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|Statement by H.E. Ambassador HU Xiaodi, Head of the Chinese Delegation, at the 2008 Substantive Session of the United Nations Disarmament Commission (General Exchange of Views)
|(New York, 7 April 2008)
Mr. Chairman,
The Chinese delegation would like to congratulate you on your assumption of the Chairmanship of this session of the UN Disarmament Commission (UNDC). I am convinced that, with your rich experience and diplomatic skill, you will lead this session to progress. My delegation assures you and other delegations of its full cooperation.
Mr. Chairman,
In recent years, the overall process of international arms control and disarmament has been at low ebb. There is still a long way to go towards complete nuclear disarmament. The nuclear non-proliferation regime is facing severe challenges. Military and security factors are getting more prominent in international relations. Against such backdrop, our deliberations on "Recommendations for achieving the objective of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation" and "Practical confidence-building measures in the field of conventional weapons" bear realistic significance.
This is the last session of the current cycle of deliberations of the UNDC. Over the past two years, we have had in-depth exchanges of views on both agenda items. In spite of divergent views on some issues, our work has achieved certain progress. China appreciates the efforts of the chairpersons of the two working groups in pursuit of consensus and is ready for further improving the relevant draft texts.
Mr. Chairman,
During the last two sessions of the UNDC, the Chinese delegation elaborated its positions, proposals and policies on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. I would like to take this opportunity to emphasize the following points:
Firstly, nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation are closely related to international security. A sound international security environment will provide impetus and guarantee to the nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation process. The nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation effort will in its turn contribute to the establishment of a solid foundation for the international security. The international community should abide by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and other universally recognized norms of international law in promoting the building of a harmonious world featuring mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and cooperation and in establishing an international environment of peace, stability and common security, so as to eliminate the motivation for reserving or seeking nuclear weapons and create necessary conditions for the realization of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
Secondly, nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation are complimentary to each other and mutually reinforcing. All the States Parties should fully implement the NPT in an earnest way and strive to promote substantive progress in the current review process of the NPT. The relation among nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and peaceful use of nuclear energy should be appropriately addressed and nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation should be pushed forward in a balanced way. The legitimate rights of all countries to peaceful use of nuclear energy should be fully guaranteed and respected while the goal of non-proliferation be realized.
Thirdly, the complete and thorough disarmament of nuclear weapons cannot be accomplished over night. It should be achieved through systematic, gradual and specific measures on the basis of safeguarding strategic balance and stability of the world. In this regard, the two States with the largest nuclear arsenals bear special and primary responsibilities for nuclear disarmament. They should take the lead to reduce their nuclear arsenals significantly in a verifiable and irreversible manner. The nuclear-weapon States should renounce the doctrine of first use of nuclear weapons, unconditionally undertake not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon States or nuclear-weapon-free zones and conclude relevant international legal instruments. The Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva should reach consensus on its programme of work at an early date, so as to carry out substantive work on nuclear disarmament, security assurances for non-nuclear-weapon States, fissile material cut-off and prevention of an arms race in outer space. The international community should continue promoting the early entry-into-force of the CTBT.
Fourthly, the proliferation of nuclear weapons has its complex causes. Therefore, it is necessary to address both the root causes and symptoms in a comprehensive manner. We should advance nuclear non-proliferation under the guidance of multilateralism and ensure impartiality and nondiscrimination. Embargo and pressure can hardly offer a fundamental solution to the proliferation concerns. The relevant countries should, on the basis of consultation on an equal footing and mutual respect, commit themselves to enhancing dialogues, building confidence and normalizing their relations, maintaining and promoting peace and stability, so as to create the prerequisite for the realization of nuclear non-proliferation.
Mr. Chairman,
As a nuclear weapon State, China is loyal to its responsibilities and obligations of nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation as stipulated by the NPT. It has always exercised the utmost restraint on the scale and development of its nuclear weapons. China did not and will not take part in nuclear arms race. It has all along pursued the policy of unconditional no-first-use of nuclear weapons, and no-use or threat of use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapon States or nuclear-weapon-free zones. China is strictly implementing its international obligations related to nuclear non-proliferation and actively participates in the relevant international efforts.
Working hard to promote the peaceful resolution of regional nuclear issues, we always advocate for the peaceful settlement of the Korean Peninsular nuclear issue. As part of the joint efforts of relevant parties, China has contributed to the convening of the 6-party talks with a view to achieving the denuclearization of the Peninsular. Continuing our unremitting efforts to actively meditate among relevant parties, we will do our best to help overcome the current difficulties, maintain the momentum of the 6-party talks and facilitate the denuclearization process, so as to ensure the peace, security and stability of the Korean Peninsular.
China is also dedicated itself to the peaceful resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue through diplomatic efforts and negotiations. It stands for the strict implementation of the international non-proliferation obligations and the respect for the legitimate rights of relevant countries to peaceful use of nuclear energy. Diplomatic negotiation is the best way to solve the Iranian nuclear issue and serves the common interests of the international community. Currently, all parties should intensify diplomatic efforts in reaching agreement on possible ways to resume negotiations at an early date, with a view to seeking a long-term, comprehensive and appropriate solution to the Iranian nuclear issue.
Mr. Chairman,
China supports confidence-building measures (CBMs) in the field of conventional weapons. Deliberations on this agenda item at UNDC in recent years reflect certain common ground among relevant parties as well as the complexity and sensitivity of the issue.
Conventional arms relate to important security concerns of various countries. CBMs on a voluntary basis and in conformity with the security interests of relevant countries will be truly conducive to confidence-building among countries. In promoting CBMs, we need to take into consideration the degree of comfort of relevant parties, and avoid elements that may arouse serious divergence. We need to develop CBMs in light of the concrete situation of different regions and time, with an objective and pragmatic attitude, and in a step-by-step and incremental manner.
China has unswervingly followed the road of peaceful development and pursued a defensive-in-nature national defense policy. Over the past years, China has actively promoted and participated in regional disarmament and CBMs. Within such frameworks as Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), China has been working with relevant countries to vigorously explore and practice CBMs aimed at enhancing mutual trust and promoting regional security. Last year, China started to report annually to the United Nations its military expenditures, and resumed participating in the UN Register of Conventional Arms. These represent renewed efforts by China in CBMs in the field of conventional weapons. Our policies and actions demonstrate that China is firm in safeguarding international and regional peace and stability and China's development will not constitute any threat to any other country.
Mr. Chairman, proceeding from the above-mentioned principles and positions, China is ready to make concerted efforts with all parties to promote progress on the two agenda items of this session of the UNDC.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.


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Friday, January 27, 2012
In Wonderland
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The girl with the dragon tattoo ... couldn't put it down like half the rest of the world. Your Life Book class looks interesting - obviously learning good body proportions. Love 'Alice'. Hope you find your other mysteriously vanishing books .. xoDonnaReplyDelete
- Anonymous27 January, 2012
love your alice illustrations. i didn't read it either i don't think. i haven't read the girl with the dragon tattoo but did see all the movies with subtitles and don't understand why they've remade them in English when the originals were so good.ReplyDelete
just read war horse which was fab and saw the movie last night which was so disappointing-they made it really cheesy and not at all like the book reads.
Lovely "Alice" images Natasha, and your sketch is wonderful too :D XXXReplyDelete
Beautiful illustrations! ValerieReplyDelete
I actually love Alice in Wonderland and it is a great book... it is a pretty good read even as an adult... love your drawings and sooo impressed you are so far along on lifebook... I am already behind!!!ReplyDelete
Ooooh loving your Alice drawings Natasha... they are incredibly sweet... and your sketches from Bonnie's class are just wonderful...ReplyDelete
Jenny x
Alice je divna :)ReplyDelete
Knjiga S. Larssona bi bila izvrsna da ju je skratio za bar 100 str. ali glavni ženski lik je pravi biser :) Pogledaj i film, dobar je :)
Što se crtanja ljudske figure tiče, Jane Davenport je pronašla stvarno jednostavan način postizanja proporcija i pokazala u tečaju I heart drawing - toplo preporučujem. Ako te više zanima o tome, napišem na mail, OK?
I never liked to read books... There's something about it, I guess I just get bored, or perhaps I'm too slow...ReplyDelete
Either way, your Alice paintings are adorable, love the middle one with the braids the most~
- Anonymous27 January, 2012
Your illustrations are so lovely, Natasha May. I love books. I don't think I'll ever get a Kindle because I love the feel of a book. When I've had books vanish, I later remember lending them to someone. I think the person puts it on a shelf with other books and forgets it is borrowed.ReplyDelete
omg - we must have a cosmic connection. I have been thinking about reading Alice in Wonderland because I don't get the fascination that people have with it. I don't remember reading it as a kid either. I just finished the girl with the dragon tattoo. It is incredible but disturbing, I will send it to you if you'd like.ReplyDelete
As always love keeping an eye on your work!
cheers, dana
I love this book and love your paintings :) AND love the Stieg Larsonn books too!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful illustrations. Happy PPF, Annette xReplyDelete
Lovely Alice drawings! <3ReplyDelete
I read Alice In Wonderland to my kids, when they were small, we all loved it, it was quite new translation (to Finnish). There is some awesome insights in it... I just saw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (swedish version), so good and now I have to read the book, and the whole Millenia trilogy, I think... of course most of the world allready read it. :))
I need to look at my Bonnie Rose videos--great figure sketch!!ReplyDelete
Alice the great, and your sketches are perfect. SaludosReplyDelete
Great Alices - especially love the one with the Cheshire Cat! And excellent sketch.ReplyDelete
Hope you find your books!
Great Alice! No, I have not read the whole book either...ReplyDelete
Love your Alice illustrations. Whether you read the whole book or not, you can't help but be inspired by the characters.ReplyDelete
Hate it when my books go missing.
Love your illustrations of Alice in wonderland. Excellent job! Happy Weekend!ReplyDelete
I hope you find your books Natasha! I have to admit, I have never read Alice In Wonderland. I love the art you did ;o) Have a great weekend ;o)ReplyDelete
I do rather love my Kindle... I'd hate to lose that. I'd have to get Alice searching for it by drinking all sorts of potions!ReplyDelete
Lovely illustrations and Alice in Wonderland is for adults as well ~ lots of psychology in the book ~namaste, Carol (Share the Creative Journey) Happy PPFReplyDelete
Great illustrations! I loved all of the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Books -- I hope you find your copy. You won't be able to put it down!ReplyDelete
I like the sketches from class. Love seeing them side by side like that. You are doing great!ReplyDelete
Happy PPF!
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Nope, haven't read Alice, then I sorta went off the author because someone said he was a bit of connoisseur of underage females, but the story is cool I guess, but what is cooler are your awesome illustrations here, really love the approach - nice one Natasha May :)ReplyDelete
love the mechanical sketch of the body shapes.ReplyDelete
LOVE your Cheshire Cat- he's wonDERful!ReplyDelete
Happy PPF (a day late;))
- Anonymous28 January, 2012
I love your Alices. I love books, I haven't read Alice in Wonderland but maybe I will now!ReplyDelete
I've read Alice when I was younger and I love the movies! You did a good job on your drawings of Alice and the cheshire cat! Hope to see more of what you're learning on Lifebook! Patsy fromReplyDelete
love your illustrations. Great job Natasha. I don't think I ever read the book to tell you the truth. Now you have me thinking. I may d/l it on my Kindle. Nice job. Take care.ReplyDelete
Very sweet!ReplyDelete
Looks like you've had a very prolific week!ReplyDelete
Always love visiting your blog! :)
Happy PPF!!
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Great books great art.ReplyDelete
Jaz pa sem gledala Alice in to v dveh filmskih različicah. Ko gledam tvoje risbice, me kar popeljejo v posamezne odlomke.ReplyDelete
Dekle z zmajskim tatujem je oddana v večini knjižnic po Sloveniji. Sem jo imela sposojeno, prebrala do 200 strani, hotela podaljšati, pa nisem mogla, ker je že bila rezervirana. Smola pač. Zato pa berem en krimič, Dekle z zmajskim tatujem pa bom nadaljevala, ko se tale euforija malo poleže okrog te knjige....
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Gould Genealogy & History
- Mail: PO Box 675, Modbury SA 5092 Showroom: 4/247 Milne Road, Modbury North SA
- (08) 8396 1110
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Open Hours
- Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- email newsletter - see web site
- 1976
The family business that is now Gould Genealogy & History was started as a hobby interest by Alan and Anthea Phillips from their Adelaide Hills home in September 1976. After the closure of History House Bookshop, Melbourne, at the first Australasian Congress on Genealogy & Heraldry in 1977 an Australia wide market opened up.
Alan left his former employment in February 1982 to manage the business full time in parallel with the remarkable expansion of interest in family and local history in the 1980s. During the 1980s Alan & Anthea's son, Stephen, and daughter, Alona, joined the business and are still with us today. Stephen had some time away from the business in other employment, but rejoined us in 2002 as business manager, to add to the responsibility he shares for 6 young children in his family.
Several sister companies have also arisen to meet various related needs.
- Gould Publishing Services in 1990. Discontinued in 1996 to focus on genealogy supplies
- Archive CD Books Australia in 2003 – publishing rare books on CD … Name changed to Archive Digital Books Australasia in 2009
- Gould Digital in 2003 – providing digitising services and products to our own companies and others
- In 2003 we ran the Australian Genealogy Roadshow. This was an interesting idea for the time. Other commitments meant we were unable to do further roadshows at the time. However a major nine city roadshow around Australia and New Zealand will be held in November 2010.
- Unlock the Past – In August 2009 we began a joint venture with Shauna Hicks History Enterprises a complete Australasian history and genealogy events resource. Our aim is to help promote your event, provide speakers or even run a roadshow in your area in conjunction with local genealogy and history societies or groups.
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This morning I'm suffering from an aching neck, blurry vision and a fuzzy head. Was I in a car accident? Nope. I went to see the Melvins last night. Unfortunately got there a bit late, having been tangled in the web of West London, fenced in by traffic and general western chaos until well after Witch left the stage. The general consensus from those polled was that Witch were awesome but not as great as at Roadburn. Probably the drugs were just better at Roadburn.
Seeing Melvins in a relatively intimate venue like the Garage (capacity 600) is a treat, and immediately brought back memories of seeing bands like The Jesus Lizard play there - I remember David Yow crowd surfing and kicking holes in the ceiling with his cowboy boots. The refurbished Garage has a much higher ceiling and has had its capacity nearly doubled by the clever removal of a few old barriers. Melvins were of course, fantastically awesome. It is heart-warming to witness how well Buzz and Dale have survived and how the beast that is Melvins has triumphed over the years and the numerous line-up changes. Having devoured Big Business and with Jared Warren and Coady Willis sitting comfortably in their belly, certainly the present incarnation of Melvins is my personal favourite. There is really very little that can trump double drums.
The gig was no disappointment (how can any show where they play "Night Goat" be?) but I will say three things: Not. Loud. Enough. I presume this was a faux pas on the Garage's part (the venue does back onto an expensive patch of residential London) but I really don't expect to be able to carry on a conversation with Melvins onstage. Also I do have to express mild disappointment at the fact that the band took a brief intermission at the one hour mark, and then came back in the same costumes! What's that about? If you're gonna take a break, at least give us a pay-off. (I am reliably informed that I can expect at least three costume changes at SunnO)))'s show at Koko next Monday, and I'm trembling in anticipation.) However we can thank the young lady in the audience who climbed up on someone's shoulders to get naked from the waist up, for at least providing a habilimental diversion, and for inspiring Jared to reciprocate.


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Today is the first…day…ahem…sorry, still fuzzy from @Madpow's killer party last night at National Mechanics. We are ready to kick off IDEA2010! I will do my best to live blog through the sessions, there will be part observations, part candor, part humor and as much knowledge as I can absorb and type. I will do my best, I hope you enjoy.
First up, a Welcome and then we're into Ubiquitous Architecture and Gamestorming.
Ubiquitous Architecture and Gamestorming
Peter Morville is up first.
- Dichotomy Alert! Information Architects and User Experience Designer
- Already in love with Peter as he makes CS a part of the conversation.
- The tactical and strategic roles may be separating, but they are still held closely together.
- visuals can often break down barriers
- Search involves an insane attention to detail.
- Will innovation redefine search, ongoing discussion.
- You can now search by sketching or singing
- We can't ignore the possibility of sensory search.
- Cross Media Integration – what is the right balance?
- iTunes led the way with this (duh), but we are finally seeing other areas (Nike, Zipcar etc)
- REI has worked to bring all content creators together, eliminating silos (yay!)
- Mike Kuniavsky – don't worry, he's already thinking light years ahead of us (whew…)
- Service blueprints are the key parts of Service Design, they identify the touchpoints (Peter feels they are not enough)
- User Service Map – The Intertwingularity (buzzword alert!) The mix of digital and physical (how would you view a movie, download, movie theater…)
- What is the perceived distance in the physical world, but when you apply the same thought to digital, it has more to do with the experience.
- IA is about building bridges, but the work doesn't stop, there are always more bridges to be built.
- Peter makes the brilliant point that Ken Burns is GOD (ok, maybe I made that up, but COME ON, the man is fabulous!)
- Panel discussion time!
- What the hell is gamestorming!? – Disruptive way of explaining problem solving (Sunni) Collection of things that work (James) Making the information more shareable (Dave)
- Gamestorming = visual thinking people (Peter's interpretation)
- Confession: As a writer, designing anything visually scares the crap out of me.
- Visual thinking = Gamestorming
- Gamestorming reminds me a lot of discovery writing. Visually working through a problem, much like writing through a problem.
- Peter makes the point that Gamestorming is just IA in disguise.
- The best way to describing gamestorming is to do it.
Hey oh, just had a break out session where Sunni Brown taught us visually challenged "drawers" a new way to not be afraid to sketch out our ideas visually. She had a great way of using a visual alphabet (lines, circles, basically crap we can all draw to represent a image. It was basically a speed round of Pictionary where we drew a coffee cup (easy), charisma (not so much) and a pervert (priests abound). Insanely fun, interactive and a great way to meet some new people.
Next up, Going Native: The Anthropology of Mobile App Design with Josh Clark
- Mobile can be thought of as cultures.
- Anthropology – how or why we act the way we act.
- Still very much in the discovery phase of mobile platforms.
- (Lego graphic backdrop is S.I.C.K.)
- text interfaces were initially such a crummy experience.
- Suddenly wondering if my mother threw away all of our Legos. I think I'll call her at lunch.
- Defining a culture, defines the mobile appearance
- 87% of AA and English speaking latinos compared to 80% of white peeps.
- Nokia = Symbian. I did not know that.
- BB os is still king in America (40%) For now…
- BB heavy on texting and email, but lacking on web browsing.
- iPhone = super active user
- Sorry, nanny is texting me. The power is out and I am trying to tell her how to reset the breaker in the electrical panel. Good god.
- For Android, it's the technology, skews for younger users. "good enough"
- Android is for tinkerers, so apparently Tinker Bell is ALL over this phone.
- Windows mobile slide draws a good laugh from the crowd. Oh, Redmond, you have fallen so far.
- Satisfaction index shows that iPhone/Android lead the way while BB and Windows (giggle/snort) lacks big time.
- Cultures love rivalry. Great analogy.
- It's really not about tools. Emotional connection means more now in the mobile universe.
- Appropriate Technologies – basically pairing cultures with the right technologies
- There is a market for SMS apps (think of voting for AI)
- Mobile culture goverance is partially regulation and part of the social experience.
- Wait, whut? Content Strategy doesn't own the term governance.
- Governance shapes our experience.
- Sorry, twitter distraction, bad Matthew.
- Can the web entertain this circus?
- Mobile web can sidestep the governance issue.
- Praying there is a stack of legos at lunch.
- You cannot satiate everyone, so there cannot be only one silver bullet mobile OS
- We are all cloud developers now (I have no idea what this means)
- Build device specific app, not an all encompassing app.
- Lunch time!
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Aralar Nature Reserve
Gobiero Vasco
Monte Txindoki. Aralar Nature Reserve. Guipúzcoa
Gobiero Vasco
Landscape in Aralar Nature Reserve. Guipúzcoa
Gobiero Vasco
Landscape in Aralar Nature Reserve. Guipúzcoa
Contact details
Carretera Gi-2133 Ordizia-Alegia a Amezketa ; Carretera GI-120 Beasain-Lizarrusti hasta Ataun.
Ordizia, Gipuzkoa (Basque Country)
Centro de Interpretación del Parque Natural de Aralar
Tel.:+34 628305655
Tel.:+34 943582069
- Autonomous region: Basque Country
- Province/Island: Gipuzkoa
Aralarland of legends
Its human past dates back to the Neolithic period and, from then on, there are well preserved funeral monuments.
The early settlers in the Reserve date back to the Neolithic period and, nowadays, there still exist numerous funeral monuments have resisted the passing of the centuries. The beauty of the area is unique, with prolific flora and fauna, which is well protected. The main activity of the area is farming (bovine and ovine) There are four main river basins: Agauntza, Zaldibia, Ibiur and Amezketa that house important natural ecosystems.
Gipuzkoa (Basque Country)
Ataun, Lazkao, Zaldibia
- Type of area Nature reserve
- Area 10.971 Ha. hectares
Access and surroundings
Cultural information
The reserve has 30 listed dolmens, 15 mounds, 7 monoliths, 2 cromlechs and 13 caves. Besides, the rural setting vaunts an architecture worthy of a visit, and in which you will discover houses, ancestral homes and hermitages of great artistic worth.
Environmental information
Meadowland is predominant, and to a lesser extent, the beech tree grove, holm oak wood and y Cantabrian alder tree groves. L
Information for visits
From the port of Lizarrusti, take the GI-120 road to Beasain-Lazkao. Then get on N-I to Etxarri-Aranaz, Navarre. From Alegia and Ordizia, take the GI-2133 road. Access is unrestricted.


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JR's GIANTS in RIO de Janeiro for the Olympics2016 Aug 16 - 14:25
As part of an artist-in-residence program of the Olympics, JR has created new installations taking place all over Rio de Janeiro during the 2016 Olympic Games.
The idea is to photograph athletes whose identity is blurred behind the "perfect motion" from an instantly recognisable Olympic event: diving, the high jump and the swimming section of the triathlon.
Rather than working with star athletes whose success makes them household names, JR is interested in athletes who are little-known in the eyes of the world yet sublimate the physical language of sport and thus form a distillation of the universality of the Olympic movement.
The images obtained are thus being installed in black and white on ultra-large scaffolds which themselves form an integral part of the installation, being the only things capable of supporting such large pictures. Each installation offers a plurality of viewpoints from both up close and far away.
The three Giants are in Flamengo, Botafogo and Barra da Tijuca.
Read a great article in the New York Times: http://nyti.ms/2aIz6e5
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The Britannia Inn is nestled in the breathtaking Langdale Valley at the heart of the English Lake District. Pub accommodation at the Britannia Inn is comfortable and clean, with scenic views and delicious rustic seasonal pub dining, serving breakfast, lunch and supper. We have two individual bar areas for day visitors and comfortable rooms for tired travellers.
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Our website has lots of information about the local area, activities and events, from walking in the Lakes to the Britannia Inn Beer Festival - our celebration of award winning real ales. In every direction, there are glorious rambling routes, and views and mountain bike trails to explore.
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The second edition of the Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce's newest event, Speed Networking, is set for 8 a.m. Tuesday, June 5, at Zaxby's Restaurant, 1210 S.C. 9 Bypass, Lancaster. Speed Networking is a fast-paced meeting format designed to accelerate business contacts to exchange information in a series of brief exchanges. Attendees share their professional backgrounds and business goals, seeking exposure to new markets and/or to expand their pool of vendors.
Age: 44
Address: Hampton Road
Family: Husband, Greg, and son, Christopher
Pets: Cocker spaniel Chance
Job: Business License Specialist for the City of Lancaster
Church: North Corner A.M.E. Zion
Hobbies: Singing and spending time with my family
Favorite books: "Waiting to Exhale"
Favorite movie: "The Bucket List"
Favorite food: Steak and salad
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Enrollment from when the University of South Carolina Lancaster began classes in fall of 1959 through this semester has grown from 51 to 1900.
Community leaders, professors, deans, students and their families, have had a hand in this ongoing higher education success story, including many behind the scenes.
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I was working on tugboats on the Intracoastal Waterway when we heard a call over the radio from the boat in front of us.
"Tug Royal engineer, my husband has fallen behind the wheel and is unconscious. I don't know what to do."
We pulled over to the boat and performed CPR on the man until the Coast Guard and Marine Corps helicopter arrived.
There is a 1-year-old child choking; what would you do to help? There is a 34-year-old man who collapses while walking; would you know what to do? These types of events can happen to anyone at any time. Do you know how to handle a situation of that kind?
I am a 26-year-old Hispanic man who loves to help anyone, no matter where they are from or who they are. When someone is in need of help, I want to be the one who can make a difference or even save his or her life.
When I was very young, I remember the day when my great aunt was extremely sick and EMS was called to her home. My mother, several other family members and I were with her. When EMS arrived, they were working diligently and tenaciously to help her in her time of need. I remember, even at a young age, how impressed I was with how they treated her and the family.
Finding my way to Lancaster County EMS was the result of a quick right turn into an EMS station one day while on a family reunion trip to my brother's home in Indian Land. Most paramedics have a curiosity about other EMS systems in areas they are visiting and I am no different. Usually I find a system that is woefully in need of better equipment, medical protocols and better personnel.
In 1976, my mother married my stepfather, Robert Johnson, who was an EMT and shift supervisor with Lancaster County EMS. During the next several years, I read all of his EMT and medical books, which gave me my initial interest in EMS.
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Over the past month, the weekly Eye on the Environment column in local newspapers has covered a variety of topics, ranging from concrete crushing to restoring native vegetation.
As the Eye on the Environment column looks back on January, here are the highlights:
Santa Paula Materials has a crush on recycling:
Recycling activists joined construction industry workers and local government officials last week to celebrate a new recycling operation in Santa Paula. Local politicians (including State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, and Assemblyman Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara) provided commendations, and county Supervisor Kathy Long, Third District, presented a giant check, representing a $1.1 million state-funded loan to help Santa Paula Materials crush concrete and asphalt into aggregate, the material upon which roads are built.
Countywide program creates markets for recyclables:
Recycling-based manufacturers create jobs while saving our natural resources. If you know a local manufacturing company capable of making its product with recycled or reused content, help it keep an "eye on the environment" by putting it in touch with the Ventura County Recycling Market Development Zone. For more information, go to www.wasteless.org/rmdz.
School saves resources and backs with technology:
De Anza Academy of Technology and the Arts (DATA) in Ventura bought notebook computers for each student, using a federal grant from 2010. DATA purchased ASUS netbooks, a simplified version of a laptop computer. In addition to using computers to reduce the number of books issued, the school has also been able to cut back on paper use in other ways. Eighth-grade teacher Maklynn St. Clare said, "Having the computers in the students' hands makes such a difference. Aside from being able to submit paperless assignments online, they can now read and respond to each other's work and submit drafts and edited work to me, all without using a single sheet of paper." For more information, go to www.dataschool.org.
Letting rainwater recharge groundwater:
Ventura County is now in its rainy season. The spread of pavement over much of the local landscape has increased impermeability, or the inability of water to pass through paved surfaces and into the ground. Impermeable surfaces can reduce local groundwater recharge and collect pollutants such as oil, metal from brake pads, pet waste, fertilizers and pesticides on the surface, which are later flushed into local creeks, rivers and the ocean during winter rains.
Jason Burke, a water quality planner with the Ventura County Watershed Protection District, has been promoting a modern solution, permeable pavement, which allows rain and runoff to drain through the pavement into the ground or underground gravel recharge beds. Below the surface, soil and microbes provide natural filtration and break down many pollutants carried in stormwater runoff. In addition to providing habitat for pollutant-eating microbes, gravel recharge beds also store and infiltrate rainfall, helping to replenish local groundwater supplies. Permeable paving surfaces include pervious concrete, porous asphalt, interlocking concrete pavers and reinforced turf pavers. For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Success restoring native plants:
Recent rains have turned the hillsides of Ventura County from their usual brown to a more lively green and, for a few months, California looks more like "The Green State" than "The Golden State." Eventually the landscape will dry out again, fading to a golden brown. This change has not always been the case. More than 200 years ago, the county's grasslands were mostly composed of perennial grasses that did not turn brown every year. Since the import of nonnative annual grasses, native grasses now compose only 2 percent of their original cover.
Not only are native grasses beneficial to the soil and water conservation, they also provide habitat and food sources for wildlife and insects. Many species of birds, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, insects and fish use grasslands for habitat, breeding and food.
Last week, on Jan. 26, volunteers came out to Ojai Meadows Preserve in Ojai for a native grassland planting. They were organized by Thomas Sanford and Sarah McGinnis, AmeriCorps Watershed Stewards. The AmeriCorps Watershed Stewards Project is trying to conserve, restore and enhance watersheds where fish go from the sea to fresh water to spawn. For more information, go to www.ccc.ca.gov/work/programs/AmeriCorpsPrograms/wsp/Pages/wsp1.aspx, www.ovlc.org, www.cnps.org, www.venturanatives.com, www.socalnurseryplants.com/ventura/ and www.ssseeds.com/.
Eye on the Environment is a new monthly column for the VCReporter that will be featured the last week of every month. David Goldstein has been the author or editor of a weekly column in local newspapers for more than seven years; and for more than 20 years, he has served as a county resource management analyst and is currently the administrator of the Ventura County Recycling Market Development Zone. The Eye on the Environment column is a public service of the Ventura County Public Works Agency, primarily serving public outreach functions for the Integrated Waste Management Division and the Watershed Protection District. Nonprofits and public agencies wanting to write a guest Eye on the Environment column should contact Goldstein at email@example.com.


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In case you've missed all the pink ribbons, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A few bakeries took this as an opportunity to roll out their "best" (note my restraint in the pun department) designs in celebration of breast cancer survivors everywhere:
Ah, such a labor of love. Nothing says "celebration" and "strength" quite like a pepto-pink cake with "Survivor" misspelled across the top. At first I thought that paper cut-out was actually on the cake, too, but my eagle-eyed hubby assures me it's on the plastic lid - thus blocking our view of the white "ribbon". Which is the wrong color. But hey, one ribbon out of two ain't bad.
Fortunately most cancer survivors I know have an amazing sense of humor, so we can hope this cake went to a Cake Wrecks reader who could appreciate its wrecktastic nature.
And while we're on the subject, John would like to register his vote for this to be put on a cake:
(And in case you're curious; that's a car magnet. I found it over on Amazon here.)
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My church is by no means out in the boonies, despite being in a one stoplight town (which we don't even actually need). Still, we take care of a variety of animals that have nowhere else to go, and when the roof of their building gets done in by a seriously strong thunder storm the congregation steps up to temporarily house the otherwise homeless animals.
This is how I found my tiny, 1980's model single-wide trailer stuffed to the brim (and secret basement compartment? There wasn't a lot down there, but there wasn't nothing, either) with wild things. At least two tarantulas with bodies as big as my head, fuzzy and caramel colored like Fozzie the Bear shared a cage with a fox kit. A group of a mama duck and several ducklings, plus a one-eye-blind, fat, fat tabby had taken over my closet. Nieces and nephews crowded into the miniscule living room, which mainly boasted a much-too-big fold-out couch. Granted, the nieces and nephews weren't part of the ecclesiastical zoo, but they were just as beastly.
The next morning, I pilfer donuts from the master bedroom in my mother's apartment (I guess we live in a magical, place-changing abode); they're half stale, and I can't choose which I actually want, so I commit the sin of taking a bit from each one. Send my little brother off to school on his bike. I have no school to attend, just drama about all of us getting kicked out onto the street for reasons I don't know. Perhaps our mother has offended someone, or not paid a debt, or any of the other irresponsibility that slip off her being like a native language. Whatever it is, she's not around, and we're cast from our belongings.
Apparently, HE is having none of this. Copper gold skin and eyes and charm coiled in layers around his person—I know his name, but I don't say it, don't think it, shy away from the fragility of it. He gathers me flush up against his side and drags me along, his smile and infectious confidence like a thread sewn down the seam of us, binding me to him. The force of his magnetism pulls in more people the closer we get to the apartment. His best friend, all red hair, all over. Jeremy and Stephanie, who break up and get back together so regularly you can set your watch by them, agree to help us break in just so we can get our stuff out. Cousins, charmed off of the rusty equipment at the complex playground.
Even the manager, who blusters and yells only when Ryan grabs the corner of the brick building and pries away one wall to gain access. He clears away a guitar in its case, a sax, some other instrument—perhaps a base drum.
"Hey," I say, clinging to the edge of the broken floor, putting a hand to Ryan's shoulder. "There's enough room for me to crawl through, unlock the door from the inside. Let's get the rest that way."
But the manager, down on the grass, the soft, spongy grass below, calls up, irate and immutable. "You can't do that! Only the King of the apartment can grant permission to take out belongings!" he huffs.
I drop to the spongy grass, knocking onto hands, rear end, and feet in my nearness. "I *am* the King," I say, smiling him a dare to contradict me.
He scuttles back a foot, like a crab. "But you still need a second nationality to confirm the things are yours … "
Scanning the crowd, find a cousin, guide her before him with fingers cupped at the nape of her neck. "She's half Puerto Rican. Will that do?"
His eyes bulge, doubtful, because the cousin I've grabbed is all over as pale as moonlight. She practically casts a lunar glow around herself. But, it's true. She *is* actually half-Puerto Rican, so I feel no shame.
Whether he believes me or not, he nods. I smile at him, then at my friends, hanging from ledges, and swinging from handholds they've made of window boxes. "We're good! Let's come back later!"
I want to think of something else, do something else, and suddenly He and I are at the gym, and I'm contemplating some machine having to do with those muscles that make smart girls stupid. I don't need to make any smart girls stupid, but I wouldn't myself mind feeling a little more muscular, so I decide instead to use a machine something of a human-sized hamster ball. It's all pinging wires straining at angles designed to make me work for the feeling of being in a flight simulator. I'm told I'm using it incorrectly, which surprises absolutely no one, but it's okay, because the buses to take us to the festival in the quarter have arrived. Two or more pairs of fat and fluffy leathered headphones dangle over each seat bench so riders can enjoy music or silence on the trip.
But I don't want to take the bus. Already hot, I want to walk, tracking myself down the scrollwork of a stairway. Hot breath pins Him to the wall, just enough humidity in the air and fresh sweat on our bodies that we need not worry about friction between them. Even with the temperatures soaring around us, the coolness of his skin makes my chest burn. It's sticky, and I hate sticky, but I don't hate this. I want more from it.
He kisses me through his smile. It's a heaviness that makes no sense. Senseless, and overwhelming every sense I've got. A consumption.
"After this let's go home, take showers, and *not* get dressed," I whisper, my face somehow having found his abdomen, which is soft and smooth, but so very slim, and my mouth grazing the bare belly-button where his shirt's flipped up. His jeans aren't new enough to cling any higher than the space just below his hipbones.
He smiles that smile again. I may have a heart attack, seriously. Just BOOM! But he grabs my hand, pointing over the railing, out of the shadows slicing across our enclosed space. "Look! And I've got a couple of free passes."
A squashy older woman in a floral dress and squashier hat festooned with aging silk flowers stands at the ready behind the bar of a rickshaw. He wants to ride to the concert in that thing. I inspect the old lady again, doubting she can haul anything with speed, let alone a rickshaw carrying two people.
"Wait here for a bit, then," He says. "I'll test her out first," and off He strides, almost hopping through the crowds in his enthusiasm before I even open my mouth to answer.
I 'm sort of used to this kind of behavior. I sigh, knowing I couldn't have stopped him, regardless. If I weren't immune to blissful ignorance, I'd find this quality of His infectious. As it is, I've instead learned a lot about patience, because I love him. I think probably everybody loves him, but I do in the closest proximity.
Time on my hands, I look around to see what else might occupy them. All around me every horizontal surface is covered with coffee mugs spilling over with perennials. Flowers of every short, stunty variety, colorful and stubborn, strain against ceramics sporting logos and snarky comments. It's a sea of seedlings and sarcasm.
Some radio station has set up a DJ booth, but instead of tunes being the main attraction, author and my own acquaintance, Heather Marie is doing a book signing. The promoter has done a bang-up job. Her name is EVERYWHERE. It's on the plastic covering the insulation of a building under construction, for goodness's sake. In screaming hot pink. Heather is doing well, buddy
Which is great, but not my business at the moment, because I've spotted a magazine, and there on one half of the center fold, unblemished by staples, He poses. And HE's gorgeous, of course. He couldn't be less than beautiful if he tried, as far I'm concerned. It isn't fair, actually. There's some short-haired female, but who cares. It isn't her image chasing adrenaline down my veins..
How is it suddenly dusk? The sun has fallen in the sky as if it wanted to get a good look, too, and thrust itself too hard, overshooting the horizon. Naked lightbulbs dangle from wires strung overhead. The DJ announces there's a prize for the first person who can answer the following question about Heather Marie.
"What celebrity musician told Heather on Instagram that turning 44 doesn't matter at all?
I grin, knowing the answer even as the crowd surges forward, shouting themselves hoarse getting it wrong.
I laugh quietly to myself, quietly getting it right.
A giant of a man with the face and aura of John Torturo notices. He's got to be eight feet tall. One of his hands could easily encircle my entire waist. He turns his face in the direction of the DJ and hollers that there's a tiny little thing over here who knows, but the crowd is so loud the DJ can't hear even him. I don't mind.
Someone does eventually get the answer, and moments later the crowd disappears, a swarm of mosquitoes sensing fresh blood elsewhere. Now there's room to lean against the booth, even a free barstool so I don't need to stand. My eyes tease Heather while her husband starts packing out empties and balling up discarded shrink wrap behind her.
"How's Dido lately, anyway. Had enough of her, yet?" I ask.
Heather ignores my question, her face a wreath of wryness. "You still waiting?"
Suddenly, the far away clouds seem very interesting.
Then there He is. Different rickshaw, different, driver, same would-be infectious smile, and He has my brother sitting next to Him, home from school, the straps of his backpack wound around his ankles to keep it from falling out.
The adrenaline chases down my veins again, slamming so hard into my nerve endings I suck in a shuddering breath to ease all this pressure in my chest.
I understand about the happiness attached to Him. I get it. Like the situation is a promise pirouetting on the tips of my fingers, one whorl from shattering completely.
How come this terror is so addictive?


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If you're even a semi-regular listener to the Fantasy Focus Football Podcast, aka the 06010, you are likely aware that Matthew Berry and Field Yates occasionally will disagree on a player's fantasy output, whether it's for the season or a specific week during the NFL season.
With a nod to faithful listener and board bet historian, Nick Scott, who created the original 06010 board site, we've decided to give you a place to check the tally board throughout the season right here on the pages of ESPN.com.
We'll keep it simple and just state the proposition bet, along with which side Matthew and Field took. Once there is a winner, we will add that, and change the "leaderboard" below. Good luck in your leagues this season!
2019 Scoreboard: Matthew 1, Field 0
But it's not just Field and Matthew making bets. Daniel decided to put his "hate" for Julio Jones on the board with the guys.
And Daniel didn't stop there, challenging Stephania as well.
Stephania couldn't resist sticking up for her beloved Niners as her first board bet of the season with Matthew and Field.
NOTE: PPR scoring is assumed unless otherwise noted
Board Bet History
If you're into the history of board bets on the podcast, dating back (ding!) to when Nate Ravitz was Matthew's co-pilot (through the 2014 season), here are those results by year:
2018: Field 12, Matthew 10
2017: Field 10, Matthew 9
2016: Field 23, Matthew 20
2015: Tie -- Matthew 22, Field 22 (Matthew won cornhole tie-breaker)
2014: Matthew 15, Nate 8
2013: Matthew, 20-13
2012: Nate, 28-26
2011: Nate, 24-14
2010: Nate, 17-12
2009: Matthew, 15-13


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The "blue flu" has struck the Seattle Police Force and the majority of officers are on an unofficial strike. Overworked and understaffed, detective Lou Boldt is committed to remaining on the job no matter what. But when a string of robberies and the brutal near-murder of a female cop descend on the city, the pressure of being a nearly one-man operation threatens Bodt's psyche and his marriage. With the help of Daphne Matthews and Sergeant John LaMoia, Boldt is able to make slow progress cracking the case and their work leads them to a Denver convict and his brother, a hardened criminal. Boldt and Daphne come to realize that the robberies, assaults, and strike are somehow connected - and that his life is now in very real danger.
Filled with the fast-paced, spiraling action that has made his previous novels "irresistible" (The Los Angeles Times Book Review) works of suspense that "grip the imagination" (People), this latest offering from "the best thriller writer alive" (Booklist) is certain to win Ridley Pearson an even more enthusiastic audience.


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Last November, Pine Island's robotics team "Team Octopi" scored fourth place competing against 17 teams at South Fort Myers High School in the First Tech Challenge (FTC). When the results were calculated statewide, Team Octopi placed 13th out of nearly 100 robotics teams in the state. The top 24 go to the state championship!
FTC is designed for students in grades 712. Teams are responsible for designing, building and programming robots in a variety of languages to compete against other teams.
The team includes Megan Tedlie, Gerilynn Rossmann, Zach Scribner, Michael Schulte, Ari Sturgeon, Amy Sanabria, Cathy Rossman, Katie Rossman and Jeremy Lear.
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Team Octopi features, from left, Cathy Rossman, Katie Rossman, Zack Scribner, Gerilynn Ross-man, Michael Schulte, Amy Sanabria, Megan Tedlie and Ari Sturgeon (not pictured Jenny Lear).
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"What we do is design, build and program the robot to perform the tasks of 'the game,'" Tedlie said. "What I mean by 'the game' is the set of tasks each robot is required to accomplish. Teams are scored on how well their robots perform.
"This wouldn't be possible without the Beacon of H.O.P.E.," Tedlie said. "This year we became a Beacon of H.O.P.E. / United Way Community Program. They've given us all the support we could possibly hope for. We were also aided by the Pine Island Moose, Matlacha Hookers, Kiwanis, American Legion and the Bobby Holloway Memorial Fund. Everyone has been so helpful and the team is very grateful for this oppoprtunity."
The next step in the competition is Saturday, Jan. 11.


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Latest maps cover corn, soybeans, rice, sorghum, cotton, and barley.
Little by little, farmers are getting the information they need to piece together their crop insurance coverage for the coming year. The USDA yesterday released the list of counties that will be eligible for the new Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) for corn, soybeans, rice, sorghum, cotton, and barley. (You can see images of the maps here.)
Introduced as part of the Farm Bill, the SCO initiative is intended to provide an additional layer of financial protection beyond a farmer's primary crop insurance policy when there are crop losses county-wide.
It takes effect with the 2015 crop year.
Along with the Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC), the SCO program is one of several efforts designed to help farmers manage their financial risk in the absence of direct payments. As farmers evaluate their options, they'll need to consider what combination of coverage is the best for them; producers who choose the ARC option will not be eligible for the SCO program.
The agency has already released the list of SCO-eligible counties for wheat crops; the deadline for farmers to enroll in the program for their winter wheat is Sept. 30.


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Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 30 May; 6, 10, 11, 20, 21 June 1968
Producers: George Martin, John Lennon
Engineer: Geoff Emerick
John Lennon: vocals, tape loops, effects, samples
George Harrison: vocals, samples
Yoko Ono: vocals, effects, samples
Released: 22 November 1968 (UK), 25 November 1968 (US)
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The Beatles (White Album)
Dividing audiences since late 1968, John Lennon's sound collage Revolution 9 was an exercise in musique concrète influenced heavily by Yoko Ono and the avant-garde art world.
The recording emerged from Revolution 1, the final six minutes of which formed a lengthy, mostly instrumental jam. Lennon took the recording and added a range of vocals, tape loops and sound effects, creating Revolution 9, the longest track released during The Beatles' career.
The slow version of Revolution on the album went on and on and on and I took the fade-out part, which is what they sometimes do with disco records now, and just layered all this stuff over it. It was the basic rhythm of the original Revolution going on with some 20 loops we put on, things from the archives of EMI.
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
Revolution 9 was quite similar to some stuff I'd been doing myself for fun. I didn't think that mine was suitable for release, but John always encouraged me.
The other Beatles and George Martin are said to have persuaded Lennon not to include Revolution 9 on the White Album, to no avail. Although McCartney had long been interested in musique concrète, particularly Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge, it is likely that he was concerned at the effect Revolution 9 would have on the group's public perception.
I don't know what influence Revolution 9 had on the teenybopper fans, but most of them didn't dig it. So what am I supposed to do?
It wasn't only the group's teenage fans who were confused by Revolution 9. Charles Manson found a wealth of symbolism in the track's loops and effects, and thought that Lennon's shouts of 'Right!' were, in fact, a call to 'rise' up in revolt.
Manson drew a parallel between Revolution 9 and the Bible's book of Revelation. He thought The Beatles were variously four angels sent to kill a third of mankind, or four locusts mentioned in Revelation 9, which he equated with beetles.
Revolution 9 was an unconscious picture of what I actually think will happen when it happens; just like a drawing of a revolution. All the thing was made with loops. I had about 30 loops going, fed them onto one basic track. I was getting classical tapes, going upstairs and chopping them up, making it backwards and things like that, to get the sound effects. One thing was an engineer's testing voice saying, 'This is EMI test series number nine'. I just cut up whatever he said and I'd number nine it. Nine turned out to be my birthday and my lucky number and everything. I didn't realise it: it was just so funny the voice saying, 'number nine'; it was like a joke, bringing number nine into it all the time, that's all it was.
Rolling Stone, 1970
Revolution 9 also featured in the 'Paul is dead' myth, after it was discovered that the 'number nine' motif, when played backwards, sounded like 'Turn me on, dead man'. A number of other elements of the recording featured in the myth, including the sound of a car crashing followed by an explosion.


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If you're like most roboticists, you've ran into the same problem time and time again. You finish building a really cool robot, but can't think of a cool, yet totally geeky name for it. Ok, well this won't help you come up with the name, but it will help you come up with what the name stands for:
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WASHINGTON — The novelty of flying cars never materialized. But flying novels are right around the corner.
If you aren't nervous enough reading about 3-D printers spitting out handguns or Google robots with Android phones, imagine the skies thick with crisscrossing tiny drones.
"I know this looks like science fiction. It's not," Jeff Bezos told Charlie Rose on "60 Minutes" Sunday, unveiling his octocopter drones.
The Amazon founder is optimistic that the fleet of miniature robot helicopters clutching plastic containers will be ready to follow GPS coordinates within a radius of 10 miles and zip around the country providing half-hour delivery of packages of up to 5 pounds — 86 percent of Amazon's stock — just as soon as the F.A.A. approves.
"Wow!" Rose said, absorbing the wackiness of it all.
The futuristic Pony Express to deliver pony-print coats and other Amazon goodies will be "fun," Bezos said, and won't start until they have "all the systems you need to say, 'Look, this thing can't land on somebody's head while they're walking around their neighborhood.' "
So if they can't land on my head, why do they make my head hurt? Maybe because they are redolent of President Obama's unhealthy attachment to lethal drones, which are killing too many innocents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and our spy agencies' unhealthy attachment to indiscriminate surveillance.
Or maybe they recall that eerie "Twilight Zone" episode where a Brobdingnagian Agnes Moorehead fends off tiny spaceships with a big wooden stirrer — even though these flying machines would be dropping off the housewares.
Or maybe it's because after "60 Minutes," "Homeland" featured a story line about a drone both faulty and morally agnostic. The White House chief of staff, wanting to cover up a bolloxed-up covert operation on the Iraq-Iran border, suggested directing the drone to finish off its own agent, Brody.
"I will not order a strike on our own men," the acting C.I.A. chief, played by Mandy Patinkin, replied sternly. "Hang it up."
Or maybe I am leery that Bezos, who is also dabbling in space tourism, was looking for a Cyber Monday p.r. coup by playing to Americans' ranker instincts, hooking our instant gratification society on ever more instant gratification. Do we really need that argyle sweater plopped in our hands in half an hour as opposed to the next day? What would Pope Francis say?
And won't all the other alpha moguls want their own drone fleets? Howard Schultz will want to drop your half-caf, bone-dry, ristretto, venti, four-pump, sugar-free, cinnamon dolce, soy, skinny Starbucks latte on the front step at 7 a.m., and Tim Cook will want to deliver the latest Apple toys the soonest, and Disney's Robert Iger will want his drones gussied up like Mary Poppins.
It will be interesting to watch The Washington Post cover new owner Bezos as he takes on the F.A.A. over drone regulations. The agency is drafting rules to let larger commercial drones and airlines share the sky, with an eye toward issuing licenses in 2015, but a handful of states are passing restrictions of their own.
Lobbying for private unmanned drones, Bezos will be aligned with the Motion Picture Association of America, which is working to get directors the right to use drones for aerial shots.
It's a business taking flight. Experts say there may be as many as 30,000 unmanned private and government drones flying in this country by 2020, ratcheting drones into a $90 billion industry, generating 100,000 jobs. A degree in drone management can't be far off.
Politico writes that the logistics of drone delivery will be dizzying: "It's easy enough to drop a package on someone's front steps, but what if the person lives in a fifth-floor apartment? Amazon wants to launch the service in large urban areas — could a drone collide with a skyscraper?"
Drones are less restricted abroad. Irish filmmaker Caroline Campbell used one to shoot film of Google and Facebook offices in Dublin, telling Wired, "We feel that it is no more intrusive than something like Google Street View."
Journalists, police and paparazzi jumped on the drone trend. One photographer dispatched a drone over Tina Turner's Lake Zurich estate to snap shots of her wedding last summer — before police ordered it grounded.
According to USA Today on Tuesday, all sorts of American businesses are eluding drone restrictions: real estate representatives are getting video of luxury properties; photographers are collecting footage of Hawaiian surfers; Western farmers are monitoring their land; Sonoma vintners are checking on how their grapes are faring. As Rem Rieder wryly noted in that paper, Bezos may eventually let his drones help with home delivery of The Washington Post, "but it's bad news for kids on bikes."
Law enforcement agencies are eager to get drones patrolling the beat. And The Wrap reported that in the upcoming Sony remake of "RoboCop," Samuel L. Jackson's character, a spokesman for a multinational conglomerate that has to manufacture a special RoboCop with a conscience for America (still traumatized by "The Terminator," no doubt) scolds Americans for being "robophobic."
Of course, for the robophopic, there is already a way to get goods almost immediately: Go to the store.


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Kenny Jay is proof you can win for losing.
Known throughout most of his career as cannon fodder for the likes of Verne Gagne, Red Bastien, and Mad Dog Vachon, Jay will be the first enhancement wrestler ever honored by the Cauliflower Alley Club when it holds its annual reunion in Las Vegas this week.
"It really feels great to be honored and to have so many wrestlers congratulating me. It's something that I haven't always had in professional wrestling," Jay, real name Kenneth Benkowski, said from his Minnesota home. "I wasn't on top, but to be acknowledged like this is a great feeling."
While his won-loss ledger runs heavily toward the loss side, admirers say Jay would not have lasted more than four decades in wrestling without a knack for bringing out the best in his adversaries, whether he was a good guy or bad guy.
Jay was born March 27, 1937 on a farm in the rural community of Holdingford, Minn. His high school did not have a wrestling program, and Jay, growing up without the benefit of a television in the family, did not know what professional wrestling was about.
Upon moving to Milwaukee after graduation, he saw a small ad touting a school run by Bob Hawkins. He was immediately hooked. "It must have been in my blood, so I joined up with that and just kept going."
He had his first match in 1958, though a two-year stint in the U.S. Army took him out of the mat game. After that, he joined Verne Gagne's Midwest-based American Wrestling Association as the guy who got his brains beat in every week on TV by some of the biggest names in the sport - Gagne, Billy Robinson, Crusher Lisowski, and Dick the Bruiser.
"When I was young and single in Chicago, it was a lot of fun being a heel. You could work the people more, and the more they booed you, the more fun it was," Jay said.
When he hooked up with the AWA, though, he switched to a babyface role because of a landscaping business he had opened in Minneapolis. Simply put, he feared prospective customers would not want a beefy, obnoxious heel tending to their lawn and garden needs. So, fan favorite Kenny "Sodbuster" Jay was born.
"It was kind of hard to be out there and be hated and doing landscaping. I talked to [AWA owner] Verne Gagne and I switched. It was great because I could work with bad guys and good guys."
For two decades, Jay was a favorite TV opponent of top stars because of his skill in the ring and his willingness to let others have the spotlight. "I'd go on TV and I'd hear Mad Dog say, 'Gimme Kenny Jay.' And I thought, 'Uh, oh,'" Jay laughed. "I took them all on. Every time a new guy came into town, they'd give them to me."
Because Jay had a side business, he was not concerned about his perception as a "jobber." To rise in the ranks, he probably would have had to make his mark in other territories. Jay said he talked with AWA promoter Wally Karbo about working as a rising star in another region, but he decided he was happier in Minnesota.
"Wally was even going to send me to Oklahoma, and I probably could have got on top for a while. But I thought about it and thought about it, and finally said, 'Aw, I don't want to leave.' I really didn't want to go out for six months and leave my family. So I just stuck around here and did things they wanted me to do."
Jay said he always enjoyed wrestling Bastien when the high-flying redhead was a star in the American Wrestling Association in the 1960s and 1970s. "Weekends, we'd leave Saturday and go to Denver, then Milwaukee and Green Bay. So I got around. That was a good payoff from that."
The highlight of Jay's career came not against a fellow wrestler, but against a boxer. In 1976, Jay squared off against heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in a boxer versus wrestler contest. The match, held in Chicago, was a warm-up -- in other words, hype -- for Ali's more publicized bout with Antonio Inoki later that year.
Jay confessed that he was excited, but frightened, at the prospect of meeting Ali. The match came with virtually no warning -- Jay was hustled on to an airplane in the morning, and the combatants did not rehearse or plan the match. "It was all in one day, so it wasn't something that I had to worry about for a week or a month. I think that made it a little easier."
Plus, familiar faces surrounded Jay in the squared circle -- Gagne was the referee, and Dick the Bruiser was in Jay's corner.
But, he recalled with a chuckle, Bruiser's assistance was of no use.
"All he kept saying was, 'Poke him in the eye! Poke him in the eye!'" Jay said. "You can't poke Ali in the eye. I got beat, but it helped me in my career because people would say, 'Man, you took on Ali! Holy mackerel!' So it was a feather in my hat."
Jay occasionally dons the tights in tag team matches, but now, his biggest battle is against a silent enemy that most fans don't recognize. Jay raises money to support research into finding a cure for histiocytosis, a rare blood disease caused by an excess of white blood cells. The disease can attack virtually any part of the body, including the skin, bones, lung, and the central nervous system.
He started his crusade against the disease when a grandson, now 12, contracted it. While the disease appears to be in remission, Jay's efforts have continued unabated.
Earlier this month, Gagne, Bastien, Stan Kowalski, Dick "Dr. X" Beyer and several other grapplers joined him at wrestling events in Northfield and Bloomington that generated about $20,000 for histiocytosis research.
"The guys really, really helped me. They are just great about it. That's the kind of thing that makes wrestling special," Jay said.
Steven Johnson is a writer and editor in Virginia.