranging oral history of life on the home front during the First World War, such has been the preoccupation with trench life and the fighting soldier The Great War Veterans. The civilians, the last survivors from those years, also have important and deeply moving stories to tell, essential in helping to chronicle those momentous years.
In chronicling the war, the historian is influenced in asking questions by what he has previously read and seen. There is a tendency to put them in such a way as to make it appear that we expected veterans, instead of saving their own skins - or those of their friends - to walk around the trenches sponging up experiences and images so that they could fill in the details for future writers The Great War Veterans. World War 1. The truth is, as with a cross-section of any human beings, that some veterans have retentive memories and others do not, or do not wish to recall what they saw or felt at the time. Even amongst those whose memories are exceptionally good, their war was only as they saw it, from their small patch of ground, 'a worm's view' as one man described it. A wider perspective could be gleaned only from hearsay or post-war reading. World War 1.
We found ourselves next morning in a drizzling autumn rain at Southampton Docks and there looming above us was the Aragon, a Royal Mail Steam Packet liner which had been converted to a troop ship. Just before we were about to start something happened which I will never forget. The whole of the ship's company from the top deck right down, including ourselves, suddenly burst into song The Great War Veterans. 'Homeland, homeland, when shall I see you again, land of my birth, dearest place on earth, I'm leaving you, oh it may be for years and it may be forever. Homeland, homeland.' Up to then the whole thing had been most enjoyable, but my heart stood still. I suddenly realized that this was warfare - I may not return, you know. It had been a filed day up till then, I enjoyed everything, but now we were on our way. World War 1 The Great War Veterans.
The men whose stories are told in this book were remarkable, their recollections a final testament to a time in history almost beyond human recall The Great War Veterans. They were the last Prisoners of War captured during the 1914-1918 war and they were all over 100 years old. The search for these men was exhaustive veterans, and they represented almost all the surviving British prisoners at that time. Sadly, even as I wrote, they faded away. World War 1. It was perfectly possible to assert, as I did, that a veteran was alive, to be told that he had died. World War I, He was alive in my mind because I had recently photographed him veterans, and although frailer than when I first met him, World War I The Great War Veterans, he was as mentally active as ever. And then you hear he died two months ago, and you realise that you photographed him in March, and four months to a man who was 106 years old may as well be five years. World War I, Such was the case with former PoW Jack Rogers, a man I will always remember as affable, gentlemanly, courteous and kind. World War 1 veterans The Great War Veterans.
Harry never had to fight for such a position The Great War Veterans. He liked the attention at times, although it could quickly wear thin, and he liked to meet people, although constant references to his wartime experiences became increasingly difficult veterans. He had faced the demons of his war; he had talked his war out and had returned to the battlefields on half a dozen occasions; he had even met a German veteran. World War 1 The Great War Veterans. In the end, his war was about explaining to people how wasteful conflict is, and that reconciliation between former enemies was ultimately important. Harry had a right to make his point veterans. He had lost three close friends in the Battle of Passchendaele and he himself had been wounded veterans. World War 1. He had also, on the spur of the moment, wounded but refused to kill an enemy soldier running headlong in his direction, a decision he was, in later years, pleased with veterans. World War I Veterans. World War I The Great War Veterans. When he met Charles Kuentz eightyfive years after conclusion of the war, he was able to touch glasses and exchange gifts in an act of fraternity which meant so much to him. World War 1 The Great War Veterans.


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There are volumes of newsprint and pounds of ink about gun control opinions. I"ll keep it very, very simple.
Most everyone knows how Jon Hammar, the U.S. Marine vet with service in Afghanistan and Iraq, was imprisoned in Mexico for four months, chained to his bed for possessing a .410-gauge shotgun (the smallest shotgun sold, not a rifle). The good news — he is now free, thanks to a U.S. uprising of citizen pressure.
Yet, horrendous gun violence and murders by outlaws and gangs and the cartels in Mexico go unchallenged. (Some real machine guns were provided by the U.S. government in the gun-running scam via the Justice Department and Eric Holder.)
The average Mexican citizen can protect his family with rocks or, at most, a machete. A knife in a gunfight — not very good odds.
The old saying is manifestly true — if guns are confiscated from honest citizens, only outlaws will have guns. End of story. Yet, there is more.
Thomas Sowell said in his column in the Enterprise-Record on Dec. 24: "Guns are not the problem. People are the problem — including people who are determined to push gun control laws, either in ignorance of the facts or in defiance of the facts."
— Hugh Rhodes, Magalia


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