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Swampy landing at Harihari - Roadside Stories
A Manatū Taonga audio guide to the Harihari's encounter with aviation history
Check out the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's audio guide to Harihari in the Video tab above.
Australian aviator Guy Menzies surprised Harihari locals when he completed the first solo trans-Tasman flight in 1931 by landing – unintentionally – in a flax swamp. Today Menzies' watery arrival spot is marked by a plaque.
Ross to Ōkarito
Guy Menzies' landing
Crossing the Tasman
Archival audio sourced from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives. Sound files may not be reused without permission from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives (Reference number 32347).
Roadside Stories is a series of audio guides that follow major road trips in New Zealand. The stories cover the places you'll pass along the way – their people, their history, their cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit http://www.mch.govt.nz/roadside/


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Poker Beer has four cards on label, one under bottlecap
"We have a genuine desire to bring innovation into all segments of the beverage industry," said C.J. Rapp, president of New York-based Wet Planet, which sells Jolt Cola, DNA and Pirate's Keg sodas.
Wet Planet expects people to play games with the beer -- such as the loser buying the next round. Rapp said he's aware of the potential for criticism, but Wet Planet is not encouraging drunkenness. "There are laws out there that deter people from drinking too much alcohol."
The beer, a lager, is being brewed on contract by Utica-based Matt Brewing Co., which produces its own line of Saranac beers and also contract brews several other brands. The variable printing process was designed by Hammer Lithograph of Rochester.
Rapp said the beer will have more flavor than mainstream beers such as Budweiser, but will be lighter than microbrewed beer. "You have to have a high quality product in the bottle," he said. "It's not good enough to have just a clever idea."

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Join the weekly Classic Cattle set review discussion. Please post your opinions on the set play ability, piece selection, design, etc. Which sets earn a "Holy Cow!" and which should be put out to pasture!
This week's set is 7637 Farm.
While cow elements have long existed in the Duplo theme, System builders finally got their wish in 2009, when minifig-scale cows were released in set 7637 and also in 10193 Medieval Market Village. Unfortunately, we have yet to get a cow in a set cheap enough to easily build up our herds, but with an upcoming pig impulse set we can hold out hope. In addition to tractors and a silo, set 7637 includes a barn and, most importantly, two holstein cows with comfortable stalls to live in.


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How to Feed a Growing Planet main content.
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In the next 30 years, global population is estimated to surpass nine billion people. Will there be too many people, too little food? In this podcast, join NBC News Chief Science and Health correspondent Robert Bazell and a round table of food experts as they discuss how climate, politics and economics impact food systems and food security.
Guests include activist and best-selling author Raj Patel, geneticist Molly Jahn, and chef and UNICEF ambassador Marcus Samuelsson.
"How to Feed a Growing Planet," was presented in conjunction with the exhibition, "Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture." The program took place at the Museum on January 10, 2013.


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Performance and Emission of Small Diesel Engine Using Diesel-Crude Palm Oil-Water Emulsion as Fuel
Diesel and crude palm oil (CPO) emulsion was drop-in replaced of diesel oil in a small diesel engine to test the engine performance and emission. In the study, the compositions of diesel/CPO/water of 95/0/5, 90/0/10, 90/5/5, 85/5/10, 85/10/5 and 80/10/10 by volume were used in a four-stroke single cylinder diesel engine having a pre-combustion chamber. The engine speed was in a range of 1000 – 2000 rpm.
From the results, it could be found that the torque and the engine power for the emulsion of 90/5/5 were close to those of from the diesel oil and the performance were poorer when the percentages of CPO and water were increased. The specific fuel consumption of the emulsified oil with the composition of 90/5/5 was quite close to that of the diesel oil at low engine speed and higher consumption was needed with higher amount of CPO and water in the emulsion due to lower heating value in the emulsion. The emissions in terms of CO, NOx and black smoke for the emulsified oil could be reduced significantly. After 200h of the operation, the wear and the physical corrosions in the engine components for the emulsified fuel of 90/5/5 composition are not much different from those for the diesel oil.
Key words: Palm –diesel emulsion; Diesel engine performance; Emission
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[1] Abu-Zaid, M. (2004). Performance of Single Cylinder, Direct Injection Diesel Engine Using Water Fuel Emulsions. Energy Conversion and Management, 45, 697-705. DOI:10.1016/S0196-8904(03)00179-1.
[2] Lin, C.Y, & Lin, H.A. (2007a). Effects of Emulsification Variables on Fuel Properties of Two- and Three-Phase Biodiesel Emulsions. Fuel, 86(1–2), 210-217. DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2006.06.007.
[3] Lin C.Y., & Lin, H.A. (2007b). Engine Performance and Emission Characteristics of a Three-Phase Emulsion of Biodiesel Produced by Peroxidation. Fuel Processing Technology, 88(1), 35-41. DOI: 10.1016/j.fuproc.2006.07.008.
[4] Lin, C.Y., & Wang, K.H. (2004). Effects of a Combustion Improver on Diesel Engine Performance and Emission Characteristics When Using Three-Phase Emulsions as an Alternative Fuel. Energy & Fuels, 18(2), 477-484. DOI: 10.1021/ef0300848.
[5] Wibulswas, P., Winyachompunart, B., & Tiansuwan, J. (2000). Proceedings of the World Renewable Energy Congress VI: Renewables-Energy for the 21st Century, Brighton, UK.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/j.est.1923847920120302.279
DOI (PDF): http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/pdf_1
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super rare weekend date
This Sessioned Track Day splits riders into 4 groups of a similar ability and divides the track time between these groups to typically give six 15-20-minute sessions through the day*.
The world famous Brands Hatch circuit is a real favourite amongst track day riders and racers. You'll revel in the swoops and dips, particularly at Paddock Hill Bend which is as much a rollercoaster ride as a race track! Located near London Brands Hatch is easy to get to and has all the facilities you would expect.
We will generally run 1x Novice, 2x Intermediate and 1x Advanced group. Riders are monitored on circuit to make sure everyone is looking after each other. Briefings are clear about what we expect and group numbers are always sensible.
A small percentage of garages are available to reserve in advance for (for groups of riders). The remainder are foc on arrival. Sessions of instruction are available to book with our professional rider coaches.
*Winter sometimes six due to earlier failed light
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Character driven with enemies from the past
I found my joy again in reading the Sookie Stackhouse novels in Dead Reckoning. As with many longer series the early books had a lot of new stuff to fascinate, then came a dip in originality and in quality. It was just more of the same. It is still more of the same but the story is more character driven which I enjoy.
Sookie and her boyfriend Eric is exploring 'going steady' which is a new experience for the both of them. It generates many small situations that amused me.
The fallout from the shifters revelation continues in this novel. Early on there is a firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where Sookie works. She catches a glimpse of the perpetrator before taking cover. She soon realizes that there is more to her investigation than shifter-haters.
They also have to deal with the king's henchman Victor. He is out to get Eric and all the people around him, Sookie included. It is endearing the way Pam and Eric tries to keep Sookie out of it to 'protect' her. Like that ever is going to work. This is where Sookies personal journey comes into play. She has to face some hard facts about herself and her relationship before it is over and Eric is … let us say consistent.
Pam is the character I most enjoyed. She becomes more her own here.
Did I mention Bubba is back?
I liked and enjoyed this lightweight entertainment that is Southern Vampires. It is very character driven so be warned if you don't go for that kind of thing. The plot is the weakest part, it is partly inconsistent with earlier books. I mostly enjoyed being with the characters for a while though.
There are quite a few unresolved threads for future books at the end. I hope Charlaine Harris continues on this trend but we need more plot in the next volume. I recommend Dead Reckoning to fans of True Blood and Southern Vampires if you like character driven stories.
Book Information
Dead Reckoning (True Blood 12) by Charlaine Harris (Gollancz 2011) – Amazon US | UK
With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows…


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Please contact our Broome office 24 hours prior to departure to reconfirm your tour - Phone (08) 9193 7778.
Cancellation by the traveller: If you wish to cancel your tour you must immediately inform Kimberley Wild Expeditions Pty Ltd in writing. Once we have received your notice, cancellation will take effect. Please note the following charges will apply on cancellation:
You are strongly advised to take out cancellation insurance at the time of booking which will cover cancellation penalties in certain circumstances. If you leave a trip for any reason after it has commenced we are not obliged to make any refunds for unused services.
Cancellation by Kimberley Wild Expeditions Pty Ltd: Kimberley Wild Expeditions Pty Ltd reserves the right to cancel or postpone any tour at any time prior to departure if, due to weather conditions, road conditions, natural disasters, mechanical defect, cultural considerations or other external events it is not viable for us to operate the planned itinerary. If we cancel a trip you may choose between us applying the amounts paid toward an alternative trip or receiving a full refund. We are not responsible for any incidental expenses that you may have incurred as a result of your booking such as visas, vaccinations or non-refundable flights.
Wolfe Creek Crater, Gibb River Road, Purnululu (Bungle Bungles), Windjana Gorge, Tunnel Creek, El Questro, Lake Argyle
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Each project will have a short, medium, and ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is not expected to be finished in one summer, but we hope that the student will continue as a contributor and see it finished.
All projects will end with a demo video that will be posted on YouTube and a tutorial providing a step-by-step description of how the demo can be replicated by others.
Starting from the discussions at http://dev.pointclouds.org/issues/164, we would like to implement a file format for storing sequences of clouds. Things to have in mind:
This is tied to the previous project proposal. We need a video player for point clouds, similar to video players present in most operating systems. A complete UI and performance optimizations are required.
Not necessarily a project by itself, but can be one of the milestones for a larger project. The task is to adapt the source code for the following paper to the structures present in PCL:
Fatih Calakli and Gabriel Taubin, "SSD: Smooth Signed Distance Surface Reconstruction", Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 30, No. 7, 2011
Implement an algorithm able to recognize human actions from pre-segmented RGB-D sequences by classifying the skeleton information provided by PCL's skeleton tracking algorithm. An example of paper that could be implemented is:
Ferda Ofli, Rizwan Chaudhry, Gregorij Kurillo, Reneé Vidal, Ruzena Bajcsy - "Sequence of the Most Informative Joints (SMIJ): A new representation for human skeletal action recognition", 2012 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
If time permits, this technique could be extended to be able to classify actions online, segmenting them out from a real time stream.
A very broad topic and one of the favorite subjects for PCL developers, we want to extend the functionalities of the pcl::registration module, by implementing some proven papers. One example is:
D. Huber, M. Hebert, "Fully automatic registration of multiple 3D data sets", IVC 2003
The goal of such a tool is to allow multiple 3D views of the same object to be aligned together starting from pairwise registration and finding the best transformations to align all views with respect to the same coordinate system. Once this is done, the student will decide with the mentor on what other publications to look into until the end of the summer.
Extend the octree component to enable 3d volumetric modelling of free space and surface areas. Integration of probabilistic models in order to reflect dynamic environments.
We are looking for an expert to adapt some of our algorithms to run on a cluster. We are thinking of using technologies such as Hadoop , or any other open-source implementations of distributed computing libraries. The end result should be a cluster of machines running point cloud processing services such as large dataset registration, feature extraction, object recognition etc.
This is a rather involved project, and expertise in the field of distributed computing is necessary. We recommend to discuss with the GSoC mentors on the mailing list for a more in-depth view of our ideas.
As PCL is a research-oriented community, we are more than happy to welcome students to come up with their proposals (even contribute with implementations of their own MSc/PhD work!). Most probably there will be a mentor with high interest in your field of research.
Students may suggest their own well thought out and documented ideas, which should also have project timeline for completion. These will only be accepted if one of the mentors approves to support it. The project should use a substantial, proven technology and be of general interest. Research-based projects are accepted only if they are proven to be reasonable for the duration of Google Summer of Code 2013 program.
Do not miss your chance to work with one of the awesome mentors that we have lined up for this program! They all work or study at top institutions across the world and are top contributor for the PCL library.
Koen Buys
Research Assistant, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Matteo Munaro
Research Assistant, Universita degli studi di Padova, Italy
Radu Rusu
CEO, Open Perception, Inc., USA; Founder of the Point Cloud Library (PCL)
Christian Potthast
Research Assistant, University of Southern California, USA
Julius Kammerl
Research Engineer, Willow Garage, Inc., USA; Core Maintainer of the Point Cloud Library (PCL)
Marco Antonio Gutierrez
Research Assistant, University of Extremadura, Spain
Federico Tombari
Senior Research Assistant, University of Bologna, Italy
Robert Huitl
Research Assistant, Technical University Munich, Germany
Alexandru E. Ichim
Research Scientist, Open Perception, Inc.; Research Assistant, EPFL, Switzerland; Core Maintainer of the Point Cloud Library (PCL)
Stefan Holzer
Research Assistant, Technical University Munich, Germany, Core Maintainer of the Point Cloud Library (PCL)


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Driver of car that caused fatal Vidor wreck given $1M bond
UPDATE: Kelvin Roy was transported to the Orange County Jail Friday morning. He has been charged with murder and his bond has been set at $1 million.
PREVIOUS REPORTING: A woman told police that her 32-year-old ex-boyfriend was trying to kill them Friday night when he caused a crash that killed a Vidor teenager, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Kelvin Lee Roy was charged with murder because evidence seems to support he intended to cause harm when he ran into a Honda minivan, which killed 16-tear-old Alexandria Nicole Bertran, said John Kimbrough, Orange County district attorney.
A warrant was issued Monday, who is already in custody at the Jefferson County jail for marijuana possession, on a murder charge.
The ex-girlfriend told police the duo were headed to get food when Roy became aggressive and threatened their lives, according to court documents.
Officers at the scene found in the vehicle eight bags of marijuana and one that appeared to be crack cocaine, according to the affidavit.
Bertrand was in the passenger seat of the minivan with her mother at 9:43 p.m. in the southbound lanes of Main Street at Old Texas 90 when they were hit from behind by the speeding white Mercury Sable, driven by Roy.
Roy hit the railroad track propelling the vehicle into the minivan, stopped at a red light, taking the Honda's roof off and ejecting Bertrand.
All three were taken to Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont.
Bertrand died Saturday; her mother, who suffered minor injuries, was released the same day from the hospital.
Vidor Police Investigator James Blankenship said he and his team are still investigating the wreck.
Roy suffered serious injuries but was released Sunday. He was arrested later that day for the drug charge and his bond was set at $250, according to jail officials.
Kimbrough said Roy will likely remain at Jefferson County jail until the drug charge is dropped, and then will be transferred to the Orange County jail.
Bertrand's family and friends will host fundraiser auction for the teen on March 9 to help family with expenses and to celebrate her life.


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Eight individuals, businesses and community causes have been chosen for the Advertising Council of Rochester's 2014 Annual Breakfast Celebration, which is to recognize winners based on their financial or volunteer support of the Ad Council.
The event is April 4 at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center. It draws 400 to 700 attendees each year.
"No other community in the country has an organization like the Ad Council," said Chairman John Barr. "For the past 64 years, we've been working every day to make our community a stronger place, but none of this work would be possible without the extraordinary companies and community volunteers we're recognizing this year."
The 2014 Ad Council award winners are:
Lantern Award: given to veteran volunteers of the Ad Council.
- Pennie McNulty, senior vice president, director of account service, Roberts Communications Inc., is an Ad Council board member, Community Impact Campaign volunteer and in-kind supporter, and member of Ad Council's Giving Society-The W.B. Potter Society.
- T.C. Pellett, public relations manager for Brand Cool Inc., is a Community Advisory Committee member, strategic roundtable volunteer, Golf Committee member, and member of Ad Council's Giving Society-The W.B. Potter Society.
W. B. Potter Founder's Award: recognizes a volunteer team—including individuals and organizations—that have succeeded in bringing to life a results-oriented, collaborative initiative that fills a community need.
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Exporting Inflation to China
Our failure to maintain a sound currency guarantees a trade imbalance with China and threatens a repetition of the stagflation of the 1970s.
Republican and Democratic politicians, through ignorance of economics or sheer perversity, have for three quarters of a century pursued Federal spending programs that foment inflation, which makes domestic goods uncompetitive with foreign products. As long as foreign goods are cheaper than domestic manufactures, imports will continue to take a big share of the market.
Reacting to job losses, rising costs of living, and other economic dislocations, liberals (and too many conservatives) hypocritically blame China and other countries for exporting too much to us.
Liberal socialist Senator Charles Schumer and RINO Senator Lindsay Graham have led the growing parade of protectionists who cudgel Treasury Secretary Paulson for his failure to impose more trade restrictions on China and to obtain Beijing's agreement to allow the yuan to float against the dollar.
The culprit, however, is not China, but our failure to maintain a sound dollar.
To finance endless expansion of Federal spending, the Federal Reserve uses bookkeeping entries to create dollars faster than the growth in real output of goods and services. The inevitable result is, by definition, inflation.
Internationally this is a "beggar thy neighbor" policy.
Other countries must either convert dollars from exports into their own currencies, creating inflation there, or convert the dollars into some other, non-inflationary asset. China has recently begun to redeploy some of its dollar exchange reserves.
In the 1960s and 70s, France justifiably retaliated against our exporting of American inflation by exchanging its rapidly devaluing dollar foreign exchange reserves for gold at the New York Federal Reserve Bank. To stem the exodus of our gold reserves, President Nixon closed the gold window permanently, leaving other nations with huge, inflationary floods of Eurodollars. The slowing and eventual decline of Western European economic growth dates from that time.
When the dollar declines against the Deutsche Mark or the French Franc, our exports become cheaper in those currencies. In the short run (until inflation again pushes production cots up), this tends to boost exports and production here. But Beijing's tying the yuan to the dollar means that the inflationary devaluation of the dollar confers no exporting advantage upon our exports.
Hardly ever mentioned is the fact that China's tying its currency to the U. S. dollar means that ongoing inflation here is automatically imported into the Chinese economy. That process is what led to the collapse of the Bretton Woods international monetary system under Presidents Johnson and Nixon.
An exporting country like China will accumulate growing surpluses of dollars received in payment for its goods. China has elected to link the yuan to the dollar, which means that, when Chinese exporters receive payment in dollars, the Chinese money supply has to be expanded to match conversion of export-generated dollars into domestic currency. This causes general price inflation within China.
Since 1990, the rate of inflation in China has more than doubled.
An Associated Press article of April 20, 2007, reported,
The signs of a surging economy are everywhere: flashy luxury cars, glitzy shopping malls, expensive restaurants and construction cranes in many neighborhoods.
For most Chinese, this is a good thing. It means more jobs, higher incomes and rising affluence. But China's leaders, fearful of accelerating inflation and the risk that all this investment could collapse in a debt crisis if borrowers go bankrupt, are trying to apply the brakes.
As the U. S. dollar declines in foreign exchange value against other currencies not tied to the dollar, the real, inflation-adjusted value of China's exports declines.
This is precisely what happened in the 1970s, when OPEC abruptly began jacking up the price of oil to offset the inflationary devaluation of the dollar. To compensate, the Fed made matters worse by pumping out more dollars, while Congress imposed new taxes and American workers were pushed upward into higher tax brackets by rising nominal incomes. Disposable personal incomes and business profits throughout the 1970s, after adjustment for inflation, actually fell.
The result was stagflation: rising unemployment, falling economic activity, higher taxes, and catastrophic inflation.
A repetition of this disaster is precisely the scenario that liberals in Congress and Democratic presidential candidates are promising us beginning in 2008.
Despite what Keynesian (i.e., socialist) economists tell us, there is no necessary linkage between inflation and rapid economic growth. From our own history we know that the expansion of the American economy was extraordinarily rapid during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Yet prices, apart from war periods, were remarkably stable, while we were on one version or another of the gold standard.
The key variable is maintaining a sound currency, which we have signally failed to do except during the brief tenure of Fed Chairman Paul Volcker in the early days of the Reagan administration. Only by reducing Federal spending can we avoid the same stagnation and financial ruin now confronting France and Germany.
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WELCOME TO the Tuesday blog. Tuesdays mean Steve Collett, focussing mainly on match fishing but also delving into his styles of pleasure fishing and specialist angling.
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CLUBS. Not the kind with neon lights, headbanging dub step dance trance, and scantily clad chicks… this week I'm talking about a better type of clubbing.
The small match club scene is undergoing a bit of a resurgence of late, and I for one am very pleased to see it happen, just have a look at the match results in this week's Angler's Mail and you will see on most Open matches attendances of 10-20 on many of them. The reports I have had this week from club sectary's seem to indicate that the norm now is 20-35 on the club matches.
Gone are the days when the club angler used to feel inferior with the masses of Open anglers turning up on the same venue. The worm has turned, now it's the club angler fishing in sections of ten, rather than a makeshift Open section of four.
I spoke to a pal of mine "Prev" this weekend who was on Woodlands View with the Goodyear club and I know they would have had 15-20 anglers on it. Down the road at Wassel Grove fishery the start of a winter league attracted only 16, again another Midlands club I go fishing with had 26 on the match this weekend, and two minutes down the road at the Mecca of midlands match fishing Woodland View 15 attended.
I'm not knocking anyone who attends these club or Opens, what I am trying to get across, and I have been saying it for years, it will affect the skill-set of a lot of anglers. We have ended up fishing for nothing too, I used to try and win my section first, then a pool, and maybe then a frame, now days a section of four is a good section win.
Mind the gap!
Is the gap between club anglers and open anglers still as wide? And what is it that the club angler has to do to make the switch into the big time, the "open" angler?
There's actually almost nothing he need to do anymore, as the club angler is now fishing bigger matches. The only thing the modern clubbie will struggle with is time served on the venue. The Open angler usually fishes the same venues and gets to learn his trade, and the tricks over weeks of attendance, the clubbie will go there once a year.
So is the leap into the open world such a big one? Well yes it is, they are two completely different animals, and the open angler spends his life on the three "Ps" prep, practice, petrol. It becomes life consuming, the costs, the fierce competition element, and the section win mentality comes into play.
On the other hand, I am sure they don't mind me saying, my good old pals have a different methodology towards their fishing the three "Bs" – breakfast, bait, and beer ! And other than a few clicks on Google, and a phone call here and there, that will be more than enough preparation needed for a great day.
But who enjoys it more ? That's the question.
Turnip head… and fishing for England
I remember feeling really sorry for Graham Taylor when he was England manager.
As predicted by many, when the results turned out to be a little less than mediocre, out came the hatchets "we want Taylor out!" Chants could be heard up and down the country, and it wasn't long until the call came from the FA to ask what has gone wrong with English football, and a P45 soon followed.
Not a lot has changed with English football since then and probably won't for a few years unless our country's youth policy is addressed.
So what's this got to do with fishing ? Well what's happened to our England team? I remember as a kid reading with a massive smile on my face 4, 6 maybe 8 pages of how Bob Nudd has smashed the world up, Tommy Pickering winning on the waggler – childhood heroes of mine, and how I wanted a white Drennan cap.
Now… I couldn't give a toss. What has happened? Even our carp fishing team has been embarrassingly defeated and put in its place.
Where has it gone wrong, who is answerable to all of this? I have never heard of an inquest or a hearing about our poor performance, nor chants of "we want whoever out", and I don't think anyone cares anymore.
I asked five kids at a junior match who the current England team is? I say kids but these were 12-16 and pretty good anglers with all the kit, very streetwise, and looked the part – Rive boxes and matching Goretex, not someone who had been to go outdoors in the morning and just picked up a kit. They read the mags, they know what's going on. And guess what, they hadn't got a clue, and I don't think they cared. Very sad.
On a brighter England note, it was great to see another trial for Tommy Pickering's Feeder team. Now if anyone has never met Tommy, you may have heard a lot about him. I know I had, and to be honest I couldn't stand the bloke – arrogant, threw his rattle, holier than though, I just took a instant dislike to him, and I wasn't on my own.
That was until I spent time with him, and I could never have been so wrong about a man. I'm not blowing smoke up his bum, and trying to get in the team (I'm not good enough, simple as!) but I must say I have never met a more passionate Englishman.
This bloke is England, the work and detail he puts in for his lads is unreal. I know he is off to South Africa soon to work out the massive Bloemoth Dam in preparation for the forthcoming World Championships, and is already looking ahead to Ireland in a few years time.
He is literally living and breathing for his team, and what a team it is. Now if you think you are good enough, go for it, there is no boys club, this is the real deal. If you're good enough he will hear about it, believe me. If you're not, he will hear about it.
So next time there is a trial advertised, and you think you can cut it, get in touch with the Angling Trust and send your angling CV: your country needs you! Not yet though, the team's good enough!
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I had this email forwarded to me this week from Sammie Perkins. One of her female colleagues had a corporate match for the staff at Dynamite Baits, and I thought I would share it with you. It made me smile from ear to ear…
Hi Sammie.
Well Sammie, I did it!!! Everyone tried to make me fish with maggots, but I just didn't want to put one of those horrible things on my hook. They said I wouldn't catch on corn and it didn't help that I only had 2 pole sections and I had drawn the worst peg!!
So I sat there all day using hemp and corn and I didn't catch a thing (not even a tiddler)! Until the last half an hour that is…
I had just been inside to the toilet and to fetch a cuppa tea for Ang and I thought, I'll give it one more go. I chucked a handful of hemp in and a few pieces of corn and I put a corn on my hook.
I stared at the water and my float as I had been doing all day and then it finally happened…..the float dipped under, I struck to the left, the elastic on my rod came flying out, this was it! "I've got one" I shouted!
Everyone was pleased for me cause I think they thought "poor Kerry, she's hasn't caught anything all day". It was a good size carp, I was so happy.
Anyway, I thought I better get back out there and keep trying. So off I went again and almost immediately the float went under, I caught another carp!
Time was ticking on, only a few minutes to go, so out I went again and I caught another carp (I could tell this one was a biggy). I caught it before the end of the match, but I didn't land it before the end but Mark said it would count as long as I'd caught it before time then that was fine!
Three carp in the last 30 minutes of the match, weighing 13lb something. I was over the moon (but very unpopular with everyone else) – I got a lot of abuse! But I don't care, I was patient and held out to the bitter end!
Thank you for your tips, I didn't let you down.
Regards, Kerry Saunders.
I know Kerry is not an avid match fisher but I could just imagine her excitement and how happy she was at winning this match. Hopefully angling has won here, and as a one off I would like to award Kerry Saunders my Performance of the Week.
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Shadowrun, the upcoming shooter adaptation of the cult classic cyberpunk pen-and-paper RPG, has quite the responsibility on its shoulders. Billed as one of the first games to demonstrate the flexibility and usability of the Xbox Live Anywhere system, Shadowrun's success is crucial for building the community that Microsoft hopes to accomplish. However, it seems the focus on online play has come at a cost. "Kimona," Lead Program Manager of FASA, has gone on the record to say that Shadowrun will not have splitscreen multiplayer. Though this may not strike many as a tragic omission, splitscreen multiplayer is still an important feature in this age of online gaming: the ability to play with anyone in any circumstance is key to the enjoyment of games with other people. Disabling local multiplayer with such an omission greatly reduces the playability of a title. I may be an advocate for online gaming, but I wouldn't think for a second of sacrificing local multiplayer for it: I still love to play next to my boys on the couch.
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Whether you're reading a book or watching a film, audiences and bookworms want to be pulled into the story's world, immersed in the life of its characters, and get a keen sense of the setting where the action is taking place. Skilled writers can ignite that connection almost instantly, and as the Guardian shared over the weekend, the literary world is full of fine examples where the first lines in fiction have been enrapturing readers for decades. Cinema is no different, and we wanted to search for the most unforgettable movie openers. These oft-quotable opening lines have acted as a foreshadowing device, added instant drama, and allowed us to understand the inner workings of different characters' minds. We could have spent all day reciting first lines from our favorite films, but we narrowed our picks down and left you the opportunity to share your own past the break.
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Ray Liotta's Henry Hill grew up in an Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn where he started working for the Lucchese crime family as a kid. It's there that he learns to never rat on his friends and always keep his mouth shut — wiseguys' words of wisdom that come back to haunt Hill later in his criminal career. Goodfellas opening reminds us that Hill didn't just fall into his mobster lifestyle, he was born and bred to be a mobster, surrounded by gangsters and steadily seduced by the respect, money, and power they possessed. "To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States," he tells us next. For a kid like Hill who was busy skipping school, these crooks became his idols.


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I count myself as fairly liberal (when forced, I describe myself as at the liberal end of the libertarian spectrum, like Larry Flynt) and I'm certainly no particular admirer of the Bush family or Republicans. I've never voted for a Republican except on the city or county level when they had been doing good work. However, I must say that Jeb Bush has been getting pilloried for simply telling the truth. In particular, some people are reading racism into some recent remarks.
Here are the "controversial" remarks:
"Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans... Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity."
Gee. He's even one of that small group of Republicans who is actually for substantive immigration reform.
Now, he was speaking to a conservative group, which by itself would have a lot of liberals reading every line and between, behind, and under every line for anything that might provide some sort of "Aha!" moment. We're always looking for those Republicans to say something typically Republican, which means something ignorant, racist, or sexist. And if they can't find anything as blatant as that, there's always the fall-back position: "It was insensitive." (Liberals always want to look after someone else's dellicate feelings.)
For example, more weirdness on the part of Republican males was revealed this week with Rep. Trent Franks (R-Arizona) adding yet another superstitious and non-scientific observation about women and rape.
On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee, dominated by right-wing social extremists, voted to support legislation that would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks. When an intrepid reporter asked the congressman why his proposal did not make exceptions for rape and incest, the representative said that the probability of a pregnancy resulting from rape was "very low." (source)
The thing is, Jeb's remarks are actually dead on, and they don't in any way say anything bad about Hispanics (because that is clearly the group he was referring to). They have a higher birth rate, as do other immigrants.
According to 2011 data from the National Center for Health Statistics, the birth rate for foreign-born women is substantially higher than that of U.S. born women, at 87.8 births per 1,000 women aged 15-44. (It was 58.9 for women born in the United States.) (source for this quote and more info on Bush's remarks)
They have large and strong families and because even poor Hispanic families—because they tend to stay intact and provide internal support for each other—are less of a burden on the welfare system than, say, the black population which, as a group, has a substantially higher rate of unstable and/or broken families than Hispanics and Asians. Speaking of Asians, they are another burgeoning racial group with strong families.
Now, out in the so-called Twitterverse, in the so-called blogosphere, on Facebook, and in the comments sections of major online political sites like HuffingtonPost.com, there's a lot of chatter calling Bush racist, though the tide seems to be turning to calling his way of expressing the facts "insensitive." I guess as time went by, and they started realizing he was just stating a bald truth, they still needed to find something negative to say.
"Insensitive"? I don't even see that. I also doubt if most Mexican-Americans could find fault with either the content of Bush's comments or his mode of expression. They certainly can't complain about his intentions.
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Well depends on how you look at it. If he is using the term "immigrant" has a generic word then there really is nothing inflammatory about it. However if as you say, he is using the word to described a specific group, then that can be somewhat seen as "insensitive", as he is particularly singling out a specific group. Now also the tone of his rhetoric comes into play and what the specific discussion was about. Is he talking to an anti immigrant crowd or pro immigrant crowd? If its the former, then it can have a negative connotation to it. One can infer from that statement that he was berating hispanic immigrants in a "gentle's way".
And what the heck does this mean: Immigrants are more fertile?
Biologically that makes no sense whatsoever....I believe that is the statement that most people are having trouble with. As I said earlier, that sounds like him saying in his gentleman's way that Hispanics are pretty much "breeding like sewer rats". And Yet his party and Catholic Church (most hispanics are Catholics) continues to limit access to birth control.
And what the heck does this mean: Immigrants are more fertile?
He probably simply pulled the wrong word out of his vocabulary. From the context I'd assume he means "prolific," referring to their large families. As a group, their families tend to be larger than typical white families. If it's a sterotype, its a largely true one. It's also not a negative one unless you think large families are necessarily bad.
Or, it could mean he believed that immigrant poop contains more nitrogen, phosphorus and potash --
He probably simply pulled the wrong word out of his vocabulary.
The Bush sons love that move, it's what they do.
At least he didn't say: Them Mexycans have more got-dern babies!
And what the heck does this mean: Immigrants are more fertile?
Biologically that makes no sense whatsoever....I believe that is the statement that most people are having trouble with. As I said earlier, that sounds like him saying in his gentleman's way that Hispanics are pretty much "breeding like sewer rats". And Yet his party and Catholic Church (most hispanics are Catholics) continues to limit access to birth control.
It's not inconsistent to believe that access to birth control should be limited and that large families are good. But you seem to see some there. How so? And, quite frankly, I'm not sure what his views on birth control even are, though he is Catholic. But what does that mean? After all, Joe Biden is a Catholic, too. At any rate, he's not a totally mainstream Republican and he's certainly not a rabid Tea Party Republican. If he's like his brother and father, he's more of a business conservative than a religious conservative.
If you knew a bit more about Jeb Bush than I think you do (and about the Bush family in general), you would understand that they are the exception to those Republicans who hate illegals and just wish we could create a giant toilet and flush them south of the border.
By contrast both Bush Presidents have expressed humane views on dealing with immigration, especially George W. Bush. He proposed an immigration bill that may have been short of what Democrats would have wanted (big surprise there), but even that was too generous for the Republican party who shot down the bill proposed by their very own President.
As for Jeb, he has a lot of love for Mexico. He taught English in Mexico and is married to Columba Garnica Gallo, a native Mexican he met there while teaching.
And I must assume that their children are the "Little Brown Ones" Big George once mentioned in a photo op during his administration, as being his grandchildren --
Most probably. Shows he's not blind. The Bush family men have never had a talent for keeping their respective feet out of their respective mouths. We all have ways of referring to our children and grandchildren that are probably best left in the family.
I'm still reeling from learning that a member of the Bush family can even recognize the truth!
The last election was in the bag, Republicans believed - post election analysis revealed that Hispanics in this country played a very significant part in the reelection of Barak Obama. The Repubs reevaluated their strategy, and are now trying to suck Hispanics into their web of deceit, which has worked so well for the uneducated White poor, their political base. Jeb may just be the messenger, or he may be the vanguard, so, avantgarde! The votes of the religious, uneducated poor carry as much weight as those of the wealthiest intellectual elite, but in terms of advertising dollars spent, are much cheaper to buy.
I would look in the future for an Hispanic, Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate, possibly as early as 2016. I would also look for Jeb to be a Presidential candidate in that same year, opting for a Bush family hat trick.
But (IMO), he's not looking for a real solution, except to the problem of how to get Hispanics to help vote him into office.
See, here's the formula - you choose a group, find out what's important to them, imply you can give that to them (without actually promising), never mention that once you're elected, you'll proceed with your original plan to channel as much money out of the pockets of those who elected you and into the pockets of your cronies as you can, and by the end of four years, Human memories will have forgotten what you indicated you'd do, and they're blank slates, ready for new instructions.
They do the jobs no one else wants. In many parts of the US they are treated like slaves. Some actually are.
Those were jobs Americans wanted until the labor market was flooded with people from south of the border who would work for less than minimum wage, with no benefits, under medieval working conditions, and often with a heap of employer neglect and abuse thrown in. But don't blame the Latin American farm workers, blame the farmers.
If the jobs paid a living wage (by American standards) and had even minimum benefits, there would be more Americans trying to get a chance to work in fresh air.
All or most the things which are wrong in your list of Latin American family problems would go away once their economic situation improves, more of them get educated, and they get more assimilated than they are now by moving out of ghettos and into more diverse communities where they'll be exposed to other ways of living.
Sure, we can criticize Jeb, but he's on the right side of the immigration issue, which is especially impressive given that he's a Republican.
The so-called, "ghetto" is an effort by the Hispanic to recreate the home he left behind and with which he is familiar.
Long after I moved back here from Mexico, I chose to live in Hispanic communities, because there, I was surrounded by the sights, sounds and smells I had grown to love. Give me a neighborhood permeated in the evening by the smell of carne asada on the grill, and I'm home.
In just the minute or so it took me to write this, my imagination conjured up the aroma of corn tortillas heating.
I had a bookkeeper for a while who was a Mexican-American woman in her late 20's. Her mother was born in Mexico and still does not speak much English. But she (the bookkeeper) speaks English without an accent, and while she can cook fabulous Mexican food, she loves hamburgers & hot dogs, kielbasa and kraut, and spaghetti carbonara, too. She lives in a suburban apartment which is not in a primarily Mexican "ghetto." This is the natural progression of things. Once immigrants settle in, they almost can't help becoming adapted to American life as they become familiar with it.


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The increasing awareness of the threats posed by seismic events to critical transport infrastructure has led to the requisite of seismically retrofitting highway viaducts and other bridges in order to improve their ability to withstand strong earthquakes. Continuously evolving technology and, the improving evaluation and design abilities of practitioners, have also contributed to the need for such solutions - as have, of course, increasingly stringent national design standards.
Bridges are ideal candidates for the adoption of base isolation technology due to the relative ease of installation, inspection and maintenance of isolation devices. Although seismic isolation is an effective technology for improving the seismic performance of a bridge, there are only certain limitations of its use – mainly in the context of exceptionally soft or weak soils where high period ground motion is dominant. As shown in Figures 1 and 2, seismic isolation improves the performance of a bridge under earthquake loading partially by increasing the fundamental vibration period. Thus, the vibration period of a bridge is moved away from the high-acceleration seismic ground period and seismic energy transfer to the structure is minimized. This reduction in seismic energy transferred into the structure allows for more slender structural elements which results in great economies for the construction project. The seismic isolation system provides a relatively high vibration period compared to a conventional non-isolated structure. Based upon principles of structural dynamics, increasing the difference between the natural frequency of the isolated superstructure and the predominant earthquake input frequencies reduces the seismic energy transferred into the superstructure. Therefore, seismic isolation is most effective in relatively rigid structural systems and will provide limited benefits for highly flexible bridges. Another consideration is related to the large deformations that may occur in seismic base-isolation bearings during a major seismic event, which causes large displacements in a bridge deck. This may result in an increased probability of collision between deck and abutments. This effect can be avoided by the installation of capable expansion joints. Damping is crucial to minimize the seismic energy flow to the superstructure and to control the horizontal displacements of the bearings.
There are seismic areas in Canada, Russia, Japan, USA (Alaska) and Iceland, leaving these regions exposed to both extreme cold temperatures and seismic threats. From all the areas, Quebec in Canada is probably one of the most populated region.
A particularly active seismic area is the Charlevoix Seismic Zone which is a seismically active area next to the Saint- Lawrence River in northeastern Quebec, Canada. With over 200 small earthquakes occurring each year, the Charlevoix Seismic Zone is one of the most active seismic zones in Canada (Fig. 3). And as such, it comes to no surprise that the Canadian region is leading worldwide the investigation of LRB seismic isolation technology at very low temperatures.
Among the great variety of seismic isolation systems, lead rubber bearings (LRB) have found wide application in bridge structures. This is due to their simplicity, reliability and economic cost as well as their combined isolation and energy dissipation abilities in a single compact unit. Using hydraulic jacks, the superstructure of a bridge that requires seismic retrofitting can typically be lifted to remove the original bearings, easily replacing them with suitable LRBs.
LRBs consist of alternate layers of natural rubber (NR) and steel reinforcement plates of limited thickness, and a central 99.9 % pure lead core. They are fabricated with the rubber vulcanized directly to the steel plates, including the top and bottom connection plates, and can be supplied with separate anchor plates, facilitating future replacement.
LRBs limit the energy transferred from the ground to the structure in order to protect it. The rubber/steel laminated isolator is designed to carry the weight of the structure and make the post-yield elasticity available. The rubber provides the isolation and the re-centering. The lead core deforms plastically under shear deformations at a predetermined flow stress, while dissipating energy through heat with hysteretic damping of up to 30 %.
In practice, bridges that have been seismically isolated using LRBs have been proven to perform effectively, improving the bridge seismic response during earthquake shaking. For instance, the Thjorsa River Bridge in Iceland survived two major earthquakes, of moment magnitudes (Mw) 6.6 and 6.5, without serious damage and was open for traffic immediately after the earthquakes as reported by Bessason and Haflidason5. In parallel, mageba will isolate its third bridge in the area of Quebec in 2017 after proving successful testing at –30 ˚C. The requirements of the new Canadian Seismic Norm S6-14 require seismic at –30 ˚C for 14 days and then 14 days at –8 ˚C. Interchange A20-A73 and A40-A73 are two examples of mageba LRB-isolated structures in Quebec.
In our studies, we concluded that lead rubber bearings, which are widely used to seismically isolate highway bridge structures, display a significant vulnerability to low temperatures (e.g. –30 °C) unless designed and fabricated for such conditions. In particular, their design should ensure that they display only minor variations in their effective stiffness at such temperatures. In specific cases it may require the development of a new rubber mixture, the modification of the general design of the isolators, and verification of low-temperature performance by means of extensive full-scale prototype testing.
Authors: Carlos Mendez-Galindo, Borja Baillés and Samy Rassy, all three work for mageba
Fig. 3: Seismic Active areas in Eastern Canada – notably the Charlevoix seismic Zone in northeastern Quebec. With over 200 small earthquakes occurring each year, the Charlevoix Seismic Zone is one of the most active seismic zones in Canada.


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Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi.
Schoch, C.L.; Seifert, K.A.; Huhndorf, S.; Robert, V.; Spouge, J.L.; Lévesque, C.A.; Chen, W.; Fungal Barcoding Consortium (Bergeron, M-J, Hamelin, R. and Vialle, A.), ; Bergeron, M.-J. (part of Fungal Barcoding Consortium), ; Hamelin, R.C. (part of Fungal Barcoding Consortium), ; Vialle, A. (part of Fungal Barcoding Consortium),
Year: 2012
Catalog ID: 33557
Available from: Laurentian Forestry Centre
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117018109
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WALTHAM, Mass. – UPDATE! Because of inclement weather, tonight's (Wednesday, Nov. 7) ECAC Division III Volleyball Tournament Quarterfinal between Brandeis and Albertus Magnus has been postponed. It will be made up Friday evening at 6:30 p.m.
The Brandeis University volleyball team will host a postseason contest for the first time since 2009 on Wednesday evening, as the Judges have earned the top seed in the 2012 ECAC Division III New England Championship tournament. The Judges, who finished the regular season with a 19-13 record, will take on eighth-seeded Albertus Magnus College (12-12) at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday evening, Nov. 7.
Brandeis, in head coach Michelle Kim's ninth season at the helm, is making its seventh ECAC tournament appearance (1999-2000-01-03-06-07-09). The Judges won back-to-back titles in 2006 and 2007, when they were also chosen as the top seed. This will be the first-ever meeting between Brandeis and Albertus Magnus.
The youthful Judges are led by sophomore outside hitter Liz Hood of Albuquerque, N.M., who finished third in the University Athletic Association (UAA) with a 3.60 kills-per-set average. Sophomore libero Elsie Bernaiche of Plantsville, Conn., was sixth in the UAA with 4.85 digs per set, while rookie middle hitter Maddie Engeler of Sandusky, Ohio, was second in the conference with 0.98 blocks per set. The Judges finished seventh in the UAA, a conference that boasts three of the top 12 teams in Division III.
Albertus Magnus is making its ECAC tournament debut after finishing the regular season at 12-12. The Hawks are paced by junior outside hitter Melissa Manning's 1.83 kills per set and classmate and libero Nicole Acerra's 4.08 digs per set.
The rest of the ECAC tournament field, which will play their quarterfinals on Wednesday evening, includes second-seeded Western New England University (22-7) hosting seventh-seeded Husson University (16-10); third-seeded Keene State College (19-16) taking on New Hampshire foe Daniel Webster College (16-11), the sixth seed; and fourth-seeded Eastern Connecticut State (19-13) taking on fifth-seeded Salve Regina University (17-14).
The semifinals and finals will be hosted at the site of the highest remaining seed on Saturday, Nov. 10. If Brandeis advances, the semifinals will be played at 10 a.m. and noon, with the finals to follow at 2 p.m.
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The Buccaneers announced Thursday that Banks had signed a four-year deal with the team. Bucs officials picked the former Mississippi State corner in the second round after trading their first-rounder to the Jets for the rights to Revis.
Banks either will start opposite Revis or see time in the slot while Eric Wright mans the outside. The rookie furnishes the Bucs with a tall playmaker, but Banks' slow 40 time at the NFL Scouting Combine did cause concern.
The Buccaneers aren't worried about his speed. Along with Mark Barron and new addition Dashon Goldson at safety, Banks and his fellow corners should help the Bucs turn around their NFL-worst pass defense from a season ago.
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