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July 31, 2018: Michael Stroh (Ph.D. candidate, University of New Mexico) requests AAVSO assistance in monitoring 19 LPVs in support of a VLA campaign studying SiO masers. AAVSO monitoring begins now and goes through October 2019.
April 5, 2016: Further to AAVSO Alert Notice 536, close monitoring of the cataclysmic variable SS Cyg is urgently requested. Immediate notification of the beginning of the anticipated outburst is crucial and is requested.
The success of the multiwavelength (radio and optical) observing campaign on SS Cyg underway depends on immediate reporting of outburst behavior to trigger multi-site radio observations.
January 4, 2013: Dr. Bob Zavala (U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff) has requested AAVSO assistance in obtaining multicolor photometry of the bright triple system b Per in order to prepare for and detect a possible eclipse of the AB components by the C component predicted for 2013 January 23. At 4.5V, b Per, which is also a radio source, is an excellent target for photoelectric photometrists and DSLR observers.
September 10, 2011: Dr. Gregory Sivakoff (U. of Alberta) requests observations of the X-ray binary star MAXI J1836-194 as part of the JACPOT collaboration studying stellar radio jets from compact binaries. There is no predetermined duration for this campaign, but observations are requested now to coincide with ongoing X-ray and radio observations.
Starting on Friday, May 13th, the AAVSO will have a section on the radio show "Espacio Profundo Radio", that's on the air every Friday between 20 and 21 GMT. The program is sponsored by Espacio Profundo, one of the most popular astronomy websites in Latin America.
A partir del viernes 13 de mayo, la AAVSO tendrá una sección en el programa Espacio Profundo Radio, que se emite todos los viernes entre las 20 y 21 GMT. El programa es conducido por Cristina Ruffa y auspiciado por Espacio Profundo, una de los sitios web más conocidos en el ámbito latinoamericano.
The latest version of the Gyrator series of VLF receivers (first developed in the 1990s) is the Gyrator III, a revision of Arthur Stokes' Gyrator II by Guglielmo Di Filippo (observer A-93).
Circuit diagrams and wiring for the Gyrator III are available here in Microsoft Word and PDF formats: .doc, .pdf
When the ultraviolet rays from the Sun hit the Earths atmosphere the energy they possess work to knock electrons off of the atoms and molecules that the atmosphere is made up of. These free electrons make up a region of the atmosphere known as the Ionosphere. The region is strongest on the daytime side of the earth since it is dependant on the energy from the solar ultra violet rays.
Station Station Frequency Radiated
Site ID (kHz) Power
U.S. Navy
Cutler, ME NAA 24.0 1000
Jim Creek, WA NLK 24.8 250
Lualualei, HI NPM 21.4 566
LaMoure, ND NML 25.2 500
Rodney Howe, Solar Section chair & SID leader
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Big flies back Pettitte as Yanks roll Red Sox
BOSTON -- The Yankees hardly resembled the Bronx Bombers during their last visit to Fenway Park, as they were unable to hit a single ball out of the facility's cozy dimensions. Thanks to some recent changes, that won't be the case this time around.
Alfonso Soriano continued his torrid stretch with yet another home run while Mark Reynolds cleared the Green Monster in his first Yankees at-bat, supporting an encouraging outing from Andy Pettitte in a 10-3 victory over the Red Sox on Friday.View Full Game Coverage
BOSTON -- The Yankees hardly resembled the Bronx Bombers during their last visit to Fenway Park, as they were unable to hit a single ball out of the facility's cozy dimensions. Thanks to some recent changes, that won't be the case this time around.
Alfonso Soriano continued his torrid stretch with yet another home run while Mark Reynolds cleared the Green Monster in his first Yankees at-bat, supporting an encouraging outing from Andy Pettitte in a 10-3 victory over the Red Sox on Friday.View Full Game Coverage
"When you get guys hot like some of the guys are right now, you feel good about yourself," said Pettitte, who picked up his first victory since July 11. "Obviously winning ballgames makes you feel good about yourself. It's a good thing right now."
The Yankees won for the fifth time in six games as Reynolds and Soriano teamed for most of the damage against Boston starter Felix Doubront, who lasted just four innings and was battered for seven runs (six earned) on eight hits.
Soriano drove in four runs, including a three-run blast in the third inning. He reached base in all but one plate appearance and now has a Major League record-tying 18 RBIs in his past four games, going 13-for-18 with five homers.
"I'm trying to enjoy my time now here with the Yankees," said Soriano, who was re-acquired in a late July trade with the Cubs. "I think it's motivation; coming back to the Yankees to try to help the team to win. That's what is most important."
The Yankees are now just 7 1/2 games behind the Red Sox, the closest they've been to the division lead since July 29.
"I don't think anyone has written them off, by any means," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "We've got nine more games remaining against them, they've got a completely different look to their lineup than we saw a month ago, and they've got a lot of life right now."
As much fun as manager Joe Girardi has had watching his team's offensive rebirth, the Yankees were even more pleased to see Pettitte work deep into a game.
The veteran lefty kept Boston off-balance into the seventh inning, permitting three runs -- all unearned -- on six hits. He walked one and struck out five in a 97-pitch effort, snapping a five-start winless streak.
"It was one of those nights where everything was working and you'd hope you'd be able to get through the game like I did," Pettitte said. "My curve was working, my two-seamer, I was locating that to both sides of the plate. My four-seamer also. [Chris Stewart ] called a great game and we scored a lot of runs."
Facing the prospect of missing the playoffs for what would be just the second time in the last 18 seasons, the Yankees may have also plucked a useful part off the free-agent market in Reynolds, who was added to the 25-man roster before Friday's game.
The veteran tormented the Yankees as a member of the Orioles in 2012, hitting seven of his 23 homers off New York pitching. Released by the Indians this week, Reynolds made an immediate impact for his new employer with a two-run homer in the second inning, feeling right at home in the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry.
"We battled these guys with the Orioles last year, but this is different," Reynolds said. "When you're on deck -- I mean, you can't repeat what the fans say to you, but it's just a different vibe, a different atmosphere, for sure."
Reynolds became the 14th Yankee since 1961 to homer in his first Bombers at-bat, and the first since Andruw Jones in 2011.
"He's a guy that can change a game really quickly," Girardi said. "We saw it against us last year, and it's nice to have him on our side."
Robinson Cano also had a fourth-inning RBI single, extending his hitting streak to 11 games and giving the Yankees a commanding 7-0 lead at the time, deflating the largest crowd seen at Fenway this year.
The 38,143 that passed through the turnstiles seemed to have their most fun jeering Alex Rodriguez, who went 2-for-4 with a walk and a run scored.
"We're in playoff baseball right now," Rodriguez said. "Every game means the world to us. We're trying to stay very focused and collective in here; stay very united no matter what's thrown at us. Our focus is to win games, and that's the only thing we care about right now. The reaction is pretty tame, usually."
Ichiro Suzuki moved to within five hits of 4,000 for his combined professional career in Major League Baseball and Japan with an RBI infield single in the ninth inning for the Yankees' eighth run.
Reynolds added an RBI single and Stewart plated Ichiro with his own RBI base hit to close New York's scoring in the ninth, where Joba Chamberlain wobbled and loaded the bases in mop-up duty before David Huff entered to record the final out.
"We needed it and we need to continue to do it," Pettitte said. "Hopefully we can continue to swing the bats the way we are and guys can feel good about themselves. Hopefully we'll reel off a whole lot of wins here over the next 40 games."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch and read his MLBlog, Bombers Beat.

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Lipchenko's Wonderland
It gets a little solitary and windswept out here on Myth Point, tending our lonely beacon with only gulls and other Carroll outcasts for company, so we're taking a welcome break to talk of other things. Namely the amazing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ISBN 978-0-88776932-0) illustrations of Oleg Lipchenko, that have just won the 2009 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award. We saw them and were blown away. We think they have to be about the most original and inventive and beautiful Alice images since Rackham (much, much better than the ponderous, over-rated Tenniel).
The picture on the right is one of his, and here are thumbnails of 2 more (click to see full size images)…
You can see more of them on Mr Lipchenko's website, and you absolutely must see his PDF Drawing Treacle Well, that tells the story of how his ideas evolved, illustrated with early sketches and background commentary.
And see his Duchess. He's actually noted Carroll's description. The 'uncomfortably sharp chin,' and created a creature poised on that weird cusp between beauty and ugliness. In his own words:
I wish to point out that Sir John Tenniel's Duchess is undoubtedly ugly, but her ugliness is straightforward. It is an ugliness of old age, an old, wrinkly, male-shaped face. I think that this way is too cliché. From my observations, the human face's attractiveness is quite a tricky subject. It is very often that beauty and ugliness differ due to the existence of a small feature(s Generally, when drawing my version of the Duchess, I didn't invent anything. My Duchess is taken from real life; such a face, nose, etc… That kind of person everybody has met
She is awfully real in her way, kind of like a caricature of Wallis Simpson, (who was, of course, a Duchess herself, as well as, apparently, a Nazi-sympathiser, which just, I suppose, goes to show, well, something). Mr L also makes an interesting comparison between the Duchess and the Red Queen (NB – Tim Burton, that's not the same as the Queen of Hearts), suggesting the first as a sort of prototype of the second.
They have a lot in common; evidentially the same prototype was used for both the characters…They are both addicted to using hyperboles..Both of them also like to teach Alice, and seek out the moral in every situation, conversation or anything at all.
Mr L tells us in his PDF that he was thinking of drawing a map of Wonderland for the endpapers, and when we read this we thought 'yes, why hasn't anyone done this before!?', so when he went on to say it was pretty much impossible, given the lack of topographical detail, our heart sank a little. But he does add this hopeful teaser…
The next story of Alice – Looking Glass is more certain topographically, So maybe I'll draw the map for it.
Contrariwise says – please please do! Looking-Glass needs Lipchenko pictures! And a map would make it perfect.
Kudos to Oleg Lipchenko, and thanks to him for letting us use his pictures here.
5 Responses to "Lipchenko's Wonderland"
Is this site connected to In the Shadow of the Dream Child?
He was the guest at one of the meetings of the Lewis Carroll society of North America where I had the opportunity to hear him speak and describe his artwork. Yes, it is phenomenal.
I found a copy of Lipchencko's book. It's got amazingly beautiful illustrations! I love the sepia and monochrome tones, gives the work a really dreamy quality. The illustrations remind me of Escher's drawings and the little details in the margins are fascinating. I love the image of the Hatter hanging from the clockface like Harold Lloyd and the very laid back Caterpillar.


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ZZ necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 137 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
The logo should be appropiate to any age group and people in all areas. It should be a little playful and little youthful but despite all those, it should be elagant and classic.
We are an international search engine for all kind of companies that is particularly specified to mobile phones.
We allow people to find desired companies, who are our customers, with their mobile phone and through the pc, so they can reach them directly.
- Backround color should be WHITE. - You could play with the letters "AA" but do not need to be.- The colour of Deutschland should be in grey or any colour that not disturb.- I'm looking for something simple which is timeless and elegant but a little playful with a clear language- fresh imaginative clean logo, you can use also warm colours, by the end it should be also elegant. - We need something clean and a little classy that we can use on everything from business cards, website, bags etc.
Cartoon, not too wild, traditional business imaginary briefcases etc, neon colours. Please not too colorful or complex
Any graphics that look like or in any way resemble to a mobile phone.
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:44 — 33.5MB)
News and new music
- Drake performs at POTUS charity event with Bill Clinton
- Dipset Coming to Buffalo (ended up getting cancelled)
- DJ Khaled - "Welcome to My Hood (Remix)"
- Kanye West & Jay-Z ft. Busta Rhymes - "H.A.M (Remix)"
Also in this episode
- Masta Ace Concert Review
- Sexy Sax
- Girl Talk performance review and snippet from "All Day"
- Chris Brown new releases: "F.A.M.E" and "Fortune"
- T-Pain
- Jimmy Jones produced by Aaron Lacrate
Top Adlibs
- Jim Jones
- Young Jeezy
- Camron / Dipset - "Throw it in the Air" and "Throw it Up"
Episode 5
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:51 — 32.7MB)
In this episode
- Vado - "Hands Down"
- Dipset Producer Araab Musik gives an MPC 2500 a workout
Concert announcement
Cam'ron, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana, Vado, Freaky Zekey and more are set to perform on March 23rd at the Town Ballroom in Buffalo, NY.
Show summary
Where did Kanye West get the horns for "All of the Lights?" Are they sampled? Synthesized? We're pretty sure they actually recorded them live!! Wow. Who does that?
Pumice recently saw this clip of "Music Made with Buttons 4.0" from Egadz. We play "Music Made with Buttons" in the background, pretty dope.
What the #@$%? A Wacka Flacka Flame and Gucci Mane reality TV show? As LJ Knight from "YeahSheSaidIt.com" put it, "both of these rappers can barely stay their asses out of jail long enough to have a successful rap career. Also, hearing them speak is like trying to decode an alien ignorant language."
Flava Flav opened his first fried chicken restaurant in Iowa. "Flav's Fried Chicken" is expected to be a chain of restaurants. Flav also plans to introduce "La Flav's Spirits," a line of flavored liquors. Meanwhile, Terminator X is happily raising African black ostriches (not alpacas) on his farm in Vance County, North Carolina.
Malice of the Clipse turned to God for some career advice. If he wanted to kill his career, he might as well have turned to Mase for guidance.
50 Cent continues his antics on Twitter, this time boosting the value of his stock in HNHI.
The squeal in "Jump Around" by House of Pain is most likely sampled from "Shoot Your Shot," by Junior Walker and the All Stars, not Prince's "Gett Off." It's a tough call, but considering the fact that Everlast and Divine Styler are both alumni of Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate, is it merely a coincidence that the Junior Walker sample is also in "Ain't Sayin' Nothin'?"
Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park: Are they Hip-Hop? The jury is still out on this one.


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I LOVE LUCY Lucy And Harpo Marx "Talking" Fashion Doll
Officially licensed Lucy doll plays a clip from the classic "Harpo Marx" episode and the I LOVE LUCY® theme song. Poseable, with replica costume.
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This collectible 14-inch tall I LOVE LUCY doll is finely handcrafted in artist's resin for realism and wears an elaborate replica of Lucy's Harpo Marx costume, including Harpo's trademark trench coat. Best of all, at the push of a button, she plays sound bites from the "Harpo Marx" episode, as well as the beloved I LOVE LUCY theme song. There's no doubt she'll be the centerpiece of your I LOVE LUCY memorabilia collection, but strong demand is expected, so hurry. Order now!
- It's hats off to two comedic legends with this officially-licensed I LOVE LUCY® Lucy and Harpo Marx fashion doll, the perfect tribute to the classic "Harpo Marx" episode, available only from The Ashton-Drake Galleries
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Giving away another two prizes this week. First is a signed copy of my book "Handwritten Recipes" - which comes with a bonus. I am also including one of the original recipes featured in the book and the 1944 cookbook it was found in, "How To Cook" by Marjorie Griffin.
This week's other prize is this vintage set of Rudyard Kipling in matching bindings:
Contest now closed, winner announced shortly.
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You've probably heard that Looper was a pretty good movie. You know who agrees with you? Jason Reitman, director of Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult, and the son of Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman. Jason took time out of his day to pen a lengthy essay for Entertainment Weekly why Looper is not only one of the year's best films, but deserves to be recognized as such with an Academy Award.
Here's a fun fact… you know what Alien, Blade Runner, Close Encounters and The Matrix have in common? I mean, outside of being timeless groundbreaking movies that changed the way we watch cinema. None of these films were acknowledged for their screenplays - which makes me wonder, is it just because they have flying cars and hyperbaric sleep chambers and creatures with acid in their blood? Perhaps we're so thoroughly engrossed that we dismiss how these films triumph in their examination of complicated ideas. Or maybe, as writers, we have some sort of prejudice against futuristic costume and production design.
If you break it down, at the center of these great science fiction movies are traditional writerly themes: mid-life crisis, motherhood, gender equality, and the fragility of human experience. Alien asked ground breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. The Matrix delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.
Looper isn't a film about time travel. It isn't a film about telekinetic powers. It isn't about flying motorcycles or eye drop hallucinogens. It uses these concepts as well as any science fiction film I've seen, but it also knows the difference between a prop and a story. Time travel is a prop. Looper is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.
Looper is so deftly told that it's easy to forget how difficult the maneuvers are that Rian Johnson is pulling off with grace and sophistication. His screenplay employs unparalleled structural fluidity, complicated and moving visions of the future, and a language of its own invention that is somehow foreign and yet just in our grasp. It's size and ambition slip by the eyes and ears so stealthily and by the way … it's an independently made film! Never has it been more important to consider the unique routes innovative stories take as they navigate their way to the big screen. One can only imagine what might have happened to Johnson's screenplay had it been forced to pass through more hands.
There's an unfortunate probability that the most original of the original screenplays this year has a chance of being overlooked. Rian Johnson's Looper is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them. A beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.
I personally trust the power of the Academy to bestow awards on dserving films as much as I can throw them, and since the Academy is an organization of people, I can't throw them at all. Still, it's nice when artists like Reitman go out of their way to praise the works of their peers.
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The Skinny: I was out of town Thursday on assignment and didn't get back home until about 1 a.m., so I'm groggy and wired at the same time. Friday's roundup includes the box office preview as well as a story about ABC possibly selling its stations. Also, the confirmation of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is being held up. Go Dodgers!
Daily Dose: While broadcasters wait to see if the Supreme Court will hear its case to shut down Aereo, the start-up that delivers local TV station signals to consumers via the Internet continues to launch in new cities. On Friday, Aereo said it will launch in Detroit at the end of the month. Now the question is how long until the broadcasters sue them there too.
Don't mess with Carrie. "Gravity" has dominated the box office for the last two weekends. But this weekend a remake of "Carrie" may bring "Gravity" back to earth. Both are projected to pull in just more than $30 million. The other two new movies opening are "Escape Plan," starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and "The Fifth Estate," about Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder. Neither of those are expected to set the world on fire. Box office previews from the Los Angeles Times and Variety.
Cruz control. Republican Senator Ted Cruz is holding up the vote to confirm Tom Wheeler as new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Cruz wants Wheeler to answer questions about new FCC rules regarding how political advertising information is disclosed to the public. Though such information has always been available, new FCC rules puts such information online, which has raised concerns in some corners. More from Reuters.
For sale sign? The New York Post says Walt Disney is looking into selling its local TV stations but not the ABC network. It's a sellers' market for TV stations, so the properties would fetch a pretty penny, but such a move seems a little odd if the network is also not for sale. Broadcasters see retransmission consent fees as a huge revenue stream, so why would Disney turn its back on that? Never say never, but I'd take this one with a grain of salt.
Back to the future. Sean Combs' new cable channel Revolt will look to do what MTV stopped doing, making and breaking music stars. The network launches next week in 25 million homes and will target 18-to-34-year-olds. These days, music videos live online via YouTube and other sites. Combs thinks he can woo that audience back. And hey, it beats going on "Dancing With the Stars," which he almost did when he had a new release to promote. The Wall Street Journal talks to Combs about Revolt.
New team. To replace Oren Aviv, who was bounced from his job as marketing chief for 20th Century Fox, the studio has tapped Paul Hanneman and Tomas Jegeus from its international operations to take over the gig. Details on the hire from Variety.
Inside the Los Angeles Times: Kenneth Turan on "12 Years a Slave." Geneva Overholser on a new book on Rupert Murdoch by NPR's David Folkenflick.
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Verbal and non verbal communication: communicate better, build lasting relationships, help your child to talk.
Six Ways to Help Your Child Talk: Activities to Encourage Your Child's First Words
I write this Communication Blog
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Frances Evesham: on the run around Europe for years, with only a husband, three children and a succession of opinionated cats to keep me out of trouble. Somerset stopped me in my tracks. Now I walk in the country and breathe sea air. I will get around to cleaning the house soon.
I've been a speech therapist, a professional communication fiend and a road sweeper. I sometimes work in the criminal courts to uphold fair questioning of people with special needs.
I smell the roses, lavender and rosemary as I cook with a glass of wine in one hand and a bunch of chillies in the other. Writing historical romances and books on communication leaves enough time to enjoy bad jokes and puns and wish I'd kept on with the piano lessons.


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Even if producers have propane contracted at a reasonable rate, the recent spike in propane prices is additional incentive for pork producers to conserve heating energy, says Jay Harmon, Iowa State University extension livestock production systems specialist.
"Often the first idea for saving heating fuel in hog buildings is to add insulation," Harmon says, "However, ventilation management should actually come first because more than 80% of the heat loss in a swine building is due to improper ventilation."
Harmon offers pork producers these tips for conserving propane this winter:
Proper ventilation rate
The goal during colder months is to control moisture and ammonia as much as possible. Underventilating a building will result in poor air quality and may cause health and growth problems with pigs. Conversely, over ventilating by just 20% can increase propane usage by 50%.
In some cases, especially in wean to finish buildings, minimum ventilation fans may be too large, too many fans are used or the percent speed setting may be too high.
If over ventilation is occurring and you are using two fans for minimum ventilation, try turning off one fan and running the remaining one at a higher speed. Monitor air quality to be sure you are providing enough air. The percentage shown in the controller is likely not the percentage of fan capacity so it may take time to find the appropriate setting.
Adjust the temperature
The proper temperature is important for energy efficiency. Observe the pigs to determine their comfort level. If pigs are too cold, they will huddle and pile up when resting. If they're too warm, they will avoid each other. Adjust the temperature so pigs sleep side by side but not in a pile. Just a few degrees difference can save a substantial amount of propane.
Adjust the heater
The controller should be adjusted so that minimum ventilation fan speed never increases while the heater is cycling. If the heater runs, then shuts down and you can hear a fan increase its speed, it means that the heater is shutting off too close to the setpoint. If you hear this happening, simply adjust the heater to shut off at a slightly lower temperature. In the case of one producer, it was documented that setting the heater to shut off one-half degree lower saved 3.75 gallons of LP per furnace per day.
Adjust the ventilation when using brooders
Some producers use brooders for small pigs. This allows them to keep the room cool, but the pigs feel warmer due to localized heating. If the setpoint is low, for instance 70 degrees, extra fans may switch on to maintain this cool temperature in the room. A better approach is to set the room setpoint just above the brooder temperature, 85 degrees for example, but to have your heater turn off at a lower temperature, such as 70 degrees. By preventing fans from cycling too early, this technique retains more heat in the building rather than discarding it through the ventilation system.
Seal leaks
Air leaks such as holes in ventilation curtains, leaky fan louvers or cracks around doors may create cold spots, which cause heaters to run longer than necessary. Eliminate these and other leaks to maintain air quality and to reduce propane consumption.
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N.D. Supreme Court
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North Dakota Judicial Conference
November 19, 2012
Seven Seas Hotel
Mandan, ND
Chair Carol Ronning Kapsner called the business meeting of the Judicial Conference to order at 9:01 a.m. on November 19, 2012. Sally Holewa, State Court Administrator, called the roll:
Justices of Supreme Court
Gerald W. VandeWalle
Dale V. Sandstrom
Mary Muehlen Maring
Carol Ronning Kapsner
Daniel J. Crothers
Judges of District Court
Donovan Foughty
Laurie A. Fontaine
M. Richard Geiger
John C. McClintock, Jr.
Michael G. Sturdevant
Debbie Gordon Kleven
Joel D. Medd
John T. Paulson
John E. Greenwood
Thomas E. Merrick
Daniel D. Narum
Jay A. Schmitz
Frank L. Racek
John C. Irby
Steven L. Marquart
Steven E. McCullough
Lisa K. Fair McEvers
Wade L. Webb
Gail Hagerty
Sonna M. Anderson
Cynthia M. Feland
David E. Reich
Bruce Romanick
Thomas J. Schneider
Zane Anderson
H. Patrick Weir
William W. McLees
Douglas L. Mattson
David W. Nelson
Joshua B. Rustad
Judges of Municipal Court
DeNae C.H. Kautmann
Robert A. Keogh
Surrogate Judges
Ronald E. Goodman
Benny Graff
William F. Hodny
Everett Nels Olson
Allan L. Schmalenberger
Kirk Smith
Attorney General
Wayne K. Stenehjem
Clerk of the Supreme Court
Penny Miller
Members of the Bar
Michael F. Daley
Sherry Mills Moore
A quorum was declared and the business meeting proceeded.
Chair Kapsner welcomed judge-elect Dann Greenwood and judge-elect Brad Cruff to the conference.
Chair Kapsner announced that the membership of the Committee on Legislation has recently changed. Justice Dale Sandstrom was named chair of the Committee and Judge John Irby and Judge Doug Mattson were named to the committee. She then called on Justice Sandstrom to lead the discussion on proposed legislation.
Justice Sandstrom said that the duties of the Committee on Legislation are to solicit, receive and evaluate suggestions relating to the administration of justice and review proposed legislation that may affect the operation of the judicial branch. He said there is a need to establish a method for review of proposed legislation. The committee recommends that the Judicial Conference adopt the following method:
1. The Committee on Legislation will receive and evaluate suggestions from members and review proposed legislation;
2. If the committee determines that the suggestion or proposed legislation relates to the administration of justice or affects the operation of the judicial branch, the committee will use electronic means to notify the members of the Judicial Conference and solicit comments on the suggestion or proposed legislation;
3. The Committee on Legislation may take a stance either supporting or opposing the proposed legislation;
4. The Committee on Legislation may draft proposed legislation and seek legislative sponsors to carry bills on behalf of the Judicial Conference.
Justice Sandstrom moved that the Judicial Conference adopt the proposed recommendation as explained. The motion was seconded by Judge Medd.
In response to a question regarding whether the use of electronic means of communication was allowable under the open records laws, Justice Sandstrom indicated that he believed it was because the Judicial Conference had delegated the authority to act to a subcommittee and because the subcommittee will not be inviting discussion but simply notifying members of the opportunity to comment. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said that under the open records laws entities can conduct business via email however they need to follow the requirements for posting notice. He said his office will advise the conference on what needs to be done to meet those requirements.
The motion carried.
Justice Sandstrom then outlined the legislative proposals that were before the conference for discussion:
1. A bill to align judicial terms of offices with the election cycles;
2. A bill to eliminate specific references to kinds of cases that can be delegated to judicial referees;
3. A bill to clarify that per page transcript rates are set by supreme court rule or policy;
4. A bill to amend various statutes to remove district court judge involvement in certain non-judicial duties;
5. A bill to create a new section of ch. 27-02 relating to a judicial emergency;
6. A bill to eliminate the requirement that the court return bail to third parties and to allow bail to be applied to any child support owed and to past-due fines and fees anywhere in the state;
7. A bill to repeal individual court fees and replace them with a single fee;
8. A bill to allow a judge to summarily dismiss a petition for post-conviction relief; and
9. A suggestion that the Judicial Conference recommend a bill that would establish a statute of limitations for bringing post-conviction relief petitions consistent with the federal statutes.
The floor was then opened for discussion. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem stated that the current law on bail was changed to allow a third party who posts bail to get their money back and questioned if the intent of the proposal was to eliminate this provision. Judge Mattson responded that under the current statute, bail can still be applied to fines even if it was posted by a third party. Judge Racek clarified that the bail bill arose from a discussion in the Odyssey User Group on how to streamline the workload. He said that having to track information on bail remitters is labor intensive because law enforcement does not always gather the necessary information and because it requires the clerk to issue refund checks. He said the bill, as proposed, would clarify that the court can apply bail money posted in a particular county to any fines and fees owed anywhere in the state. He said the bill would add child support obligations to the list of financial obligations for which bail could be applied. In response to a question, he said that a third party could ask for a hearing in which they could request the court order the bail be returned to them.
Judge Racek said the fees bill would eliminate seven different court fees and replace them with a single fee that would then be divided by percentage. He said the bill was necessary because calculations are a problem for courts using Odyssey Session Works. The software does not handle addition and subtraction well so the clerks have to manually calculate costs. He said he reviewed five years of revenue data to come up with the percentages and the suggested fee schedule. He said the bill is intended to be revenue neutral. He said one significant difference is that in those counties where the state's attorney is responsible for collecting and disbursing restitution, the restitution collection fee for non-sufficient fund checks would be added as actual restitution instead of maintained as a separate fee and that state's attorneys would need to issue a check to their office for the amount of the restitution collection fee. In all other counties, the restitution collection fee would be added to court fees and paid into the general fund.
Chief Justice VandeWalle commented that he wants to make sure that if the court decides to carry a bill forward, the person who proposed the legislation is going to be there to testify on it.
In response to a question, staff attorney Jim Ganje stated that the Alternatives to Incarceration Committee was supposed to do an interim study on court fees but the study did not occur.
In response to a question, Judge Racek said the proposed bill on fees is flexible enough to accommodate the legislature changing the percentages or enacting new fees.
In response to a question, Judge Racek said the proposed bill on fees would have no impact on fees charged by local community service programs.
Discussion then turned to the proposals regarding post-conviction relief. Justice Sandstrom indicated that in addition to the bill draft submitted by Judge Christofferson and the suggestion submitted by Judge Hovey, there has been recent North Dakota caselaw on post-conviction relief case that should be considered.
In response to an informal poll, there was unanimous agreement of the membership that the issue of post-conviction relief should be referred to the Committee on Legislation for study.
Surrogate Judge Olson made a motion to have the Committee on Legislation look at the various suggestions on post-conviction relief and prepare a bill draft, if the state's attorneys association is not already working on this issue. The motion was seconded by Judge Fair McEvers. The motion carried.
Judge Irby made a motion that the Judicial Conference support the bills on bail and fees that came from the Administrative Council. Judge McLees seconded the motion. The motion carried.
Chair Kapsner then called on Justice Crothers to report on the activities of the Court Services Administration Committee in regard to self-represented litigants. Justice Crothers reported that in response to testimony from clerks of court that they spend up to 10% of their time assisting self-represented litigants and from trial court judges that self-represented litigants often appear for hearings unprepared to proceed, the committee recommended that the court consider establishing a court facilitator position. As envisioned, the court facilitator would be connected with the state law library and would be responsible for assisting litigants by explaining court procedures and answering questions about documents. The recommendation was adopted by the Supreme Court and the position has been included in the court's 2013-2015 budget request.
Chair Kapsner then called on Chief Justice VandeWalle to report on the court's plan for new judgeships. Chief Justice VandeWalle stated that the supreme court is proposing three new judgeships, two for the Northwest Judicial District and one for the East Central Judicial District. The court will also be asking for three new support staff positions to serve as court reporters/recorder for the new judges.
Chair Kapsner next called on Judge Paulson to discuss his concerns with the 24/7 sobriety program. Judge Paulson said he is concerned about the procedure for violations of the program. Currently, a warrant is issued based on the affidavit of the tester. The defendant is then located and jailed without an opportunity to argue for bail or request counsel. He asked where in the current procedure defendants are allowed to present their side of the story. Judge Hagerty said that she views the 24/7 program as a condition of bond. If she receives a report of violation, she will revoke the bond immediately but will set a hearing if defense requests it. She contrasted this procedure to a probation violation where if a violation is alleged, no action is taken until the state's attorney petitions for revocation. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem offered to have the person from his office that is in charge of the program contact Judge Paulson to work out a procedure. Judge Sonna Anderson said that in addition to Judge Paulson's concerns, she also has an issue with defendants being held in jail because they do not have enough cash on hand to pre-pay their testing fee.
Michael Daley moved and Justice Crothers seconded that the minutes of the June 14, 2012 meeting be approved. The motion carried and the minutes were approved.
There being no further business, the meeting was ended at 9:58 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Sally Holewa
State Court Administrator
Executive Secretary to the Judicial Conference


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As the 2009 MLB season inches closer, you can see the fledgling MLB network really hitting its stride. Then last night likable host Matt Vasgersian said "fuck" into an open mic. Video after jump.
Because of this incident, the network lost all of its sponsorships and has been relegated to cable access. It now airs for one hour immediately after "The Robin Byrd Show." No, no, no — of course not. And to be fair, many people get that whole Fernando Valenzuela/Fernando Vina thing messed up. Many white people that is.
And is "What the fuck was that?" the default reaction for all sports anchors when they flub something on-air?
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They may be of different political persuasions, but many row-crop farmers will applaud the introduction of a one-year extension of the 2002 farm bill by a group of Democratic Congressmen.
Collin Peterson, D-Minn., ranking member on the Agriculture Committee, and Jim Costa, D-Calif., say the extension would provide certainty to farmers and allow U.S. negotiators to focus on the ongoing WTO Doha Development Round negotiations.
"With farmers facing record energy costs, natural disasters, low commodity prices and cuts in farm programs, this bill assures they can count on the farm bill to continue in its current form until we see what the Doha Round could mean for American agriculture," Peterson said.
The bill would extend the commodity title through crop year 2008 and the remaining titles through either fiscal year or calendar year 2008, depending on their expiration date. An additional one-year extension would occur if the President does not submit implementing legislation based on the outcome of the Doha Round by Jan. 15, 2008.
"An extension will encourage our global trading partners to work toward a level playing field and give us time to analyze the outcome of the Doha Round before rewriting our own farm policy," said Costa.
The Congressmen said the bill would take some of the pressure off U.S. negotiators by ensuring that U.S. negotiators "do not have to rush through the negotiating process" to deliver a trade pact to Congress before a new farm bill is written.
Administration reaction to the proposed legislation is expected to be lukewarm. Although hundreds of farmers speaking at USDA's farm bill forums have said they like the current law, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns says most of the benefits go to a small number of farmers, driving up land prices and frustrating would-be growers.
President Bush has also pledged that the United States will significantly reduce its farm subsidies. And, although the United States tabled a proposal to reduce those by 60 percent in the Doha Round, developing countries, led by Brazil, are demanding it do more.
Peterson, Costa and the bill's 15 cosponsors say the United States should not begin to dismantle its farm bill while the Doha Development Round is still being negotiated.
World Trade Organization leaders planned to have an agreement on the agricultural segment of the Doha Round for the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference in mid-December. But the European Union's reluctance to open its markets to more imports has put that agenda in jeopardy.
Johanns and U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman told reporters on Nov. 14 that they believe such an agreement can still be reached in the Doha Round in 2006, but that pushes the negotiations back into the timetable Congress was expected to use for writing a new farm bill.
Some will call the farm bill extension – like the Democrats forcing the Senate into a closed session on Iraq – grandstanding. But it's refreshing to see the minority party proposing alternatives to the status quo.
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New Yamaha V MAX SHO 90 is Strongest of all Outboards in its Class
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Yamaha is welcoming another show stopper to the legendary V MAX SHO® family. The newest model for 2018 is the V MAX SHO 90, the strongest of all the 90-horsepower outboards available on the market.
What makes the V MAX SHO 90 a show-stopper is class-leading torque and top end speed, which is a plus for mid-sized bass boats, multi-species boats, and other freshwater fishing boats. The new outboard makes yet another welcomed addition to Yamaha's leading brand legacy in the outboard saltwater market for inshore boats, and especially small-to-mid-sized skiffs and flats boats.
"The new V MAX SHO 90 is the perfect power solution for boaters looking to replace an older two-stroke 90-horsepower outboard with the clean, quiet efficiency of a four-stroke," said Ben Speciale, President, Yamaha Marine Group.
Repowering an inshore or multi-species boat with the new V MAX SHO 90 adds an entirely new performance edge to the horsepower category with the reliability of Yamaha. How it does that is with a single overhead camshaft that drives four valves per cylinder, delivering more power from less weight.
What's even better is the V MAX SHO 90 delivers the quiet operation that is unique to Yamaha outboards. When stealth counts in shallow water angling the quiet approach is a must to avoid spooking the fish.
You get an even more tactical angling advantage with Yamaha propellers that feature the exclusive Shift Dampener System™ (SDS™), such as the Talon® SS4™ SDS propeller. That combination makes the V MAX SHO 90 even quieter when slipping up on spooky fish.
Four-stroke technology means an outboard that runs quieter with greater fuel economy and overall reliability. Yet another benefit for boaters needing a 90-horsepower class outboard is the lack of need for an oil tank. The benefit is more storage space for batteries and other gear.
Even better, the new V MAX SHO 90 can be rigged with Yamaha's award-winning multifunction tiller handle. This fan favorite revolutionized tiller-handle operation and fishing. The award-winning, ergonomic design allows for easier shifting, better grip and less rotation from idle to wide open throttle. It also features the Variable Trolling RPM Switch (VTS®), which enables adjustment of trolling speeds in 50-RPM increments and sub-idle trolling on some models.
The V MAX SHO 90 also features a full 35 amps of alternator power for more reliability and a long-span mounting system for less vibration. Bundle it all up, and the V MAX SHO 90 truly is a show-stopper for outboards in its class.
The new outboard makes its 2018 public debut at the Chicago Boat, RV & Sail Show (Jan. 10-14), at McCormick Place, and at the Minneapolis Boat Show (Jan. 11-14), at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
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It's Product Review Friday again and this is Week 3 of our 3rd annual Holiday Gift Giving Guide.
This week we welcome back two of our favorite retailers, who always send us delightful goodies to review.
First up, a uniquely shaped butt plug from Vibrator.com. They are the purveyors of fine sex toys. Dr Dick Review Crew member, Carlos, shows us around.
Tantus Dipper —— $31.00
I've been following my fellow Review Crew member's comments about the Tantus products we've received for review. You can see these reviews HERE. I've been hoping to get a crack at one of these beauties myself. So when Dr Dick asked me if I wanted to review the Tantus Dipper I jumped at the opportunity.
I am a huge fan of butt plugs and, over the years, I've collected a nice selection of prostate stimulators that I take for a ride at least a couple of times a week. Sometime I wear one or another of them for hours at a time. I love going shopping with one in my ass. The tedium of grocery shopping becomes a fun outing. I have huge smile on my face and everyone wonders why I'm so cheerful. If they only knew!
The Tantus Dipper is the perfect tool for your honey pot. And it's a doubleheader too. You can use either end! One end is shaped like a honey dipper with loads of ridges. The other end is spherical and it pops into my ass like a single anal bead. Between the two ends is the traditional butt plug notch, a narrow neck, that allows my sphincter muscles to clap down on it, keeping whatever end I have in my hole safely in place. PERFECT!
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And now a couple toys from our friends at Adult Sex Toys .com. First, here's Dr Dick Review Crew member, Denise.
Roulette High Roller —— $73.41
Damn, the Roulette High Roller is pink! Not your pastel pink either; more like your shockingly crazy day-glo-pink variety. Pink is not my favorite color, by a long shot, but I didn't let the color of the Roulette High Roller get in the way of me enjoying this delightful vibe. You shouldn't let the color get in the way either.
The Roulette High Roller has just about everything I look for in a vibrator. There is a nice texture to the beautifully soft silicone shaft. It's waterproof! And it has a pinwheel device that adjusts the variable vibration speed. There are no vibration patterns. But from my point of view, having a bunch of vibration modes is completely overrated. Give me a good strong steady vibration, and I'm a happy gal. And the more simple the controller the better. What gives with all the elaborate control panels on vibes these days? When I use a vibrator I want to get off, I don't want to go to the moon!
The Roulette High Roller is mighty quite too.
Because the Roulette High Roller is silicone, it's nonporous, phthalates-free, hypoallergenic and latex-free. It's also brilliantly easy to clean — mild soap and water will do, or wipe it down with a 10% bleach solution, rubbing alcohol or peroxide. Because it's waterproof, you don't have to worry about submerging it in soapy water for a thorough cleaning. This is really important to me. I'm very leery about insertable toys you can't thoroughly clean. The Roulette High Roller comes packaged in its own reusable plastic storage box too. Good thinking, Evolved Novelties!
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Finally Dr Dick Review Crew member, Christa, has a Fun Factory vibe to show us.
Fun Factory's Layaspot —— $57.53
This is the Layaspot by Fun Factory. It's a sweet looking little vibe perfect for clit stimulation. It has a kick-ass ergonomic shape that straddles my mons for some hands-free pleasuring. The business end of the vibe is in the wider end, but I can feel the vibration throughout the whole vibe. This wider, flatter end fits up against my clit nicely and delivers a great full genital massage. And I don't even have to move it around.
There are two buttons on the spine of the vibe; one marked + and one marked —. These regulate the eight levels of vibration and three pulsation modes. I found operating these little buttons a problem. Turning it on and off isn't particularly difficult, but it takes a lot of finger strength to keep the buttons depressed long enough to switch the vibrations modes. I didn't like that.
The unit is only 4" long, made of a hard plastic with a softer skid-resistant coating. The package says it is phthalates free, hypoallergenic and latex free. The Layaspot is powered by a couple of AAA –batteries. But getting into the battery compartment is if bitch. Who designed this, some he-man? I wound up having to use my mother's jar opener to open the Layaspot. Closing it properly is also a challenge. I thought I had it right till the plastic battery compartment top popped off during use. D'oh! Ok, so that was my fault.
The Layaspot is not waterproof; they say it's splash proof. What exactly does splash proof really mean anyhow? It tells me the manufacturer couldn't bother to make a watertight seal on the toy, that's what it says to me. I figure a toy is either waterproof or it's not. Splash proof shouldn't be a selling point, IMHO. Listen, maybe this isn't a big thing for others, but it is for me. Not just in terms of use, but also in terms of cleaning. A vibe that costs near $60 should, I think, be waterproof. That is if you ask me.
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There were 11 gang shootings in Los Angeles over this year's Father's Day weekend, a holiday that can be bittersweet for young men alienated from their fathers. Deputy Mayor Guillermo Cespedes, who heads Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's anti-gang efforts, was so distraught over the carnage that he dragged himself home at the end of the weekend and sat down to write his letter of resignation. He labored over it for an hour or so. Then he put the letter away and went back to work.
Modest, insightful and slightly rumpled, Cespedes is one of Los Angeles' most quietly effective city leaders, despite having what must be one of its least-enviable responsibilities: Day in, day out, he spearheads the effort to reduce gang violence. It's a draining task, with few political rewards and the omnipresent possibility of disaster.
Other city officials — those who work in such areas as transportation or housing or planning — measure their work in time saved, constituents served, projects completed. For Cespedes, it's measured in lives. "My normal," he said after another tough stretch recently, "is not their normal."
The business of addressing gang violence is part research and part experiential; it requires being rigorous about results while being open to improvisation. This year, for instance, one of Cespedes' gang-intervention workers suggested introducing softball into the city's nighttime sports offerings. Why? It's competitive but low contact, and players can talk to each other during lulls in the game. That fosters more collegiality than bitterness.
Anecdotally, the softball games were a successful addition to Cespedes' program — known as GRYD, for Gang Reduction and Youth Development. And there are hard numbers to suggest that the program overall is succeeding. According to a study by the Urban Institute, since GRYD began operating, gang crimes have fallen by 21.6%, faster than crime overall in the city; in the two years before it opened, they dropped 14.9%. Moreover, GRYD is reaching large numbers of at-risk youngsters: Young people enrolled in the program were 29% less likely to skip class, while those from the same neighborhoods not in the program increased the amount they cut class by 53%.
Cespedes is a native of Cuba who speaks in a soft voice with a gentle accent, forming his sentences precisely and deflecting compliments. He's been working in community service for 30 years, starting in New York and working his way west. A decade ago, he launched a gang-prevention program in Baldwin Village and, on the success of that model, came to work for Villaraigosa. Since then, GRYD's Summer Night Lights program has attracted national attention (mayors from across the country dropped in on it a few weeks ago) and has become a centerpiece of the city's efforts.
Last week, Cespedes and I spent an evening at the Lou Costello Jr. Recreation Center in Boyle Heights, squarely between the turf claimed by the 18th Street gang and that dominated by the Varrio Nuevo Estrada. Over the years, the border has been a contested one as the two gangs have sparred over everything from girlfriends to the drug trade. And yet, on this night, the park was teeming with families lined up for chicken nachos and young boys and girls "shuffling," the dance style currently the rage in this part of town.
Miguel Leon, who grew up in the neighborhood, was running things at the park, and he eyed the crowd with pride. When he was a kid, Leon remembers, life consisted of school, study, home, maybe the occasional concert in Belvedere Park. But this program has given the community a nighttime center, an oasis from the gang activity that surrounds and suffuses it. "The symbolism of having something like this," Leon added, nodding beneath his beret, "it's really beautiful."
So it seems. All summer, this park — one of 32 such sites in Los Angeles — has hummed with parents and children, teenagers on skateboards, softball and soccer players. Gang members come and go, but they don't dominate the scene; police drop in regularly. And the biggest conflict of the summer was a shoving match over someone cutting in the food line one night.
GRYD doesn't operate alone. It works closely with various programs, and it has an especially important and delicate relationship with the Los Angeles Police Department. The gang-intervention workers who report to Cespedes are there to steer young people away from gangs and to thwart the retaliatory killings that turn one gang killing into a spree. But they're not there to arrest. That falls to the LAPD, where Chief Charlie Beck is an enthusiastic supporter of Cespedes and his work.
Beck worried that Cespedes was too modest to tout his work. So the chief made sure I understood. "GRYD," he said, "is one of the best things this city has done in the last 10 years."


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Google's Andy Rubin tonight on Google+ announced that more than 700,000 Android devices are being activated every day. That's 29,166 devices (more or less) activated every hour. Or 486 devices every minute, or by the time you finish reading this post.
Rubin also explained what counts as an "activation," saying:
"We count each device only once (ie, we don't count re-sold devices), and "activations" means you go into a store, buy a device, put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service."
That's up just a skosh from the 500,000 devices Rubin announced in June. Dang.
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This is the 13th part of an app series which aims to help language learning. At the time we plan to publish 24 picture dictionaries and a lot of educational games to help our users. Our 13th picture dictionary helps you to learn words related to vehicles. The app contains 96 words with pictures and voice reading.
Learning modes
1. Gallery
You can browse all the words of the app. You can navigate with the gallery view which is at the top of the activity (you can scroll it to the left and the right, click to select a picture) or with the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen.
2. List
In the List learning mode you can see all the words of the app with their associated photo in alphabetical order. You can filter the list if you want to find a special word. By clicking on a word it will appear in a separate window, so you will see a larger photo and you can play the pronunciation of the word.
3. Randomize
You get a random word if you click on the Randomize button.
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You can learn the words filtered by their categories too. Choose a category from the list to get all the words associated with it. English Picture Dictionary 1 (People) contains two categories: People and Relationships and the Human Body.
Every game contains 20 random question. Try to answer as fast as you can because your points decrease with time.
1. Guess the Word
The aim of the game is to guess the correct word associated with the photo you see. Only one answer is correct out of the 4 options.
2. Guess the Picture
You have to guess which photo is correct.
3. Enter the Word
Maybe this game mode is the hardest because you have to type in the word. It's the best way to practice spelling!
Other functions
In the Settings you can choose when the app should read the words: always, on button click only or never.
In the High Scores you can see your top 20 result ordered by earned points and time.
In the Info menu you can see our contacts (Facebook, Google+, Youtube, Blogger) or read about the app.
In the Play menu beside the 3 game mode you can find more free apps and games from us (Muhari Games) and from our Sponsors.
Planned updates:
-Integrating Google's social gaming platform when it will be released.
-Adding more words.
-Other languages.
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Religious Scholar Cites 4 Reasons
to Support Space Exploration
Despite slashing government budgets on everything from entitlement to defense programs, NASA is proceeding with its $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Central to the mission's success is Curiosity – a one-ton rover that continues to impress Earthlings with laser blasts for rock samples, mobility via a joystick and plenty of video and pictures. On all accounts, the mission, which may provide answers to questions of life on Mars, has so far been a wild success.
"With this Mars program, NASA has once again captured the imaginations of people throughout the world, instigating conversations about the universe and even the significance of life not only on Earth, but also on other planets," says Sanjay C. Patel, (www.SanjayCPatel.com), author of "God Is Real," a book that explores similarities between modern science and ancient cosmology.
Science and religion do not conflict with each other; they are different languages that ultimately lead to the same truth, he says. As science has done in the past, Patel suspects more data from extraterrestrial locations like Mars will continue to confirm ancient religious theories. He discusses four reasons why the Mars mission is well worth the expense.
• 2012 meets 1492 – an argument for resources: It's not just science-fiction anymore; prominent scientists like Steven Hawking say Earth's moon, Mars and Titan, a moon of Saturn, have resources people will need sooner rather than later. The main reason – the world's explosive growth in human population and the exponential consumption of land and other necessities. What we might find, Patel says, is a scenario very much like that which early Europeans experienced in the New World: new foods, reams of building supplies, new fuels, land and other resources. We may discover things that will become essential to future human beings.
• A spiritual-scientific connection: Science has confirmed what religion posited more than a millennium ago, Patel says. For example, scientific findings have confirmed what ancient Yogis said: That volcanic fire scorched India about 120 million years ago. Related volcanoes in the ocean south of India submerged about 117 million years ago. "The submarine Fire exists in the ocean," he says, quoting ancient Yogis. "It drinks the seawater and removes its saltiness. It then expels the desalinated water from another opening. … That perfectly describes the undersea volcanoes and hydrothermal vents near India."
• If we're not moving forward … Predictions as to where we'd be with space exploration in 2012 were quite ambitious during the race to the moon in the 1960s. But we haven't accomplished a lot since then. Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson recently argued that we're still reaping the benefits of the research and development that went into the space race decades ago, and to negate space exploration is to turn off one of humanity's most important dimensions – our ambition to innovate.
• Alien life may not be so alien: As the European discovery of the New World revealed, the meeting of foreign civilizations can have disastrous consequences. However, the discovery of life elsewhere, whether or not it is intelligent or self-aware, can further enlighten us as to our origins, our reason for being, and our role in the universe, Patel says.
About Sanjay C. Patel
Sanjay C. Patel studied theology, Sanskrit, ancient cosmology, advanced yoga and meditation techniques, among many other subjects, earning a degree in Divinity at the BAPS Swaminarayan Ashram in India. He continued studies of modern science and ancient spiritual texts for 30 years. His discoveries regarding the convergence of science and ancient texts were published in mainstream science journals and presented at the 22nd International Congress of History of Science in Beijing.


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27 March 2010
Frieda Hughes on the breakup of her parents marriage
Read "The Poison that Drove Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Apart" by Frieda Hughes, the daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
With thanks to ~VC for the link to Frieda's article.
19 comments :
I see once again the illustrations used are of baby Frieda, as we must always be reminded to THINK OF THE CHILDREN, despite those "children" are actually old enough to be parents/grandparents at this point.
In this case, however, I think that manipulation has the opposite effect. Frieda was a toddler during the breakup of her parents' marriage and spent the rest of her life listening to her father bitch about his mother-in-law. She is the most reliable source.
But more importantly, I find it annoying that she only she can talk about these people. I respect they are her parents, but she can't stamp her feet for privacy one minute then sell her stories to the press the next.
Stay classy, Frieda.
- 28 March, 2010 06:27
she is NOT the most reliable source!
- 28 March, 2010 06:28
- Peter K Steinberg said...
Frieda has written some not-so-nice poetry about her maternal grandmother, who she probably knew better than her own mother. See poems in Waxworks and The Book of Mirrors particularly. See "Preparing the Ground" in the latter. How a two year-old can have these memories & impressions is remarkable.
The full article by Frieda isn't seemingly available in this country so I'm a disadvantage for full comprehension of the article. However, another source of the poison is certainly Olwyn Hughes.
The Lilly Library holds correspondence from 1963 after Plath's death. Aurelia Plath, who did not travel to England for Plath's funeral, corresponded with her son Warren and daughter-in-law Margaret who stayed in England for much of the month. Those letters do give a foundation of support that Aurelia was trying to get the children to America. This is something she attempted to do for much of the year, including her subsequent visit that summer. I recall in the Letters of Ted Hughes this subject coming up. But, from Aurelia Plath's perspective why shouldn't she try this given her son-in-law adultery and abandonement of his family & responsibilities? She had no reason to think that Ted Hughes would or could take care of the children. And the succession of help he had in the 1960s could go some way in proving AP to have been right. However, there is strong evidence that TH did turn out to be a very good father.
There does seem to be an inconsistency with what outsiders aloud to say on the matter versus what she is allowed to say. Especially given her comment(earlier this decade I beleive) about the fact that scholars & readers of Plath likely know her mother better than she did. The only thing to say that is we learned what we learned through research and study & there is enough good scholarship out there that she too could know what we know about her mother.
Thursday is Frieda's 50th Birthday. Happy early Birthday.
- 28 March, 2010 07:02
- Peter K Steinberg said...
I love technology. Having now read the article it reminds me of March: in like a lion out like a lamb. It is clear this was inspired by not being interviewed or quoted in last week's news about TH's Poets' Corner memorial as it attempts to usurp or deny or stake a claim that she was a "true" relation to TH and not Carol Hughes.
One point of contention that I'd like to clarify. Aurelia Plath did not visit Devon in late summer 1962, she was there from early to mid summer. By late summer she was back in Massachusetts.
- 28 March, 2010 08:15
Here's the link to Frieda's article which has since appeared online (I live in Europe outside the UK and can read it; hopefully US readers can now, too):
According to Bitter Fame, Mrs Plath arrived in the third week of June and headed back the States on August 4 1962, making Peter potentially a more reliable "witness" of events than Plath's daughter :-)
What surprised me about her article was that Frieda revealed that she and Nick did not consider Shura to be Hughes's child – both of them having been told that the young child was simply "Assia's daughter".
Have a good Sunday!
- 28 March, 2010 09:36
Oh dear, here we go again ! Who needs classical mythology-we've got Plath and Hughes !
Of course Frieda has (or is likely to have) views about this which were formed for many years by Ted Hughes himself.And he didn't like his mother-in-law.
Elizabeth Sigmund is quite right to say you can't "skirt around" the fact TH was having an affair-he WAS having an affair !
On the other hand,Mrs Plath was not an easy person, and could be domineering, and there IS evidence that she wanted Sylvia and the children to move to the United States following the break-up. (SP herself rejects this offer in a letter dating, I believe, from December 1962 or January 1963).
What I'm really trying to say is : the break-up, the acrimony, the tragic outcome, etc etc-none of it is attributable to one single cause. It could be argued that TH drifted into an affair because SP was a very difficult person to be married to-SP herself says several times in her Journals things like "I don't know how Ted stands me." I'm not offering bland excuses-I'm just trying to understand.
Ted Hughes was not a saint. Nor was he a demon. Ditto with SP. Ditto with Assia Wevill, too, though I know it's not easy for a lot of people to hear that.
I too get cross that Frieda Hughes bangs on about privacy and happily goes to the Press when she want to but hey ! we're all a mass of walking contradictions !
- 28 March, 2010 12:56
- Peter K Steinberg said...
Thanks ~VC for the link. I've updated the post to reflect the availability of the whole piece.
- 28 March, 2010 13:29
- Kristina Zimbakova said...
A three year old Frieda to remember conversations between her mother and her grandmother. Sorry, but this is just so ridiculous, and represents humiliation of readers' intelligence.
- 28 March, 2010 17:20
It's certainly natural that Frieda wishes to believe in her father's decency and to protect him in any context, esp. that of the breakup of the Plath-Hughes marriage and Plath's subsequent suicide. He is, after all, the parent she bonded with and knew for most of her life. But I agree that her repeated assertions that she 'heard this' or 'understood that' as a child of between 2 and 3years old seem far fetched. I have some very early memories from before I was 3, but they are fleeting and I have no psychological insights from that time, let alone an understanding of the relationships of the people around me at that age. Aurelia may have been complex and at times difficult to deal with, but I don't think it's unusual for her to have wanted her daughter and grandchildren to come live in the US as the marriage was breaking up. She must have seen how distraught Sylvia was and there was no one else alive - not Ted nor any of Plath's friends in the UK - who knew 1st hand what Sylvia had gone through when she first attempted suicide, but Aurelia. Aurelia must have known that the betrayal and loss of Ted was something that would prove very dangerous to Sylvia (as indeed it did) and she likely wanted to be able to be near her, to monitor her health and to be able to care for the children if and when necessary. That Frieda should paint her attempts to help Sylvia as the actions of a wicked witch attempting to steal the children away and banish their father from their lives shows very poor psychological insight or maturity. It may be useful in some way to Frieda to continue to hold Ted up in her mind and heart as a paragon of virtue, but it is hardly fair to the other people in her life that she continually suspects of the basest motives. I don't think Hughes is as dark as some would paint him, but he was human and he did have faults. I would hope that as Frieda is almost 50 she might approach the entire history of her parents marriage, her mothers death and her father's subsequent life, with a more open mind, and even to do in depth research of her own, as she is uniquely placed to do. But I think the emotional wounds are too deep and she's relied on her image of Ted for too long to allow any fissure in that edifice. At this point, I just feel badly for her. She can't have had an easy time of it psychologically and emotionally and with the rift with Carol Hughes, the death of Nicholas and her 3rd marriage ending, for her to see her beloved father as the "bad guy" would be one more loss and one she possibly could not take. It seems she has built quite a bit of her life on her relationship and views of her father and I don't see her ever changing her feelings or ceasing to defend him when necessary.
I did find the assertions that Shura was not thought of as her sister or as Ted's daughter as somewhat odd. It may be that as Ted's relationship with Assia was frowned upon by many, not the least by his parents, who lived at Court Green for a time, the paternity of Shura was not for open discussion. And it may have been that Ted did not want Frieda and Nick to bond with Shura as siblings if he knew things with Assia were not working out well. If you wanted to put the worst possible spin on it, I would guess that it is far more comforting to believe you are the only daughter of Ted Hughes, than to have to 'share him' with another daughter, even if that other daughter is not alive.
Peter, I do think you are astute to suggest that this article was timed to come out after no one asked her for her opinion on the Westminster Abbey honor and quoted Carol instead. kim
- 28 March, 2010 19:25
- Peter K Steinberg said...
Kim, you bring up an excellent point about the fragility of Plath in the wake of Hughes' infidelity and her mother's natural concern based on events from the summer nine years before. I said the very same thing to Elizabeth Sigmund.
And I also agree with Kristina that it is an insult to our intelligence.
- 29 March, 2010 09:19
- BridgetAnna said...
Thank you, Peter, for posting the links to these two articles. And thank you, other posters, for such fascinating reading and discussion and debate! I'm sorry that I don't have anything more to add to the discussion... I think I'm going to have to let your comments, and Frieda's article, simmer in my brain for a bit before I can come to any conclusions or thoughts worth posting.
- 29 March, 2010 19:35
The not-acknowledging of Shura by Ted Hughes leaves an unpleasant taste.I think you're right, Kim, to suggest that it wouldn't have been openly discussed in that milieu, not least because of the Hughes parents being very disapproving of the whole thing-scandalized, in fact. And maybe TH didn't want the children to bond, either.
The idea that Shura was in some ways a dirty secret is not a happy one.Was he ashamed of her ? I hope not.Whatever else had gone on-and a lot else had gone on-none of it was the child's fault.
- 30 March, 2010 03:59
- Catty said...
TH himself officially acknowledged Shura as his own at her death, although it seems clear he never acknowledged her emotionally.
That said, I think Shura was always going to be Assia's child first.
I need to go have a look at this article now. It wasn't online when I first read the post and it was too late to get a paper copy.
- 30 March, 2010 04:53
- Catty said...
That article is actually quite sweet. And I think in context I do believe Frieda probably remembers watching Aurelia browbeat Sylvia as the marriage imploded. Something so life-altering probably was seared into her memory, although memory is unreliable.
That said, I don't think Aurelia was wrong. She might have been a pain in the arse (who among us isn't?) but if my daughter found out her husband was cheating on her and blowing their savings on his mistress, I'd give her the same advice. Hit that bastard in the purse.
But I also think TH needed to grow up and resented Aurelia for pushing him to do it.
- 30 March, 2010 05:19
I think it's a mistake to presume that Aurelia Plath was inviting Sylvia and the children to come to America out of completely pure motives. (Not many of us have those, after all !) I'm not saying she wasn't concerned about the marriage breaking up, the effect it would have on her daughter, etc. Of course she was concerned. But her relationship with Sylvia was always a fraught one, each enmeshed with the other to an unhealthy degree. This is something SP explored in her therapy with Dr Beuscher. And something that Aurelia Plath found very difficult to acknowledge.
If Sylvia had returned to America with her children, she would have been returning (at least in her own mind, but quite likely in outer reality too) to that same old difficulty which she had striven so hard and long to resolve. It would have seemed (to her) like a defeat.
She made it clear in at least one interview that she wanted to stay in England. (I think it's the Orr interview, in October 1962, after the break-up itself.) I suspect that part of that desire was a desire to be her own person, not Aurelia Plath's daughter.
- 30 March, 2010 17:49
I think Plath was above all this family drama...Whatever!
- 30 March, 2010 17:52
It's worth remembering that after Plath and Hughes split Sylvia must have recoiled at the dopplegangering (is that a word?!) of her own life and her mother's. A single woman with two children, a girl and a boy, born two years apart. That alone, I think, would have compelled her to stay in the UK and go it alone, despite the difficulties it would present emotionally and financially. So if there were arguments btw Plath and her mother at Court Green, would she have dared tell her mother that she didn't want to live her life as her mother had, working herself to the bone in a job that she possibly disliked, living through her children, rather than living the life of a poet? To voice this would have been the greatest rejection of Aurelia and the life she made for herself, Sylvia and Warren after the death of Otto Plath. The recriminations, the recriminations...Oh, to be a fly on the wall.... kim
- 31 March, 2010 01:24
- Christine said...
Hi, I stumbled across your site while I was googling: happy accident! I'm doing my dissertation on Plath. I'm also putting together an anthology of work inspired by her, if you or your readers are interested: http://fatgoldw.wordpress.com/
- 31 March, 2010 20:51
- Catherine said...
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Publications & Acknowledgements
- BBC Four.A Poet's Guide to Britain: Sylvia Plath. London: BBC Four, 2009. (Acknowledged in)
- Biography: Sylvia Plath. New York: A & E Television Networks, 2005. (Photographs used)
- Connell, Elaine. Sylvia Plath: Killing the angel in the house. 2d ed. Hebden Bridge: Pennine Pens, 1998. (Acknowledged in)
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives." Plath Profiles 2. Summer 2009: 183-208.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives, Redux." Plath Profiles 3. Summer 2010: 232-246.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 3." Plath Profiles 4. Summer 2011: 119-138.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 4: Looking for New England." Plath Profiles 5. Summer 2012: 11-56.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 5: Reanimating the Past." Plath Profiles 6. Summer 2013: 27-62.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath. Oxford: Fonthill, 2017.
- Death Be Not Proud: The Graves of Poets. New York: Poets.org. (Photographs used)
- Doel, Irralie, Lena Friesen and Peter K. Steinberg. "An Unacknowledged Publication by Sylvia Plath." Notes & Queries 56:3. September 2009: 428-430.
- Elements of Literature, Third Course. Austin, Tex. : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2009. (Photograph used)
- Gill, Jo. "Sylvia Plath in the South West." University of Exeter Centre for South West Writing, 2008. (Photograph used)
- Helle, Anita Plath. The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. (Photographs used, acknowledged in)
- Helle, Anita. "Lessons from the Archive: Sylvia Plath and the Politics of Memory". Feminist Studies 31:3. Fall 2005: 631-652.. (Acknowledged in)
- Holden, Constance. "Sad Poets' Society." Science Magazine. 27 July 2008. (Photograph used)
- Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women, Motion Picture. Directed by Rachel Talbot. Brookline (Mass.): Jewish Women's Archive, 2007. (Photograph used)
- Plath, Sylvia, and Karen V. Kukil. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962. New York: Anchor Books, 2000. (Acknowledged in)
- Plath, Sylvia, and Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil (eds.). The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1, 1940-1956. London: Faber, 2017. Forthcoming.
- Plath, Sylvia. Glassklokken. Oslo: De norske Bokklubbene, 2004. (Photograph used on cover)
- Reiff, Raychel Haugrud. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar and Poems (Writers and Their Works). Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, 2008.. (Images provided)
- Steinberg, Peter K. "'A Fetish: Somehow': A Sylvia Plath Bookmark." Court Green 13. 2017.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "'I Should Be Loving This': Sylvia Plath's 'The Perfect Place' and The Bell Jar." Plath Profiles 1. Summer 2008: 253-262.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "'They Had to Call and Call': The Search for Sylvia Plath." Plath Profiles 3. Summer 2010: 106-132.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "A Perfectly Beautiful Time: Sylvia Plath at Camp Helen Storrow." Plath Profiles 4. Summer 2011: 149-166.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Proof of Plath." Fine Books & Collections 9:2. Spring 2011: 11-12.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Sylvia Plath." The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath. London: British Library, 2010.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Textual Variations in The Bell Jar Publications." Plath Profiles 5. Summer 2012.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "The Persistence of Plath." Fine Books & Collections. Autumn 2017: 24-29
- Steinberg, Peter K. "This is a Celebration: A Festschrift for The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath." Plath Profiles 3 Supplement. Fall 2010: 3-14.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Writing Life" [Introduction]. Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning. Stroud, Eng.: Fonthill Media, 2014.
- Steinberg, Peter K. Sylvia Plath (Great Writers). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
- "Banking on his passion for Plath" by Melissa Davis Haller. UMW Today. Spring 2005.
- "Sylvia Plath's Three Women to be staged in London" by Alison Flood. The Guardian. 3 December 2008.
- "FBI files on Sylvia Plath's father shed new light on poet" by Dalya Alberge. The Guardian. 17 August 2012.
- "There Are Almost No Obituaries for Sylvia Plath" by Ashley Fetters. The Atlantic. 11 February 2013.


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