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Motorsports Task Force (2007)
The Lancaster County Board of Commissioners established the Motorsports Task Force to assist the Board in addressing the complex issues involved with motorsports facilities. The Task Force was asked to address the following issues:
- Potential demand for motorsports facilities in Lancaster County;
- Economic, fiscal, social and environmental benefits and costs to the community;
- Pros and cons of providing motorsports activities in one general location as opposed to decentralized faciliites for a specific motorsport activity;
- Identify and rank the most promising and acceptable locations in Lancaster County for motorsports facilities and/or activities; and
- Evaluate and make recommendations on the most appropriate business model for providing new facilities for participants and spectators.
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January 31, 2007
February 14, 2007
February 21, 2007
February 28, 2007
March 7, 2007
Final Report and Recommendations (March 7, 2007)
Resolution R-07-0022 - Supporting the Development of Motorsports in Lancaster County
Resolution R-07-0061 - Change of Zone No. 06065: Text Amendment to the Lancaster County Zoning Resolution, to allow race tracks, drag strips, and motor sports facilities by Special Permit in the "AG" Agricultural District
Task Force Members
- Russ Bayer, Chair
- Carol Brown
- Dave Dykmann
- Randy Harre
- Gary Juilfs
- Chris Kingery
- Karen Kurbis
- Larry Lewis
- Greg Osborn
- Stan Patzel
- Michael Tavlin
- Mike DeKalb, Ex-Officio (Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Department)
- Kerry Eagan, Ex-Officio (County Chief Administrative Officer)
- Scott Holmes, Ex-Officio (Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department)
- Jeff Maul, Ex-Officio (Convention & Visitors Bureau)
- Darl Naumann, Ex-Officio (Lincoln-Lancaster County Economic Development Coordinator)
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LAVAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - April 6, 2016) - Savaria Corporation (« Savaria ») (TSX:SIS), one of North America's leaders in the accessibility industry, today announced that Silver Cross Automotive, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Savaria, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the automotive division of Shoppers Home Health Care (a division of Shoppers Drug Mart) ("SHHC Automotive").
SHHC Automotive has long held the Canadian leadership position as a retailer of wheelchair van conversions and mobility adaptation for vehicles, with a 16-year history in the business. As Canada's largest manufacturer of wheelchair accessible minivans, Savaria believes that this strategic acquisition will offer new and exceptional retail distribution opportunities from coast to coast given SHHC Automotive's established presence in the key markets of Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, London, Waterloo, Toronto and Moncton.
This acquired business is expected to yield sales of approximately $15 million annually for Savaria with an EBITDA of $1.5 million excluding synergies of lift products, Silver Cross products or existing van conversion sales. Savaria will use cash on hand to pay for the acquisition, which will cost approximately $10 million, net of adjustments.
"The depth of expertise, experience and vital customer relationships within SHHC Automotive is without peer in the industry. We will be able to reach new markets and new customers with this strategic transaction, allowing us to sell more Savaria-built products as well as complementary products," said Marcel Bourassa, CEO & President of Savaria.
Savaria will brand these newly acquired automotive locations under the Silver Cross banner, with some locations offering the complete portfolio of accessibility products such as stair lifts, wheelchair lifts, scooters and daily mobility aids. Savaria acquired the business of Silver Cross in September 2014.
The transaction is expected to close in May 2016 and is subject to customary conditions, including the receipt of relevant third party approvals.
Laurentian Bank Securities acted as financial advisor and Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP acted as legal advisor to Savaria in connection with the transaction.
About Savaria
Savaria Corporation (savaria.com) is one of the North America's leaders in the accessibility industry focused on meeting the needs of people with mobility challenges. Savaria designs, manufactures, distributes and installs primarily elevators for home and commercial use, as well as stairlifts and vertical and inclined platform lifts. With the acquisition of Silver Cross, the Corporation now operates a lead generation program to capture and distribute leads on potential customers to close to 100 affiliates in North America; also, it is a franchisor of stores through which new and recycled accessibility equipment is sold. In addition, Savaria converts and adapts minivans to be wheelchair accessible. The diversity of its product line, one of the world's most comprehensive, enables the Corporation to stand out by proposing an integrated and customized solution for its customers' mobility needs. Its operations in China have substantially grown and the collaboration with Savaria's other Canadian facilities increases its competitive edge in the market place. The Corporation records more than 60% of its revenue outside Canada, primarily in the United States. It operates a sales network of some 400 active retailers and affiliates in North America and employs some 440 people at its head office and plant in Laval (Québec) and at its plants and sales offices in Brampton and London (Ontario), Calgary (Alberta) and Huizhou (China).
Cautionary Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking information" or "forward-looking statements" (collectively "forward-looking information") within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation, including, but not limited to, forward-looking statements in respect of the transaction for the acquisition of SHHC Automotive (the "Transaction"). Forward-looking information is often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "anticipate", believe", "expect", "plan", "intend", "forecast", "target", "may", "will", "should", "could ", "estimate", "predict" or similar words suggesting future outcomes or language suggesting an outlook.
Forward-looking information contained in this press release is based on Savaria's current beliefs as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, Savaria. Although Savaria believes that such statements are reasonable, no assurance can be given that such expectations will prove to be correct. Savaria assumes no responsibility to update or revise forward-looking information to reflect new events or circumstances unless required by law.
There are risks inherent in the nature of the Transaction, including risks regarding the integration of SHHC Automotive, incorrect assessments of the value of SHHC Automotive, and the failure to obtain the required third party approvals and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the Transaction, which could result in the termination of the agreement to acquire SHHC Automotive. Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list of risk factors is not exhaustive.
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According to a tweet from Digg CEO Kevin Rose (@kevinrose) this past Saturday night, Google is once again making a move into social networking, and getting ready to launch the new service 'Google Me' to take on Facebook, after previous attempts (Google Profiles / Wave / Buzz) have failed.
The status which has since been removed from Rose's Twitter stream, can be found by viewing my retweet of his post: http://twitter.com/john_jordan/status/17132430837
Since Rose's breaking news, a number of stories about Google Me have hit the web. The latest of which are now revolving around recent talk from Facebook's former CTO and Quora founder Adam D'Angelo (@adamdangelo). D'Angelo has come out saying that Google Me is not a rumor, and is in fact a real high-priority project that a large number of Google developers are currently working on.
With all of this talk, one wonders what will come out of this. Can Google create the next big social network? Will it be more than a revamped version of Google Profiles, that integrates Buzz / Wave, and adds some other features that Facebook already has? Or will it bring something brand new to the game, and have users thinking about making the switch?
For now, it's all up in the air, but anything's possible.
What do you all think? Would you make the switch to Google Me (or any new social network), or is Facebook it for you? I'd love to hear what you think in the comments.
Update: A video of Kevin Rose talking about Facebook competitor Google Me from his TWiT.tv apperance is now online here: View Video


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RHI Opens Largest Raw Material Fusion Plant Outside of China
RHI recently announced it has built one of the largest fusion plants for magnesia raw materials for more than €75 million (~ $95 million) in Norway.
In this fusion plant, magnesia obtained from sea water is reportedly converted to fused magnesia, a high-grade refractory raw material, at temperatures about 2,800°F. With a capacity of approximately 85,000 tons per year, the plant is one of the largest worldwide. Some 120 employees will work at the plant in full operation.
"We are increasing self-supply with magnesia raw materials, which are very important for the refractories industry, to 80% and thus continue to consistently pursue our strategy of backward integration," said Franz Struzl, CEO. "With this new plant, we will be completely independent from Asian fused magnesia imports. And we are shortening delivery routes to the European RHI sites."
"The Porsgrunn location offers several advantages, including the infrastructure, the support of local politics and the energy costs in Norway," said Roger Gravdal, plant manager. "In addition, we have decades of experience, which gives us a very good command of the complex process of obtaining magnesia from seawater. The construction of the fusion plant is one of the largest onshore investments in Norway in five years and is planned as a long-term investment."
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Glass measuring cylinders have the advantage over plastic ones in that they will not stain after using photographic chemicals. They also are heavier and therefore more stable than alternatives.
Our own version of these cylinders, Made in the UK, is constructed from scientific grade glass and comes in two versions. The 250ml cylinders have 10ml marker points with 2ml gradations while the 500ml version has 100ml maker points with 5ml gradations.
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stratola needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 24 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
Need logo for "Formerly Famous" Softball team
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Need logo for "Formerly Famous" Softball team, we are a group of guys that used to work at Famous Players movie theatre as ushers, and played together on a softball team back then. Now we are all over 30, no longer work at Famous Players, but are playing softball together once again. Hence "Formerly Famous", but we like the name because of the other meaning that we were formerly famous people. We are all older, out of shape and get injured quite frequently.
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The Lamron sat down with senior Joan Monplaisir to talk about her directing of The Vagina Monologues.
The Lamron: How did you come to direct The Vagina Monologues?
Joan Monplaisir: Danielle Foti, a member of [Womyn's Action Coalition], wasvery interested in me beingthe director. I was very hesitant about it because I had never directed anything. I've been in the play twice but its different being an actress and being a director. There's a lot more responsibility in it. She approached me many times and, finally, I gave in and went to theinterview. I think they interviewed about four or five other women, and I eventually got the part.
The Lamron: Why do think this play is something that should be repeated on campus every year?
JM: Well, the word "vagina" is so taboo to many people, and it really doesn't need to be. It's part of the human body, it's part of a woman, it's the part of the woman that gives life. The play also talks about women's rights and issues pertaining to women like rape and self-esteem. So it's very important for each of the new members of the school to see the play.
The Lamron: What effect do you think the play had on the audience and on the campus in general?
JM: I think it was received well. We had 120 seats, and they sold out very quickly so I decided to add in 30 extra. People were pounding on the door. The doors opened at 7:30 p.m. and people were standing out there at like6 p.m. The audience loved it. They were laughing, they were really into the very emotional and sensitive pieces. And that's exactly what I wanted.
The Lamron: In terms of being a director, what were some of your goals or challenges in bringingThethis to the people you want to see it?
JM: My goal this time was to make it a really ethnically diverse cast. Lots of times, in the theater department, there's not as many minorities as I would like to see in productions so I really wanted a very diverse cast. We had African-Americans, Latinos, an Egyptian woman. We had music from different parts of the world, and some of the themes in the show were very international too.
The Lamron: How did you feel about splitting up what was orginnaly a one-person show?
JM: It's up to the director what she wants to do with the play. I've always seen it split up so I was more comfortable splitting it up. I didn't want to try something too different. It was a great idea to split it up because, like I said, I wanted an ethnically diverse cast. I got tomeet a lot of young women, got to experience different personalities, different acting styles. A lot of the cast members were freshmen who were newbies in theater.
The Lamron: Have you encountered people who say this shouldn't be done or that this is more of a taboo issue than the play presents?
JM: No one has outright said that to me. I've seen people, when we were selling tickets, kind of give us looks and laugh at us because we were saying "vagina." I'm like, "Get over it, grow up. This is an importantissue." I saw a lot of women giving us looks, and that was really disheartening. "You're a woman. We're talking about women's rights. It should be close to your heart as well as mine." No has said, "Youshouldn't be doing this." If they say it, I don't care. I'm still doing it anyway.
The Lamron: Why would the play be something that interests men as well as women?
JM: I feel like you don't have to be a woman to be a feminist. A man caring about women's issues and equality for women all is just as great as a woman caring about those things. It's just the greatest thing to come and show support, to come and see the show.
The Lamron: Do you think WAC's sponsorship of the event put a label on the play and its audience?
JM: From what I've seen, it hasn't. Like I said, people were knocking downthe door trying to get in. I feel like WAC's name on it is better for the play.
The Lamron: Where do you see the future of The Vagina Monologues on campus? Do youthink its something that's going to return every year?
JM: I hope so. And I hope there's a lot more diversity in the cast. I'd like to see some sign language in there or some people with different abilities. I'd love to see every type of person in the play, just a wide range of actresses.


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- Excellence in Everything We Do – We know leadership is hard won and should never be taken for granted. Likewise, we know that execution and measured performance ensure our long-term success. We are committed to delivering products and services that are relevant, of the highest quality and with utmost professional execution. Continuous improvement and learning from our mistakes is a priority and the foundation we build upon.
- Great People with Great Values – Great results are achieved through great people. Therefore, we seek to attract people with diverse talents and perspectives who are bright, creative, and energetic and who share the following values:
- Integrity and honesty rigorously upheld at all times.
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- Willingness to take on big challenges and see them through.
- Self-critical, questioning, and committed to personal excellence and self-improvement.
- Agile and flexible–embracing change and seizing new opportunities
- Most importantly, accountable for commitments, results, and quality to customers, partners, teammates and members of the community at large.
- Community – We have an innate sense of responsibility for making a positive impact on society and empowering students, scientists, professionals and the general public through our education and outreach programs.
- Fun – We believe it is critically important to celebrate achievement, applaud irreverence and maintain humor so that we stay creative and don't take ourselves too seriously.


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As Stone Leaf Pottery patrons, you have probably noticed that we have a great affection for dogs here. In turn, we have noticed that many of you share these affections. We welcome all well behaved dogs into our business to sniff while you shop. From big to small, we always enjoy when puppies come to visit.
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As you may or may not be aware, our current conference (GCC EAST - Greater Cleveland Conference East Middle Schools) charge admission to all athletic events. Adults are $3 and students are $2.
The Adult and Student passes can be used for all in-district middle school sporting events (all events at Mentor Middle School hosted event locations) for the 2017-2018 school year. Tournaments are excluded. Passes may be purchased at the admission gate at any sporting event or can be purchased in the main office. Passes will have a number recorded on them. The name and number of the adult/student will be recorded on a database in case passes are lost or forgotten. One adult pass cost $35.00 and student pass is $20.00
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Recently I have learned of your desire to play Gourmet Club Bowls with me. I would like to reply evenly, HA. No one is a match for Lord van Eyck. I am simply appalled you even asked. Do not be offended, but I believe I am not worthy of such an opponent as you. In fact, I deserve a greater opponent—far, far greater.
Your truly,
Lord van Eyck
Dear Lord van Eyck,
My dear Eyrie, did your beak get caught in the freezer again? My maid told me of how you bought those dreadful items from an Igloo Garage Sale on your vacation in Terror Mountain. It is a shame you did not venture to visit the great legendary Snowager, as all brave neopets do, but instead you go visit two Chias with too much junk in their little snow house.
I am glad you do not wish to compete with me. It's because you will surely lose, and you will lose face. Your beak is already crooked as it is.
Yours heartedly,
Lady von Cybunny
Dear Lady von Cybunny,
My beak is fine, my humble Cybunny. In fact, my entire wardrobe is fine. I own the finest tailored clothes in all of Neopia. My mistress tells me you have been wearing your window drapes again as a scarf. Fashionable, fashionable. Pray, dear, you have heard of the Second-Hand Shoppe in Neopia Central?
I am sure they have fine clothes there that will suit you very well.
Dearest Lord van Eyck,
I reside finely in the sweet land of Altador. I do not wish to visit the bustling Neopia Central anytime. It is entirely not for folks of my nature. I have heard it is a dirty, grimy place with pocket thieves everywhere.
And of course you of all Eyries would have known about the Second Hand Shoppe. I expected nothing less. As for myself, I have never heard about any thrift stores ever. You must go shopping there all the time?
Kindest regards,
Dear Lady von Cybunny,
I hear Altador gets flooded frequently, does it not? Perhaps you should hire a town janitor. I hear the custodian in the Hall of Heroes does a terrible job keeping the place orderly. Meanwhile, the lovely, smart, intelligent, sophisticated, smart place of Brightvale where I reside is lovelier and smarter than ever. One can almost breathe in the smell of intelligence. Perhaps you should try the town's Wheel of Knowledge. It awards some excellent prizes in my opinion. It especially awards lots of books, of which you, my dear Cybunny, need immediately. (They help increase your intelligence quotient, hint, hint.)
My Lord van Eyck,
Thank you very much, but as a fellow Altadorian, I prefer stargazing rather than read silly little books on fantasies. And even if the books were not about fantasies, I still do not care to read about the history of Air Faeries or whatsoever. Reading is for people with nothing better to do in their time, which is why I am most disappointed in myself for reading your letters.
This morning I looked outside at my garden and found my flowers had bloomed at last. Their beauty is unmatched, my ersatz Eyrie, and they produce a sense of beauty and blissfulness in the air. I, unlike you, prefer nature much more than silly scraps of paper on which wasteful, meaningless words are written upon.
I should have known from the start that you are not a nature-lover, Lord van Eyck, and how silly of me to have asked to play against you in a game of Gourmet Club Bowls. It now is truly crystal clear you would have defiantly refused, because you are a bookworm, my friend, and not an athlete like us Altadorians. And therefore you would have lost to me too much to bear.
Dearest Lady von Cybunny,
Your last letter made me laugh literally out loud. Are you truly insane? Books are the meaning of life. Without them, from where should one learn knowledge? Books, according to King Hagan himself, are the necessity of life itself. But call me a bookworm, you dare? Bring it on!
Saturday, four o'clock, at the Petpet Park: you and I will compete in a game of Gourmet Club Bowls. The Park has enough open spaces, so you will be able to feel at home with your nature loving character. I hope you take this invitation seriously, as I do not frequently accept challenges from amateurs.
May the winner gloat for eternity, and may the loser weep in despair.
Lord van Eyck,
Bring it on.
6 days later
Dear Lady von Cybunny,
I must say the game this weekend was quite extraordinary. The sun was shining brightly in my eyes, and that may be the reason for our tie. Still, as much as I hate to admit it, you are a worthy opponent. The way you knocked those bowls out of bounds!
However, keep in mind that had nature been on my side instead, I would have won greatly. As it is, congratulations on our equaled victory.
Yours truly,
Do not be ridiculous. Nature favors no one. Haven't your little Brightvale books taught you that already?
Yes, I do admire my skill at Gourmet Club Bowls. And as much as I hate to admit, I admire your talent at the game as well. Perhaps someday I shall win.
Until then, may we still keep in touch by letter? Writing to you has been greatly enjoyable, surprising as it is.
My Lady von Cybunny,
Why of course. If the lady requests to keep in touch, then I, as a gentleman, will gladly obey. We Brightvale men are taught to handle situations with courtesy and civility. Besides, Lady von Cybunny, being of the upper class, we have known each other since we were very little, so even if we did not wish to keep in touch, alas we must.
Would you like to compete in a game of Tyrannian mini golf sometime?
Thank you for your kind invitation, but I would like to reply HA. Though I do usually keep to the premises of little Altador, I have been to Tyrannia before and played mini golf with some dear friends of mine. And I am sorry, Lord van Eyck, but you are simply no match for me.
I am appalled you even asked.
My dear Lady von Cybunny,
Did your ears get stuck in the ground again? I know about your Meepit experience a few years back, thanks to several gossiping butlers in my household.
I am glad you do not wish to play against me. You might actually lose your ears once you see how much better I am at mini golf. As it is, a Cybunny without ears is a dreadful sight, and I wish to save myself from the image.
The moral of the story: Aristocrats bicker just like we regular folks do—perhaps even more! However, they are very polite while bickering, and this we should learn from them.
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Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. - Romans 12:10
Why Community Matters
We live in an increasingly "individualist" and "virtual" society where the value of authentic, generous relationships are in risk of extinction. As a church we believe the way Jesus lived, in community with his followers, is the key to enjoying life as God intended it. This means that church isn't just a meeting, but a gathering of friends and family. Our church is organized around three geographic regions of the South Sound area to help members better connect with a community of believers. Living the life Jesus lived takes encouragement and support and a commitment to others.
Church happens Sundays for worship, but it should also happen during the week over coffee or a meal together, during a prayer time in the morning with another believer, or on a Wednesday night gathering. The church, as Jesus saw it, is all about relationships.
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."
- John 13:34
One of the strengths of our church are our small group meetings. In these times we focus on the application of Jesus' teachings together. We meet for meals, to pray, and to search God's word together. We also meet regularly to serve our local community as a group.


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A VISIT TO BRATTLE FARM by Honey Sharp | above photos courtesy Brattle Farm | 600 Williams Street, Pittsfield, MA | www.brattlefarm.com
In mid-August, I had the opportunity to visit a very special farm: Brattle Farm, which features the oldest house still standing in Pittsfield.
"Get to Know Your Farmer," organized by the non-profit organization, Berkshire Grown, was my entrée. Also present for the tour and short talk were farmers, chefs, Dawn Masiero of Guido's and the press.
Brattle Farm is "not only a hidden treasure, it's a labor of love," said Barbara Zheutlin, the director of Berkshire Grown. "Who would expect to find such a farm in Pittsfield?"
While offering us a tour and a glimpse into the history of the farm, Donna Chandler, the tall, blond co-owner explains: "Four years ago we started a small experimental CSA here in Pittsfield. Neighbors showed lots of enthusiasm. Now we have 100 members, including second homeowners."
This once small CSA that began with 20 members also features an honors system farm stand and participates in Lenox and Pittsfield farmers' markets. One discovers here not only forty types of seasonal produce but chickens, turkeys, sheep, pigs, cows, and even award winning merino wool and jars of honey. A few donkeys also roam around the farm.
While appreciating this singularly bucolic, Berkshire environment with an 18th century house, barns, and a scattering of antique farm tools, it dawns on me that Arrowhead, Hermann Melville's home, is up the road. It turns out this barn red, garrison style colonial house built by William Brattle, Jr. in 1762 was owned for generations by the Brattles until Donna and Bill Chandler purchased it in 2006. At that time it was simply a hay farm.
How did it embark on its 21st century chapter? "Actually it was the animals," Donna tells me in a matter of fact voice. Their daughter, then 17, was pining for a horse for Xmas. She soon received it while their niece was given two Merino sheep from Hancock Shaker Village.
Owning a few animals doesn't quite explain the successful nature of this now cultivated and organic farmland, however. In a later email Donna explained: "I had been a member of the CSA, Holiday Farm, and enjoyed the experience. However, I found it difficult sometimes to travel out of the way for pickups. I thought it would be great to have a CSA in southeast Pittsfield." I write her that I remember seeing the owner of Holiday Farm, Dicken Crane of the Crane paper family when I'd buy his "black gold" i.e. aged manure.
"But," as Donna continues, "I had no formal background. I really didn't know anything about farming. So I took the "Tilling the Soil" course from Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) and, armed with Elliot Coleman's books, started this CSA with the help of family and friends."
The family involves her husband, Bill Chandler, who still assists with the livestock while holding a job in IT; their hard-working and committed son, Ryan, who's in his late 20s; and two grandsons. "The ten year old works like an adult, and the seven year old loves to separate and divide the produce," adds Donna with a proud smile.
Like other CSAs the family also relies on their members, volunteers and neighbors. The team of this operation includes part-time and a couple of full-time workers as well. And while a scattering of a few antique farm tools here and there may contribute to the old-fashioned feel, it's clear that the farm is not simply rooted in the past. Two years ago, while maintaining pasture-based livestock management, they invested in a new modern tractor and tillers as well as hoop houses to extend the growing season. "We wanted more diversity for our products," explains Ryan as he's points to rows upon rows of vegetables including squash that his mother later tells me "could feed the entire city of Pittsfield."
And diversity there is. Not surprising for today's more gourmet market is heirloom produce including three varieties of eggplant. But perhaps most exotic of all are the jet-black-tailed Japanese Bantam fowl we are shown behind chicken wire. Treasured by the Japanese nobility for their short legs, "they were bred to prevent them from digging up roots," explains Donna to those of us who may never have encountered a Japanese Bantam chicken.
PHOTO CREDITS Images courtesy of Brattle Farm and Honey Sharp.
Berkshire Grown is a non-profit organization that has been committed for over two decades to developing a thriving regional food economy.


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I swear Scout is trying to outdo his brother! Last week, he took his first steps (about 3)! While he isn't officially walking, he is very close. Sawyer also walked at a little over 10 months, so I can already sense a sibling rivalry budding with these two. Scout's personality compliments his brothers, like yin and yang; He is feisty like him, but with a calmer, relaxed side. I can't wait to see how their relationship evolves and the bond that builds.
Sawyer was a full 2 lbs smaller than Scout at this time and shorter as well. Sawyer was definitely talking more but most everything is the same.
Here is Sawyer at 10 months:
Here is Sawyer at 10 months:
Scout's 10-month stats
weight: 20 lbs. 9 oz. - at 9 months he was 19 lbs. 9 oz.
height: 29 inches - at 9 months he was 28.5
clothing: 12 months, 12-18 months. Wears size 3 and 4 shoes
diapers: Size 4 – just moved him to the bigger size yesterday
eating: Nursing and eating table food. He will eat anything we put in front of him, loves pizza and anything involving bread! He really likes cantaloupe but isn't a fan of watermelon.
sleeping: usually sleeps from about 7:30 p.m. - 6 a.m. Last week he went 4 nights of terrible sleeping, would wake up every time we put him down, we took him to the doctor because we thought it might be an ear infection but she thinks it was just separation anxiety. Luckily it has passed and he is back to his normal schedule.
teething: 4 teeth, his top two and bottom two
other updates: He is getting brave…will stand without holding on for up to 10 seconds and has even taken two steps! Starting to explore with his teeth too, and has bitten us a few times. One of my favorite things is his singing (see video below); he imitates the songs we sing with hand motions and all (Itsy Bitsy Spider, Happy and You Know It, etc.). He claps, waves, does the "more" sign language, and even folds his hands when we pray at mealtime. He says "dada", "hi", "baba" but still no "mama". Sawyer and Scout are still best buds and are starting to really play together!
Here are a few more photos and videos from the month:
His adorable singing voice: https://youtu.be/80IZYvucfDM
Not very good but best we could get of one of his many first steps: https://youtu.be/hFCs3OR7vio
|watching brother play T-ball
|using his new teeth!
|Thank you Nicole for the adorable pic from Beckett's party!


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in 2009, I was part of a host of authors in a proposed collection studying the then still-running Battlestar Galactica reboot. It was to be published by McFarland under Barbara Silliman and Michael Palumbo. I do not know why, but McFarland let the publication go. I certainly was looking forward to it. I have a few of those failed publications in various stages of completion and will add them to the section of this blog called "Articles of Interest". Enjoy!
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Not Yet But Now, Ch. 15 of 15
by Dirty Pierre
As anyone who's brought home a newborn can tell you, life ain't worth shit for a while. I'd not anticipated the degree to which the little devil would dictate hours of waking, snatched patches of sleeping, and constant piles of no they're the clean, no they're the drying, no they're the dirty clothes and nappies. Mum was feeling it: she didn't have quite the reserves that she'd had twenty-odd years earlier. And I was feeling it, like I'd gone forty days and forty nights with Orwell's Ministry of Love.
So it was surprising that tiny Arabella so wormed her way into my heart, despite her cruel treatment of me. And Mum's heart too, though that is of course supposed to happen.
"My boobs are so sore, sweetie," Mum complained as she lay bare breasted in bed, some weeks after her return home. "She's feeding well, but I'm producing so much milk, and they're so swollen…"
This was true. Mum's ever-generous breasts had ballooned in leaky milkiness. "…It's worse than when I had you or Alice. And then I had your father to relieve the pressure…"
"What? You fed him?"
"Uh-huh. Would you like some of Mummy's milk, sweetie?"
"Oh, Mum…" I could feel my cock stiffening at the thought.
"Here, darling, come and let me feed you."
She propped herself up on her pillows and waited, bright eyed, as I disrobed and crawled in beside her. We kissed, then I wriggled down and she cradled my head in her arm, bringing her fat nipple to my mouth.
"Take it in deep, darling," she encouraged, "Ah yes, that's it, milk me sweetheart, just gently, do you feel it?"
I murmured "yes" as the warm thin fluid began to flow from her. Each time I drew upon her nipple I was rewarded with a little milky taste. She sighed contentedly and stroked my hair.
"It's so lovely being able to feed you again, darling. To feel you pulling at my teat and suckling from me. Mmm…"
I was very hard. I began to stroke my cock as I fed from her. She, too, was excited, reaching across me to touch her clit.
"I suppose I was naughty when you were little, sweetheart," she continued, "I'd often masturbate while you were feeding. You don't mind, do you? Now we can do it together, especially while my poor pussy's recovering…"
I could feel the muscles of Mum's forearm rippling rhythmically against my chest as she fingered herself. She groaned a little, and I felt her spreading her thighs and settling to the business of pleasuring herself. For my own part, having had limited release in the weeks since the birth, I took care not to stimulate my heated prick too quickly, but stroked its veined hardness gently. I was conscious, too, of pleasing Mum with a display of my excitement, knowing the pleasure it gave her to watch me masturbate. I gripped the base with one hand, holding it out stiffly from my body, moaning my pleasure into her full, warm breast as I caressed myself with the other.
"Lovely, darling," she murmured, "Such a lovely hard penis; so hot and fat; does it feel good?"
"Ooh yes, Mum", I responded, letting her nipple slip from my mouth, "You know I love teasing myself for you. I like you to watch, see how excited I get for you…"
"You know, sweetheart, when you were tiny, I sometimes used to kiss your little penis after your bath. And feel it growing all hot and stiff when I took it in my mouth…"
I latched back on, drawing from her breast more strongly. It was not something of which I had any memory, but the revelation that Mum had always taken erotic pleasure in me sent a hot thrill through my body. I paused.
"Were you fingering yourself while you did that, Mummy?"
"Yes, darling, I was masturbating, just as I am now, playing with my clit, only I never really believed I'd have my son's beautiful grown-up cock to love…"
"You know I get so hard for you, Mummy…"
"Oh yes I know, darling, I love watching you stroke yourself and making yourself cum for me, splattering me with your delicious hot sperm, so excited by Mummy, I can't wait 'til you can fill me up again, feel your warm semen oozing down my thighs after you've fucked me, when I'm out with friends, knowing my cunt's full of my son's sperm, leaking into my panties and down my legs, I love it so much…"
Her eyes closed as she replayed her fantastical memories, her arm taut across my body as she worked on herself. Her hot talk had me near the brink of wet explosion.
"Fuck yourself, Mummy, fuck your lovely Mummy-cunt, your hot juicy hole…"
"Oh yes, darling, I used to fuck myself while I sucked my baby's sweet little erection, just like a little teat, only of course you couldn't feed me the way I was feeding you…"
"Would you like me to feed you now, Mummy?"
"Oh! Would you, sweetheart? Yes! I want to feed from your cock."
I could tell that she was becoming increasingly excited, her hips twitching involuntarily, the muscles of her arm more tensely purposeful. I rose to my knees and offered my pulsing rod to her.
"Oh God, I love the smell of you", she murmured, turning up her chin and rubbing my weeping member over her face, traces of pre-cum shining on her skin, "Your cock, your balls…"
"Go on, Mummy, fuck your beautiful cunt, your beautiful wet, hairy cunt, make it feel good, feel so good with your Mummy fingers…"
"Oh fuck yes, darling, I've got my fingers right up my hole, God it's so hot, so wet for you…"
"Playing with your clit, you dirty Mummy, playing with your clit in front of your son…"
"Give me your cock, quick, give it to me! Feed me your semen, darling, feed me your hot goo as I make myself cum…mmm…"
Her lips closed around the head of my cock, and I stroked myself over the edge to a wrenching orgasm, spurting hotly into her warm, wet mouth, her cheeks drawn in and her tongue rapidly working against the underside of the head as she drew out my spermy load.
"Eat my cum, Mummy, you know how I love to cum for you, oh, eat all my hot love…"
"Oh, darling", she exclaimed, my pearly juice dribbling from her lips, "Watch Mummy cum too, sweetheart, watch me cum, watch me cum as I drink your sperm…"
Closing her mouth over me again, she moaned and thrashed to her own climax, long and powerful, her eyes squeezed tight, her mouth hotly draining me. Slowly she relaxed as the wave subsided and her eyes fluttered open. Raising her arm, she passed the hand with which she'd masturbated beneath her nose and held it out to me. I bent forward and took her fingers in my mouth, savouring the reassuringly familiar taste of her cunt on them as she smiled at me.
"I think I'm just about ready to fuck again, darling", she declared. "At least my pussy is recovering, but I can't say the same about my tummy." She pulled a face. "It's all soft and horrible. And these breasts – god I've just turned into a fat heifer…"
"No, Mum", I insisted, "You're gorgeous." I stroked her belly and bent to kiss a fat, milky nipple.
"Well, sweetheart", she added, her voice dropping, "Thank you for taking away the swelling. That one's much more comfortable now. Would you like some more?"
She propped herself back on her pillows and squeezed behind the nipple of her other breast between thumb and forefinger. A pearly drop magically appeared at the tip. She let it run onto her finger and held it out, pressing it to my lips. "Perhaps you'd like to masturbate again, darling. I know the past few weeks have been frustrating for you."
I lay down and placed my head in her lap once more, turning to her breast and latching on as she stroked my cheek. My hand went once more to my cock, working it quickly back to hardness, stroking gently as I fed from her, she running fingers softly through my hair.
So passed several quiet minutes, before she worked her finger into the corner of my mouth to break suction, saying, "We have to remember Bella, darling. It's not all for you."
I'd been pleasantly aroused, not rushing toward orgasm, but still felt a desire to have my mouth on her body.
"Yes darling?"
"Could I lick you, please?"
"I'd like that, sweetie. On all fours?"
It was a rhetorical question. She knew that I liked to tongue her from behind, with her buttocks well spread and anus displayed, open, inviting. As she turned over and stuck out her arse I moved behind her. She flexed her crinkled brown pucker hornily, and reached beneath her belly to run a finger down her furry cunt lips, separating them in lewd show.
"Show me your cunt, Mummy, show me your pink hole…Oh thank you…"
She parted her lips, opening her cunt-mouth to my gaze, the portal to that channel of pleasure through which I'd come into the world, to which I'd returned over and over in embracing love and in hot forbidden lust, in which I'd planted my seed, from which our child had been born. Was there anything more lovely in this world than to worship this soft wet chalice with mouth and cock and sperm? To fill her to overflowing with loving heat and spurting semen?
I bent to clamp my mouth upon her opening, pressing my tongue deep, inhaling the sweaty ripeness of her arsehole, drinking the precious fluid of cunt, of perfect Mummy cunt.
"Oh darling," she moaned. "Oh that's so good… My love, my love…"
She reached below her belly to play with her clit as I feasted on her juicy hole. I gently probed inside her with my tongue, pushing past the threshold and as deep into her channel as I could.
"Oh fuck yes, darling, suck my cunt…"
I feasted long and luxuriously on her wet gash, greedily sucking at her pink hole as she toyed with her sensitive button and moaned once more, her pleasure mounting. My love, my whore, who lets me drink from her cunt; my lewd enchantress, who entices me so to join in her forbidden lusts, my cheeks pressed to her spread thighs, my tongue snaking out to taste her hot, moist nest, taste of woman, taste of Mummy, taste of cunt, taste of Mummy cunt, Mummy cunt for me, such a perverted Mummy, so excited as she plays with herself, her son dutifully worshipping her fertile hole with lips and tongue, such a kinky Mummy, who wriggles her hips to invite my oral attention to her winking anus, to increase her dirty pleasure, and so, with my tongue now rhythmically probing her relaxing arsehole, my face smeared with cunt and spit, Mummy drives herself towards orgasm once more, elemental and grunting, my incestuous slut mother, so devoted to the delights of her fiery cunt.
"Darling, darling," she panted, leaning forward to break from my mouth, "Stop. Stop a moment."
"What's up, Mum?"
"I want something else, sweetheart. I think I'm up to it. Would you mind terribly – fucking me up the arse while I cum?"
"Oh Mum, of course," I smiled, slipping myself back off the bed and standing behind her, stroking her flanks. She scooted forward and rummaged in the open drawer of her bedside table.
"Here, I think I need you to use a bit of this," she said, handing me the tube. I squeezed the cold gel onto my palm and greased my cock liberally.
"So slick and shiny," Mum purred, unable to resist stroking me, adding wistfully,
"I want to see it going up my arsehole: that would be so hot."
"Well, here," I suggested, "Come over in front of the mirror."
Mum bent before the large mirror on her dressing table, sticking out her bottom, her tousled hair and full, swinging dugs reflected in the glass. I picked up her hand mirror and held it behind her as she stuck her bottom out. "Can you see?"
"Mmm, a bit…here, give it to me – that's better, I can see my hole, now rub your cock on it…oh that looks so sexy, your big cockhead rubbing against my tiny little pucker, so nasty to think what you're going to do to me, you're going to fuck your mother up the arse, you're going to…oh shit oh fuck look how you're stretching my little hole, oh yow, you dirty bugger, sticking your cock up my shitter, you're pushing it right up my arse, right up Mummy's horny arse…"
"Mmmm, you dirty bitch," I moaned in delight, her brown ring stretched obscenely by my glistening member, her eyes looking back at me from the mirror glazed in a mixture of pain and pleasure as she bit her lower lip. I sank gently into the heat of her rectum, right to the root of my cock, pressing my thighs against hers, and reached round to cup her hanging tits. She put down the hand mirror and braced her arms on the dressing table.
Nuzzling her earlobe, I weighed her milky breasts in my hands and whispered to her, "You are so corrupt and filthy, Mummy, such a dirty incest-loving slut, aren't you?"
"Yes, oh yes," she panted, "I am a slut. I love cock. And I love it in my arse."
"Your son's cock…" I slowly began to hump her, now pinching her fat nipples between thumb and forefinger, pulling on them.
"Especially my son's cock, stretching my arsehole as he fucks me with it…"
"So dirty, Mummy, watching my cock going up your arse…"
"Oh it feels so fucking good! I can't believe it! So hot inside me, God how I need this, so good, so fucking good, oh…use me, use my hole, that's it, baby, oh fuck! I can feel you on my g-spot, you're gonna make me cum, I'm gonna cum, gonna cum on my son's big dick, in my arse, in my arse…"
"Oh fuck, Mum, oh Jesus…"
"Yeah, give it to me, give it to me, cum in me, cum up my arse…"
"Oh you fucking bitch…"
"…Yes! Yes!…"
"…You filthy fucking whore…"
"Yes, baby, yes, cum with me…"
"Oh Mum! Oh yeah! Oh!…Fuck!" I could feel her anus spasming around my cock, clenching greedily as I roared over the edge, slamming my thighs against hers, throbbing and pulsing, my hot load spurting deep into her bowels in filthy ecstasy, both of us cumming, cumming hard, rutting bestially in hot lust, triumphing over all decency, mother and son joined in unholy animal delight.
And, God, it felt so fucking good, too. This woman, so willing to be violated by her own offspring, to pursue her shameful carnal pleasures with her own flesh and blood, gloriously unrepentant and defiant. Me, so eager to join with her, to pursue our degenerate perversity ever further, to taste together any and all kinds of debased sexual pleasure.
Then, as we recovered, we giggled together.
"That was nice," Mum said brightly, "We should do it again some time."
"Any time you like, Mama."
"…And who'd have thought I could orgasm just from having you in my arse? This child-bearing seems to have wrought strange changes within me…I'll certainly be ordering more butt-fucking in future. Mmmm," she went on, as she expelled my cock from her greasy hole.
"You truly are a filthy bitch, Mum."
"And you love it, don't you dear? Dirty sex with Mummy – how positively awful!"
Our banter was interrupted by the sound of hec, hec-hec from the cot. We'd made it just in time; Mum leaned over to pluck our little one from her bed.
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Alice had been sent abroad for some work project and wasn't able to see the baby for a good couple of months after the birth. She was appropriately complimentary about the beautiful Arabella, but there was something distant in her manner, too.
We were alone in the kitchen while Mum napped following a feed.
"What's up?" I asked.
"Nothing," she lied, "I'm fine. I mean, she's very cute, I have to give you that, but jeez, you have given yourself a big degree of difficulty here."
"It's not so bad. I'm back at uni, Mum's looking after her, it's not so different from before."
"The sleepless nights, the dirty nappies…"
"Oh yeah, but she's sleeping longer and longer now, and I can always move into my room when I really need to."
"Hmmm, I s'pose."
She was holding something back.
"What's with you? That ain't it."
"Oh – oh fuck, Rabbit. I'm just so over all this. You and Mum, it's just…"
"And you, too…"
"Yeah, but now it's you and Mum and the baby. I don't think…I don't feel the same about it anymore. I don't think I could, you know…"
We didn't. Not during that visit. Neither she and Mum, nor she and me.
And contact with her was even less frequent afterwards. Though the next year she dutifully introduced us to the man she proposed to marry: Geoffrey. Geoffrey was pleasant enough, a bit plump, older by at least 10 years. But obviously solicitous of Alice's feelings.
And, as it turned out, a very devout Baptist. The reception was full of teetotallers, and no concession was made to our more liberal tastes.
"God, I need a drink", Mum confided in me as we sat through yet another tiresome speech by one of Geoffrey's dull, worthy relatives.
"This is why incest is taboo," she continued, "To stop the world from being overrun by people like this."
I laughed and sipped my lemonade.
"We should have another baby, to bring some balance into the equation." Explaining mother's late-blooming offspring to Geoffrey's family had been awkward. The casual accident lie had been told easily enough, but their disapproval of Arabella's bastard status was not very well-disguised. God knows how they'd have reacted if they knew the truth.
Still, so far as we could tell at our increasing distance, they were good to Alice. So, into Bella's second, third and fourth years. Grandma departed the land of the living, I graduated, found work and began serving time. We moved back to our old house and were soon enough looking for a school for the little one. As might be imagined, Arabella's growing consciousness forced a degree of circumspection upon us, we having decided that I was to be her brother, not her father. Still, Mum and I managed to find sufficient occasion to release each other's sexual tensions, though it tended to be late at night while our wee girl slept. Just like most married couples, I suppose. Sometimes loving and tender: she was still my mother. Sometimes deliciously dirty: she remained a panting, filthy whore.
All of which might suggest that I didn't have an independent social life. Which was true. The number of eligible women of approximately my own age who appeared on the horizon was large; the number appearing at closer quarters was nil. Nor did I have many male friends, or see anything of the few female friends that Mum still had following her frightful French affair. So, outside work things tended towards isolation.
Bella was seven when Mum got sick. And sicker. We knew the end was coming, despite our hopes. Alice reappeared more often, though not as often as she might have wished. Geoffrey, too, made a decent show of things, gentle with Alice and Mum alike, and less preachy than I feared. Who knows – perhaps his prayers brought Mum some comfort.
For Arabella and me it was hard. Was it Eliot who said, "In my end is my beginning"? Coming to know the place for the first time? I'm not too sure about that. More a case of history repeating itself, and, as far as I could tell, there was no lesson in it, no shaft of enlightenment piercing the fog of our looming grief. How do you break the notion of death to a child? Mummy is sick, Mummy is very sick. Mummy is not going to be with us? Mummy is going to be in heaven, looking down on you? Something like that, something like all of those. It's when she was no longer there that Bella began to grasp the loss, when she was not there yesterday and still not there today, and the realisation started to dawn that she would not be there tomorrow, either.
And I lost my mother, too. And the mother of my child. And the smart, naughty, playful, sexy, dirty woman who knew me better than any person has a right to know; who knew all this of me and yet still loved me. My emptiness was great.
So we mucked along as best we could. The pain goes away slowly. A kid makes friends, gets caught up in her world. It's still there, but no longer so raw. As the elder brother in loco parentis I seemed to be flat out acting dutiful. Parent-teacher interviews – no she is my baby sister, not my daughter – birthday parties – our mother died a couple of years ago, yes it's very sad – visits to the park, to kids' matinees, doing the shopping perforce together on Saturdays and no you may not have another packet of chocolate biscuits: remember what happened last time? Well, you didn't have to clean it up, Bella, but we are not doing it again.
We were making our usual journey up and down the aisles one Saturday and Bella had ducked ahead to find jelly crystals when I heard a vaguely familiar voice.
"Peter? Peter Campbell?"
I looked around. It was a young woman pushing a stroller with some sticky infant in it. I'm sure I knew…
"You don't remember me, do you? Lucy, Lucy Thomas."
Oh fuck yes, I surely do remember you. The shame of it.
"Hi, Lucy! How are you? This little one yours?"
"Yes. He's two."
"Hello, Two," I said. "It's been so long since I saw you, jeez, it feels like a lifetime. What are you up to?"
"Well just looking after him at the moment, his Dad's off getting some stuff at the hardware."
This conversation was not proceeding at all smoothly, I noticed. Bella appeared, with a red packet in her hand.
"Lucy, this is my little sister, Bella. Say hello, Bella"
She did.
"Little sister?"
"It's a long story. Mum had a bit of a fling, ah, she was abroad, and, ah, the rest is history as they say."
Lucy almost flinched at the mention of Mum's name.
"She looks so like you."
"Really?" I could feel my colour rising.
"Yes, she's got your eyes, and your nose and…"
I shook my head and stared hard at her.
"…Oh Jesus," she breathed, raising her hand to her mouth, "Oh shit no. No…"
She turned quickly, thrusting the stroller away in front of her.
"Who was that?" Bella asked.
"Oh, ah, someone I knew once. Now show me, what dreadful poison have you got there?"
"Red jelly."
"Red? Why, that's my favourite flavour! And it will make us hyperactive, too. That's something to look forward to, isn't it? Come on…"
~ ~ ~
I had a call last week. It was Alice.
"Pete, can I come and stay for a few days?"
"Sure. Hey, you sound a bit down. What's up?"
"Nothing. I'll tell you when I see you. Maybe."
She arrived on Saturday. Snappy little Euro-car as befits the successful rising executive. Snappy clothes, too. Bella was of course delighted to see her Aunty Alice: the two blondes, one a budding teenager, the other now in her early thirties. Both pretty cute, though I say so who shouldn't.
There was no Geoffrey. What was with that?
"We've separated. Let's talk about it later, not now."
It wasn't until after 10:00, when Bella had gone to bed – and after well more than one bottle of red – that we got to talk.
"Pete, you know she made us both so fucked up."
"Oh I dunno, d'you really think so?"
"Yeah, I do. I mean, shit, look at you: thirty two, living with a thirteen year old sister who's really your daughter, and like a fucking hermit. You never go anywhere, you never see anyone apart from me."
"It's not so bad. I'm used to it. More to the point, what's happened with you?" She sighed.
"Oh look, he is a good person, he really is; I tried, truly, I tried hard, I thought…" She fell silent.
"You thought…?"
"I…thought he could sort of…cure me, I suppose, stop me feeling that way, y'know?"
She drew in a long breath.
"Have you told Bella?"
"No, God no."
"Are you going to tell her?"
"Maybe. Not yet, but…"
She turned to face me on the couch.
"For so long, y'know…I, I tried to stop wanting…It's always been you, Pete. Only you. Take me to bed. And fuck me. For the love of God, fuck me."
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1998 Audio News in the Rear-View Mirror
From our admittedly self-referential point of view, the biggest event of the year was Petersen Publishing's purchase of Stereophile, Inc.---an event that launched waves of speculation throughout the audio industry about the magazine's future. The purchase has been a beneficial venture so far, for both Stereophile and Petersen, who a few months later bought Stereophile's competitor Curtco, publisher of Home Theater magazine. Petersen Publishing was in turn recently acquired by EMAP, a British conglomerate with hundreds of specialty titles in Great Britain and France, in a $1.2 billion deal. The publishing pyramid continues to grow, but it's relatively small potatoes (see: The Abso!ute Sound Revived) compared to the enormity of Seagram's $10.4 billion acquisition of PolyGram, the final loose ends of which are still being tied together. Even Wherehouse's $115 million buyout of Blockbuster pales in comparison.
Early in the year, the audio industry was abuzz over various marriage proposals. Notable among them: the Lenbrook Group's courtship of Sonic Frontiers, an alliance that went sour after SF's shaky finances were exposed to the bright light. SF soon went belly-up, only to be reborn as Sonic Frontiers International under the Paradigm banner. The economic crisis in Asia put a dent in Harman International's earnings and in the bottom lines of other US companies. After a solid 20-year run, Carver Corporation finally ran out of steam, as did high-end stalwart Threshold, whose future (as of a recent inquiry) was still uncertain---although we have been reassured that Threshold will show product at CES '99. Counterpoint sank beneath the waves, but McCormack bobbed back to the surface. PS Audio is also reportedly being revived, although no products are on the market yet. A sad note: great old English loudspeaker makers Mordaunt-Short and Rogers announced the shuttering of their UK manufacturing plants, though a rescue of the former brand, involving UK retail chain Richer Sounds, is said to be in the works.
New advances in digital technology seemed to crop up every week. Most significant for audiophiles was the Sony/Philips announcement in mid-February of their Super Audio CD, a format that offers the highest-quality playback with the advantage of being backward-compatible with the installed base of millions of "Red Book" CD players. Meridian's MLP lossless-compression system was also big news, as was NEC's high-bandwidth data-transfer technology. Chip makers Burr-Brown, Cirrus Logic, and Analog Devices all made huge strides in the development of CD/DVD converter and controller ICs, and Clarion announced the world's first combination personal computer/car stereo---one that will purportedly respond to voice commands. Silicon Valley company Tripath announced its class-T amplifier technology, which promises great savings in weight and energy, and recordable CD became an affordable reality this year.
Internet "radio"---like Rolling Stone's---and music distribution both entered the media lexicon in 1998. The Recording Industry Association of America ran in several directions at once trying to keep up with the developments---especially the emergence of MP-3, a popular data-compressed digital audio transfer technology. Multimedia company Diamond Rio successfully challenged the RIAA's cease-and-desist order, and the two are now working toward an amicable solution. CD pirates and illegal music compilers were pursued with a vengeance in the US, Canada, and elsewhere. Despite that fact that online retailing is only in its infancy, strategic alliances were made almost daily---such as the Yamaha/Liquid Audio endorsement of RealNetworks' RealPlayer G2. Online enterprises jockeyed for position, and the stock market went ballistic for all things Internet---especially Amazon.com, whose stock surged after it began selling the little silver discs in June.
The US congress finally approved the World Intellectual Property Treaty, bringing the country into line with most of the world. The retailing picture in North America was rosy, especially for mass-marketers like Best Buy. After New England-based Tweeter Group expanded into the mid-Atlantic and Southeast states, the company launched a successful Initial Public Offering. Loudspeaker manufacturer B&W leaned hard on transhippers, the MiniDisc finally went mainstream, and Deutsche Grammophon collaborated with Schott Music in creating the CD-pluscore, an interactive disc with more than amusement value. The University of California at San Francisco stirred the wrath of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney with monkey-deafening experiments, and the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association promised the world it had little to fear from the impending Y2K problem. The weapons, ammunition, water, and canned goods you've stockpiled will probably be sufficient to get you over the hump.
Large gatherings were much in the news this year, as they will be next. The AES Convention in San Francisco was marked by thousands of attendees, an equal number of gorgeous products, and rancor between the analog and digital wings of that society. Wes Phillips spent several hectic, music-filled days at the Heathrow Hi-Fi show in London. The DVD-Audio group debuted several promising varieties of multichannel recording and announced the completion of version 1.0 of the DVD-Audio specification.
Most encouraging---and discouraging---were the contributions of our man in Saratov, Russia, Leonid Korostyshevski, whose first dispatch back in March sustained a note of promise for Russian consumers. His second dispatch, which appeared recently, portrayed the ominous cloud hanging over the great nation, whose economy has spiraled inevitably and dangerously downward while American policy makers have focused almost entirely on the comic opera in Washington.
1999 dawns with potential---both malevolent and hopeful. We'll be there to cover it. Happy New Year.


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"Everyone has a weakness," says Bigby Wolf. "Just have to find where it is ... and push."
This trailer for fantasy-noir The Wolf Among Us - Episode 2: Smoke & Mirrors looks and feels as good and dark as the first episode. Enhanced interrogation, love in all the wrong places, a body washing up on the East River. This is the pinnacle of point-and-click adventure gaming right now.
The Wolf Among Us - Episode 2 comes out next week. Hope you got your season pass. This one's going to be a game of the year contender.
[via IGN]
Today we would like to share the first official trailer for the next episode to follow the critically-acclaimed season premiere of our series, 'The Wolf Among Us,' based on Bill Willingham's award-winning comic book series 'FABLES' and licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
'Smoke & Mirrors' will be arriving for download to consoles, PC/MAC, and iOS next week. Please stay tuned to @telltalegames on twitter for individual release date details as they become available.
For media coverage, also remember to email firstname.lastname@example.com for details on arranging access to the episode for review.
In addition to this trailer for those new to the series, don't miss the video below, 'Exploring the World of FABLES' for more information on the origins of the game series straight from the developers at Telltale!
Exploring the World of FABLES - The Wolf Among Us Out Now on iOS
Exploring the World of FABLES - The Wolf Among Us
The Wolf Among Us' second episode, 'Smoke & Mirrors,' will be available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and PlayStation®Network for $4.99 USD individually, or as part of a season pass option including access to episodes as they are released. On PC/Mac, the episode will be available as part of a season pass, and also available on the iOS App Store as part of a season multi-pack, or for $4.99 USD as an in-app purchase within The Wolf Among Us application.
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New Poll Shows Solid Support For Shale Tax.
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A New Poll ...
Nearly two-thirds of Republicans (62 percent) support a severance levy, while slightly less than a third (32 percent) oppose it, according to the poll of 1,200 registered voters.
Unsurprisingly, support for an extraction tax runs highest in Gasland, with 73 percent of northwestern residents and 72 percent of northeastern residents favoring it. Voters in the socially moderate southeast also support a tax, with 73 percent registering their support.
The survey, done in conjunction with New York-based Global Strategy Group, was conducted from Feb. 8 to Feb. 17. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.83 percent and was commissioned by the Philadelphia-based Conservation Voters of PA.
Other findings:
And three-quarters of respondents favor restoring cuts to the state Department of Environmental Protection, pollsters found. The agency's budget is set to be reduced from the current $147 million to $139 million in the administration's budget plan.
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The SDK has had a major change in the Security layer with respect to 3.4.0.
Notable changes include:
- ARM mbed-TLS ( Apache License version 2.0 ) security library replaces Escript Cycur-TLS library
- mbedtls-2.12.0 library is integrated
- Escript Cycur-TLS library and its dependencies are completely removed
- Will not be supported anymore
- For DTLS - PSK is implemented
- The default cipher suite is MBEDTLS_TLS_PSK_WITH_AES_128_CCM_8
- For TLS - RSA certificate exchange is implemented
- The default cipher suite is MBEDTLS_TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
- PEM certificate string is expected from the user to define the server certificate
- The complete MbedTLS adaptor for ServalStack (EPL 2.0) is temporarily provided as part of the Common Code Base and will be contributed to ServalStack once it has well matured
- Amazon FreeRTOS is updated to v1.4.2
- A new application for streaming live sensor data using Long Range (LoRa) radio based on RN2483 is added
- The application is called LoRaThingsNetworkExample
- By default the ecosystem is provided with The Things Network
- Easy-to-use LoRa interface is added in the Connectivity of the Common code base
- The application is called LoRaThingsNetworkExample
- The application compilation time is improved
- Only the necessary shared packages are compiled based on the application needs
- By default, in the common configuration, all the packages will be enabled
- User can choose to enable/disable the shared packages and its dependencies based on application needs using the individual application makefile feature-set macros
- Application support for Bootloader v1.2.0 is added
- RAM is used instead of NVM (User page) flag to switch from application to bootloader
- Backward compatibility also provided in case user uses bootloader version lesser than v1.2.0
- VirtualXdkDemo application has had the below changes.
- Rolling LED indication if there is no BLE connectivity
- Integrated Noise sensor in the High priority data BLE service
- External temperature sensor/ LEM sensor can now be connected as hot-plug in the runtime
- Fixed the BoschXDKCloudConnectivity application to parse the config file if End Of Line (EOL) character is not provided in config.txt file
- Fixed the AwsSendDataOverMQTT application publish data payload for the right sensor values
- Watchdog is enabled by default in all the applications with ~4 minutes of timeout
- Watchdog reset cause is printed in all the applications at appropriate places
- Moved BLE Sensor Services from BLE shared package to Common code base and legacy support for BCDS_SensorServices.h has been provided
- Ethernet IEEE 802.3 32-bit CRC related support are added to Utils shared package
- Cayenne-LPP serializer is fixed for right endianness for all the supported sensors
- ADC central is improved for dynamic ADC channel configuration changes
Eclipse Mita
Since the last Workbench release the following things changed:
- Added Eclipse Hono over MQTT
- Added SD card
- Added noise sensor
- Added ADC
- MQTT now supports username/password authentication
- The MQTT implementation now reconnects if connection is lost
- Initialization of global variables is more robust
- The wrongly spelled configuration item "authentication" in WLAN was renamed (from "authentification")
Eclipse Hono
We've implemented an Eclipse Hono resource. This means that you no longer have to manually implement how Hono talks over MQTT. Instead you can directly set it up like this:
setup net: WLAN { /* ... */ } setup backend: HonoMqtt { transport = net; url = "mqtt://iot.eclipse.org"; clientId = "XDK42"; authentication = Authenticated(username="consumer@HONO", password="verysecret"); var telemetry = telemetry(qos=0); }
SD Card
You can now read from and write to files on SD cards. As usual this requires a setup. There you declare which files you want to access on the card and how to operate on them. Let's say you want to log acceleration data to a csv file called
log.csv every time you press the first button:
package main; import platforms.xdk110; setup logging: SDCard { var csvInit = rewindingTextWrite("log.csv"); var csv = appendingTextWrite("log.csv"); } every XDK110.startup { // this truncates the log file and writes the csv header logging.csvInit.write("accel_x_axis, accel_y_axis, accel_z_axis\n"); } every button_one.pressed { logging.csv.write(`${accelerometer.x_axis.read()}, ${accelerometer.y_axis.read()}, ${accelerometer.z_axis.read()}\n`); }
You can read from files the same way. Note that you need to specify an additional argument for reading: the chunk size you want to read.
There are different ways to access files: when reading you can either always read from the start or from where you last left off. When writing you can either always truncate and write the whole file or always append to a file.
Last but not least you can operate on files in both text mode, reading and writing strings, and binary mode, reading and writing byte arrays.
Noise Sensor
You can now access the SDK's noise sensor implementation from Mita directly. We've taken great care to validate any access and configuration to it. We will try to notify you for example if you access the noise sensor more often than you've configured it to sample the microphone.
Accessing ADC channels works just like accessing any other connectivity:
setup adc: ADC { var microphone = channel(CH4); } every 10 milliseconds { let sample = adc.microphone.read(); }
XDK Workbench
Major changes in the workbench includes:
- Added support for bootloader 1.2.0
- We now support several SDK's
- This means that user can now change / upgrade the SDK's without having to update the complete workbench
- Added support for the latest Java library
- JRE - from 1.8.121 to 1.8.181
Known Issues Mac OS
We are updating the JRE feature. Since versions previous to 3.5.0 have some execution bits not set you need to change the file permissions of
features/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_@VERSION@/jre/Contents/Home/lib/jspawnhelper to 755 or else the update wil fail. If you've already updated without changing permissions some files have lost their execution bit (permission 755). You can fix this manually by running these commands:
chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/MacOS/XDK-Workbench chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/Segger/macosx/JLinkGDBServer chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/Segger/macosx/libjlinkarm.dylib chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*jre/Contents/Home/bin/java chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*/jre/Contents/Home/bin/jjs chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*/jre/Contents/Home/bin/keytool chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*/jre/Contents/Home/bin/orbd chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*/jre/Contents/Home/bin/pack200 chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*/jre/Contents/Home/bin/policytool chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*/jre/Contents/Home/bin/rmid chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*/jre/Contents/Home/bin/rmiregistry chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*/jre/Contents/Home/bin/servertool chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*/jre/Contents/Home/bin/tnameserv chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*/jre/Contents/Home/bin/unpack200 chmod 755 XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*/jre/Contents/Home/lib/jspawnhelper rm XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/features/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*/jre/Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib ln -s ../Home/lib/jli/libjli.dylib XDK.app/Contents/Eclipse/features/com.bosch.cds.xdk.jre.macosx.x86_64.feature_*/jre/Contents/MacOS/
This will be fixed from the next release onwards.


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Natural selection evolved to selective breeding leading to biofortification only to be trumped with genetic engineering for advancing the Blue Revolution. A sequenced genome could produce better management of fish stocks and greater understanding of pathogens and resistance to disease, leading to increases in growth, reproduction, feed-conversion efficiency, and oxygen and temperature tolerance. The Atlantic cod genome has been sequenced by a Norwegian consortium and the Atlantic salmon, with a genome three times the size, will be made public next year along with the catfish genome.
Monsanto has genetically modified (GM) soybeans to produce oil containing omega-3 fatty acids. One year ago, the FDA ruled that GM soybeans are safe; thus, easing pressure on fish stocks which hitherto have been the principal source of omega-3 fatty acids. The positive potential of GM laboratories creating plant mutants for feeding humanity also applies to fish. AquaBounty Technologies recently dominated the media with FDA approval of their GM salmon to enter the food supply. Upon injecting genes from two other species they got their "frankenfish" to grow to market size of about 8 pounds in just 18 months that is half the industry standard of 36 months.
Consider the potential if GM cobia, the "Tropical Salmon", could be harvested in 6 months? Aquatic animals' ability to spawn millions of progeny as compared to terrestrial animals' litter of at most a dozen is destined for fast-track genetic exploitation. This promises exponential advances for feeding the future masses in a "Brave New World" of mariculture.


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Personal Presence and Impact
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public'. – George Jessel
For many people the fear of speaking in public is second only to being burned alive. No wonder, then, that impact is an issue. It's impossible to have the impact we want if we are terrified, however well we attempt to disguise the fact. And presence is often seen as an intangible, inner quality – one that says 'I am confident and engaged in what I'm doing and in you'.
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