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Ezrun Max8 V3 Brushless esc for 1:8
High Reliability & Durability
Reliable hardware combine with advanced software allows the ESC to no only provide extremely high output but also protect itself timely from damages caused by overload. It significantly reduces the possibility of getting damaged by heavy load and improves the reliability and durability.
Get Flexibility & Versatility
The ESC has strong outbreak and stable output so vehicle can do different moves without a problem, no matter aggressive start-up and wheelie, 720-degree flip (*), High speed running on straight tracks or flying over slopes. It always provide the power more than sufficient. Besides driver can adjust relevant parameters for smooth and soft start-up.
Applicable to all weather conditions
Outstanding waterproof and dust-proof capability makes the ESC applicable to all weather conditions, no matter the track is covered with dust, gravel, snow or puddles.
Super Built-in BEC
The world's 1st 1:8th scale ESC adopted the super built-in BEC with the max output current of up to 15A and switchable output voltage (6-7,2V). It can drive different servos, high voltage servos at ease and bring amazing control feel to drivers.
Advanced and Secure Electronic Switch
The electronic switch with the lifespan of over 50 000 times of switching on & off features a completely waterproof, dust-proof and shock-resistant design. Completely solved problems like stuck reed and rust contact points caused by dust and moisture, switching of automatically caused by violent dash (like landing after flying over slopes) conventional mechanical switches often have.
Plug and Play
Standard 6.5mm gold plated connectors at the ESC's output end are perfectly compatible with stock motor connectors of many popular 1:8 scale monster trucks like Traxxas and HPI- Moreover Traxxas style or Deans(T-plug)'s have been soldered to the ESC's input end for different battery connectors, driver can plug and play and free from possible re-soldering work. (different models for TRX and deans plugs)
Wide applicability
The ESC provides the optimal upgrade solution for many popular 1:8th scale monster trucks like Traxxas E-Revo & E-Maxx, HPI Savage and Thunder Tiger E-Mat. It is also applicable to the other trucks and buggies.
Almost Maintenance free
The whole ESC except the cooling fan is basically maintenance free. Besides the fan has also adopted the special anti-shock design, reduced damage brought by frequent jumps of the vehicle, greatly reduced maintenance work to the fan.
Cont./Peak Current : 150A / 950A
Motor Type: Sensored / Sensorless Brushless Motor (only in sensorless mode)
Applications: 1/8th Touring Car, Buggy, Truggy and Monster Truck
Motor Limit:
Plug Traxxas
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text: On Guidebooks and Mentorship March 24, 2014 Annelise A mentor is the guide in your story. Like the best travel book, a mentor guides us through new terrain and shows us that an unknown city is, in fact, known for killer cocktails, a speedy metro system and bluegrass music. Allowing a wise guide who's walked before us to double back and point out the way clarifies and enriches our experience. Mentors make obstacles seem a bit smaller and less daunting; after all, they've faced their own demons and continued on their way. More often than not, we just need someone to point out what we can't see for ourselves. As usual, it's an honor to write for Darling Magazine. Head over here to read my full piece on finding a mentor.

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Buttermilk Pancakes
Mix two cups of flour with fresh buttermilk to fairly thick butter [sic], add little salt and one teaspoon of baking soda (only); beat thoroughly. Have boiling beef dripping to fry them in. Eat with sugar and cut lemon.
Mrs Thornley
Lemon Honey
12 eggs mixed
1/2 lb butter
the grated rinds of 6 lemons
juice of 6 lemons
2 lb sugar
Stir all together until it begins to thicken and looks like honey over the fire, pour into pots and cover down.
Mrs Derham
A copy of the Town and Country Patriotic Women Workers Cookery Book, published in Palmerston North in 1917, was found in our very own City Archive. This extremely fragile volume is slowly being digitised by our team, but in the meantime we will be posting a new weekly column entitled, "Recipe of the Week". This volume runs to to over 160 pages, although our volume is missing both the front and back covers and 1 and a 1/2 pages from the back section. The recipes from this book were contributed to the Patriotic Society from around the region and the author's name will be included with each entry. Chapters include food items like biscuits, soups, "made up dishes" and egg dishes, but there are also chapters about beverages, sauces and "miscellaneous" - with entries like homemade floor polish, soap, waterproof dressing and cough mixture. Alongside these recipes, there are many interesting advertisements from the local businesses of Palmerston North.
The editor's note says this about the book, "Our aim was to try and give simple, everyday dishes suitable for economical times and as the whole of the profits from the sale of this little book are for Patriotic Funds, we trust the public will be lenient and overlook all deficiencies and help to swell the funds by not only buying a copy, but recommending it to their friends."
Contact Research and Archives, 2nd Floor of the Central Library or leave a comment below if you attempt to recreate these culinary masterpieces!


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We had over 130 participants this year! That means that PRATT will receive over $3,000 to be used towards completion of the Parley's Trail.
Thanks to The Dodo restaurant and its excellent staff for its efforts to host such a successful event and for their continued support of PRATT and the Trail.
A special thanks to Westminster College and the law firm of Jones Waldo for their donations.
See you all next year!!!


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There are 3 double rounds left in division 1 and the race for promotion is very close. Today we follow the game between the leader Jonny and Fizbo which is joint second with Ginkgo and Booot. This is the reverse game, the previous game ended in a draw.
move 8 - Jonny diverges by retaking with the queen instead of the pawn, this is the less typical move here. Jonny with an eval advantage, but Jonny is usually an optimist.
move 13 - Fizbo is a pawn up but its pawn structure is worse. Fizbo needs to castle its king. Evals dropped after Jonny's last move, Jonny is seeing a drawn rook ending in its PV.
move 15 - Fizbo castled and evals are close to 0. Jonny is taking a long time to make moves, almost twice as much as Fizbo, but it doesn't seem to have a plan.
move 18 - a pair of rooks exchanged, if the engines start trading pieces this may be a short draw.
move 23 - Fizbo's eval turned negative and came back to 0, it is seeing a repetition draw in the PV but I doubt Jonny will choose this line. Fizbo is still a pawn up.
move 28 - a series of exchanges and only RB vs RN are left. Jonny's eval is still positive and increasing, can it outplay Fizbo in the ending?
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move 50 - for a while Jonny thought it was better, it moved its king forward and captured a pawn. However, evals came back down, Fizbo exchanged the minor pieces and the rook ending looks like a draw.
move 55 - Jonny lowered its eval and the draw rule kicked in.
This result is not good for Fizbo, now Ginkgo and Booot have a chance to increase the gap to Fizbo and to get closer to Jonny and a promotion spot.


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Experience at Big Bend With Wet Cats
Experience at Big Bend With Wet Cats
This is probably one of the stranger drawings I've done, with an aerial view of the Rio Grande at Big Bend National Park, Texas, a few soaking wet cats, and the lizards of the twin realities. The red lizard is objective, measurable reality - that which doesn't change when we humans look or think about it. The green lizard is the lizard of our subjective experiences, of our mythos, of the story we tell ourselves about the world. Neither would be a complete picture of the world without the other, so at least for us humans, their tails are inexorably intertwined. You can see where they lead, though the further away you get from the source, the more confused the realities become. Where did they originate, anyway? It can be hard to tell!
This drawing was originally done with ink, watercolor, and prismacolor marker.
11" x 14" large or 8.5" x 11" small archival quality laser print


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Smug Marrieds: Dinner Conversation/
As we're sitting at the table last night, eating dinner, I feel a tickle around the back of my neck. I reach up to scratch my neck and knock a small black bug onto my shoulder. Startled, I slap at the bug and manage to knock it down once again. Right...down...my...bra.
Screeching, I stand up and start digging around inside my bra, searching for the bug. When I finally find it, I fling it to the floor.
Blair, meanwhile, has been sitting calmly across the table from me, chewing his food. Once I sit back down he smirks then says, "Lord, woman. If you want some attention you don't need to just whip it out like that. All you have to do is ask."
I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.


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Kaitlyn A. Kramer
Kaitlyn A. Kramer writes about art and film in New York. She holds an MFA in Art Criticism & Writing from the School of Visual Arts.
RADICAL BODIES: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 19551972By Kaitlyn A. Kramer
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"Photographs really are experience captured," writes Susan Sontag in On Photography. The camera's appropriation of living moments, freezing them as images, "feels like knowledge—and, therefore, like power." When still images are extracted, they are dissociated from their context and, over time, distill the events they represent.
ELLIE GA: Strophe, A TurningBy Kaitlyn A. Kramer
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Theophrastus is thought to be the first person to send a message in a bottle out to sea. In 310 BCE, in an attempt to prove the water in the Mediterranean Sea flowed from the Atlantic Ocean, the Greek philosopher sealed a message in a bottle that asked its recipient to send word from wherever it was found.
EVE ACKROYD & KARA ROONEY: Group MotivationBy Kaitlyn A. Kramer
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The painting hangs in waiting. A woman's seated body, snug within the frame, is cropped to reveal only a neck, torso, and arms that support her upper body in repose.
Table of Contents
RADICAL BODIES: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 19551972– By Kaitlyn A. Kramer
EVE ACKROYD & KARA ROONEY: Group Motivation– By Kaitlyn A. Kramer
ELLIE GA: Strophe, A Turning– By Kaitlyn A. Kramer


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Ages: 30 & 29
Met AT University
Photos by: Sarah Ali / @aaliisarah
"I had signed up to twitter a few months after meeting in the library. He was speaking to other friends and said he had signed up to Twitter, I was like: 'OO! I've signed up, let me follow you!'. So we followed each other. A few days later, I put up a tweet…"
"And you've been following me ever since …"
"No don't even try it… I was into Gossip Girl, I did the reference, 'you know you love me, xoxox. And he was replied with 'GG?' and then said he was brown bass."
"He used to run a blog and did some photography, and I was quite interested in learning more about it so we went on a photowalk…"
"She slid into the DMs…"
"I was like I really like your photography of New York, and wanted to learn…"
"I was interning that summer, in Golden Square and she met me after, we had Chipotle and went for a walk to the riverside, when the sun was setting at Embankment."
"When you paint it like that, it sounds like a date, but I was just going to hang out with a friend."
"Every evening she'd come and meet me."
"Not every evening!"
"I told them on my birthday…
When I took her to my grandma, she was so warm and welcoming, just grabbed Tin and hugged her. That was interesting cause she's the oldest and you would think the most traditional. But she's lived so much so it's like all this is nonsense. My uncle and aunty were there, they told my parents…
I get home that night after a birthday dinner or something with her. It was tears, it was like Bollywood. It was like Khabhi Khushi Khabi Gham. I literally felt like that. I was on my dad's leg, he was crying, so disappointed. We had awkwardness for a few days. We'd avoid each other."
"I'll just remember that it's hard for them, it was a huge thing that he was being rebellious. It was weird for them having someone outside their culture. I was understanding of that. In our culture, the girl that's respectable and reserved is favoured and I'm naturally like that anyway. That was my approach."
"Being respectful saying uncle and aunty."
"Appreciating the food whenever I went around."
"That's a fail if you bring someone home that don't say uncle and aunty. Come on, that's like rule number one. And take your shoes off at the door.
"I just kept remembering like this my future family, I want to get a long with them. It took a lot of warming up."
"My dad was set on me marrying an Indian girl but not just any Indian girl, had to be from the state, had to be from Kerala. I told him at 15, I was not going to marry an Indian girl, also was also probably not going to marry a Hindu. I hadn't been one sine I was 14. It took me just under three years to tell my parents"
"My parents knew about him, he would come along to church every now and then. My mom was always like who's this friend of yours…"
"What did she call me at first?"
"She called him Raj."
"Generic Indian name."
"He told me it was for his blog, a press trip. I had never been on a helicopter I was like you should take someone from your team."
"I made this little video, she was like why are you playing a video in mid-air. I waited till Embankment and played the video and the video was a compilation of our relationship. She watched the video. I wrote a little thing on the video, and then I had the ring on me…"
"But his headset wasn't working so I couldn't hear him, I was lip reading him. 'Will you marry me?' But I was like in shock so I was like 'what?' and I said 'what' like 5 times, he was getting frustrated. 'WILL YOU MARRY ME?' 'YES'. I was in so much shock, he was scared I was going to say no cause I took so long."
"I would have just jumped out."
"We had to make it clear. We are the CEOS of this kid. My friend said that, I was like that's a really good line. As mush as our parents, they are welcome to be as present as possible. When it comes to decision making, it's our choice."
"It was really funny cause their conversation was so basic to each other that day, but in a nice way. They realised, my parents especially my dad: 'oh they're immigrants too' .They had the same struggle. That's probably what brought them together. They spoke about the first time coming to London. Her dad and my dad are from village towns. They both had these big bellies. They had this beautiful immigrant moment. "
- Niran on when his parents met Tin's


text: I was born Anthony Michael Flores; I was born and raised in New Mexico. Im an artist, and I have a different view than most people on a varied amount of subjects. I believe no matter what, youre an amazing person. I believe everyone no matter social class, appearance, deserves respect. Everyone is beautiful nobody should EVER be made to feel like theyre no enough.


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Marbled Murrelet presentation and book signing as part of Adventure & Conservation Speaker Series sponsored by Capitol Land Trust and REI. This event is currently full. Click here to get on the wait list. Check my events calendar for additional presentations in Olympia.
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Earlier Event: February 27Eastside Audubon Society--Kirkland, WA
Later Event: March 13Writing Workshops for Students


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Close calls due to carbon monoxide poisoning
With two recent carbon monoxide poisoning incidents occurring in the Mountain Area, Cal Fire is urging the public to be aware of the dangers of using gas powered generators indoors.
Two Coarsegold residents were transported to a Fresno hospital following carbon monoxide poisoning on Dec. 21, and two additional people were transported Sunday night from the Bass Lake area for the same reason. All four patients survived. A gas generator was being used in the basement in the Coarsegold home, and a faulty wall heater was the source of carbon monoxide in the Bass Lake home.
Cal Fire/Madera County Fire Department Battalion Chief Troy Cheek stressed that carbon monoxide detectors can save lives.
"Every home should have a working carbon monoxide alarm to avoid the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning." Cheek said. "Not only can a carbon monoxide alarm save lives, it is the law in California that all homes be equipped with a detector. And all propane/gas appliances should be properly maintained. They only cost about $20 at an area hardware store - a small amount of money to save a life."
A Raymond mother and her 9-year-old daughter, were saved in January, 2011, when their carbon monoxide detector alerted them..
Cheek said a limited supply of detectors are available to those who can not afford them, by contacting their area Cal Fire station.
Because carbon monoxide is odorless, and colorless, it is impossible to see, taste or smell the toxic fumes, and can kill a person before they are aware of it. Everyone is at risk for carbon monoxide poisoning. Medical experts believe that unborn babies, infants, children, senior citizens and people with heart or lung problems are at even greater risk for carbon monoxide poisoning.
At lower levels of exposure, carbon monoxide causes mild effects that are often mistaken for the flu. These symptoms include headaches, dizziness,disorientation, nausea and fatigue. The effects of carbon monoxide exposure can vary greatly from person to person depending on age, overall health and the concentration and length of exposure.
In both recent incidents, first responders were called due to 'illness,' with the home occupants unaware they were being poisoned by carbon monoxide.
Four Oakhurst family members, including two Oakhurst Elementary School students age 8 and 10, and their grandmother and uncle, died in their sleep due to carbon monoxide poisoning in January, 2011, from a gas powered generator placed in a crawl space in a house on Royal Oaks Drive.
What are some common sources of carbon monoxide?
Common causes of carbon monoxide production can be gas or oil appliances like a furnace, clothes dryer, range, oven, water heater, or space heaters that are not working properly. In these typical conditions, trace amounts of carbon monoxide produced by these sources are typically not dangerous. However, there are common conditions that can cause levels to rise quickly:
• Vent, flue, or chimney is blocked by debris or snow.
• Fireplace, wood burning stove, charcoal grill or other source of burning material is not properly vented.
• Vehicle is left running in an attached garage and carbon monoxide seeps into the house
Protect yourself from carbon monoxide poisoning
• Install at least one carbon monoxide detector with an audible warning signal near the sleeping areas and outside individual bedrooms. Carbon monoxide detector measure levels of carbon monoxide over time and are designed to sound an alarm before an average, healthy adult would experience symptoms. It is very possible that you may not be experiencing symptoms when you hear the detector activate. This does not mean that carbon monoxide is not present.
• Have a qualified professional check all fuel burning appliances, furnaces, venting and chimney systems at least once a year.
• Never use your range or oven to help heat your home and never use a charcoal grill or hibachi in your home or garage.
• Never keep a car running in a garage. Even if the garage doors are open, normal circulation will not provide enough fresh air to reliably prevent a dangerous buildup of carbon monoxide.
What should I do when the carbon monoxide alarm sounds?
• Silence the alarm. Call your emergency services, fire department, or 911 and tell them your carbon monoxide alarm has triggered. Move everyone immediately to fresh air - outdoors or by an open door or window. Do a head count to check that all persons are accounted for.
• Do not re-enter the premises or move away from the open door or window until the emergency services responder has arrived, the premises have been aired out, and your carbon monoxide alarm remains in its normal condition.
Where should I install carbon monoxide detectors?
It is very important to install carbon monoxide detectors near or in each separate sleeping area. For added protection, placement of an additional carbon monoxide detector at least 15-20 feet away from the furnace or fuel burning heat sources is recommended. In two story houses, install one carbon monoxide alarm on each level of the home. If you have a basement a carbon monoxide detector is recommended at the top of the basement stairs.
Call any Cal Fire station in your area with any questions about the laws and regulations about carbon monoxide detectors. For those who can not afford a detector, a limited supply are available at Cal Fire stations.
details: fire.ca.gov.


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La trucha Apache es una trucha autóctona y totalmente indémica para el estado de Arizona y orgullo de la tribu de nativo americanos los Apaches. Para más información sobre los apaches! Clic aquí.
Source: Apache Trout – Western Native Trout
Noam Chomsky explica la importancia de Aprender la Lengua Materna de uno mismo. Este vídeo está en inglés. [Nota a nuestros lectores: No comparto la filosofía, ni la política de Noam Chomsky! para nada] [I don´t share Noam Chomsky´s philosophy or political orientation at all!]
Why learn Noam Chomsky Wampanoag from OurMotherTongues on Vimeo.
Executive Producers Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner. Hosted by Kevin Costner.
Like so much from History Channel please use viewer discretion as secular histories are often laden with modernist revisionism and myth. I was so touched by pastor Sue Chancellors message at Tribe to Tribe in July, 2015 in Costa Rica that I thought it would good for our English speakers to view this video.
Find out more about the history of Trail of Tears, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com
Source: Trail of Tears – Native American History – HISTORY.com
Survival Director exposes dark legacy of the U.S. conservation movement.
On the 99th anniversary of the U.S. National Park Service today, August 25, Survival exposes the dark legacy of the U.S. conservation movement that led to the eviction of thousands of Native Americans from national parks – and which continues to be exported around the world today.
In an article published in U.S. journal Truthout, Survival's Director Stephen Corry reveals how today's conservation model was based on theories of eugenics and mistaken claims that tribal peoples' lands are "wildernesses," even though tribal peoples have been dependent on, and managed them, for millennia.
Oglala Lakota chief Luther Standing Bear said, "Only to the white man was nature a wilderness … to us it was tame. Earth was bountiful."
Tribal peoples are the best conservationists and guardians of the natural world. Many U.S. parks involved the eviction of Native Americans, and the subsequent loss of their sophisticated land management techniques. The environment has almost always suffered as a result.
Source: Conservation's links to eugenics exposed on Park Service anniversary – Survival International


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friLingue has been working with Kovive since 2014. Kovive organizes holidays and recreation for the most vulnerable in our society.
Every child deserves loving care and targeted support. That is why we help children and adolescents affected by poverty in Switzerland. We offer development and future opportunities. friLingue and Kovive are working together to ensure that opportunities are not denied to children from financially disadvantaged families. In total, this collaboration enabled almost 40 language holidays in Switzerland at a reduced price in 2017. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary in 2017, we awarded ten places to our ArtCamp in St.Imier free of charge to Kovive participants.
Workcamp Switzerland is a longstanding partner of friLingue who provides us with volunteers from all over the world. These, mostly young, adults fill our language camps with energy and contribute with their exciting backgrounds and stories to a colorful and multicultural camp. So far, 37 international volunteers from 18 nations have enriched our camps. These came from Russia, Hong Kong, Turkey, Thailand, Mexico, Japan, Serbia, Korea, Italy, Taiwan, France, Denmark, Spain, Afghanistan, Brazil, Ethiopia, Georgia and of course Switzerland. We also offer opportunities for refugees.
Workcamp allows holidays in an unconventional way, as part of an eventful stay away from tourist crowds, to get to know the culture and people up close and to fulfill a good cause. As a volunteer, you work together for two weeks on a voluntary basis for a good cause - in the ecological, social or cultural area. But it's not just the work that's waiting for you; also trips, locals and lots of exciting experiences.
Since 2017, friLingue has also been cooperating with the CH Foundation for Swiss Federal Cooperation. We participate in the exchange and mobility programme. Erica is our first intern from Ticino and is doing a six-month internship in our office in Bern.
The CH Foundation for Confederation Cooperation is an inter-cantonal organization that operates in all 26 Swiss cantons. It promotes understanding between the language communities and cultures as well as cooperation among the cantons and with the federal government. It is committed to the idea of federalism. The culmination of cultural policy is a central purpose of the CH Foundation supported by all cantons. Since 1976, they have developed a diverse range of services in the service of formal and non-formal education.
We travel in a natural gas vehicle.
friLingue favors the purchase of local products. We cook with fresh food from Swiss farms.
In addition, as far as possible, public transport by train from Zurich and Bern stations to our camps is carried out.


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Barney Lawrence
1925 - 2011Updated Tuesday January 29, 2019 by Kitchener Sports Association.
This information is from The Region of Waterloo website (Hall of Fame).
1925 - 2011
Barney Lawrence was born in Ottawa in 1925 and came to Kitchener in 1951 to practice law.
During his college days he was a member of the University of Toronto intercollegiate team and was later a nationally ranked squash player in both doubles and singles. He was Ontario amateur squash champion in 1962.
He played on the Canadian Lapham Cup Team against the United States about seventeen times between 1950-1984, and was captain in 1967 and 1981. He is the holder of many Canadian, Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Western Canadian titles.
In 1962 Lawrence established the Kitchener-Waterloo Racquet Club, the first in the area, and served as president for seven years. Since the opening of the physical education complex at the University of Waterloo, where he was instrumental in having the first glass-walled courts for spectator viewing, the squash program has been aided by Lawrence. He was coach of the college team which has won many championships.
Waterloo Region Record article (May 3) regarding Barney's passing on May 1, 2011
Rial G.R. "Barney" Lawrence Q.C., B.A., LL.B at Victoria Hospital London, on Saturday, April 30th, 2011 as the result of a car accident.
Barney Lawrence aged 85 years.
Beloved husband of Patricia, dear father to Charles and his wife Linda of Mississauga, Richard and his wife Rachel of Whitehorse, Yukon, Sally and her husband Rob Moir of Toronto, father-in-law to Richard Clinch of Waterloo, stepfather of Ron Greenwood and Marie of B.C., David Greenwood and his wife Kathy of Calgary, Alberta, 7 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren also survive.
Predeceased by his parents Charles Lawrence and Myrtle Benjamin, his first wife Jane, one daughter Ann and one brother Albert.
Barney was currently practicing law for 59 years in South Western Ontario area. And a life member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, an Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo, Faculties of Engineering and Mathematics, a Deputy Judge, Provincial Small Claims Court, Kitchener since 1991. 1991 received Distinguished Teacher's Award, University of Waterloo, 1980-1991 Resident Counsel, University of Waterloo and Special Lecturer, departments of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering, 1963-1980 Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo Faculties of Engineering, Mathematics and Optometry, 1963 Queen's Counsel, 1951, Called to the Bar of Ontario-Barrister and Solicitor. His education background is, graduating Osgoode Hall, L.L.B., York University in 1951, in 1948 graduated University of Toronto, B.A., 1945 attended University of London while awaiting repatriation to Canada (Canadian Army Overseas), 1943 Head Boy and Valedictorian, Ashbury, College, Ottawa, twice awarded "the Southam Trophy" for best all-round boy both in scholarship and sports, 1934-1943 attended Ashbury College, Ottawa. His military service was 1951-1956, a 2nd Lieutenant, Reserve Army-54th L.A.A.., Scots Fusiliers, Kitchener and 1943-1946 World War 11- Served in Canada, United Kingdom, Northwest Europe and Germany with the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, Canadian Army Overseas. His community service included: 2003-2007 Interim Chair, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, Waterloo Regional Chapter 1997-2004 member, Ontario Assessment Review Board, 1998 winner, Howard Wilson Memorial Award, Multiple Sclerosis Association 1986-1992 Chair, Board of Referees, Unemployment Insurance Commission, 1993-1997 Chair, Canada Pension Plan Review Tribunal, 1984-1991 Chair, President's Committee, University of Waterloo, 1991-1997 Chair, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, Waterloo Regional Chapter, 1995-1996 Chair, Minor Sports Dinner, Kitchener Sports Association, 1994 Kitchener Rotary Club, Paul Harris Fellow. His involvement in sports and leisure: 2009 Inducted into the Ontario Squash Hall of Fame, 2001 Inducted into the University of Waterloo sports Hall of Fame, twice President of Squash Ontario, 1996 World's Masters Squash Doubles Champion (with Gordon Guyatt, Q.C.), 1998 Ontario Master Doubles Champion (with Gordon Guyatt, Q.C.). He is the holder of many Canadian Masters and Ontario, Quebec and Western Canada Squash Titles, 1980-1996 Head Coach, University of Waterloo Squash, 1987 received Squash Ontario, Man of the Year Award, 1985 Inducted into the Waterloo County Sports Hall of Fame, 1985 Twice captained Canadian Squash Team vs. U.S.A. and was 59 years on the Canadian Team, 1985-1986 Head Coach, University of Waterloo Ladies Tennis. His social memberships included Life Member, (R.C.M.I) Royal Canadian Military Institute, Life Member, Founder and Former President, Kitchener-Waterloo Racquet Club, Life Member, Hamilton Squash Club, Life Member, Toronto Racquet Club and a member of Vero Beach Yacht Club, Florida.
Friends were invited to call at the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home, 621 King St. W. Kitchener on Friday from 2-4 and 7-9. A Memorial Service was held on Saturday at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at 11:00 am, with Rev. Mark Lewis officiating. Donations to the KW Multiple Sclerosis Society welcome as expressions of sympathy through the funeral home, and on-line condolences accepted at www.ratzbechtelfuneralhome.com
Barney Lawrence, recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award, 1991
Engineering and Mathematics (University of Waterloo)
For the past 24 years, Barney Lawrence, a special lecturer and resident counsel in mathematics and engineering, has been a great contributor to this University. Barney Lawrence has served as an instructor on the legal system, acted in the role of tutor for the past ten years, and is founder of the University Varsity Squash program, which he has coached for 12 years. He is also a founding member of the President's Committee. His worthiness of the Distinguished Teacher Award is evidenced by comments such as: "Mr. Lawrence provides the class with an insightful and interesting view of legal issues that otherwise could be seen as dull and uninteresting," "the course material covered was made fascinating through a unique perspective and entertaining approach," "Mr. Lawrence made even the most challenging of topics enjoyable to learn," and "Barney's lectures were enhanced through stories, comments, quotations, impersonations and reflections that were very relevant to the subject of interest." Perhaps the greatest compliment of all is the fact that Mr. Lawrence's lectures are not only attended by students enrolled in the course but others, not enrolled, who wish to gain some insight into what is commonly seen as a very complex and confusing subject. (Uof W website)


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Just around the corner is Goodlet Street, which I will show you next time, and just behind Goodlet Street is Goodlet Lane, a dunny lane. That is, the original purpose of the lane was to enable access to the outside toilets, or dunnies, so that their noisome cans could be removed by cart. Many of the old dunny lanes have disappeared, but quite a few still remain.
Let's walk along, noting first a native who just happened to join me.
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A Response to "Is Death In Games Cheap?"
I read a wonderful article by Richard Clark in Gamasutra. "Is Death In Games Cheap" took an engaging look at how video games handle death and I enjoyed every bit of it. I do want to expanded, however, on the last section of his opinion piece titled "The Most Powerful Death is Not Our Own." He writes there that games do not trivialize death. I'm not sure I completely agree.
Clark correctly points out that the deaths which really matter in video games are those of non-playable characters (NPCs). He uses Mass Effect 2 as his example. Anyone who has read my posts knows how much I love that game and how it speaks to the Human Condition. However the use of a player's choices to dictate if a character lives or dies is but one option game writers can use to make us care about an NPC's death.
Writers can also develop an NPC's character to the point where we care enough to miss him or her. To this day, I still feel sad when I think about the death of Eli Vance at the end of Half Life 2 Episode 2. I cared about him and his daughter Ali and I hated how the game ended with his death, knowing I would have to wait until Episode 3 to find out how Ali will respond to his passing. I ask myself why I liked him so much and I believe it is because he helped me flush out my character in the game, Gordon Freeman. Since Freeman never spoke, I needed the words and actions of others to help me connect with my character. In helping me to get to know myself (Gordon) I got to know him as well. Eli and Ali Vance allowed me move past Gordon being simply two hands and a gun.
A third way game writers can make us care about a character's death is to attach him or her to another NPC we care about. While I interacted with Eli Vance, I only got to know Maria Santiago through the flashbacks of her husband, Dominic. Through his painful search for her I found myself hoping they would be reunited. I remember playing Gears of War 2 with a friend online and having to pause when Dominic finally found Maria. Their agonizing reunion also caused me anguish and I realized that all my rooting for their happiness was an exercise in futility. I never got to know her, but one of the reasons I look forward to Gears 3 is to see if Dominic can find peace now that she is gone.
These characters are the exception to the notion that video games do indeed trivialize death. Do a few wonderful exceptions mean the whole medium takes a more serious stance on death? I don't think so. I've probably seen and caused a hundred thousand deaths over the years and I could care less about most of them. I still love Clark's analysis even if I disagree with his conclusion but at the same time I find it sad that game writers and researchers spend so much time wrestling with a 40-year old medium that is still, for the most part, trying to figure out how to tell a good story. With death, we have the one thing that makes us all equal being used as a tool for a "re-do" in gaming. In single-player games, it is a weakness in narrative. In multi-player death is simply a pause in the action.
There is hope however. Clark himself points out with his final words that all is not lost. Video games can provide a richer view of death. Further still, one of the comments to his piece notes how death can also be the goal of a game and not just a simple annoyance. The writer of that post called the idea brilliant. In truth it is a fascinating idea and perhaps as video game narrative evolves someone will be bold enough to embrace such a view. In the meantime, I will enjoy gems like Mass Effect 2 and I will keep waiting for Half Life 2 Episode 3.
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There are times when a business owner finds that they have too much on their plate and yet,their to-do-list still has important items that have to attended to;things like sending emails and blog posts that carry a lot of marketing information. Marketing automation refers to the act of using technology to perform activities of a marketing nature that have to be done again and again.
This kind of marketing does not eliminate the job that one has to do to create relevant and value-fraught content,rather it makes the delivery of such content to be done quickly,cheaply and more effectively.
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To generate income,automated marketing endeavors to drive traffic to your website ,convert all those site visitors into leads and the leads into paying customers.
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You need to be very careful on how you do automated marketing;you may end up sending emails and other content that your recipient finds annoying and interruptive,and such people will never do business with you.
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The Courts of Barbados now have two new appointments.
High Court Judge, Kay Goodridge, who has been acting as Justice of Appeal since the retirement of Justice Peter Williams, was officially appointed to the post this evening, in a swearing in ceremony before Governor General Sir Elliott Belgrave.
In the short ceremony at the Government House, Acting Judge Olson Alleyne, was also appointed to that substantive post, now serving as High Court Judge.
Both appointments will take effect from tomorrow, November 1. (LB)


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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Photos – Let's Over-Analyze the First Trailer
Posted on Friday, November 28th, 2014 by Peter Sciretta
We see a woman (Daisy Ridley) looking back in fear as she starts the vehicle that she is seated on. This vehicle is new to the Star Wars canon.
Notice the long staff Daisy's character has attached to the vehicle. It has a hilt that has some of the same design qualities of a lightsaber. But it also could be some kind of Tusken Raider weapon with the huge attachment.
We see some close-ups of Daisy's face as she braces for her vehicle to take off. Her goggles quite a bit like those seen on a figure derived from a very early Ralph McQuarrie concept illustration. And her wrap is reminiscent of the design for a character in the video game The Force Unleashed. Making Star Wars notes that the goggle lenses are scavenged from a Stormtrooper helmet.
Cut to a wider shot where we see the whole vehicle — its a hover bike of some kind, a cross between Luke Skywalker's landspeeder and a speeder bike. It's massive. Its purpose must be to drag a big haul. Also note the mysterious staff is missing from the wide shot. Where did it go?
@slashfilm I think this hoverbike was cobbled together from a podracer (the two thrusters she's sitting on). pic.twitter.com/OnABnmziB4
— Dave's Geeky Hockey (@davesgeekyideas) November 28, 2014
We see her ride into the distance. We can make out remnants of the first Star Wars set photos that were posted by TMZ.
We then see Oscar Issac as a rebel pilot. This is a big reveal because we now know that the rebels are still around fighting the forces of the galactic empire. It looks like the new X-Wing cockpit still has a targeting computer. Some point out that Issac looks a little beat up and bloody, with cuts on his face, below his helmet. Maybe he was roughed up or the look is just to show he is battled hardened.
And what is the writing on his vest? That looks like it might be a modified or new font. One Twitter user pointed out it might translate to "Pull to Inflate" from Aurebesh.
In the background, you can see water splashing and frothing around the engines and on the windows of the ship.
Here is a look at the X-Wing cockpits from the original trilogy.
The new X-Wings glide just feet over the water, sucking up the vapor. We've never seen them this close to the surface before.
Here is a video of an F-18 doing the same kind of maneuver.
The X-Wings glide over the water. One, possibly the one piloted by Isaac's character, pulls in front giving us a better look at the new X-Wing design in profile. Also note the X-Wings have blue stripes, instead of the green stripes in the original. It looks like the same ones from the second UNICEF video. And, as one reader noted, these fighters don't seem to have any astromech droids in the customary position. Maybe there's a new droid style, or the fighters have moved on to other tech?
Notice that the X-wings are each half a wing, which combine to form one wing on either side. The above illustration comes from starwars-union.de.
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Examiner's preliminary report form (before the viva)
Before the oral examination, each examiner must prepare a preliminary report and bring this to the examination.
These should be discussed before seeing the PGR to assist in deciding upon the structure of the examination and in identifying specific topics for discussion.
Each examiner should read the thesis carefully and independently of the other examiner(s), bearing in mind the criteria for the award of the degree. Before the oral examination, each examiner must prepare a preliminary report and bring this to the examination.
This report must contain brief, preliminary thoughts but must not contain any recommendation relating to the award (or not) of the degree. The examiners should not discuss their provisional findings with the PGR at any point before the oral examination or give an indication of the likely recommendation until the oral examination has been completed.
Two report templates are provided depending on whether the thesis is a first submission or a resubmission following referral:
Examiners preliminary report form - first submission: Each examiner must complete the preliminary report and bring this to the oral examination.
Examiners individual report form resubmission: Each examiner must read the resubmitted thesis independently of the other examiner(s) and complete this examiners individual report before discussing the resubmission with the other examiner(s) (to decide if a second viva is required).
The report may be handwritten or typed. If handwritten please use black ink/biro and ensure that you write legibly.
Exchanging the preliminary report
On the day of the oral examination the examiners should arrange to meet together before seeing the PGR in order to exchange and discuss the preliminary reports, decide upon areas for discussion and highlight any issues on which clarification should be sought. The preliminary reports should be discussed by the examiners and will assist them in deciding upon the structure of the examination and in identifying specific topics for discussion. This discussion will enable the Examiners to plan the structure of the oral examination and ensure that all relevant issues are addressed appropriately.
After the oral examination
The preliminary reports of all examiners should be attached to the final, joint report of the examiners (prepared after the oral examination) and should be returned to Postgraduate Research and Operations for consideration by the Graduate Boards Examinations Group.
Preliminary reports are not automatically released to the PGR but will be released if requested (only after the joint report of the examiners has been considered and approved by the Examinations Group). In the event of an adverse academic decision (referral, MPhil award on PhD or fail) PGRs will be advised that the preliminary reports are available on request.
The instructions to examiners cover in detail the responsibilities and duties of the examiners before, during and after the oral examination (viva), including the requirements for the preliminary report form.


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Men's Ski World Cup, which is going to take place in Santa Caterina Valfurva, on December 29, 2015, on the Deborah Compagnoni slope, the one dedicated to the Queen of skiing.
Here is a track worth its name. A slope that makes you dream, the one able discover a champion. Deborah Compagnoni says: "For me it is a journey back to my childhood, when I played with my brother Yuri and I hid in the woods, near the rocks. And I remember when I faced my first difficulties with skiing. This mountain was my teacher. Here, with the help of my father, Giorgio, I learnt the fundamental techniques that made me win the World Cup, the World Championships and the Winter Olympics." Yes, Deborah has a special bond with the track she inaugurated in 2005.
Of course she is a champion, she knows the difficulties of skiing, even though she was able to experience speed only in the first years of her career, due to her injuries. This slope was created to host the Women's World Championships in 2005, when two extraordinary champions - the Swedish Anja Pearson and the Croatian Janica Kostelic - grabbed the five gold medals. Italy managed to get on the podium thanks to Elena Fanchini, silver medal in DH, and Lucia Recchia, silver medal in super-G. Those were days full of magic, days that showed the full potential of
the track, which has also been the theatre of many FIS races and of several Italian championships.
Programme, source:bormioonline.com
Technically the Deborah Compagnoni is a complete track, with one of the greatest vertical drops of all the World Cup races: 1005 m with a full range of difficulties. Six jumps, compressions, bumps in several bends, light changes and extreme speed. There's enough to create a true champion and guarantee the best possible show.
Characteristics of the race track
Start: 2750 m
Arrival: 1745 m
Vertical Drop: 1005 m
Length: 3100 m
THE DEBORAH COMPAGNONI TRACK, source:www.bormioonline.com
Mountains, slopes, snow, sun. The marriage between Valtellina and skiing is just natural. In this land, in the northest part of Lombardia, this kind of sport has written important pages of its history and brought up legendary champions like Deborah Compagnoni. The upper part of the valley is a natural theatre of snow and the birth of the legendary tracks like the Stelvio in Bormio and the Deborah Compagnoni in Santa Caterina Valfurva is just the logical consequence of tradition and culture that sooner of later lead all children in Valtellina to experience the thrill of speed.
The mountains have always been there and represent the natural stage of two of the most exciting downhill races in the world. The Stelvio slope in Bormio was inaugurated in 1982 with the first edition of the World Series. That big event was just an appetizer of the World Championships hosted in 1985. That was a memorable edition, which made a legend of the Swiss champion Pirmin Zurbriggen. A difficult, tiring track with all the difficulties a jet man can find when racing down at a speed of more than 100 km/h. Soon, Stelvio became a "temple" for all the racers. It became the slope providing a value system of the best racers in terms of technique and courage. A steep slope where you can make mistakes and recover, but where you never win by chance.
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Freshly returned from Paris, I'm determined to finish this series once and for all!
Paris and parks are so synonymous, they're practically the same word. Everywhere you turn there are carefully trimmed and planted arcades of trees, windowboxes and street urns spilling over with flowery vines, sculpted topiaries and manicured lawns. But truthfully, none of these things guarantees a park. There are some rules.
Rule Number One: Parks must be free. Parisians think it ludicrous to pay for basic human rights such as breathing, talking and relaxing in nature. I have to say I admire their attitude and have started voting "yes" on any question of public green spaces in my community, borderline libertarian though I am.
Interestingly, although the chateaux of the Loire valley (including those close to Paris, such as Versailles and Fontainebleau) all require admission fees to the house and gardens, there is always a public park that adjoins them, often so seamlessly you don't even notice the ticket checkpoint. This is good to know for anyone who isn't as fond of tapestries and topiaries as the rest of his group.
Rule Number Two: There must be a place to sit down -- preferably, to lie down. Parisians routinely travel with blankets, shawls, and something appropriate for an impromptu picnic -- fruit, cheese, wine, all of the above. Good conversation can only take place when both parties are comfortable, and what's more comfortable than stretching out with grass between your toes?
This past trip I flew directly from a conference to meet Rob and the rest of the group in Paris. After a seven-hour flight and another hour in the taxi, I dropped my things at the hotel, showered quickly, grabbed a croissant and led the group on another two-hour metro-train-bus-foot marathon to Chateau Fontainebleau. Once the students were safely inside, I told Rob I had to go lie down for awhile, and headed for the park. I found a stone bench in the shade and fell fast asleep.
About an hour later I awoke to the sound of sharp scolding. Breathless, I sat up, afraid I had transgressed some local ordinance, but the two park employees were only scolding a group of tourists for feeding the ducks. When they saw my wild eyes (and wilder hair, I'm sure) they waved me off. "Vouz pouvez dormir, madame," one assured me, and "La sieste, c'est autorisee," the other agreed. Naps are authorized. Good to know.
Rule Number Three: There must be some form of water present. A pool, a canal, a fountain, a lake -- anything that allows the play of light to dazzle the eyes, the rushing music to quiet the mind, a slightly cooler temperature to moisten the skin. Without water, grass is just a lawn, but alongside water, grass becomes a playground, a cushion, a studio. Water is vital to the park-ness of a park.
When my sister was traveling in Europe, she made plans to meet a friend in Italy: "At ten o'clock by the FOUNTAIN. How amazing is that?!" And truly, fountains and ruins and carefully pruned hedges and exuberant, overflowing gardens are all just part of life there. Our aesthetic is a little coarser on this side of the Atlantic, where civilization is a newer idea. After hearing my sister's story, I tried to imagine where I would meet a friend who was coming to my town. The post office? The coffee shop? No central design feature stood out. That struck me as sad.
When I started writing, I was sure there were more rules. But I think this is it. Children are welcome, of course, and parks are one place where they can run and scream with abandon -- but some parks are quiet, and that's okay. Likewise with dogs, with workout clothing (though you see blessed few of this in France, as opposed to here where a leisurely stroll is often impossible between all the huffing and whirring around you.)
It's a simple thing, really. A place to sit and think, catch some fresh air, clear your head. We like them in America, but to the French, parks are non-negotiable.
Posts in the Paris Top 10 Series:
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Ep 3. The Sewing Enthusiast
For the third episode of Insta Made, follow Serena C as she discovers a close-knit community of sewing enthusiasts and how their pioneer, Abby of Sarangkraft turned a hobby into an entrepreneurial journey and founded the community in Malaysia. Today, Sarangkraft is home to 1,000 sewing enthusiast and utilises Instagram as a platform to encourage sewing as well as market its handcrafted products. Following a demand for bespoke bags and other handsewn trinkets, Sarangkraft now spans a studio, classes as well as an Instagram marketplace!
Key Takeaways
What began as just a hobby and passion of creating personalised gifts for friends and family soon grew into something so much more. Abby shares with Serena some of her bespoke bags and how she paved her path as an Instagram entrepreneur since she first started her account in 2013. Inspired by accounts of similar concepts abroad, she decided to monetize her hobby as well as to empower likeminded Malaysians through a supportive community. Sarangkraft is now behind 5 different accounts on Instagram, all focusing on a different aspect of the same idea with hopes of inspiring others of chasing their dreams and inspiration as well!
Fun Fact
It took 3 years for Sarangkraft to hit its 2,000 followers mark but the numbers hit the accelerator once Abby started teaching others how to sew like her!


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It was quite a start to the World Series for Yoenis Cespedes.
First, the Mets center fielder missed the pregame introductions before Game 1 against the Royals at Kauffman Stadium because he was in the bathroom, according to a team spokesman.
Then on Matt Harvey's first pitch of the bottom of the first, he misplayed an Alcides Escobar fly ball to left-center when he and and left fielder Michael Conforto converged on the ball.
It hit Cespedes in the right leg and rolled into left field as Escobar raced around the bases for the first inside-the-park homer in a World Series since Mule Haas hit one for the Philadelphia A's in 1929. Cespedes' misplay gave the Royals a 1-0 lead.


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I love my man. I love him because he can cook. As I am writing this recipe, my mouth is watering because I want one of these so badly right now. These things are so stinkin' good and perfect for hangout parties! And alas, I'm afraid that anoher football season is yet upon us. Of course, you better be cooking for all those men that will randomly arrive at your home early on Saturday morning. Throughout college, Billy cooked these bratwurst for me. We used to spend fun nights stuffing our faces and watching movies, musicals, of course. So, as you see, they are perfect for The Sound of Music or ESPN enjoyers alike. Cook these with some Ore Ida sweet potato fries and you'll be fat and happy in no time. Anyway, let me stop rambling and share this deliciousness with you. Enjoy!
1.) 1 tbsp. Olive oil
2.) 1 red bell pepper
3.) 1 yellow bell pepper
4.) 1 large yellow onion
5.) 8 uncooked bratwurst -we use Hillshire Farm
6.) 1 pkg. Hotdog buns
7.) Garnish: dill pickle spears and mustard
1.) Heat olive oil in skillet on medium high. Chop all vegetables and sautee in oil to desired tenderness.
2.) Grill bratwurst on grill or flat top grill until thoroughly cooked. They will be plump and skin will look like it is ready to pop.
3.) Add brats and top with veggies, mustard, and pickles.
4.) No fear, nom nom nom sound will ensue shortly.


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Are you a Mac user? Apple announced the release of its latest update to Aperture 3.1
Sigma announces a new firmware update for their Sigma DP1x This update shortens the camera turn on/off time and corrects the long recording time.
Sony users get all the breaks! By now you probably know that Sony bought Minolta and adapted their new DSLR's around the Minolta lens mount. Then, they get Carl Zeiss to start turning out their great optics for their new DSLR. What you're getting is a new modern Carl Zeiss autofocus lens you can't get on any other system. DPreview reviews the latest Sony Distagon T* 24mm F2 SSM. Read it here.
A bit harsh, but I'm glad to see it. A local wedding photographer took money to shoot a wedding, and then never showed up. It turns out this was his plan all along. Now he's in jail. Fraud is everywhere these days.
Fall colors, Hope Valley Lake Tahoe. What more do I need to say if you really appreciate fall color photographs? This is a world famous location for shooting fall colors so you'll want to read this article and maybe add the location to your bucket list.
The opening paragraph "At work, Richard Petty runs a clinic around the corner from London's Harley Street where he specializes in treating men with sexual and prostate conditions. For relaxation, he collects photographs of women." Okaaayyy.. This is really an article about how Annie got shot. Annie Leibovitz that is. This guy collects pictures of recognizable figures with interesting careers and life stories so it's not surprising a picture of Annie is in his collection. An interesting article.
Windows 8 is scheduled for early 2012, just a bit more than a year away. What, and you haven't upgrade to Windows 7 yet?
The Canon EOS-1d Mark IV is currently Canon's professional entry in the sports and wildlife market. With its 16mp 1.3x sensor, super fast autofocus and perhaps the toughest build in the industry, it's the first of most professionals. Comprehensive reviews on this model have been scarce, so you'll appreciate this review from Imaging Resource.
This article was the most interesting of the week. The first man. Well, not really. The first photographed man. Taken in 1838, in Paris, using the daguerreotype process. Check out the article.
Halloween was last week, but you might still be interested in how they used to fake "ghostly" . images in the old days. Imagine he attention these sorts of photos would get back in the day
Looking for the fastest possible computer for video rendering? Check out this article from Tom's Hardware where they learn if taking advantage of the 64 bit Adobe CS5 using Nvidia's CUDA technology makes a difference. (it does)
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Fostering a shelter animal can be an extremely rewarding experience. It's fun, but also challenging. Most important, foster care saves lives.
On average almost 30 percent of adoption animals at the Marin Humane Society benefit from time in a foster home. Last year, 570 adoption animals experienced TLC in our foster care program, before finding their forever homes.
Some foster animals need a temporary safe place to work on behavior issues or rehabilitate after injury or illness. Others, like kittens and puppies, simply need a place to grow.
"We have a wonderful shelter but nothing beats the environment of a family home," says MHS foster care coordinator Suzanne Gollin. "Having foster homes readily available allows us to maximize the number of animals we can rescue, rehabilitate and rehome."
Fostering is a wonderful way to experience the joy of caring for a companion animal without making a long-term commitment. Volunteers bear no out-of-pocket expenses; MHS furnishes all necessary supplies and provides routine and emergency veterinary care.
Volunteer Sue McGuire has participated in the program for several years. In that time, she has fostered dozens of dogs and puppies. "I lost count after 153 dogs," McGuire says.
One spring, McGuire's pregnant foster dog gave birth to 11 puppies. McGuire cared for mom and her pups until they were old enough to go up for adoption.
"Fostering animals in need is such a special gift to our family," she says. "Just knowing that we are creating a calm, quiet environment for these animals is rewarding. We love the experience."
While it's true that foster parents can get attached to their animals, they also find a special joy in sending a pet to a wonderful new family. Every animal returns from its foster home with an individualized evaluation that's shared with a potential adopter to illuminate what life with a particular animal will be like.
Foster caregivers provide homes for various animals in need, including:
MHS routinely rescues puppies from overcrowded shelters throughout Northern California through our Pet Partnership Program. Without the availability of foster homes in Marin, these puppies would be at risk for euthanasia simply because of a lack of space at other shelters. On average foster parents care for two to four puppies for a several weeks until they are old enough to be spayed/neutered and placed for adoption.
Behavior rehabilitation
Behavior foster homes afford animals the opportunity to get beyond a particular issue that would otherwise make it difficult for them to be adopted. Dogs and cats that are too stressed to show their true colors can benefit greatly from some time in a calm home environment; an untrained adolescent dog or undersocialized adult cat will find a permanent home much more quickly if a patient foster parent has provided them with some guidance.
Kitten season is right around the corner, and that means litter upon litter of kittens will be arriving on our doorstep. Many of these kittens will be too young for adoption, and will need to be cared for by a loving foster parent. We are especially seeking foster homes for neonatal kittens that need around-the-clock bottle feeding.
Medical rehabilitation
Some animals need time to recover from surgery or have a medical issue that requires medication. Having sufficient numbers of medical foster homes is crucial in giving these animals the time they need to heal away from the stress of a kennel.
If you would like to be the difference in the life of an animal, please call Gollin at 415-506-6235.
The Marin Humane Society contributes Tails of Marin articles and welcomes animal-related questions and stories about the people and animals in our community. Go to MarinHumaneSociety.org, Twitter @MarinHumane, or email email@example.com.


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by Maxwell Modell
Novo Amor
The night opened with Welsh singer-songwriter Novo Amor (ails of Ali Lacey), who skilfully provided a beautiful performance built on the foundation of vocal harmony and gorgeous, airy, guitar tones. His quietly emotional delivery added weight to the atmospheric music to create a mesmerising sonic experience. Ali Lacey himself was self admittedly nervous being a Cardiff based musician who hadn't played a gig in the city for a couple of years. While this came across when he spoke to the audience if you only heard the music you'd be entirely unaware of these nerves in what was a very adept performance.
Novo Amor achieved the rare feat of matching the quality of their studio recordings live. The mix was perfect, with no one element overpowering the whole. This proved vital as Novo Amor are a rather unassuming band, with little in the way of traditional stage presence. They seem as if they would be far more comfortable in the studio or writing music. Yet this did not prevent them from being completely transfixing as the music was simply beautiful. Cuts such as Carry You and a piano-driven version of Anchor really stood out as highlights of chilled, but charming show.
We also got to hear his new single Birthplace, which was released yesterday along with the announcement of a new album.
Susanne Sundfør
It was difficult to know what to expect from Susanne Sundfør, after all her career has been filled with such variety, from acoustic folk on her last album to synth pop to her work with M83 she has always refused to let her sound get stale. What we got was a rather minimalist performance featuring Sundfør on a grand piano and an acoustic guitar, back by atmospheric synths and keys. This truly focused the show on Sundfør's lyrics and delivery. Filled with poignant details of heartbreak and sadness her anecdote from the start of her performance, that she was going to sit and play sad songs so we (the audience) could all get sad together proved to be quite accurate.
The outcome of this was all elements of pop were almost entirely abandoned in favour of dark stripped back ballads of suffering. While not what those less familiar with Sundfør would have expected it was all brought together by her distinctive voice. Be it synth pop, acoustic folk or experimental soundscapes this is the one feature which unifies all of her work. Her voice is dynamic and massive to the extent it is hard to examine her it comes out of her body, sharing more similar in scale to an opera singer than a traditional folk singer. Somehow, she managed to find a balance between perfect deliver which sounded almost inhuman and intense emotion. This created a strange sensation. At times it almost felt as if watching someone go through an extremely emotional experience through a screen which prevented the experience to transition to you, experience the emotion twice removed. Despite this, I could appreciate the extreme emotionality of the music and Sundfør's performance as well as the unique experience it created.
While the stripped back performance created a more intermit feel, there were numerous moments where I wished an electronic beat would kick in and start driving the music, increasing the intensity. Yet this never happened, instead Sundfør gave herself to the audience on her own terms. While I would have preferred something larger and more in line with her synth-pop work everything felt very deliberate. The stripped back experience which placed a laser focus on her vocals and lyrics was the one which Sundfør intended for the audience, truly showcasing her vocal and songwriting talents.


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SMP, CAO, and VSP
Since 2013, The Watershed Company has helped the County and its stakeholders develop updated policies and regulations to manage its natural resources, including its Critical Areas Ordinance, Shoreline Master Program, and Voluntary Stewardship Program.
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For each of these efforts, Watershed planners worked with County staff and representatives from its diverse stakeholder communities—including tribes, agricultural, landowners, agencies, local commissions, and conservation district staff. Our staff conducted assessments of local watershed concerns for shoreline and critical area protection. Each of the County's planning products reflects a balance of ecological and land use considerations.
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Pai undercover: another chilling revelation
Exposing lives lived at odds with the idea of a modern Britain in the twenty-first century.
Hsiao-Hung Pai's third book, 'Invisible: Britain's Migrant Sex Workers', published in 2013, focused on the story of two migrant sex workers in the United Kingdom.
Pai worked undercover as a maid in brothels in Burnley, Lancashire, Bedford, and Finchley and Stratford in London, as part of her research for Invisible.
And she wrote about Ming and Beata.
They do not speak the same language nor the share the same cultural background, yet their stories are remarkably similar.
Both were single mothers in their thirties and both came to Britain in search of a new life: Ming from China and Beata from Poland.
Neither imagined that their journey would end in a British brothel.
In her chilling exposé, Pai unveils the terrible reality of the British sex trade, where workers are trapped and controlled.
Pai was previously best known for her book 'Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour' which was short-listed for the 2009 Orwell Prize.
Hundreds of thousands of undocumented Chinese immigrants in Britain travelled here to get away from desperate poverty, and since they are undocumented, they have to keep their heads down – and they work themselves to the bone.
Pai went undercover to write this book too, in order to hear the stories of this hidden workforce, and revealed a scary, shadowy world where human beings are exploited in ways largely unimaginable.
The shocking lack of freedoms these almost invisible stratas of society suffer is both shocking and scandalous and at odds with the idea of a modern Britain in the twenty-first century.
And for 'Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants', which won her the Bread and Roses Award in 2013, she travelled across China to uncover the exploitation of workers at locations as diverse as Olympic construction sites and brick kilns in the Yellow River region, the factories of the Pearl River Delta and the suicide-ridden Foxconn complex.
To write the book published as 'Angry White People: Coming Face-to-face with the British Far Right', Pai, an 'inscrutable foreigner', followed a group of individuals who got caught up in the wave of far right street movements that began in 2009.
For remarks like 'They've taken over our culture and our way of life', 'Britain for whites only', 'Islam is Britain's biggest problem', shocking as they are, are not strange words in Britain today, and the irate faces of far right street mobs are currently not strangers to our screens.
Among those Pai followed are Darren, who took part in the formation of the English Defence League (EDL) but who left it after two years of activism; a Reading-based activist nicknamed Viking, who once occupied the cathedral in Derby in order to assert his right to carry a sword, and Tommy Robinson, founder of the EDL, who Pai saw 'change from a young, foul-mouthed Luton lad to a suited and booted Oxford Union guest speaker'.
Delving deep into the day-to-day of the most marginalised section of the white working-class, Pai uncovered that their ideologies are not an aberration in modern British society.
On the contrary, not only are they very much a part of it, but they are constantly reproduced, rejuvenated and mainstreamed by the media and the powers that be. While the other people she has written about are – still – totally ignored.


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If you have read my blog before, you know I always say, "It's the little things!"
But people, I'm just speaking the truth.
In Newtok, we have no cars, no shopping malls, no movie theaters to keep us entertained.
If we forget something, we can't just hop in our cars and drive to the store to get it, because we know it will be reasonably priced.
We don't even have internet or satellite at our house.
Do you see how negative I sound?!
Instead of focusing on what we don't have, Joshua and I both have had a new outlook on life and we are enjoying the little things!
Here are a few examples of our little things:
Cornbread - one of Josh's favorite foods. We have not been able to have it, because we do not have eggs. So what do we do? Look for a substitute. Mayonnaise worked great! We were then able to eat it with our soup.. yum!
This picture shows a few things. 1) We have been lucky enough to have great people send us care packages. Mrs. Davis and her family have been great in sending us two packages already! They always include a little bit of candy (If anyone knows Josh, they know he has the biggest sweet tooth ever!), some snack foods, and the best part of this second one - the game of UNO! This was our entertainment on our Friday night.
2) Our house is not big enough to have a table. Therefore, we make do with what we have. Josh's mother was awesome in that she bought and shipped us a bread maker... can you say fresh bread?! The box was the perfect size to use as our table for the night!
3) Last but not least, my handsome husband! If you ever want to really get to know someone, move to rural Alaska in a 250 sq. foot house and live with them. He is for sure my greatest blessing!
It's the little things.. I am actually beating Josh for once! We decided to keep a running score of our UNO playing.. He is not liking it at the moment :)
It's the little things.. to have such a godly husband where he is always putting up constant reminders of how great our GOD is.
Like I said before, people have been so great in sending us constant reminders that we are loved and thought about. The first picture is a card that our cousin, Olivia, gave to us before we left for Alaska. The second picture is one that Miss Tenley drew for us!
We definitely appreciate getting mail. My grandma Judy tested out the "snail mail" just to see how long it would take by sending us a lovely card that said she was thinking of us.
Cathy Ile has been awesome in sending us two cards just to wish us luck and that she is praying for nothing but the best for us.
It's the little things! Receiving items like these in the mail really touches Joshua and I more than anyone can know.
Side note: If you would like to be a part of our fridge art, we will most definitely put it up if you send us something:)
It's the little things... Family traditions!
Traditions have always been a big thing in both of our families. We have kept the tradition of having traditions going by already having our own little tradition... pancake breakfast on Sunday mornings! sounds awesome, right?!
This morning was the best one yet, because Josh actually went across to the new village site yesterday with Grant, the principal, and Matt, another teacher, and picked blackberries to put in our pancakes!
Aren't those the biggest pancakes?! Hubs outdid himself this morning!
They were so yummy... obviously!
Just wanted to share with you guys what the Hall's have been thankful for recently, and we hope that you will stop and enjoy the little things wherever you are!


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Tweets of the Week returns with #STEMNC
Hey students, teachers and schools!
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Follow us @NIEnando. Tweet your response and include #STEMNC. We'll pick the top tweets and send those winners an NIE prize pack.
In Monday's Thumbs Up, we'll run some of our favorite tweets and related photos in the paper and online and announce the next week's hashtag.
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By Charlene Shields
Notes from the White County Historical Society as they appear in "The Carmi Times."
Copyright ©2002 by "The Carmi Times" Permission to reprint granted to Cindy Birk Conley and the ILGenWeb by Tammy Knox, editor, "The Carmi Times."
NEW BOOK: The library has recently re-published Mrs. Chalon Land's
little book, "The History of Enfield, Illinois." Mrs. Land wrote this
book in 1953. With the current interest in family history, there is
quite a demand for this book. For its size, it has the most genealogy of
any book I've encountered.
Pat Davis has added pictures and an every-name index. This little
history sells for $10 at the genealogy library and $12 if it must be
Mrs. Land was a skilled genealogist and historian many years before
genealogy became so popular. The public library has several notebooks
containing her research on prominent families of Enfield.
We are adding to our library collection weekly. A number of new CDs
make the pre-1790 census available, as well as the 1810, 1820 and 1830
censuses for the entire U.S. We have the entire 1880 census and census
index on CD; the 1998 Persi index; the Wuerttenburg Emigration index,
American marriage records before 1799, etc. Also recently received are
1880 Cherokee Nation Census, Abstracts from Missouri newspapers, the
Guion Miller (Cherokee) Rolls, Quaker Marriages in Pennsylvania and
North Carolina, and Abstracts from Tennessee Newspapers and Tennessee
Genealogical records.
We also have new books to aid in genealogical searching in Maryland,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana. As previously stated, we add to our
holdings almost every week.
We have a number of journals which are put out by the various state
societies. I just noted in a recent issue of Bluegrass Roots (the
journal of the Kentucky Genealogical Society) some information to
which I was not previously privy:
If a statue of a military person on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the
air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the
horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
From now on, I'm going to notice military statues more carefully.
Our new cemetery books (Phillips Twp. and Gray Twp.) are selling well.
hope our volunteers are poised to go to the cemeteries to read
tombstones as soon as the weather is friendlier. It's a toss-up as to
which township we'll publish next; no township is yet complete, but
several are almost done.
The Genealogy Library is open from 10 to 2 Tuesday through Saturday.
Return to the White County ILGenWeb Page
The Coordinator for the White County, Illinois ILGenWeb page is Cindy Birk Conley
Copyright © 2002 by
Birk Conley, all rights reserved. For personal use only. Commercial
use of the information contained in these pages is strictly prohibited
without prior permission. If copied, this copyright notice must
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Lord Tywin is preparing to march. Ser Addam left the day before with the outriders. Arya is worried that all the people she hates will be leaving and that Jaqen will too before she can have anyone else killed. She learns that Ser Gregor and his men will go, as Ser Gregor will lead the van, but Ser Amory is staying as castellan of Harrenhal. Vargo Hoat will be staying as well. Weese has her carry various messages all day. She goes to the forge to see the blacksmith, Lucan, about a sword for Ser Lyonel. Gendry tells her that Hot Pie asked him if Arya had yelled Winterfell during the battle at the holdfast. Gendry told him he heard wrong, and he warns Arya to be careful. Weese hits her for taking too long getting the sword, and Arya resolves to have him killed. On her way to take a message to Tuffleberry, the brewer, she runs into Rorge, who threatens her until she mentions Jaqen's name. He grows fearful and tells her he is in the bathhouse. She goes there and whispers Weese's name in Jaqen's ear before delivering the message to the brewer. The next morning, the Lannister host marches out with Lord Tywin and Ser Kevan at its head. Ser Gregor rides out near the end with Polliver carrying his banner. She realizes that she should have called for Tywin's death and tries to find Jaqen, hoping it is not too late. She hears a commotion and sees Weese lying on the ground with his dog taking bites out of his corpse. Amabel says the ghosts of Harrenhal caused the death. Arya looks up to the walls and sees Jaqen, who casually lays two fingers against his cheek.
And that's strike two for Arya. It's hard to argue that Weese didn't deserve it but it's hard still to argue that he deserved it over many of Harrenhal's current occupants. I guess that, on one hand, it just goes to show how relative it is all is; I'm sure that Arya knows, consciously at least, that Tywin, Gregor and Amory are all many times worse than Weese yet she doesn't have to deal with them on a daily basis and so when her frustration and hatred boils over, Weese is the target she chooses because his absence will improve her life greatly. Of course, I'm not going to pretend that that was the only reason that Tywin and his dogs were spared Arya's justice – it would be rather poor writing to simply kill off these great monstrous villains you so carefully built up in just one simple stroke. No, Martin had bigger plans for this lot (excepting Amory Lorch, who serves no further plot purpose than to die to a bear and provide dramatic irony) than just being an assassin's road back to his god's good books.
He could look at you and smell what you were thinking, he always said so.
I'm quite a fan of the way Martin portrays fear. I'm no expert on the matter but it feels right that Martin's characters experience fear in a way that twists their rationality. In other circumstances, I'm sure the character of Arya Stark would have called bullshit on Weese's claim of smell lies but she is so tightly wound in his clutches, and he controls so many (almost every, really) aspect of her life that it's almost inevitable that she caves in to his bullshit. It's also kind of fucked up just how often we've already seen that kind of fear and mental torture exerted on people in Arya's chapters alone.
For a moment she had been a wolf again, but Weese's slap took it all away and left her with nothing but the taste of her own blood in her mouth.
So the above line isn't remarkable at all but I wanted to point out the lovely juxtaposition that accompanied it. Here you have Arya, building up a head full of angry, vicious steam – run, you assholes, me and my half-wolf brother are coming for you! And then suddenly, she's back to being a nobody; just another Weasel in Weese's army of stewards and errand boys. The disdainful slap that Weese deals seals the deal – regardless of what she might think of herself, Arya is no wolf, not just yet. It is also troubling, though fitting too, that of all of Weese's abuse, it is this one act of reminding her that she is just a mouse in Harrenhal that turns her full anger against him. Now, I might be reading too much into it – after all, it's equally possible (and perhaps more likely) that him hitting her just angered her to the point that she wanted to lash out, but I prefer the interpretation that she hated being reminded of how powerless she truly was so much that her fear of Weese transformed into hatred and gave her the courage to act. Make of it what you will.
Something in his eyes . . . could it be that he was scared of Jaqen H'ghar?
This is something that is never explained though I actually feel it works better that way. We know that Biter and Rorge belong to the same class of psychos as Gregor Clegane and Vargo Hoat yet, Jaqen apparently knows enough to put the fear of god into them. It's hard to really imagine what it could be that he has on them. It can't be any sort of skill of arms or threat of violence – men like these two grew up on threats and beatings the way the rest of us were raised with positive words and kisses. If I had to hazard a guess, they might have seen him change his face and decided that the supernatural was the one thing that they couldn't beat bloody and have thus decided to give him a wide berth. Still, it would be entertaining to see how that exchange played out.
Lord Tywin, why didn't I say Lord Tywin?
In the end, I really have mixed feelings about this. I mean, we were all thinking that Arya should have said Tywin's name but at the same time, it is pretty realistic for people to forget about the bigger picture in the midst of hardship and their own emotions, and that obviously goes twice for a young girl that's been through what Arya has. I guess what bothers me is the way Martin draws attention to it. Like he does the immutability of prophecy in the series (like we discussed before), he tends to emphasize his tinkering with established tropes and while the end result isn't bad, per se, I think it might be more elegant if he didn't.