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You can create your own small business by making wooden animal toys to sell at crafts fairs.
My husband and I operate a "pocketsized" woodshop in which we produce easels and small wooden blocks for children. And, like everyone else's shop, ours always seems to have a box sitting in the corner someplace . . . filled with scraps of wood that are too small to use in our regular items.
Unlike everyone else, though, I began (back in 1967) designing a line of simple animals that could be constructed from precisely the shortends and other "waste" left over from our main projects.
The animals were an immediate hit. They combine happily with blocks and other toys, they stack, they encourage creativity, and the little folks who play with them generally find them educational too. We've also been pleased to learn that parents and teachers usually consider one of the wooden figures worth a whole pile of plastic ones (there seems to be sort of an "heirloom factor" involved here somewhere).
Wooden Animals: Collect Your Tools and Raw Materials
Our little animals are so easy to make that anyone with a drill press, band saw, and sander will find them a snap. And, if you don't have that sort of equipment, there's nothing to keep you from creating the wooden critters with a simple coping saw, hand drill, and sandpaper. You'll naturally work somewhat slower but if you take care as you go, your final products should be quite respectable.
When Homer and I are turning out our regular lines, he handles the rip saw and other mechanical monsters and I do my share by running the band saw and sander. As we go along, we both set aside any scraps that are large enough for the construction of one or more of our little beasties. Experience has shown that we can even use pieces of wood that contain minor knots and small cracks. We simply fill the defects with a mixture of glue and sawdust, and the irregularities add texture to the natural look of the finished toys.
Most of our designs are cut from pieces of wood measuring no more than 1-1/2 inch thick by 3-1/8 inch by 4-3/4 inch. (This keeps the completed animals small enough — yet thick enough — for tiny hands to stack easily.) Short-ends of almost any hard or semi-hardwood will do. Red alder is perfect if you can get it, although we're presently using Alaska yellow cedar (which isn't a true hardwood but is tough enough for these toys, looks good, and doesn't splinter too readily). Redwood isn't usually recommended for children's playthings and we stay away from it.
How to Design Your Wooden Toys
Start with one of your rough-cut blocks . . . and simply draw out a compact, chunky animal that falls within the piece of wood's limitations. When you have something that looks good, cut it out, sand it . . . and there's your original! I get my ideas from life and from books (children's books especially) have nice, clear illustrations that I find very inspiring).
Keep your outlines simple and try to key them to your equipment. The curves on our hippopotamus, for example, just match the drum on the top of our sander (which, obviously, makes it very easy for us to sand down a hippo). Avoid fragile beaks or feet that can break off during the rough and tumble of play.
Another design tip: Many of our little creations have their front "legs" separated from their back ones merely by the removal of a half circle of wood from each of the animals' "bellies". By clamping two of the figures together — base to base — and then drilling with a 1-1/8 inch bit right through the resulting "crack" where the two blocks butt together . . . we can take out both of the semi-circles at once. Bear in mind, too, that the hole drilled by a 1/4 inch bit makes a good eye on one of these animals. (Auger bits — the ones with little guide "screws" in their centers — are the best kind to use. They "clear" well, are easy to "place", and don't "run".)
Make a Pattern for Each Wooden Toy
As you perfect each of your designs, trace it onto a piece of tempered Masonite and cut out a master template or pattern. Mark the spot for the eye by drilling a hole with a 1/8 inch bit . . . and you should be all set to duplicate your rabbit or rhinoceros or whatever as many times as you like.
To date, I've created ten animals and four birds and I'm working on some new designs. And don't forget that all your basic figures can be modified to make bookends, coat pegs, birthday-candle holders, and other children's items.
Pencil holders, for example, are nothing but stock animals with a few holes drilled into their backs (once you know what you're doing, you'll probably find it easiest to drill these holes before the figures are even bandsawed out).
And here's another simple way to get more mileage from an especially good design: just scale it up or down. I recently filled one order for a teacher who wanted a "papa", a "mama", and a "baby" elephant. She got all three . . . but, except for size, they were all the same animal.
Mass Production of Wooden Toys is Easy
Once you've created a few patterns, it's a snap to mass-produce these wooden animals.
Place a template on a block, pencil around it, and mark the eye. Repeat for a second figure. Then clamp the two blocks together and run the 1-1/8 inch drill bit between them to form the animals' legs. Switch to the 1/4 inch bit and drill out the eyes.
Next, unclamp the two blocks and — one at a time, with each held down flat on the band saw's table — cut out the animals with a 3/8 inch or 1/4 inch skip-tooth blade. Then sand them to shape with a medium-grit belt on your bench sander. And, finally, hand-sand each figure meticulously to take off all sharp corners and edges (remember, you're creating something special . . . and it's for little children).
Each of the tiny pets is then finished off by dipping it in a non-toxic sealer. We like thinned linseed oil . . . it's still one of the best finishes there is and enhances the natural beauty of wood's grain and color. For efficiency, dip the animals in batches. Then dry them on racks outside, away from the sun, for several days.
When the oil is dry, rub the wooden figures gently with No. 3 steel wool. Make all your strokes with the grain and you'll end up with an extra smooth "feel" that's delightful.
Making Wooden Toys: Costs and Marketing
I can make four or five of my little animals an, hour and, by utilizing scrap lumber, their costs are quite low.
Although I really should charge more, I sell these figures for $1.50 to $2.00 a head and I market most of them direct to the customer. An attractive display at a craft fair always sells well. (No one can walk by without sneaking a glance when you pose your little creatures in totem pole stacks, games of "hide and seek", etc.)
We did very well at a recent fair. One customer alone bought 36 animals . . . and a contact made at the event led to the purchase of 72 of our figures by a nearby state mental hospital. It seems that both institutions and private individuals welcome the opportunity to buy quality wooden toys. And not just for children: Adults also fall for our natural little charmers, and many purchase a "pet" pencil holder for themselves.
If craft fairs are scarce in your parts, try writing to day-care centers and nursery schools and letting them know what you have to offer. Or put some of your animals out on consignment in small craft and gift shops. You can also advertise them on supermarket bulletin boards or, if you have the proper exposure, sell the figures direct from your home or woodworking shop.
These little animals have certainly paid off for us in both cash and enjoyment and, one way or another, I see no reason why they shouldn't do the same for you.


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A winner was selected from 22 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
I am the overly optimistic and energetic founder of Koopio - a fun, early stage startup focused on the hot social commerce space.
With the emergence of so many deal-buying sites like Groupon, Living Social, TownHog, etc, we strongly believe that there is now a viable market for a useful, fun, and compelling service that can aggregate information from all these sites and present them in a simple easy to understand manner for the end users.
We are also building a lot of social aspects (e.g. being able to "follow" deals that your Facebook/Twitter friends are following, find out deals that are trending in your neighborhood, ratings, etc) into the koopio platform to drive the overall experience.
I'd like to think of Koopio as a potential disruptor in this space (similar to http://www.kayak.com and http://www.hipmunk.com are doing for travel, and http://www.airbnb.com is doing to the hotel/accomodation space). Help us make this a reality!!
The "Facebook/Twitter/Digg/Tumblr" and the "uber" smartphone user (iOS and Android) crowd.
This audience tend to be extremely tech savvy and very comfortable with searching for/talking about things that interest them via their blogs, on their twitter/facebook pages and texting on their phone.
What we are looking for is a clean, simple, yet elegant page design. Examples of the kind of sites we like (and want you to use/reference as a foundation for the website design) are, in order of likeness:
1) http://www.stay.com/ and http://www.stay.com/hotel
2) http://www.etsy.com/
3) http://www.foodspotting.com
4) http://movieclips.com/
5) http://mog.com/
Page Title: Koopio Homepage)
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Form fields for search, account login
Facebook login button
Twitter login button
Facebook "like" button
Twitter "tweet" button
Digg "Digg" button
The homepage layout should be as close as possible to a site line http://www.stay.com in that:
section #1 is focused on search
section #2 would display "tending" deals in a particular city/neighborhood that the user is in (based on koopio detecting the user's geo location from the web browser)
section #3 would display the "top cities" where users are searching for Groupon-type deals (via the koopio website)

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Building Support Systems for Women Living With HIV in the 1980s
An Interview With Patricia Nalls -- Part of the Series This Positive Life
September 19, 2012
When Patricia Nalls was diagnosed with AIDS in 1987, she thought she was the only woman living with HIV. She also never believed she'd live to see her children grow up, much less see them have children of their own. And yet, despite her doubts and fear about what the future had in store, she was determined to find and reach out to other women like her in her area.
A few years after her diagnosis, she started a phone hotline for women living with HIV, which then became a small support group in her home that flourished into a full-fledged organization called The Women's Collective. Over the years, her organization has influenced policy and delivered vital services of all kinds to women living with HIV in the Washington, D.C., area. In this edition of This Positive Life, Patricia -- now a grandmother -- shares her own story of being a long-term HIV survivor, how stigma impacts women and their families and how everyone living with HIV deserves to be loved.
Can you start by describing how you found out that you were HIV positive?
I found out my HIV status after being married for 10 years. We were living the so-called American dream: My husband and I had bought a home and our children were in private school. But then, I gave birth to my third child who was very sick. No one could figure out what was wrong with her. When she was about two-and-a-half, my husband began to get ill. He went to many, many doctors, and got many misdiagnoses: bleeding ulcer, TB, a list of allergies and things like that. But nothing was getting better. Finally, his blood count was very low and they said, "Well, let's bring you into the hospital."
So he went into the hospital, and they said, "Oh, you have a bleeding ulcer. We're going to take care of it." Well, when they got there they realized there was no bleeding ulcer. Then they started to ask him his history and "Can we test you for HIV?" -- which they did. And it came back positive. He had full-blown AIDS. That was in October of 1986. He died on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 1987. Of course, it made sense what was wrong with our third child, who was sick. She died six months after my husband, in June 1987. And at the age of 29, I found out that I, too, had AIDS.
I remember being so sick. I was 80 pounds and had no T cells. My doctors told me I had less than two years to live. My two older children, who were 8 and 4 at the time, tested negative.
I had never seen another woman with HIV; I'd always seen guys. So I thought at the time that I was the only woman. So I did what most women (or mothers) do, I stayed isolated for quite a while.
How long did you isolate yourself?
I would say I was isolated from people -- friends, family -- for about a good two years or more. I sought medical attention after I got really ill and my doctor told me, "You have less than two years." At that time, we didn't have AZT [Retrovir, zidovudine]; we had no medicine.
So I went home and did what I was told. I prepared for death. I bought my plot. I got my will made -- who will be taking care of my children, and those type of things -- all in a state of isolation, without people knowing. I eventually told my parents, but I didn't tell friends or other family members because of the shame, the stigma and the guilt. I felt like no one will want to be around me or my children, who were innocent to it all. So it was very hard.
At that time, they would bring the medicine home. It was called pentamidine [NebuPent; used to treat pneumonia]; you had to inhale it. I remember literally hiding in the closet in the home, and doing the medicine, inhaling the pentamidine, because I didn't want to bring any fear to my two children, who had already seen two major people die. I didn't want them to know what was going on with me. So I would get up in the morning, drop them off at school, and come home and be dreadfully ill -- throwing up, diarrhea, the whole thing.
Then get up at 3 o'clock, put my face on, make myself look good, and get in the car and go pick them up, pretending as though nothing was wrong all day. I would prepare their meals, get them ready for school, work with them on homework and just do all of those types of things.
Many women around me were dealing with similar situations. We just didn't know each other. For women with this disease, we are so obsessed with protecting our children and taking care of them that we do it at our own expense. I was the same. I did everything I could to make them feel like everything was normal, as much as I could.
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"Ink Master" Tattoo Competition Show [And "Best Ink"]
I know. I know. You're upset.
The magic and mystery that tattooing once held has faded into the ether leaving us with, well, Dave Navarro. The heavily tattooed, perfectly manscaped rocker with the smokey eyeshadow is now the arbiter of body art, holding the fate of ten tattooists in his hand as he decides who will be ... "INK MASTER." [!!!]
If only someone who really feels the tattoo passion could command such fate, someone like Kimberly Caldwell ... wait who? Oh, she was the seventh place finalist on the second season of American Idol, who is hosting Oxygen's own tattoo competition, "Best Ink." But we'll get to that.
"Ink Master" is Spike TV's version of Project Runway produced by Original Media, the ones you have to thank for Miami, LA & NY Ink as well as The Rachel Zoe Project and BBQ Pitmasters. Like these shows, "tension and stakes are high" as tattooists battle it out for $100,000 and a feature in Inked Magazine. Here's more from their PR peeps:
"Ink Master" contestants will compete in various tattoo challenges that not only test the artists' technical skills, but also their on-the-spot creativity, where they must create and execute an original tattoo on command. Challenges focus on different tattooing techniques, such as shading, line and proportion, and styles including photorealism, Tribal, American traditional, and pin-up.Ok, that doesn't sound too bad. Essentially, it's a Hollywood version of the first and most wonderful tattoo competition series, "Tattoo Wars," which was never picked up because people with tattoos actually liked it.
In addition to Navarro, Chris Nunez ("Miami Ink") and Oliver Peck (Elm Street Tattoo) make up the show panel with guest judges, like tattooers Scott Campbell and Jack Rudy, weighing in on certain episodes. Other guest judges are Inked creative director Todd Weinberger, "Auction Hunters" Ton Jones and NBA player Chris Andersen [because reality stars and basketball players are the taste makers in fine art tattooing.]
Considering the roster of artists competing, which include many well respected tattooers -- some who are friends of ours -- we have hopes for Ink Master, or at least we don't think we'll be getting as drunk as we do with our NY Ink Drinking Game.
That said, we'll just pretend this show trailer ever happened. And let's forget the tag line "You don't get to be a master without drawing some blood." Instead, click the videos with our girl, Lea Vendetta and Brooklyn's own Al Fliction. Here's the full artist list:
Ink Master premiers January 17th. We'll make a drinking game for this one just in case.
Oh, and yeah, that competition show for the Oxygen network. Well, it's pretty much the exact same thing -- ten artists compete for $100,000 and a spread in a magazine, but in addition to the American Idol non-winner, the awesome Joe Capobianco and Sabina Kelly hold court. Oxygen's PR machine is a bit behind on Spike's, but when [more] photos and videos are out, we'll be posting them, especially if they come with kicky taglines. Best Ink premiers January 30th.
UPDATE: Tattoo magazine has a cover feature on Best Ink. For more, check the Hope Gallery Blog.
UPDATE 2: Best Ink site has a few pics on their site with more content to come.


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After a long and -- at times -- contentious campaign, President Obama and Mitt Romney sit down together for lunch at the White House on Thursday. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
President Obama and the man he defeated in the 2012 presidential contest -- Republican Mitt Romney -- will have lunch Thursday at the White House, Obama's press secretary announced.
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The art and technique of eliciting stories from others
Record audio? There's an app for that. An iOS app (Part 1)
What is the best app for recording a conversation? If you're a family historian and have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, keep reading. This is the first of a multi-part series looking at iOS apps — apps that just record audio, and more complex apps to help the family storycatcher ask questions and record stories for family history.
At the iTunes store, there are so many apps to choose from. How do you know which one to use? What app can you trust to help you collect important stories from your family?
Before I get into evaluation of specific apps (which will come in Part 2, Part 3, Part n…), I'll lay the groundwork here for the criteria I use to make that evaluation. You may find that I touch on some of your pet peeves about why you don't like some apps as well as others.
Two flavors of apps
Audio recording apps for the family historian come in two major flavors: apps to record audio only, and special-purpose story-catching apps. Both of these work for face-to-face conversations. (A third type of app, to record phone calls, won't be covered in this series. It's on my To Do list, though.)
Flavor 1: Record audio only. All audio, all the time.
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Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on January 31, 2014 in
• Audio
• Audio: Software
• Interviewing
• iOS
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This Friday! #GenChat on Twitter. Topic: Oral Histories and Interviewing.
[Updated] There's a Friendly (every other) Friday Free-for-all on Twitter called #GenChat. Squee! I'm delighted to be a special guest for this event.
(Gen as in Genealogy. Chat as in, well, free-for-all, Q & A). This Friday's topic is Oral Histories and Interviewing.
April showers bring May flowers. May flowers bring on travel season. If you'll be visiting family, put Interviewing on your To Do list.
(Mother's Day, Graduation Day, Father's Day, 4th of July, Vacation time. Reunions. You know, family visits.)
This Friday's GenChat will be devoted to what to do.
Want to do some story catching during a family visit? Join us. Ask questions. Tell about your experiences. Share tips.
(One of my college professors wrote exam questions that began, "Succinctly describe…" That was prep for Twitter. 140 characters at a time.)
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My Rootstech Session made it into Deseret News! Plus: a few links n tidbits
Thrilled. Pleased. Proud: My Rootstech session was written up in a story by Alexis Jones in the Deseret News. Welcome, Deseret News readers! Here are a few additional pointers, links, and tidbits.
Think Like an Interviewer
My Rootstech 2013 landing page for Rootstech attendees, with links to all my articles on interviewing.
Rootstech Session Syllabus
The session syllabus, on the Rootstech site. LOTS of detail there. Lots. Just go download the PDF right now. And hey, it links to the Rootstech 2013 page, mentioned above.
Audio-In on the iOS
The mother of all posts with all the audio-in compabitility for each and every iOS device since Apple introduced the iPhone and iPod Touch in 2007.
Still to come: A summary of my slides of the process of setting up Easy Voice Recorder on Android.
Apps! We gotcher Apps right here
Recommended Apps for iOS devices (these links will ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on April 01, 2013 in
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• Audio: Software
• Genealogy
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• iOS
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After two decades, the conversation that changed EVERYTHING
21 years later, I learned about a conversation that changed everything – everything – I thought about what happened on March 8, 1986. Over two decades after that harrowing event, knowing about that conversation has made all the difference.
I've written about this March 8 day before, in 2007 in a post "Why International Women's Day is Hard."
The kernel of the story is hard: Early that morning, my grandmother woke up. Fell. Pain. Broken hip. (this, some three months after falling and breaking her hip. The first time.) What we know comes from grandpa's phone call. She fell. Broke her hip. She's gone and by the time you get here, I'll be gone, too. Gunshot wounds. Police tape. News stories, and shock.
The new revelation came to me a few months after I wrote the above blog post. I re-read it again, and thought, My perspective on this has completely changed. (If you want to, สล็อตออนไลน์ ได้เงินจริงgo read it. I'll wait.)
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Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on March 08, 2013 in
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• Audio: Hardware
• Interviewing
• Personal
• Personal History
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Kodak: From "Remember The Day In Pictures" to "Remember using a Kodak camera?"
For nearly 125 years Kodak's reason for existence has been to provide the tools for people to create memories.
"Remember the day in pictures."
"Keep 'Family History' in snapshots."
"Remember the visit with snapshots."
"For over 100 years people have trusted their memories to Kodak film."
Kodak, the company that started in 1880 and popularized the film camera and invented the digital camera, recently announced that they're no longer going to manufacture digital cameras and photo frames. How does one think of a dying behemoth? And not just any corporate behemoth, but a company that has been integral to capturing and storing our memories? Their 1970s ad said, "We're America's storyteller celebrating life with you –picturing the stories of everything you do." Now Kodak is transforming into a memory.
There are three ways to consider this transformation.
The "Wow. Just wow." factor
Most of the stories I've seen fit in this category . Wow. Kodak is no longer making digital cameras. Wow. Kodak is the company that invented the digital camera. The company has been around, like, forever. Look at that. Such a change. Wow. It just takes your breath away.
Over my lifetime, I've shot pictures with an Instamatic camera, and a Pocket Instamatic (using Kodak film, of course.) When I got a 35mm Single Lens Reflex, I kept using Kodak film—lots of Kodak film. When I took a photography class, I bought Kodak chemicals and photo paper. I got a Kodak slide carousel projector ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 29, 2012 in
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• Interviewing
• Longevity
• Memorabilia
• Obsolecence
• Photographs
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Interviewing Family: Joan Miller of Luxegen
Genealogy Conference Junkie gets buttonholed for "have you interviewed your family" discussion. Result: Breakthrough. Joan Miller, from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, blogs at Luxegen. She says she's a "genealogy conference junkie" – which is how she came to be in Southern California for the June 2011 Genealogy Jamboree. I asked Joan about her experience conducting family interviews, this is the result. Well, no, the results are better than this, because our discussion helped get Joan through a
brick wall human will wall.
(Two notes—One about editing, one about timing.
Editing: These transcribed interviews are lightly edited for clarity and to remove a few spoken-word ums and things like that. There are also places in the interviews where I withhold information at the request of the person interviewed.
Timing: As I was working on this post, I came down with a baaaad case of wintery flu+bronchitis cough-a-palooza and took an unscheduled and unannounced break from posting here at Family Oral History. By the time I emerged from my haze of it all, I saw that Joan Miller's taking a blogging break to heal from an illness. Get well, Joan.)
A Tale of Two Relatives
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Interviewing Family At Thanksgiving: What Happened Last Year & This Year's Plans (Updated)
What can you do to interview family and collect histories and memories of elders and relatives when you get together with family at Thanksgiving or for the National Day of Listening?
I wrote about this last year, with a collection of ideas I culled from the internets. I adapted one of those for our family gathering last year. I'll describe what we did, what I learned, how this year will be different, and brainstorm some variations on a theme.
I started with Beth Lamie's idea, Draw From A Hat. Put a set of questions in a hat and draw one out and ask. Repeat. That was the inspiration: That, and "Get the kids involved."
But of course, somebody has to think up the questions that get placed into the hat. I focused on this with my nieces—two girls, aged 9 (nearly 10) and 4. Let them be the ones to come up with questions for everyone.
What we did to prepare for Dinner Conversation
I arrived at their house, got them to step away from the computer and the Tee vee (sigh. yes. true.) with an aunt-ish scheme: Think of some questions to ask people at the dinner table. Instead of generic questions that would apply to anybody, I ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 22, 2011 in
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Interviewing Family: Kim von Aspern-Parker of Le Maison Duchamps, Part 2
In this second half of my interview with Kim von Aspern-Parker (Kim von Aspern-Parker, Part 1) about interviewing family, Kim talks about her approaches to get permission from people for her interviews, describes her hardest interview (and why it's hard), and she gives her final morsels of advice (plus, I put all her advice in one handy list).
Kim is one of the four people I interviewed about interviewing family at the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree this past June. (Series introduction)
Kim von Aspern-Parker blogs at Le Maison Duchamp. Highlights of Part 1: For Dad to start talking, he had to be in an altered state. Using a genealogy chart to interview? Surprise! Advice for interviewing: remember to listen for the stories, don't interrupt people, and work from photo albums.
Disclosure and Permissions
In the first half, while Kim talked about her visit with her 90-year old aunt and the misunderstanding over the genealogy chart, she described putting her recorder out on the table with a bunch of other items (keys, phone, etc.), and interviewing her aunt, and letting her know after the fact. We revisit a bit of that conversation for this later section on disclosure ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 16, 2011 in
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Interviewing Family: Kim von Aspern-Parker of Le Maison Duchamps, Part 1
The first interview in this "Jamboree Genealogy Bloggers talk about Interviewing Family" series is with Kim von Aspern-Parker, who blogs at Le Maison Duchamp. I started by asking her to tell me of her experience interviewing family members. She began by describing her experience interviewing her dad.
This interview transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and to remove, you know, a few, like, forms of spoken word that don't, um, work as well as the written word. There are also places in the interviews where I withhold information at the request of the person interviewed.
Kim von Aspern-Parker: When I started interviewing my dad, I started asking him questions about his family, cause I was doing my genealogy. The first indication that I got from my dad that he was going to be a hard interview:
"What was your grandfather's name?"
He says, "Mr. Gilchrist."
"No, like first name, Dad."
(Probably not.)
So, every time I interviewed my dad it was like ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 09, 2011 in
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How does genealogical research differ from interviewing family?
Back in June, at Jamboree in Burbank, I spoke to four people about their experience recording interviews with family members. Next week I will start publishing a series of posts where you get to hear (or, read) from them directly.
Jamboree, by the way, is the Southern California Genealogy Society Jamboree – the annual June conference in the greater Los Angeles area. It's well-attended by genealogy bloggers.
The four people:
- Kim von Aspern-Parker of Le Maison Duchamp
- Joan Miller of Luxegen
- Donna Wendt of Another Day With Donna
- Lisa Alzo of The Accidental Genealogist
(Listed in the order I interviewed them)
But first, imagine the following scenario.
You decide to contact the government agency that can give you some vital records for Great Great Great Grandma, which are stored at the Grove County Records. You want her birth certificate and marriage certificate.
The usual procedure for that is to write a request for the information. Maybe they have a PDF form online that you can fill out and print. Or maybe you just write Great Great Great Grandma's name and whatever other ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 04, 2011 in
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Roundup of my posts regarding interviewing family (the "not at Rootstech because I'm sick" edition)
I'm not at Rootstech because I'm sick (I was registered, tho). Dang. As tweets and posts emerge from it, I figured I'd do a roundup of my "how to interview family (how to + tech + tools)" posts from the last year that will interest people who are attending Rootstech. I've written quite a few posts about interviewing family, both procedural, and technical over the last year. Here's a guide to them:
Interviewing family series
I wrote this series ahead of the Southern California Genealogy Society's Genealogy Jamboree in Burbank, CA (where I spoke on interviewing family, and digital tools) It's about different ways to come up with good questions to ask your family member when you sit down to interview him or her.
Three Weeks to Jamboree: Interviewing Family
Curiosity. Non-Judgement. The underlying attitude to everything.
Interviewing Family: Why not Why?
Why is asking "WHY?" not a good idea when interviewing family members?
Interviewing Family: What Should I Ask? Major Life Events
When you think about the major events in a person's life, the questions start asking ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 11, 2011 in
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Your turn (Open thread): Did you interview anyone over the holidays?
Did you interview anyone over the holidays? Who did you interview? What happened? How'd it go? What did you use to capture what the person said? (paper and pen? an audio recorder? a video recorder?)
Here's an open thread for you: Tell your story about getting someone else to tell a story over the holidays.
I'll start with an oh-so-brief recap:
There were three interview events between Thanksgiving and New Year's:
- Thanksgiving: I put one of the suggestions from this roundup to use: Helped my nieces think up questions to ask everyone. She wrote them on 3x5 cards, shuffled them, and then began asking questions. I had the recorder on and recording, and we all learned new things about each other. (more on that experience to come.)
- Last week: I attended a memorial service for a man who was a mentor to my mother, and a teacher to my brother and me. I recorded the audio of the service. At the reception, I set up a dual mic at a table where people could sit down and offer their ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on January 05, 2011 in
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Interviewing while looking at photo albums (Part 2)
For Part 2 of this two-part series about interviewing using photo albums, I made you a movie!
Using the writerly maxim, "Show, don't tell," I show you what it's like to view photos while listening to people talk about them. I've written the important lesson before – describe out loud what you see on the page – but it's easier to watch and listen to see how important it is to put what you know into the recording. The movie features the glorious album of my Great Aunt Doris, the painter and horsewoman. (See Part 1)
I put this movie together from the audio recording of an interview I did with my mother a few years back. I just started up the audio and we looked through the album in two long sessions. Don't worry, this movie is much shorter than the long afternoon we spent poring over its pages. You'll join us as we look at one spread in the album and talk about the photos on its pages.
You get to step into the shoes of someone who comes along later—someone who wasn't present at the interview—and try to make sense of the photos by looking at the photos. It's 4:46 minutes long.
[note: if you are reading this using a feed reader (Google Reader, Feed Demon, Bloglines, NewsGator, Net News ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 16, 2010 in
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Thanksgiving table talk and the National Day of Listening
Here's a roundup of practical Thanksgiving Day advice for ways to collect family history around the Thanksgiving table. (Or before or after). I offer these in hopes that it adds some depth to your family holiday. These are blog posts and articles by others around the blogosphere.
Oh, and are you aware of a holiday tip that's not mentioned here? Please let me know. I'm happy to make this collection grow to reflect the good advice and suggestions that are out there.
Paula's Genealogical Eclectica has a list of good conversation-starter interview questions. [via Little Bytes of Life]
I wish I had asked my Grandma Gert what it was like to be 21 when women earned the right to vote in 1922. I would have had asked her mother, Nana, for details on growing up without a mother and why did they leave Canada.
Here are a few of her questions (geared toward the women elders in her family):
- What was it like to make the decision to leave your home country and ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 23, 2010 in
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สล็อตออนไลน์ ได้เงินจริงInterviewing while looking at photo albums (Part 1)
When you get together with family at Thanksgiving, will you spend all your time in the kitchen and dining table? Make some time to hear family stories. One basic way to capture stories is to look at photo albums and ask questions about the people and places, and the events depicted therein.
Photos are a great means of eliciting stories. Photos (and photo albums) also provide a fantastic start on a journey of collecting family history stories.
More than one older relative has replied to the request for an interview with something like—"What? you want to interview me? But my life's been so normal. So unexciting. What would I possibly have to say?"
That same person who objects to an "Interview" (with a capital I) probably finds it perfectly reasonable to sit down and identify people in photographs. "Why of course I'll tell you who these people you've never met are." Easy-peasy. Slam-dunk.
Now you're off and running. Then the person will start remembering, ...Read More
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Give the Gift of Life During Our Mother's Day Blood Drive Saturday
This weekend is Mother's Day, and what better way to honor the most important woman in your life than by saving someone else's by donating blood at our Mother's Day Blood Drive?
The South Texas Blood & Tissue Center will be set up at HEB on Rio Grande Saturday from 1-4pm, and donating blood won't take very long at all. Plus, you could win some great prizes!
The whole process only takes about 30 minutes, and just for donating you'll get a mini physical, an SBTC t-shirt, and a $10 HEB gift card. You'll also get a goody bag with coupons and other items from Casa Ole, Great American Cookie Company, and Daylan Gwosdz of Edward Jones.
And, if that weren't enough, you'll also be entered into drawings for prizes from Woodhouse Day Spa, Don Jose Mexican Restaurant, Las Palmas Mexican Bar & Grill and The Sky Restaurant. Nice!
Not to mention the warm, fuzzy feeling of helping out your fellow man. As we like to say when you give blood, the life you save may be your own.
Come honor Mom by giving the gift of life this Saturday at HEB Rio Grande during the Townsquare Media Mother's Day Blood Drive!


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VIDEO: Tim Duncan and the Spurs beat the Heat — and heat — in Game 1
SAN ANTONIO – LeBron James probably has had 140 or so "podium games" in his NBA playoff career (he's played 154). And then, finally, in Game 1 of The 2014 Finals at the AT&T Center Thursday he had …
A sodium game.
Dehydration from an overheated arena with a broken-down air conditioning system led to severe cramping for the Miami Heat superstar, and the cramping sent James to the bench at pivotal moments in the fourth quarter, a quarter won by the San Antonio Spurs 36-17 as they grabbed a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven championship round.
Grabbed it and were lucky not to have it squirt from their hands, from the perspiration.
"As the game started, I was like, 'Wow, it feels nice and warm in here. I'm feeling good,' " said Miami guard Ray Allen, the leanest and probably best-conditioned player on the floor. "Then when we called the first timeout, [Dwyane] Wade was drenched. And LeBron said, 'He looks like he played the whole game already.' "
Playing the whole game was a problem, particularly for James. Temperatures in the building, high at tipoff, only rose with a sold-out crowd of 18,581, the bright lights of network TV coverage and the intensity on the court.
James said he downed a bunch of fluids at halftime and even changed his uniform "to get the sweat up off of you." Both the Miami and San Antonio trainers gave their players ice bags and cold towels on their respective benches. It was managed as well as it could be, until the mercury rose further and adrenaline mattered less than electrolytes.
"I got all the fluids I need to get," James said after getting more delivered intravenously in the postgame locker room. "I do my normal routine I've done and it was inevitable for me. … I lost all the fluids that I was putting in in the last couple of days out there on the floor."
The Spurs' Tim Duncan had noticed James subbing out a couple of times in the second half and assumed he was tired, same as the rest of them. Only it was worse than that. The Heat star had battled cramps before – he had famously returned from a bout with them in Game 4 the 2012 Finals against Oklahoma City to hit a crucial shot – and he was seizing up Thursday night like never before.
The worst of it came deep into the final quarter after James subbed back in with 4:33 left. He drove hard to the rim for a layup and kept going into the baseline area, pulling up, testing his leg and finally just stopping. Was it an ankle injury? Nope, more like his left hamstring and calf muscles caught in a vise grip. He was, in that instant as the Spurs pushed the ball toward the other end, helpless. He had to be hurriedly half-carried to the bench, lest the Heat get charged with a timeout.
"The best option for me to do was not to move," he told a pool reporter late Thursday. "I tried and any little step or nudge, it would get worse. It would lock up worse and my muscles spasmed 10 out of 10."
It was not just James' left leg but, he said, "damn near the whole left side." Down 94-92 when the cramps stopped James, Miami got outscored 16-3 from over the final four minutes.
To their credit, the Heat didn't dwell on James' condition as an excuse for their unraveling. "I was worried about him," Allen said. "But at that moment, I wasn't thinking about it as much as what we needed to do. We did let go of the rope a little bit. We gave up stuff defensively and offensively, we didn't get to our stuff. We had some empty, open possessions we didn't convert and they did."
Allowing the other team to shoot 58 percent and turning over the ball 18 times can undercut grumbles about a thermostat.
Still, it was bizarre seeing a Finals opener being decided with James sitting out right in camera range, planted on the bench not by foul trouble but by the body that has been so good to him in this instance betraying him.
Miami coach Erik Spoelstra made the decision to shut him down for the night. "Look, at one point he was getting up with 3½ minutes to go," Spoelstra said, "and I looked at him and said, 'Don't even think about it. You can't even move at this point.' " Instead, James was dispatched to the locker room and, minutes later, the Heat were simply dispatched.
Afterward, a few especially creative conspiracy theorists tried to float the notion that the Spurs somehow arranged for the AC breakdown, calculating James' propensity for cramps. But Rod Thorn, NBA president of basketball operations, considered the circumstances little more than another hot game, like a bunch of other hot playoff games through the years.
"What you are looking for is to make sure that the conditions on the court are fine, and in this case there was no one slipping," Thorn said. "Once the game starts, it's in the hands of the referees. Had the referees felt at any time – or I had felt at any time, I was sitting the second row midcourt – that the game should not be continued, then they would have come over and said something to me. Never did."
Both coaches used nine players, but ran them in and out more like hockey shifts.
"Players were pretty dead," San Antonio's Gregg Popovich said. "So we tried to get guys in and out a little bit more than we usually do. Kind of screws up the rhythm but it was mighty hot out there."
Said Spoelstra: "We're used to having the hotter arena at this time of year."
Unpleasant as the temperature in the building was, most of the players had experience performing in similar conditions. Heat forward Shane Battier likened it to his time at Duke, playing in that campus' famous Cameron Indoor Stadium in its pre-air conditioned days. "It was a huge, huge, homecourt advantage. Ten thousand people on you, no AC – it brought me back," Battier said.
Allen and James flashed back to their high school gym. San Antonio point guard Tony Parker said: "We never have AC in Europe, so it didn't bother me at all."
Thorn said the NBA believes "very strongly" that the air conditioning issue will be fixed by Game 2. Both the AT&T Center and James have until Sunday evening to get right.
"I need it, I need it," the Heat star said, adding that he and the training staff would start replenishing his fluids Thursday night.
Allen, a fitness maven, offered a more detailed recovery plan for his teammate. "Obviously it starts the day before, coming into the game, just refueling and resting," the veteran guard said. "But when you're out there, you've got to get that salt back into your body. You're dispensing so much of it. For him, we've got to find a way to keep getting Gatorade into him while he's on the bench, just to make sure he stays hydrated."
Technically, James' endorsement deal is with Powerade. But it wasn't a night to remember for the sports drink folks, either.
VIDEO: The GameTime crew discusses the impact of LeBron's cramps on Game 1


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LONDON (Reuters) - Record labels say they have maintained high levels of investment in new music despite sweeping changes to their business in the digital age and a decade of falling revenues caused by sliding album sales and online piracy.
According to a new study from industry body IFPI published on Monday, record companies invested $4.5 billion in A&R (artists and repertoire) and marketing in 2011.
That was down from $5 billion in 2008, partly due to a significant drop in the amount record labels were willing to spend on marketing up-and-coming talent at a time of shrinking income.
But the A&R side fell less sharply to $2.7 billion last year versus $2.8 billion in 2008 despite a decline of 16 percent in the trade value of the industry globally over the same period.
Presenting the report in London, Max Hole, COO of Universal Music Group International, said he was cautiously optimistic that the music business would return to growth soon, helped by the proliferation of digital platforms.
"The stats are getting better, the rate of decline is slowing," he told reporters.
"There's every reason to hope that in the next couple of years we'll reach the low point and start to go back to growth."
According to the IFPI, in the first nine months of 2012, global recorded music sales had fallen by around one percent year-on-year after a fall of three percent in 2011.
The industry peaked in 1999 when sales were $28.6 billion, but has shrunk every year since, reaching $16.6 billion in 2011.
"I just feel that we are at a tipping point of lots and lots of services coming on, and services that really are in touch with the consumer," Hole said, adding that, crucially, the platforms were more attractive than illegal pirate sites.
The report showed that more than 70 percent of unsigned acts in Britain and Germany wanted a record deal, despite the perception that many artists are keen to go it alone with the help of social networking.
Major labels have been accused of being slow to adjust to the challenges posed by digital music and illegal downloads, and relying too heavily on older, established acts to make money.
But the IFPI report sought to underline their role in unearthing new talent in a notoriously risky business.
Revenues invested in A&R represent around 16 percent of industry turnover, compared with 15.3 percent in the pharmaceuticals and biotech sector and 9.6 percent in software and computing.
The IFPI estimated breaking a pop act in a major market typically costs from $750,000 to $1.4 million, including a $200,000 advance, $200-300,000 on recording, $50-300,000 on videos, $100,000 on touring and $200-500,000 on marketing.
The Internet has revolutionized the way record labels go about their business, the report said.
A&R representatives today rely on the Internet as much as they do on attending gigs up and down the country to discover the next best thing, although most still want to see an act live before making up their minds.
According to the report, record labels are providing far more digital content as part of their marketing and promotion, and tend to sign deals with artists which go well beyond the shrinking recorded music business.
Brand partnerships, offering songs for use on television, in film and in commercials, and linking up singers from different regions to generate cross-over interest are just some of the ways they can help establish a new act, the IFPI added.
Hole said the recent merger between Universal, already the world's largest music label, and EMI, would not lead to less A&R spending, but more.
"We have stated quite categorically that our intention is to reinvest in EMI and boost it and we think it will result in more investment in A&R," he said.
"We operate a multi-label structure and that was something that had declined at EMI," he added. "We're going to reverse that."
Editing by Steve Addison


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"For Nick McIvor, a maths teacher at St Marylebone Church of England girls school in central London, there is no such thing as an average day at work."
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Does that mean that in British English we write a maths teacher while in American English we write a math teacher? Dictionary says that "mathematics noun [U] (UK informal maths , US informal math) formal."
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Q. Am I required to ground metal cover plates on receptacles and switches?
A. Yes, metal faceplates for receptacles and switches must be grounded. Section 406.5(B) requires that metal faceplates for receptacles must be connected to the circuit equipment grounding conductor. Although the NEC doesn't specify how this is to be accomplished, Exception No. 1 of 517.13(B) for health care facilities permits the metal mounting screw(s) securing the faceplate to a metal outlet box or wiring device to be suitable for this purpose (Fig. 1).
For switches, dimmers, and similar control switches, the metal mounting yokes must be connected to an equipment grounding conductor of a type recognized in 250.118, whether or not a metal faceplate is installed. The metal mounting yoke is considered part of the effective ground-fault current path by one of the following means:
- Mounting screw. The switch is mounted with metal screws to a metal box or a metal cover connected to an equipment grounding conductor of a type recognized in 250.118 [404.9(B)]. Direct metal-to-metal contact between the device yoke of a switch and the box isn't required.
- Equipment bonding conductor. An equipment grounding conductor, or equipment bonding jumper is connected to the grounding terminal of the metal mounting yoke. Exception: The metal mounting yoke of a replacement switch isn't required to be connected to an equipment grounding conductor of a type recognized in 250.118 if the wiring to the existing switch doesn't contain an equipment grounding conductor — and the switch faceplate is nonmetallic or the replacement switch is GFCI-protected.
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A. Wiring in patient care areas must comply with (A) and (B) of 517.13:
(A) Wiring methods. All branch circuits serving patient care areas must be provided with an effective ground-fault current path by installing circuits that serve patient care areas in a metal raceway or cable having a metallic armor or sheath that qualifies as an equipment grounding conductor in accordance with 250.118 [517.13], as shown in Fig. 2.
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Exception No. 1: Metal faceplates for switches and receptacles can be connected to the equipment grounding conductor by the metal mounting screws that secure the faceplate to a metal outlet box or metal mounting yoke of switches [404.9(B)] and receptacles [406.3(C)].
Exception No. 2: Luminaires located more than 7½ ft above the floor can be connected to the equipment grounding return path complying with 517.13(A), without being connected to an insulated equipment grounding conductor.


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The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation is implementing a project to improve capacities on species conservation planning and management in three Maghreb countries (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia). One of the main activities of this project for this year is to hold training courses about elaboration of Species Conservation Strategies in these three countries.
Two training courses were already celebrated in April in Marrakech and Tunis. The last training course was held on 10-13 June in Algiers. This four-day intensive workshop was a fast-track entry to strategic plans for species conservation, selection and prioritization of species and processes on how integrate strategic plans into the administrative structure of the country.
The workshop provided training in the design and implementation of species conservation measures. The talks were led by experts of IUCN's Specialist Groups and other international experts. An important part of the training was devoted to practical exercises, conducted in groups, to practice some of the main concepts discussed during the course. On wednesday afternoon, a visit to the Centre Cynégétique de Zéralda was organized by the Algerian Ministry of Environment.
IUCN is providing its expertise from the science-based network of experts across countries and the IUCN Species Survival Commission. The Mava Foundation, the Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales from the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the regional government of Junta de Andalucia provide financial support to this project.
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The Global Village Post Office handles the incoming student mail and package distribution and also offers outgoing shipping services. Global Village suites and surrounding RIT west side apartment/suite student mailboxes (University Commons, Greek Free-Standing, and Riverknoll) are centrally located at the HUB Post Office in Global Village. Standard mailing services, shipping services, purchasing of Western Union money orders, and shipping/packing supplies are available.
GV and NRH Post Office Hours
Outgoing Shipping window:
Monday: Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday: 11:30 a.m. -3:30 p.m.
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Saturday: 11:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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USPS Mail
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Note: Hours are subject to change. Please check the HUB Post Office website for the most up-to-date hours information.


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Storage: Store in a cool area. Disposal: Nonrefillable container. Do not reuse OR refill this container. If empty - place in trash or offer for recycling if available. If partly filled - call your local solid waste agency for disposal instructions. Never place unused product down any indoor or outdoor drain.
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First Aid: Call a poison center or doctor immediately for treatment advice.
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It's not by chance that the Princess 61's raked profile and raised bulwarks evoke superyacht designs. In every respect, the recently-launched 61 feels bigger than her dimensions. The spacious saloon, with its dining area and sunken galley, can be opened to the cockpit to create one party area. On the move, the 61 performs like a true Princess, with her assured seakeeping putting high speed distance cruising genuinely within reach.
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Designer: Olesinski
Hull Shape: Modified Vee
LOA: 61 ft 7 in
Beam: 16 ft 0 in
Length of Deck: 60 ft 7 in
Dry Weight: 57330 lbs
Engine Options
Engine Option 1: 2x 2 x Volvo Penta D12/700 (2 x 700hp) 700 HP
Fresh Water Tanks: (166 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: (660 Gallons)
Number of single berths: 8
Number of heads: 4
Seating Capacity: 12
Additional Description
INTERIOR FINISH * Furniture finished in a choice of natural cherry or classic cherry with clear lacquer finish * Console area finished in burr elm * Galley units fitted with Avonite (or similar) worktops * Laid-timber galley floor * Choice of upholstery fabrics, carpets and curtains from co-ordinated range. OPTIONAL AFT CABIN * 2 full-size single berths * Hanging and storage space * Downlighters and individual berth lights * Opening portholes * Bathroom/WC compartment with electric WC, shower and washbasin.
Additional Description
AFT COCKPIT * Self-draining * Teak-laid deck * Upholstered seat * Hatch on gas strut to lazarette stowage * Liferaft stowage locker * Steps to side decks * Cockpit lighting * Cockpit cover * Transom door leading to bathing platform * Twin electric-powered sternline docking winches in port and starboard coaming lockers, with rope storage * Locker housing 220/240v shore support inlets and shoreline stowage * Stainless-steel handrails * Integral teak laid stairway to flybridge * Full-length transom bathing platform with foldaway swimming ladder, hot and cold shower, teak sole, storage locker and deck light.
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DECK SALOON * U-shaped sofa with coffee table * 2-seater sofa opposite * Sideboard units incorporating refrigerator and icemaker, bottle and glass storage, multi-standard TV/DVD * Entertainment centre incorporating TV/radio/ DVD linked to hi-fi surround-soundOWNER'S STATEROOM * Large double bed with quilted bedspread * Dressing table with stool * Mirror * Wardrobe * Shelves, drawers and storage lockers * Twin bedside tables system * Exterior speakers with interchange switch * Stainless-steel framed aft cockpit door * Aft-facing electric drop window * Electric drop window to port sideFORWARD GUEST STATEROOM * Large double bed with quilted bedspread * Dressing table * Wardrobes and shelves * Downlighters, concealed lights and individual berth lights * Deck hatch with sliding blind * Opening portholes * Full length mirror * Storage lockers and drawers * Stowage location for dinette stools (2). En-suite shower/WC: Electric flush WC * Washbasin with mixer tap * Porthole * Mirror * Storage lockers * Separate stall shower with automatic pump-out * Extractor fan.
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ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS 24 Volt: 4 x heavy-duty batteries for engine starting * 6 x heavy-duty auxiliary batteries * Engine alternators charge via relay system to isolate engine start batteries from auxiliaries * 95-amp 24v float battery charger connected to both battery banks * Remote battery master switches with control switch at main switch panel * Circuit breakers on all circuits * 12v voltage dropper for certain navigation and radio circuits. 220/240 Volt: 11kW generator in own soundshield with water-cooled and specially silenced exhaust * Automatic fire extinguisher situated by generator * 32-amp shore support inlet * Generator/shore support change-over switch * Polarity check system * Earth leakage safety trip * Circuit breakers on all circuits * Power point in owner's stateroom, guest cabins, galley (double), saloon area and dining area * Shaver points in all bathrooms.
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GALLEY * Avonite (or similar) worktop * Ceramic 4-zone hob * Combination microwave/conventional oven with grill * Twin-bowl stainless-steel sink with mixer tap * Twin refrigerator/deep freeze units (24v/240v) * Dishwasher * Waste disposal bin * Overhead and concealed lighting * Drawers and storage cupboards * Icemaker * Access door to utility area. UTILITY AREA * Door access from galley * Washing machine/dryer * Storage cupboards * Overhead lighting * Rechargeable vacuum cleaner.
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FUEL SYSTEM * 4 fuel tanks (in N4 marine grade alloy) with interconnection system giving 660 gallons (3000 litres) capacity * Fuel fillers on port and starboard side decks * High-capacity duplex fuel filters with water traps and change-over valves, water warning sensors connected to warning lights at lower helm * Remote fuel cocks in cockpit locker * Fuel gauges at main helm console. WATER SYSTEM * 2 water tanks totalling 150 gallons (682 litres) plus 16 gallons (73 litres) hot water calorifier * Water heated by engines and 240v immersion heater * Automatic water pump with filter * Main circuit breaker at switch panel * Water level gauge * Deck filler. FIRE EXTINGUISHERS * Automatic fire extinguishers in engine room and generator space, additional automatic extinguisher over Eberspacher heater (if fitted) * Hand-operated fire extinguishers (5) in owner's stateroom, forward and port guest cabins, galley and at main helm * Additional extinguisher fitted when optional aft cabin is specified. BILGE PUMPS * Automatic electric bilge pumps (with manual override) in engine room (2), rudder area, lazarette and forward accommodation (5 in all) * High-capacity manual bilge pump with valve system and suction points in same areas * Electric bilge pumps have controls and warning lights at main helm and warning light with audible alarm at flybridge helm.
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POWER AND DRIVE SYSTEMS * Engine room soundproofed * High-volume air intakes * Engine room extractor fan with electronic time delay * Engine exhaust silencers and water-cooled exhausts * Solid engine beds integrally moulded with hull for strength and vibration absorption * Fore and aft engine room bulkheads integrally bonded * Engines flexibly mounted * Automatic fire extinguishers * Automatic and manual bilge pumps * Engine room lighting * Engine room access hatch and ladder * Propeller shafts in Temet with flexible shaft logs * 4-bladed aquafoil propellers in nickel aluminium bronze * High-speed balanced rudders * Cathodic protection for sterngear * Sterngear, engines, fuel tanks, fillers etc all electrically bonded * Hydraulic power-assisted steering system * Hydraulic engine and gear shift controls * Bow thruster (11hp) with dual-station controls * Freshwater supply point in engine room.
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* Modified deep V with moulded spray rails and incorporating propeller tunnels for improved propulsive efficiency and reduced draft * Hand-laid glass-fibre construction with isophthalic gelcoat backed by initial lay-up of powder-bound matt and isophthalic resin * Integrally bonded girder stiffening system * Standard finish white high-gloss gelcoat * Hull antifouled * GRP/balsa core/PVC foam sandwich construction for deck and superstructure for strength and high-thermal insulation * Moulded non-slip surfaces on side decks, flybridge and foredeck * Side decks with bulwarks and incorporating freeing ports.
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* Reversible electric anchor winch (2000W) with foredeck, main helm and flybridge controls * Self-stowing 25kg Delta anchor with 40 metres of chain * Stemhead roller with automatic anchor launch and retrieve * Bow stowage locker * Freshwater deck/anchor wash * Coachroof sunbed recess * Stainless-steel bow, stern and spring cleats (2 pairs) * Bow fairleads * Stainless-steel pulpit and guard rails with fender baskets * Forward coachroof handrails * Flybridge handrails * Heavy duty white PVC rubbing band with stainless steel insert * Full set of IMCO navigation lights * Riding light * Twin-beam searchlight with dual-station remote controls * Twin electric horns * Loud hailer/foghorn * Fuel and water filler * Electro-hydraulic telescopic passerelle (2.75m – 250kg dinghy lift) * Dinghy chock system * Twin electric-powered sternline docking winches. FLYBRIDGE * Helm position with repeat engine instrumentation * Power-assisted hydraulic steering * Electronic engine controls * Rudder position indicator * Bow thruster controls * Trim tab controls * Anchor winch remote control * VHF/RT * Repeat autopilot controls * Echo sounder, log and repeat GPS information * High-speed compass * Searchlight remote control * Horn * Intercom * Bilge pump audible alarm * Chart table * Double helm seat * Large U-shaped seating area for 6/7 with table * Raised sunbed aft with storage below * Wet bar with refrigerator and electric barbecue * Loudspeakers linked to saloon hi-fi * Access from cockpit via GRP hatch, forward access from saloon via door * Wind deflector screens * Stainless-steel handrails * Deck-level lighting * GRP radar arch * Instrument and seat covers * Twin matching whip aerials for VHF R/T and radio * Bronze perspex screen across aft end of Flybridge.
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MAIN HELM POSITION * Twin helm seats with fore and aft adjustment for helmsman * Stainless-steel framed toughened glass windscreen, clear for unimpaired night vision * Burr-elm instrument console with engine instruments, fuel gauges and rudder position indicator * Electronic engine controls * Power-assisted hydraulic steering * Bow thruster control * Autopilot * Trim tab controls * Horn button * Searchlight remote control * High-speed magnetic compass * Speed and distance log * Echo sounder with alarm * Furuno 1933 colour radar and GPS/chartplotter * VHF radio telephone * Intercom to flybridge and foredeck with horn and automatic foghorn facilities * Anchor winch remote control * Chart table with light and chart stowage * Windscreen wipers with windscreen wash * Bilge pump controls * 24v and 240v control panels * PVC sunscreens * Sliding door to side deck.
Standard Equipment
11kW diesel generator. Power-assisted hydraulic steering system. 11hp bow thruster. Autopilot. Colour radar and chartplotter/GPS with flybridge repeat instrumentation. Twin electric-powered sternline docking winches. Electric anchor winch (2000W). Electro-hydraulic trim tabs. Dual-station log and echo sounder with alarm. Dual-station VHF R/T. Remote control searchlight. Saloon TV/DVD with hi-fi and surround-sound system. Cocktail cabinet with refrigerator and icemaker. Owner's suite stereo CD/radio. Microwave/conventional oven/grill. Icemaker. Dishwasher. Utility room with automatic washer/dryer. Vacuum freshwater WC system with holding tank. Electrically operated drop window to aft cockpit. Teak-laid aft cockpit deck. Full-sized teak-laid transom platform with tender/wetbike stowage facility. Remote control telescopic electro-hydraulic passerelle (2.75m) with tender lift facility. Hot and cold transom shower. Deck/anchor wash. 220/240v shore power with 95-amp float battery charger. Helmsman's door to side deck. Flybridge wet bar with electric barbecue grill.
Engine Options - Diesel
2 x Volvo Penta D12/715 (2 x 715hp) Speed range: 28-31 knots 2 x MAN D2848 LE403 (2 x 800hp) Speed range: 31-33 knots
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I lied to you a little. I may not get into the arithmetic stuff quite yet. I'm going to talk about some "classical" things in modern language. In the things I've been reading lately, these ideas seem to be implicit in everything said. I can't find this explained thoroughly anywhere. Eventually I want to understand how monodromy relates to bad reduction in the -adic setting. So we'll start today with the different viewpoints of a local system in the classical sense that are constantly switched between without ever being explained.
You may need to briefly recall the old posts on connections. The goal for the day is to relate the three equivalent notions of a local system, a vector bundle plus flat connection on it, and a representation of the fundamental group. There may be some inaccuracies in this post, because I can't really find this written anywhere and I don't fully understand it (that's why I'm making this post!).
Since I said we'd work in the "classical" setting, let's just suppose we have a nice smooth variety over the complex numbers, . In this sense, we can actually think about it as a smooth manifold, or complex analytic space. If you want, you can have the picture of a Riemann surface in your head, since the next post will reduce us to that situation.
Suppose we have a vector bundle on , say , together with a connection . We'll fix a basepoint that will always secretly be lurking in the background. Let's try to relate this this connection to a representation of the fundamental group. Well, if we look at some old posts we'll recall that a choice of connection is exactly the same data as telling you "parallel transport". So what this means is that if I have some path on it tells me how a vector in the fiber of the vector bundle moves from the starting point to the ending point.
Remember, that we fixed some basepoint already. So if I take some loop based at say , then a vector can be transported around that loop to give me another vector . If my vector bundle is rank , then is just an -dimensional vector space and I've now told you an action of the loop space based at on this vector space.
Visualization of a vector being transported around a loop on a torus (yes, I'm horrible at graphics, and I couldn't even figure out how to label the other vector at p as ):
This doesn't quite give me a representation of the fundamental group (based at ), since we can't pass to the quotient, i.e. the transport of the vector around a loop that is homotopic to might be non-trivial. We are saved if we started with a flat connection. It can be checked that the flatness assumption gives a trivial action around nullhomotopic loops. Thus the parallel transport only depends on homotopy classes of loops, and we get a group homomorphism .
Modulo a few details, the above process can essentially be reversed, and hence given a representation you can produce a unique pair , a vector bundle plus flat connection associated to it. This relates the latter two ideas I started with. The one that gave me the most trouble was how local systems fit into the picture. A local system is just a locally constant sheaf of -dimensional vector spaces. At first it didn't seem likely that the data of a local system should be equivalent to these other two things, since the sheaf is locally constant. This seems like no data at all to work with rather than an entire vector bundle plus flat connection.
Here is why algebraically there is good motivation to believe this. Recall that one can think of a connection as essentially a generalization of a derivative. It is just something that satisfies the Leibniz rule on sections. Recall that we call a section, , horizontal for the connection if . But if this is the derivative, this just means that the section should be constant. In this analogy, we see that if we pick a vector bundle plus flat connection, we can form a local system, namely the horizontal sections (which are the locally constant functions). If you want an exercise to see that the analogy is actually a special case, take the vector bundle to be the globally trivial line bundle and the connection to be the honest exterior derivative .
The process can be reversed again, and given any locally constant sheaf of vector spaces, you can cook up a vector bundle and flat connection whose horizontal sections are precisely the sections of the sheaf. Thus our three seemingly different notions are actually all equivalent. I should point out that part of my oversight on the local system side was thinking that a locally constant sheaf somehow doesn't contain much information. Recall that it is still a sheaf, so we can be associating lots of information on large open sets and we still have restriction homomorphisms giving data as well. Next time we'll talk about some classical theorems in differential equation theory that are most easily proved and stated in this framework.