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Stately English gardens were designed with statues or small buildings, called follies, in the distance. The current market for vintage and antique statuary is brisk and the statuary can command high prices, so garden designers may be deterred from purchasing vintage statues. Many modern companies manufacture replicas of the traditional statuary in metal, concrete, stone and plaster, but the process of adding a patina and antique look of the statuary is up to the new owners.
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Clean all dust, dirt and pollution from the statue. It should be clean so that the finishes will stick to the surface. This is the most important step in creating the piece.
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On the most exposed areas of the statue, use the steel wool in large circles to add wear marks. Begin with the finest grade steel wool and step back to view the overall wear design. If the grade is not rough enough to make visible wear marks, continue with the next roughest grade of wool.
If the statue is close to the ground or a water feature, use a fine spray from a can running from the bottom of the statue up a few inches. Begin with a paint one tint darker than the statue. Allow it to dry then blend in the paint edges with the steel wool.
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This awesome machine belongs to Brian Lallaway and his company, Landscope, based near Cumbernauld. Initially, the company looked after domestic lawns and hedges then commercial property. That kind of work obviously tails off in winter, but Brian's customers began asking him to clear away snow and grit their paths. Bing in the Land Rover…
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Monday Football Thread
Liverpool to make history by being the first team to win the Premier League on penalties.
City also win to set up a pretty exciting game at the top next week.
Everton flounder at home against Arsenal, scoring a measly three goals. ArsenalFansTV's YouTube account gains a legion of new fans.
Norwich sack their manager. Can only assume they know they're down and have started planning for life in the Championship, and don't want Hughton involved.
Leicester are robbed of a proper promotion party, going up because QPR are shit and not after one of their own games.
What do you want to talk about?
Feeling a bit low about Arsenal today
Daren't look at those FanTV clips, for fear that I'll find myself agreeing with the array of mouthbreathers they always track down.Vian this'd this
I was first made aware of them after the Liverpool game
That aren't that funny tbf
*THEY aren't that funny
I do like the guy who looks like a really haggard pirate though
It is nice to know
what still_here looks like.no-class and Severed799 this'd this
Unsurprisingly, the pirate bloke's a massive prick in real life
Haven't seen many of the videos either, they tend to be the sort of people who want Tony Adams as manager, but the guy who went nuts after the Villa defeat on the opening day was pretty funny (think it was posted here)
That Diego Torres chap who hates Mourinho/Mourinho hates has a new book out this week
so there will be a bit of that in the press this week.
Mourinho was filled with such intense emotion that he grabbed a can of Red Bull and hurled it against the wall. It exploded and drops of the sugary energy drink ran down the faces of those nearest to him.
really random mention of Granero there
I do wish I was friends with Esteban Granero though. He looks so cool.
Brentford won
6 points clear with 6 games to go. promising, especially as Rotherham still have to play wolves and we have some routine looking home matches against Crawley and Stevenage to come.
should have scored more than 3 though, notts county were a bit poor at the back, especially when down to 10. would have been nice to boost the goal difference to effectively give us an extra point or whatever
Championship is gonna be pretty good for west London derbies next season
Do Brentford have a particular animosity towards Fulham and/or QPR?
personally i am not that fussed by Fulham or QPR
as they've generally been a division or three above us, plus i had a really good champions league winning save on championship manager with QPR. but I know a lot of our fans don't like either of them for various reasons (probably lost in the CL final with them on championship manager) so next season should be pretty good.
hopefully millwall and Charlton will stay up as well as orient going up via the playoffs, would save me loads on travel to away games.
A Brentford forum had a thread called
QPR relegation watch last season, was always good to check in for a chuckle in the middle of that shitstorm.
Forum it was on is now behind a password though and I cant be arsed
you'll be pleased to hear
that I just checked the Brentford I occasionally read and there is a Fulham relegation thread on there at the moment. 603 posts.
languishing miles behind with a mere 171 replies is "QPR are Something Meaning Poor that isn't a Swear Word". poor show.
the Brentford FORUM i occasionally read
occasionally I can type complete sentences, but this was not such an occasion
i like Hughton but don't get people saying it's pointless for them to sack him now or w/e
they probs only need a couple of points to stay up and freeing them from his tactical straitjacket could make the difference. i reckon their chances of winning at fulham next match have now increased from 15% to 27%gonad and DanielKelly this'd this
As pointed out by somebody on Twitter last night
Lots of people seemingly critical of the decision to sack Hughton, but the fact that the Norwich fans are almost universally in favour is pretty telling.
Seems fair game to me. Sounds like he lost the faith of the players and the fans. Can't survive in that environment. Norwich shouldn't be scrapping for relegation with the players they bought in the summer.
Interesting how it differs from his time at Birmingham. From what my Blues mate told me the fans and the players couldn't speak of him highly enough + he juggled a European run with a Championship season in which they made the play-offs by playing exciting football.
Seems like a cliche to say The Championship is `his level` but... maybe the Premier League brought out a tactical conservatism in him due to being overawed by it.
I like Hughton a lot. Be great to see him come good at a decent club and I think one day he can.
we're not a decent club? ;)
Newcastle loved him too, but yeah, all based on Championship so far
Heh - I wasn't implying you weren't :)
I thought Hughton and you would be a perfect match when you appointed him. I believe I said so in these very pages in fact. Just hasn't worked out - much to everyone's collective dismay.
3 seasons in the Prem for you lot now. I think that's just about karmic realignment for the horrors of the Glen Roeder era. No set of fans in the land deserved that :(
oh god yes
I'd actually forgotten about that, you're right, awful time, current Leeds situation feels similar!
He certainly seems well liked by pretty much everybody in football
Just needs to buy less Leeds players next time - terrible haircuts, terrible blokes
the Leeds players were mostly Lambert's doing
and Snoddy and Johnny Howson are consistently our best players
No judgement on their ability,
just their barnets and their personalities. ESPECIALLY Bradley JohnsonParsefone and Severed799 this'd this
loved him at blues
Despite all the problems he still managed to get us into the playoffs and we very nearly made it out of our Europa League group too. I can understand why Norwich fans want the change, but if the board want another guy for the championship i'm not sure they'd get any better.
it can't get any worse
well yeah
the football's abject, granted. I had good money on Wolfswinkel banging them in, and Redmond terrorizing fullbacks. What the fuck's happened there?
Redmond does terrorize fullbacks
but then shoots over the bar or waits too long to actually do anything useful with it.
Wolfswinkel though your guess is as good as mine, other than not really getting the delivery from Redmond and, for a spell Snodgrass but he's got through that now, but it is worth remembering that both are very young still and haven't yet played at this level.
Hughton seems like a nice bloke
and perhaps some of his previous situations left him a bit hard done by, but he's not the best manager out there, and in terms of results at Norwich, whatever he's doing clearly hasn't really been working for them, for whatever reason.
as I said yesterday
we weren't actually that bad in the second half on Saturday, we had all the chances and West Brom were organised and defended really well... that said, we did seem to get worse when Becchio came on for Elmander, and semi-injured Redmond for Hoolahan.
Seems like the kind of manager
who is at his best working with limited means. Put Newcastle on an even keel, kept Norwich up when they were a pretty limited outfit, had Brum overperforming despite being an absolute shambles off the pitch. But it's not unreasonable for Norwich to expect more given how much was spent in the summer, and he's never looked capable of getting anything out of the more expansive players they now have.
I can see the logic of getting rid of him now just to go double or nothing on the Fulham game but really they should have sacked him a while ago, ideally in December, because even by then it was fairly obvious that he'd found his limit.
funnily enough
when we lost to Fulham at home around Christmas I think was the time it should have been.
I guess people are resigned to the fact we are probably going down this year, so anything to be motivated for Fulham can only be a good thing
yeah I mean
the fulham game is our season really. Win and we should be OK, and they clearly decided they needed to do anything to increase those odds.
If it backfires then it's still Hughton to be blamed and we can start planning life in the Championship.
God Saturday is going to be horrible
the pundits' alliance are always up in arms whenever anyone gets sacked mid-season, but if you've pretty much decided to sack someone at the end of the season then there's no point in waiting.
he was going whatever happened
- Severed799, shrewbie, and gonad this'd this
Gotta love football
5 weeks or so ago, Arsenal were unlucky in the CL and vying for the title. Now they might finish outside the top 4.
Or they could rally, finish 4th and win the FA Cup.
Can honestly see good reasons for firing Wenger and also for extending his contract. Weird game...wrightylew this'd this
good reasons to extend his contract
are becoming harder and harder to find in my view.
It is starting to feel a bit end of days-y isn't it?
I love the guy and I'd never want him sacked or 'driven out' by booing and banner wankers, but it is starting to feel like if we can just hold it together to win the cup and nick 4th place (the double) then that would be an opportune moment for him to bow out.
Winning the cup is so important now, and key for any real progress with this group of players. I just fear that sneaking fourth - which I think will probably happen given our 'relatively' easy run-in - will be the deal breaker for Wenger to stay on, and the same cycle repeats.
Of course I love watching Arsenal in the CL - trips to the Emirates too see us play the biggest teams in Europe are some of the best - irrespective of the result - but I'm starting to feel like a year out of the competition might be as useful as another one in it.
Is the FA Cup key for progress?
Isn't more the case that it's really nice to win trophies, especially when you haven't won one for a while, than it is a cup trophy would be a marker of progress made or progress to come?
I wouldn't knock Arsenal for winning the FA Cup- that'd be daft and it's a trophy I've got a lot of time for- but I don't see that it would say anything about this Arsenal team's broader merits.
Agree that the cup isn't much of a marker in terms of progress,
but the impact of not winning it from here, combined with the collapse of the title challenge, could be incredibly damaging to this group of players, so think Vian's got a point in saying it's important if they're to progress.
Personally I'd be happy for Arsene to continue. My concern is that it's reached a point where a significant amount of the fanbase are so negative about him that it really doesn't take much to bring the bile raining down and barring an incredible turnaround in fortunes next year, that's only going to get worse.
The thought of him leaving under that sort of cloud is heartbreaking, just think it might be best all round if he can lift the cup and walk away with his head held high.
I am simply referring to the progress for this group of players from a mental point of view, actually winning something as a group - together - a valuable feeling for what is still a fairly young team who should be together for a while yet.
The idea that losing from here could be damaging is fair, actually
Hadn't really thought about it like that. I'm not convinced that winning it will necessarily have significant consequences, or be indicative of progress made so far though. Cup wins never are- they're about the glory of the day itself.
Yep, broadly agree with that
There is the theory that, rather than showing progress made, the first trophy won as a group acts as a springboard to lots more, but always thought that's a fairly flawed arguement
Well of course it's good to win things
But the two go hand in hand don't they? I just feel mentally it will be huge. The players know that they can do it and are seen as favourites to win but to actually go and win it will be a bit step for the club after the best part of a decade with no silverware.bowiecokemirror this'd this
I guess I don't see how it'd be a 'step up'
for Arsenal to win a cup in a season during which they've routinely been trounced by the clubs they really want to challenge and topple.
Again, winning a cup is great. It's brilliant for fans to have that day, it's brilliant for players to have a medal to treasure after their career, it's brilliant for a club to put a marker down in it's history. But what impact can winning a relatively short series of one-off games really have on a side's ability to challenge and win consistently at a much harsher level? Chelsea have been pretty brilliant at cups in the last seven or eight years, but have managed just one title and (this season included) only two other credible title challenges in that time. They're different beasts.
i'm not saying it will have that kind of impact necessarily
i am simply saying it will be progress for this group of players from a mental/winning mentality point of view
yeah it would be a bittersweet win
to be like "oh yay a cup" knowing that the team have actually ended up overall in a much worse position
i'm just really worried by the way we've approached every single big away game
there've been mitigating circumstances but after watching the everton game you have to question a manager that gets completely out-thought in his last 3 away games against big PL sides.
I think it's a product of his management style, which as far as I can tell is pretty unique in top-level football (i.e. sort of coach players to get the best out of certain abilities, then when they play together they produce a tactical set-up that's only really tactical in the sense that wenger wanted to coax certain styles of play out of the individual players etc). I guess, when he doesnt have good enough players at his disposal, that approach has the potential to go far more wrong than any other top manager these days.
Obviously that style has positives, but the negatives this season have been pretty bad. Still, if we make top 4 with the FA cup he should be allowed to decide his future i think.
i mean if we can have a really great summer, transfer-wise
then the bad points of his style might become partially irrelevant, if we never have to play flamini and arteta at the base of midfield/ podolski and cazorla at the same time in an away game against players who are at least 10 times faster and fitter than them
See, i just don't think the 'doesn't have good enough players' argument
carries any weight. Even accepting injuries, which of course have left us short of several key players, we shouldn't be losing and capitulating in the way that we have. On paper we should be AT LEAST competing with teams, not rolling over for a tummy tickle.
But then there's also a stubbornness in decision-making and failure to make changes when needed that has really irked me recently. Look at Rogers yesterday bringing on Lucas at half time and re-taking control of that midfield. Wenger NEVER changes anything before 60 minutes and yet look at the difference and the urgency the Ox brought to the team yesterday - even Ramsay looked decent despite so long out. Oh wait we're 3-0 down now. Brilliant.
I can't be arsed to go into 'leaving out Flamini' rant now. I'm too irritable.
that's sort of what i meant though
wenger's in-game tactics are minimal, so when our available squad is as unbalanced as it was against everton (assuming we couldnt start ramsey, and ox didnt deserve to start based on recent performances) there's nothing stopping superior teams rolling us over at their place.
As i said, it's a definite problem with his style.
Strange, I was looking at the table
And after the horror of last year, we have 70 points, yet it's not that far off last year in the enjoyablity stake.
I can count on one hand the number of times I've enjoyed watching us this year.
I mean in his last 4 games ARMAND TRAORE has been singled out by fans for his high work rate.
As much as I'd love a day at Wembley, I think it's probably best if we don't go up this season, bin Redknapp, get a younger man in (who I'm not sure, maybe Malkay, although Cardiff were a bit dull) and invest in the squad by buying up rather than down (we've got like 15 players out of contract this season so we'll free up absolutely tons of budget of which we only need to use a fraction).
I didn't want Redknapp but thought at least we'd be exciting under him. We're absolute dishwaterJamienaz this'd this
Redknapp is gone end of season
no matter what according to some fella who appears to be the only ITK bloke who doesn't keep banging on about who his sources are as he actually has them and doesn't want to lose his job over them.
He's been reliable in the past - and it does seem that Redknapp is shaping the media story so that he can say that he's had enough and his heart, hip and knee just can't take it anymore.
If he decrees that Sherwood should take over though, and Fernandes actually listens I will have a little cry.
also goes without saying
that he has never ever used the phrase ITK as a thing.
Lost to Bolton with the last kick of the game
We really are doing our best to get ourselves dragged into the relegation scrap. 7 without a win now, and the bottom 3 starting to pick up points. I'm pressing the mildly concerned switch.
Liverpool and penalties is total non-issue.
12 given versus 4 against. With Man City 7-1 and Chelsea 7-0. More indicative of the way teams play than anything else.
Not complaining about yesterday's first
as Tomkins clearly moved his hand towards it, but does Suarez genuinely think blasting the ball at a defender's hand from inches away is a legitimate way of winning a penalty? I think he did it 3 or 4 times yesterday and was jumping up and down like a spoilt child each time.
agree, the first was nailed-on
and those incidents in the second half were ridiculous and I hate the way he simply stops, attempting to almost referee the game himself.
I find him absolutely unbearable to watch I'm afraid
no matter how good a player he is.
The one were it went through Armero's legs, flicked off his heel, rolled up the back of his leg and brushed his hand! Can't believe anyone who's ever played football could genuinely think of appealing for it never mind, as you say, stopping mid-game when he still had a chance of scoring.
Suarez has absolutely no sympathy for the opposition.
He'll do absolutely anything to win. I'm still sure his racism and biting Ivanovic were motivated by trying to get the opposing player to react and get sent off, rather than Suarez just being unhinged.DanielKelly and Parsefone this'd this
It's an odd one though
because there are plenty of occasions when he does go mental like that (and diving, and biting, and waving imaginary cards around) but there are other times when he's blatantly being fouled and he stays on his feet and gets on with the job or if he's gone in for a 50/50 ball and caught the other player badly and he's the first to react to see if they're okay etc.
He's really inconsistent with it. I'm sure there's an absolutely fascinating psychology lesson in him somewhere that someone much cleverer than me can have a go at unraveling.
His performance was absurd yesterday
Two moments of brilliance when he hit the bar, out-thought Tomkins for the penalty, yet the rest of the time seemed very frustrated with life and pretty out-of-touch - thought Tomkins and Reid generally did a very good job on him and his late airshot was delightful to see.
I think he's basically trying to rein in the dickheadery on a fundamental level,
and has been doing so since the Ivanovic bite, but the tighter a game is the more likely he is to get a bit wound up, especially if (like yesterday) he's not having the best game.
The thing with the Armero one is that in many respects Tomkins' handball was just as accidental, but was definitely a penalty.
West Ham appealed pretty vehemently for one where Jordan Henderson had his hand in front of his face as well, so it's not like Suarez is the ONLY player to appeal for a handball.
Watched MOTD not knowing the scores yesterday
Perhaps for the first time since I was a child.
Was slack jawed at the Everton Arsenal game
Also (this will sound anti-bantsy)
but I think we will come to badly regret not beating Arsenal in the state they're in now. We're not going to get more than 2 points from the Merseyside games.
even if that happens
you'll still win the league. It is very much still citeh's to lose. I can't see them losing any of them, and If they draw the merseyside games and win the rest - which seems like the most likely scenario, they still end up like 4 points clear?
Nah your maths is duff
They'll both be on 87 (assuming Liverpool win the other 4). It'll be on goal difference
oh yeah,
I also thought LFC will only get a draw against Chelsea
some talk about el hadji diouf to wednesday
he wouldn't even get on our bench tbh
Just seen Porchetino speaking English on TV.
They showed him a replay of the miles offside city goal and his little interpretor mate chuckled and then Porchetino shook his head and said ''It killed the game'' Does he talk English now? And if he does. Why is the interpretor still knocking about?
Always spoken English away from the press hasn't he?
Just prefers to use an interpretor for interviews etc. because he's, correctly, identified that the press are a bunch of cunts who'll twist his words if there's even a hint of ambiguity. Also must be quite funny watching the likes of Ashton and Custis getting progressively more pissy about it.Severed799 and Parsefone this'd this
- Severed799, umlaut_ampersand, and Smee this'd this
He definitely speaks it.
He had a good minute long conversation with the fourth official after the City offside goal. Unless he was just babbling incoherently in Argentinian and the fourth official was nodding along terrified then I assume that he was talking English.
I think he just pretends he can't so he doesn't have to talk to Geoff Shreeves. Fair enough tbh.
- umlaut_ampersand, Matt_was_taken, Smee, and Jamienaz this'd this
Hahaha fucking hell.
Christ, imagine knowing Shreeves was waiting for you after a game
The prospect of having to endure 5 of the most pointless minutes of your life at the hands of a low rent Steve Bruce-a-gram would absolutely ruin your afternoon, regardless of whether your team got a result.
If City, or even Liverpool, win the title this year, will they be the champions to have spent the fewest games weeks at the top of the table?
Liverpool were top for a few weeks, weren't they? But Arsenal have surely been top the longest, and I'd have thought Chelsea would be behind them.
Someone with better Googling skills than me find out.
Sherwood gone then (at the end of the season)
I for one am shocked.
In other news someone on a QPR forum has this as their signature
Making my chuckle a lotSmee this'd this
reminds me of that Forest page with the swirly text
- twentynine this'd this
I'll start
Chelsea are absolutely, definitely, 100% going through tomorrow. Torres hat trick.
lovely stuff
best of luck
- Severed799, DanielKelly, film_maker, Lo-Pan, and Faceless_Opinion this'd this
- lemonbrickcombo this'd this
- ohgood this'd this
Fulham will stay up
i actually almost believe that
Forest are about to go on a run
and then absolutely ravage Derby and QPR in the playoffs.
If Darius Henderson doesn't score at least 4 against Wednesday I'll be frankly astonished.
No chance
QPR to win the playoffs all day. That is if we don't overhaul Burnley's 10-point advantage, which I'm pretty confident of doing.
fucking hell Darius Henderson :D
that takes me back
Annoyed that Sherwood won't be around next season
for the entertainment value.
I loved that he, as manager, couldn't bear to rewatch the Spurs 0-5 Liverpool game before the return match (Liverpool 4-0 Spurs).
Lovely Football tattoo here. What a clart.
in fairness, in a month's time
the 'were in the premiership' bit will be true. and if tan has his way the other bit might be true tooElthamsmateOwen and Severed799 this'd this
Enjoyed the implication
that most football-related tattoos aren't in the least bit regrettable, this one just proved short-sighted
Where are you getting this Timbo news from?
It's obvious he's going to be binned off in the summer but concrete proof right now would be quite nice
- Severed799, Jordan_229_2, DanielKelly, breakfast_t_england, and gonad this'd this
- Gringo this'd this
Les Ferdinand's agreed
a five-year deal to take over.
I'd quite like Man Utd to beat Bayern
1. I like an underdog
2. Ronaldo doing that "calm down" non celebration after scoring his 15th goal of the game at Old Trafford will be quite wonderful
I'd like it because
Ferguson got his pants hilariously pulled down by Guardiola twice. Be belting if Moyes managed to stitch Pep tactically at his first attempt :D
Might shift some coin onto a 2-2 draw. Must get some tasty odds on that.
on 365
2-2 is 25, Utd to qual is 6
Football betting is shit. If Utd were a horse they would be a 30/1 shot
still got it
outrageous hittwentynine and midnightpunk this'd this
- ElthamsmateOwen and Raanraals this'd this
What do you think of your owner?
Kind of inspired by the Sherwood sacking...
Start of the season, my Spurs mate was talking about what a great owner they had, squeezing money out of giant clubs for their best players and signing a raft of new good prospects. Also remember he was quite chuffed with the Baldini introduction. Obviously no one predicted these players would all be so poor, but I wonder if fans' perception of Levy has changed.
City have a banner in Arabic saying "thank you sheikh mansour" and am I right in thinking Chelsea have one for Roman, who is clearly very popular there?
Mixed feelings for ours. Negatives include trying a director of football, being totally useless at negotiating a transfer quietly, Being Liverpool, treating Dalglish with public disregard, and being photographed with Martinez... But if they invest heavily for Europe next year, and start expanding the ground, I might soften my suspicion of them.
Feel sorry for his leg.
Apparently he broke it once, dunno if anyone's heard.
He's ace.
confused and terrified
but a bit excitedMatt_was_taken this'd this
No idea who sorts the banners at Chelsea
so don't know if the Roman banner will be a proper fan thing. The impression I have of us and other clubs is that banners are usually put there by fan groups who've cosied up to and essentially become part of the club.
I think people would be surprised by the number of people at Chelsea who have misgivings about Abramovich- the Benitez thing really cut deep for a lot of match goers.
But they're still a tiny minority. Abramovich is essentially adored.
The Benitez reign already feels like a bygone age.
When the history of the club is written (again) it will be a footnote, part of a humorous period known as the Torres Years, when the club tied itself in knots trying to get an expensive flop to work.
Stylish, tasteful, heroic, tall...
That second photo is amazing.
It makes him look like he suffers from dwarfism and is stood in a five-a-side goal.
He's a man of very unusual proportions
Pretty sure he has a chauffeur as he can't reach the pedals in his Rolls: http://e1.365dm.com/10/01/402x210/David-Sullivan-Upton-Park-media_2409031.jpg?20100119141751
Seemingly well intentioned but really naive.
Our Fawaz remains bizarrely popular. For every decent thing he does there's at least three cock ups. Kind of hoping when he sacks Pearce he takes up his rightful spot on the bench and gives one of his brothers a squad number. Or me. Give me a go Fawaz, I can be worse than Danny Collins.
owner has never really done any interviews
or spoken publicly at all to anyone in UK. Unsure of his exact wealth, just that he is in petrochemicals.
Slightly more subdued than the mouthy, drunk, live radio f-bomb dropping, caller outer of fans for a fight on the pitch that was Eddie Mitchell.
Still happy our new ones (FSG)
are better than the old ones (H+G)
Still not 100% convinced and they've made some ill-advised attempts at doing things in a way that maybe is effective or works in the states, but have done some good things too.
Celtic's majority shareholder is Dermot Desmond
whose moustache is first-class.
they are good
both fans of the club, kept season tickets consistently cheap, have made an effort to reach out to the Asian community, introduced a supporters board, both put money in at points when we would otherwise have gone bust.
seem occasionally inept though and have also bungled a few transfer deals in the last couple of seasons (also unable to negotiate them quietly) but we can laugh about that now
See that's an interesting point
The owners of QPR are all about new stadium and international players, when actually the fans would just be happy with some limited players who gave a shit, did more in the community and listened to fans about the fact that the bogs are a state
Kroenke's pretty unpopular with Arsenal fans, but tbh I'm not sure
Obviously I'd much prefer we were owned by a person (or preferably people) with an affinity for the club and who's only motivation was wanting Arsenal to win things, but he at least hasn't done any material damage or loaded his debts onto us, so guess he could be worse.bowiecokemirror this'd this
Quite like FSG
They've learned from their mistakes and sacked those responsible with minimal fuss. Getting rid of Dalglish was the correct decision, ditto binning Comolli and that PR boob who had a fight with Duncan Jenkins. Plus they're very rarely in the news (Ian Ayre not withstanding abd he's clearly just a prat) which is a good trait for owners.
Clearly means well
But knows square root of fuck all about football and has had his pants down first by Hughes then by Redknapp, though he was awful keen to sign all those deals (and still reckon Park was his work).
Needs to stay off twitter. Chats shit he then backtracks on and looks like a knob. But lowered prices in order that my dad could have one last year as a season ticket holder, and anyone is better than that last mob.
Wish Amit Bhathia was still more involved. Pure class.
he's alright
without him we'd probably be in league two or have gone bust, and we wouldn't have a new stadium on the horizon, or a really good youth setup being er set up. plus he's a Brentford fan, rarely hear anything from him other than the occasionally bit of silliness on twitter (more puss taking than idiocy though) and seems to have a clue about what he's doing.
happy leicester are getting promoted
with southampton having stability, we're just leeds and forest away from the top flight looking how i remember it being in my sticker albums
good badge
We also need
Sheffield Wednesday, Wimbledon, Coventry, Derby and QPR back before I feel comfortable with the make-up of the league again.
their tenures were too brief.
I was going along with him until he said
"I don't think it is a must-win. But if we win on Saturday it helps our cause." err...
What worries me a little is that some players such as Russell Martin are still insisting he hadn't lost the dressing room and that we were giving it are all for him, suggests we really are just shit
- blimeycharlie this'd this
cgaf about saints or england
but poor guy :(
meanwhile, in east london http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02523/andy-carroll_2523559b.jpg
spurs might be 5 points behind arsenal at the end of tonight
Which is pretty much the most damning indictment of arsenal's late season collapse you could want.
- twentynine this'd this
A lot of people treating Liverpool vs City
as a title decider, seemingly having not noticed how bad our record is at Goodison.
- blimeycharlie this'd this
- umlaut_ampersand, codpieceface, gonad, and ohgood this'd this
that's amazing
sherwood looks so smitten
f365;s current headline is "five goal win tonic for sherwood" i'd say a five goal win is winning by five goals, not scoring five goals and winning. agreed.
Ivica Olić hits the bar twice
from a yard out.
in less than a second.
should've waited for tomorrow's thread
that deserves a lot of attention


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A COMMISSION set up to protect the interests of older people has paid a visit to a Merthyr Tydfil group established in the aftermath of one of the town's greatest tragedies.
The Older People's Commission for Wales attended a meeting of the Aberfan Wives Social Group, set up in 1966 to provide support to those who lost children and family members in the Aberfan disaster.
On that fateful day almost 46 years ago, a colliery spoil tip collapsed, causing the death of 116 children and 28 adults.
The meeting took place in Ynysowen to allow the group – who take part in a range of fundraising activities and day trips – to learn how the commission works in helping to improve the lives of older people.
Richard Jones, public affairs officer at the Older People's Commission, said: "It was great to have the opportunity to speak to the Aberfan Wives about our work and the practical support we offer older people throughout Wales.
"Groups like the Aberfan Wives provide a great deal of support for their members, which has a positive effect on health and wellbeing and helps to keep people active."
Evelyn Evans, social secretary and one of the founder members of the group, welcomed the meeting.
She said: "It was very interesting to learn more about the unique role and powers of the Older People's Commission and all their hard work to improve the lives of older people in Wales."


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How to Solve 4 simultaneous equations with a 4 by 5 matrix
1. For those of you who believe in God, jump to the last paragraph at the end of this hub to see what was said about God.
2. Let us suppose you are given a problem, whether at work or school, in which you have 4 molecules( possibly constituents of a macro-molecule), and the information you have on them is the number of atoms of each element in each molecule, and each molecule has 4 elements in common. Your job--should you decide to accept it, and I recommend that you do if you do not want to be fired or flunk the course--is to determine which elements that God structured within each molecule.
3. In algebra variables are assigned letters as X,Y,Z, but when you go above 3 then it is convenient to write them as X1, X2, X3 and X4. The numbers should be subscripts, but it is too much of a pain to use the toolbar subscript feature. These represent our unknown elements right off the periodic table. The first molecule has 5 atoms of X1, 5 of X2, 5 of X3, and none of X4. When you use the rules and definitions of chemistry these 15 atoms add up to a molar mass of 135( rounded to the nearest integer as they all are). So we will condense this to equation form: 5X1 + 5X2 + 5X3 + 0X4 = 135. This molecule and the other 3 molecules are listed at L1, which means location one. You do not know what the elements are so perhaps the number, 135, was found by experimentation.
4. Matrices, as used in math, is a way to condense and organize the information even more than the equations by assigning a column space to each of the variables, X1, X2, X3 and X4, and then just don't write them down because it is understood where they are. This is done at L2. Also if an element is negative then a negative sign goes in front of it but if it is positive then nothing goes in front--just another way to get rid of the clutter.
5. We essentially use the elimination method to solve this matrix and sites as those I have linked for us below will give us a good idea on how the mathematical process of elimination works.
Ways of solving system of equations
- An Algebra Homework Involving Simultaneous Equations in 3 Unknowns
Pemekwulu shows us how to solve simultaneous equations by 3 different ways. One way was equating the equations.
- Simultaneous equations
dkhchua, shows 4 ways to solving a system of equations: elimination, substitution, matrix and graphical. He also has a practical application.
- Solving Simultaneous Equations in 10th Grade
article 3 uses the elimination method, and defines terms.
- Solving simultaneous equations by the elimination me...
catman 3000 uses the elimination method, and has links for more help.
6. A foundational concept used in the elimination process is something we learned in basic algebra: An equation is like a balance on which we do on the right of the equals sign what we did on the left, so that the equation remains balanced. This is one of the justifications for the row manipulations at L5 and L6, etc.
7. At L2 we have a 4 by 5 matrix( 4 rows, 5 columns). The first 4 columns are called, in this case, the coefficient matrix. We will call the last column the molecular mass, or molecular weight, matrix. When the two are put together like this it is called an augmented matrix. The numbers inside the matrix are called elements( not to be confused with the chemical elements in this problem). The main diagonal, or just diagonal, of this matrix is represented by a1,1; a2,2; a3,3 and a4,4. If we do not know the value of our coefficients then they are typically assigned, ai,j where i represents the row location, and j the column location as at L3. L3 represents the echelon form of a matrix, and L4 is the reduced row echelon form. We eliminate the coefficients at L3 and L4, making them into zeros, by using legitimate mathematical techniques based upon theorems; therefore, elimination with eraser is frowned upon. They call this technique, "Pick up your final check on Friday." Geometrically speaking, a matrix can be thought of as a system of vectors. If the coefficient matrix is greater than 3X3 then the vectors are, or may be, vectors in hyperspace. For example, when you solve 2 variable linear equations geometrically, your solution is where the two lines intersect. In our case we have 4 lines intersecting at a point in hyperspace, and its coordinates are (12, 1, 14, 16), which we will be determining shortly.
8. I think the work below is pretty self explanatory. The first line of L5 has, 4R3 -- 5R4---->R4 1st which means 4 times row 3 minus 5 times row 4 and the answer is to be put on row 4. The "1st" after that means to do it first, because if you don't keep the order straight you'll just get confused. At L5.1 is just doing some of the arithmetic that I can't do in my head . . . What? . . . . Well, you knew I wasn't Stephen Hawking when you started reading this hub. At L7 on the 1st line we have a minus one times row 3, and then 1/2 times row 4 and then switch them: put row 3 on row 4 and row 4 on row 3.
9. L8 is in echelon form. We know that X4 is equal to 16 because if we put X4 back into the equation then we have 1X16 = 16; therefore, we use back substitution and plug that value into row 3 and calculate X3 from L11 to L13, and get a value of 14 atomic mass units. We then substitute X3 and X4 into row 2, which is the 2nd equation, at L14 to L18 and we get X2 = 1. We substitute X2, X3 and X4 into row 1 at L19 to L21 and get X1 = 12. These are the atomic mass units of these elements. We look them up on the periodic table to determine what they are: X1 is carbon, X2 is hydogen, X3 is nitrogen, and X4 is oxygen. After we do the reduced row echelon form, I will tell you the significance of these amazing molecules that God, by Jesus Christ, created with His understanding( Isaiah 29:16; 40:28; Psalm 104:24; 147:5).
REDUCED ROW ECHELON FORM( rref)
10. Ok, let's get this in reduced row echelon form( rref) so your boss doesn't say, "What's this? This is not in reduced form. What? You expect me to do the back substitution?" You are probably familiar enough with the work to understand what is being done; therefore, let's jump to L27. Notice here at L27 that in rref we can read the values right off the matrix. At L28 we interpret the information we calculated and determine that these are the constituent nucleotide pairs( adenine with thymine, and guanine with cytosine) that God structured into DNA molecules. We can go back to the original equations at L1 and rewrite them. So C5+H5+N5 = 135 is the first equation, which is interpreted as 12(5)+1(5)+14(5) = 135. We do the same thing for the other three equations.
11. Echelon form is defined as: 1. "The leading entry of each row is to the right of the leading entry of the preceding row." 2. "All entries directly below the leading entry of each row are zeros." 3. All rows that consist entirely of zeros are below any rows that contain nonzero entries."
12. Some textbooks define echelon form with the further qualification that the leading entry is a 1. Since there is this discrepancy anyway then I prefer the definition that the leading entry can be any number. However, I have found no discrepancy concerning the definition of rref( reduced row echelon form); in this case all the diagonals are to be 1.
13. I intend to write an entire hub on this calculator, but for now let me point something out to you: Everything we have done in this hub, the ti-89 calculator can do in . . . oh, I don't know . . . I would say about 2 seconds! There is a technological term for this accomplishment---WOW!
14. It is amazing how God can put a few billion of these nucleotide pairs together, in a specific order, so that a DNA molecule becomes the reference library for other molecules and cells to use in order to build our physical bodies. As I said at
the informational density of DNA is enormous, and it is enormously impressive. But the unfathomable aspect of this sub-microscopic realm is how God, through Jesus Christ, made this informational reservoir so dynamic. From the time we are born we are constantly learning and we may continue to add to our knowledge from 18 years old to 30 with more schooling. We do this so we can learn how to design things, make things; repair, create and invent things. We learn how to heal ourselves and our beloved animals. Collectively we have ascended to remarkable levels of achievements with the brains that God has designed, created, and given to us. Yet these microscopic molecules and cells can read( miraculous in itself) the information stored within the geometric structure of DNA, and with no learning process, they are able to use the wisdom God gave them( Job 38:36) to take that information they have read and processed, and then make proteins more complex than any machine all of mankind has ever built. I intend to supplement the hub, "DNA--A Witness for God," with additional parts giving more details of this spectacular realm that is so demonstrative of God's omniscience.


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|Pictured, problems with lifting stupidly heavy Weights
Breakthrough has a normal strength of 21 he manages to lift 840 lbs for six and a half minutes. He can boost that for a short period of time. for 15 seconds he can lift 1000 lbs. He will be gaining more powers as he levels up though, so expect to see more in future contests.
|could be a machine that looks a bit like this one.
Her sister, Car Mage, demands to be next. She knows she won't win but like to ham it up for the audience, and the audience loves her for it. She has a normal strength of 11 and can manage to lift a maximum of 220 lbs for a total of just shy of 3 minutes.
Cavalier Rouge has a surprisingly high number of fans in the audience. Her signature red hod and cape do tend to draw attention. She has a normal strength of 22 and can lift 880 lbs and hold it for just over four minutes.
The Crimson Commando has an Extraordinary Strength of 27. He can lift 5400 lbs for 7 minutes total. A strong showing from the world traveling soldier of fortune.
Devil Fist has a normal strength of 20, but he can drastically increase it for short periods of time with his chi. For 15 seconds he can boost his strength up to 440. So for 15 seconds, he can lift 17,600 lbs. Not bad...not bad at all.
Enki is strong, but not superhuman. She has a normal strength of 21. She can lift 840 lbs for almost 5 minutes.
|Spiderman, Spiderman, lifts his weights like a spider can.
The Hammer of Heaven has a normal strength of 19 and can lift 760 lbs for four minutes.
Henry is a sponsor of the event, but he still keeps his hat in the ring, mostly for fun. He has a supernatural strength of 62. He can lift 31,000 lbs and can hold it up for just over an hour.
The Hunter has a normal strength of 20, he can lift 800 lbs and hold it for four minutes.
Impact starts with an impressive supernatural strength of 82. As he approaches the machine he grows to his maximum size and strength. He stands at just over 41 feet tall with a supernatural strength of 118 lbs. He can lift 59,000 lbs. He can hold that weight up for 45 minutes.
This is followed up by Inquest, who is not on the same level as Impact. He has a normal strength of 14 and can lift 280 lbs. He can hold that up for 3 minutes.
Maximum is a robot with a superhuman strength of 30. He can lift 9000 lbs and as he is a robot he can hold that indefinitely.
Megaton is a serious competitor and as she enters the field the whole crowd goes wild. She makes a quick circuit of the field at sonic speed and then steps up to the testing machine. She has a supernatural strength of 56. She also has the ability to manipulate gravity increasing her ability to lift far greater weights. Using all of her abilities she can manage to lift 2,800,000 lbs and hold that for 47.5 minutes. That is a ridiculous amount of weight. she can easily juggle tanks, city buses, or even blue whales.
|Digital Weights, far better than analog. I think we can all agree.
Mr. Shade appears in a flash of fire and smoke and steps up to the machine. Tall and thin hidden beneath a concealing cloak. He has a normal strength of 30. He can lift 1200 lbs and maintain for just over five minutes.
Ms. Miracle has a supernatural strength of 57. She can lift 28,500 lbs for 87.5 minutes. That about what some fighter jets weigh.
Nemain has to set aside her various weapons before she starts her lift attempt. It takes a while. She has a lot of weapons. She has a normal strength of 26 and can lift 1040 lbs and hold it up for five and a half minutes. She is ridiculously strong for a "normal" human.
Nemesis has a normal strength of 20 and can lift 800 lbs for around four minutes. Without her gear, she is just not as impressive as some other heroes.
The Never Ending Cheery Cheery Death Machine backflips his way into the field and up to the machine. No one invited him and all the other heroes cringe when he starts going through them all, glad-handing and back-slapping. He has an extraordinary strength of 33(I probably should have gone with Superhuman strength, it would have been the optimal choice for this character, but I just see him as not being that competent). He can lift 6,600 lbs and hold it up for 57 minutes. That is about what a forklift weighs, or an empty cargo container. And he is one of the weaker super strong characters.
The Night Sheriff has a supernatural strength of 17. He manages to lift 8500 lbs and hold it up for 35 minutes. He can lift an SUV, though it would be a tough go of it.
Perdition has a normal strength, 14. She probably doesn't arm wrestle villains when she takes them down. She can lift 280 lbs and hold that weight for 3.5 minutes.
The Physician steps forward and doesn't even place his hands on the testing machine. Using telekinesis he manages 1300 lbs for two minutes. He can lift a speedboat with his mind.
Prince Hermon really gets the crowd going. After using illusion and trickery to make the audience believe he could break the machine with his mystic might he reveals it was a trick and then using his normal strength, 19, he lifts 760 lbs and holds it for four minutes. He does it with panache and style and everyone just eats it up.
Rats begin to boil up out of storm drains and sewer grates around the field and begin to coalesce into the vaguely feminine form of the Rat Queen. Everyone steps back from her as she moves up to the machine. She has a Supernatural Strength of 30. She lifts 15,000 lbs(a little more than a school bus). She can hold the weight for...um, well she doesn't have a PE score, s I don't know how long she can hold it. Forever? Yeah, probably forever.
The Reciprocitor steps up, she does not look fully sure of herself. Her normal confident smirk is missing, she is not sure of her strength. Inquest has been working on her physical training, but she is still a young girl and this is an ominously large machine. She has a normal strength of 11. She manages to lift 220 lbs. She can hold it for just shy of 3 minutes. At the end, she is frustrated and panting with effort.
|You need super strength to make sure a giant monster
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Shedim does not appear to be happy following that display of angelic might. His demonic form causes him to shrink back slightly from this embodiment of his eternal enemy. He has a supernatural strength of 47. He can lift 23,500 lbs and hold it for 72 minutes. He does seem a little smug that he can out lift Seraph.
The massive lights over the arena begin to shower down sparks and arcs of lightning and Storm Eagle takes form out of the energy. She has a normal strength of 20 and can lift 800 lbs and hold it for almost 3 minutes.
Le Terasque has a powerful frame hidden beneath his fabled patchwork cloak. He steps up the machine and uses his supernatural strength(65) to lift 32,500 lbs and hold it for 37 minutes. That is like a Greyhound bus in weight. Powerful.
The Wanderer has a normal strength of 19 so he can lift 760 lbs for a total of 4 minutes.
The Whirlwind looks uncomfortable among these great heroes f the world. He tugs at his hoody and jeans. He had never felt so out of place, among the spectacle of professional heroes. He has an extraordinary strength of 28. He can lift 5600 lbs and hold up for four and a half minutes. That's a heavy Rhinoceros in weight.
Wrath steps to the machine like it owes her money. She has a superhuman strength of 44 all through her own training system. She has a lot to prove about the potential of the baseline human. She can lift 13,200 lbs, that is almost as much as a T-rex. She can hold that up for about 10 minutes.
At the end of the day, the clear winner is Megaton, with Impact at a distant second followed by the third place of Le Terasque. Man, that gravity manipulation power is just ridiculous when teamed up with just about anything. I mean, Megaton has easily outclassed every other hero in both speed and strength. With the end f the day award ceremony the hype begins for the main event. It is going to be the first round of the tournament. The next post will be the breakdown of how the tournament is going to go. It should be fun.
Also, +Megan Bennett-Burks and I just finished a Kickstarter for A Far Off Land, A Fate RPG in Two Worlds. It is a game about special people chosen by Eldritch beings to travel between the worlds and protect or destroy both. They are shapeshifting masters of primordial magics, and they hold the fate of two worlds in their hands. If you missed the kickstarter and would like to check out the game, you can still get it. Check out the Beta Document.


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- Drink as much bath water as you can and then give your parent a giant grin while then tell you NOT to do so.
- Pee in the tub. Obviously this is a given and no one will know you did it so just when you think your parents have their guards down make a POOP! You don't want to do this so often that its expected so make it completely random so the parent is always worried about the possibility.
- Splashing. Also, completely random like say for instance bath time is coming to an end and the parent is standing there with your towel all ready. BAM! SPLISH! SPLASH! Everything is soaked and bath time order is restored. Now your parent DEFINITELY needs to change out of wet clothing.
- Once you are of standing or walking age, try to stand, walk, or climb out of the tub to make your parents have heart palpitations as they imagine the worst case scenarios.
- If you happen to climb out of the tub, make a run for it and streak down the hallway as fast as your legs will take you.
- So, now you are out of the bath and into the arms of your parent, all snuggled in your towel…keep the parents on their toes with any sudden urge to tinkle as they are walking you to your bedroom. I mean, since you are not potty trained yet, anytime is fair game.
Here we are again. The weekend is over and its Monday. Le-Sigh… Well cheer up my little tater-tot because its about to get funny around here. I'm ready to bestow to you some more baby etiquette.
As always please feel free to comment with any additional etiquettes you may want to share
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I remember the first time my daughter pooped in the tub, she was more in shock than I was. I've never laughed so hard in my life!
You must eat the bubbles and suck on the washcloth!
OMG – Sounds like every bath my kids take
OMG – Sounds like every bath my kids take
Oh my gosh….soooo funny! and soooo true!
♥ Kyna
Haha- or you can poop in the bath like Zane did this morning!! This cracked me up! And splashing- stay clear or else you will be soaking wet!!
Lol — GREAT post 🙂 I can oh-so relate, especially to sneaking/jumping out of the tub and running soaking wet as fast as those chubby toddler legs will move!
Happy Monday <3


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March 14, 2014Pictures
Ok finally got some spare time to post a bunch of pictures. There is alot from my works booth, ActionSportGames. If you want to see even more of how our booth was like or see some more pictures of the EVO. Please go to www.facebook.com/actionsportgames
IWA was amazing, its really really really huge. I had the chance to see a lot of airsoft and real steel stuff. If you ever get the chance to go, DO IT! Enjoy the pictures and sorry for the late post.
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Wednesday the 5th I am heading off to IWA 2014 in Germany. If you don't know what IWA is – well it's the European version of SHOTshow.
There will be guns, gears, booth babes, knife and bazookas… but most importantly there will be Airsoft. Which is why I'm heading down there. I'll be covering the trade show for ASG's Facebook page "TEAM ASG" and of course helping out at our booth 7-506.
But when I have the time I'll be sure to post a little extra here. So stay tuned and stay frosty.
March 1, 2014Videos
Rodes Hardball heaven.
Special event "product testing day". Went out with my coworkers to try out some new toys. My main rifle broke down, so i switched to my trusted sidearm.
CQB skirmish fights at Espergærde. Abandon building complex with some green in between. Was a great place for 10v10 type games.
The part at 15:15 when i start laughing like an insane person, is because the guy I spotted just before, spotted me through a window and started shootin… but the window was still intake and it took him about 5 shoots before realizing that. I thought it was funny at the moment.
Some footage from the Milsim event MERC's in sweden 2013.
The weather was really shitty with loads of rain. We had a lot of great fire fights since my factions base was located directly between two other factions.
In this clip you see me and my team try to take the hill. Several other teams have already attempted to take the hill, you see them on the hill side bleed out.


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Tu Beshvat teaches us that we do have a responsibility to the next generation. We benefit from the previous generation's efforts and we must reciprocate for future generations.
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Tu Beshvat teaches us that we do have a responsibility to the next generation. We benefit from the previous generation's efforts and we must reciprocate for future generations.
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It's a huge responsibility to have your generations to come in mind all the time. I suppose it's just part of being a religious jew and knowing that there is so much more apart from our life now.
- January 29, 2010 at 12:37 PM
- Bouncer said...
Ale Yarok, what has being either Jewish or religious got to do with a sense of responsibility for future generations? It's a commonplace sentiment among people of all faiths and backgrounds.
- January 31, 2010 at 1:59 AM
- Reb Mordechai said...
Bouncer, in theory you are correct. All cultures and religions ought to have an inbuilt system of honouring the elderly and making sacrifices for future generations.
In practice this isn't the case. People in Western society at least can be very self centred. Birth rate is at an all time low in Europe because the 20-40 age group want to spend their money and their time on themselves and not on children. They don't seem to care about the future. They also don't seem to feel an obligation to the elderly members of society either. LBC radio was talking about this very thing a few months ago. So many OAP freezing their homes. Some of them phoned up. The compare asked them where their children were? The OAP's answered that they were in other towns or busy with their own lives...
Amongst Jews, even secular Jews, we feel an obligation to our elderly and to our children. Indeed, in my experience whilst working in Britain, more than once a goy has praise the Jews on this issue. They realise its something lacking in their culture.
- January 31, 2010 at 7:41 AM
Didn't realize they had digital cameras in 749 ce?
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St. Petersburg Man Accused of Child Abuse
The 5-year-old boy is in critical condition with broken ribs and internal bleeding, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.
ST. PETERSBURG – Police have accused a man of physically abusing a 5-year-old child who was in his care.
John Gerald Whelan, 41, of St. Petersburg, was charged with one count each of aggravated child abuse with great bodily harm and child neglect, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.
Fire rescue and police were called to a St. Petersburg home about 7:42 p.m. Thursday (Aug. 10) for a 5-year-old boy who was having medical issues. When he arrived at All Children's John Hopkins Hospital, police said, doctors discovered numerous physical injuries and officers were called to investigate.
The child had bruising and trauma to the face, rib fractures, internal bleeding and damage to organs. He remains in critical condition this morning (Aug. 11), police said.
Investigators say Whelan struck the boy in the head and abdomen with his closed fist. The abuse occurred over the last several months and Whelan did not seek medical attention for the child.
For information about the St. Petersburg police, go to police.stpete.org.
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Honors Research
Environmental Studies majors with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.50 at the end of the January term of the junior year or with special program approval are eligible to apply for the Environmental Studies Honors Research Program.
Successful completion of the Honors Program will include an oral presentation at the Colby Undergraduate Research Symposium, a successful oral thesis defense, and an approved thesis as well as the completion of the required course work for the major. The student fulfilling these requirements will graduate "With Honors in Environmental Studies." The decision whether or not the student will be approved to convert their fall semester seminar or independent study project to an honors project in the spring semester and continue in the ES Honors Program by enrolling in ES 484 will be made at the end of the first semester. In cases where requirements for Honors have not been fulfilled at the end of the spring semester, ES 484 (Honors Research) will revert to a graded ES 492 (Independent Study).
The Honors Program students present their research during the annual Colby Liberal Arts Symposium.
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Summer or Jan Plan Internships
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Full list of faculty/staff publications
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ES Program Faculty
Environmental Studies- Assistant Professor Justin Becknell
Justin Becknell's research is focused on the interactions among forest ecosystems, the climate system, and human activities. He uses a combination of field and remote sensing methods to study the flow of carbon and nutrients through forest ecosystems. Justin works in the tropical forests of Costa Rica and Brazil examining the ecological and biogeochemical consequences of deforestation and reforestation. In the temperate forests of New England, he studies the effects of management and climate on forest composition and function.
Environmental Studies- Assistant Professor Denise Bruesewitz
Professor Denise Bruesewitz is interested in how human activities alter aquatic ecosystem function. Specifically, she studies nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon cycling in aquatic ecosystems with the goal of understanding how ecosystem function and ecosystem services change in response to human activities. Her ongoing projects include understanding how restored oyster reefs in New York City mitigate nutrient pollution, how lakes across the globe process carbon, and determining how rivers and estuaries in south Texas respond to drought and storms. At Colby, she will build upon ongoing research in the Belgrade Lakes, as well as local streams and rivers, with a focus on carbon and nutrient cycling in these aquatic systems.
Environmental Studies – Professor Gail Carlson
Gail's interests focus on the ways in which the environment impacts human health, including via climate change, extractive and polluting industrial activities, and human exposures to hazardous chemicals in the environment. She works with students on advocacy campaigns in the state of Maine to raise awareness about these issues and to advance support for legislative initiatives. Her research focuses on the role of state policy-making in advancing innovations to improve environmental health.
Environmental Studies – Oak Professor of Biological Sciences Russ Cole
Professor Russ Cole's research investigates the natural history,ecology, and conservation of mammals. He also studies the impact of exotic species on the biota of the Hawaiian Islands, plant/animal interactions and their ecological implications, Maine lake water quality in relation to watershed land use patterns, and sustainable development and campus resource use.
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Environmental Studies Research Scientist – Manny Gimond
Manuel Gimond's research interest lies in modeling the thermodynamic processes at the earth/atmosphere interface from a second law of thermodynamics perspective with an emphasis on exergy analysis and emergy synthesis. He is particularly interested in quantifying the influence of spatial and temporal scales on such models using GIS. While employed at the Kennedy Space Center, Manuel has worked on validating land surface thermodynamic models using data from an extensive network of meteorological and Eddy-Covariance towers. Other interests include remote sensing of aquatic systems where Manuel has developed an open source stochastic model that simulates the propagation of light in water bodies.
Environmental Studies – Assistant Professor Loren McClenachan
A New England native, Loren first became interested in conservation growing up on an organic farm in southern Vermont. Loren was an Environmental Studies major Middlebury College, and continued to work to cross disciplines in her graduate and post-graduate research. She is deeply concerned with long-term human impacts on marine species and ecosystems, and in her research, she works to (1) assess and quantify changes in the distribution and abundance of marine species over century-long time scales and (2) determine links between social history and changing marine environments. This research crosses the disciplines of marine ecology, conservation biology, and environmental history, and is motivated by the desire to conserve and restore degraded ocean and coastal ecosystems. To this end, Loren also aims to establish more accurate baselines for marine species—on which recovery targets can be set—and to understand past human interactions with the sea so that we can more successfully manage marine resources today. Loren has worked in tropical marine environments in the Caribbean, Florida Keys, and most recently in the Hawaiian Islands.
Environmental Studies – Environmental Studies Coordinator Lia Morris
During Lia's tenure as graduate student in natural resource policy at Tufts University, her research efforts focused on studying trends in community and natural resource development on lands adjacent to national parks. This research culminated in her graduate thesis Demilitarizing Nature: Ecological Restoration of Military Land, Acadia National Park. Upon graduation she worked for three years as the Outreach Coordinator for the Penobscot River Restoration Trust. Lia currently serves on the board of Maine Rivers, helping to address a broad range of issues affecting the rivers of Maine. In addition, Lia advises students on issues of campus greening and approaches to engaging with environmental issues here in Maine.
Environmental Studies – Associate Professor Philip Nyhus
Professor Nyhus' interdisciplinary research bridges the natural and social sciences to address human interactions with the environment. He is particularly interested in the policy dimensions of human-wildlife conflict and endangered species conservation. His current research includes developing new tools and processes for biodiversity risk assessment, GIS-based spatial models, and tiger and large mammal conservation in the US and Asia.
Environmental Studies – Teaching Assistant Abby Pearson
Abby's graduate research focused on assessing ecosystem functionality in a restoring salt marsh using arthropod food webs. This involved describing arthropod distribution in an affected salt marsh in relation to associated common salt marsh plants. Arthropods were collected, identified, and processed using stable isotope analysis of 13C and 15N. These data were used to describe food web structure (i.e. what arthropods are found where) and function (i.e. how carbon passed through the food web)
Environmental Studies – Associate Professor Travis Reynolds
Assistant Professor Travis Reynolds' primary research interests are in the fields of international environmental policy and sustainable international development. Drawing on institutional theories and ecological economics his research looks at common pool resource management problems and the roles of international, national, and local organizations involved in forestry and other natural resource management systems. His current work focuses on the design and performance of small- and large-scale carbon forestry projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Emeritus Faculty
Biology – Professor Emeritus. Clara C. Piper Professor of Environmental Studies David Firmage
Professor Firmage investigates problems in plant ecology. Recent studies focus on pollen viability and stigma receptivity, solar tracking of several species in Israel, and the reproductive biology of an important endemic plant in Bulgaria. He also conducts watershed analyses to determine sources and amounts of phosphorus additions to local lakes.
Economics – Professor Emeritus, Mitchell Family Professor of Economics Tom Tietenberg
Professor Tietenberg is author or editor of eleven books (including Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, one of the best selling textbooks in the field, and Emissions Trading, one of the most widely cited books in the tradable permits literature) as well as over one hundred articles and essays on environmental and natural resource economics. Elected President of the Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists (AERE) in 1987-8, he has consulted on environmental policy with the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the Agency for International Development and the Environmental Protection Agency as well as several state and foreign governments. Tom attended and spoke at the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 and has lectured on sustainable development at many international conferences. In 2006 he was designated one of six inaugural AERE Fellows and in 2010 he received the "Outstanding Public Service Though Economics" award from the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association.
ES Affiliated Faculty
Biology – Associate Professor Cathy Bevier
Professor Cathy Bevier's research interests include the behavioral and physiological ecology of vertebrates, particularly how behavioral performance during reproductive and locomotor activity is correlated with physiological and biochemical characteristics of the animal. Her current work focuses on the behavior, energetics, and thermal biology of frogs using techniques such as sound recording and analysis of vocalizations, focal behavioral observations, mark-recapture census, muscle biochemistry, and respirometry.
History- Professor Paul Josephson
Professor Josephson investigates the American infatuation with the highly polluting engines used for jetskis, snowmobiles, snow blowers, ATVs, ORVs, weed wackers, and leaf blowers; the influence of Soviet technological style on energy, agricultural and housing techniques and technologies in East Central Europe; and "industrial deserts," and the destructive impact of the metallurgical and nuclear industries of the Soviet development paradigm.
Chemistry – Dr. Frank and Theodora Miselis Professor of Chemistry Whitney King
Professor Whitney King recently began a study of the chemical and physical characteristics of local lakes, employing underwater mapping computer programs and chemical analysis equipment that he developed. This project will continue for several years as different lakes within the region are investigated.
To find out more about the Belgrade Lakes Watershed Sustainability Project visithttp://web.colby.edu/epscor/
History – Professor Jim Webb
Professor Jim Webb's research is in the field of historical malariology. He is working on interpretations of the microbiological evidence from the genomes of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum, the two most important malarial parasites. He is also investigating the global history of quinine, the first disease-specific drug in the western materia medica that was used as a cure and prophylaxis for malaria, as a means of understanding the origins of global public health.
Biology – Leslie B. Arey Professor of Biological Sciences Herb Wilson
Professor Wilson research interests include the study of the impacts of climate change on the migration of Maine migratory breeding birds; winter foraging of Maine songbirds; ecology of damselflies, damselflies and butterflies.


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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is interested in supporting efforts to solve the issue of non-performing loans (NPLs) in Serbia, and restructure the companies with poor business results in cooperation with private investors, EBRD Director for Serbia Daniel Berg told Tanjug.
The EBRD can be a co-investor to funds that are interested in restructuring the companies with poor business results in Serbia, Berg said.
A good example of this is the recently announced project of American investment fund KKR in Greece where the restructuring efforts are focused on the companies that have underperformed, which delivers greater value to investors – including banks, related companies and the state, he noted.
The level of NPLs in the Serbian banking sector exceeds 20 percent, for both commercial and consumer loans, but the situation with business loans is even worse, as one in four loans is either in default or close to being in default.
Under Serbian laws, banks can sell commercial loan portfolios, which is not the case with consumer loans unless the buyer is a licensed bank in Serbia.
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Winter squash (Australia: pumpkin) is a warm-seasoned vegetable, representing several species within the genus Cucurbita. It differs from summer squash in that it is harvested and eaten in the mature fruit stage, when the seeds within have matured fully and the skin has hardened into a tough rind. At this stage, most varieties of this fruit can be stored for use during the winter. It is generally cooked before eating.
Because squash is a tender vegetable, the seeds do not germinate in cold soil. They are also easily destroyed by frost. It is therefore necessary to plant after the soil is thoroughly warmed and all sign of frost has passed.
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Winter squash is a good source of complex carbohydrates such as starch, and also fibre.
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"The power of imagination makes us infinite" ~ John Muir
Growing up, the adults have always labelled me as an over-inquisitive child with an over active imagination.
I dream in colour, despite only being exposed to colour tv after my tot years, considered quite 'late' for my generation, and I remember most of my dreams, with funny story lines.
I always imagined a lot of things, call it day dream, fantasy, little girl's dreams or a folly, foolish or not, I believe in the power of imagination.
Haven't we been exposed to many theories and thinkers who market 'the power of positive thinking', 'the Law of Attraction', the Power of Affirmation, it's all in the mind, mind over matter and many more. It all starts with the mind, right? Starts within oneself then it may be actualized in real life.
People will always judge and doubt. Surround oneself with positive and like-minded people who believe in the power of imagination and the mind.
Learn to ignore the dissenters, the unsupportive and the negative. Take things with a pinch of salt and life won't be as difficult as it it seemed at first.
Do not shut people out, not totally. Yes, the Mind is very powerful and the Power of Imagination and Visualisation had proved to be effective to get things done and achieve goals, however what is success without having your loved ones by your side to cheer and rally for you?
Balance is always the key. Remember that with power, it comes with responsibility. Dream responsibly, may everyone reach within and start imagining positivity.
Random Pix of a pretty hibiscus from my mother-in-law's garden.