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Tips on How I Fly FPV Formation - 2x PC-21
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| Jul 31, 2019 @ 11:43 PM | 1,978 Views
Flying close FPV formation with a PC-21 in a FMS PC-21. Video with commentary:
FPV Formation of Two PC-21's
(8 min 50 sec)
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Headtracking FPV FMS Pilatus PC-21
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| Jul 02, 2019 @ 09:52 AM | 2,266 Views
Two wheelie greasers so smooth, I have trouble telling when the wheels touch from the cockpit. The landings were flown LOS to show son how it looks under goggles (he was wearing them during the flight). He later soloed and landed under FPV in the same plane. Hooked for life!
Headtracking FPV 2 Wheelie Landings FMS PC-21
(1 min 9 sec)
Many thanks to Anthony Barreras for building the scale instrument panels!
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FPV FMS PC-21 Aerobatics at Trabuco Flyers
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| Jun 25, 2019 @ 01:51 AM | 6,274 Views
I miss my FMS PC -21 that crashed last year, just as I was starting to fly fixed-wing FPV. So I set another one up with head-tracking FPV and it really flies and lands well. It's much easier to ground handle compared with my Spitfire. Here's a short aerobatic video with landing. Enjoy!
Scale FPV PC-21 Acrobatics at Trabuco Cayon - Short
(2 min 3 sec)
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Avios Spitfire Close Formation using head-tracking FPV
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| Jun 13, 2019 @ 10:59 PM | 1,365 Views
Practice close formation with a T-34 and a German biplane flying from the cockpit of Avios Spitfire using head-tracking FPV. A few near misses. Enjoy!
Spitfire FPV Formation with Head-tracking
(5 min 19 sec)
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FMS BF-109F Pictures
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| Jun 03, 2019 @ 11:01 PM | 1,433 Views
I have always love the look of BF-109F. Though many favor the desert scheme. I still love this winter scheme for its high contrast against the background where I fly and resistance to gatoring from exposure to the sun.
Some pictures to share!
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Avios Spitfire FPV Flight w/ LOS View Comparison
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| Jun 03, 2019 @ 09:56 AM | 1,413 Views
Scale FPV aerobatic training flight with head-tracking at beautiful Orange County Modelers Association (OCMA) Field with newly paved 600x30 runway!
Avios Spitfire FPV Aerobatics PIP at OCMA New Runway
(5 min 30 sec)
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Avios Spitfire FPV Dogfight with Gun Sight
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| May 14, 2019 @ 12:20 AM | 1,542 Views
Finally, credible scale FPV dogfight footage from cockpit of Avios Spitfire with fully functional reflector gun sight. It takes some work to maneuver the Spitfire in position to place the reticle on a fast moving target for a few seconds. Enjoy!
Short clip of the kill shot:
Spitfire Scale FPV Dogfight/ Gunnery Training Short Clip
(1 min 1 sec)
Full flight including a couple of bouncy landings
Avios Spitfire Scale FPV Dogfight/Gunnery Practice
(7 min 45 sec)
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Scale Working Reflector Gun Sight
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| Apr 25, 2019 @ 07:29 AM | 1,945 Views
I love flying formation and mock dog fight under FPV. But without an effective aiming device, one just can not be sure how well he can stay on a bogie's tail. So I persuaded a master scale builder, Tim Noack, to build a 1:7.5 working reflector sight with collimating optics that focus at infinity and corrects for parallax.
The result is absolutely stunning...
FPV Avios Spitfire with Reflector Gun Sight
(6 min 53 sec)
functional Mk VIII reflector gunsight for RC warbirds FPV part 2
(1 min 52 sec)
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Rear view mirror looks good, too! Hey, look what I spot!
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Avios Spitfire Mk Vb Chase
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| Apr 12, 2019 @ 01:54 PM | 5,341 Views
Son chased my Spitfire using a Armattan Chameleon Ti quad
Found the camouflage works great at blending in with the green hills. Will be hard for the Hun to jump on this Spitfire from afar
Avios Spitfire Mk Vb Chase Teaser
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Toca Toca .....
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Scale FPV w/ Headtracking in Avios Spitfire
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| Mar 29, 2019 @ 09:33 AM | 5,733 Views
Integration of headtracking FPV system in the Spitfire works without a glitch - "passenger" tested and approved. On to flying from the Spitfire cockpit, going to be a challenge with long nose obstructing runway view on takeoff and such - better spend some time taxing first....
Avios Spitfire Head Tracking FPV Test
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Achtung Spitfire! - Avios Spitfire Maiden
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| Mar 19, 2019 @ 01:39 PM | 5,721 Views
Short maiden flight of new Avios Spitfire in butterfly filled sky. She is one sweet bird!
My findings:
1. Requires surprisingly little right rudder on takeoff run to keep straight. Much better than all Warbirds in my collection.
2. Excellent low speed handling: for a heavily loaded plane (I fly with 6S 4000mAh 60C bats) she can land very slowly, even without flaps.
3. Unlimited climb!
4. With canopy open, the Avios Spitfire makes a very satisfying howling sound in high speed dive.
5. Control throws in the manual feels a bit unbalanced. Aileron high rates feels too soft compared to elevator low rates. Rudder throws feel excessive and tail wheel overly sensitive. I put aileron linkage to the inner most hole on servo horn and still have to reduce rate to 50% just to hit high rate of manual specified throws.
6. She will drag a wing tip when landing on hard surface. Narrow wheel track with notable positive camber combined with overly sensitive tail wheel makes ground handling very touchy. But I guess that's part of the scale Spitfire appeal.
All in all, an excellent warbird with great handling qualities in the air. Gratitude to Mr. Tom Hunt, Steward Warne and HK for making such a scale Spitfire accessible.
Howling Avios Spitfire
(5 min 32 sec)
Avios Spitfire Maiden - In Butterfly Filled Sky
(2 min 45 sec)
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Sunset Scale FPV Aerobatics & Proximity Flying
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| Feb 20, 2019 @ 09:52 AM | 5,884 Views
Beautiful sky, mountains, creek and woods with music from Wings theme song by Schubert.
FPV Scale Aerobatics & Tree Arch Pass at Sunset
(7 min 58 sec)
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Mustang Chase with Race/Freestyle Drone
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| Feb 10, 2019 @ 09:09 PM | 6,692 Views
I have invested a lot of time learning RC plane chase/formation flying using visual line-of-sight, FPV aerial photography drone, FPV with head tracking in fixed-wing pattern plane; each one better than previous at keeping formation while maintaining safe separation to prevent mid-air collision. Recently, I let my son loose and told him to chase my 1400mm Freewing P-51D Mustang with his race quad copter. In a handful of flights, his props were practically chewing at the plane's tail constantly. This leads me to believe that race quads are the best tool to use for making dynamic chase shots for RC airplanes. Here's the video:
"Too Close for Comfort"
FPV Chase RC P-51 Mustang - Too Close for Comfort
(2 min 31 sec)
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Scale FPV Close Formation with Head Tracking
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| Feb 06, 2019 @ 12:20 AM | 8,019 Views
Ever since watching a group of Russian RC pilots (Star Sky) fly tight formation in FPV 7 years ago, I have always wanted to give it a try. But I have not found a FPV lead pilot to form up with yet. Luckily, a real life airline pilot flying RC VLOS the other day was receptive to fly lead very smoothly and predictably. So we gave it a go, and it turned out pretty good. I was able to practice scale formation maneuvers like turning rejoin, and holding "fixed" wing station through turns. We even maintained in formation for the first part of loops - no slow motion in this video...
FPV Close Formation with Head-tracking in Real Time HD
(5 min 31 sec)
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FPV scale landing practice on runway
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| Jan 15, 2019 @ 04:11 AM | 7,667 Views
FPV Scale Landing Practice on Runway with Head-tracking
(6 min 10 sec)
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Realizing Dream of FPV Chase/Dogfight in HD Realtime
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| Jan 09, 2019 @ 01:34 PM | 7,445 Views
After 8 months hiatus from flying plane FPV (after a crash), I got back to it a couple of days ago. With the HD FPV gear installed in a E-flite Carbon Z Splendor (crashed previously which help in alleviating anxiousness in messing up a pristine plane ), its docile yet precise handling qualities allowed me to feel comfortable quickly flying FPV in all phases of flight and some mild aerobatics. Yesterday, I finally tried out FPV chase/dogfight with a friend flying LOS very smoothly/predictably. It worked out great! I kept him in sight 99.9% of the time.
FPV Chase/Dogfight/Formation Training with Tuan's T-28 ( HD Uncut)
(7 min 30 sec)
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Sharing Love of FPV Scale Flight
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| May 19, 2018 @ 02:50 AM | 8,708 Views
Sharing the love of FPV flight with friends:
Dual training FPV session with LOS safety pilot (buddy box)
Denny's 1st FPV Dual Training Flight in FMS PC-21
(10 min 35 sec)
Ground view of the same preceded by FMS Bae Hawk low level demo flight.
Gene's Hawk RC and rallyden/motionsic FPV flight test
(13 min 22 sec)
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HD FPV Joyride & Chase in FMS PC-21
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| Apr 30, 2018 @ 05:12 PM | 8,696 Views
Finally, low latency HD FPV technology has arrived to let one enjoy the views from the cockpit real time (not just in post like all freestyle drone videos) and enable close formation, maybe even air combat ?!
FPV Joyride on FMS PC-21 with DJI Air Unit Head Tracking
(8 min 48 sec)
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FMS F-16C (70mm EDF) Maiden Report
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| Apr 23, 2018 @ 01:53 PM | 8,906 Views
Another successful maiden to report. Two flights of about 3:30 each on one 6s 4000mAh bat. Both landings seem smooth from my perspective, but from the 3rd person view atop v. stab. , seemed more harsh.
Aerobatic flight CG at 110mm
motionsic's F-16 flight
(5 min 6 sec)
Maiden Video with CG at 95mm
Copy of FMS F-16C 70mm EDF Maiden
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Joining the EDF Party Late with Cobra Jet
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| Mar 17, 2018 @ 11:18 AM | 8,379 Views
It's been very exciting watching recent developments in the foamie EDF category from Freewing & FMS pushing higher levels of scale fidelity and fligh performance with each new product introduction. But I have not bought one since buying 2 Taft Cobra Jets on sale a couple years ago; simply no room in the house to fit more planes. Finally figured I can hang one up on the wall like picture frame and built one of the Cobras. After much tender loving care correcting loose linkages, unbalanced fan, uneven tail feathers, etc. the jet turned out pretty good. Not a speed demon by any means but fast, heavy and BIG needing lots of space to maneuver like a jet should be. Anyways, I am very excited joining the EDF party so very late and really enjoy the heart pounding feeling each time flying the Cobra jet. Oh and it sounds so good.....
Ultra smooth onboard video at beautiful Black Star Canyon, CA - guaranteed not to cause motion sickness:-)
FPV Taft Cobra (8s 90mm EDF) Jet Aerobatcs at OCMA (HD 1080P)
(6 min 35 sec)
Ground view of the aerobatic flight (many thanks to my friend tonpilot1 for taking the video)
Flight 2 of motionsic's jet
(5 min 21 sec)
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I guess our biggest problem is being "early to bed" kinda folks, as we normally get ready for bed about the time most folks would just be gearing up for a night out on the town. I figure that feeling sleepy by 9pm didn't ever help anyone's social life, it certainly doesn't do any wonders for us.
It didn't help that Friday nights was the company Christmas Party for my business, so the night before the munch was not only mandatory, it ran rather late (as such events are prone to do.) We started the day tired.
Then there was the weather. We had a storm front seemingly stalled over us, bringing a soaking downpour upon us just as we left Friday night's festivities. The rain lasted through Saturday as well, and though I'm thankful for the moisture because we've been in a drought, this kind of weather always seems to make my arthritis pain worse.
So by the time my delightful slave/wife and I arrived at the munch, we were already very tired and very sore. The warm welcome we received from the folks who arrived before us were very nice. With the excitement of going, and doing something new, not to mention meeting new people (perverts just like us,) I think we forgot our pain and fatigue, if only for the moment.
The event got pretty big. When it was all said and done, the total headcount reached 32, a very impressive total, especially when it's considered that our modest metropolitan area of less than 500,000 actually has 2 different BDSM social groups. Viva la kink!
We enjoyed a nice meal and some good conversation with the folks around us. Everyone attending the event introduced themselves, allowing us to put some faces with screen names we knew from Fetlife. And, there was a very nice holiday gift exchange.
To be honest, the size of the crowd caused a little bit of difficulty for me. I'm going to sound more than a little bit like a decrepit old man when I say this, and it's true I'm not getting any younger, but I honestly have trouble hearing clearly when I'm at a noisy event or when I'm in a crowd. It's always been a bit of a problem for me, so it's not just age I reckon.
And in some venues, catching 3 out of every 4 words isn't a problem. But I can tell you for sure, it is more than a little problematic when making introductions for the first time. Leading to embarrassing exchanges like the following (fictionalized to protect the names I really did butcher . . .)
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"I'm sorry DragonBlower," I respond, just a little embarrassed when corrected.
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All too soon, the excitement ended for us, as we found ourselves getting sleepy and sore. Not having had the foresight to bring along any decent pain medications, we found ourselves packing up and heading home. It was earlier than we'd hoped to leave, but we felt satisfied with the food (about what you'd expect from the chain restaurant that hosted us) and the company (we met some nice folks we'll enjoy seeing again.)


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We must be almost as smart as the French. I'll be interested in the headlines in The Bee tomorrow.
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There was always something extra. At the end of the meal, when dessert plates had been licked clean and the mugs of tea were no longer steaming, a little bag would invariably find its way to the table. The crinkle and crackle of the plastic alone attracted enough attention to draw everyone to the kitchen, and when the little transparent bag actually appeared, you could see eyes glittering and faces light up. "Oooooh" and "aaaaah", they would exclaim, "quel délice!" Expressions of delight were always uttered in French - soft and soothing, like a song.
My brothers did not partake in the cooing of my aunts - they did not "oooooh" or "aaaaah" in that high-pitched voice - but their eyes were just as wanting and their hands just as eager. They too, would grasp for the little bag and claim their orangette before they'd all disappeared in the mouths of aunts, uncles, nieces and cousins. Only I wasn't a threat. I didn't gasp or grasp. I sat disappointed in a corner, unclear on how a piece of orange peel wrapped in dark chocolate could evoke such rapture.
I'll be honest with you, I have yet to figure it out. The combination of chocolate and citrus has simply never appealed to me. I have always considered their flavors to be competing - one too strong for the other, clashing and confusing. And yet, here I am today, totally captivated by the mix of blood oranges and white chocolate. As if the beautiful blood oranges weren't treasure enough, I have found how the soft, sweet taste of white chocolate mellows their strong tart citrus tones, while at the same time enriching them, making them melt into your mouth slowly, but fully. I have found that citrus and chocolate need not always compete, and I have found that their combination might even please - no, delight - me. I may not coo for an orangette, but I will happily do so for this blood orange cheesecake and its delectable blood orange white chocolate ganache. "Quel délice!"
• This recipe is adapted from Sarah Kieffer's Vanilla Bean Blog, while the baking tips and instructions are gathered from different sources (including Sarah Kieffer and Tara O'Brady) as well as my own experience. Follow the instructions carefully and allow the cheesecake to cool as slowly as possible to avoid a cracked top. If you still happen to end up with a few cracks, don't worry. The blood orange white chocolate ganache will easily hide them from sight!
• I like to use the simplest, crumbly biscuit for the crust so as not to compete with the flavors of the cheesecake and ganache, but feel free to experiment. Using raw cane sugar will give the crust a nice extra crunch, but regular granulated sugar (or any other kind) would work just as well.
• Since there's no actual cream in the ganache, keep in mind that it will not set quite as much as a regular chocolate ganache. That means it will remain relatively soft even after a few hours of refrigeration, although it will not be runny.
blood orange & white chocolate cheesecake
adapted from The Vanilla Bean Blog
makes a 20 cm (8 inch) cake
for the crust
150 g shortbread biscuits (or digestive biscuits, or another plain cookie)
35 g raw cane sugar
60 g unsalted butter, melted
for the blood orange cheesecake
450 g cream cheese, room temperature
105 g granulated sugar
zest of 2 small blood oranges
1/4 tsp salt
70 g sour cream, room temperature
75 ml fresh blood orange juice
3 large eggs, room temperature
for the blood orange white chocolate ganache
125 g white chocolate, chopped
150 ml fresh blood orange juice
how to
for the crust
1. Preheat oven to 160°C. Grease a 20 cm (8 inch) springform pan and line the bottom with a piece of parchment paper.
2. In a food processor, grind biscuits into a fine crumble. Mix in the raw cane sugar, then pour in melted butter and combine. Press the cookie crumbles into the bottom of the springform pan and use the back of a spoon or the bottom of a glass to even out the surface.
3. Bake for 10 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack.
for the blood orange cheesecake
1. Preheat oven 160°C. Place a rack in the center of the oven, and one more on the bottom. Wrap the springform pan with the cooled crust in two layers of aluminum foil (shiny side out) and set aside.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix cream cheese on medium speed until completely smooth, 4-5 minutes. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl a few times to make sure everything is smooth.
3. Meanwhile, use your fingers to rub the blood orange zest into the sugar, until orange and fragrant. Add sugar to the cream cheese and beat for an extra few minutes until evenly incorporated and smooth.
4. Turn the mixer to a medium-low speed and add salt, sour cream and blood orange juice. Mix until fully incorporated and smooth.
5. With the mixer running on medium-low, add eggs one at a time, waiting until one is incorporated before adding the next. Don't overbeat!
6. Pour cheesecake batter over the cooled crust and tap the cheesecake on the counter a few times to remove any air bubbles. Place a baking tray with warm water on the lower rack of the oven and position the cheesecake on the center rack.
7. Bake for 45-60 minutes, until the edges are puffed, set and slightly brown, but the center is still quite jiggly. Turn the oven off and put the oven door on a crack. Leave the cheesecake to cool in the warm, humid oven for about 30 minutes, then set it on a wire rack. Remove the aluminum foil, run a thin knife along the edges to loosen the cake and allow to cool to room temperature. Move to the refrigerator and let cool for another 3 or 4 hours (6 hours or overnight if you're not adding the ganache).
for the blood orange white chocolate ganache
1. Place chopped chocolate in a small, heat-resistant bowl. In a small saucepan over medium-low heat, cook blood orange juice until reduced to about 1/3 (50 ml). Pour reduced juice over chocolate and let sit for a minute, then use a spatula to stir until smooth. Start by stirring in tight circles in the center and moved out once you see chocolate and juice combine.
2. Remove cheesecake from the refrigerator and pour ganache over the top. Let cool in the refrigerator for an additional 3 to 4 hours, preferably overnight.
3. When ready to serve the cake, run a thin, clean knife along the edges to loosen the cheesecake, then remove outer rim of the springform pan. To slice the cake, run your knife under some hot water first and dry before cutting. Rinse and dry your knife between each cut.


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Mazzarri adamant Inter were denied penalty
Inter coach Walter Mazzarri has criticised Serie A referees, having seen his side denied what he felt was "a clear penalty" against Parma.
Roberto Donadoni's side have not won against Inter at San Siro since 1999, but claimed a 3-3 draw on Sunday.
Inter's Rodrigo Palacio and Nicola Sansone of Parma scored two goals apiece in a thrilling encounter, but Mazzarri believed his side should have been awarded a spot-kick when Ricky Alvarez was brought down by Alessandro Lucarelli.
"I saw it from the touchline and it seemed like a clear penalty," he said. "I've seen much softer fouls than that given this season.
"These things don't usually get given to us, so what can we do? One day an official might give us a spot-kick by accident."
Mazzarri also suggested his players struggled under pressure against Parma, and acknowledged the visitors deserved to take something from the game.
He added: "I believe many of these players were unaccustomed to being first choice for Inter and they have started to feel the responsibility of that. We had a terrible start and after the blow (of Parma's first goal) took 10-15 minutes to wake up.
"We must reflect on how we deal with the various moments of a match, as we often go too deep when taking the lead and drop points by the wayside.
"We dropped two points against Sampdoria, while tonight it was a balanced encounter and anything could've happened.
"We could easily have lost. At times not losing is important when you are trying to help a young and inexperienced team to grow. We deserved more in other games, but probably not in this one.
"When we started this season, we had to shake off the past and with a good start people started to expect certain things from this team. That is where the problem started, as the players are unaccustomed to having the pressure of being expected to win every time.
"I told the lads at half-time to go out, not think about anything, and just play our style of football. It worked, until we went 3-2 up and then we relaxed again with the usual problems."


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Artist: Rock 'n' Rainbow
Album: Let's Boogie
Age Range: 3 through 7
Description: File this in the "don't judge a book by its cover" file -- the cacophony of colors on the cover of this album set off all sorts of warning sounds in my head, making me leery that I was in for a cheesy third-rate glam-inspired version of other preschool bands in color-coordinated outfits you may have heard of.
But once I put the CD in my player, I was pleasantly surprised. The band is the brainchild of Mike Whitla, who runs Rainbow Songs, an early childhood music education program in Toronto, and has released 6 other kids music albums. He's brought together other Toronto musicians and producer Tor Hyams to give these songs a slick sheen. Some of the songs ("Hands Together, Hands Apart," "That Is the Right Hand") are clearly intended to be movement-oriented songs -- they're well done, but they're not necessarily unique. Some songs, however, are pure brilliance, like the album opener "I Like To Ride My Bike," which musically references Queen's song of nearly the same title and then proceeds to out-Queen Queen in its over-the-top production. The Ramones-referencing "I Can't Fly" and the funky "Five Senses" also transcend their origins -- they're just plain fun.
The best way to listen to songs from the 45-minute album is on Whitla's YouTube channel. Let's Boogie is energetic and a different spin on a lot of early childhood music education music. For families looking for a slightly glitter-infused take on music for their kindergarteners, this could fill that niche well. Recommended.
Note: I received a copy of this album for possible review.


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Personal Development
10 Real Resolutions Inspired by FPU
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If you're passionate about God's ways of handling money, you've probably experienced it a time or two: Mention Financial Peace University (FPU) to one of your friends and within seconds, the eyes glaze over, the ears pick up a distant noise, and the head nods absentmindedly.
You know what they're thinking too: "I feel sorry this poor guy, living on a budget and all. How boring! In fact, I feel sorry for me that I have to hear about it."
Of course, we know that you in particular—yes, you, reading this article—might not be the person talking about FPU. You might actually be the other guy. The one who's bored by, skeptical or even scared of the whole idea.
That's why we asked recent FPU graduates to share their goals for 2013 with us! There was only one simple rule: The goal must be inspired by what they learned in FPU. Check out the top 10 real resolutions below. Looks like it's going to be an exciting year!
1. Get out of debt.
We started a debt-reduction tree with tickets wrapped around the artificial Christmas tree. Each ticket represents $10 of debt remaining on our home equity line. Once every ticket is removed at the end of the year, we will be debt-free! —Jamie
Lead others to financial peace! It's easier than you think. Learn how.
2. Buy a new home.
We have outgrown our house. We've wanted to move for years, but it wasn't in the budget. 2013 will be the year! Our goal is to live on half of what we make and save between $3,500 and $4,000 each month toward a down payment on a new home. —Kevin
3. Change careers.
I'm planning to find the career that God made me for. I started reading 48 Days to the Work You Love today, and FPU has caused me to be bolder in life. —Jason
4. Retire with dignity.
We are planning on retiring this year! We are now debt-free, so FPU has us retiring comfortably. —Edward
5. Move to Mexico.
Our goal this year is to make radical changes that enable us to help fulfill the Great Commission. We will be moving as a family to Mexico and paying $1,000 less a month for rent. We will live on the beach and learn to surf, commuting three times a week to San Diego for work. We'll also have more time as a family, and we won't have to keep up with other people's lifestyles. —Arceli
6. Grow spiritually.
I'm going to read Proverbs and the rest of the Bible in one year. —Jennifer
7. Lose weight.
Using the same concepts I used for budgeting, I have lost 25 pounds! I have more to go, but I know I can do it! To see my massive pile of debt go to zero made me realize I can do anything I want. Is it simple? Yes. It is easy? No. If it were, everyone would be debt-free and thin! But, gazelle-like intensity—making a plan and sticking to it, not being a child and doing what feels good but rather being an adult and doing what is right—got me out of debt and is now helping me lose weight! —Theresa
8. Simplify.
I plan to simplify my life and cut out things that drain energy and time. You can trim more than a budget! —Paula
9. Manage time wisely.
We will be intentional and spend our time the way we now spend our money—on priorities—and only a set amount on things that don't really matter, like TV or social media. We don't do a zero-based budget for our time, but we keep in mind the goals we have and how our time can help us get there. —Hyatt
10. Act like an adult.
Dave's definition of maturity—the ability to delay pleasure—is applicable in every area of life where maturity is required, beyond just spending and money. It convicts me every time. —Adrianne
As you can tell, Financial Peace University is about more than budgets and penny pinching. It encourages you to look beyond your current financial situation and get a glimpse of your hopes and dreams for the future. And hey, if you do what this class teaches, you might even exceed them.
Are you an FPU graduate? How did the program help you reach your financial (and other) goals?


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Terrorism and U.S. Intelligence
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There is a difference between the counterterrorism policy before and after the 9/11 attacks. Although the administration did address terrorism, it devoted far more attention to missile defense, a controversial idea, both in the U.S. and abroad. The question of whether the administration was properly focused on the terrorist threat before 9/11 has been the central focus of discussion after 9/11.
Did the terrorist group behind the 9/11 attacks achieve its goals? In what ways were the 9/11 attacks successful? In what ways were the 9/11 attacks unsuccessful? Discuss.
What has been the impact of terrorism on U.S. and its counterterrorism policies? Has there been any change in the U.S. policies on counterterrorism following the 9/11 attacks? Compare and contrast the U.S. counterterrorism views and activities before and after the 9/11 attacks?
Describe what makes the U.S. unique in the international terrorism scenario in terms of a context for developing counterterrorism measures.
Does the U.S. legal system have restrictions that limit the ability to develop counterterrorism tactics? Explain your statement regarding this with proper reasoning and references.© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com March 22, 2019, 3:04 am ad1c9bdddf
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The US has been worried about terrorism since the Cold War. The situation in the Mideast did not spring up overnight. The sheer size of the defense budget, plus that endless array of intelligence organizations make the distinction between "missile defense" and "anti-terror" a false one. Both have been, were and are well funded together. This question remains highly controversial. The Patriot anti-missile system has been used against terror besides, so again, its a false distinction.
What does "properly focused" mean?
Did it achieve its goals? That assumes anyone knows what the goals really are. The best answer is really to focus on whose interest these attacks served. The 9-11 attacks make no sense from the point of view of the Islamic or secular groups alleged to have carried this out. This is because:
1. It would play right into the hands of American "warhawks." It would be considered a gift by them.
2. The US response would be immediate and violent, killing God knows how many Muslims, Arabs, etc.
3. It would set the Palestinian cause back many, many years
4. It would give Israel the green light to do what it wanted in the occupied territories (they did).
5. It would guarantee the US presence in the Mideast for a long time.
6. It would lead to the freezing of all assets for all groups even remotely tied to terrorism.
7. It would cover over Israeli crimes in the Mideast.
8. It would unite the west to support Israel more than ever.
9. It would unite the west so as to assure that Arab movements are watched very closely. The CIA, Mossad, MI6 etc would be ...
Solution Summary
This answer deals with the problems of 911 in terms of intelligence and American politics. It also describes the limits of government in dealing with terrorism and the questions of the "rules of war" in international conflict.


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A lawsuit was recently filed in Galveston County District Court over injuries allegedly suffered as a result of a car accident that occurred in April of 2009. The suit claims that plaintiffs, Roxanne Ramos and Armando Benavidez, along with two minor passengers, were injured when defendant, Richard Huff, pulled out in front of their vehicle triggering an accident. Read the full story at the Southeast Texas Record here.
According to court documents Ramos and Huff were traveling in different directions on Highway 3 near League City when the defendant disregarded a stop and go signal at the intersection and pulled out in front of Ramos' vehicle.
Huff is accused of failing to timely apply his brakes and failing to keep proper lookout. The suit claims that as a result of the accident all of the plaintiffs have suffered serious bodily injury.
Ramos and Benavidez are seeking 40,000 and a combined 9,000 for the injuries to the two minor passengers. They have also requested a jury trial.
District Court Judge John Ellisor is presiding over the case.


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01 December, 2005
Declare Your Fruitcake Freedom!
,Author: Steve Johnson | |
Cold Stone Creamery, a gourmet ice cream shop with 1,200 stores nationwide, has launched a program called, "Fruitcake Freedom Initiative".
Under the program, recipients of fruitcakes this Christmas season can haul their dreaded bricks of bread and fruit to a Cold Stone Creamery and exchange it for a $5.00 discount off any medium 8-inch ice cream cake.
The program runs from December 1, through December 31.
Via Weird News Today
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This thread is dedicated to debate the existence, and classification (should existence now, or in the recent past, be proven probable) of the Alma, or "Wild Man" of central Asia. For those of you unfamiliar with the Alma, the articles below should give you some background for the impending discussion.
In central Asia, in what, until a few years ago was the Soviet Union, there are stories of a large, ape-like creature that inhabits the mountains. It goes by the name of the Alma.
Unlike the better known Bigfoot and Yeti, reports about the Alma say that the creature is much more of a rough, hairy human than an ape. Professor Boris Porchnev, of the Moscow Academy of Sciences, published a description of the creature based on detailed stories he'd gathered from people who had seen it.
"There is no underlayer of hair so that the skin can sometimes be seen," says the report. "The head rises to a cone-shaped peak," it continues, and "the teeth are like a man's, but larger, with the canines more widely separated." Porchnev's description also noted that the Alma can run as fast as a horse and swim in swift currents. Breeding pairs remain together living in holes in the ground. For food they eat small animals and vegetables. The creatures are mainly active at night. The report also noted that the animals have a "distasteful smell."
The first stories of the Alma were gathered in 1881 by N. M. Pzewalski, a traveler in Mongolia who also discovered the Mongolian wild horse. During the Second World War refugees, soldiers, and prisoners of war, often reported seeing the Alma. Slavomir Rawicz, in his book The Long Walk, the story of his escape from a Siberian labor camp, tells of being delayed by a pair of Almas. Chinese soldiers reportedly put food out for the Alma and watched it eat.
M.A. Stonin, a geologist, was prospecting near Tien Shan in 1948. One morning he awoke to cries by his guides that the horses were being stolen. Stonin grabbed his rifle and headed outside to find a figure standing by the horses. It had long red-hair all over it's body. The creature moved off at Stonin's shouts and he chased after it. The animal was so man-like, though, that Stonin couldn't bring himself to shoot it and the thing escaped.
In 1957 a hydrologist named Alexander G. Pronin, on an expedition to study water resources, reported seeing "a being of unusual aspect." It stood at a distance in the snow with it's legs wide apart and with arms longer than a normal man's. Pronin watched it for five minutes, then the creature disappeared behind a rock. Three days later he saw the figure again briefly. Then a week later one of the group's inflatable boats disappeared without explanation and was later found upstream. Pronin found out that the locals often blamed the "wild man" with stealing household items and taking them into the mountains. This made Pronin wonder if the Alma was responsible for the missing boat.
Alma's have reportedly been shot and killed, but the carcasses have never been examined by scientists. In 1937, during a clash with the Japanese, a Russian reconnaissance unit in Mongolia spotted two silhouettes coming down a hill toward them. When the figures did not respond to a challenge, sentries shot them. Then next morning the recon unit was surprised when they examined the bodies. They were of a "strange anthropoid ape" that was about the size of a man and covered with long red hair. Unfortunately, because of the war, the bodies could not be returned to Moscow for a proper evaluation.
While the Soviet Union was still together several expeditions were mounted to look for the Alma. While they gathered some interesting stories, and a few unusual artifacts, no Alma was ever captured and Soviet scientists became split over the value of searching for it. Dr. Proshnev took quite a ribbing from his colleagues because of his work on the subject.
Proshnev speculated that the creature is perhaps the last surviving group of Neanderthal men. At least a few western researchers, including Dr. Myra Shackely, of Leicester University in England, agree with him. Shackely, who visited Mongolia in 1979, points out that the entire area is loaded with Neanderthal artifacts. She notes that if Neanderthal were to have survived it would most likely have been in those areas were the Alma is reported.
Since the dismemberment of the Soviet Union little has been done to continue research on the Alma. Those regions were it has been reported are often politically unstable, and economic conditions in Russia, who inherited many of the scientific institutions of the old Soviet Union, have not been favorable to allowing continued research on the "Wild Man."
Source: http://www.unmuseum.org/alma.htm
Alma General:
The Sasquatch and the Yeti, from the descriptions available, are large and very ape-like. But there is another wildman, the Almas, which seems smaller and more human. Reports of the Almas are concentrated in an area extending from Mongolia in the north, south through the Pamirs, and then westward into the Caucasus region. Similar reports come from Siberia and the far north-east parts of the Russian republic.
Early in the fifteenth century, Hans Schiltenberger was captured by the Turks and sent to the court of Tamerlane, who placed him in the retinue of a Mongol prince named Egidi. After returning to Europe in 1427, Schiltenberger wrote about his experiences. In his book, he described some mountains, apparently the Tien Shan range in Mongolia: "The inhabitants say that beyond the mountains is the beginning of a wasteland which lies at the edge of the earth. No one can survive there because the desert is populated by so many snakes and tigers. In the mountains themselves live wild people, who have nothing in common with other human beings. A pelt covers the entire body of these creatures. Only the hands and face are free of hair. They run around in the hills like animals and eat foliage and grass and whatever else they can find. The lord of the territory made Egidi a present of a couple of forest people, a man and a woman. They had been caught in the wilderness, together with three untamed horses the size of asses and all sorts of other animals which are not found in German lands and which I cannot therefore put a name to" (Shackley 1983, p. 93).
Myra Shackley (1983, pp. 93-94) found Schiltenberger's account especially credible for two reasons: "First, Schiltenberger reports that he saw the creatures with his own eyes. Secondly, he refers to Przewalski horses, which were only rediscovered by Nicholai Przewalski in 1881....Przewalski himself saw 'wildmen' in Mongolia in 1871."
A drawing of an Almas is found in a nineteenth-century Mongol compendium of medicines derived from various plants and animals. The text next to the picture reads: "The wildman lives in the mountains, his origins close to that of the bear, his body resembles that of man, and he has enormous strength. His meat may be eaten to treat mental diseases and his gall cures jaundice" (Shackley 1983, p. 98).
Shackley (1983, p. 98) noted: "The book contains thousands of illustrations of various classes of animals (reptiles, mammals and amphibia), but not one single mythological animal such as are known from similar medieval European books. All the creatures are living and observable today. There seems no reason at all to suggest that the Almas did not exist also and illustrations seem to suggest that it was found among rocky habitats, in the mountains."
In 1937, Dordji Meiren, a member of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, saw the skin of an Almas in a monastery in the Gobi desert. The lamas were using it as a carpet in some of their rituals. Shackley (1983, pp. 103-104) stated: "The hairs on the skin were reddish and curly....The features [of the face] were hairless, the face had eyebrows, and the head still had long disordered hair. Fingers and toes were in a good state of preservation and the nails were similar to human nails."
A report of a more recent sighting of live wildmen was related to Myra Shackley by Dmitri Bayanov, of the Darwin Museum in Moscow. In 1963, Ivan Ivlov, a Russian pediatrician, was traveling through the Altai mountains in the southern part of Mongolia. Ivlov saw several humanlike creatures standing on a mountain slope. They appeared to be a family group, composed of a male, female, and child. Ivlov observed the creatures through his binoculars from a distance of half a mile until they moved out of his field of vision. His Mongolian driver also saw them and said they were common in that area. Shackley (1983, p. 91) stated: "So we are not dealing with folktales or local legends, but with an event that was recorded by a trained scientist and transmitted to the proper authorities. There is no reason to doubt Ivlov's word, partly because of his impeccable scientific reputation and partly because, although he had heard local stories about these creatures he had remained sceptical about their existence."
After his encounter with the Almas family, Ivlov interviewed many Mongolian children, believing they would be more candid than adults. The children provided many additional reports about the Almas. For example, one child told Ivlov that while he and some other children were swimming in a stream, he saw a male Almas carry a child Almas across it (Shackley 1983, pp. 91-92).
In 1980, a worker at an experimental agricultural station, operated by the Mongolian Academy of Sciences at Bulgan, encountered the dead body of a wildman: "I approached and saw a hairy corpse of a robust humanlike creature dried and half-buried by sand. I had never seen such a humanlike being before covered by camel-colour brownish-yellow short hairs and I recoiled, although in my native land in Sinkiang I had seen many dead men killed in battle. ... The dead thing was not a bear or ape and at the same time it was not a man like Mongol or Kazakh or Chinese and Russian. The hairs of its head were longer than on its body" (Shackley 1983, p. 107).
The Pamir mountains, lying in a remote region where the borders of Tadzhikistan, China, Kashmir, and Afghanistan meet, have been the scene of many Almas sightings. In 1925, Mikhail Stephanovitch Topilski, a major general in the Soviet army, led his unit in an assault on an anti-Soviet guerilla force hiding in a cave in the Pamirs. One of the surviving guerillas said that while in the cave he and his comrades were attacked by several apelike creatures. Topilski ordered the rubble of the cave searched, and the body of one such creature was found. Topilski reported (Shackley 1983, pp. 118-119): "At first glance I thought the body was that of an ape. It was covered with hair all over. But I knew there were no apes in the Pamirs. Also, the body itself looked very much like that of a man. We tried pulling the hair, to see if it was just a hide used for disguise, but found that it was the creature's own natural hair. We turned the body over several times on its back and its front, and measured it. Our doctor made a long and thorough inspection of the body, and it was clearthat it was not a human being."
"The body," continued Topilski, "belonged to a male creature 165-170cm [about 5 1/2 feet] tall, elderly or even old,judging by the greyish colour of the hair in several places. The chest was covered with brownish hair and the belly with greyish hair. The hair was longer but sparser on the chest and close-cropped and thick on the belly. In general the hair was very thick, without any underfur. There was least hair on the buttocks, from which fact our doctor deduced that the creature sat like a human being. There was most hair on the hips. The knees were completely bare of hair and had callous growths on them. The whole foot including the sole was quite hairless and was covered by hard brown skin. The hair got thinner near the hand, and the palms had none at all but only callous skin."
Topilski added: "The colour of the face was dark, and the creature had neither beard nor moustache. The temples were bald and the back of the head was covered by thick, matted hair. The dead creature lay with its eyes open and its teeth bared. The eyes were dark and the teeth were large and even and shaped like human teeth. The forehead was slanting and the eyebrows were very powerful. The protruding jawbones made the face resemble the Mongol type of face. The nose was flat, with a deeply sunk bridge. The ears were hairless and looked a little more pointed than a human being's with a longer lobe. The lower jaw was very massive. The creature had a very powerful chest and well developed muscles.... The arms were of normal length, the hands were slightly wider and the feet much wider and shorter than man's."
In 1957, Alexander Georgievitch Pronin, a hydrologist at the Geographical Research Institute of Leningrad University, participated in an expedition to the Pamirs, for the purpose of mapping glaciers. On August 2, 1957, while his team was investigating the Fedchenko glacier, Pronin hiked into the valley of the Balyandkiik River. Shackley (1983, p. 120) stated: "at noon he noticed a figure standing on a rocky cliff about 500 yards above him and the same distance away. His first reaction was surprise, since this area was known to be uninhabited, and his second was that the creature was not human. It resembled a man but was very stooped. He watched the stocky figure move across the snow, keeping its feet wide apart, and he noted that its forearms were longer than a human's and it was covered with reddish grey hair." Pronin saw the creature again three days later, walking upright. Since this incident, there have been numerous wildman sightings in the Pamirs, and members of various expeditions have photographed and taken casts of footprints (Shackley 1983, pp. 122-126).
We shall now consider reports about the Almas from the Caucasus region. According to testimony from villagers of Tkhina, on the Mokvi River, a female Almas was captured there during the nineteenth century, in the forests of Mt. Zaadan. For three years, she was kept imprisoned, but then became domesticated and was allowed to live in a house. She was called Zana. Shackley (1983, p. 112) stated: "Her skin was a greyish-black colour, covered with reddish hair, longer on her head than elsewhere. She was capable of inarticulate cries but never developed a language. She had a large face with big cheek bones, muzzle-like prognathous jaw and large eyebrows, big white teeth and a fierce expression." Eventually Zana, through sexual relations with a villager, had children. Some of Zana's grandchildren were seen by Boris Porshnev in 1964. In her account of Porshnev's investigations, Shackley (1983, p. 113) noted: '"The grandchildren, Chalikoua and Taia, had darkish skin of rather negroid appearance, with very prominent chewing muscles and extra strongjaws." Porshnev also interviewed villagers who as children had been present at Zana's funeral in the 1880s.
In the Caucasus region, the Almas is sometimes called Biaban-guli. In 1899, K. A. Satunin, a Russian zoologist, spotted a female Biaban-guli in the Talysh hills of the southern Caucasus. He stated that the creature had "fully human movements" (Shackley 1983, p. 109). The fact that Satunin was a well-known zoologist makes his report particularly significant.
In 1941, V. S. Karapetyan, a lieutenant colonel of the medical service of the Soviet army, performed a direct physical examination of a living wildman captured in the Dagestan autonomous republic, just north of the Caucasus mountains. Karapetyan said: "I entered a shed with two members of the local authorities. When I asked why I had to examine the man in a cold shed and not in a warm room, I was told that the prisoner could not be kept in a warm room. He had sweated in the house so profusely that they had had to keep him in the shed. I can still see the creature as it stood before me, a male, naked and barefooted. And it was doubtlessly a man, because its entire shape was human. The chest, back, and shoulders, however, were covered with shaggy hair of a dark brown colour. This fur of his was much like that of a bear, and 2 to 3 centimeters [1 inch] long. The fur was thinner and softer below the chest. His wrists were crude and sparsely covered with hair. The palms of his hands and soles of his feet were free of hair. But the hair on his head reached to his shoulders partly covering his forehead. The hair on his head, moreover, felt very rough to the hand. He had no beard or moustache, though his face was completely covered with a light growth of hair. The hair around his mouth was also short and sparse. The man stood absolutely straight with his arms hanging, and his height was above the average about 180 cm [almost 5 feet 11 inches]. He stood before me like a giant, his mighty chest thrust forward. His fingers were thick, strong and exceptionally large. On the whole, he was considerably bigger than any of the local inhabitants. His eyes told me nothing. They were dull and empty the eyes of an animal. And he seemed to me like an animal and nothing more" (Sanderson 1961, pp. 295-296). Significantly, the creature had lice of a kind different from those that infect humans. It is reports like this that have led scientists such as British anthropologist Myra Shackley and Soviet anatomist Dr. Zh. I. Kofman to conclude that the Almas may represent a relict population of Neanderthals or perhaps even Homo erectus (Shackley 1983, p. 114). What happened to the wildman of Dagestan? According to published accounts, he was shot by his Soviet military captors as they retreated before the advancing German army.
In the 1950s, Yu. I. Merezhinski, senior lecturer in the department of ethnography and anthropology at Kiev University, was doing research in Azerbaijan, in the northern part of the Caucasus region. From local people, Merezhinski heard reports of an Almas-like wildman called the Kaptar. Khadzi Magoma, an expert hunter, told Merezhinski that he would take him to a stream where the Kaptar sometimes bathed at night. In exchange, the hunter asked Merezhinski to take a flash photo of the creature for him. Merezhinski agreed, and they went to the stream, near which a few albino Kaptars were said to live. Shackley (1983, p. 110) stated: "sure enough Merezhinski saw one from a distance of only a few yards, clearly discernible on the river bank through the bushes. It was damp, lean and covered from head to foot with white hair. Unfortunately the reality of the creature was too much for Merezhinski, who instead of photographing it shot at it with his revolver but missed in his excitement. The old hunter, furious at the deception, refused to repeat the experiment."
Here once more we have a report by a professional scientist who directly observed a wildman. As an anthropologist, Merezhinski was particularly well qualified to evaluate what he saw. It is reports like this that tend to dispel the charge that the Almas is a creature that exists only in folklore.
And as far as folklore is concerned, accounts of the Almas and other wildmen are not necessarily a sign that the Almas is imaginary. Dmitri Bayanov, of the Darwin Museum in Moscow, asked (1982, p. 47): "Is the abundant folklore, say, about the wolf or the bear not a consequence of the existence of these animals and man's knowledge of them?" Bayanov (1982, p. 47) added: "Therefore we say that, if relic hominoids were not reflected in folklore and mythology, then their reality can be called into question."
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_(cryptozoology)
The Story of Zana:
In the case of Zana's story one must ask themselves first, did such a 'women' exist and procreate, and second was she perhaps a feral, handicapped, mute, whose appearance has been exaggerated, or an Alma. The recentness of the story, and living decedents, suggests that there was such a 'women' captured and 'tamed' in the region who did reproduce. I would really like to see a DNA analysis of her supposed descendants, perhaps from her sons' bones...In the 1880s a strange woman - later given the name Zana or Zanya - with features of both mongoloid and negroid extraction was captured in the western Caucausus region of Abkhazia. Here hoinoids are known as abnuaaya. Her exotic features were enough to describe her as unusual, but it was her coat of reddish-black hair, which covered her from head to foot and her physically imposing body which made her even more extraordinary. She was powerful enough to actually outrun horses and was able to easily swim swift-flowing rivers.
In captivity Zana was passed on to a successor of owners commencing with Prince D.M. Achaba, titular head of the Zaadan region, and then ultimately into the hands of a nobleman, Edgi Genaba, from Tkhina on the Mokva River. The bizarre hominoid was well-treated by her master who taught her simple tasks to perform around the farm. However, she was less well-treated by the immoral men of the neighbouring area who took advantage of Zana's ignorance and fathered several children. These progeny were fairly normal except all were dark and physically powerful. One son had the power to lift a man on a chair off the ground by means of his powerful jaws. Unlike their mother, Zana's children turned out to be quite talented with one son an accomplished pianist.
Porshnev and his successors Dimitri Bayanov and Igor Bourtsev attempted to locate Zana's grave in a bid to examine her remains for clues her origins, but were unable to locate the final resting place. However, they did manage to excavate the grave of her youngest son Khwit and took the skull of the dead man to Moscow for examination at the Moscow State University Institute of Anthropology.
An anthropologist M.A. Kolodievea, noted Khwit's skull was significantly different from that of other Abkhazis. She writes in Bayanov's In the Footsteps of the Russian Snowman:
The Tkhina skull exhibits an original combination of modern and ancient features ... The facil section of the skull is significantly larger in comparison with the mean Abkhaz type ... all the measurements and indices of the supercilliary cranial contour are greater not only than those of the mean Abkhaz series: but also than those of the maximum size of some fossil skulls studied 9or rather were comparable with the latter). The Tkhina skull approaches thee Neolitihic Vovnigi II skulls of the fossil series...
Another anthropolgist M. M. Gerasiomva set down her thoughts on the Khwit skull structure as follows:
The skull discloses a great deal of peculiarity, a certain disharmony, disequilibirum in its features, very large dimensions of the facial skeleton, increased development of the contour of the skull, the specificity of the non-metric features (the two foramina mentale in the lower jaw, the intrusive bones in the sagittal suture, and the Inca bone). The skull merits further extended study.
Bayanov and Bourtsev are at the forefront of investigations into the identity of these hairy hominids of Russia which have come to be known as Kaptars and Almas depending upon the geographical location in which they are to be found.
They are generally found in mountainous areas like the Caucuses, Pamirs and Tien Shans where the human population is sparse and there are large areas where few humans ever ventured. Usually described as being quite hirsute, Almas and Kaptars appear to have slightly slanting eyes which give them rather mongoloid features, although they are also described as appearing to be almost negroid at times. There physiology is described as powerful and although they are of normal human height they appear much stronger.
Their facial features consist of prominent eyebrows, recessed eyes, backward sloping forehead, conical skull, short neck and a very powerful jaw structure. The females of the species have very long breasts which have to be slung over the shoulder when in the running mode. When seen to be asleep, witnesses of the Alma phenomenon have stated that the hominids In appearance they closely resemble Neanderthals and there has been much speculation as to whether Almas are indeed relic pockets of this type of human. With recent scientific findings showing that man and Neanderthals have substantial differences in their DNA structures, tear ducts and nasal cavities it is plausible that the Almas may indeed be surviving Neanderthals.
Well, the subject is open for discussion, The Alma: Undiscovered Hominid, or Myth?


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Meet Ronna
Ronna Bloom is a poet, registered psychotherapist, (CRPO inactive) and author of six books of poetry. Her work has been broadcast on the CBC, recorded by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, translated into Bengali, Chinese and Bangla and shortlisted for several Canadian literary awards.
Ronna runs workshops, coaches writers, and gives talks on poetry, spontaneity, presence and health care. She writes and prescribes poems on the spot in her Rx for Poetry booths. She brings twenty years of psychotherapy practice to her work as a poet and facilitator.
She is currently Poet in Community at the University of Toronto and Poet in Residence at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Ronna has performed with Juno award-winning musician Jayme Stone. A one minute film based on the poem "Grief Without Fantasy" was made by filmmaker Midi Onodera and screened in the Official Selection at the Toronto Urban Film Festival. And in a collaboration with PLANT Architects, the poem "The City" has been installed on King Street in Toronto for the summer of 2018.
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The weather is in our heads as much as it is in the external world. It's in our heads and in our habits … Listen to learn more.
Farmer's Calendar for February 2011
February 1, 2011
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The monthly Farmer's Calendar from The Old Farmer's Almanac, read by the author Tim Clark.


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The UK's aid (official development assistance, or ODA) budget is split across a number of different departments – including DFID, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Department of Energy & Climate Change. The aid provided by non-DFID departments totalled around £1.4 billion in 2013, up 50% since 2009.
The majority of DFID's aid (83%) goes to countries with high poverty levels and rates of extreme poverty. Less than half of 'non-DFID' aid (43%) goes to such high poverty countries, with almost one fifth of other departments' aid going to countries with relatively low numbers and rates of people living in extreme poverty.
This is consistent with our research findings that aid-providing organisations with a legal mandate to reduce poverty tend to give much more of their aid to high poverty countries (see DI/DESA report Improving ODA allocation for a post-2015 world). DFID aid is provided under the International Development Act (2002), which requires spending to be poverty-reducing.* Other departments' aid need only meet the OECD requirement to be for the economic development and welfare of the receiving developing country.
For more details, see our submission to the UK Parliament's International Development Committee's annual inquiry into DFID policy.
*The ID Act requires that the Secretary of State be satisfied that provision of aid "is likely to contribute to a reduction in poverty."
- Non-DFID aid: DFID, Statistics on International Development 2014, table 4
- ODA data: gross disbursements in 2012, excluding regional and geographically unspecified aid and also excluding countries with insufficient poverty data, from the OECD Development Assistance Committee Creditor Reporting System.
- Poverty data: World Bank, World Development Indicators, Oct 2014


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I was reading The Design Of UNIX OS and had a doubt.
A signal handling function can be specified in the signal() call. The handler is supposed to execute when the process receives that particular signal. An algorithm known as psig runs to handle signals if they are received by a process.
In case of a user defined handler being specified, the psig algorithm modifies the user level context (i.e. pushes a frame at the top of the stack with the stack pointer pointing to the top of the stack) This frame indicates the execution of the handling function.
If the above mentioned is true, the signal handling function should always be executed after a return from the signal() call (as the stack frame at the top of the stack will be seen by the kernel first). However, this is not true as i can specify a signal handler for a particular signal earlier in my code (lets say in main()) and send a signal at a later point of time in code. The signal handling function is only executed when the signal is sent (say by the kill() call) and not immediately after the signal() call.
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Bento 128: Saba(again!) with rice
In case you've not noticed, I am hooked on hot smoked saba. Truly I am. It is simple, easily available (in all supermarkets), healthy and super duper tasty. The problem is each time I buy saba, there is enough there for 2-3 portions. It does not last forever (after all it IS cooked fish); so I usually have to eat them fairly close to each other. It is also one of the most perfect food eaten cold – mmm.
Tomorrow's bento consist of rice, hot smoked peppered saba; steamed brocollini, cherry tomato and carrot 'bouquet' over rice with chives as stalks. Spring is definately arriving – flowers are springing up everywhere !! It is getting noticeably warmer as well; which is wonderful. The garden is being prepped to bring another bountiful harvest in the summer; and I can hardly wait. I do love edible gardens :).
PS: Have you seen the amount of stuff that is currently up on ebay supporting the bento4Japan cause? It is amazing how generous people are!! Please bid away – we have raised close to $1,000 already; which was our initial goal. All in under 1 week. How amazing is this?
You can also join in the raffle here. There is currently only 5 donors; and with 4 prizes this is a no-brainer!! Join in the fun; donate and bento!!
March 22, 2011 11:32 am
Love your bento and the picture too Mils! Is so bright. Great photography skills, agree with Megan 🙂
March 26, 2011 10:48 pm
Oh I love your spring flowers here! When you say hot smoked saba.. do you mean as in spicy? Oh I'd love that! sigh.. so wish spring flowers were blooming here. Still too cold for anything to pop out. Great stuff for your raffle!! Keep up the amazing work Mils!


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From a nature perspective, what can Gavan expect to see out on the Atlantic Ocean?
While Gavan is in one of the most remote spots on the planet he is not totally alone.
He is now in flying fish territory and has already come across some. They have the habit of unexpectedly landing on deck unannounced a they escape pursuit of bigger fish. BBC have a great clip showing these amazing creatures escaping predators.
It is not unusual to find one dead on deck in the morning in this part of the ocean. While edible they are quite small and very boney.
As he moves further west he will start to see more wildlife. He has already come across whales in the distance. This isn't his first encounter though. Off the Cork coast last summer, on the morning after his first solo night passage he saw his support boat photographing a nearby Fin whale. It was then that he realised the source of the booming spray noise he had been hearing alongside him all night. Fin whales are about 15m long, over twice the length of his boat and a whole lot bigger. This one had been keeping him company as he approached The Old Head of Kinsale a well known feeding area for whales. Whales are curious and often approach boats at sea, especially when they are in remote places offshore. They are also very plentiful around the Irish coast, check out www.iwdg.ie to see the latest sightings. Gavan was a guest on Celtic Mist, the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group's research boat, in Baltimore last Summer. Simon Berrow, the CEO of IWDG supplied him with identification charts to carry on board so he can now tell which of these huge animals is paying him a visit.
A small black bird appeared near Doireann a few times in recent days. He hasn't managed to identify it yet and is striving to get a photograph. This will be important 'cos given his current practice of rowing on a couple of hours sleep he may have to be forgiven for hallucinating. Finding land birds out to sea is not that unusual. They can get caught in weather systems or simply hitch lifts on ships.
As he gets into more tropical waters he will likely see turtles, very colourful fish and more sea birds. Hopefully he will get some underwater footage with his go-pro.
The most abundant wildlife Gavan is encountering is actually unwanted! barnacles and weed are growing on Doireann's hull. The boat has a coating of antifoul which is a thin paint containing copper which discourages growth but does not eliminate it. Once the water is warm the surface of the boat offers a fine home for a variety of critters and plants. Ships have struggled with fouling for centuries. Very toxic coatings did work but were thankfully outlawed for environmental reasons. All sorts of materials have been tried but mother nature keeps winning. The growth on a ship can extend over 1 foot thick which slows the boat down and increases fuel costs considerably. The effect on Doireann is the same so Gavan has taken to hopping overboard and swimming under the boat to gently scrape the surface clear of the biofilm before it grows enough to create drag. Apparently the little hole for his watermaker is a favourite spot for them to congregate and this needs to be particularly clean to ensure good flow.
If he really wanted company he could allow the growth to happen on the hull. It acts as a dinner table for various fish that come along to nibble on it. Handy if he needed to go fishing!


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The saying goes: "If he's a Czech, he's a musician," and music here literally pulsates at every step. Street musicians, historical churches with flawless acoustics, concert halls, and posh opera houses will leave you with an indelible impression of musical Prague.
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At age 6, DeCuir begins to study the violin. After discovering the paintbrush, DeCuir splits his time between mastering the violin and the canvas. He practices the violin each morning, meanwhile drawing pictures in his head to redraw later from memory. DeCuir eventually acquires the ability the draw from one corner to the other like a laser printer.


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Fake Weed talk to Loreli about the Beijing music scene, their forthcoming album, the uselessness of pressing CDs, and how (some) of their moms think they're cool.
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Three bearded lads who make noisy math punk music or whatever you feel fit to call it. Always noisy. Started in 2013 as a two piece, then lucked out with the tragic passing of Mammals (of which Woolly was also a member), because we harvested a fully operational drummer (Mike Fuksman) from the bones to create the magical 3 piece Fake Weed you hear and get confused by today. Genius drummer Michael Winkler then became genius bass player Michael Winkler, and we all lived happily ever after until genius Michael Winkler decided to move back home. It was great fun. Our album will be recorded in the next few weeks, and available to download from bandcamp for the usual 'name your price. Mike played in Incisors, and Mammals, and a bunch of other bands. Winkler has done loads of stuff, played most recently in Yantiao, is a fine producer and composes some excellent electronic/ noise music (armtrick, guijian). Woolly played in mammals, and played drums in a band called tda for many years in the UK.
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Yes, another reply to a riposte from James Lileks of the Minnesota Star-Tribune. If it keeps up at this rate I might have to add another category.
Thursday he was in rare form, and opened with a nice salvo:
Another day in the Land of Inversion, where the obvious is not an option. I heard more interviews with learned politicians informing me that "drilling for oil" will not affect anything, least of all the quantity of oil. We must apparently wait until 2015, when a magic engine that runs on unicorn flatulence is invented. I have to ask: why is anyone investing in unicorn flatulence today, when it won't make any difference for several years? The answer's simple: the engine will Appear at the chosen moment, borne from the clouds by starlings, but only if we have repented of our foul ways, and the last of the sinners has left the cul-de-sac to reside in a home located a sustainable distance from his or her place of employment.
Ah, there's nothing like a slice of finely-tuned rhetoric to start an intellectual feast. The gloss is mocking the belief that terminating our use of petroleum is a mythical magic bullet which will somehow see us into a golden age of energy independence — at least, in the minds of some — and his objection to that idea is valid. There really are people out there today who seem to believe in magic, who seem to believe that a total shutdown of oil use in the US will lead us into a rainbowed horizon of crepuscular-rayed effulgence. The suggestion that anyone who thinks we might want to continue working with petrochemicals is essentially a senile foolish coot is a nice icing on this confection, and is again probably valid.
I recall that a few years ago there was a big push among the greenish in favor of biofuels. When we started using them, the response seemed to be favorable, but no one really seemed to think about the hidden and collateral costs. With as much as 1/3 of the next year's corn crop being committed now to feeding trucks, we're already feeling the effects of food costs rising. I caught an article earlier this week talking about how catfish farms in the southern US are closing down because they can't afford the catfish feed, which is apparently corn-based; that surprised me. I didn't expect the repercussions to be that fast, and certainly not that oblique.
But from domestic issues we have a strange extension to world politics:
In Israel, for example, this horrible prisoner swap - child-killer exchanged for murdered soldiers. The fellow is welcomed home as a hero by Hezbollah and Lebanon's Prime Minister and President, because in the Land of Inversion, heads of state clear their calendar when child-killers breathe the sweet air of freedom again. It's all relative, really. One man's child-killer is another man's freedom fighter, and if you point out that the "another man" is a Jew-hating idiot fanatic who'd be proud to blow up the Holocaust Museum in DC and take out a busload of Iowa tourists, you're ignoring the significant impact this exchange had on the Climate of Trust that will lead to peace.
Apparently domestic resistance to opening oil drilling is equivalent to celebrating the release of a foreign killer. I'm having a hard time making the correlation.
But from here he goes directly into Godwin:
If Eichmann was still around there would be people lobbying for his release. Hadn't he suffered enough? What's gained by keeping him in jail, after all? This is the peculiar logic of the Land of Inversion: there's a certain moral legitimacy that falls lightly on someone's shoulders if he's in jail. The crime is soon forgotten, and we're left with the sad sight of someone languishing – they're always languishing – in a grim prison.
Well, if he can pull out some heavy artillery, so can I. This last week we were treated to the release of interrogation video of a GITMO prisoner, in this case a Canadian citizen who also happened to be sixteen years old when he was detained by the US. He's still at GITMO, and is now 21 years old.
Sometimes people actually do languish in grim prisons. The difference is that the Israeli prisoner exchange (which was even reported in Iran as being unfair to the Israelis) deals only with Middle East problems. The GITMO case involves an incarcerated boy, a citizen of an allied nation directly sharing a border with us, and that it was our government, acting on our behalf, which imprisoned this kid for five years and counting. I'd say that's a damn sight more relevant.
And then another strange digression:
Meanwhile, over in Blighty: every day brings another story that suggests they could power the lights on the Strand by harnessing the RPMs of Churchill's corpse. Some I believe; some are almost heartening, such as this story – a fellow got in trouble for taking pictures of his own kids in a park, but the police declined to run him in for violating the Male And Therefore A Likely Perv Act. (Can't find link, sorry.) Every other day has a story of a man who fights off intruders in his house, and is charged with Making a Fist Instead of Forming a Fetal Ball and Waiting for the Bobbies to Come 'Round and Pretend To Take Down a Description of the Attackers.
Aha, now it's becoming more clear. The suggestion seems to be that resistance to drilling for oil = sympathy for murderers = one day we'll all be weaponless and terrified like the folks in England, who can't even take pictures in a park.
I confess I'm having a hard time making all those associations actually function, but then, I've always liked the British. (And, as it happens, Canadians.)
And, hey, you know — I have yet to see evidence of this "every other day" phenomenon he claims wherein British homeowners are terrorized by intruders and forced to acquiesce in a cowardly way until the coppers show up. Maybe I'm reading a different BBC World?
He closes with a hit on the Church of England, or specifically the Archbishop of Canterbury, who recently said that some aspects of Christian faith might offend Muslims. Here, Lileks and I are in perfect harmony when we chorus, well, duh.
In his latest missive, he has acknowledged that parts of Christianity may "offend" Muslims, which is a fascinating choice of words. It puts doctrinal differences into the realm of emotional reaction, and as we all know "offence" must be followed with apologies and seminars and outreach and an hour of steady banging of the head on the hard marble floor. No one has the right to give offense, but everyone has the right – indeed, the obligation – to be offended by something.
I guess the planes into buildings thing was just an extreme version of offense.1 And he wraps it up with this, and even though I'm an atheist, I really loved it.
Given the Islamic belief that Christ did not die on the cross, it's only a matter of time before the Church of England mandates small step-ladders beneath every crucifix. You can believe he got down and walked away, if you like. We're not saying he did, but we wouldn't want to offend anyone who insisted he did.
Though, to be fair, Muslims don't disbelieve in the crucifixion. They just deny the resurrection. So the stepladder would be superfluous.
After a bit more, he closes more or less with this:
To sum it all up: sorry about that whole Christ-died-for-your-sins thing; we'll try to keep it down. Can you join us to work for a ban on plastic grocery store bags?
So it would seem that resistance to drilling for oil is functionally identical to milquetoast Christianity in the face of Muslim extremism. Got it?
Huh. Neither do I.
1. Actually, probably not, at least not on bin Laden's level. I don't think he really believes the fundamentalist shi'ite he spews. 72 virgins for any martyr? Then why's he so afraid to die? No, I expect bin Laden has as much faith in Islam as the Pope does in Catholicism: He doesn't actually believe any of this shit, but it cows the ignorant masses of followers, gives access to extraordinary amounts of power, and, in the case of the Catholic Church, has fringe benefits in the forms of immeasurable wealth and the occasional altar boy.
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