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Kebudayaan Belanda
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Budaya Belanda adalah kepelbagaian, mencerminkan perbezaan serantau dan juga pengaruh asing dengan syukurnya saudagar dan semangat penjelahan Belanda dan influks pendatang. Belanda dan orang belanda telah memainkan suatu peranan penting sebagai pusat yang budaya liberal dan toleran, dengan Zaman Kegemilangan Belanda dianggap sebagai puncaknya.
Isi kandungan
Bahasa[sunting | sunting sumber]
Bahasa utama adalah Belanda, sementara Frisia Barat juga adalah bahasa diakui dan ia digunakan oleh kerajaan di provinsi Friesland. Beberapa loghat Saxon Rendah (Nedersaksisch dalam bahasa Belanda) ditutur di kebanyakan utara dan timur dan diakui oleh Belanda sebagai bahasa-bahasa serantau menurut Carta Eropah untuk Bahasa Serantau atau Minoriti.
Satu lagi loghat Belanda diperolehi kedudukan bahasa Serantau adalah Limburgish, yang ditutur di provinsi tenggara Limburg.
Meskipun, Low Saxon dan Limburgish disebar disepanjang sempadan Belanda-German dan belong dengan suatu Dutch-Low German dialect continuum yang umum.
Agama[sunting | sunting sumber]
Calvinism became the theological system of the majority in the Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt in the Eighty Years War. Other religions were tolerated, but could not practice their religion in public. The Netherlands today is one of the most secular countries in Europe. An estimated 49.6% of the population (2007) call themselves non-religious. The remaining are 15.7% Protestant, 27% Roman Catholic, and 5.3% Muslim (data CBS 2005, 2007). In former ages, Protestantism used to be the largest religion in the Netherlands, but there has always been a high percentage of Roman Catholics, who were strongly predominating in the southern provinces, but also considerably present in the northern ones. However, over the past century the older Protestant churches have been in decline. Islam has begun to gain a foothold and mosques are being built. The Netherlands is also home to a significant Hindu minority, mostly made up of migrants who came from former colony Suriname after its independence.
Sains, teknologi dan kajian[sunting | sunting sumber]
Sarjana dan ahli sains yang dianugerahi secara antarabangsa terpenting adalah:
Abad ke-15:
- Laurens Janszoon Coster, (1370-1440), pencetak abad ke-16:
- Desiderius Erasmus, (1466/1469-1536), humanist
Abad ke-17:
- Baruch de Spinoza, (1632–1677), ahli falsafah
- Herman Boerhaave, (1668-1738), doktor
- Ludolph van Ceulen, (1540-1610), ahli matematik
- Cornelius Drebbel, (1572-1633), pencipta & jurutera
- Hugo de Groot (Hugo Grotius), (1583-1645), juri & ahli falsafah
- Christiaan Huygens, (1629-1695), ahli matematik, ahli astronomi & ahli fizik
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, (1632-1723), ahli sains
- Anna Maria van Schurman, (1607-1678), pelajar dan sarjana universiti wanita pertama Belanda
- Simon Stevin, (1548-1620), ahli matematik & jurutera
- Jan Swammerdam, (1637-1680), ahli sains
Abad ke-18;
- Daniel Bernoulli, (1700-1782), ahli matematik & doktor
Abad ke-19:
- C.H.D. Buys Ballot, (1817-1890), ahli kimia & meteorologist
- Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, (1856-1894), ahli matematik
Abad ke-20:
- Tobias Asser, (1838-1913), juri [Nobel Prize 1911]
- Nico Bloembergen, (1920-), physicist [Nobel Prize 1981]
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, (1881-1966), ahli matematik
- Hendrik Casimir, (1909-2000), doktor
- Paul J. Crutzen, (1933-), ahli kimia atmospheric [Nobel Prize 1995]
- Peter Debye, (1884-1966), ahli kimia [Nobel Prize 1936]
- Edsger Dijkstra, (1930-2002), ahli sains komputer
- Eugène Dubois, (1858-1944), paleontologist & anatomist
- Christiaan Eijkman, (1858-1930), physician & pathologist [Nobel Prize 1929]
- Willem Einthoven, (1860-1927), physician, [Nobel Prize 1924]
- Anthony Fokker, (1890-1939), jurutera penerbangan
- Arend Heyting, (1898-1980), ahli matematik
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, (1852-1911), chemist [Nobel Prize 1901]
- Gerardus 't Hooft, (1946-), physicist [Nobel Prize 1999]
- Johan Huizinga, (1872-1945), historian
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, (1853-1926), physicist [Nobel Prize 1913]
- Jacobus Kapteyn, (1851-1922), astronomer
- Willem Hendrik Keesom, (1878-1956), physicist
- Tjalling Koopmans, (1910–1985), economist 1975 [Nobel Prize 1975]
- Willem Kolff, (1911-2009), doktor & pencipta
- Hendrik Lorentz, (1853-1928), physicist [Nobel Prize 1902]
- Simon van der Meer, (1925-), physicist [Nobel Prize 1984]
- Jan Oort, (1900-1992), ahli astronomi
- Jan Tinbergen, (1903-1994), ahli ekonomi [Nobel Prize 1969]
- Nico Tinbergen, (1907-1988), ethologist [Nobel Prize 1975]
- Martinus J. G. Veltman, (1931-), v [Nobel Prize 1999]
- Hugo de Vries, (1848-1937), geneticist
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals, (1837-1923), physicist [Nobel Prize 1910]
- Pieter Zeeman, (1865-1943), doktor [Nobel Prize 1902]
- Frits Zernike, (1888-1966), doktor [Nobel Prize 1953]
- Hendrik Zwaardemaker, (1857-1930), ahli sains
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Sesetengah pengarang yang terpenting dan dianugerahi secara antarabangsa ialah:
Abad ke-16:
Abad ke-17:
Abad ke-19:
Abad ke-20:
- Louis Couperus
- Martinus Nijhoff
- Simon Vestdijk
- Willem Frederik Hermans
- Gerard Reve
- Harry Mulisch
- Jan Wolkers
- Cees Nooteboom
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- Lihat juga: Zaman Kegemilangan Belanda
The first significant period of Dutch architecture was during the Dutch Golden Age roughly beginning at the start of the 17th century. Due to the thriving economy cities expanded greatly. New town halls and storehouses were built. Merchants who had made a fortune ordered new houses built along one of the many new canals that were dug out in and around various cities and towns (for defense and transport purposes), houses with ornamented facades that benefited their new status. In the countryside new country houses were built, though not in the same numbers. Some well known architects of the period were Jacob van Campen (1595–1657), Lieven de Key (c. 1560–1627) and Hendrik de Keyser (1565–1621).
At the end of the 19th century there was a remarkable neo-gothic stream or Gothic Revival both in church and in public architecture, notably by the Roman-Catholic Pierre Cuypers, who was inspired by the Frenchman Viollet le Duc. The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum (1876-1885) and Amsterdam Centraal Station (1881-1889) belong to his main buildings. During the 20th century Dutch architects played a leading role in the development of modern architecture. Out of the early 20th century rationalist architecture of Berlage, architect of the Beurs van Berlage, three separate groups developed during the 1920s, each with their own view on which direction modern architecture should take. Expressionist architects like M. de Klerk and P.J. Kramer in Amsterdam (See Amsterdam School). Functionalist architects (Nieuwe Zakelijkheid or Nieuwe Bouwen) like Mart Stam, L.C. van der Vlugt, Willem Marinus Dudok and Johannes Duiker had good ties with the international modernist group CIAM.
A third group came out of the De Stijl movement, among them J.J.P Oud and Gerrit Rietveld. Both architects later built in a functionalist style.
During the '50s and '60s a new generation of architects like Aldo van Eyck, J.B. Bakema and Herman Hertzberger, known as the 'Forum generation' (named after a magazine called Forum) formed a connection with international groups like Team 10.
From the '80s to the present Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) became one of the leading world architects. With him, formed a new generation of Dutch architects working in a modernist tradition.
Seni[sunting | sunting sumber]
- Lihat juga: Senarai pelukis Belanda
- Lihat juga: Teater wayang di Belanda
- Lihat juga: Pawagam di Belanda
- Lihat juga: Komik Belanda
Flemish atau Belanda[sunting | sunting sumber]
Until 1830, the Dutch and Flemish were generally seen as one people. Due to religious wars and the Eighty Years War, a split slowly started to take place. Therefore, historical Flemish and Dutch art are hard to separate. Most artists of the period (like Bruegel) are described as Flemish, even though they might have been born in the present day Netherlands. Some of the most famous indisputably Dutch artists from before the 17th century are Hieronymus Bosch, a painter, and the brothers de Limbourg, three miniaturists who are most famous for their work for the Duke of Berry.
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In the late 16th century, many painters from Flanders fled to the Northern Netherlands, for religious reasons and because the Netherlands were growing economically. Both regions had a golden age of painting in this period. The most famous Dutch painter was Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, but other painters such as Johannes Vermeer and Frans Hals are famous all over the world as well. Some more great Dutch painters of the 17th century are:
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The Dutch artists of the 18th century are less well-known. The most important paintings were the land- and seascapes (or marines). Only at the end of the 19th century did an internationally very important painter, Vincent Van Gogh, appear.
In the 20th century, the Netherlands produced many fine painters and artists, including Piet Mondriaan, a noted contributor to the De Stijl art movement, who was also among the vanguard of non-representational painting.[1] The 20th century also produced some of the members of the COBRA movement, including Karel Appel and Corneille.
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The Netherlands have multiple musical traditions ranging from folk and dance to classical music and ballet. In the 21st century people with an African or Middle Eastern background have also had a profound effect, most notably in hip hop and rap. Much more so than most non-English speaking European countries, the Netherlands has remained closely in tune with American and British trends ever since the 50's.
Aruba and the five main islands of the Antillen Belanda are part of the Lesser Antilles island chain. Their music is a mixture of native, African and Dutch elements, and is closely connected with trends from neighboring islands like Barbados, Martinique, Trinidad and Tobago and Guadeloupe, as well as the mainland former Dutch possession of Suriname, which has exported kaseko music to great success on the islands. Curaçao and Bonaire likely have the most active and well-known music scenes. Curaçao is known for a kind of music called tumba, which is named after the conga drums that accompany it.
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The Dutch also have their own distinct version of cabaret.
Media[sunting | sunting sumber]
The media of the Netherlands consist of several different types of communications media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines. It is characterized by a tradition of pillarization, and increasing commercialization.
Filem[sunting | sunting sumber]
Some Dutch films have received international distribution and recognition, such as Turkish Delight ("Turks Fruit") (1973), Soldier of Orange ("Soldaat van Oranje") (1975), Spetters (1980) and The Fourth Man ("De Vierde Man") (1983) by director Paul Verhoeven. Verhoeven later went on to direct such Hollywood fare as Robocop and Basic Instinct.
Other famous Dutch film directors are Dick Maas (De Lift), Fons Rademakers (The Assault), Jan De Bont (Speed), documentary maker Bert Haanstra and Joris Ivens. Film director Theo van Gogh achieved international notoriety in 2004 when he was murdered in the streets of Amsterdam.
Internationally famous Dutch film actors are Jeroen Krabbé, Rutger Hauer, Derek de Lint and also a few female stars like Sylvia Kristel, Famke Janssen and Carice van Houten.
Komik[sunting | sunting sumber]
The Dutch have a distinct comic tradition as well. Even though there is an abundance of Flemish, Franco-Belgian, and American comics, they also created their own tradition, with a more literary kind of comics. The most prominent author was Marten Toonder and his creations Tom Poes and Heer Bommel (Tom Puss / Oliver B. Bumble series).
Masakan[sunting | sunting sumber]
Dutch cuisine is characterized by its somewhat limited diversity; however, it varies greatly from region to region. The southern regions of the Netherlands for example share dishes with Flanders and vice versa. Dutch food is traditionally characterized by the high consumption of vegetables when compared to the consumption of meat. Dairy products are also eaten to great extent, Dutch cheeses are world renowned with famous cheeses such as Gouda, Edam and Leiden. Dutch pastry is extremely rich and is eaten in great quantities. When it comes to alcoholic beverages wine has long been absent in Dutch cuisine (but this is changing during the last decades); traditionally there are many brands of beer and strong alcoholic spirits such as jenever and brandewijn. The Dutch have all sorts of pastry and cookies (the word "cookie" is in fact derived from Dutch), many of them filled with marzipan, almond and chocolate. A truly huge amount of different pies and cakes can be found, most notably in the southern provinces, especially the so called Limburgish vlaai.
Tradisi[sunting | sunting sumber]
One of the most characteristic festivities in the Netherlands is the feast of Sint Nicolaas or Sinterklaas. It is celebrated on the evening before Sinterklaas' birthday on December 5, especially in families with little children. In the United States the original figure of Dutch Sinterklaas has merged with Father Christmas into Santa Claus. In the Netherlands, gift-bringing at Christmas has recently gained some popularity too, but Sinterklaas is much more popular.
Another characteristic festivity in the Netherlands is the feast of Sint Maarten. The day is celebrated in the evening of November 11 in some parts of the Netherlands. Children go by the doors with paper lanterns and candles, and sing songs about St. Martin and about their lantern in return for a treat. In some regions the paper lantern is replaced by a self made lantern, made from a hollowed out sugar beet (suikerbiet).
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- ^ "Piet Mondrian", Tate gallery, published in Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.532-3. Retrieved 18 December 2007.
Sumber[sunting | sunting sumber]
Ad Welschen, 2000-2005: Course Dutch Society and Culture, International School for Humanities and Social Studies ISHSS, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Pautan luar[sunting | sunting sumber]
- Architecture: ArchiNed
- NL Planet - Dutch Culture


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ZX 6 R - Touring Screen "T" -1997 fits for KAWASAKI ZX 6 R made by windshield-manufacturer: MRA
The touring windscreen is usually longer, sometimes wider than the original windscreen, to better protect the rider from wind and weather. Depending on the disc angle, the rear end of the disc on some models is also tilted upwards over the entire width as a wind deflector. This makes driving more relaxed even on longer trips.
Mounted or scratched windshields can't be returned and will not be refunded!

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It's one thing to jump on the bandwagon when things are getting better, it's quite another to jump off of it when everyone around you, not to mention your own company's earnings, would seem to confirm that sentiment. But that's just what Donald J. Tomnitz, CEO of D.R. Horton, the nation's largest homebuilder by volume did.
"I still don't see a lot of jobs being created," he told an earnings conference call, sending his company's stock down when it should have been riding higher on a 24 percent year-over-year jump in new orders for homes. He is concerned about the future of this fledgling housing recovery, and he has reason to be. Mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures are driven by unemployment.


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To All K-5 Users: Do You Actually Encounter the Tungsten/Low Light FF Issue? (Poll)
As you know, I like much about the appearance of my gold/brown K-r. Practically, it is a nice camera and good piece of photographic tool putting aside the persistent front focusing issue under tungsten and the last isolated accident that I have encountered.
However, I am so annoyed with the tungsten FF issue as I do shoot indoor with my fast Pentax primes from time to time. Indeed, the problem is most troublesome when there is mixed white and yellow light sources, under which there is not a single "fine focus adjustment" factor that I can safely enter to avoid the AF errors. Otherwise, for indoor environment that is with tungsten source only, I could quite safely to use a -10 adjustment factor to compensate for the error that must occur with the K-r in that case.
Just with this problem alone, I am now seriously considering to move to a K-5, which has a SAFOX + (Plus) AF system, which theoretically should avoid the problem. However, for what I have made my research so far, it seems that there are still some K-5 users, who have already upgraded to the latest K-5 firmware of version 1.03, do yet encounter some AF problems, although it seems that it is not as severe as the K-r's. See this example.
So, after all, I would need to seek assistance from all you folks who have used your K-5 for quite a while, and most importantly have been shooting under tungsten or mixed light sources indoor wider opened with faster lenses, to give me some advice about the AF reliability for this application. Your information provided will surely help me to make a better decision and to help me to re-configure my Pentax gear with a better setup/lineup.
Thank you in advance for all your kind help and inputs. Here we go!


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Part-Time JobsPage address: http://www.mnsu.edu/cdc/part-time/
Part-time employment can be a great way to earn money and gain experience for your future professional career. The MSU Career Development Center assists students to find part-time employment in a variety of ways.
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The Career Development Center hosts a number of job fairs and networking events throughout the year where you can connect with employers, learn about jobs available in the community, and develop the skills and experience you need.
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Stop in and talk to us about your job search.
Browse our online resources - the services we provide and an online workshop
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On-campus jobs are great opportunities to earn money, gain experience, and get to know MSU better. Many student help positions are posted on mavjobs.com. Please note: Student Financial Services handles work-study assignments.
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There are a variety of off-campus part-time positions in Mankato and surrounding areas. Many employers list on mavjobs.com, but you should check other sites such as:
- Minnesota's Job Bank (searchable by zip code and job area)
- Mankato Free Press Employment Classifieds
- More Mankato area Job Postings
Network - tell everyone you know you're looking for work. Speak with instructors, family, coaches, friends, parents of friends - anyone and everyone you can think of - and ask for help. Many jobs are found through referrals and the people you know are often happy to assist.
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· put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
Synonym(s): discontinue, stop, cease, give_up, lay_off
2. quit - verb
· give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"
Synonym(s): leave_office, step_down, resign
Hypernym(s): leave, depart, pull_up_stakes
3. quit - verb
· go away or leave
Synonym(s): depart, take_leave
Hypernym(s): leave, go_forth, go_away
4. quit - verb
· turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
Synonym(s): foreswear, renounce, relinquish
5. quit - verb
· give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up"
Synonym(s): drop_out, give_up, fall_by_the_wayside, drop_by_the_wayside, throw_in, throw_in_the_towel, chuck_up_the_sponge
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New Media showed some impressive muscle in this year's Pulitzer Prizes, which honored the Huffington Post and Politico in addition to legacy organizations such as the New York Times.
The Huffington Post picked up its first Pulitzer for its 10-part investigative series on wounded veterans, "Beyond the Battlefield."
The award for National Reporting went to former Time and Los Angeles Times contributor David Wood. It is a sign of institutional legitimacy for a site that has become an online traffic giant, but has been a lightning rod for media criticism for its aggregation policies.
Also read: Business Insider Grows the Way of the Huffington Post
The other major new media winner was Politico's Matt Wuerker, who won for Editorial Cartooning. It is the first Pulitzer for the 5-year-old political site.
Online news organizations have only been eligible to receive Pulitzers since 2009, when the organization changed its submission policies.
One media upstart, The Onion, will have to go back to skewering journalism awards having found itself outside of the winner's despite launching a yearlong campaign aimed at earning the satiric newspaper its first prize.
In a series of fake ads and articles, The Onion spent months calling on the Pulitzer Board to "to stop the bias, stop the ignorance, and stop the neglect."
To be sure, more established publications, such as The New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Chicago Tribune, also collected awards, but usual suspects like the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times were not among the honorees.
The Times won two Pulitzers for International Reporting and Explanatory Reporting. It was the only news organization to win more than one prize.
Also read: Joe Paterno's Sex Abuse Mess: What Took the Media So Long?
The Philadelphia Inquirer won the prestigious Public Service prize for its seven-part series, "Assault on Learning," which argued that violence in urban schools was underreported.
In the local news category, Sara Ganim and members of The Patriot-News Staff won the prize for revealing one of the most explosive news stories of last year — the sexual abuse allegations against Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky. The media firestorm that greeted Ganim and the tiny paper's work led to the ouster of the legendary Joe Paterno as head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions.
Winners in the arts and drama category include Quiara Alegría Hudes' play "Water by the Spoonful," John Lewis Gaddis biography "George F. Kennan: An American Life" and Tracy K. Smith's poetry collection "Life on Mars."
In a rare move, the Pulitzer committee did not honor any work of fiction.
Full list of winners:
Public Service – The Philadelphia Inquirer
Breaking News Reporting - The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News Staff
Investigative Reporting - Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley of the Associated Press
Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong of the Seattle Times
Explanatory Reporting - David Kocieniewski of the New York Times
Local Reporting - Sara Ganim and members of the Patriot-News Staff, Harrisburg, Penn
National Reporting - David Wood of the Huffington Post
International Reporting - Jeffrey Gettleman of the New York Times
Feature Writing - Eli Sanders of the Stranger, a Seattle (Wash.) weekly
Commentary - Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune
Criticism -Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe
Editorial Writing - No award
Editorial Cartooning – Matt Wuerker of Politico
Breaking News Photography – Massoud Hossaini of Agence France-Presse
Feature Photography - Craig F. Walker of the Denver Post
LETTERS, DRAMA and MUSIC
Fiction - No award
Drama - "Water by the Spoonful" by Quiara Alegría Hudes
History - "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention," by the late Manning Marable (Viking)
Biography - "George F. Kennan: An American Life," by John Lewis Gaddis (The Penguin Press)
Poetry - "Life on Mars" by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press)
General Nonfiction - "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton and Company)
Music - "Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts" by Kevin Puts (Aperto Press)


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- In our Q&A, Sunday Night journalist and author of The Lost Diggers, Ross Coulthart, reveals how he unearthed thousands of glass plate images of Aussie WWI soldiers in France, and the sources that helped him trace the Anzacs' identities.
- Experts from the Australian War Memorial and the Museum of New Zealand talk us through the process of identifying WWI soldiers through photos
- In another exclusive, we share the discovery of two Macquarie-era maps charting a lost city in NSW
- Make exciting discoveries of your own with our guide to findmypast and its new World Collection.
- We also introduce a new website displaying more than 20,000 unidentified photos of post-WWII migrants – could your ancestor be among them?
- We sift through Trove to learn how your ancestors' celebrated the festive season.
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From Lost Diggers to the latest historical discoveries, Issue 13 of Inside History commemorates Remembrance Day with a military theme, showcasing our soldiers' bravery in the world wars — and how we can learn from, and contribute to, the ongoing research being done in their memory.
Get the inside scoop on the Lost Diggers collection: in our exclusive Q&A, investigative journalist and author of The Lost Diggers, Ross Coulthart, reveals how he unearthed thousands of glass plate images of Aussie WWI soldiers in Vignacourt, France, plus the most valuable research sources that helped him trace the Anzacs' identities.
Experts from the Australian War Memorial and the Museum of New Zealand talk us through the process of identifying unknown WWI soldiers, and spotlight their respective methods and successes in uncovering the names and stories behind photographed Anzacs.
We delve into a little-known war tragedy that struck in 1940, which came to solve a bittersweet mystery for a widow who'd wondered for more than 70 years how the husband she'd just recently married had died in World War II. In another fascinating breakthrough, Inside History contributor Dr Robin McLachlan shares his discovery of two Macquarie-era maps charting a lost city in inland NSW, which is believed to lie beneath present-day Bathurst.
Make exciting discoveries of your own with our guide to findmypast and its new World Collection, boasting over 1.5 billion records. We also introduce a new National Archives of Australia website displaying over 20,000 unidentified photographs of migrants who arrived in Australian ports after World War II — you'll soon be scanning the faces on Destination Australia!
And, just in time for the holiday season, we sift through Trove to glean snapshots of festive seasons past — discover the customs, quirks and Christmas tucker that may have featured in your ancestors' celebrations.
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Baylor has surgery on femur as Hansen takes over
ANAHEIM -- When Angels coaches passed the phone around late Monday night, shortly after a 10-3 Opening Day loss to the Mariners, Don Baylor's first reaction from UCI Medical Center was, "How'd our hitters do?"
When Angels vice president of communications Tim Mead checked in on Tuesday morning, hours before he would undergo surgery for a fractured right femur, Baylor had just one question: "What do you think is the best way to get me in the clubhouse on crutches?"
"That's the kind of guy we're dealing with, man," said Angels assistant hitting coach Dave Hansen, who played for the Mariners when Baylor was the hitting coach there in 2005 and will now take over for him in the interim.
Hansen, the former hitting coach in Seattle who was hired along with Baylor this offseason, will simply continue to implement Baylor's program. That program, Hansen said, involves "consistency, each at-bat at a time, focus, that kind of stuff. Very simple, actually. It's more of a competitive edge, and I do like that. Really that's it and taking it day by day. Believing in each other. He's very big on that -- accountability to each other."
Baylor underwent successful surgery at 1 p.m. PT on Tuesday. The procedure, which lasted more than five hours, involved fixing the fracture with a metal plate and screws and will require Baylor to be at UCI Medical Center for at least two more days.
A fractured femur -- located in the thigh, and typically the longest and strongest bone in the body -- requires a minimum recovery time of 12 weeks, and may be longer for somebody who's 64 years old and was previously afflicted by multiple myeloma, a cancer that attacks plasma cells in the bone marrow.
But Baylor is cut from a different cloth.
"Don's one tough guy," Angels manager Mike Scioscia added. "He's not giving in to anything. He wants to get back and help us. He'll get this done and we'll see exactly where he is, what he can do."
Baylor crouched down for Vladimir Guerrero's ceremonial first pitch on Monday night, his left knee on the dirt. The throw came in a little low, a little outside and a little fast, and Baylor's weight shifted to the right side and caused his right leg to practically buckle underneath him. He remained stoic, slowly trying to get up, but his right leg gave out, prompting the Angels' training staff to rush out to the field and help him off it. Three innings later, he was taken to the hospital.
"That shock is still there," Hansen said. "And after knowing the man, too, it's like, 'Why did that have to happen?' Seriously. I just can't get that out of my head."
Minor League hitting coordinator Paul Sorrento, who spent most of Spring Training with the Angels, has been summoned by the organization to help out on the Major League coaching staff. Rick Eckstein, a hitting coach with the Nationals the previous five years, will continue in his role as player information coach. Hansen will run the meetings, but said his workload shouldn't change too much.
The greatest void will be Baylor's presence.
"He brings a natural presence," Hansen said. "He just has that about him. Plus he's done so much on the field that demands that, too. MVP, so many years in the game, done so many things. That's a pretty big presence. I can't explain what the void will be. I'm just hoping he'll be around enough to keep his presence felt."


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Forum Nokia Developer Community has announced the finalists in its 2009 Calling All Innovators programming contest, a global mobile developer competition designed to generate applications and solutions that enhance the use of Nokia mobile devices in real-world scenarios. More than 1,700 submissions were received from developers in 85 countries.
"The quantity and quality of the applications we received are astounding," said Purnima Kochikar, vice president, Forum Nokia Developer Community, Nokia. "Turning the spotlight on our developers in marketing efforts like Calling All Innovators is just one way we can expose the best mobile applications from our developer community to consumers around the world."
Finalists in the 2009 Calling All Innovators contest include:
- Internet Innovation. Developers were asked to submit either web applications known as Web Runtime widgets, or websites which are optimized for mobile browsing with Nokia devices.
- Pixelpipe for Share Online. This WRT widget application from Pixelpipe, enables individuals to create and configure Nokia Share Online to use the Pixelpipe Media Gateway to distribute photos, video, audio and files to more than 90 popular social networking, photo/video, and blog services directly from the built-in phone gallery and camera applications.
- Dianping. This widget for one of the top websites in China provides information about more than 275,000 restaurants, including descriptions, recommended dishes, address, phone number, price range and more. Individuals can search for restaurants by districts, categories, price range and key words. The application includes access to more than 7.5 million restaurant reviews, and coupons for restaurants, too.
- Tech Buzz Homescreen Widget. The Tech Buzz Widget from UK-based Mippin, provides access the latest tech news anywhere on Nokia mobile devices. It regularly downloads tech stories from across the web, displaying the headlines and images in rotation on the Nokia N97 home screen, to give users immediate access.
- Flash. Developers were asked to submit applications that expand the capabilities of Adobe Flash Lite on Nokia devices.
- FLORIN: Personal Finance Tracker. With the FLORIN flash-based application from UK-based BlueskyNorth, consumers have access to a highly capable, but easy to use personal finance tracker for use on Nokia Series 60 5th Edition devices.
- Reuters Slideshow. The Reuters Slideshow app from UK-based Tui Interactive Media, combines Flash and WRT widget functionality to deliver a constantly updated feed of pictures and news.
- ActiveChinese. This mobile educational application, from the company of the same name, is comprised of 10 flash-animated lessons for English speakers to begin to learn how to speak Chinese. A series of built-in flashcards provides the most useful word and phrases, and includes: the Chinese character, Chinese pronunciation, PinYin, and the English translation.
- Emerging Markets and Mobile Necessities. Developers were asked to submit applications or solutions that are the most innovative application using Nokia platforms, ranging from SMS through Series 40 and S60 device platforms. All applications would be evaluated, including those developed using Java, Python or open source.
- Mobile JobHunt. Inspired by Nokia Life Tools in India, Mobile JobHunt from LEG aims to help people in rural areas in China. JobHunt provides timely and accurate job information from major cities on Series 40 Nokia phones. Other related services include employment news, skills training, employment legal rights, and entertainment.
- Mobile Credit Card Terminal. Mobile Credit Card Terminal from 2C2P in Singapore gives business owners the ability to charge a credit card/debit card, and to manage transactions securely from Nokia S60 devices without additional equipment.
- Blue Home. Created by Binu Johnson in India, Blue-Home installed on a Nokia S60 mobile device, and hardware in the home that can be purchased for approximately $30, an individual can monitor and operate six home appliances via Bluetooth in the mobile device.
- Apps on Maps. Developers were asked to submit new ideas that harness the power of location-aware services using Ovi Maps on Nokia devices. From all of the ideas submitted, 14 developers were given exclusive access to the Ovi Beta SDK to turn their ideas into a completed application for use on Nokia devices.
- PocketLife. As a location-based lifestyle app, with Pocket Life for Ovi Maps on your Nokia device, individuals can always be in touch with their closest friends, down to knowing precisely where they are at that given time. Using Pocket Life, individuals can discover new places, share photos, and quickly know their way around like a local.
- Ground Guidance. How do you navigate when there are no roads? Ground Guidance with Ovi Maps solves this problem. With technology originally built for the U.S. Army, St. Paul, Minnesota-based Primordial uses an innovative, patented technique, combined with a wide range of data sources to create a walk-able route where no road data exists. Pick any two points in the app, and the user will be presented with a walk-able path to take.
- Smart EggsCrack open a Smart Egg to get a multimedia review of the latest movie, or tips about special promotions from nearby shops. Engage in a mobile treasure hunt with your friends, collecting codes inside Premium Smart Eggs. This mobile app for brands, artists, and venues interacts with consumers at the local level, while promoting the use of multiple Nokia services and platforms, including Ovi Maps and more.
The total cash and prizes for the 2009 Calling All Innovators contest are worth more than $250,000. The top three submissions in each category will receive a cash award, and prizes that include premium placement featuring the winning application in Nokia's Ovi Store, and the opportunity to demo their winning apps at Nokia World. The winners in the Internet Innovation, Flash, and Emerging Markets and Mobile Necessities categories will be announced on September 1, in the evening prior to Nokia World 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany at an awards ceremony being held at the Porsche Museum. The Apps on Maps winners will be announced on September 3, during Nokia World. In the Flash category, there is an additional prize of $10,000 USD for one application that also received funds from the Open Screen Project Fund.


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Census Records for Delaware
This entry was originally written by Roger D. Joslyn, CG, FUGA, FGBS, FASG, in Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Population Schedules
• Indexed'1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
• Soundex'1880, 1900, 1920
Industry and Agriculture Schedules
• 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
Mortality Schedules
• 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 (all published)
Slave Schedules
• 1850, 1860 (both published)
From the second federal census of 1800, the records for Delaware are complete, indexed, and widely available (see pages 2-3). Printed indexes through 1870 are also available, with two each for 1850 and 1870, and three for 1860.
The first census for 1790 was lost or destroyed. The claim that it was found in the Cornell University Library is unfounded, but a reconstruction from tax and assessment records was compiled by former state archivist Leon de Valinger, Jr., and published by the National Genealogical Society as Reconstructed 1790 Census of Delaware, NGS Special Publication No. 10, 2d printing (Washington, D.C.: NGS, 1962).
The original mortality schedules, which are at the Delaware Public Archives, have been published, as have the 1850 and 1860 slave schedules. Other non-population schedules for 1850 through 1880 are at the archives, as are the original state copies of the federal population censuses for these years.
There is a collection of census indexes at Ancestry.com called the Delaware Census, 1790-1890 that contains the following indexes: 1790 Federal Census Index; 1800 Federal Census; 1810 Federal Census Index; 1820 Federal Census Index; 1830 Federal Census Index; 1840 Federal Census Index; 1840 Pensioners List; 1850 Federal Census Index; 1860 Federal Census Index; 1860 Slave Schedules; 1870 Federal Census Index; 1890 Veterans Schedule.
Some earlier Delaware 'censuses' have been published from tax and other records. These include Ralph D. Nelson, Jr., and others, Delaware 1782 Tax Assessment and Census List (Wilmington: Delaware Genealogical Society, 1994), and Ronald Vern Jackson, Early Delaware Census Records, 1665'1697 (Bountiful, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1977). A 1688 census for Kent County was published in volume 37 of The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine in 1991, which corrects the incomplete 'Kent County Census' in Delaware Genealogical Journal 3 (1986): 49-51. Two works by Peter Stebbins Craig present other early censuses: The 1671 Census of Delaware (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1999), and The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware: Family Histories of the Swedish Lutheran Church Members Residing in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey and Cecil County, Maryland, 1638'1693 (Winter Park, Fla.: SAG Publications, 1993).
External Links
- Delaware Census Records - free up-to-date guide to accessing Delaware census records. Identifies federal, state, and colonial censuses, as well as substitute records (FamilySearch Research Wiki).


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It didn't take very long for that very special feeling to find its way to Mr. Happy and then "it" happened. The most frightening bodily function that caught me completely by surprise. Any enjoyment of the event was drowned out by panic and confusion. I thought I'd broke something. I'd sprung a leak and there was no one around to fix me. Pants still at my ankles I clumsily shuffled off to the bathroom and tried to clean myself up without looking. I thought sure there'd be blood involved somehow.
I pulled up my pants and quickly cleaned up the crime scene in a total panic. Then I sat down in a chair and started to worry. What did this mean? Should I see a doctor? What did God see of that? How do I keep this a secret from the rest of the world? How do I get my hands on some cleavage and put aside enough time in my life to do this every single day until I die?
This is when all of my problems started.
And so my hopeless bout with lameness began. What followed were a slew of catastrophic (or so it seemed) girl-encountering-bloopers that built the man you see before you today... whatever your opinion may be.
In high school, Art was always my shining subject. I loved the class and it loved me. This is what I attribute to the next girl having her momentary attraction to me.
I believe that I stood there by myself a good minute and a half searching aloud for that perfect comeback to fix the situation. None was to be found.
I didn't realize until I was in the hall that I'd actually "messed" my tighty-whities as a result of her initial advance (and I'm not talkin' #1 or #2). I think that was the only time I'd ever done that without any actual physical stimuli. Christ, I was such a cherry.
You can believe that I was all ready if she were to ever try that again, but of course she never did... and I wouldn't have been anyway.
All opinions, writings, illustrations & designs are that of Normal Bob Smith (C) 2000 - 2009


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The flag protests in Northern Ireland have exposed the deep sense of alienation felt by the staunchly pro-British Loyalist community, as the benefits of the peace process seemingly pass them by.
The unrest has also shown how symbolism remains a highly contentious issue in areas of Belfast where deprivation, unemployment and educational under-achievement have become entrenched.
The City Council — hung between Catholic Irish and Protestant British parties with the cross-community Alliance holding the balance of power — voted on Dec. 3 to fly the British flag above the City Hall only on certain designated days. Until then, it had flown all-year round.
Since the vote, loyalists have taken to the streets to protest.
At a daily demonstration outside the Alliance office in east Belfast a local man said loyalist concerns were simply not registering with politicians.
He wore the British flag round his shoulders as well as on a hat and scarf and brandished a banner reading "Defend our flag."
"It's a step too far, so it is," said the 59-year-old, who did not want to be identified. "That flag was up for 106 years. It's Britain. It should be up."
"It's not on, they just take and take," he said of the Irish nationalists now sharing power in Northern Ireland with unionist parties. "It's all right having peace and all, but not at any price."
Dominic Bryan, director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast, said the attachment to flags and emblems is heightened in ethnic disputes.
Unionist politicians had failed to prepare their electorate for the implications that power-sharing inevitably has for symbols such as the City Hall flag, he said.
"It seems madness to the outside world, but that is what people get deeply perturbed about," Bryan said. "Belfast has a history of being a broadly Protestant and unionist town. The population shift is now about 50-50."
"The [flag] agreement marked a political change. However, society in Northern Ireland has seen dramatic changes as well," he said.
"It's de-industrialized. A lot of the jobs around the shipyard, which Protestants in east Belfast would have had have disappeared," Bryan said. "The education system tends to fail working-class Protestants more than any other groups. There are some deep underlying issues in some of these areas that need to be addressed."
Alarmed by the reaction, unionist politicians of all shades have convened a forum to begin addressing the discontent felt at the perceived "chipping away of Britishness." It held its first meeting on Thursday.
Northern Ireland's Regional Development Minister Danny Kennedy, a senior Ulster Unionist Party figure who was among the participants, said politicians needed to hear loyalist concerns first-hand.
"A section of the unionist Protestant population feel themselves isolated and alienated from the political process," he said.
"There's a very strong sense within grassroots loyalism that they haven't seen the benefits. Not all of the boats in the rising tide of the peace dividend have risen to the extent that others have seen," Kennedy said.
"They see that their Britishness ... is being undermined and diminished by political opponents such as Sinn Fein," he said.
Sinn Fein, the main Irish nationalist party, feel unionist decision-makers have lost touch with their loyalist roots.


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QinetiQ's PACSCAT Technology Demonstrator Takes to the Water
The PACSCAT (Partial Air Cushion Supported CATamaran) Innovative Solution Demonstrator Craft (ISDC) has just entered the water for the first time at the Hythe Marine Park, near Southampton and will shortly commence rigorous sea trials. QinetiQ was awarded the contract to manage the design and build of the vessel and then conduct a series of evaluation trials in September 2007.
The high speed, all aluminium PACSCAT ISDC vessel is 30m long, 7.7m in the beam, has a design vehicle payload of 55 tonnes and an approximate loaded weight of 175 tonnes. It is propelled by twin waterjets, driven by MTU Diesel engines and is designed to test at full scale the hydrodynamics of the PACSCAT hullform and to investigate its feasibility to deliver significantly faster speeds than traditional landing craft. The vessel makes use of the PACSCAT concept originated by John Lewthwaite of Independent Maritime Assessment Associates Ltd.
The original fast landing craft design requirement was to accommodate up to five Viking armoured fighting vehicles. It is intended to off-load front line vehicles and troops from Royal Navy amphibious ships to the beach and is in response to the MOD's requirement to launch rapid and effective amphibious operations from over the horizon.
Other source says that max speed of this craft over 25 knots (image : Qinetiq)
QinetiQ was contracted by the MOD's Research Acquisition Organisation, (now the Defence Technology Innovation Centre) to manage the procurement of the demonstrator vessel, act as the design authority and to manage the all important safety process and trials programme. QinetiQ then invited competitive bids from companies in the shipbuilding sector, to bring a broad mix of experience to the project. Griffon Hoverwork Ltd, the world leaders in hovercraft construction, lead the construction team and are also fitting out the vessel. They joined with Aluminium Shipbuilders Ltd for the hull construction; BMT Nigel Gee Ltd provided the detailed design; and BMT Marine Projects Ltd undertook project management support for Griffon Hoverwork Ltd.
"The PACSCAT concept is a leading contender to meet the MOD's fast landing craft requirement. It will be capable of performing a variety of roles, where high speed and high payload capacity are required and has exceptional beaching qualities because of its low and variable draught," explained Iain Kennedy, practice leader for QinetiQ's Maritime Platforms Consultancy business. "The industry partners are all working well together and the trials of the full-sized PACSCAT ISDC that start later this year will determine the performance of the PACSCAT hullform at full scale and the relevant operational capability. We will then provide comprehensive recommendations for design optimisation to inform the Fast Landing Craft IPT's requirements engineering and procurement process."
Trials already conducted include 1/15th scale model tests in QinetiQ testing tanks at Haslar and a 1/3rd scale manned model that show enhanced performance over the current in-service capability, with exceptional performance during beaching noted during the manned model trials.


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Improving Productivity with IBM ISPF Productivity Tool V7.1 for z/OS
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Published 24 April 2013
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Authors: Michael Rotter, Eugenie Alexander, Rodney Almodovar, Balachandran Chandrasekaran, Pearlson Christopher, Steve Coalbran, Mark Leung, Jean Mothersele, Chaitra Narayanaswamy, Kevin Neubert, Richard Pace, Walter Zakorchemny
This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) Productivity Tool (IPT) Version 7, Release 1 for IBM z/OS®. IPT operates as a seamlessly integrated front end to ISPF. Note the following points:
- IPT functionality is available from any panel, without a need to modify any ISPF Primary Options Menu. All IPT functions are totally integrated. IPT can perform almost any activity within ISPF, or internally invoke the function that can perform the task.
- IPT combines separately provided ISPF utility functions and new ISPF Productivity Tool features into the Object List (OLIST) and Member Selection List (MSL). The resulting members, datasets, and Object Lists become powerful platforms where you can perform many tasks without navigating to other utilities.
- IPT relates objects to applications in a similar manner to the way that a PC performs Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). By extending the dataset objects that are used by ISPF to other object classes, IPT lets you specify the object to be processed and the action that is performed (such as EDIT or BROWSE). The facility that is appropriate to the object class for the action that you have requested is invoked automatically.
- IPT provides extensive search capabilities that are both rapid and intuitive. You can easily search for volumes, datasets, members, and text within members. ISPF Productivity Tool also furnishes automatic drill-down system navigation to examine volumes, datasets, and members.
- IPT provides a menu-driven facility to display and recover all of the deleted members of a partitioned dataset (PDS) library.
- IPT extends the ISPF action bar with options that provide access to new functionality so that you do not have to learn new commands or syntax. In addition to the ISPF Point-and-Shoot capabilities, IPT provides new concepts, such as hotbars (user-defined fields that execute commands), field-sensitive areas in MSLs and OLISTs, automatic recognition of a dataset name on any ISPF panel as a parameter to BROWSE, EDIT, or VIEW, or parameters within any Time Sharing Option (TSO) command.
- IPT provides integrated and enhanced IBM Software Configuration and Library Manager (SCLM) support within the standard member and dataset lists. SCLM is a source library management component of ISPF that provides change control, multiple source versions, auditing, a built-in make facility, and automatic check-in/sign-out using standard libraries (PDS and partitioned dataset extended (PDSE)). IPT includes built-in interfaces to various IBM and ISV products.
- IPT includes a new batch utility that provides a seamlessly integrated front end to the IBM IEBCOPY utility. In addition to supporting all IEBCOPY standard functionality, it includes additional major enhancements.
This book is intended as a supplement to existing product manuals. It opens with an overview of the main IPT concepts and facilities, and follows with detailed chapters which are each dedicated to a major IPT function. Practical scenarios, accompanied by window captures and coding examples, demonstrate how both experienced ISPF users and those new to the IBM z/OS environment can benefit from the IPT enhanced functionality in each case.
Table of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to ISPF Productivity Tool V7.1
Chapter 2. Object List
Chapter 3. Common OLISTs
Chapter 4. Clone Object List command
Chapter 5. Member Selection List
Chapter 6. MSL partitioned member list filtering and group execution
Chapter 7. Tagging partitioned members
Chapter 8. MSL TITLE and related commands
Chapter 9. TSO command shell
Chapter 10. Invoking commands from OLISTs and MSLs
Chapter 11. IPT Global commands
Chapter 12. Invoking IPT from ISPF Option 3.4
Chapter 13. Enhanced CUT and PASTE
Chapter 14. IPT customization: First-time logon and use
Chapter 15. IPT user customization using the IPT SET command
Chapter 16. Customizing your ISPF keys for Point-and-Shoot
Chapter 17. Using IBM File Manager for z/OS with IPT
Chapter 18. SCLM integration with IPT
Chapter 19. IPT double-byte character set support
Chapter 20. IPT Batch Utility IQIBUTIL
Chapter 21. Installing IPT V7.1 on z/OS
Appendix A. Customizing IBM Personal Communications
Appendix B. Personalization suggestions
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OROVILLE — Proposed revisions for Butte County's marijuana cultivation ordinance will come back before the Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
The supervisors will review amendments to the ordinance they approved at the Jan. 14 meeting.
Among the amendments to the ordinance are three changes in the size of allowable marijuana gardens.
For the smallest gardens, the use rules have not changed. On lots of less than a half-acre, indoor cultivation is only allowed in a "dedicated" structure no larger than 120 square feet, with 15-foot setbacks from the nearest property lines.
Things change dramatically in the larger plots
For parcels larger than a half-acre and less than five acres, only 50 square-feet of cultivation area is allowed. Setbacks are required to be 50 feet from the nearest property lines, and the growers must have at least one medical marijuana recommendation.
Lots greater than five acres but less than 10 acres are limited to 100 square-feet of cultivation space. The setbacks must be 75 feet, and the gardens must have at least two recommendations.
Finally, on property greater than 10 acres, the maximum cultivation area is limited to 150 square-feet, regardless of the number of acres. The setback has to be 150 feet and the grower must have no less than three recommendations.
Another change to the ordinance revises who can file complaints with the county about medical marijuana gardens. In the previous ordinance, an individual had to live within a certain distance of a garden to file a complaint. The amended ordinance allows anybody, regardless of where they live, to formally complain.
The county's medical marijuana ordinance is a land-use measure and is not a criminal measure.
The ordinance applies only to property within the county jurisdiction. Property within city limits is not covered by the measure.
Tuesday's marijuana hearing is a "time certain" event to take place at 10:45 a.m.
Supervisors will also conduct a hearing on a draft "Climate Action Plan," and actions to address "global greenhouse gas" emissions, according to the meeting's agenda documents.
The Climate Action Plan is tied into the Butte County General Plan and is supposed to relate to energy efficiency, renewable energy, alternative-fuel vehicles and equipment, agriculture and solid waste.


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The issue: Stark County Sheriff's Office
Here is the best-case scenario for the Stark County Sheriff's Office, and for Stark County:
• The county Democratic Central Committee elevates Lt. Louis Darrow to sheriff.
• Darrow serves until voters choose a sheriff in November 2014.
• Stark County's other department heads return to the business that usually occupies their offices.
Unless the most powerful Democrats in Stark County — who, not coincidentally, include Stark County officeholders — agree to this straightforward course of action, county residents might have to endure a legal circus that makes the fiasco in the Treasurer's Office two years ago look like a garden party.
Based on what The Rep reported Wednesday, here's what a worst-case scenario would look like:
• The county files some sort of criminal fraud charge against just-ousted Sheriff George T. Maier for supposedly knowing he didn't meet one state qualification to be sheriff.
• Stark County, on behalf of taxpayers, sues Maier to recoup the cost of his salary and fringe benefits for the nine months he served as sheriff.
• Interim Sheriff Timothy Swanson goes to the Ohio Supreme Court to force local Democrats to quickly appoint Darrow.
Is this what Stark Countians want — a legal free-for-all, especially just two years after resolution of the fiasco in the Treasurer's Office, which included its leadership changing hands five times in 14 months?
The prospect is ridiculous — an enormous waste of time, resources and taxpayer money. We'll know soon enough whether the warring Democrats can put politics aside and do what's right.


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|As promised, the Dominion, Romulan and Klingon fleet pages have been re-worked along the lines of the Federation page. The changes have, as before, fed through to the numbers on the ships pages.
|Episode Guide
|The films section has been re-organized so that each film now has its own page. All but ST IV also have much expanded reviews.
|Various minor details have been changed here; primarily, the size of each class has been revised in line with the new Federation fleet page. Various nits concerning the speed of shuttles have also been fixed - previously several shuttles warp factor was far too high for their speed index number.
|The Federation Fleet page has been almost totally re-wroked yet again. The discussion of Federation fleet numbers has been moved to the fleet page and expanded. The numbers themselves have been radically altered - I've taken all the strength numbers except for the overall strength off the page entirely - it was too cluttered as it was. Instead, you now get the total ships built to date, the number lost, the number remaining, and the strength of the overall class before and after the losses. In addition, I finally bit the bullet trawled through the Encyclopedia ships list and added the Sequoia, Yorkshire, Surak, Renaissance, Merced, Wambundu, Hokul'a, Korolev, Antares, Nova, Andromeda, Springfield, Deneva, Mediterranean, Istanbul, Apollo, Bradbury, and Sydney classes. I've made up strength numbers for these classes so as to have an overall strength, but since I've taken the strength numbers off the fleets page there's nowhere else to put them until each one gets its own class entry!
Some of the types I've assigned to these ships are canon - the Sydney class transport, for example. Others I had to invent. I loosely based this around what the few known examples of these classes were doing in the episodes that mentioned them - if a ship was down as lost in combat I made it something like a destroyer or cruiser, for example.
Overall pre-war fleet numbers have been brought up to 8,000, in line with behind the scenes comments said to have been made once. (Incidentally, if anybody has that quote exactly or know who made it, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know.) Dominion war losses have also been beefed up considerably.
So much for the Federation ships. I haven't done anything to the alien ships or stations, but since I'm now on my half term break from work, I hope to be able to get this done over the next week. If not then, it'll be a while because this has taken literally 15+ hours of solid work to do, and that will not be easy to repeat once I'm back at work. So please be patient if they don't appear soon.
|A new entry on V'Ger goes up today. It started as a whim, it's ended up as one of the biggest and most detailed entries on the site. Go figure.
|Some of the recent (to us in the UK) developments in the Dominion war have been added.
|Size Comparison
|New additions - the T'Pau and the Smuggler ship from TNG's "Unification", the Numiri ship from Voyagers "Ex Post Facto", the Sheliak ship from "The Ensigns of Command", the Galaxy-class Captains yacht, the Miranda class escape pod seen in DS9's "Emissary", the Soveregn class escape pod and the phoenix from "First Contact" and the Kazon Shuttle from the Voyager episode "Alliances". Thanks once again to the brilliant "Ex Astris Scienta" for the images used here. The sizes are mostly pretty speculative.
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|DS9 series 7 and Voyager series 5, episodes 19 and 20 have been added. As usual, the write ups contain spoilers.
|A new entry today covers some of the computer systems we've seen in use over the years.
|The previous entry claims that the Varro ship went up. Actually it went up a couple of weeks ago, but I completely forgot I'd sent it up! Apologies all around.
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|The TR-116 from DS9's "Field of Fire" has been added, as has an entry on some of the knives and swords used in the show.
|The Delta Flyer has been added to the shuttles list - full specs plus some nice images from "Extreme Risk". Strictly speaking Starfleet shouldn't know about this little gizmo, but so many people have asked that I just couldn't resist. So sue me...
Also from Voyager, the Varro multi-generational ship has been added.
In addition, the Borg probe from "Dark Frontier" has been added.
|A paragraph has been added to the sci-tech entry on forcefields, mentioning the existence of Regenerative shielding, as seen on the Cardie weapon platforms in DS9's "Tears of the Prophets" and stated to be on the Prometheus in Voyagers "Message in a Bottle". The idea about how regenerative shielding works is pure guesswork.
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Subaru's Forester has been around for more than 20 years now, offering a practical and rugged leftfield choice long before soft SUVs became the norm.
Those 20 years have seen the Forester evolve across four generations but later this year this all-new fifth generation will go on sale in the UK.
Park the new and outgoing models side by side and you'd struggle to tell them apart but underneath the Forester is all-new.
It's now built on the Subaru Global Platform and is significantly stronger and more rigid than the old model as well as being slightly bigger.
As well as a longer, wider and lower body, the new model brings a hybrid system to Subaru's European line-up for the first time.
Subaru is working on a fully electric vehicle in partnership with Toyota but at the minute the Forester e-Boxer and its XV sibling are mild hybrids. That means an updated 148bhp 2.0-litre petrol engine and a 10kW electric motor integrated into the Lineartronic transmission.
The small motor is there to supplement the engine rather than offer all-electric running. It will run purely on the motor for short periods and at low speeds (1.6km and 40km/h) – in heavy urban traffic, for example – before recharging through the engine's power.
It's an improvement on the 2.0-litre in the current car. The hybrid motor gives an added slug of torque than aids acceleration and the power delivery is smooth, but the necessity of the CVT gearbox still gives the impression you're making a lot of noise for not much return.
Our early drive of the car was designed to give a brief flavour of the new drivetrain and chassis, so proper driving impressions will have to wait. However, a few hours throwing the Forester around a combination of handling tracks and off-road trails reveals a similar but improved prospect to the outgoing model.
Driven far more enthusiastically than most owners ever will, it acquits itself adequately thanks to a low centre of gravity, revised suspension and that stiffer body. It's certainly more stable and controlled than the current model so will cope well with sensible on-road driving but it's still clearly a fairly large, tall and heavy SUV.
A few laps of a pretty tough off-road route reinforced why Subarus are a favourite in rural areas. Its high ground clearance and dual-mode X-Mode all-wheel-drive helping dispatch slippery climbs, mud holes and rutted tracks with ease few mainstream SUVs could match.
As well as the new drivetrain, Subaru puts a lot of emphasis on the new Forester's safety credentials. The new platform is stronger and better than ever at protecting occupants but it also comes with a new version of Subaru's Eyesight driver assist technology.
This uses a two-camera system to provide vehicle, pedestrian and cycle detection, forward collision warning, autonomous emergency braking and lane keeping assist.
Enhancing this is rear vehicle detection. As well as blind spot warning and rear cross traffic alert, this will actively stop you changing lanes if it detects a fast-moving vehicle approaching and apply emergency reverse braking if you are about to reverse into something.
The Forester also introduces the faintly creepy and not entirely successful Driver Monitoring System. This uses an infrared camera to monitor the driver's face for signs of distraction or fatigue and will, in theory sound a warning if you lose focus. It will also recognise up to five drivers and automatically adjust settings such as seat and mirror position when they get it. Our short test revealed that, despite what Subaru says, a pair of sunglasses are enough to confuse it.
Practical changes to the new model include a wider boot aperture, wider-opening rear doors, an improved internal step for access to the roof rails and reshaped door pillars to aid access. And despite the addition of the battery under the boot floor, the old car's 530-litre capacity has been maintained.
The longer, lower and wider Forester offers improved interior space, with an extra 3cm of space between front and rear passengers and more shoulder room throughout.
As well as being more spacious, the interior is step up in quality over the old one. It's not a revolutionary change but the dashboard layout has been simplified with a new touchscreen and ventilation controls. More significantly, the materials look and feel better. They're still not class leading but they're no longer the worst and everything feel built to last a lifetime.
That robustness is key to the Forester's image and appeal. Not only does it feel like it will cope with a genuinely active, outdoorsy life but it has the mechanical abilities to back that up.
The e-Boxer drivetrain is hardly a revolution – official estimates are that it improves economy by 10 per cent and its performance is still decent rather than spectacular – but it and the rest of the changes mark a gradual but worthwhile improvement on the previous model.


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Kennedy should resign
By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / August 23, 2009
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RUNNING for reelection in 1982, Senator Ted Kennedy aired a series of sentimental television ads in which longtime supporters spoke of him as an empathetic human being who was no stranger to suffering and sorrow. One of those supporters was 83-year-old Frank Manning, founder of the Massachusetts Association of Older Americans. "He's not a plaster saint, he's not without his faults,'' Manning said in the ad. "But we wouldn't want a plaster saint.''
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They say speak no ill of the dead.
Sorry, but even now we can call them as we see them.
Kennedy's conduct was an insult to anyone with a shred of human decency. Mary Jo was whitewashed. Any one else would have spent time in jail. What else has been covered over to keep him in office? Disgraceful. More disgraceful to the "liberal leftist" press who failed their sacred trust.
Further, he was a CINO. The classic example of a Catholic In Name Only. He gave public scandal by voting for abortion and everyone gives him a free pass.
It's not my job to judge. Above my pay grade. But he's one I don't understand. Silver spoon and all. He had it all and squandered it.
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Like many car lovers, when my non automotive obsessed friends are in search of car purchasing advice, I am usually the first one to get a call. After they listen to my standard automotive advice (Don't buy a '57 Plymouth) my friends usually ask me to point them in the right direction towards a new and what I would consider boring car.
Although I've never really owned a car that really fits the "new reliable and boring" description, I can usually come up with a few suggestions that point them in the right direction. This weekend we want to know what happens when your non automotive obsessed friends ask you the same question. What boring new car do you recommend to your friends?
My go to boring new car recommendation is a Honda Accord. I've never owned one, but generally speaking the people I know who have them are happy with them. I've driven one with a stick before and it wasn't as intolerable as I made it out to be in my head. If someone held a gun to my head and forced me to make a rational new car buying decision, I'd probably go for an Accord with a V6 and a stick, I think.
I've told you about the boring new vehicle I suggest, so tell me, what boring new car do you recommend to your friends?