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There are new developments in the murder of the Rev. David Strong, the prominent Chattanooga pastor who was brutally tortured and killed in October 2010. Last May, a Chattanooga jury indicted 17-year-old Brendan Barnes and his 26-year-old cousin Antonio Henry for first degree murder. Henry initially claimed the pastor made unwanted sexual advances. Henry later claimed that the pastor previously paid him for sex.
A judge ruled last February that Barnes will be charged as an adult. The two defendants blame each other for the murder and defense attorneys want separate trials. Hearings for seprate trials began last week.
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"District Attorney Bill Cox said Antonio Henry, 26, and his teenage cousin, Brendan Barnes, 'did the crime together' and should be tried together," reports The Republic, "Defense attorneys told Criminal Court Judge Don Poole that one trial would not be fair or practical because of conflicting statements the co-defendants have given investigators."
In October, Henry said in jailhouse interviews that he and Barnes stabbed Strong after the pastor made unwanted sexual advances. Police detectives later contradicted that story in court, saying Henry told police that Strong sometimes paid him to perform sex acts.
Relatives of the slain pastor say Strong, who was single and had no children, was not gay. Alcohol and marijuana were found in the pastor's system during an autopsy. The two suspects claim the pastor offered them drinks and marijuana on the night he was killed.
Rev. David Strong pastored the St. Paul AME Church for a decade and had a long history in Tennessee and Kentucky with the AME Church. The 2.5 million-member African Methodist Episcopal Church is the world's oldest and largest predominately Black denomination. The AME Church has opposed openly gay clergy, same sex unions, most gay rights initiatives and marriage equality.
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Sunday, 5 February 2012
Book Layout Tests
I've not had much opportunity for finishing new work this week, but here are some quick mockups of page layouts for the book (coming before the end of the year, hopefully!). Nothing fancy, just trying to work out how many images to use on different pages. I have about 100ish pictures that I'm considering using at the moment and I reckon I'll average about 3 images per 2 page spread. So by my crude arithmetic, that means I currently have enough for about a 60 page book - I'm aiming to get somewhere around 100 pages eventually. I'm planning to do some step-by-steps for different techniques that will spread things out a little more and there'll be a fair amount of text devoted to the story and explaining the visual development, but as it stands I'm still a long way from having all the images I want. We'll see how much I can get done in the next 6-9 months... Text and everything else super temp BTW...
I also managed to do a concept for that sculpt I started last week. I'm still trying to decide on a definite aesthetic for presenting characters. I'll keep experimenting for now...
More soon,
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- Nathan Dearsley said...
Great stuff as always Nick, Sundays are turning into quite a treat for followers, Love the layout of the book, have you considered aging the paper a little more?
- 5 February 2012 at 15:08
- Taylor said...
Sweet man! Looking cool. I'll buy it as soon as you start selling it!
- 5 February 2012 at 15:21
- Jeff Parrott said...
Do want. Where I can preorder?
- 5 February 2012 at 16:25
- Szymon Biernacki said...
Wow! I didn't know there's going to be a book... Awesome! I'll keep a place for it on my shelve:)
- 6 February 2012 at 00:45
- Mayavan Thevendra said...
Looks good Nick - think I'd agree with Nathan about the paper, also that handwriting font seems a little tricky to read, though that may just be my bad eyes.
More pleeze.
- 6 February 2012 at 01:47
- Da Masta Cheef said...
These look fantastic!
- 6 February 2012 at 04:45
- Brian said...
This has been a great "story-in-development" to follow and I look forward to seeing it in it's final form! (book???, collectable figures???, movie???)
- 6 February 2012 at 08:42
- Nick Carver said...
Cheers guys!
Nathan and Mya: Cheers for the feedback. Will definitely play around with some aging and yeah, the font is a little too decorative for large amounts of text. I will save it for titles or something and use a more legible one for the main body.
Jeff Parrott: I don't have anything set up for pre-orders just yet (the format and final content of the book is still in flux). I'll be sure to set up a link for pre-orders as soon as I'm able to though.
Brian: Ideally, all of those! A man can dream... Seriously though, I am toying with the idea of producing collectible figures/maquettes in very limited number, but I need to do more research in to costs.
- 6 February 2012 at 09:01
- Peter Oedekoven said...
Dude, thats awesome...I always wanted (and still would love to find the time) to do such a book.
Its always about finding the time and the money:)
And you definetly got the skills for such a task!
Great !!!
- 7 February 2012 at 05:26
- estevaolucas said...
how! are these pages from your book! Awesome! I'd like to buy an issue!
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A water firm has been hit with a record breaking £1million fine after toxic sewage waste swamped part of the Grand Union Canal.
Sewage effluent from the Thames Valley treatment works at Tring leaked into the Wendover Arm of the canal over a nine month period from July 2012 and April 2013.
The waste had overflowed into the canal after poorly performing sewage inlet screens at the plant became blocked with wipes and other non-flushable items that people had put down their toilets.
This led to sewage debris and sewage sludge being discharged into the canal.
The Environment Agency received complaints from the Canal and Rivers Trust and from the general public about the pollution and, when officers visited the site, they discovered sewage debris including panty liners and ear buds.
On one occasion officers worked with Thames Water, to arrange for aeration to be installed at the outfall into the Grand Union Canal, as a precautionary measure to increase the levels of oxygen in the water to protect plant and fish life.
In May last year, the water firm pleaded guilty to two charges under the Environment Permitting Regulations 2010 and, on Monday at St Albans Crown Court, the firm was fined and ordered to pay prosecution cots of £18,113 and a victim surcharge of £120.
The £1million fine is the highest ever penalty for a water company in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency.
Speaking following the court hearing a spokesman for Thames Water said: "We take our responsibilities to the environment extremely seriously and very much regret this incident. We have since invested heavily in Tring sewage works to further improve resilience and protect the Grand Union Canal.
"We have also reviewed our procedures to reduce the chance of anything like this happening again, including upgrades to the inlet screens which were the cause of the pollution when they became blocked with wipes and other non-flushable items."
The Wendover Arm, which is 6.7 miles long and opened in 1799, was originally designed to supply water to the summit level of the Grand Junction Canal but it has been unnavigable since 1897. It is currently being reconstructed by charity group the Wendover Arm Trust and phase one of the project - the first 1.3miles from the junction at Bulbourne - was completed and reopened in 2005.
Thames Water has a permit to discharge treated effluent from the Tring Sewage Treatment Works into the Wendover Arm but conditions of the Environment Permit, set by the Environment Agency, aim to prevent any negative impact upon the canal itself and activities such as boating and fishing.
Environment Agency officer Emily Rowland said: "We welcome the court's decision to penalise Thames Water for serious breaches of its Environmental Permit, which led to pollution of the Grand Union Canal. We take these types of incidents very seriously and will do everything within our powers to safeguard the environment and people affected, and that includes holding to account those whose actions put the environment at risk".
Partially treated sewage can contain polluting matter such as suspended solids, high levels of iron and aluminium.
Suspended solids have the potential to smother organisms and plant life in rivers and cover the spawning grounds of fish, while aluminium and iron can have toxic impacts on macro-invertebrates.
Routine samples of the discharge at the Wendover Arm taken on 31 January 2013 contained high levels of iron and aluminium, and showed a high chemical oxygen demand.
Thames Water told the court that since the incidents it had spent £30,000 on replacing the inlet screens at Tring. It company co-operated with the Environment Agency in its investigation and has taken steps to avoid further incidents.


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An architect of Texas redistricting told a panel of federal judges Wednesday that efforts to create a new Latino congressional district between San Antonio and Austin resulted in changes to another district, held by Rep. Francisco Canseco, which is at the heart of discrimination challenges under the Voting Rights Act.
Ryan Downton, a Republican lawyer who drew the congressional map, said efforts to shore up Canseco with more GOP voters resulted in a split of heavily Hispanic Eagle Pass.
A similar strategy was used in South Texas, Downton said, where Corpus Christi was cut away from the Brownsville-based district to help Rep. Blake Farenthold, a Republican, win re-election.
"We drew Farenthold a more Republican district," Downton said.
Under questioning by Nina Perales, a lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Downton said the result was that the original Latino opportunity district that contained Brownsville and Corpus Christi was "swapped out" for a new Republican district along the Coastal Bend.
A similar swap created a more Republican district for Canseco and a new San Antonio-based congressional district sought by state Rep. Joaquín Castro, a Democrat.
Moving Hispanic precincts to create the new district caused chunks of downtown San Antonio to be removed from the congressional district held by Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, D-San Antonio, Downton said.
In the end, Canseco's new district contained a similar number of Hispanic voters, but one in which Anglo candidates could do very well because of racial polarization and turnout among white voters.
"That was something that I was not thinking about at the time," Downton said.
MALDEF, the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the League of United Latin American Citizens have joined the Justice Department in opposing Texas redistricting maps.
At issue in the two-week trial is whether the D.C. court rejects the maps and orders the state to redraw the lines to account for 4.3 million new residents, 90 percents of which are minorities, since 2000.
Witnesses were put on the stand by the minority groups to show dilution of voting strength.
David Saucedo, the Maverick County judge in Eagle Pass, said splitting the 95 percent Hispanic and heavily Democratic city and county would lessen their impact in the 23rd Congressional District, represented by Canseco.
"When they split the vote, what does that mean to Maverick County?" asked Luis Vera, a LULAC lawyer.
"It dilutes any strength that we do have," Saucedo said.
The judges also heard about disputes over the state Senate redistricting map.
Doug Davis, an aide to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, testified that one of the goals was to increase Republican voting strength in four Senate districts in the Dallas and Houston areas.
Davis said Democrats in Harris and Bexar counties were consulted before the Senate map was completed.
State Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, complained about the Senate map because a San Antonio portion of her district was removed, Davis said.
But Davis said Zaffirini later agreed to changes that were engineered by state Sen. Carlos Uresti and state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, both San Antonio Democrats.


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Plain White T's singer and guitarist Tim Lopez turned to a classic children's book for inspiration for the band's latest single.
In "The Giving Tree," Lopez sings about a one-way relationship where he is always giving but getting little in return, not unlike the relationship between the tree and the boy in the Shel Silverstein book of the same name. The single is featured on Plain White T's "Should've Gone to Bed" EP and will be part of the Chicago-area band's upcoming album, "American Nights," in early 2014.
"The song is about a long relationship that I was in and, like a lot of relationships, it felt unbalanced," said Lopez, the only member of the band not from the Chicago-area, by email. "I felt like in the end I was giving all that I had while she was taking what she could and not giving in return. This is what reminded me of the childrens book. By the time we fell apart I really felt decimated, that I had nothing left to give to her or anyone else for that matter."
The music video for "The Giving Tree" took the children's book analogy a step further by transforming Lopez into a tree, using body paint, and then a wooden boat and wall. Jason Koenig, whose video for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Can't Hold Us" won the "Best Hip-Hop Video" award at this year's MTV Video Music Awards, helmed the Plain White T's video.
"Jason Koenig and I came up with the concept for the video while at my sister's engagement party," Lopez said of Koenig, who was the best man in the wedding party. "...I dragged him out to the driveway in my parents' house and played him 'The Giving Tree' in my dad's car and we just started riffing on ideas for a video concept. ... Together we had come up with the idea that I should be represented as the Giving Tree through body paint and, just like in the book and song, would be 'used up' or repurposed.
"We had 3 and a half days to shoot and we didn't waste a minute. I never slept more than 2 hours a day and was either in front of the camera or laying on the floor of a garage getting body painted. The painting took an average of 6 hours a day to complete so I would start the body art around 1 a.m. and start shooting at sunrise. ... I think I worked harder on this project than any before it, but have never felt so rewarded."
Plain White T's will perform Dec. 6 at 101.9 FM The Mix's Miracle on State Street concert with the Backstreet Boys and Colbie Caillat.
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Columbia University Libraries is joining a growing movement among universities and research institutions to make scholarly research free and available to the public online. The Libraries is among the first departments at the university to adopt an open access resolution, which calls for faculty and other researchers to post their journal articles in online repositories such as Columbia's Academic Commons. In January, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory became the first program at Columbia to adopt an open access resolution.
The resolution for the Libraries, which goes into effect on June 1, 2011, will require librarians and other professional staff members to deposit their published scholarly works into Academic Commons or another repository that makes the work publicly available. By posting articles in an open-access repository, authors are able to make their works freely accessible to anyone in the world with an Internet connection and discoverable via Google Scholar and other search tools, thus promoting a wider dissemination of research and information.
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I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.
-- Dalai Lama
'I need your advice," I said. Jennifer and Grace looked at me expectantly as I took a sip of my caramel apple martini. The blue-lit shelves behind the bar cast a cool glow over them. Our ladies' night out was in its adolescent phase; Crush, the hip Hillcrest bar, was the second of the three venues we'd lined up (the first being Grace's house and the third being the Beauty Bar). I let my tongue soak up the flavors in the vodka before I swallowed and then ended the suspense: "I've been asked to host some kind of candle party.""God, I hate that!" said Grace. Her face contorted as though she had just been fed putrid cheese.
"That's the worst," agreed Jennifer, scrunching her mouth up and her eyebrows down.
"Say no," said Grace. "Just say no."
"I would like to, but it's not that easy," I whined. "She's my friend. I want to see her succeed, but I don't want to put more people in the same guilt trap I'm in right now. I know what's going to happen, it's just like Tupperware -- my guests will be made to feel obligated to buy and, even worse, to sell. And if they don't want to sell, they'll be bullied into hosting parties at their own houses in order to deliver more buyers to the candle pusher!" I fell quiet as the waitress placed the appetizers we'd ordered on the tall round table. For a few minutes, our attention was directed at the food before us. Jennifer spread hummus on a piece of flatbread, Grace sampled the calamari, and I served myself some of the pecan-crusted goat cheese salad.
"I like candles," Grace finally said, after our second round of drinks arrived. Jennifer and I had opted for replacements for my caramel apple martini and her Ketel One with three olives, while Grace casually progressed from flavored champagne to cosmopolitan. "I've seen these PartyLite candles; they're nothing fantastic. 'Ooh, they burn longer!' You want a candle to burn longer? Buy a bigger candle. I don't need help from a 'candle consultant' to buy candles. I can go to Ikea, Target, or Illuminations. Or I don't have to go anywhere. I can order what I want online and have it sent to me!"
"Yeah, no shit," Jennifer contributed, before working another olive off of the toothpick with her lips. "Then again, I'm not one to talk because I do the same kind of thing."
"That doesn't count, Jen," Grace said, reaching across the table for a few french fries. "Those are trunk shows. You tell people you're having a trunk show and they can come look at stuff. You don't push them to buy or sell; it's like a store -- if they like something they can get it. If not, no worries." A few times a year, Jennifer will host a party at her house to give her friends first dibs at goods she's purchased abroad before she sets up shop at two local farmer's markets.
"Well, thanks," said Jennifer. "I don't like feeling obligated to do anything at anyone's house, no way, uh-uh. It's lame and annoying."
"It's not the obligation that annoys me," said Grace. "It's that the products are stupid and sub par. I've also seen those Pampered Chef products -- it's crappy stuff. Why not just go to Williams-Sonoma and buy good stuff? Or if you can't afford it, go online, wait for a sale, shop at Macy's and choose from a ton of brands. Why get crappy shit that costs a lot?"
"If we all hate this so much," I said, "then who the hell likes it?"
"It's the Wal-Mart crowd," answered Grace. "For them, this is fancy shopping."
"The whole concept is housewife-y," offered Jennifer. "Like, 'Oh, we're bored, middle-class housewives, and we're off soccer today so we decided to have a candle party.'"
"The thing that bugs me the most is the way these things are sold," I said. "You never see this happening with men. It's like these corporations target women because they know they can count on the 'guilt factor' -- Betty will guilt 15 of her friends into buying something, and each of those friends will guilt 15 more, and so on, until all of Betty's friends resent one another, but only after they have turned a profit for the Candle Queen."
Grace ordered a third drink, a martini, straight up. I unearthed the last fry from beneath the ramekin of ketchup, which seemed to impress Jennifer, who had thought the fry she'd found behind the aioli was the last one.
"I think it all comes down to greed," I said. "Everybody knows that everybody hates these parties. People don't offer to throw them, they are subjected to them." Jennifer and Grace waited patiently as I fished the apple slice from the bottom of my glass, popped it in my mouth, and chewed thoughtfully. "Therefore, if somebody pushes a party on a friend, they can't be doing so because they think, 'I bet my friend really wants to do this'; they're asking a favor. The party pusher is saying, 'Put yourself out for me because I want to make money.' Why not just ask for a donation and save everyone the guilt, the time, the hassle, and the closetful of crap?"
"Here here!"
"Fuck yeah!"
Jennifer and Grace raised their glasses and clinked them to mine, which I then held above my lips and waited for the last sugary drop to make its way onto my tongue.
After Jennifer shared with us the saga of how she had randomly had her hair pulled by a "drunken midget woman" in Little Italy the night before, it dawned on me that I had not yet received the advice I'd been seeking.
"So we all agree that people who ask you to host parties at which they will aggressively sell things to you and your friends suck, right?" I said, receiving nods from Jennifer and Grace. "But what do I say to my friend who wants me to host this candle party?"
"I would just say no," said Grace. "Having a salesperson in my home would be too intrusive. I make it very clear to my coworkers that I am not interested in this kind of thing. I wouldn't go to one, and I definitely wouldn't host one. If someone said, 'Hey, I have some products here that I'm selling,' and if it's stuff I couldn't get anywhere else or that I knew would be of great quality, and if I knew I wouldn't be obligated to buy anything, then maybe I'd go."
"I would just be super irritated if anyone ever bothered to ask me to host a candle party," said Jennifer. She paused for a moment to count the cash in her hands. "But a good reply? Huh. How about, 'Are you kidding me?' Or you can choose the easy route, make up anything to get out of it, just because going would be, like, totally annoying. Nobody needs to be selling that stuff in your house when you can get it at the store. By the way, if you end up getting suckered into doing this, please don't invite me."


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The great Django command-extensions app gives you an easy way to integrate the Werkzeug debugger into your Django site.
For if you've never used this debugger before, imagine the regular Django technical details debugging page, with all same super useful information — environment variables, sql queries, and a full traceback with even the local variables and a bit of code context for each frame.
Now imagine you could have a pdb prompt running within each frame of the traceback, actually running interactively via ajax within the frames that you see. That's the kind of raw power Werkzeug gives you.
A big disclaimer though: this is not for running on production sites. You'll be giving anybody that happens to stumble upon a failure page an interactive (unrestricted) python terminal running with the web server's permissions on your box.
So, this is just what out the box django-command-extension's runserver_plus gives you. With a bit of tweaking, here are a couple of other neat things you can do:
Make your server multithreaded
There are times when you need a multithreaded server in your development environment. I've seen arguments about this being a smell for bad design, so here ar two reasonable scenarios I've come across:
- Developing a web API, you might have a view that provides a test consumer for the API, not intended to be available on production. The test consumer view will make a (blocking) call out to the API that's provided by the same server, hanging everything if you don't have multithreadedness.
- Or, in larger systems where you have more than one application server, you might have a view or two that do a bit of communication between servers (to see if everything's ok, to provide a neat server status screen), that you'll need to test calling out to the same server during development.
For whatever reason it may be, if you need to enable threading, you can just set threaded=True when you call Werkzeug's run_simple function:
Debug your whole wsgi app instead of just Django
If you're running Django as part of a larger wsgi stack (a non-Django web api, or some authentication wsgi middleware), you probably would love to be able to run the whole stack in your development server, and even have those same great debugging features available for everything, not only Django.
You can do this by modifying the wsgi app that Werkzeug debugs:
It's something with raw power that keeps getting better the more you look…


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Have you ever tasted a Battenberg cake? Ever even heard of it before? I wouldn't be surprised if the answer to both questions is "no". Battenberg is uniquely English.
Apparently, the first Battenberg cake was made to celebrate the marriage of Queen
granddaughter, Princess Victoria, to husband Prince Louis of Battenberg.
Apparently, the first Battenberg cake was made to celebrate the marriage of Queen
It's traditionally flavoured with almond and has the signature Battenberg markings, that is, the yellow and pink squares (said to represent the four princes of Battenberg). The strips of sponge are glued together using jam (normally apricot) and the whole cake is covered in marzipan. Sometimes the edges are crimped and the top is patterned with a knife.
It is certainly stunning visually and the classic cake is delicious to taste as well.
I made three versions of the Battenberg - traditional pink/yellow with almond flavouring, a walnut/coffee version and finally a chocolate/orange Battenberg. All were fantastic but I think the classic version was my favorite. The classic version is especially moist thanks to the jam. That said, the coffee/walnut Battenberg is great too - anything coffee is a hit in my books!
I do find the marzipan a little finicky so if you are worried about that you could use fondant instead as I did in my coffee/walnut and chocolate/orange versions. You'll need about the same amount of fondant or perhaps 1/4c more if you like it a bit thicker.
I have included the coffee/walnut version below and click here if you prefer the traditional version.
For the chocolate Battenberg I added two tbsp of cocoa to half the classic version and left out the almond flavouring. In the other half I added orange flavouring instead of almond. I also used a homemade chocolate ganache but any chocolate icing will do!
Recipe Source:
Great video of Mary Berry making this cake at end of post.
Coffee and Walnut Battenberg is also from Mary Berry on the BBC Food website
Coffee and Walnut BattenbergServings: +- 8
100gm /3.5 oz Unsalted Butter, softened & cut in cubes
100gm /3.5 oz Caster Sugar
100gm /3.5 oz Self-Raising Flour
2 Large Eggs, room temp
50gm /1-3/4 oz Ground Almonds (Can be substituted with ground rice)
½ tsp Baking Powder
3 tsp (15 ml) Milk
½ tsp (2½ ml) Vanilla Extract
1½ tsp (7½ ml) 7 gm Instant Coffee Powder or Granules
3 Tbsp / 25gm/1 oz Walnuts, roughly chopped
100g/3½oz icing sugar
40g/1½oz butter, softened
½ tsp instant coffee powder
1½ tsp milk
1 cup / 225gm /8 oz Marzipan, natural or yellow
What to do
1. Preheat oven to moderate 325°F/180°C/160°C Fan Assisted/Gas Mark 4
2. Grease an 8"/20cm square baking tin with butter
3.Cut out a piece of parchment paper that is 7.5cm/3in longer than the length of the tin. Fold the paper in half widthways. Open out the paper and push up the centre fold to make a 4cm/1½in pleat. Line the base of the tin with this, making any adjustments to ensure the pleat runs down the centre of the tin making in effect two rectangular 'tins' within the tin.
4. OR Prepare Battenberg tin by brushing the tin with melted butter and flouring
5. Whisk together dry ingredients (except walnuts and coffee) and combine with the wet ingredients in a large bowl (except vanilla and milk) and beat together just until the ingredients are combined and the batter is smooth
6. Spoon half the mixture into a separate bowl and stir in the vanilla, 1½ teaspoons milk and chopped walnuts
7. Spoon the walnut mixture into the one side of the prepared baking tin
8. Dissolve the coffee in the remaining 1½ teaspoon milk and add to the remaining batter, stir until just combined
9. Spoon the coffee batter into the other half of the prepared baking tin
10. Smooth the surface of the batter with a spatula, making sure batter is in each corner
11. Bake for 25-30mins until the cake is well risen, springs back when lightly touched and a
toothpick comes out clean (it should shrink away from the sides of the pan)
12. Leave to cool in the tin for a few minutes before turning out to cool thoroughly on a wire rack
13. Once completely cool, trim the edges of the cake with a long serrated knife
14. Cut each sponge in half lengthways so that you are left with four long strips of sponge
15. Neaten the strips and trim as necessary so that your checkered pattern is as neat and even as possible
16. Combine the buttercream ingredients together and mix until combined
17. Spread a thin layer of buttercream onto the strips of cake to stick the cake together in a checkered pattern
18. Dust a large flat surface with icing sugar then roll the marzipan in an oblong shape that is wide enough to cover the length of the cake and long enough to completely wrap the cake
19. Spread the top of the cake with a thin layer of buttercream
20. Place the cake on the marzipan, buttercream side down
21. Spread buttercream onto the remaining three sides
22. Press the marzipan around the cake, making sure the join is either neatly in the one corner, or will be underneath the cake once turned over
23. Carefully flip the cake over so that the seam is under the cake and score the top of the cake with a knife, you can also crimp the top corners with your fingers to decorate
24. Neaten the ends of the cake and remove excess marzipan by trimming off a small bit of cake on both ends to reveal the pattern.
This is the video of Mary Berry making this cake. Watch it before you make it!


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Data analysis allows researchers to predict disease outbreaks
WASHINGTON — Researchers tracking social media and Web searches have detected outbreaks of the flu and rare diseases in Latin America by up to two weeks before they were reported by local news media or government health agencies, a U.S. intelligence official told USA TODAY.
Working at a series of universities and companies around the country, the researchers are part of a program led by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) that is aimed at anticipating critical societal events, such as disease outbreaks, violent uprisings or economic crises before they appear in the news.
"The goal is to use publicly available information to predict events, such as political violence, disease outbreaks and economic crises," said Jason Matheny, program manager of IARPA's Open Source Indicators program. "We're using leading indicators like social media, Web search trends, Wikipedia in order to identify the events. We're looking at flu outbreaks or other signs of unrest in a population."
IARPA's goal, Matheny said, is to inform U.S. policymakers about major events early enough to make more of a difference. Too often, he said, public announcements of disease outbreaks come too late. Intelligence analysts with access to a system able to eliminate the clutter that's common in open source data may be able to get a jump on disease outbreaks or other problems.
For example, analysts monitoring Web searches for information in a given country about the symptoms of a disease such as cholera might determine that residents of that country are experiencing an outbreak. Taken alone, that may not mean much, but when combined with data such as canceled restaurant reservations on sites like Open Table, the data may signal a larger health emergency.
"The early information is critical in detecting the problem and getting people treatment," Matheny said. "One of the goals of this is provide that kind of early warning system. It can protect U.S. citizens abroad or enable the government to issue travel advisories about certain places."
While Matheny would not disclose the cost of the program, officials at Virginia Tech, which is part of the research team, said it was part of a three-year, $13.36 million program. Matheny said the research has another year left. Other participants, IARPA documents show, are the University of Maryland, Cornell University, Harvard Medical School, San Diego State University and CACI and Basis Technology, two military contractors.
Last week, IARPA issued a request for information looking for potential researchers to help code the torrent of societal events they collect as part of the open source indicators program.
All of the information analyzed by the IARPA researchers is open source, which means it is publicly available and not classified. Although the intelligence community's image is of clandestine operatives working in dangerous locations, open source information is a growing part of what analysts use to paint a more accurate picture of what is happening around the world.
IARPA is the intelligence community's version of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which performs much of the military's research into technology to make better weapons or improve medical treatments. The agency says it "invests in high-risk, high-payoff research programs that have the potential to provide the United States with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries" and reports to the director of National Intelligence.
Despite its early success in anticipating events, Matheny said, IARPA is concerned about what it calls "model drift," in which a system designed to track data in one location might provide incorrect information about another country. In late January, IARPA issued a request for research proposals to stop model drift.
"The model drift is to protect us from having a program become outdated," Matheny said. "Say you had a model that allowed you to track disease outbreaks that was designed and used in 2014. But now it's 2016. How confident can you be that it works as it was designed to? That's a problem with model drift."
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So ... in the space of a week, I get a press release from the American Trucking Association warning car drivers not to 'draft' behind tractor-trailers, followed by a 'Mythbusters' episode on the Discovery Channel delving into the practicality of drafting behind a big rig to improve a car's fuel economy.
After wading through all of of this, my initial thought on the whole topic remains unchanged: are you KIDDING me? Are we, the motoring public, REALLY this dumb to engage in something this dangerous to save gasoline?
Federal safety regulations say a car traveling 60 mph needs at least 216 feet for the braking system to achieve a complete stop -- which ain't possible when you are 10 feet off the rear bumper of a big rig. But WHY is this even happening? What happened to driving 55 mph, changing your oil every 3,000 miles, keeping your tires properly inflated, etc., to get the best fuel economy possible? I mean, basic maintenance and upkeep gives you more fuel economy savings at MUCH less risk to life and limb for crying out loud! This isn't rocket science, people.
Yet this kind of thing happens a lot, among motorists as well as truckers, when the price of fuel spikes. You start reading all kinds of hogwash on the Internet about special fuel or oil additives and driving practices that supposedly give you these huge fuel economy improvements -- and people swallow these whoppers without a second thought!
It's like the Nigerian banking scam that's been bilking folks for years: a poorly written letter or email promising millions of dollars in fast cash if you JUST give them your social security number, bank account numbers, passwords, etc. You don't believe a word of it if someone tells you this face to face -- so why does reading it on the Internet suddenly make it true?
Now back to drafting: yes, you can improve fuel economy doing it, but not a lot -- in fact, nowhere NEAR worth the risks you run to achieve it. And those fuel economy beneifts aren't consistent, either -- nothing like what you'd get from driving 60 mph with the cruise control on and just making sure your car is maintained properly. If you want to drive fast and crazy, go to a race track and do it -- not on the highway, where you are putting people's lives at risk with such foolishness.


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OSWEGO, NY – The inaugural Oswego Bike Fest will kick start at Oswego Speedway on Friday, providing non-stop entertainment throughout the entire weekend inside the Port City 'Steel Palace' oval.
The weekend long festival, which will run from August 23-26, aims to bring two wheel enthusiasts from across New York State, the southern tier, New England, and the Mid-West to the 'Home of the Supermodifieds' for a 3-day weekend admission of only $15.
While Oswego Bike Fest is geared toward motorcycle enthusiasts, the festival will provide food, drinks, and entertainment for three straight days that will appeal to any and all spectators, not just those with motorcycles.
Friday's festival line-up will begin at 2pm and includes the Bikini Bike Wash, the motorcycle Burnout Pit, as well as the first round of the Ms. Oswego Bike Fest contest. Musical entertainment on Friday includes Jimmy Wolf at 6 p.m. and Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band Poison Whiskey at 8 p.m.
Friday admission is just $5.
Saturday's schedule will see gates open at 11 a.m. with JP Shaggy hitting the main stage at 12:30 p.m.
The Burnout Pit will open at 1 p.m. with the Vertical Outlaws Stunt Show taking main billing at 2 p.m.
Saturday will also include round two of the Ms. Oswego Bike Fest contest and several motorcycle rodeo games throughout the day.
Joining JP Shaggy as musical acts on Saturday will be Code Red at 2:30 p.m., 20th Century Cowboys at 4:30 p.m., Emerald City at 7 p.m., and headlining national act Molly Hatchet at 9 p.m.
Saturday admission is only $10.
The final day of track activity for Oswego Bike Fest will be Sunday, with gates again opening at 11am. Musical acts will again include JP Shaggy at 1 p.m., 3 Inch Fury at 4pm, and Under the Gun at 6pm.
The Bikini Bike Wash, Burnout Pit, and rodeo games will all continue throughout the day Sunday with the final round of the Ms. Oswego Bike Fest contest taking place at 5:30pm.
Highlights on Sunday will include a Military Tribute at 3pm which will honor all fallen soldiers and recognize members of the United States Army, United States Navy, United States Marines Corp, the United States Air Force, and the United States Coast Guard.
A gigantic fireworks display will cap off the inaugural weekend at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Sunday admission will be $5.
A total of three charity bike rides will take place featuring a ride to picturesque Watkins Glen International Speedway on August 26 at 9 a.m. along with a ride around the famed Speedway.
Camping for the entire weekend will also be available on Speedway grounds. For more information on camping as well as vendor information be sure to visit www.oswegobikefest.com


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We augment our work through partnerships with public and private agencies that help us plant trees, improve trails, educate the public, and improve conditions in wildland/urban interfaces and rural areas, just to name a few. Our team also promotes sustainable forest management and biodiversity conservation internationally.
Gifford Pinchot, first Chief of the Forest Service, summed up the mission of the Forest Service: "to provide the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people in the long run."
- Meet the Forest Service
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The Forest Service has employees in nearly every state and Puerto Rico, so that means we have a variety of ways for you to contact us:
- Send us your question or comment online or write to us. However, if you have location-specific questions or comments use our region and research station listings to find the right office.
- If you know who you want to reach, use our employee search.
- For national-level programs and offices, browse our headquarters listings.
- Of course, you can always send a note to Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl by writing to Smokey Bear, Washington, D.C. 20252.
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Our employees are some of the most interesting and dedicated people. Through Faces of the Forest you learn about our people, places and professions.
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Many commercial blogs post year-end summaries as a way to boost hits. This blog is non-commercial so I can't be bothered with year-end summaries. But it is a good opportunity to see how my year-end flurry of posts affected my posting statistics.
First, an update of my posts per month. Here's the plot. I had a weak period for much of the year but had a nice come-back in October through year-end:
Next, I plot the total posts per year:
After I started posting in 2008, early enthusiasm caused a peak in 2010 followed by a two-year decline. This pattern is fairly common, I find.
I did a numerical fit using the following formula:
posts/year = 190.1 (year - 2007.89) exp[(2008 − year) / 2.078]
This seems to do a good job of capturing the trend. To stay on the trend line I need around 88 posts for 2013.


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CTAHR recognizes Hawaiian cultural concerns of taroUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Posted: May 27, 2005
Andrew Hashimoto, dean of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, state legislators and members of the Royal Order of Kamehameha, have agreed to discussions on how best to recognize Hawaiian cultural concerns as UH researchers try to develop disease-resistant strains of taro. On May 24, the dean signed a statement of the university's intent to participate in appropriate dialog before initiating new research using Hawaiian taro varieties. The complete statement is available as a pdf file on the CTAHR website at http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ctahr2001/0524TaroStatement.pdf
For more information, visit: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ctahr2001/0524TaroStatement.pdf


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text: 1. A human body covered with tattoos, each one leading to a different story -- that's a good idea, but it's not exactly new. Remember The Illustrated Man? Or Brimstone?2. An amnesiac woman unexpectedly reveals expert martial arts skills -- that too is not new: Geena Davis in The Long Kiss Goodnight, Claudia Black in an episode of Stargate: SG-1.3. Another unshaven hero. Meh.


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SUNSET BEACH—Residents are getting ready for the sixth annual Sunset at Sunset festivities scheduled for this Saturday, Oct. 6.
Festival hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. in and around the parking lot at the Village at Sunset Beach.
Highlights include a multitude of quality vendors, crafters, food booths and nonprofit groups, and all-day entertainment. Three bands are slated to perform.
Organizers say it's a day to offer residents and visitors a chance to come together as the busy tourist season draws to a close.
One of the area's most popular beach music bands, The Entertainers, will launch festivities with a performance at 11 a.m.
The Brunswick Big Band, an annual favorite at Sunset at Sunset, plays at 1 p.m. and will showcase lead vocalist and Sunset Beach resident Linda Ladrick.
The finale entertainment of the day will begin at 3:30 p.m. with a performance by the 82nd Airborne Division Band.
5K fun run
The third annual 5K Fun Run for adults and children will kick off at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Sunset Beach island gazebo. Co-sponsored by Fitness Studio and Lowes Foods, the fun race is appropriate for all types and levels of walkers and runners alike.
Specific information about this event can be found on the Sunset at Sunset web site (www.sunsetatsunset.com) or at Fitness Studio in Ocean Isle Beach (575-0975). The $25 adult fee includes a race shirt, and the $5 children's fee includes a goody bag. Post-race refreshments will be provided.
Register at Fitness Studio, 6741-B Beach Drive, Ocean Isle Beach, 575-0975.
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The festival's fifth annual photo contest will also be under way at Ingram Planetarium. Don't forget to stop by during Saturday's festivities to view 80-plus photos and cast your vote for the People's Choice winner.
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I also had a four door diesel, I wanted to put the oil burner in my rig but my wife ran it to death... oh well. Have you looked into a Nissan Xterra? It really reminds me of a Trooper, especially with the offroad or Pro4X package. I have a 2011 Frontier Pro4X and love it. You can still buy a new one with a manual transmission. The Pro4X package consists of skidplates, rear diff locker, off road lights, heavier suspension and if you have an auto and tow package it comes with a tranny cooler and engine oil cooler. I bought my 11 new and love it. It just turned 90K miles with 0 issues. I wanted a pickup bed so I bought a crewcab PU instead of the suv. The Frontier and Xterra are mechanically nearly identical.
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Trigger warning: Homophobic language. I also use "queer" occasionally to describe people across the GSM (Gender and Sexuality Minority) spectrum.
I'm sure by now, by way of either the forums or various other blogs on the subject, you've all heard about the Blizzcon incident with Level 90 Elite Tauren Chieftain and Corpsegrinder from Cannibal Corpse. For those of you who have been outside the reach of social media this entire time, the summation is this – during the L90ETC opening act, Blizzard showed a video of Corpsegrinder talking about Alliance calling us "homo" and "cocksuckers." He goes on to call blood elves "queers" and "faggots." Corpsegrinder then took the stage with the band and proceeded to call out the Alliance again before going into the set. There's some contention as to whether the video was bleeped out or not, but despite any editing or not, Blizzard made a really horrible decision to give this person both a platform and audience for this homophobic grossness. What is deeply ironic is what was going on with me during Blizzcon when this all went down, hence why I don't remember this very well. As Mythrai wrote at her own blog:
Strangely, when the Corpsegrinder incident occurred, I was taking advantage of the (supposedly) shorter lines for the Diablo III demo with Apple Cider Mage and sucksmybrain about the Lore Q&A discussion around explicit LGBT characters in upcoming WoW stories, and how excited we'd all be if that came true. We tossed around cheery ideas about Quae and Kinelory, Koltira and Thassarian, Sassy Hardwrench (come on, with a name like that, you know Sassy is an enterprising young gay goblin.) To come out from that discussion to find that degrading homophobia was being played, promoted and even implicitly supported by the Blizzard team at the same time we were feeling hopeful about being represented by a major gaming company we loved and supported… saying it was a crushing blow is putting it mildly.
Coming back to the hotel that night to start reading Tweets and forum posts about what occurred was shocking and hurtful. How could Blizzcon support this? Over a Horde/Alliance conflict no less? People were jumping up to make it about some stupid video game faction dispute when the larger problem was looming there. Homophobia should never be a part of a company's public face, especially at an event that features many, many fans that are queer, gay, or transgendered. Some of whom I hung out with a majority of my weekend and had great times with. Some of whom are me, even. Allowing someone like Corpsegrinder to express the same bigoted language and slurs that we hear in battlegrounds, trade chat, and even in our guilds and raids is damaging. It means Blizzard is condoning that language as a company, despite having rules in their TOS against it.
People started writing letters to the company post-haste, posts were written, petitions were created. A forum threads was eventually made (with a lackluster blue response), and L90ETC apologized. To some people, all it read as was "I'm sorry you are offended" which to some of us this is never an apology, merely a dismissal of the audience's feelings. It wasn't until Mike Morhaime himself (president of Blizzard, also member of the band) stepped up to offer the more sincere of the apologies. My hope is that Blizzard really takes this incident to heart and forever changes their public face in regards to what kind of language they support out of their company, as well as a harsher look at their audience. My deepest desire is that maybe they even make good on their Q&A panel admission that they might see fit to include more LGBT characters in their game should they fit. Unfortunately, regardless of what Blizzard does, a situation still remains looming over our heads.
Because, really, the problem here on a more daily basis is not the giant company. It is society and nerd culture. Blizzard fucked up but the people we play this video game do not even see the error of their ways, despite playing with queer people on a regular basis. Rising numbers of social minorities of all stripes are playing World of Warcraft, and yet the audience still talks and reads unspeakably cis-gendered, straight, white male. This was never more evident than by watching the live raid that also took place at Blizzcon and seeing Blood Legion using racial slurs against a well-known priest called Kinaesthesia (of Learn2Raid fame) from Vodka as well as other inflammatory language and unsportsmanlike conduct. If these are the "leaders" of the raiding community, why does the rank and file have to act better than them?
It galls me and makes me incredibly angry that this is still what we have to deal with every day in the nerdy community and I am set on calling it out wherever I see it. I hope the rest of you have the strength to as well (but I can understand if you don't.) We need guilds that uphold these things as policy, reports to GMs whenever we see it in-game, and a larger community presence. Because nerd culture needs to wake up to the smell of its own manure that it has been wallowing in all these years and realize that the time of the pervasive racism, homophobia, rape jokes and general disgusting-ness is over. I want an Azeroth where all of us feel safe to be ourselves, to see our stories and strife reflected in the characters we play and interact with, and people to get over their ignorance.
Some other blogs that wrote on the subject:
The 'mental Shaman – Blizzcon: This is about homophobia not Horde v Alliance
MMO Melting Pot – The homophobic Corpsegrinder rant at Blizzcon explodes


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Central Connecticut, which also will be playing its opener, has some players receiving national attention as well. Senior Reece Wilson earned a place on The Missouri Athletic Club (MAC) 2012 Hermann Trophy Watch List. Surprisingly the Blue Devils were selected to finish seventh in the annual preseason poll of Northeast Conference coaches, despite returning a strong core of players from a year ago.
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Yale leads the all-time series with Central Connecticut 5-3-1. McKiernan and Max Morice scored for the Bulldogs in the victory over the Blue Devils last year. Yale and Albany have met only once before, a 1-0 Yale victory in 2006.
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Happy day after the election, fellow patriots! Remember last night with all the carefree celebratory boozing and partying in the streets until all hours? I bet your heads feel super clear, really great, and not at all like an evil tiny person is trying to claw her way out of your brain via your eyeballs. Yay, me too! I'm also very responsible when it comes to regrettable excess.
NOT!! I started work at 8pm last night — and didn't crawl into bed until about 4am — so I deserved all the drinks. I had to stay buzzed-to-drunk all night on alcohol and cute pictures of baby animals or else who knows how I would've gotten through the evening? Prayer? Sacrifice? I don't even want to think about what I'm capable of doing without the comforting layer of boozy gauze separating my fragile woman election brain from Fox News.
All I consumed last night was whiskey, wine, and Trader Joe's brand Funyons, which my boyfriend lovingly shoveled in my mouth as I typed up election results. As a result of one, two, or three of those things, I cannot see in color today. And I'm pretty sure this screen is made of Pepsi Clear Jello (tm). So wavy.
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Terrell Raynonn Suggs (born October 11, 1982 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Ravens tenth overall in the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arizona State.
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Suggs attended Arizona State University, where he played defensive end for both Bruce Snyder and Dirk Koetter. He finished his career there with 163 tackles, including a school career record 65.5 tackles for losses, and NCAA career record 44 sacks, 14 forced fumbles, 3 fumble recoveries, 2 interceptions, and 9 passes deflected. As a junior, he had 24 sacks. He was a secondary education/history major.


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"Question Corner," Friend, May 2013, 47
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Heavenly Father sometimes helps me with small things, but why doesn't He always help with bigger things, like healing someone who has a serious sickness?
Experiencing trials is part of life here on earth. Some of them pass quickly, while others can last a long time. Even in the middle of hard challenges, however, we can still feel Heavenly Father's love. President Henry B. Eyring of the First Presidency taught, "If we have faith in Jesus Christ, the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing" ("Mountains to Climb," Ensign, May 2012, 26). Sometimes Heavenly Father answers prayers in a way we may not understand at first. But we can always know Heavenly Father is watching over us.
Here's my perspective: God loves everyone. You need to remember that. He has a plan for us that involves some suffering and pain along the way, but we came to earth to be tested. He is our Father in Heaven, who cares about us. We need to know that He doesn't want to hurt us, but He wants to know that we have testimonies of our own. We can't just pretend to have a testimony. We need to have one of our very own. Just let the Holy Ghost talk to you and comfort you.
Hannah M., age 11, Idaho, USA
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Ella D., age 9, Utah, USA
Good question. I think the smaller problems are answered to show us that He lives and loves us. The bigger problems like illnesses or death are just plans of Heavenly Father.
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Heavenly Father has a plan for us, and even though sometimes He doesn't always answer our prayers the way we want, He always loves us. He wants us to learn, and if He just did everything we asked, we wouldn't learn and grow. Always trust in Him, and keep praying.
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My DH is off to Houston today for about a month on business - yippee! (oops *"I will miss you darling, come home soon"*).
The 'naked' part is that I've given him strict instructions that he should throw out any worn clothes if it's a choice between that and fabric for the baggage allowance.
Anyway, as fabric is now $20-$22 a metre (39"), you can see why I'm excited! Priority Mail envelopes, which hold about 8 yards of fabric have just gone up and I think they're now $23.95 .
I'm planning having fabric etc sent to his hotel from the likes of Joanns, Fabric.com and Missouri Star, assuming I can get it sorted. He would also drive to a store to collect, but doesn't really have much clue about anything quilt-related. I'm particularly interested in backs for quilts as they're about $28 (or more) a yard here and batiks.
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Milk is produced in every single EU Member State without exception. Furthermore, milk is the EU number one single product sector in terms of value at approximately 15 % of agricultural output. The EU is a major player in the world dairy market as the leading exporter of many dairy products, most notably cheeses.
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The dairy sector is of great importance to the European Union (EU) in a variety of ways.
Milk production takes place in all EU Member States and represents a significant proportion of the value of EU agricultural output. For some Member States it forms a very important part of the agricultural economy.
Total EU28 total milk production is estimated around 170 million tons per year (2017 data.
The EU's main producers are Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Poland, the Netherlands and Italy which together account for almost 70% of the EU production.
Dairy farming is structured differently in all of the Member States.
The EU dairy herd has been decreasing steadily during the last years, as the milk yield per cow has improved. As a reference, in 2018 there were around 23 million cows in the EU28, averaging 7000 kg of milk produced per cow.
Farm and dairy herd sizes vary enormously, as do yields. However, as the dairy sector develops throughout the EU, variations in yield and other technical factors are being reduced – less developed dairy producers are rapidly catching up with those who had restructured and modernized first.
There is no 'typical' European dairy cow breed, though the Friesian-Holstein is the most prevalent.
A variety of systems is in operation for marketing the milk produced on dairy farms. Most dairy farmers sell their milk to dairy processors and it then enters the food chain. Other dairy farmers market their milk directly to consumers and on some dairy farms the milk is consumed on the farm.
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Sisko's lightship was a replica of a Bajoran lightship constructed by Commander Benjamin Sisko in 2371. Working alone using traditional tools, it took him approximately three weeks to build. The only modern technology added was artificial gravity through a gravity net in the floor, as Sisko claimed weightlessness made him queasy.
Sisko's inspiration for building this craft was his study of ancient Bajoran texts. He and his son, Jake, would later successfully emulate the journey from Deep Space 9 to Cardassia, making use of the natural tachyon eddys of the Denorios Belt and confirming the ancient texts. Upon their arrival, they encountered three Galor-class warships, lead by Gul Dukat, who revealed the discovery of the ancient crash site of an ancient crash site, and would celebrate Sisko's arrival with a fireworks display. (DS9: "Explorers")
Jake recalled piloting the lightship with his father after Benjamin had joined the Prophets. (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")
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The DOD-220A smoke detector is based in an optical dark chamber, which, thanks to its design, avoids unwanted air flows and facilitates the guidance of the smoke to the optical sensor. The detection principle is based on the Tyndall effect; the detector goes into alarm status due to the scattered light caused by the smoke particles being received by the optical sensor. The camera is protected to avoid the entrance of dirt and insects. This detector also incorporates compensation algorithms which avoid false alarms due to the dirtiness of the optical chamber, postponing equipment maintenance.
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