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Several years ago, I read Katherine Reay's debut novel, Dear Mr. Knightley, and I was completely charmed—so much so that I named it my favorite book of 2013. While I still haven't read Reay's second book, Lizzy & Jane, solely due to time and an insane review schedule, I must admit that I did a little happy dance when I opened a package from The Fiction Guild and found The Brontë Plot inside!
Lucy Alling makes a living selling rare books, often taking suspicious measures to reach her goals. When her unorthodox methods are discovered, Lucy's secret ruins her relationship with her boss and her boyfriend James—leaving Lucy in a heap of hurt, and trouble. Something has to change; she has to change.
In a sudden turn of events, James's wealthy grandmother Helen hires Lucy as a consultant for a London literary and antiques excursion. Lucy reluctantly agrees and soon discovers Helen holds secrets of her own. In fact, Helen understands Lucy's predicament better than anyone else.
As the two travel across England, Lucy benefits from Helen's wisdom, as Helen confronts the ghosts of her own past. Everything comes to a head at Haworth, home of the Brontë sisters, where Lucy is reminded of the sisters' beloved heroines, who, with tenacity and resolution, endured—even in the midst of change.
Now Lucy must go back into her past in order to move forward. And while it may hold mistakes and regrets, she will prevail—if only she can step into the life that's been waiting for her all along.
Written in Katherine Reay's unique style, The Brontë Plot is an intriguing story. Set in Chicago and England, the bulk of the story involves Lucy and Helen's shopping and redemption trip around England. I absolutely loved the concept of the book; however, a few things kept me from wholeheartedly enjoying it.
Lucy isn't exactly a likable main character, though she does go through much growth and change throughout the novel, and she ends up much more sympathetic than she was in the beginning. Still, I had trouble rooting for her or for her romance with James. The romance is definitely not the main thrust of the book, which is fine; I do wish that as I reader I had been able to watch more of Lucy and James' early romance, as that may have helped me to actually care if Lucy and James reunited.
Much of the novel teases Lucy's reunion with her father, and when it happened, I felt a little let down—though it definitely did explain a lot about Lucy. I'm sure the way things played out was more realistic than the "happily ever after" reunion I'd hoped for, but I still was disappointed.
By far, my favorite aspect of the novel was Helen's story. Not only was her back story fascinating, but her quest to right previous wrongs definitely struck a chord with me. I loved the way she interacted with Lucy and her family members, the way she owned her actions, and the way she gently guided those she loved.
I know that I'm making this book sound worse than it is. It is solidly a 4 star novel. It's just that I'd hoped for more, for something that moved me in the way Dear Mr. Knightley did. Perhaps that's not fair to Reay, and I definitely want to read whatever she writes next. I'll just be sure to keep my expectations a bit lower next time.
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Read my review of Reay's Dear Mr. Knightley (5 stars).
Katherine Reay has enjoyed a life-long affair with the works of Jane Austen and her contemporaries. After earning degrees in history and marketing from Northwestern University, she worked as a marketer for Proctor & Gamble and Sears before returning to school to earn her MTS. Her works have been published in Focus on the Family and the Upper Room. Katherine currently lives with her husband and three children in Seattle.
Learn more about Katherine at http://katherinereay.com/.
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Next up: banana; when a bunch of bananas got away from me last winter, I froze them for banana bread, and the excess seem perfect for a super gentle, sweet soap. I've been tinkering on an essential oil blend to hint at bananas (fresh, not too ripe); we'll see how I did when it's unmolded.
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Excellent Drilling Results Continue from the Teal Project Area
- New discovery and resource growth drilling continues at the 100% owned Teal gold project area, 11km north-west of Kalgoorlie in the Western Australian goldfields
- To date, 131 holes for 16,342m have been completed at the Jacques Find and Yolande prospects as part of the self-funded 55,000m drill program for 2018
- Significant high grade downhole RC intercepts received to date include(see Note 1 below):
o 10m @ 6.70g/t Au from 60m including 4m @ 14.63g/t Au from 60m (JFRC18048)
o 8m @ 5.88g/t Au including 4m @ 10.20g/t Au from 124m (JFRC18136)(see Note 2 below)
o 8m @ 5.28g/t Au from 64m including 1m @ 19.70g/t Au from 66m (JFRC18095)
o 6m @ 6.69g/t Au from 91m including 1m @ 33.40g/t Au from 92m (JFRC18042)
o 13m @ 2.78g/t Au from 90m (JFRC18076) and 11m @ 2.77g/t Au from 73m (JFRC18049)
o 4m @ 8.41 g/t Au from 44m (JFRC18049) (see Note 2 below)
o 7m @ 4.47g/t Au from 34m (JFRC18097) and 12m @ 2.33g/t Au from 105m (JFRC18129)
o 7m @ 4.02g/t Au from 45m and 5m @ 4.48g/t Au from 79m (JFRC18045)
o 7m @ 4.47g/t Au from 34m (JFRC18034) and 7m @ 4.02g/t Au from 45m (JFRC18045)
o 5m @ 5.09g/t Au from 107m (JFRC18117) and 7m @ 3.59g/t Au from 66m (JFRC18107)
o 4m @ 1.5g/t Au from 56m, 4m @ 2.18g/t Au from 112m, 28m @ 1.20g/t Au and 4m @ 1.87g/t Au from 180m (JFRC18138) (see Note 2 below)
o 7m @ 3.46g/t Au from 90m (JFRC18108) and 5m @ 4.49 g/t Au from117m (JFRC18112)
- Further drilling results expected in the June and September quarters 2018
- Jacques Find now extends to over 800m in strike length and links with the Yolande mineralisation to the north
- New mineralisation discovered 400m north of Yolande and 250m west of the Teal mine
- Results have also confirmed multiple lodes at Jacques Find with significant oxide and transitional gold mineralisation similar to Teal and amenable to open pit development (see Note 1 below)
- Drilling at the Teal gold project area will be completed in June with two rigs moving to the Binduli gold project area before commencing the 14,000m program at the Anthill gold project, 45km northwest of Kalgoorlie on the Zuleika shear zone
- Geological modelling underway with Resource updates planned for the September Quarter
Commenting on the results of the large program, Intermin Managing Director Mr Jon Price said:
"The drilling results to date continue to deliver excellent width and grade and now demonstrate the continuity of the Jacques Find trend along 800m of strike length. Multiple parallel structures have now been identified providing significant potential for further resource growth."
"The Company now looks forward to receiving all the drilling data from the Teal gold camp and compiling an updated resource for release in the September Quarter. The drill rigs now move on to the exciting Binduli and Anthill gold projects where we aim to grow our resources, add to our production profile and continue the search for Kalgoorlie's next new gold discovery."
In February 2018 Intermin commenced a self-funded $4M, 55,000m drilling program across its 100% owned Kalgoorlie gold projects. The major drill program is focussed on new discoveries and resource extensions at the key Teal, Anthill and Blister Dam gold projects(see Note 3 below). As part of the program, 20,000m of RC and diamond drilling was planned for the Teal project area to grow the current resource base and test new discovery targets identified in the successful 2017 program(see Note 4 below).
Jacques Find
The geology at Jacques Find is dominated by lower Black Flag Group rocks (felsic volcanics and sediments) with lesser amounts of porphyry and intermediate volcanics. Two main controls on gold mineralisation are linking NW and NS shears. Dr Gerard Tripp, a highly credentialed expert on the Eastern Goldfields structural geology visited Jacques Find and Teal earlier this year and was highly encouraged by the prospectivity. Several new exploration targets have now been generated.
Fresh rock gold at Jacques Find is typically associated with quartz and sulphides (pyrite-arsenopyrite) with faulting having displaced and pinched out some of the mineralisation. Primary mineralisation at depth exhibits semi-refractory properties and optimal recoveries are achieved through ultra-fine grinding, pressure oxidation or roasting. The shallow oxide supergene mineralisation is similar to the Teal gold mine where recoveries over 94% where achieved.
During 2016 and 2017, Intermin completed two highly successful RC programs (see Note 4,5 below) at the new Jacques Find discovery intercepting steeply dipping high grade gold shoots and extending the zone of mineralisation from 120m in 2016 to 400m length in 2017. The current 2018 resource program has focussed on extending the mineralisation further to the north (another 400m) with infill drilling to improve geological confidence (see Figure 3 in link below).
To date, 131 RC holes have been completed for 16,342m to a maximum depth of 270m. The Jacques Find drilling is about 90% complete. The detailed drilling, mostly on 40m centres, has outlined a semi-continuous series of four high grade zones separated by cross cutting faults (see Figure 2 in link below). The strongest gold mineralisation at Jacques Find generally occurs between 30m and 150m vertical depth and is often found adjacent or proximal to a black shale unit. Gold appears to meander and pinch and swell, typical of many anastomising shear zones.
In the southern Jacques Find area, there are two subparallel, vertically dipping main lodes, typically these are about 4-6m wide. The northern Jacques Find area, which is currently being drilled, also has indications that multiple lodes may also be forming at depth. The high grade zone intercepted by JFRC1704 and JFRC1711 (27m @ 4.16g/t Au from 45m) (see Note 4, 5 below) in 2017 appears to plunge steeply to the south and was intersected by JFRC18002A (18m @ 1.47 g/t Au from 158m). Follow up diamond drilling in this area is planned for the December Quarter.
Further drilling results from the Jacques Find trend are expected in the June and September quarters.
Teal West and Jacques South
Additional drilling was also completed at the Teal West area 400m NW of Yolande and 250m west of the recently completed Teal open cut mine. The drilling followed up new mineralisation intercepted in April with the discovery hole (JFRC 18012) returning 4m @ 2.6g/t Au from 54m (see Note 6 below).
Drilling at Teal West intercepted significant mineralisation including (see Note 7 below):
- 2m @ 2.71 g/t Au from 52m and 6m @ 1.04 g/t Au from 67m (JFRC18126)
- 3m @ 2.74 g/t Au from 55m (JFRC18125)
- 6m @ 1.02 g/t Au from 96m (JFRC18065)
This new prospect may be the northern extension of the Jacques Find trend that has been partially offset or a new structural trend in development. The Teal West mineralisation also looks to extend another 120m further north of the current drill campaign where previous intercepts returned up to 9m @ 1.30 g/t Au from 157m (see Note 5 below). In addition, limited shallow drilling has been completed between Teal West and Yolande 400m to the southeast and has been prioritised for the next drilling campaign.
The mineralised corridor from Jacques Find - Yolande - Teal West spans 1,500m in strike length (see Figure 3 in link below) and is considered highly prospective given the results achieved to date. This corridor appears to be parallel, and of a similar size (~1,500m), to the Teal - Peyes Farm trend 250m to the east. A further two parallel structures have been identified with drilling underway and results expected in the June and September quarters 2018.
Intermin has also recently completed a 197 drill hole auger program (2m depth) that extends the Jacques Find and Teal - Peyes Farm trends for another 1,400m to the south. Earlier drilling by the Company and others returned encouraging gold intercepts in several holes including PFRC1643 (1m @ 10.36g/t Au from 79m) and BNC26 (7m @ 2.49 g/t Au from 105m)(see Note 5 below). These holes are south of the current drill program yet appear to lie close to the Jacques trend line and indicates that both trends remain open to the south.
Further exploration drilling south of Jacques Find and Peyes Farm is planned.
Next Steps
The drilling program at the Teal project area will be completed in June 2018 with further assay results expected in the June and September quarters. On receipt and validation of all new drilling data, an updated geological resource model will be generated for release in the September quarter 2018.
A detailed review of the results will then be undertaken and the follow up drill program designed. Given the successful results to date, the emergence of multiple parallel lodes requiring follow up and the resource growth potential of this large mineralised system, it is envisaged that a further large-scale RC and diamond program will commence in the December Quarter 2018.
On completion of the Teal program, two rigs will commence a 5,000m program at the Crake prospect within the Binduli project area before moving to the Anthill gold project to commence a 14,000m resource extension and new discovery program in the September Quarter 2018.
1 See Table 1 on Page 6, Competent Persons Statements on Page 9, Forward Looking Statement on Page 10 and JORC Tables on Page 11
2 denotes 4m composites only with 1m split assays yet to be received
3 As announced to the ASX on 19 February 2018
4 as announced to the ASX on 16 January 2018
5 as announced to the ASX on 27 November 2017 and 16 January 2018
6 As announced to the ASX on 24 April 2018
7 See Table 1 on Page 6, Competent Persons Statements on Page 10 and JORC Tables on Page 11
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About Horizon Minerals Limited
Horizon Minerals Limited (ASX:HRZ) is a gold exploration and mining company focussed on the Kalgoorlie and Menzies areas of Western Australia which are host to some of Australia's richest gold deposits. The Company is developing a mining pipeline of projects to generate cash and self-fund aggressive exploration, mine developments and further acquisitions. The Teal gold mine has been recently completed.
Horizon is aiming to significantly grow its JORC-Compliant Mineral Resources, complete definitive feasibility studies on core high grade open cut and underground projects and build a sustainable development pipeline.
Horizon has a number of joint ventures in place across multiple commodities and regions of Australia providing exposure to Vanadium, Copper, PGE's, Gold and Nickel/Cobalt. Our quality joint venture partners are earning in to our project areas by spending over $20 million over 5 years enabling focus on the gold business while maintaining upside leverage.
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Fr. Alex and some of his parishioners from Ichinomiya, Japan at Scarboro in 2006
Fr. Alexander Duncan McDonald SFM
– A native of Alexandria, Ontario in Glengarry County, passed away June 4, 2010 one day after his 83rd birthday. Fr. Alex was ordained at St. Finnan's Cathedral in Alexandria, Ont. on December 22, 1951 and gave 52 years of generous missionary service to the Church in Japan with over 40 years as pastor of Ichinomiya. Since his return to Canada he has been in an active retirement offering pastoral assistance in parishes in Scarborough, Lancaster and Williamstown (St. Mary's Parish), and as chaplain to the Japanese Catholic community in Toronto.
30th Anniversary of Japanese Community
Toronto, Ontario
His priesthood and missionary commitment are greatly appreciated by his fellow missioners at Scarboro.
Fr. Alex is survived by his brother Wilfred McDonald (Donna) of Espanola, ON and his sister Mary Beth Thompson (Joseph) of Spokane, Washington and several nephews and nieces: Amy (Dan), Fraser (Jana), Michael (Kerrie), Anne, John (Anne), Paul (Amber), Jennifer(Vin). Visitation will be at Scarboro Missions, 2685 Kingston Rd., Scarborough (corner of Brimley and Kingston Rd.) on Monday, June 7th from 7-9 p.m. and June 8th from 9:15-10:15 a.m. followed by the Mass of the Resurrection at 10:30 a.m. Interment will be in Our Lady of the Clergy Cemetery immediately after Mass. In lieu of flowers, a donation to the work of Scarboro Missions would be appreciated.


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October saw the start of the Year for the Schools' Parliament. This year we have four representatives, two from Yr 10 and 2 from Yr 9. The first meeting took place at the Lace Conference Centre in Sefton Park. Approximately 150 delegates attended from schools throughout the city and it was pleasing to see many of our young friends from Special Schools. Jonathan, Joseph, Liam and Patrick equipped themselves well in the question and answer sessions and said that the workshops on Underage Drinking and Knife Crime in the city were most enlightening. The meeting was specifically designed to assess the feelings of the youth of this city and use this information to update the CYPP.
During the second session of Parliament the Prime Ministers were elected and the changes to the running of the future meetings were discussed. Following on from research carried out by Mrs Smith it was felt the young people should have a greater say in the general running of the Parliament and that focus groups could be used to discuss issues so allowing more students to have their say. This year promises to be interesting.


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Harvard Educational Review, Spring 2017, "Complex Sentences: Searching for the Purpose of Education Inside a Massachusetts State Prison"
The New Republic, August 2019, "The Sound and the Silence of Toni Morrison"
TIME, May 2019, "While Prisoners Struggle to Afford Calls to Their Families, States Are Making a Profit. This Must Stop Now"
The Atlantic, March 2019, "Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students They Do Not Belong"
The New Yorker, June 2018, "World Cup 2018: The African Teams Depart Early"
The New Yorker, June 2018, "World Cup 2018: Once Again, Brazil Counts on Coutinho"
The New Yorker, June 2018, "World Cup 2018: The Black and White and Brown Faces of Les Bleus"
The New Yorker, June 2018, "World Cup 2018: Senegal Dances Again in the World Cup"
The New Yorker, June 2018, "World Cup 2018: Panama's Pride Against the Belgian Juggernaut"
The New Yorker, June 2018, "World Cup 2018: Waiting for Mohamed Salah"
Bleacher Report, June 2018, Inside the Unstoppable Greatness of Neymar"
The New Republic, May 2018, "Wake Up, Mr. West!"
The Atlantic, April 2018, "Freedom Ain't Free"
National Geographic, April 2018, "Why Historically Black Colleges Are Enjoying a Renaissance"
The New Yorker, March 2018, "The Agony of Being an Arsenal Fan"
The Paris Review, March 2018, "What Would W. E. B. Du Bois Make of Black Panther?"
The Atlantic, February 2018, "The New Tax Law's Subtle Subversion of Public Schools"
Buzzfeed Reader, December 2017, "The Terrible Costs of Selective Empathy"
The Paris Review, December 2017, "An Intimate History of America"
Poets & Writers, October 2017, "The Poet at Work" (Profile of Kevin Young)
The New Yorker, October 2017, "In a Moment of American Isolation, the Men's National Team Fails to Qualify for the World Cup"
The New Yorker, September 2017, "James Baldwin's Lesson for Teachers in a Time of Turmoil"
The New Yorker, September 2017, "The U.S. Men's National Team Ties Honduras in an Unexpectedly Political Qualifier"
The New Republic, September 2017, "Affirmative Action as Reparations"
The New Yorker, July 2017, "A Joyfully Defiant U.S. Men's National Team Takes the Gold Cup"
The Atlantic, June 2017, "The Lifelong Learning of Lifelong Inmates"
The New Republic, May 2017, "The Young Black Activists Targeting New Orleans's Confederate Monuments"
The New Yorker, March 2017, "Freddy Adu and the Children of the Beautiful Game"
The New Yorker, December 2016, "Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' as a Parable of Our Time"
The New Yorker, October 2016, "The Desegregation and Resegregation of Charlotte's Schools"
The New Yorker, August 2016, "Why the U.S. is Right to Move Away From Private Prisons"
The New Yorker, July 2016, "Racism, Stress, and Black Death"
The New Yorker, June 2016, "The Power of Pell Grants For Prisoners"
Vox, June 2016, "Police Killings Get a Lot of Attention -- So Should Police Beatings"
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Boston Review, May 2016, "What is Education For? - Response to Danielle Allen"
The New Yorker, March 2016, "Donald Trump, David Duke, and the Soccer Fields of Louisiana"
The New Yorker, February 2016, "The Meaning of Life Without Parole"
The New Yorker, December 2015, "The Stories Tamir Rice Makes Us Remember"
The Guardian, September 2015: "'These men aren't barbaric or malign' – inside a US prison classroom"
Seven Scribes, August 2015: "Strangers in our Home: Why Writing about Hurricane Katrina is Both Impossible and Necessary"
The Guardian, July 2015: "Teach black students they can change communities - they don't have to escape"
TED, May 2015: "My hopes, dreams, fears for my future black son"
The New York Times Magazine, August 2019, Two poems for the 1619 Project
Adroit Journal, July 2019, "Here Nor There"
Southern Indiana Review, June 2019, "For the Doctor's Records"
Wildness, May 2019, "When people say "we have been through worse before"
Auburn Avenue, November 2018, "This Year Was the First Year I Could Not Remember Your Voice"
POETRY Magazine, October 2018, "the drone"
Harvard Kennedy School Journal of African American Public Policy, September 2018, "Your National Anthem"
Wildness, October 2017, "waiting on a heartbeat" & "The New York Times reports that 200 Iraqi civilians have been killed by U.S. military airstrikes"
Academy of American Poets, August 2017, "FaceTime"
Poetry Society of America, May 2017, "what is left"
The Rumpus, April 2017, "Pangaea"
The American Poetry Review, Nov/Dec 2016, Six Poems
Split This Rock, December 2016, "There is a Lake Here"
Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Fall 2016, "what the cathedral said to the black boy" & "When Mom Braids my Sister's Hair"
Public Pool, June 2016, "Full-Court Press," How to Fight," "My Jump Shot"
The Diverse Arts Project, Spring 2016, "Meteor Shower"
Drunk in a Midnight Choir, April 2016, "a lineage"
Bat City Review, Spring 2016, "For the Taxi Cabs that Pass Me in Harvard Square"
Waypoints Magazine, March 2016, "Ode to the End-of-6th Grade Picnic"
Lunch Ticket, Winter/Spring 2016 "Beyond This Place"
Watershed Review, Fall 2015, "Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class"
Switchback, Fall 2015, "Keeping Score"
The American Literary Review, October 2015, "For Charles" & "How to Make a Cardboard Box Disappear in 10 Steps"
Bird's Thumb, October 2015, "Line/Breaks" & "Ode to the Loop-de-Loop"
Harvard Educational Review, September 2015, "The Art of Unlearning"
Kinfolks: A Journal of Black Expression, Fall 2015, "Counting Descent"
Mason's Road, July 2015, "Soles"
Drunk in a Midnight Choir, May 2015: Three Poems
Lime Hawk, Spring 2015, "What the Ocean Said to the Black Boy"
Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, April 2015: "for mrs garner"
Still: The Journal, Winter 2015: 4 Poems
Off the Coast, Winter 2015, "what the cicada said to the brown boy"
Winter Tangerine Review, February 2015, "For the Boys Who Never Learned How to Swim"
Selected Interviews
NPR's Here & Now, October 2017, "Why James Baldwin's 'A Talk To Teachers' Remains Relevant 54 Years Later"
Literary Hub, February 2017, "Clint Smith on Protest, Art, and Protest-Art"
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2013 - Ultimate Ascent
This year, the challenge at hand is different than any challenge encountered before: teams must build robots that can successfully throw a frisbee into scoring goals at the end of each field, as well as attempt to climb a pyramid structure. The match is played with two alliances of three teams each, and the teams have 2 minutes and 15 seconds to score as many points as they can.
We proudly present this year's robot, Inferno!
Below is a short video highlighting our autonomous mode and shooting speed.
...and another one just to show that we can actually make those shots :)
119.65 lbs.
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can drive under pyramid
29" x 27" x 23" (arm extends to 38.5")
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six 4" VEXpro Versa wheels
Speed (ft/s):
8.6 (high gear), 3.3 (low gear)
hangs on first level using pnuematics
Human Loading:
can load on front of robot through 42" slot
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can pick up 2 Frisbees at once
scoop mechanism with actuating jaw
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Incorporate a CNC dust boot to the sled, in my mind its one of the main benefits of the router being rigidly mounted.
I use router's own dust port and add a flexible skirt on the bottom.
As I don't have enough room for a jointer (big enough so it has a sturdy enough fence and enough distance to the walls on both in and outfeed sides) in my small shop I'm thinking about something like this - but adjustable in height over a wide enough (like 30cm) range so it would, through clamping workpieces to a vertical fence that is square to the top plane, give me an ability that the total available floor space denies me.
Nice design. Since it is so big are you going to push it by hand or use a motors/hydraulic/chain drive ...?
...How do you fix the SBR20 to the 8020?...
Quote from: mbs on November 06, 2018, 09:35 PMNice design. Since it is so big are you going to push it by hand or use a motors/hydraulic/chain drive ...?Initially just all by hand. By having fully supported rails & bearings, I thought about attaching a simple horizontal rod so you could just push the carriage along from one side, as I envision no down pressure will be needed in a typical sled scenario that just sits on the top and is not captured.You can make this as complex as you'd like. The next step is just to make a full CNC.


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Hugh Lofting Timber Framing, as part of the project team working with Bernardon Haber Holloway Architects, W.S. Cumby and the owner, provided the design, material sourcing, and raising of the Forest Stewardship Council®(FSC®) certified glued-laminated (glulam) structure of the new Dansko headquarters and retail facility.
In keeping with the project's commitment to sustainability and green architecture, the glulam timbers are constructed of FSC certified Douglas Fir.
These glulams were used to span the open space needed for the retail space and showroom.
In the main lobby there is an arched glulam entryway that frames the doors to the showroom. Behind the entryway is a living wall, a bio-filter which naturally removes VOC's from the air.
Dansko's owners, long committed to sustainability, incorporated many green building and sustainable design features in the new building, which is LEED-NC Gold Certified and was honored with a Merit Award by the Delaware Chapter of the AIA.


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Monday night, BuzzFeed reported that an Uber executive had considered investigating the private life of the tech journalist Sarah Lacy because of her negative coverage of the company. Ms. Lacy responded almost instantaneously — and she was not happy.
In a podcast, Ms. Lacy, the founder and editor in chief of the Silicon Valley news website PandoDaily, and Paul Carr, her co-host, called Uber "awful," "evil" and "nasty." They also reserved a portion of their scathing rant for their fellow tech writers, who, they said, had gone too soft on Uber.
"There are a lot of journalists going after it, but it is not ReCode, not TechCrunch, not any of the tech press," said Ms. Lacy, 38, who lives in San Francisco.
Mr. Carr agreed. "When I saw these puff pieces from other so-called journalists, I thought to myself, Why won't they do basic journalism?" Then he added that he now knew the answer: "Either you do a puff piece, or we'll come after you."
The vitriolic podcast — and the reaction to the Uber executive's comments — opened a window into the competitive and sometimes incestuous group of publications that have grown up to cover Silicon Valley. An expanding list of publications, including the Gawker Media website Valleywag, the AOL-owned site TechCrunch, Vox Media's outlet The Verge, The Information, CNET and ReCode, are jockeying for scoops and access to the tech industry's hottest companies and executives.
"They have all carved their own niche, but there is also a lot of overlap," said Matthew Panzarino, co-editor of TechCrunch. "It is a tight-knit community, and a lot of reporters are reporting the same thing."
To further complicate matters, many of these publications make a significant portion of their revenue from live events and conferences that feature appearances by the big-name tech executives they cover. Some publications also rely on investments from venture capital firms that have stakes in the start-ups they cover.
Pando, for example, which was started in 2012, has received nearly $4 million in funding from multiple venture firms, according to Ms. Lacy. One of those firms, Andreessen Horowitz, also has a stake in Lyft, Uber's main competitor. Other Pando backers, like First Round Capital, have invested in Uber.
Ms. Lacy says her challenge in balancing competing interests was no different from that of reporters who cover Washington or Hollywood. "For journalists, there has always been a slippery slope between being an insider and getting really good material and being too close to your sources," she said.
She has been harder on Uber than most of her tech peers have, Ms. Lacy said, which is perhaps why she was specifically named by the Uber executive, Emil Michael.
In a column published on Pando in October, Ms. Lacy reacted to reports that the company's founder and chief executive, Travis Kalanick, had called the company "Boober" because it helped him get women, and to other reports about accusations by female passengers that Uber drivers had assaulted them. Ms. Lacy said she was deleting the Uber app from her smartphone and called for others to do the same.
The account of Mr. Michael's remarks came from Ben Smith, the editor in chief of BuzzFeed. Mr. Smith spoke to Mr. Michael at a private dinner last Friday at the Waverly Inn in Manhattan. He later reported that Mr. Michael was contemplating spending $1 million to dig up dirt on reporters who, he said, had unfairly criticized the company, mentioning Ms. Lacy in particular.
BuzzFeed reported that Mr. Michael had "expressed outrage" at Ms. Lacy's column and said that "women are far more likely to get assaulted by taxi drivers than Uber drivers." The article added that he had said he thought Ms. Lacy "should be held 'personally responsible' for any woman who followed her lead in deleting Uber and was then sexually assaulted."
Mr. Michael apologized personally to Ms. Lacy by email on Tuesday after she refused to speak with him off the record on the phone.
Uber declined a request to discuss why Mr. Michael had singled out Ms. Lacy, but her opinionated style of journalism has made her a lightning rod for negative attention throughout her career. She rose to prominence after a live interview she conducted with Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, in 2008. Members of the audience apparently felt she was interrupting Mr. Zuckerberg too much and took her to task for it on Twitter.
By her own account, Ms. Lacy's style has earned her enemies not just among tech executives but also among her peers and the general public. "I have had people writing on blogs and on Twitter and everywhere over my career about how they are going to gang-rape me. I have had death threats. I daily have people tweeting horrible things about me," she said in her podcast.
Now she is pushing back. "I would like to see people who call themselves journalists, like Kara Swisher, who sat onstage mooning at Travis, and even her own staff was embarrassed she couldn't ask him a hard question," she said, referring to a June interview in which Ms. Swisher, co-founder of ReCode, interviewed the Uber founder at a live event. "How does she feel about him doing that to journalists?"
Ms. Swisher declined to comment on Ms. Lacy but has been publicly supportive of her on Twitter since Monday. (Ms. Lacy wrote to say that she has appreciated Ms. Swisher's support and perhaps judged her too harshly earlier.)
In a separate interview, Ms. Lacy demanded to know why Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, and Michael Wolff, a media columnist for Vanity Fair, who also attended the private dinner, did not feel the need to report on the occasion.
In his Twitter feed, Mr. Wolff said that he thought the dinner was off the record. In a phone interview, he added that neither he nor Ms. Huffington could have heard what Mr. Michael said.
"It was a private conversation between Ben and Emil, and no one was aware of the conversation until Ben published it," Mr. Wolff said.
Ms. Lacy said she was not going to stop pressing, saying she believes that Uber needs to be held accountable. She thinks it is particularly significant that Mr. Michael has not been fired.
"It is clear that the board of directors is not going to act," she said. "This is terrifying to me as a woman and a journalist."


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A downloadable roleplaying game
Cornwall. Rugged coastlines of high cliffs and sheltered bays, flowers growing bright and wild on the headlands, small villages tucked in sheltered corners out of the wind and rain.
People here are poor, scraping out a meagre living as farmers, fishers, or miners. Hard labour and long hours for uncertain profit, and there are mouths at home to feed.
Small wonder, then, that they say that everyone in Cornwall from the oldest grandmother to the youngest child is part of the wrecking trade...
Wrecker (noun): a person employed in recovering salvage from wrecked or disabled vessels; a person who plunders wrecks, especially after exhibiting false signals in order to cause shipwrecks.
This is a one-session 1-page roleplaying game about one night and one wreck in the lives of a crew of shipwreckers, working the Cornish coast in the late 1700s.
It is a game for 3-6 players, 1 MC (Master of Ceremonies) and between 2 to 5 wreckers, and should take between 2 and 3 hours. To play, you need a copy of the game (printed at A4 or A3 size) and around 6 six-sided dice.
You can watch Shipwreckers being played online here on Once Upon a Game, a variety show for storygames and IndieRPGs.
The game contains:
- Worldbuilding questions, character creation, resolution mechanics, and the setting/plot for a one-session adventure set on the Cornish coast
- Most of the tools needed to expand into a longer campaign, should you like
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What We Are Reading
Alexandra Carmichael
November 6, 2011
- Can Vitamin D Replace Sunlight? Does the timing of Vitamin D intake affect sleep? This post on Seth Roberts blog also produced interesting comments. One of the things to think about is: "What constitutes a discovery?"
- Seeing Your Emotional Blind Spots by Martha Beck: "It isn't the inability to perceive information but the astonishing ability to perceive information while automatically refusing to allow it into consciousness." This article sparks some wonder: 1. how can tracking help us to see our blind spots, and 2. what blind spots do we have with respect to our data?
- Geographical Proximity and the Transmission of Tacit Knowledge by P. Desrochers, in The Review of Austrian Economics, 14 (2001) [PDF]: Why did it turn out that meeting each other face-to-face at Quantified Self was so much more powerful as a form of knowledge sharing than simply using online tools? There are some good clues in this article about geographical proximity and "tacit knowledge."
- Everything I n/ever wanted to know about myself I learned from my genome by David Hale, who is adopted and newly empowered (Ignite video): "Genetic testing took away the connection someone else gave me, and helped me see that I'm free to be whoever I want."
- 'Untangling the Debate: The Ethics of Human Enhancement', by Patrick Lin and Fritz Allhoff, NanoEthics, 2 (2008). While it's possible to question whether this sort of "debate" will prove relevant to a practice that emerges across many different domains simultaneously, this good, clear paper lays out the terms of what will be a continuing public discussion. (There is a PDF at this link too, for better layout.)
- Sell Your Services on a New Marketplace for Experiences (GOOD): A new website called Gidsy in Berlin lets you buy and sell experiences. Since experiences have been found to make people happier than material things, this could be very interesting as it expands.
- Between the Clinic and the Laboratory: Ethology and Pharmacology in the Work of Michael Robin Alexander Chance by Robert G W Kirk: What does this history of the origin of the animal welfare movement have to teach us about ourselves? In this fascinating paper about a relatively unknown scientist, Michael Robin Alexander Chance, we encounter an interesting problem of pharmacological research: the widely varying effects of drugs on animals, related to how they are treated in the lab.
- 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot (Remember When It Didn't Hurt) by Esther Gokhale (book). This book takes lessons from how our ancestors, babies, and some traditional cultures sit and move and sleep in a natural way that minimizes back pain. Lots of helpful pictures.
- Analog Infoviz: Handmade Visualization Toolkit by Maria Popova. This is just for fun: using balloons, string, chalk, and stickers to graph your data.


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the rumors were all over the place, and palm has to be one of the worst at keeping anything under wraps, so it comes as no surprise to see the treo 700p announced today.
the treo 700p is the palm os version of the treo 700w windows mobile device that has been out from verizon since early this year. the treo 700p runs palm os 5.4.9 and has 128 mb rom (60 mb usable), intel xscale 312mhz processor, 320×320 high res display, evdo radio, bluetooth 1.2, sdio slot (no support for wi-fi, though), 1.3 megapixel camera, and integrated thumb keyboard. carriers shown on the palm site include sprint and verizon wireless, but no availability or pricing is yet shown.
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|when will the 3g version be out? (9:33am est mon may 15 2006)
hsdpa for cingular… – by tyrone
|700p (10:21am est mon may 15 2006)
i was considering the moto q but if this is early june i will wait. – by yo yo
|bah (10:44am est mon may 15 2006)
no palm os 6??? cobalt was released over a year ago for smartphones and we still haven't seen it yet – by xyz
|hsdpa for cingular (11:13am est mon may 15 2006)
they are aiming for this september at the same time that the hsdpa network is available in the ny metro area. i cannot wait! – by squirrelzipper


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We worked with Fairview Village on preparing an application to the Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation Exploration Grant program earlier this year, and were very pleased to hear that their $50,000 application was successful!
The LGBTI Inclusive Aged Care Services Project is an innovative project for the aged care sector, with few aged care facilities meeting the National Standards for LGBTI inclusive service.
We look forward to following the outcomes of this project, which is expected to create an environment where LGBTI residents and clients will feel safer and more valued.


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The International Monetary Fund has warned that China's credit growth is on a "dangerous trajectory".
In a new report, the IMF says there is an increasing risk of a "disruptive adjustment" and/or a marked slowdown in economic growth".
The agency calls for decisive action to deflate the credit boom smoothly.
Without the boom, the report suggests, China's recent economic expansion would have been significantly slower.
Since the global financial crisis, China's economic growth has slowed, from an average of 10% a year in the previous three decades to a rate of 6.7% last year.
The Chinese government expected a slowdown, since the earlier double-digit rate was not sustainable over the long term.
Credit boom
China has been trying to manage a transition to slower growth with a different pattern, one that is less dependent on industry and exports and has a greater role for consumer spending at home and service industries.
But the IMF's report says the slowdown would have been more pronounced, were it not for a boom in credit.
It suggests that over the years 2012-16, a more sustainable pattern of debt and credit would have led to economic growth that was slower by two percentage points.
The IMF sets out some disturbing evidence from previous credit booms with similarities to China's. It says that out of 43, only five were not followed by either a financial crisis or a major slowdown in economic growth.
The report does set out a number of features of China's situation that it says reduce the risks. One example is the surplus in China's current account, which is its international trade plus some financial transactions.
That makes it less dependent on borrowing from abroad and so less susceptible to a sudden loss of confidence on the part of foreign lenders – something that happened in many emerging-market financial crises.
But for each of these relatively favourable factors, the report sets out reasons why the protection they provide may be limited.
'Zombie' firms
The biggest single group of debtors are state-owned enterprises (SOEs), although there have also been large increases in the debts owed by the government, other businesses and households.
SOEs are a long standing issue in China. Many are what are called zombie companies that are not financially viable and are often in industries where there is excess capacity. They account for the most pressing corporate debt issues, the report says.
There is also a warning about the housing market. A sudden "correction", or in other words, a fall in prices, could pose a risk to financial stability.
The report says that decisive action is needed.
The most general recommendation the IMF makes is that China should put less emphasis on targets for economic growth (this year it's 7.5%), as it says these "have fostered an undesirable focus on short-term, low-quality stimulus measures".
Many of the other problems reflect that feature of China's economic strategy. The report says "government has had the tendency of boosting infrastructure spending, real estate activity and credit during economic downturns to meet growth targets."
There is also a menu of other more specific initiatives the IMF suggests, including a renewed effort to deal with the zombie companies, many of which are likely to go out of business.
It says the government should consider restricting the use of unsecured loans to pay for down-payments by home buyers.


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What we offer:
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Fried Egg, I'm In Love
Fried Egg Friday! Every week, our inbox gets hit with over 2,000 submissions and, believe it or not, about 15% of those are actually pretty incredible. Unfortunately, we only average about 30 posts a week, so for you mathematicians that's about 270 that fall through the cracks! Okay, no more word problems, and only music solutions from here on out. The following tracks we just couldn't let slip through our hands without mention.
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Rachel By The Stream vs Men Imitating Machines - Crashland
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When it comes to lesbians and gays in the ministry, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America speaks with a clear voice. So that doctrinal stance really isn't news anymore.
When it comes to ecclesiastical approval for same-sex marriage liturgies, the ELCA -- at this point -- leaves that decision up to local leaders. So it really isn't news when an ELCA congregation backs same-sex marriage.
When it comes to ordaining a trans candidate for the ministry, some folks in the ELCA have crossed that bridge, as well. So an ELCA church embracing trans rights isn't really news.
So what would members of this liberal mainline denomination need to do to make news, when releasing a manifesto on issues of sex, gender and marriage? That was the question raised by the recent "Denver Statement" that was released by (and I quote the document):
... some of the queer, trans, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, gender-queer, asexual, straight, single, married image-bearering Christians at House for All Sinners & Saints (Denver, Co).
That was also the question that "Crossroads" host Todd Wilken and I addressed in this week's podcast. So click here to tune that in.
Now, in terms of news appeal, it helps to know that this relatively small, but media-friendly, Denver congregation was founded by the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber, a 6-foot-1, tattooed, witty, weight-lifting, frequently profane ELCA pastor who has graced the bestseller lists at The New York Times. She's like a superhero who walked out of liberal Christian graphic novel.
So the Denver Statement made some news because it was released -- at Bolz-Weber's "Sarcastic Lutheran" blog -- in reaction to the Nashville Statement that created a mini-media storm with a restatement of some ancient Christian doctrines on sexuality.
So if the Nashville Statement was big news, then it made sense that -- for a few reporters and columnists (including me) -- that the Denver Statement was also news. (Oddly enough, a previous statement on sexuality by the Orthodox Church in America -- strikingly similar to the Nashville Statement -- made zero news.)
But here's another journalism issue: Was the Denver document news merely because it openly rejected what the Nashville Statement had to say? So the Nashville text was seen as this wild manifesto, which would make the Denver text a mere restatement of new cultural norms.
I argued that the statement from Bolz-Weber and Co. was actually a fascinating document on its own, in part because -- if one read carefully -- it jumped far beyond the previous doctrinal innovations approved by the ELCA and others in the world of liberal Protestantism (think "Seven Sisters").
Thus, something like this line in the Denver Statement is not all that newsworthy:
WE DENY that God intends marriage as a gift only to be enjoyed by those who happen to be heterosexual, cis-gendered and fertile.
But what about this?
WE AFFIRM that God created us as sexual beings in endless variety.
WE DENY that the only type of sexual expression that can be considered holy is between a cis-gendered, heterosexual, married couple who waited to have sex until they were married. But if you fit in that group, good for you, we have no problem with your lifestyle choices.
Read that second part again -- especially noting the connection between "holy" and all forms of sex before (and maybe outside) marriage. In terms of moral theology, what limits does the Denver Statement see on sexual activity? Now, I am sure that Bolz-Weber (and the ELCA) believe there are still oppressive expressions of sexuality (pedophilia, sexual trafficking, maybe a few other things), but it's clear that sex outside of marriage is no longer in the list.
So there goes the Didache, a theological document from the second generation of early-church apostles that addresses several hot-button issues in the headlines today.
Frankly, that's news. It would be interesting to see this particular doctrinal issue -- sex outside of marriage -- debated at a meeting of the ELCA and other liberal Protestant bodies. News?
Longtime GetReligion readers may recall that this precise doctrinal (not political) issue appears in the infamous "tmatt trio" list of questions I have used for 30 years when probing the fault lines inside Christian denominations and organizations. As a refresher, here are those questions (as used in discussions with the late George Gallup, Jr., LifeWay Research, pollster John C. Green, and others):
* Are biblical accounts of the resurrection of Jesus accurate? Did this happen?
* Is salvation found through Jesus, alone? Was Jesus being literal when he said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
* Is sex outside of marriage a sin?
But back to the Denver statement. Check out this passage right at the top:
Christians at the dawn of the twenty-first century find themselves living in an exciting, beautiful, liberating, and holy period of historic transition. Western culture has embarked upon a massive revision of what it means to be a human being by expanding the limits and definitions previously imposed by fundamentalist Christians. By and large, the spirit of our age discerns and delights in the beauty of God's design for human life that is so much richer and more diverse than we have previously understood it to be.
Just as a matter of Associated Press style (and church history): There were "Fundamentalist" Protestants at work in the ecumenical councils of the Early Church? "Fundamentalist" Christians wrote the Catechism of the Catholic Church? Pope Francis is a "Fundamentalist" Protestant Christian?
But the real eye-opener is the reference to the West (as opposed to Islam, I guess) embarking on a "massive revision of what it means to be a human being." That has serious implications for lots of big news stories.
As one of the framers of the Nashville Statement -- Denny Burk, president of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood -- put it, in my new Universal column about the Denver Statement:
Until very recently, he said, all branches of Christianity shared a common vision that began in the first chapter of Genesis: "So God created man in his own image. … Male and female he created them."
The Denver Statement "is not just arguing for a change or two in Christian definitions and doctrines, it is offering an entire new anthropology," said Burk, who leads the Center for Gospel and Culture at Boyce College in Louisville, Ken. "At this point, we don't even agree on what it means to a human being, created by God in his image."
So there's newsworthy material here. Did any of this make it into headlines?


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Habana, Siempre a las mitades, tan mita' española, tan mita' africana; Saben bien las olas que en cada ventana siempre hay un testigo. Habana, Juran los que saben que no saben nada pa' entender lo tuyo.
Adam Jones, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, BC. From 2005-07, he was postdoctoral fellow in the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University. Jones is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction (Routledge, 2006) and Beyond the Barricades: Nicaragua and the Struggle for the Sandinista Press, 1979-1998 (Ohio University Press, 2002). An inveterate traveller, he has lived or voyaged in over 70 countries on every populated continent, retaining a special passion for Latin America. This is his first book of travel photography.
Personal website: http://adamjones.freeservers.com


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A poll shows US adults split on whether closer economic ties between Washington and Beijing is a good thing. A 37 percent plurality of US consumers believes Trump is taking the right approach to Washington's financial relationship with China, while 35 percent disagree, according to a recent poll. Thirty-six percent of independents said the president is taking the wrong approach, compared to 12 percent of Republicans and 55 percent of Democrats who share that view.
Of course, what Americans think nationally doesn't matter as much when you have an election process for President that based on securing electoral college votes from states - and not securing a popular national vote. States like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio are filled with voters demanding stricter trade and economic actions forcing a reset of America's commercial relationship with China.
Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio believes the administration has "fallen far short" of his expectations on the trade front. "The problem in the White House is whispering in one ear are some people who are right on trade like (US Trade Representative Robert) Lighthizer and (US Commerce Secretary Wilbur) Ross," Brown said in a Feb. 6 interview. "And in the other ear, you've got all of the Wall Street executives, in his other ear, whispering."
You can read the full poll from Morning Consult here: https://goo.gl/DFYMYE
Marc A. Ross specializes in global communications and thought leader management at the intersection of politics, policy, and profits. Working with boardrooms and C-Suite executives from multinational corporations, trade associations, and disruptive startups, Marc helps leaders create compelling communications, focused content, and engaging presentations.


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A History Rooted in the Science of Teaching Reading
Established in 2009, Literacy How, Inc. builds on ten years of experience in reading research. We continue the work of Early Reading Success, Mastering Reading Instruction, and Haskins Literacy Initiative, begun at Haskins Laboratories in 2000. Learn more about our Research.
Our Clients
Our mentors have worked with numerous and varied schools, districts and other organizations since 2000. Most are in Connecticut, where we are based, but we've also worked in Colorado, New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.


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Collective Concerts Presents
The Dead South
The Hooten Hallers, Del Suelo
London Music Hall - CA
185 Queens Ave.
London, ON, N6A 1J1
Doors 8:00 PM
This event is 19 and over
A Canadian folk-bluegrass musical ensemble from Regina, Saskatchewan. They sing about murderous, estranged spouses and runaway lover cousins in a boot-stomping acoustic configuration that includes banjo, mandolin, cello and guitar, some whistles, hoots and hollerin', and finger snappin'. The idea for a rockin' stompin' bluegrass band came to Nate and Danny 2012; they had played together before back in high school in a short-lived alternative grunge band. Nate had been listening to Trampled By Turtles, Old Crow Medicine Show, and older bluegrass acts and the two wanted to put their own spin on tradition. This also marked Nate's very first go at singing. They wrote some originals and tested them out at open mics. Shortly after, Colton, who was into metal, and Scott, more in the singer-songwriter vein, added more bodies to The Dead South. Colton learned banjo and Scott switched from guitar to mandolin. The result was their own unique take on the Bluegrass genre, as none of them actually had any clue what they were doing. But they knew they wanted it to be fun, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, with serious musicianship.
Upcoming Events
London Music Hall - CA
Sat, October 19
Richard Thompson
Thu, November 14
Cannibal Corpse
Tue, November 19
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All I can say is WOW! Very nice quality shirt, worth every penny. You can feel the quality in the weight of the shirt, and see it in the embroidery. I would recommend it to anybody.
If I could give more than 5 stars, I would! I was impressed by the outstanding quality and detail in this jersey, it's worth every cent, but I was impreseed even more by customer service and friendliness of Ireland on the Road! The size I ordered was a bit snug, and I called the company to inquire about an exchange. Tom Sullivan, the owner, answered the phone. He was incredible to deal with and a pure pleasure to speak with. He happily exchanged it and immediately resolved my issue with no hassle or problem. Needless to say, he's found a customer for life with me and my entire family! Thanks, Tom!! Mike Ackerman


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WE, The Cloud, and AWS
Oblivion Cloud Control is a company born in the cloud, and since before our official launch, in 2014, AWS runs in our DNA.
As a spin-off from our mother company, Oblivion, we were born out of a passion to create, design and architect solutions and products that involved the Cloud. We invested in expertise and tighten our partnership with AWS because we believed it was the future, and time proved us right.
The demand for our services has never been higher and this is a clear reflection of our commitment to excel.
What distinguishes us is our commitment to be 100% cloud focused and result oriented.
We strive to continuously improve and innovate, being aware of the latest developments in the cloud scene to make a precise translation of concrete and relevant cloud solutions that match the future and thus be of genuine added value by providing in-depth knowledge and expertise to our customers.


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Episode 153 - Marcus Du Sautoy
Cara is joined by the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Oxford Professor of Mathematics, Dr. Marcus Du Sautoy, to talk about his new book "The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science." They discuss his role as a professional science communicator, as well as his take on the very edges of modern science understanding, from chaos to consciousness to infinity. Follow Marcus: @MarcusduSautoy.


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…we invite you to join us October 17 -19….
The Guelph Studio Tour is on with 39 artists displaying their work…. visit the stained glass artist, Lynn Chidwick, who has her studio on the same floor in the Trafalgar Building as myself. I will be in my studio that weekend, Friday evening Oct 17th 7-9 pm, Saturday Oct. 18th 10am-6pm and Sunday Oct. 19th 11am-5pm. Becky Comber has joined me in my studio and will be showing her large scale photo-based collages alongside my paintings in mixed media and wax resist.
Also showing on the 3rd floor in the Trafalgar are Robert Howson, Tammy Ratcliff and Kathleen Schmalz. Come and have a look what we have been up to!
ps. I will not actually be there on Sunday, Becky will hold the fort....I will be in AC966 on the way to the magic isle...


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For the most part the Google Penguin train wreck has calmed down and that means that businesses are finally getting to the work of getting set back up and recovering from it. While addressing backlinks (which takes time), ensure that you've got the best quality website content pages you can create.
Road to Recovery
You are going to notice that this is important to help with Panda compliance. But, if you'd rather avoid Google in favour of something like PPC, you can't ignore the importance of offering you a fantastic experience. Your site's content has a direct effect on whether or not your readers will have a good experience on your site. But it's not just content, it's also the format. With that in mind, learn the following lessons to make your content pages more powerful.
Maybe you're struggling with how to monetise with ads on your site, but all you really need to do is follow the lead with high ranking websites. There are some positive benefits for search engine rankings, but it has still been painful. Site usability has always been very important even if most sites ignored it. The best thing you can do with any ads is not to let them get in the way of reading. A big thing and that's easy to do is scaling down the size of the ads and making them blend in well.
Onpage Content
Along with the headline/sub-headline structure that is so popular you'll also be working out some well defined areas for your copy. In addition to understanding your content and copy it is important to help your readers fully appreciate what you are saying and offering to them. If you get it right nobody will care how long your page goes on (mostly). This content, at the same time, must be both interesting and entertaining enough to keep your readers reading. But when you have well-defined sections, then that helps people to process it easier in their brains. While this has helped to some degree by sub-headers, low contrast demarcations can also be quite useful. Low contrast keeps them visible but doesn't allow them to become distractions.
You can link too much in your posts, so just remember all things in moderation. Be different and mix things up with your linking, and that means making any and all images a link. First, people automatically hover over an image to see if it's a link. Integrating your website with Pinterest must be done with images on your site and at your profile at Pinterest if you have one. There's a lot you can do even if you are an affiliate, and this is more true with affiliate marketing. Don't forget about ranking benefits if you are trying to rank on search.
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WHEN high explosives detonate, they generate supersonic shock waves that can cause materials such as steel and aluminum to deform and ultimately fail. Capturing the details of this dynamic process—how the shock propagates and interacts with materials and how the material deforms, fails, and fragments—is tricky. Livermore's multichannel x-ray system, called Hydra, provides a window into this process through exquisitely detailed radiographs of metals as they respond to detonations and the intense shocks generated."People usually think of imaging systems as just taking 'pictures,' but Hydra provides much more," says Livermore physicist John Molitoris, who leads the project. "We can see through to the event of interest, observe density variations, track a process, and measure velocities." Hydra can record a sequence of images, capturing a dynamic process as it evolves over time and showing, for example, how a material responds to intense shock loading. The system can also record multiple images at one time but from various angles, allowing scientists to reconstruct a detailed three-dimensional snapshot at one moment in the process. This approach allows scientists to examine metal fragments as they are produced and ejected from the original component. With Hydra's radiographs, Livermore researchers now have access to never-before-measured data on the physical characteristics, velocity, deformation history, and fragmentation of shocked metals. They also have discovered features and phenomena not predicted by materials models.
The current configuration of Hydra, Livermore's multichannel x-ray system, has two 1-megaelectronvolt super pulsers, one 450-kiloelectronvolt super pulser, and two 450-kiloelectronvolt pulsers. The fifth channel projects a view that allows scientists to determine if the experiment breaks cylindrical symmetry. The rendering of Hydra shows all five pulsers. Above left is a photo of the system.
The Many-Headed Hydra Named for the many-headed monster in Greek mythology, the multichannel system is located in Livermore's High Explosives Applications Facility (HEAF). In its present configuration, Hydra has five x-ray channels that image dynamic experiments inside a 4.9-meter-diameter spherical firing tank. The three channels driven by super pulsers allow Hydra to generate a higher x-ray flux than commercial pulsers, resulting in higher contrast radiographic images over a wider range of material densities. The fourth and fifth channels are driven by standard 450-kiloelectronvolt x-ray pulsers, which will be upgraded to new super pulsers. The fourth channel increases Hydra's time sequence capabilities, and the fifth channel gives a "different view" according to Jan Batteux, lead technical associate for Hydra. "Channel five projects a view that allows us to determine if the experiment is breaking cylindrical symmetry," says Batteux. Not only can operators change the timing of x-ray flashes, they also can adjust the system's contrast so it images shock processes in various materials from aerogels to steel and possibly even tantalum. Hydra's 25-nanosecond time resolution can "freeze" any shock process caused by detonation. Spatial resolution is better than 1 millimeter and can exceed 0.1 millimeter, depending on the level of contrast.
Shock and SpallHydra became operational in summer 2004, and since then, it has provided valuable information for validating computer models. (See S&TR, December 2004, X Rays, Detonations, and Dead Zones.) Experimental results from Hydra are critical to the model validation effort because the system can precisely measure a material's response and velocities. These detailed results can then be compared to a code's predictions, which show scientists whether a code accurately models the phenomena. "Modern computer simulations generate predictions in vivid detail," says Molitoris, "but to validate and improve the codes, we need diagnostics such as Hydra that can record test data of equal detail." Livermore scientist Raul Garza and Molitoris designed a series of metal-pushing experiments (MPX) to investigate how bulk metal responds to shock, including the effects of spallation. "Spallation is the prompt ejection of material from the outer surface of a shocked metal," says Garza. When a shock wave hits a metal object, much of it passes through the object. But some of it reflects back and forth from the surfaces, like an echo, causing the metal to spall. Spall especially affects the state of the residual metal and how it finally fragments. The situation is further complicated by the metal chunks or particulates injected into the region being shocked. In the MPX setup, the detonating explosive main charge imparts a known shock to a solid cylindrical metal driver. The driver delivers the shock to a metal plate, which can spall. The driver's length can be varied to adjust the strength of the shock transmitted to the plate: the longer the driver, the weaker the shock. When the metal plate spalls, it creates a spall disk that is ejected from the bottom. Hydra radiographs capture in detail how the metal plate and driver respond to the shock wave. "Our goal was to measure the deformation history of the disk, the possible formation of the spallation region, and if spall occurred, the ejection velocity. But we learned much more," says Molitoris. Late-time response of the driver yielded unexpected results. Both deformation and velocity are easily quantified by time-sequence radiography, where a change in position is measured as a function of time. However, the Hydra images showed the response of the entire component as a function of time, not just the spall region. The high-resolution time-sequence data clearly showed not only the details of the spallation process but also fragmentation and residual structure of the metal driver. In particular, a conical core section formed in the driver component of the experiment and a pedestal formed at the base of the driver where the shock was transmitted to the spall disk."None of the codes predicted this particular response to the shocks," says Molitoris. "In fact, when we first looked at the images, we didn't believe the driver was breaking up in this manner." Computer colorization added by Livermore scientist Hank Andreski, who also designed Hydra's computer control system, enhanced the structure forming inside the shocked driver.The next step was to recover the residual pieces of the driver to confirm the radiographic data. In following experiments of the MPX series, the team did, indeed, recover conical cores along with the spall and ejecta disks. "The data gathered from the radiographs allowed us to quantify the way this component fails and breaks up," says Molitoris. "We saw something unexpected and confirmed it, elevating our confidence in Hydra. That's the beauty of high-fidelity experimental data; we get a clear glimpse of the truth. Then, of course, we have to understand it." Understanding a metal's response to high-explosives-generated shock waves is important to work for the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense. Data generated from MPX are helping scientists improve codes used to model shocked metals.Subsequent metallurgy performed on the recovered pieces showed that the metal forming the pedestal had no voids or rips, but the conical section was clearly a product of violent processes. Metal had ripped away from this section, leaving a jagged brittle cone. According to Molitoris, the cone may be caused by a hydrodynamic backsplash—an effect that is well known in fluid dynamics. In this process, a fluid surface hit by an object (or a drop of liquid) forms a peak in the splash zone, and frequently, a drop of liquid is ejected and falls back to the fluid surface. Some researchers speculate that the peak formed by the backsplash could initiate the formation of the conical core. None of these processes was predicted by the codes.
This material recovered from a shocked metals experiment was evident in the Hydra image data. (See image [f] in the figure above).
Metals under Extreme Conditions These experiments are improving scientific understanding of how metal behaves under high pressure and shock conditions. "We can now see aspects of dynamic metallurgy that no one has predicted," says Molitoris. "With Hydra, we not only see these details frozen in time, but we also can observe the fragmentation process as it evolves. Such time-sequence detail is not available with other diagnostics." In addition, with Hydra's high temporal and spatial resolution and its time-sequence capabilities, scientists can examine fragments as they form, thus eliminating the tedious and time-consuming process of capturing the fragments for further study.More improvements are planned for Hydra. Senior radiographer Chuck Cook is working on filmless data acquisition, and the team is examining electronic imaging for some experiments so data can be transferred directly to the computer. The major upgrade for Hydra is expanding the system to 10 or 11 x-ray channels, which will increase the time-sequence imaging capabilities. "The world of shocked metals is violent, fast, and full of twists and turns," says Molitoris. "Freezing this world so we can examine it is our way of getting a glimpse of the truth."—Ann Parker
Key Words: aluminum, fragmentation, high explosive, High Explosives Applications Facility (HEAF), Hydra multichannel x-ray system, metal behavior, shock wave, spall, x-radiography.
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Sunday Times Style features finalists for Fashion Fringe
This weekend The Sunday Times Style magazine featured the three finalists for this season's Fashion Fringe Award which will be judged by none other than fashion royalty John Galliano.
Here at the Fashion Scout office we were beyond excited to see a sneak S/S 11 preview for designers Alice Palmer and Jade Kang who have each shown with Vauxhall Fashion Scout in previous seasons.
The new designs look amazing and we can't wait to see more! Congratulations and good luck to each designer!
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Kimberism: "You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think." - A.A. Milne (Christopher Robin to Pooh)
Can you smell the possibilities in the air? I woke up the other morning with an overwhelming flood of joy and the sense of possibility! You may be wondering what was different about that morning from any other morning. To tell you the truth there was nothing outwardly different, however my perception shifted and the world seemed full of possibility.
The truth is that the world is full of possibility every single moment. Not a day goes by while we are a live that we fail to wake up and breathe air into our lungs. And that's just the start of the snowball affect of possibility!
What possibilities are available for you today that you may have never considered? Are there new relationships a waiting you, new partnerships, new experiences, new sights, new tastes, or new sounds? I challenge you to see the world from a possibility perspective today, as if you were seeing everything for the first time. How could that perspective shift you out of old ideas, interpretations and assumptions about your life?
If your world was full of possibilities what would you do? If you believed your Creator wanted the best for you what would that look like? Take a moment and write down a list of new goals and dreams for 2011 that will take you into the wide open world of possibility. Now define the first step you need to take toward each goal.
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House rejects bailout plan
Treasury's $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan collapsed in the House Monday, sending a shock through financial markets and leaving the Bush Administration scrambling to find some new way to deal with the credit crunch facing the American economy.
The president said he was "disappointed" with the vote and vowed that his administration would "continue to address this economic situation head on." But House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) – who pushed hard for passage – warned that there was no obvious "path forward" and said, "We need everyone to calm down."
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Calm was nowhere to be found on Wall Street or on Capitol Hill. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 777 points – its largest one-day point drop in history – and the House chamber turned into a scene of chaos and confusion after a tumultuous and emotional vote.
"The legislation has failed, but the crisis is not going away," said Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson promised to "continue to work with congressional leaders to stabilize our financial system."
Republican defections proved fatal to the massive government intervention, rejected 228-205. Despite bipartisan appeals from the leadership, anti-Wall Street sentiment and the huge scale of the proposed government intervention proved too much for Treasury to prevail.
Democrats more than delivered a majority of their caucus, and Pelosi held the vote open to bring her numbers up to 140 votes for the package. But Republicans never topped 70, and the final GOP split was 133 against the bill and only 65 for the measure.
There were immediate recriminations on both sides. A switch of just 12 members would have reversed the outcome, and 95 Democrats, many from the left wing of the party, contributed to the defeat.
After the vote, Republicans claimed that the Democratic leadership had been warned that fewer than 60 Republicans would vote for the bill. Democrats denied the claim, saying they never would have brought the bill to the floor if they had been told there was so little Republican support.
And indeed, as evening approached, Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) confirmed that he had told Democrats that he expected 75 Republicans to vote for the bill.
"I guess the Republican leadership is so weak John Boehner couldn't deliver 50 percent of the votes," sneered Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) "I thought these were big boys."
Republicans said Pelosi may have lost votes with a floor speech they considered too partisan. "We could have gotten it if it were not for this partisan speech that Speaker Pelosi gave," Boehner said.
Added Rep. Chris Shays, a Connecticut Republican who also voted for the bill: "Nancy blew it."
"That is an absurd accusation at a time when our country is in deep economic distress," a Pelosi spokesman fired back."You don't vote on a speech, you vote on a bill."
Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), a key negotiator on the bill, mocked the Republicans for blaming Pelosi, saying he would be "uncharacteristically nice" to a dozen Republicans if it meant they would back the package.
"I'm ready to work ... I still feel it's important for the country to come up with some legislation to address the credit crisis," Frank said.


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Okay, I can't really carp too much about this year's Oscar nominations, since my four favorite movies of 2011 are up for multiple awards. But, oh, heck, I just can't help myself!
Sure, Midnight In Paris, The Artist, Hugo, and The Descendants (which didn't quite make it into my Top 10, but I still really liked) are all Best Picture nominees, with significant nominations in other categories as well. For instance, all four have also scored nominations for their directors, along with (surprise!) Terence Malick for the occasionally brilliant but woefully uneven The Tree Of Life—which suggests the Best Picture category (which also includes four other films) just got smaller.
But in passing out the kudos, how on earth could the Academy overlook Shailene Woodley as George Clooney's elder, teenage daughter in The Descendants? She was phenomenal in the role—poised, edgy, and as subtly nuanced as Clooney himself.
Speaking of subtle, Gary Oldman's Best Actor nomination for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a surprise; his performance is so full of muted, wary reserve he practically blends into the wallpaper. Not that he's not good, but actors usually have to do something more showy—put on a dress (William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman), play an alcoholic or a nutcase (Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas; Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), or play (or pass as) a member of the opposite sex (Jaye Davidson, The Crying Game; Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously)—just to get noticed.
Another interesting surprise: Demian Bichir, nominated for playing a Mexican immigrant trying to keep his son out of gang life in A Better Life, a film that played for about 14 minutes at the Nick, then disappeared. This means either Bichir gave a tremendous performance, or has a tremendous press agent. (I didn't see it, but I suspect the former.)
One more factoid about this year's lineup: only Brad Pitt in Moneyball is nominated for playing an actual historical person. This bucks a trend in recent years where nominees in this category have been cited for playing everyone from Truman Capote, Edward R. Murrow, and Harvey Milk, to Richard Nixon, Nelson Mandela, Johnny Cash, and King George VI.
Vestiges of this trend remain in the Best Actress category, where Meryl Streep and Michelle Williams are poised to go mano-a-mano for playing Margaret Thatcher and Marilyn Monroe, respectively. (I thought Glenn Close would be in the running too, for her cross-dressing Albert Nobbs—see above—but the film seems to be getting a cooler reception than expected.)
It's also interesting to see Rooney Mara nominated in this category for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. She was fine, but it seems like a desperate move by the Academy to still seem, you know, with it, after having overlooked the sensational Noomi Rapace in the same role last year in the original Swedish trilogy.
Meanwhile, going back to the Supporting Actress category for a minute, I'm glad to see Janet McTeer nominated for the year's gutsiest performance in Albert Nobbs. But what, no Judi Dench for My Week With Marilyn? Her gracious Dame Sybil Thorndike kept the whole film grounded. And what about Mary Page Keller as the loyal, but understandably acerbic wife in Beginners?
But overall, it's not a horrible list of contenders, by any means. (At least Melancholia wasn't nominated for anything!) Now all I have to do is figure out how I'm going to dress a Barbie doll to look like Margaret Thatcher...
(Above, right: William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman; above, left: Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady.)


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text: Richard Mille's RM 012 architectural tourbillion is the world's first wristwatch with a baseplate and bridge construction made from steel and titanium tubes. This system, in which both these structures and functions are totally integrated, is created from inox steel and titanium alloys chosen for their resistance to corrosion and fatigue. Another unusual aspect of the RM 012 tourbillion is the implementation of an aluminum alloy winding barrel, going train, and tourbillion cage made of Anticorodal 100 (AlMgSi1), which is composed of aluminum, magnesium, and silicon. Other features include a power reserve of 42 hours, blue jewels set in titanium chatons, and an overcoil balance spiral. Only 30 platinum editions will be created for worldwide distribution.


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NATO split will not hamper meeting with Russia - expert
Published time: 1 Dec, 2009 19:20 Edited time: 2 Dec, 2009 13:46
Adrian Pabst, an expert on European and international affairs at Britain's Kent University, said that disagreements inside NATO would not get into way of a forthcoming Russia-NATO council meeting.
"Obama's administration is very committed to better relations with Russia, it was very clear when Obama visited Moscow in July," Pabst said. "Other members like Germany and France… are also keen to better relations, so I do not think there will be any blocks when the ministerial meeting actually takes place."
He went on to say that it was not surprising that NATO had no common position on its relations with Russia, as various splits existed in this organization throughout its history. But he expressed hope that the US would persuade its European partners to work out a common position regarding Russia.


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Tonight! Ottawa Launch of Conservative Confidential
For those of you in Ottawa, please join us tonight for the launch of Conservative Confidential: Inside The Fabulous Blue Tent. 7 PM, Marriott Hotel, 100 Kent Street, Ottawa. Admission is $20 and that includes a free book.
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To make green tomato salsa, bring 7 cups prepared green tomatoes, 1/2 cup lime juice, 2 cloves chopped garlic, 5 to 10 seeded and chopped jalapeño peppers and 2 cups chopped red onion to a boil, and simmer five minutes. Add 1/2 cup cilantro, 2 teaspoons cumin and 1 teaspoon each oregano, salt and pepper. Allow the mixture to simmer for another five minutes. Ladle the mixture into sterilized jars, and process in a boiling water canner for 20 minutes.
Habanero or other peppers are an alternative to jalapeño peppers. Core and peel the tomatoes before chopping them. Optionally, taste the salsa, and add a small amount of sugar to the salsa to balance the flavor before ladling it into jars.
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